That was so helpful. Especially since I do nearly no solo at all, this was thorough and helped me understand what all the tradeoffs really mean. And given that I don't *care* if I win the mission so long as I learn, it was really nice to know that I didn't have to worry about the revives at all.
Sometimes if I can't find a good game and start a public game I feel much the same. I know Bosco. I don't know the rando. It's worse when nobody else joins and you were arguably actually better off playing solo than with a silly, careless dwarf.
It really depends. When I got ambushed by a dreadnaught halfway through an egg hunt mission with him, I could not thank the stars enough when a gunner joined in at random. normal mining missions really benefit bosco, Id say, but for the more complex ones, I wouldnt prefer him over the assist of another dwarf.
@@Timeward76 ohh man, I made so many spelling errors lol. So true, I once started a difficult Point Extraction where I was immediately overruned but was saved by another Miner, and then another dropped in everytime we ran out of munnitions until we were all fully teamed and overrun, it was an endless, ceaseless torrent... BUT. I was able to coordinate with the team by taking the Horde and Oppressor's aggro. Slowly but surely, we kited bugs, died near Nitra deposits, and completed *Both* objectives in this angry Hornet's Nest, until we could get Extraction. I love my boi BOSCO, but that was an opportunity we could only make Karl proud with a Team!
He never runs out of ammo, can mine high up ores easier and faster than a scout with the help of an engineer, can revive you twice by default and can carry heavy objects for you. That includes vacuuming up lithofoam. If you point him towards buried uranium or compressed gold he'll mine to it and get it for you. He's better than players could be in some respects, which I love. Kinda just a testament to how well designed this game is.
my favorite use of bosco is loading into a mission solo but set public, setting it to friends only, blasting through as many main objectives i can as scout using bosco to grab eggs/morkite/aquarqs/minerals, then switching back to public so i can share the rewards with others before getting out in record time. i’ve cut mission times in half playing like this.
do late joiners get the same rewards as the host and those who where there from the start? so if I join 2 minutes before winning I still get the rewards?
very generous of you but the argument can be made to keep it solo if you don't want people to leech off your exp and hard work and to answer the reply, yes you would get full rewards which tbh is very helpful if you're trying to just finish assignment missions or promote quickly although not the most fun way to play the game as join late defeats the purpose of a coop game and you will generally feel lost when you enter as it's hard to determine what has and has not been explored
@@Randomkloud Yes, you get full reward for being present in the mission completion screen. Iirc, you get partial reward from objectives and minerals mined so far if you are kicked.
Should note that the rockets are incredibly clunky to use. After pulling out the laser pointer, there is a 1 to 2 second delay before right clicking will register a command to fire a rocket. Then Bosco needs to get in range as determined by his AI and then fire the rocket. This causes massive delays from when you decide you want a rocket to when you actually get one. Especially the initial delay on giving the command. Holding the laser pointer out, while a swarm is trying to kill you as you keep trying to tell Bosco to launch a rocket, is very frustrating and can lead to a death.
I found that a way to get around that is actually to call bosco with X shortly after ordering the rocket if he's not close enough to shoot it instantly. Because I have found that he remembers the target he's supposed to shoot at but ignores his pathing to that target, he just comes right to you and shoots the rocket as he passes by. Course this only works if the target is near you but most of the time that's the only time I'm asking him to shoot.
I remember once I was chasing down a Huuli Hoarder, pinged it with Bosco's rockets and kept shooting at it. Eventually it got away and a comical 10 seconds later, Bosco finally got to me and fired the rocket at a wall.
If calling a Bosco Rocket is gonna act like I'm calling in heavy artillery, with the near minutes wait time and all, it needs to hit like artillery. I wouldn't mind if the rockets were much more powerful.
An additional small tip: don't set bosco to mine anything right away when entering a new cave system and you're not running a scout. My dumb butt died many times to leeches while Bosco was happily digging away lol
Bosco has saved my arse from a cave leech more times then I can count without even firing a single bullet. Because he's always next to me I can hear when he pulls his weapons out. And if I hear that little click click and there's no obvious bug, I book it back to where I was a second ago, and almost every time it is shortly followed by a hiss and a pink hand retracting away as it near missed me. I then promptly thank my robot friend for having better eyes then me.
