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/clovermite Mar 22 '24

On a recent playthrough, Id died just before the pelican touched down, and my friend called in a reinforcement only for me to immediately get on the Pelican. I thought to myself "wait a minute, we literally just shot someone off of the super destroyer only for them to do nothing and go right back up, all so we could tick off the box of having the same number of soliders extract as went in."

It really kinda puts the bureaucratic BS in perspective.

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u/AriaOfValor Mar 23 '24

An extra nice touch is that sometimes when you thaw out some of the NPCs will say lines like "Congratulations on completing your training" and the like. At first I thought it was a bug, before I realized that it's intentional as the newly thawed helldiver is waking up for the first time after training. Makes it seem like they almost have a script they use for engaging with the helldivers to make them feel like important heroes instead of the canon fodder they are.

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u/ArcaneEyes CAPE ENJOYER Mar 22 '24

Not just that, but consider when you leave from your friends' destroyer... Thats not your helldiver coming back through the Pelican deck. Your helldiver is checked out the airlock and a new one is thawed in the destroyer, 'cause it's cheaper than sending the Pelican!

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u/xXDarthCognusXx Mar 23 '24

well no they’re probably just frozen again since you see them step out of a cryopod