Deep Rock Galactic’s third season turns your miners into grenade-lobbing doctors

Deep Rock Galactic (opens in new tab), the market’s premier space-mining dwarf simulator, enters its third season on Steam’s experimental servers today. The instalment, called Plaguefall, brings with it a bevy of add-ons and updates, plus “the sinister and highly transmissible Rockpox infecting the caverns of Hoxxes IV,” which is certainly a series of words.

It all sounds quite gross. Players will have to avoid plague-bearing meteors as they strike Hoxxes and infect the resident Glyphids with “putrid boils,” then use a cleaning rig to sterilise the area and extract valuable plague hearts from the meteor’s centre. On the plus side, you are getting four new grenades—which electrocute, enflame, slice, and shred respectively—to tackle all this stuff with.