I need three more.

Say no more, fam, I’m in.

That looks like some good fun.

So.. I don't fully follow the cross-platform bit. If I get it on steam I can't play w/ my xbox friends, but I might be able to if I buy it from the Microsoft Store?

That looks like some good fun.

So.. I don't fully follow the cross-platform bit. If I get it on steam I can't play w/ my xbox friends, but I might be able to if I buy it from the Microsoft Store?

Getting the Xbox version comes with a windows version, and you can play cross-platform co-op between those two. I'm playing on the Xbox. You can try it for free.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/deep-rock-galactic-game-preview/9nhfvwx1v7qj

I'm certainly willing to give it a try. It sounds like my kind of thing.

I think you get an hour free to try on Game Preview games, right?

One more thing, if I'm to play on my PC w/ my xbox friends, do I need xblive gold?

One more thing, if I'm to play on my PC w/ my xbox friends, do I need xblive gold?

Probably. I could dig around for a trial scratch off code.

One more thing, if I'm to play on my PC w/ my xbox friends, do I need xblive gold?

If it follows every Play Anywhere game so far, you don't need XBL Gold while playing on PC.

One more thing, if I'm to play on my PC w/ my xbox friends, do I need xblive gold?

If it follows every Play Anywhere game so far, you don't need XBL Gold while playing on PC.

good to know. If it turns out that I DO need XBL Gold I probably have a month card kicking around somewhere.

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I'm also kind of stoked about GTFO, which looks to be in much the same vein, but so far seems to be PC only, which would be a bummer.

We should schedule that one hour trial, just in case.

So I assume that the admins are planning to play together. Send me an email with your weekend availability if you want to play with me. Thanks.

So I assume that the admins are planning to play together. Send me an email with your weekend availability if you want to play with me. Thanks.

I'll look into it. I'll have to look at it a bit before I decide to drop the money for it. I'm going to order a modmic this weekend so I can finally have chat capabilities on Xbox.

Are you going to get Sea of Thieves, Kermit?

So I assume that the admins are planning to play together. Send me an email with your weekend availability if you want to play with me. Thanks.

I'll look into it. I'll have to look at it a bit before I decide to drop the money for it. I'm going to order a modmic this weekend so I can finally have chat capabilities on Xbox.

Are you going to get Sea of Thieves, Kermit?

Sea of Thieves beta is this weekend. Maybe everyone is planning on playing that. I'd like to play with others if something is planned. [Cough]I'm easy to contact.[Cough]

No one has suggested a time to me (publicly or privately) regarding Deep Rock Galactic.

I'll plan on playing at 8:30 EST next Wednesday.

While I am keeping an eye on Sea of Thieves, I won't actually be playing it this weekend, so I'm open to tonight or tomorrow evening for Deep Rock Galactic. Is 7:00pm an OK time for anyone else?

Otherwise, I think I can do Wednesday too. Just would prefer to do it sooner.

So I assume that the admins are planning to play together. Send me an email with your weekend availability if you want to play with me. Thanks.

I'll look into it. I'll have to look at it a bit before I decide to drop the money for it. I'm going to order a modmic this weekend so I can finally have chat capabilities on Xbox.

Are you going to get Sea of Thieves, Kermit?

Sea of Thieves beta is this weekend. Maybe everyone is planning on playing that. I'd like to play with others if something is planned. [Cough]I'm easy to contact.[Cough]

No one has suggested a time to me (publicly or privately) regarding Deep Rock Galactic.

I'll plan on playing at 8:30 EST next Wednesday.

I’ll download the preview, but it’s only 60 minutes right? I don’t even have a working mic for Xbox yet, but should by next week. I’ll let you know and we can try Deep Rock Galactic.

While I am keeping an eye on Sea of Thieves, I won't actually be playing it this weekend, so I'm open to tonight or tomorrow evening for Deep Rock Galactic. Is 7:00pm an OK time for anyone else?

I assume you mean 8 EST. That's too close to another commitment for me. Sorry.

Otherwise, I think I can do Wednesday too. Just would prefer to do it sooner.

Hope so!

So I assume that the admins are planning to play together. Send me an email with your weekend availability if you want to play with me. Thanks.

I'll look into it. I'll have to look at it a bit before I decide to drop the money for it. I'm going to order a modmic this weekend so I can finally have chat capabilities on Xbox.

Are you going to get Sea of Thieves, Kermit?

Sea of Thieves beta is this weekend. Maybe everyone is planning on playing that. I'd like to play with others if something is planned. [Cough]I'm easy to contact.[Cough]

No one has suggested a time to me (publicly or privately) regarding Deep Rock Galactic.

I'll plan on playing at 8:30 EST next Wednesday.

I’ll download the preview, but it’s only 60 minutes right? I don’t even have a working mic for Xbox yet, but should by next week. I’ll let you know and we can try Deep Rock Galactic.

If it's fun, I'll buy it. Hope you can play.

No one has suggested a time to me (publicly or privately) regarding Deep Rock Galactic.

I'll plan on playing at 8:30 EST next Wednesday.

Can't say for sure, but I'll keep that in mind. I haven't even downloaded it yet

No one has suggested a time to me (publicly or privately) regarding Deep Rock Galactic.

I'll plan on playing at 8:30 EST next Wednesday.

