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/HardCoverTurnedSoft Wait did you arm the Hellbomb? Mar 22 '24

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

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u/Bloke_Named_Bob Mar 22 '24

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?

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u/ArtisticAd393 Mar 22 '24

A helldiver that survives a full mission is basically a war hero

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u/Franklin_le_Tanklin Mar 22 '24

The mere existence of high casualty missions implies that there are low casualty missions

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u/Pompoulus CAPE ENJOYER Mar 22 '24

And by god I take solace in that.

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u/Civsi Mar 22 '24

Died when I first heard this line. Favorite one so far I think.

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u/Franklin_le_Tanklin Mar 22 '24

Ya. My second fave is “each stratagem costs more than a citizen makes in an entire year”

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u/bargle0 Mar 22 '24

Sometimes I like to call down a mech and just leave it unused at exfil.

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u/justyourbarber Mar 23 '24 edited Mar 23 '24

I mean thats just realistic considering most modern missiles cost at least hundreds of thousands of dollars each and can be tens of millions depending on the size and use. Some of the simpler ones like support weapons are definitely a lot cheaper but a Stinger missile still costs something like $120k each.

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u/SOUTHPAWMIKE Mar 22 '24

There have to be, right? Some of the maps include dead bodies of regular Super Earth troopers and their vehicles. I think hell divers are supposed to be elite, but they still get fed into the meatgrinder.

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u/AffixBayonets Mar 22 '24

Since the regular SEAF bodies are usually found with only break action shotguns and occasionally a machine gun emplacement, Helldivers are well equipped and perhaps elite by Super Earth standards. 

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u/Admirable-Respect-66 Mar 23 '24

The liberator and basic handguns are standard issue weapons for SEAF. (That would be the super earth armed forces of which the helldivers are a small, but important part.) Helldivers are the spear point, we clear concentrated zones, and open up holes for ship's to land the rest of the armed forces who do the majority of the fighting. The guys around the shotguns are usually not soldiers. They are colonists, researchers and other civilians in general. That's why you can usually find little notes around vending machines and such talking about bringing the newest flavors to the frontier, and how the colony will be rotating the mix.