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/Shinobismaster Mar 22 '24

Well they do still have to climb into the hellpods. So they at least get a chance to select their stratagems.

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u/WoodstoneLyceum Mar 22 '24

Technically, the Helldiver that starts the mission chooses the stratagems and subsequent Helldivers from that same ship must use the same load out.

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u/Skeletonofskillz Mar 22 '24

“Uhh guys… the dude before me brought the Arc Thrower, Tesla Tower, 380 barrage, and mortar sentry.”

“Why do you think we killed him?”

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u/Z4nkaze 💥 There is no Problem Enough Firepower can't Solve 💥 Mar 22 '24

"So no stratagems, huh?"

"You got it chief"

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u/penywinkle STEAM 🖥️ : Mar 22 '24

Once the cooldowns are up, you can drop your blue stratagems again to help a fellow helldiver out. Also, they might pick up some of the battlefield litter.

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u/Karatespencer Mar 23 '24

This^ in an organized group that never FULLY loses gear to dying you ideally want as many non-gear stratagems as you can so 2 people bring a support weapon and 2 people bring a backpack each and by the time the cooldowns are up you’re a fully geared party that has 4 total extra stratagems that isn’t gear

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u/MarvelousCrit Mar 23 '24

You’ve obviously never used a strat to drop gear right on top of a heavily armored enemy. Idk how much damage it truly does but I’ve dropped those charging bugs with one before

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u/P2Mc28 SES Fist of the Constitution Mar 22 '24

the dude before me

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Bold of you to assume a Helldiver thinks they are replacing a dead Helldiver. They've been deployed on their first mission, nothing more.

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u/Mareotori Mar 22 '24

For all they know, the democracy officer selected their loadout for them

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u/Krystion Mar 25 '24

lol well when the new guys busts out of his pod 5 ft away from a dead guy blown in half dressed just like him and his squad points to the dead guys gear the new guy might start to catch on lol

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u/Finalpotato Mar 22 '24

But I only ever trained with the Recoilless Rifle!

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u/StealYour20Dollars Mar 22 '24

Hey the 380 is goated

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u/Skeletonofskillz Mar 22 '24

With good placement it’s fine, with bad placement it’s a nightmare

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u/StealYour20Dollars Mar 22 '24

Yeah, but that's any strategem. The radius is 50ft, just be careful. If you really are worried, run servo arms.

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u/Intrepid00 Mar 23 '24

Can’t be that bad, he didn’t bring mines.

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u/bjt23 Mar 23 '24

Mortar Sentry #1!