Not a build you mentioned, but 3-1-3-3-2 is great for spamming cryo rockets. You get 3 rockets at 50 seconds each, so if you fired them out evenly, you could fire a cryo rocket every 17 seconds.
4:42 OH, it's ping and RIGHT CLICK, I could never figure out how to get him to fire the rockets, I was using the LEFT CLICK, and I didn't understand why it didn't work.
I think, after my ~80 hours, few of which were in solo missions, as far as objectives and mining go Bosco is OP. He's not powerful in combat but if you're good at not dying it doesn't matter, his immortality makes up for it. He's more powerful than scout at lighting, since he doesn't need ammo and can move anywhere to provide decent light. He can reach anything. He can't grab fossils and stuff, but he can dig aquarqs out so quick it's silly and carry em right back no traversal tools necessary. If the cave's open you can probably do aquarqs in like 7 mins. I was hoping for some more tips, but really, what can you say other than "remember you have access to (freeze) rockets and Bosco can mine while you pick flowers." The biggest hurdle on efficient Bosco use is remembering that the solution to most of your problems is a laser pointer ping away. See a mineral? Ping bosco. Need light? Ping bosco. Swarm threatening you? Rocket ping bosco. If you're quick and efficient, you might not even need 80 nitra during the mission depending on how quick you and Bosco can tick those objective boxes.
i just started playing but i mostly play solo and bosco is my best friend. he does almost all mining for me and like half of the killing, i just run around exploring and finding minerals and such . i freaking love scout solo point extraction with bosco. i figured out in my very first point extraction mission that bosco is a huge help not just to mine hard to reach places but also to carry the aquarqs like you said, and i just zoom away on the grappling hook and he follows me and its SO FAST and easy bosco is such a gud boy
That was helpful. As a new player who's testing the waters to move beyond hazard 2 both public and solo, it's nice being given the lay of Bosco's stats and what the general thought on its upgrades is.
The guard feature is kinda wierd from my experience, he sometimes just floats around doing nothing or chases a bug at the other end of the cave for some reason
This makes me wonder if there’s any animation cancels that save so much time that it’s still more effective to v to animation cancel than to let the animation play out….
Wish bosco could be ordered to repair the tracks on the drillevator. It's very tedious having to juggle between holding off the enemies and repairing the tracks. Often times I find myself having to burn my support tool and grenades to get the enemies up off me while I repair. Being able to tell bosco to fix for you would be such a nice quality of life for solo.
While yea, the rockets are a bit underwhelming, there are still some pretty solid cases for non-cryo rockets in solo play IMO. Particularly, using abilities like Scout's pheremone grenades can get groups of anywhere from 2-10 grunts all clumped up, making them prime target's for Bosco's non-cryo rockets.
Using Overcharged Rounds against a Bulk Det has saved me plenty of times. When I'm Cryo Driller I don't have too many options to fight them myself - so I just point Bosco at it and move into another room until it's done. (Maybe with the odd Axe/Ice Spear pot-shot.)
I forgo any rocket upgrades when there are other choices cause it's too clunky. BOSCO can soft-lock when trying to line up a rocket shot on an enemy obscured by terrain. In haz 5 solo I just can't afford spending time to command a rocket which just doesn't happen, as well as removing the much needed electricity debuff because he's sitting behind a wall.
I have found that a good use of Bosco's rockets is to use them to destroy sniper turrets on sabotage missions when I only have short - medium range weapons. They don't one shot but they get enough damage in that I can normally get a bit closer and chip away their last bit of hp.
I don't know if this Bug still exist since it been awhile using Bosco. The Bug is the following. If you give Bosco the order to Guard the Drilldozer Doretta. Bosco will not stop doing this. You can give Bosco new task, however as soon as this task are done. Bosco will fly back and guard Doretta.
