In the dwarven caste system of Deep Rock Galactic, the Reclaimers are the elite of the elite, too skilled to waste their talents and training on mining. Except, well, they're still dwarves, which means any trip into the depths of new Deep Rock spin-off Rogue Core will still see you breaking out the pickaxe to chip away at minerals here and there between shooting waves of monsters.
Being the mining company's equivalent of a Navy SEALs actually seems like kind of a bad deal. Shooting monsters is fun and all, but humans, Protoss, every species has a squad of gun-toting toughs who've raced against the clock to take down a boss before time runs out. It's the miner dwarves doing an honest day's work who really have it made. Who else gets to pop into the mines for a 10-minute egg hunt one day, then on the next establish a mining facility with a network of pipes snaking through tunnels dug by their own hand? When that gets stale, there's always a drilldozer to escort or mining robots to find and repair.
That's my roundabout way of saying that the real treat of Deep Rock Galactic, still going strong after eight years, is that it looks like a conventional co-op shooter but do...
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