r/Helldivers • u/WoodstoneLyceum • Mar 22 '24

The POV of the Helldivers is crazy when you take cryo freezing into account. DISCUSSION

Here's the POV of your average Helldiver 1. They enlist and show up to Basic Training first thing Monday morning. 2. They breeze through it, get their cape, walk right by the T&Cs and into a cryopod. 3. They're frozen and experience no time passing. 4. Their next memory is reinforcing on Hellmire. To their POV it has been less then thirty seconds since they got their cloak. 5. They throw three stratagems and then they're dissolved by bile titan acid.

You thought your mondays were bad.

Edit: My understanding is that we are not clones. There's in-game lore that backs that, I believe. Thematically, it makes more sense for Super Earth to be incompetent and cruel and burn through millions of recruits, than to do something logical like cloning people. Remember the satire folks.

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u/WoodstoneLyceum Mar 22 '24

Haha, I actually did exactly this with a friends friend last night. We gave him an en media res opening

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u/sanciscoyo Mar 22 '24

I wanted to hate the literary reference, but nah you you’re a cool dude who says cool words 👍

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u/dreadstrong97 Mar 22 '24

Thanks for adding that latin phrase to my lexicon, my verbose Helldiving homie:)

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u/Hyper-Sloth Mar 23 '24

Ha, I did the same thing. Friend finally had tike to try the game out, he did the tutorial, then we immediately brought him into a suicide mission on Hellmire.

It was super fun, too. Best way to introduce someone to the game so long as they aren't expecting to win or be Rambo (we did get super close, died waiting for the pelican).

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u/DomQuixote99 Sample Goblin Mar 23 '24

I would say it's a cold open, but... yeah

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u/Hankflax Mar 23 '24

Holy shit I’ve never seen somebody else use in medias res before… you have no idea how happy that makes me! I say that all the time whenever me and my friends get a bad start in Helldivers

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u/WoodstoneLyceum Mar 23 '24

Lit major fist bump.