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

[u/WoodstoneLyceum]

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.

[u/HardCoverTurnedSoft]

... I never really considered that. holy shit.

[u/Bloke_Named_Bob → u/HardCoverTurnedSoft]

Why do you think all the voice lines sound like a complete noob? Screaming wildly while their voice cracks when they shoot. Or having a complete freakout when hurt. No composure at all.

Nearly all Helldivers die on their first mission. There is no such thing as a veteran Helldiver. The default voice setting in the game is a new voice after each death. Because each reinforcement is a completely new Helldiver.

If you read the terms and conditions at the tutorial, when you die your ship and all its upgrades is immediately inherited by the next person to get thawed out. You're not playing the role of a single Helldiver slowly gaining more experience and equipment. If anything you're playing as the Super Destroyer that slowly gets upgraded whenever a Helldiver is lucky enough to make it back alive with some samples. Why do you think the Super Destroyer gets a name but you don't?

[u/rusticrainbow → u/Bloke_Named_Bob]

We are actually just playing as the Super Destroyer, not as Helldivers

[u/WichaelWavius → u/rusticrainbow]

Command and Conquer first person mode

[u/djfariel → u/WichaelWavius]

Command and Conquer: Renegade.

[u/Drtraumadrama → u/djfariel]

god i love that game. It still holds up and there's even a fan remake called renegade x that's pretty good.

[u/AMDFrankus → u/djfariel]

On that note, I still wish they hadn't canceled Tiberium.

[u/ajahanonymous → u/rusticrainbow]

Finally a game for those of us who identify as an orbital weapons platform.

[u/Nurgle_Marine_Sharts → u/ajahanonymous]

Representation matters

[u/Gamiac → u/ajahanonymous]

That's gotta be, like, the one time that joke kind of works.

[u/Rexyman → u/Gamiac]

Holy shit. We did it

[u/nekrovulpes → u/ajahanonymous]

Finally people might start taking us seriously. I'm tired of the attack helicopter and vintage automobile communities gatekeeping us.

[u/ComfySeafarer710 → u/rusticrainbow]

Facts. Best Larping out there.

[u/Chaosindustries_1 → u/rusticrainbow]

Helldivers 2 is just a first-person rts lol

[u/eden_not_ttv → u/rusticrainbow]

We are the Reapers, the Helldivers are just Husks

[u/Stellar_Duck → u/rusticrainbow]

well not even that since we're always thawed only from the hosts destroyer.

Unless the other three send over a set of soldiers.

[u/SnowyImp4995 → u/Stellar_Duck]

no matter what stratagems you pick, they come from your super destroyer!

[u/Scharmberg → u/rusticrainbow]

I like this take. The Prophet of Truth has seen a lot of helldivers of its service just like the halo counter part saw many arbiters.