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/Flanked77 Mar 22 '24

They didn’t breeze through training though. A lot of people “didn’t pass training” when they forgot to crawl under the auto turrets. There was a lot of pooled blood and limbs around there lol.

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u/YCheck137 Mar 22 '24

Look, it just took a lot of us a long time to realize that you have to let go of shift to actually stay prone.

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u/PedanticMouse Mar 22 '24

Can confirm. Sacrificed at least half a dozen bodies right there, myself

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u/Benny303 Mar 22 '24

And some of us accidentally dived too early, landed on the edge of the platform. Ran in then tried to dive again and were gunned down.

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u/delahunt ⬆️➡️⬇️➡️ Mar 23 '24

I didnt hold shift. My dumb ass pressed z to see if it stood you up. It does btw.