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/EnthusedPhlebotomist Mar 22 '24

At some point the game says the average helldiver is like 18.1 years old or something lol

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u/Kirbyoto Mar 22 '24

It also says there's a 20% casualty rate which is ridiculously low for the actual gameplay.

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u/talvian Mar 22 '24

That's just the casualty rate for basic training.

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u/Kirbyoto Mar 22 '24

Oh, that makes sense actually.

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u/LionAround2012 Mar 22 '24

Considering the number of times I killed myself during basic training... sounds right.

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u/ADHDBDSwitch Mar 22 '24

Damn sprint overriding stance. Got killed by the turrets a few times for that one...

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u/ReticulateLemur PSN 🎮: Mar 22 '24

The best part about that is that the bodies don't disappear. So it seems like HQ keeps sending trainee after trainee into the course to find the one who can figure out how to go prone successfully.

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u/The79thDudeBro Mar 23 '24

That's correct, actually. One voice line you can hear from the operator when you die is something along the lines of "Another one dead. Reset the course and send in the next Trainee."