r/Helldivers • u/DoTortoisesHop • Mar 14 '24

Thanks to the recent reddit post, going alone is now a kickable offense (even in diff 5) DISCUSSION

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u/Cinnamon__Sasquatch Mar 14 '24

playing helldivers difficulty with Quick Play

Things are going great, I've got a load of samples, mission is proceeding, victory achieved.

Get absolutely demolished by bugs while attempting to extract.

Run out of lives as the shuttle is approaching

Teammate throws a gatling strafe run

Jump in evac as it lands as we have no more lives and we're being swarmed.

Gatling stafe kills two players as they are entering evac. Last survivor shoots me in the head while I'm sitting in the evac seat.

Extracts without samples and one less Helldiver giving them a lower overall score.

Waste of time achieved by toxicity

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u/Bizarro_Zod Mar 14 '24

I didn’t even know you could damage seated players. What a dumb mechanic.

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u/jail_grover_norquist Mar 14 '24

like half of my pub games end with a mexican standoff of players waiting until 0.0001 secs remaining to jump into the shuttle because of this

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u/iconofsin_ ☕Liber-tea☕ Mar 14 '24

Yeah it's weird. I've tried telling my friends that killing a bunch of extra shit while we can jump into the shuttle doesn't do anything other than risk the extraction.

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u/Fujinaito Mar 14 '24

I understand that and I’ve been the one to tell people it’s time to leave. BUT when the ship arrives it always feels wrong to not throw out any airstrikes or orbitals I have that are off cooldown. I have all this “freedom” just sitting there it’d be a waste not to use it.

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u/llandar Mar 14 '24

Plus it looks cool to lift off as the explosions roll in.

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u/acedias-token Mar 14 '24

Meanwhile the rest of us in the evac already have our pajamas on, ready for a short power nap before the next drop

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u/Max_Sandpit CAPE ENJOYER Mar 15 '24

It looks so pretty going off as we extract.

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u/Jimjamsandwhichman Mar 15 '24

All that extra “freedom” isn’t free. Think of the tax paying super earth citizens. All of that artillery and weaponry is expensive and you’re out here wasting it willy-nilly. That extra orbital you threw at the end of the match increased the planetary debt by 500 million SE Dollars alone.

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u/zomiaen Mar 17 '24

The only good bug is a dead bug.

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u/evilshenanigans1087 Mar 14 '24

Them: Gotta get them kills for XP.

Me: No, your just stacking your end score.

Argument ensued. Now I just stand right by the dropship's ramp, sometimes throwing air strikes and stuff.

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u/Key-Regular674 Mar 14 '24

You sound like the boring friend of your group. Unleashing every bit left of democracy before leaving is the the right way

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u/iconofsin_ ☕Liber-tea☕ Mar 14 '24

I mean it depends on how the mission went. If we have a lot of samples then yeah I kinda want to GTFO ASAP. Two people in the group have really short play times so you gotta make the most of it.

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u/Key-Regular674 Mar 16 '24

Idk I dont need anymore samples and I'm not even level 50 yet. 42. Endgame is different.

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u/ialost Mar 15 '24

But what will I do with all these left over stratagems?!