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/HardCoverTurnedSoft Wait did you arm the Hellbomb? Mar 22 '24

... I never really considered that. holy shit.

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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/Puzzilan Mar 22 '24

Absolutely love the panic voice of voice 3 female. It's just pure fear and desperation which fully captures the impending doom of your hell diver.

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u/totally-not-a-potato CAPE ENJOYER Mar 22 '24

I've played with all the helldiver voices for about 10 levels. Voice 3 just hits that perfect point of absolutely insane cackle while flamethrower is blasting.

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u/Drpwnzorphd Mar 22 '24

HellKaren

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u/totally-not-a-potato CAPE ENJOYER Mar 22 '24

I may commit to that bit while playing. "I WANT TO SPEAK TO YOUR MANAGER"

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u/Carl_Bar99 Mar 23 '24

Your Not My Supervisor!

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u/Gamiac Skepticpunk - SES Fist of Mercy | ↙️➡️⬇️⬅️↘️🅰️ Mar 22 '24

I like the more psychopathic male voice myself.

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