As you play more and more runs of this action roguelike spin-off, you’ll slowly accumulate money and items to trade in for upgrades. We’ll uncover the best permanent upgrades to unlock first in Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor.
Deep Rock Galactic Survivor: Best permanent upgrades
There are12 different permanent upgradesyou can slowly level up as you progress through this game. Since it can get pretty expensive to spend your money and materials on upgrades, you should know about the best permanent ones to unlock and focus on first in Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor.
Heavy Bullets
Getting those hordes of aliens and creatures defeated fast is one of the best ways to clear areas. This is whyHeavy Bulletsdeserves to be one of the first upgrades to focus on.
Heavy Bulletsincreases your overall damage output by 4%with each upgrade. You’ll really start to see the difference once you level this up and notice that the enemies won’t be as much of a problem as they used to be.
The thing I hate most in a run is when all of my weapons are reloading at the same time. I want to have bullets spraying at all times, so an easy way to help this happen is to upgrade Reload Speed.
As you can guess, Reload Speedincreases the speed at which your guns can reload by 2%each time. It doesn’t seem like a lot, but once you upgrade it more (and add on Reload Speed upgrades during your runs), it’ll be a lot easier to keep your guns going.
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Better Boots
When you’re exploring each floor, running faster than the enemies is the best way to avoid being hit. You should focus on the Better Boots permanent upgrade whichincreases your movement speed by 2%each time.
Two percent for each upgrade isn’t a lot, but you need to be able to run fast to get out of harm’s way and run to the ship after you beat the boss. Add that to the movement upgrades you can have during your run and you’ll be speedy in no time.
Mining 101
It’s pretty tough at the start of DRG:S to mine ores fast. Sure, getting through stone isn’t too difficult, but if you want the collect ore you should upgrade Mining 101.
This upgrade willincrease your mining speed by 2%each time. Although you’re able to get temporary upgrades for mining speed, permanently upgrading this ability should help you mine ore faster and get through stone and debris to get aSupply Podeasier.
Getting Fit
My biggest problem during the early stages of DRG:S is staying alive. This is why upgradingGetting Fitis a good idea since it’llbump up your max HP by 10each time.
Since getting back health during runs is pretty difficult, you want to slowly build up enough max HP to be able to tank a few hits. 10 HP with each upgrade is also pretty generous and will build up pretty fast.
Now that you know about the best unlockable permanent upgrades, you should check out our guide onhow to unlock all the Classes. You don’t just have to play as the Scout!
Anyka Pettigrew
Anyka Pettigrew has been a Staff Writer for PC Invasion since November 2023 and a Contributing Writer since February 2023. She is a Canadian graduate of a Bachelor of Arts degree who has been writing in games journalism for four years. Anyka is an avid guides writer but also enjoys writing anything from news pieces, to reviews, and even opinion pieces. Having a never-ending passion for video games for as long as she can remember got her into a plethora of genres like action adventure, RPGs, horror, survival etc. Some of her favorite franchises are God of War, Persona, The Last of Us, Zelda, and Resident Evil. She also enjoys reading fantasy and sci-fi books, as well as drawing digital art. Anyka also regularly listens to podcasts on gaming news from ‘Kinda Funny Games’, and ‘Play, Watch, Listen’.