I primarily use the Bosco rocket to knock down that last bit of mineral that seems to always get stuck up on that ledge. But otherwise, I don't really touch it, unless, if I can remember to. :3
I want to recommend something weird. I mainly play scout, and I’m an idiot who doesn’t use Bosco for mining much, but the non-cryo rockets are very good because you can launch them at a wall to make a place to stand on. Just a suggestion
what are you talking about, this is revolutionary, i was using normal rocks to blow tiny holes above/adjacent to minerals. This guarantees only 1 rocket used if its reliable. How big is the ice step?
I was told at some point bosco could suck up foam but I couldn't figure out how so I would have him hold the vacuum its self until I needed it. Then I figure out I needed to ping the foam and not the boils or vacuum, I felt kind of stupid.
New dwarf here. Quick question about Bosco mining out chunks. Does Bosco mining the deposits decrease the yield compared to when you mine it directly. To me it feels like there is a 20-30% penalty but I'm not sure if I'm just imagining it. Thanks a lot miners: Rock and Stone
One thing I want to throw in that is somewhat niche but is worth considering nonetheless, is Leeches. While yes, Bosco WILL prio a leech if it grabs you, depending on your current health and the hazard level (I play a lot of Haz 4, for example) if you have Revive or Mining in T1, the odds of Bosco saving you before you take a down are VERY low. A lot of factors get in the way. How far away was he when you were grabbed? Is there terrain in the way? How hurt were you before? Did you have shields or are they weak or already broken? High Velocity Rounds in T1 greatly improves your odds of getting away from a Leech attack before it downs you. So if you're prone to getting caught up in in greasy meatballs, take HV Rounds. It helps a lot. It won't save you every time, but the amount of times Bosco's bailed me out of becoming dinner for a cave leech has increased a lot since I started running HV Rounds. Also a side note for the rockets... While yes, Overcharged Rounds in T5 is very useful, remember to check all of your choices against how you play. If you're like me, and you're using a LOT of cryo rockets, T5B's value gains a massive boost. Paired with the third rocket in T3, you can bring a lot more cryo to every fight you get into, taking only 120s (2 minutes) to fully reload from empty. As compared to any other T5 mod and 2/3 rockets: 180s / 270s (3 minutes / 4.5 minutes) - It's a difference you absolutely will feel, having another rocket ready in just 40s.
I just run heightened senses when solo. That frees you up to have bosco mining and carrying away at his hearts content without having to worry about leeches. Nor do you have to actively scan for them as most players can react and kill them in time with a HS notification. Rarely during combat do I ever have bosco not doing something mining/carrying related. Being able to insta kill grabbers with heightened sense is also a huge bonus for solo play. They can be quite an annoying enemy to deal with if the cave has poor line of sight. Especially in mule and black box objectives or in cave systems that have multiple large drops.
@@IIIKobra Fair! To each thier own. I generally prefer Dash / Beast Master as my active perks in solo since I tend to be good about noticing the audio cues that leeches give if they're after me. Of course, good hearing / high sound quality headphones help a ton in that regard, when I'm with a team and we're all in comms, I'm usually the first person to notice a distant Bulk sound or other major threat.
i personally really like going with the odd 31221 bosco build. it might seem weird at first, but it does make sense. i play scout on haz 5 with pheromone grenades, kite around until most of the wave is clumped together and throw the grenade. this leads into a very compact and unmoving mass of grunts that 2 rockets can cleanly kill. T3A is useless for me since i play scout. T3C is not very useful since 2 rockets WILL wipe the horde, so i stick with an extra revive just in case i fuck up severely. T4A makes the bugs run away when i WANT them to stay still. T4C is a very tempting choice, but that would remove the damage from the rockets so the strat wouldnt work. T4B doesnt really do much either, but its the one upgrade that doesnt screw me over. T5A helps ensure even the densest of waves gets wiped. T5B isnt really needed since by the time another swarm comes in you (typically) will already have both rockets recharged. T5C is amazing and is likely better than T5A... however: kaboom. this strat really helps conserve ammo by leaving few enemies standing, typically a pretorian or a very low hp guard. i probably should just find better ways to clear hordes, but i digress
@@DonkeyKong7493 @DonkeyKong7493 i swap between 13211 hipster + 11313 special powder to 23111 ASS + 11213 jumbo shells, depends on if im going solo or with a team.
