Everything You Need to Know About Deep Rock Galactic Season 2

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After spending two years in early access, Deep Rock Galactic made its full debut in 2020, releasing on PC and Xbox One to commercial and critical success. Though the game's general premise is nothing overly new, Deep Rock Galactic's 4-player co-op felt like a breath of fresh air in the sometimes oversaturated genre, with some flashy sci-fi visuals, and a strong emphasis on secondary objectives that fleshed out the gameplay.

Flash forward another two years, and Deep Rock Galactic is still going strong, having just been ported over to the PS4 and PS5. With the base game finally finished, developer Ghost Ship Games has turned its attention to honing in on the game's live-service elements. The developer seeks to bring new missions, weapons, and cosmetics to the game, a whole load of which have just been added in Deep Rock Galactic Season 2, Rival Escalation.

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Deep Rock Galactic Season 2 is bringing a brand new mission type to the game. Along with the eight mission types already available in the game, Season 2 is bringing a new mode called «Rival Signal.» During this event, players will come across a series of communication relays while on their regular mining travels.

To shut down these communication relays, players will first need to stop the central router, hack into the connecting antennas, and steal and extract the sensitive data before the server gets a chance to self-destruct. Players' actions won't go unopposed, however, as the mysterious Rivals have dispatched a swarm of driller robots to protect the relay. For those particularly unlucky, they may even encounter a Rival Nemesis, a dangerous robotic boss resembling a squid.

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