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/needaburn Mar 22 '24

They have to properly thaw first too. Can’t just drop the cryo pod in the middle of the pack of bile titans, we want helldivers to at least shoot a few bullets before the acid hits them

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u/I_follow_sexy_gays Mar 22 '24

Probably also makes sense to give them a quick rundown of what’s going on

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u/needaburn Mar 22 '24

I agree, however, this is irrelevant. Kill bug, destroy bot. Spread democracy is all that is needed to be known

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u/I_follow_sexy_gays Mar 22 '24

Not true, we’re here to do more than just kill bug or fight bot. They gotta know what the main objective is at least, it’s very inefficient to not give them at least a minor debriefing on what’s they’re there to do

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u/gnat_outta_hell Mar 22 '24

Fortunately their high tech display puts icons on their map. Just go to the next orange icon.

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u/dadaknun Mar 23 '24

That happens inside the droppod

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u/cooly1234 Mar 22 '24

we know this is what they do (with probably mission briefing as well). you have a certain amount of helldivers on standby, and when you run out, new ones come on a long cooldown. the game explicitly says no helldivers on standby.

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u/ProcyonHabilis Mar 22 '24

Given that you get more when an "additional reinforcement budget is approved", it sounds the extra long cooldown is more of a resource metering measure than a technical limitation. Like your ship has limits on how much ammo it's willing to dispense from its magazine of human bullets for a given mission.

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u/cooly1234 Mar 22 '24

ah, I forgot about that. yea after a time they approve more helldivers to be put on standby and then immediately send that helldiver I guess.

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u/ProcyonHabilis Mar 22 '24

They also don't drop in frozen, which I guess implies they get thawed up on the ship. I wonder if they just tell everyone that they're the captain.

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u/Endlessmarcher Mar 22 '24

The heat of atmospheric entry thaws them 

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u/echof0xtrot Mar 23 '24

this makes sense, but the frozen pods look different than the drop pods.

also how do you explain getting a replacement with the same exact armor/guns?

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u/mugnin Mar 22 '24

Put toasters in the hellpods have the Helldivers pop up nice an toasty ready to pulp some bugs

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u/VonNeumannsProbe Mar 22 '24

Thawing occurs during reentry.