Glad to know my qol choices of light and mining speed actually drake sense. He seems to mine faster than me sometimes lol. Also great for seeing nasties with the light as a guy who enjoys being able to see and running strong arm
For me it's always hyper helper Bosco though if it's a hazard level or just a mission that I feel a little sketchy on in terms of my own survivability then maybe helicopter parent but usually hyper helper Bosco is best Bosco for me
Done a good job explaining how to call Bosco back, but not how to shoot rocket. I always forget that one and takes me time to figure out. Mining button while pointing.
Let face it vanilla bosco kind of bad in combat because of the slow speed ,i have seen him struggle shooting and catching up grunt before but then again im doing no shooting run
I will say, from experience, do not call for Bosco to return if you get grabbed. More than once have I been leeched, and I ping for Bosco and he gets confused and leaves. I’ve died more than once because his AI gets broken by this.
This has only ever happened to be once. I have played hundreds of missions with him and most the time I can spam X and he'll come running. Only time he ever watched him just fly off to the other side of the cave was when I stepped on a tumble weed and it catapulted me into the ground at warp 10. I then proceeded to lose the mission as I stared in shock.
I keep having to remind some RUclips's that play DRG what Basco can do to help them out like Reapor. Glad to see your never going to be one of them but given some of your runs....I think there's not a damn thing I could ever help you with
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Only a couple weeks ago I learned shout can make him throw an object to you. But now I just learned the beamers are able to be destroyed by bosco
Yeah I never knew he could destroy those either guess it makes sense though
I actually have found his ability to destroy beamers to be clutch, allows me to keep bugs off doretta while he's doing that.
I always made him rocket them, didn't know he could mine them
Thank you! Before even watching the video I see your comment and learn something new!
That was so helpful. Especially since I do nearly no solo at all, this was thorough and helped me understand what all the tradeoffs really mean. And given that I don't *care* if I win the mission so long as I learn, it was really nice to know that I didn't have to worry about the revives at all.
Is it bad that I prefer Bosco's assistance then another persons? I almost fell upset when Bosco leaves when someone joins a game.
Sometimes if I can't find a good game and start a public game I feel much the same. I know Bosco. I don't know the rando. It's worse when nobody else joins and you were arguably actually better off playing solo than with a silly, careless dwarf.
I’ve played so much more solo than co-op that Bosco just feels second nature. I sometimes wonder where he’s at with other dwarves on the team.
It really depends. When I got ambushed by a dreadnaught halfway through an egg hunt mission with him, I could not thank the stars enough when a gunner joined in at random. normal mining missions really benefit bosco, Id say, but for the more complex ones, I wouldnt prefer him over the assist of another dwarf.
@@Timeward76 ohh man, I made so many spelling errors lol. So true, I once started a difficult Point Extraction where I was immediately overruned but was saved by another Miner, and then another dropped in everytime we ran out of munnitions until we were all fully teamed and overrun, it was an endless, ceaseless torrent... BUT. I was able to coordinate with the team by taking the Horde and Oppressor's aggro. Slowly but surely, we kited bugs, died near Nitra deposits, and completed *Both* objectives in this angry Hornet's Nest, until we could get Extraction. I love my boi BOSCO, but that was an opportunity we could only make Karl proud with a Team!
He never runs out of ammo, can mine high up ores easier and faster than a scout with the help of an engineer, can revive you twice by default and can carry heavy objects for you. That includes vacuuming up lithofoam. If you point him towards buried uranium or compressed gold he'll mine to it and get it for you.