Can't say for sure, but I'll keep that in mind. I haven't even downloaded it yet

it's only about a gig and a half in size, so it shouldn't take long once it works. I had a tough time trying to download it yesterday; Kept getting error messages.

LIVE was having all sorts of issues yesterday. I couldn’t even sign in for over an hour.

I downloaded it yesterday without a problem.

I downloaded it yesterday without a problem.

My mistake. I woudn't have suggested that anyone might run into an issue had I only known that Kermit didn't have any problems. ;)

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Some of us DBO folks are giving the free trial a go!

Come watch us dig for loot in the dark.

Some of us DBO folks are giving the free trial a go!

Come watch us dig for loot in the dark.

My mic is supposed to arrive on Saturday, so I'll get the trail downloaded and hopefully be able to jump in some matches with folks this weekend or next week. Watching your stream isn't really selling me on the game, though, I must admit. Maybe playing it is a lot more fun that it looks on a stream.

Some of us DBO folks are giving the free trial a go!

Come watch us dig for loot in the dark.

My mic is supposed to arrive on Saturday, so I'll get the trail downloaded and hopefully be able to jump in some matches with folks this weekend or next week. Watching your stream isn't really selling me on the game, though, I must admit. Maybe playing it is a lot more fun that it looks on a stream.

Being the digger class probably isn’t the ideal class to play in a stream, but I had plenty of fun, especially when the action ramps up.
That escape sequence though, was pure Helldivers at its best, so it’s definitely worth a purchase if you’ve got a group of friends to get into it, and you don’t have Helldivers.

I happened to see a couple other DBO folks playing it when I started up my XBox Tuesday night, so I used my hour trial and played with them.

I'm sold.

I happened to see a couple other DBO folks playing it when I started up my XBox Tuesday night, so I used my hour trial and played with them.

I'm sold.

Does that mean you bought it and you'll play tonight?

https://destiny.bungie.org/forum/index.php?mode=fireteambuilder&event=2723

Does that mean you bought it and you'll play tonight?

Technically, I didn't actually make the purchase yet, I was in a hurry to get to bed after I exited the game. But I will. And yes, definitely planning on playing tonight.

I can see why some people may not enjoy this game, but I found it fun enough to be worth $25 especially since several others around here enjoy it.

My new mic for Xbox will be here tomorrow. I'll get the preview downloaded--someone send me an invite if you see me online and want to play it, and I'll give it a try.

Fair warning there is about 10 minutes of tutorial you’ll have to complete before you can play with others.

Kermit, sorry I didn't get to play with you last night! Didn't mean to throw the group numbers off like that when we all grouped up earlier. Hope you still got some good mining in.

I'll try to be online again tonight.

Fair warning there is about 10 minutes of tutorial you’ll have to complete before you can play with others.

Or 20 minutes if you're me. I had a good time. I have a bit of a spider phobia that kicks into high gear when spiders are bigger than dogs and make noises, but the art style went a long way toward keeping me from wigging out.

Had fun, will play again.

Kermit, sorry I didn't get to play with you last night! Didn't mean to throw the group numbers off like that when we all grouped up earlier. Hope you still got some good mining in.

I'll try to be online again tonight.

No worries. You and Blacktiger had signed up and I'd personally invited Malagate, so it's all good. I may not be able to play the next few nights, but maybe over the weekend.

http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/stabbim/video/45562730

The overly-dramatic jump into the pod at about T+1 after the last second was Malagate. Also present: Dame117, Blackt1g3r, and myself.

What you can't see in my video is the reason for the close finish. Blackt1g3r had gotten separated from the rest of us, for reasons I don't remember, and at some point it became apparent that there simply wasn't enough time for him to locate AND traverse the path the rest of us had taken through the caverns. So he and Malagate just started digging, DIRECTLY toward each other. It was a crazy last-ditch maneuver and we were all pretty certain it wouldn't work. Its success, and the timing of said success, couldn't possibly have been more dramatic.

Things like that happen all the time in this game.

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Here are the last 30 seconds. You can see how I've actually managed to clip outside the geometry a bit. If I hadn't I probably wouldn't have found Malagate's tunnel as we were digging parallel to each other. Once I saw where his tunnel was I adjusted my digging to go toward it and that's the only reason I made it!

http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/Blackt1g3r/video/45585743

Here is the whole 5 minutes prior to our escape. You can see I know that I need to go up so I just choose a tunnel that goes higher, but it actually ends up taking me away from the drop pod. Since I don't know where to go and I'm the digger class I decide to just start digging to the drop pod and hope that I can make it. But when I run out of fuel for the drills I know I'll never be able to tunnel all the way to the drop pod on my own so I ask someone if they can start tunneling towards me in the hopes that might save me!

http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/Blackt1g3r/video/45585941

The funny thing about all of this is I usually know exactly where I am on a map, but in the caves it can be easy to get lost (plus the drop pod doesn't return to the same location it dropped you off at so you aren't just backtracking). Usually I'm the first one to reach the drop pod, but this time everyone else made it while I got lost. :P

Hooray for pre-release games!

A few clips of some frantic combat, a clip of the M.U.L.E pushing Stabbim off a cliff, and the luckiest escape pod drop ever:

http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/NevinDouglas/video/45858676

I was murdered!

http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/Blackt1g3r/video/45880704

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