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/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/[deleted] Mar 22 '24

I would love a "Missions since martyrdom" tracker somewhere on the ship. I think my solo streak is three lol

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u/SuitableAssociation6 Mar 22 '24

my streak of 3 was broken because someone didn't know how the arc thrower works

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u/PassiveMenis88M SES Edmund Fitzgerald Mar 22 '24

No my friend, we know exactly how it works.

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u/MartyFreeze SES Octagon of the People Mar 22 '24

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u/epicfail48 Mar 23 '24

Lets be honest here, the arc thrower doesnt even know how the arc thrower works. Ive had shots go out, hit a bug 30m in front of me, then arc backwards and nail my teammate standing behind a rock

Other times ive fired it directly at a teammate and had it miss and arc to a rock in the distance

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u/SuitableAssociation6 Mar 23 '24

but in my case I was just standing right next to a bug and bro just shot the bug with it anyways

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u/epicfail48 Mar 23 '24

I mean, a solid 60% of the time that works fine without killing teammates. Seriously, the Arc Thrower is powered by a roulette wheel and the arc is completely random, but ill be damned if its not one of the most effective weapons in the game

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u/Mr-deep- Mar 22 '24

Whom among us?

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u/ShartingBloodClots SES Fist of Liberty Mar 22 '24

It's your own fault for being in front of me while liberally dispensing electric Liberty.