He's better than players could be in some respects, which I love. Kinda just a testament to how well designed this game is.
my favorite use of bosco is loading into a mission solo but set public, setting it to friends only, blasting through as many main objectives i can as scout using bosco to grab eggs/morkite/aquarqs/minerals, then switching back to public so i can share the rewards with others before getting out in record time. i’ve cut mission times in half playing like this.
do late joiners get the same rewards as the host and those who where there from the start? so if I join 2 minutes before winning I still get the rewards?
very generous of you but the argument can be made to keep it solo if you don't want people to leech off your exp and hard work
and to answer the reply, yes you would get full rewards which tbh is very helpful if you're trying to just finish assignment missions or promote quickly although not the most fun way to play the game as join late defeats the purpose of a coop game and you will generally feel lost when you enter as it's hard to determine what has and has not been explored
So @@qwerty842 is a sociopath.
@@Randomkloud
Yes, you get full reward for being present in the mission completion screen.
Iirc, you get partial reward from objectives and minerals mined so far if you are kicked.
Should note that the rockets are incredibly clunky to use.
After pulling out the laser pointer, there is a 1 to 2 second delay before right clicking will register a command to fire a rocket. Then Bosco needs to get in range as determined by his AI and then fire the rocket. This causes massive delays from when you decide you want a rocket to when you actually get one. Especially the initial delay on giving the command. Holding the laser pointer out, while a swarm is trying to kill you as you keep trying to tell Bosco to launch a rocket, is very frustrating and can lead to a death.
I found that a way to get around that is actually to call bosco with X shortly after ordering the rocket if he's not close enough to shoot it instantly. Because I have found that he remembers the target he's supposed to shoot at but ignores his pathing to that target, he just comes right to you and shoots the rocket as he passes by. Course this only works if the target is near you but most of the time that's the only time I'm asking him to shoot.
I remember once I was chasing down a Huuli Hoarder, pinged it with Bosco's rockets and kept shooting at it. Eventually it got away and a comical 10 seconds later, Bosco finally got to me and fired the rocket at a wall.
If calling a Bosco Rocket is gonna act like I'm calling in heavy artillery, with the near minutes wait time and all, it needs to hit like artillery.
I wouldn't mind if the rockets were much more powerful.
Thumbnail made me believe this was some mod that makes bosco play the whole mission on it's own and you just spectate
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An additional small tip: don't set bosco to mine anything right away when entering a new cave system and you're not running a scout. My dumb butt died many times to leeches while Bosco was happily digging away lol
Shout and he'll stop what he's doing and come try to save you
@Richard Dimple He will drop what he is doing, but sometimes he wont get there in time if the ore was far from where you got caught
its better to keep bosco as busy as possible, just run heightened sense in solo
Bosco has saved my arse from a cave leech more times then I can count without even firing a single bullet. Because he's always next to me I can hear when he pulls his weapons out. And if I hear that little click click and there's no obvious bug, I book it back to where I was a second ago, and almost every time it is shortly followed by a hiss and a pink hand retracting away as it near missed me. I then promptly thank my robot friend for having better eyes then me.
Not a build you mentioned, but 3-1-3-3-2 is great for spamming cryo rockets. You get 3 rockets at 50 seconds each, so if you fired them out evenly, you could fire a cryo rocket every 17 seconds.
4:42 OH, it's ping and RIGHT CLICK, I could never figure out how to get him to fire the rockets, I was using the LEFT CLICK, and I didn't understand why it didn't work.
I think, after my ~80 hours, few of which were in solo missions, as far as objectives and mining go Bosco is OP. He's not powerful in combat but if you're good at not dying it doesn't matter, his immortality makes up for it. He's more powerful than scout at lighting, since he doesn't need ammo and can move anywhere to provide decent light. He can reach anything. He can't grab fossils and stuff, but he can dig aquarqs out so quick it's silly and carry em right back no traversal tools necessary. If the cave's open you can probably do aquarqs in like 7 mins.
