DRG 6x2 hot start: morbidly obese male child gaming (true solo engineer)
Channel: ojb
Date: 2023-10-18

No bosco, one iron will revive. Featuring magnetic pellet alignment warthog + FAT BOY pgl + lures in Dense Biozone.

2023 truly is the year of the boy...

This is a new difficulty for me called "6x2 hot start". Basically, it's the same 6x2 you know and love, except it starts you off with a resup and a swarm. Also, the wave/swarm timers are lowered, so you're incentivized to move much more briskly than you'd otherwise want.

This is not how anyone should play engineer, by the way. This is not good gameplay to learn from but silly, stupid, "fungineer". I call it fungineer because optimal engineer gameplay is moreso how I take my second swarm - block up the back access so bugs are funneled in front and rain down hell into a choke. The "fun" part of fungineering is to NOT do this, but instead play like an idiot from hell and jump fooldhardedly into the unknown. The part they don't tell you about is that fungineering is incredibly lethal lol. When I tried to play super aggro like I did here, I struggled and had to restart over and over due to ending up in abysmal terrain with no shocker solution lmao.

Hot start is a neat offshoot of 6x2, but it's not quite for me. The faster wave timings seem to have a tendency to force you to play in the same types of spots over and over, and I tend to have more fun out in the open. Like in this case, the quick timer spawned a wave right as I was attempting to breach, and that unfortunate timing forced me back into the tunnel when it would have been much more fun to have been able to go out into the open and see what was cooking. There was just no way through without dying, and as such you're forced into more boring tunnel holds that really start to feel samey after a long time of playing. This is not really an issue with hot start as a whole, but rather mining maps on 6x2 and above (when solo). They just basically all devolve into holding tunnels, and I just prefer being incentivized to play with unique terrain pieces (which is why I love refinery maps so much). For ego sake, I will say I beat my very first 6x2 hot start attempt on the first try when I played like a coward, but it took like another 20+ runs beyond that before I put in a successful "run like a moron into rooms" win that you see here lmao. I think it would have been less with a stronger loadout, but I'm not entirely sure as I'm terrible at engineer.

This is not a loadout conducive for fungineering chaos. (No one should read this next part shhhhh I mean it. Don't read it's top secret). Fat boy is actively harmful and holds you back greatly from playing like this. 100 times out of 100 you'd prefer literally any form of the breach cutter instead, and honestly overclock-less PGL is probably better / easier to use when you're going in like a buffoon. Fat boy just doesn't buy you any space or safety when you're in the crazy amounts of danger you get into when you play like a goofball. It works fine when you are a coward and all setup nicely, but so does everything else you could pick instead. If you're pushing aggressively, it probably just does more harm than good. Seriously, a map like this is far easier with a loadout that does something useful to buy space, and this is just nonsense. You don't even want to know how many direct hit nukes it takes to kill a single stingtail on this particular build LOL. Uhhh... ahem. Sorry, I mean FAT BOY REDEMPTION ARC. 2023 IS THE YEAR OF THE BOY. FAT BOY GAMING LET'S GOOOOOOOOooooooooo

Also I'm convinced I have covid (i mean, i didn't take the test because lazy, but the person who definitely infected me was covid positive so I figured it's gotta be it based on how I feel). I feel like ass and I realized I shouldn't be playing runs like this at all but I was sick of laying in bed feeling achey and miserable due to headaches that I decided to sit in my chair and feel achey and miserable due to even worse headaches instead. I think this was a colossal mistake, though I guess my subpar decision making abilities aren't something I can ever stop doing. i'm going to be super brave and go out and say something people might not realize yet (but they've got to hear it anyway). I think covid-19 is a real bad egg, and no good. (this is the part where you clap and say "wow, ojb you are so brave and it's about time someone said this, thank you; please sign my boobs with a sharpie I love u". and then that's the part where i say "no worries, kind citizen. i was only doing my civic duty and telling the hard truths. thank you for giving me the key to the city, and this homemade pie is delicious. how did you know that shoo-fly was my favorite, you rascal").  what the fuck am I still doing here I need to go back to bed and sleep another 15 hrs

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Loadout:
22121 Magnetic pellet alignment
21132 Fat boy
L.U.R.E.

Perks:
Dash / Iron Will
Resupplier / Unstoppable (it's trash) / Deep Pockets

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Highlights:

0:00 Build
0:39 Mission start
6:00 Second swarm
10:15 Extract
12:52 Final stats page