If you’re looking to optimise your Deep Rock Galactic Gear setup, you’ve come to the right place! This short Platform-gun Mods guide will discuss the options for the three tiers of Platform-gun upgrades and whether or not they’re worth considering in your own mod build or outright skippable.
For the sake of cutting down a lot of extra words, I’ll be referring to the platform gun as PG from now on.
Tier 1
- Supercharged Feed Mechanism – Doubles the PG’s fire rate. This is a trap Choice, likely to result in wasted ammo.
- Expanded Ammo Bags – Gives you an additional 8 maximum ammo, excellent choice.
- High Capacity Magazine – Potentially useful, increases magazine size to 8 from 4. Might save your life when you simply don’t have time to reload at some stage, but otherwise inferior to the Expanded Ammo bags.
Immediately, Supercharged Feed Mechanism should be ignored, it’s a trap choice – fire rate might sound good on an actual gun, but this is a utility tool with limited ammo. You need to be precise with your usage of it, not firing it as fast as possible.
Expanded Ammo Bags is the easiest recommendation here, and what the majority of players should use. It’s simple, it’s effective and it means every resupply pod will contain an extra 4 rounds of PG Ammo as an added bonus. High Capacity Magazine has some value, as a doubled magazine size might mean you can get an extra platform down without reloading in a way that saves your life, but that’s a rare scenario – running out of ammo for the PG is far more commonplace, making Expanded Ammo Bags the best call for this slot.
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Tier 2
- Plastcrete MKII – Reduces fall damage if you land on the platform. Mandatory Modificaton.
Another set of modifications, another mandatory choice. With that said, it’s honestly probably a good thing this mod doesn’t compete with anything else because it is extremely useful and would not be easy to beat. Plastcrete MKII massively reduces fall damage if you land on a PG’ created platform. Meaning Engineer can dive off a cliff, shoot, and take very little if any damage – for arguably the most mobility-limited class, this can become extremely useful as an escape mechanism (and with speeding up exploration.)
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Tier 3
- Expanded Ammo Bags – This might sound familiar, but another 8 maximum ammo.
- Repellant Additive – Bugs will attempt to avoid standing on your platforms.
Both options are good here in theory. Expanded Ammo Bags, is just a good a choice as it was earlier, and if you take it both here and in tier 1, you’ll be gaining double the normal ammo per resupply due to the increased capacity, which is pretty useful to have.
Repellant additive, by comparison, offers a somewhat odd, somewhat interesting utility effect. This mod makes it so the hordes of aliens will politely attempt to go around the obstacle in front of them rather than running over it – in theory, it may buy you an extra second per platform as the path around will take longer, but as this mod is a little light on providing quantifiable value, it’s hard to measure its effect in any kind of outside-of-game assessment. This is one of those try-it-out mods. If you don’t like it, swap to Expanded Ammo Bags for a consistently useful upgrade. If you do, stick with it.
You should end up with something looking a bit like the above, and that brings us to the end of this guide. What mods did you end up taking on your Platform gun? Let me know in the comments below.
For those wanting to read up on the Platform-gun mods, you can find the wiki page here.
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