I was hoping for some more tips, but really, what can you say other than "remember you have access to (freeze) rockets and Bosco can mine while you pick flowers." The biggest hurdle on efficient Bosco use is remembering that the solution to most of your problems is a laser pointer ping away. See a mineral? Ping bosco. Need light? Ping bosco. Swarm threatening you? Rocket ping bosco. If you're quick and efficient, you might not even need 80 nitra during the mission depending on how quick you and Bosco can tick those objective boxes.
i just started playing but i mostly play solo and bosco is my best friend. he does almost all mining for me and like half of the killing, i just run around exploring and finding minerals and such . i freaking love scout solo point extraction with bosco. i figured out in my very first point extraction mission that bosco is a huge help not just to mine hard to reach places but also to carry the aquarqs like you said, and i just zoom away on the grappling hook and he follows me and its SO FAST and easy bosco is such a gud boy
That was helpful. As a new player who's testing the waters to move beyond hazard 2 both public and solo, it's nice being given the lay of Bosco's stats and what the general thought on its upgrades is.
I’m still trying to break out of hazard 1.
@@fishyboy2140 I was doing hazard 2 and 3 on my first game right after buying 💀 Shit was insane dude
The guard feature is kinda wierd from my experience, he sometimes just floats around doing nothing or chases a bug at the other end of the cave for some reason
0:34 *me saluting Bosco every two minutes*
"Three buttons..."
I actually learned quite a bit despite being level 108. Thank you!
yo Axis when are you gonna do your breakdown on the efficiency loss of pressing V to rock and stone?
There is no loss in efficiency.
The loss in efficiency is easily made up for by the immeasurable boost in morale.
This makes me wonder if there’s any animation cancels that save so much time that it’s still more effective to v to animation cancel than to let the animation play out….
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Wish bosco could be ordered to repair the tracks on the drillevator. It's very tedious having to juggle between holding off the enemies and repairing the tracks. Often times I find myself having to burn my support tool and grenades to get the enemies up off me while I repair. Being able to tell bosco to fix for you would be such a nice quality of life for solo.
While yea, the rockets are a bit underwhelming, there are still some pretty solid cases for non-cryo rockets in solo play IMO. Particularly, using abilities like Scout's pheremone grenades can get groups of anywhere from 2-10 grunts all clumped up, making them prime target's for Bosco's non-cryo rockets.
Using Overcharged Rounds against a Bulk Det has saved me plenty of times. When I'm Cryo Driller I don't have too many options to fight them myself - so I just point Bosco at it and move into another room until it's done. (Maybe with the odd Axe/Ice Spear pot-shot.)
I forgo any rocket upgrades when there are other choices cause it's too clunky. BOSCO can soft-lock when trying to line up a rocket shot on an enemy obscured by terrain. In haz 5 solo I just can't afford spending time to command a rocket which just doesn't happen, as well as removing the much needed electricity debuff because he's sitting behind a wall.
I carry both Revive mods because of the random circumstance that requires 3 revives to get through
How nice of youtube to send me a notification 6 days after the video has been uploaded
I have found that a good use of Bosco's rockets is to use them to destroy sniper turrets on sabotage missions when I only have short - medium range weapons. They don't one shot but they get enough damage in that I can normally get a bit closer and chip away their last bit of hp.
these help out man thanks, I almost never play with bosco
I don't know if this Bug still exist since it been awhile using Bosco.
The Bug is the following. If you give Bosco the order to Guard the Drilldozer Doretta.
Bosco will not stop doing this. You can give Bosco new task, however as soon as this task are done.
Bosco will fly back and guard Doretta.
I primarily use the Bosco rocket to knock down that last bit of mineral that seems to always get stuck up on that ledge.
But otherwise, I don't really touch it, unless, if I can remember to. :3
Great job as usual, Axis!!!
Very comprehensive and well polished guide.
But why can't we use Bosco to repair Dotty?
I want to recommend something weird. I mainly play scout, and I’m an idiot who doesn’t use Bosco for mining much, but the non-cryo rockets are very good because you can launch them at a wall to make a place to stand on. Just a suggestion
what are you talking about, this is revolutionary, i was using normal rocks to blow tiny holes above/adjacent to minerals. This guarantees only 1 rocket used if its reliable. How big is the ice step?
