DRG EDD: "Forbidden Fangs" (true solo scout)
Channel: ojb
Date: 2023-07-28

No bosco, one yoink incident, layout blind. Featuring min clips M1k + tri-fork volley electric crossbow + IFGs in Magma Core.

I have played nothing but magma core for weeks please send help. To be real though I have nothing against magma core except earthquakes, and I actually like the absurd nitra spots the biome can summon up. It's even got built in swarmer solutions: what's not to love!

This is a very good dive to bring your sunday dread killer dress into. I took the trifork+IFG combo to trivialize all the dread fights, but as it's a throwaway secondary, I was a bit weaker into general purpose wave clear. This doesn't really matter into eggs because you can just run away indefinitely and reposition, and I didn't really fear the salvage all too much because I had obscene access to slows to delay any potential threats (there weren't any, unfortunately - the salvage bubbles were pretty boring).

Some various tech used in this dive to keep an eye out for:

* Using exploding plants against bugs/dreads. Not incredible feats of science, but as I usually just pop them right away to avoid accidentally running into them later while in a hurry, I did keep a few sets of boomers around to use in combat. It's not crazy effective or anything, but hey why not.

* Magma floor (the hot rock stuff) actually works just like bug repellent platforms. If you get lucky with terrain gen, you basically have an innate engineer on your team laying out lines of bug repel to funnel bugs into open air chokepoints. This is probably most visible in the refuel (second bubble) of the salvage mission on this dive, but you could find use of it elsewhere if you were so inclined.

* Magma core is loaded with swarmer solutions: kite them over fire vents or hot floors or near volcano thingys, or hell, explode them with a one time use of a boomer plant. Lots of ways to handle swarmaggedon here on scout that it's actually the easiest biome to have swarmaggedon on IMO. Electric bolts on my crossbow can be used in a pinch, but you can probably come to the same conclusions as me that they're utterly and completely worthless if we're going to be honest with each other. They're there for dreads, and my entire secondary is trash outside the dread fights. Not too worried about that, as I have IFGs and m1k, but that's something to keep in mind if you also run this loadout.

* If you haven't been made aware of it yet, IFGs are busted OP. +30% damage boost is absurd, and you get 15 seconds of guaranteed slow to really marshal the most out of that damage boost. They are super strong into dread fights, and while occasionally tricky to use in large scale wave combat, they get the job done. I'm of the opinion that they are the strongest multiplayer grenade, and they're super flexible overall. Definitely take them into elim missions unless you're coordinating like, frozen hyperprop shenanigans or something.

* In the dread maps I decided to pop one egg before the fights in the hopes that a bulk det would spawn. I didn't get lucky on either of my pulls, but in both cases I left one to skip and instantly extract to at least shave off some time.

* The twin's butts have armor plates. If you're driller, you can use your drill hands and jump up on their ass and shred that shit off. That is tech you can use against praetorians too, but it's very good into the twins as well. Us non driller mortals can use power attacks when the timing is right, and that clears a fair bit of armor to sink into their weakpoints. The benefit of doing this is that the ass is easier to hit than the mouth when you want to hit the full triple volley of crossbow bolts, because otherwise you have to get in real close to the mouth and that's usually dangerous. But it's worth mentioning the mouth weakpoint has no armor protecting it, so it's always worth aiming for. When they group up and heal, the butt armor grows back. Don't ask them how, because you really really don't want to know.

* Always make a mental note of where to find red sugar, especially before starting a bubble defense. When you need it, you'll be glad you had. I don't mark it with a waypoint as much as I should, but it's a good habit to get into.

* I think the devs screwed up when they called the robot bulk detonator enemy "Nemesis", because they really should have saved that name for stingtails. Stingtails are definitely my #1 cause of death since s04 dropped, and it's not even close. Friendly reminder to never turn your back on these demons and focus them first at all costs.

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Loadout:
23112 Minimal Clips
31112 Tri-Fork Volley
IFGs

Perks: 
Dash / Iron Will
Resupplier / Deep Pockets / Born Ready

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Highlights:

0:00 Build
0:51 Stage 1
12:30 Stage 2
16:00 yoink
26:02 Uplink
29:49 Refuel
34:14 Stage 3
47:19 Final stats page