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Everything about the Drills

Hey everyone, get ready to learn about the Driller's Drills! It's MeatShield, back at it again, here to share everything I've researched and documented in the past couple days. In a shocki...

Revisiting Elite Enemies

Back when Update 34 was "fresh out of the gate", I surveyed a bunch of people regarding U34's new content and compiled it into a blog post. One of the major topics covered were the newly...

Armor Breaking in U34

Hey folks, it's another blog post from MeatShield! Going back to my usual style, this is going to be long and educational post with a ton of numbers in it. One of the many, many, many things I wro...

U34's Weapon Balance Changes

Hey folks, it's MeatShield again. I think this will probably be the last blog post dedicated to U34 (Karl knows I've written a lot of them), and once again it won't be numbers and statisti...

Meet the New Karl.gg

Hey everyone! As you can see, we have been working behind the scenes for a little bit now to redesign karl.gg as you know it. While this first pass is mostly a visual change, it is the fi...

Constructive Community Feedback about U34

Hey everyone, it's another blog post from MeatShield. However, this one is going to be pretty different from my normal style. While I generally prefer to write about DRG's game mechanics, weap...

U33 Pickrate Analytics

Time for another "MeatShield data dump"! Continuing the tradition started by U31 and U32, this blog post is an analysis of the weapon builds submitted to Karl.gg during Update 33. 934 loa...

Interpretation of Weapon Balance Survey Results (part 2)

This post is part 3 of a series. If you're a new reader of the blog going through them in reverse-chronological order, I strongly recommend reading through part 1 first to see the raw data and ana...

Interpretation of Weapon Balance Survey Results (part 1)

As promised, here's the second part of my analysis of the Weapon Balance survey results. Sorry it took so long; as it turns out, I had a lot more to say than I was expecting. I started writing thi...