I was told at some point bosco could suck up foam but I couldn't figure out how so I would have him hold the vacuum its self until I needed it. Then I figure out I needed to ping the foam and not the boils or vacuum, I felt kind of stupid.
No he does it automatically. He just is prioritizing combat, So he’ll drop it to start shooting the buggers as they spawn
You spam ping mineral then Bosco mine the world sway.
Thanks, this really helped me as I'm just under 20 hours into the game! 🙏
New dwarf here. Quick question about Bosco mining out chunks. Does Bosco mining the deposits decrease the yield compared to when you mine it directly. To me it feels like there is a 20-30% penalty but I'm not sure if I'm just imagining it. Thanks a lot miners: Rock and Stone
One thing I want to throw in that is somewhat niche but is worth considering nonetheless, is Leeches. While yes, Bosco WILL prio a leech if it grabs you, depending on your current health and the hazard level (I play a lot of Haz 4, for example) if you have Revive or Mining in T1, the odds of Bosco saving you before you take a down are VERY low. A lot of factors get in the way. How far away was he when you were grabbed? Is there terrain in the way? How hurt were you before? Did you have shields or are they weak or already broken?
High Velocity Rounds in T1 greatly improves your odds of getting away from a Leech attack before it downs you. So if you're prone to getting caught up in in greasy meatballs, take HV Rounds. It helps a lot. It won't save you every time, but the amount of times Bosco's bailed me out of becoming dinner for a cave leech has increased a lot since I started running HV Rounds.
Also a side note for the rockets... While yes, Overcharged Rounds in T5 is very useful, remember to check all of your choices against how you play. If you're like me, and you're using a LOT of cryo rockets, T5B's value gains a massive boost. Paired with the third rocket in T3, you can bring a lot more cryo to every fight you get into, taking only 120s (2 minutes) to fully reload from empty. As compared to any other T5 mod and 2/3 rockets: 180s / 270s (3 minutes / 4.5 minutes) - It's a difference you absolutely will feel, having another rocket ready in just 40s.
I just run heightened senses when solo. That frees you up to have bosco mining and carrying away at his hearts content without having to worry about leeches. Nor do you have to actively scan for them as most players can react and kill them in time with a HS notification.
Rarely during combat do I ever have bosco not doing something mining/carrying related.
Being able to insta kill grabbers with heightened sense is also a huge bonus for solo play. They can be quite an annoying enemy to deal with if the cave has poor line of sight. Especially in mule and black box objectives or in cave systems that have multiple large drops.
@@IIIKobra Fair! To each thier own. I generally prefer Dash / Beast Master as my active perks in solo since I tend to be good about noticing the audio cues that leeches give if they're after me.
Of course, good hearing / high sound quality headphones help a ton in that regard, when I'm with a team and we're all in comms, I'm usually the first person to notice a distant Bulk sound or other major threat.
i personally really like going with the odd 31221 bosco build. it might seem weird at first, but it does make sense.
i play scout on haz 5 with pheromone grenades, kite around until most of the wave is clumped together and throw the grenade. this leads into a very compact and unmoving mass of grunts that 2 rockets can cleanly kill.
T3A is useless for me since i play scout. T3C is not very useful since 2 rockets WILL wipe the horde, so i stick with an extra revive just in case i fuck up severely.
T4A makes the bugs run away when i WANT them to stay still. T4C is a very tempting choice, but that would remove the damage from the rockets so the strat wouldnt work. T4B doesnt really do much either, but its the one upgrade that doesnt screw me over.
T5A helps ensure even the densest of waves gets wiped. T5B isnt really needed since by the time another swarm comes in you (typically) will already have both rockets recharged. T5C is amazing and is likely better than T5A... however: kaboom.
this strat really helps conserve ammo by leaving few enemies standing, typically a pretorian or a very low hp guard. i probably should just find better ways to clear hordes, but i digress
What's your scout build?
@@DonkeyKong7493 @DonkeyKong7493 i swap between 13211 hipster + 11313 special powder to 23111 ASS + 11213 jumbo shells, depends on if im going solo or with a team.
