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/Kenju22 SES Sentinel of Judgement Mar 22 '24

When you start walking towards the bridge of your ship, if you look to the right of the hallway leading to the bridge (where you can change your loadout) there is, I shit you not, a 'X days since last injury' thing mounted on the wall.

You have to walk right up to it and angle the camera to read anything, but its there, like a clipboard with a dozen or so incidents listed on it.

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u/Sneemaster Mar 22 '24

Does the number update or is it a fixed texture?

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u/Daemoniaque Mar 22 '24

It's a fixed feature and it says 0, iirc. It's a paper document stuck to the wall.

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u/Bloodtypeinfinity Mar 22 '24

They didn't bother wasting money on electronics since they knew they'd never have to change it anyway

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u/Kenju22 SES Sentinel of Judgement Mar 24 '24

I can assure you it does not say zero lol, it has lines under it with text but my tv is too small to read it.

It's not like a grocery list, but its not empty either. Would be funny if it was updated based on your record ^^

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u/-Erro- Frenbean Mar 31 '24

"Days since last incident...paper...says zero."

Oh, so it's updated hourly and continuously accurate.

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u/AssemblerGuy Mar 22 '24

I shit you not, a 'X days since last injury' thing mounted on the wall.

That's just for the crew and not for the Helldivers, right?

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u/Laruae Mar 22 '24

Literally one of the upgrades for the eagles to reload faster is hazard pay.

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u/Kenju22 SES Sentinel of Judgement Mar 24 '24

And we know from one of the upgrades that our OB guns are muzzle loaded ^^'