I started playing at the weekend with my teenagers, we’ve agreed to only play DRG when we’re together so no-one goes off ranking up too fast which is what happened when we played Valorant.
We’ve selected classes somewhat randomly, I’m playing engineer, they are driller and gunner.
After about 3 or 4 missions they’ve got to rank 4 and I’m still on 3. I feel like they’re getting more kills because they have more killy weapons (waaagh), is that what the rank system is based on?
If so, have I chosen a class which is slower going or gets better late game? Or, does it not really matter as much as I think? I can see that ranking up means better upgrades, presumably therefore more kills so it could be a feedback loop.
Overall we’ve found it to be great fun as well as a kind of chaotic, screaming mess!
I’m an engineer main and I constantly get the most kills in my group of four. The engineer starts off slow but, man-oh-man does it get some amazing weapons, and probably the best grenade in the game. You’ll eventually unlock the auto-targeting rifle (LOK-1 Smart Rifle) and the giga-destroyer beam Shard Diffractor which can just absolutely shred bosses. If all of that isn’t broken enough, then you also get the shredder swarm grenade, which is absolutely insane. Top that off with two turrets and you can pretty much solo most things.
Not to mention the best mobility tool around. I mean, I love me some Scouty hook shot, but that platform gun is godmode.