Digger Bosco build is OP AF, it literally dig as fast as a Driller's Drill
great video, as always
I always used V to stop bosco, now I know to use X, thanks
Thanks for the video, which is very well explained and incredibly useful. Would you say the guide is still up to date as of this writing?
Bosco is a solo scouts best friend.
Glad to know my qol choices of light and mining speed actually drake sense. He seems to mine faster than me sometimes lol. Also great for seeing nasties with the light as a guy who enjoys being able to see and running strong arm
For me it's always hyper helper Bosco though if it's a hazard level or just a mission that I feel a little sketchy on in terms of my own survivability then maybe helicopter parent but usually hyper helper Bosco is best Bosco for me
Done a good job explaining how to call Bosco back, but not how to shoot rocket. I always forget that one and takes me time to figure out.
Mining button while pointing.
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@@Astro939 Like I said, did not explain what right click is supposed to do (mine) unlike he explained what X is supposed to do (call).
@@mhx47please don't ever play games on controller. Even a braindead 7 year old would know left trigger is the equivalent of right click
Although Bosco wont outright attack Korlock roots, he will attack a Bet-C without hesitation.
The increased radius doesn't work with cryo rockets? It feels like it could be a neat option.
It took me way too long to realize he could help me build pipelines. All the time I wasted when he was right there the whole time 😂
.. TIL Bosco can mine heartstone lasers
Thank you for explaining how to use rockets ❤
Bosco will also carry dorettas head if exfil gets hairy
No dwarf left behind ❤
I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure recently my Bosco automatically shot at BET-C
My Bosco automatically shoots at Kurlocs every time. I have to tell him to go stare at all until I'm ready.
I would better pick froze rocket for damage, bcs you can't destroy apressor's armour, but you can freeze and one-shot em
im new to drg and idk how to tell if the X means im bringing him or not.
what is this music in the background again
how did you get surplus barrel for bosco
Ey, quick question, can u tell us what mod you use to remove the stuff around rockpox?
Im sorry, he can *build pipelines?!*
love the new content! R&S :)
Yo, how do you make all those annoying lithophage grass disappear before clearing the objective? Is it a mod? Its killing my frames dude
Step 1. Stop playing on a laptop. Get a good PC.
@@spankyjeffro5320 I got a mod to do it
@@spankyjeffro5320"Just buy something more expensive LMAO"
Thay should add an upgrade for auto rockets
I wonder if they’ll ever add bosco overclocks might be to strong/encourage solo play to much
Let face it vanilla bosco kind of bad in combat because of the slow speed ,i have seen him struggle shooting and catching up grunt before but then again im doing no shooting run
I will say, from experience, do not call for Bosco to return if you get grabbed. More than once have I been leeched, and I ping for Bosco and he gets confused and leaves. I’ve died more than once because his AI gets broken by this.
This has only ever happened to be once. I have played hundreds of missions with him and most the time I can spam X and he'll come running.
Only time he ever watched him just fly off to the other side of the cave was when I stepped on a tumble weed and it catapulted me into the ground at warp 10. I then proceeded to lose the mission as I stared in shock.
i'm a solo or private player
for bosco uh 1-c. 2-?. 3-a/b. 4- uh fear. 5-c
I prefer press v instead of x
Doing things fancy way
Really good video
How do I get bosco
I keep having to remind some RUclips's that play DRG what Basco can do to help them out like Reapor. Glad to see your never going to be one of them but given some of your runs....I think there's not a damn thing I could ever help you with
Я уснул с желанием увидеть это видео от тебя и проснулся уже с ним, спасибо Легенда
I don't know, I'd say the hardest choice is t2
boscoe
Ty
He builds pippe? He build fkn pipe >.>
why you stole my bosco skin lol
A real solo player goes without the helper bot 😋
But who will I shout Rock and Stone at? 👀
@@ellagage1256 molly
@ellagage1256 molly of course our faithful mule
@@goreobsessed2308 Fair, though molly doesn't do the cute little salute 😔
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