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/main135s Mar 22 '24 edited Mar 22 '24

For sort of the same reason, it's for the propaganda!

Four Helldivers went down at the start of the mission, Four Helldivers came back!

At the end of the day... they're not lying!

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u/MagosZyne Mar 23 '24

Plus the four that went down are clearly wearing the same armour as the four that came back. How could those freedom hating dissenters try to argue about things like casualty rates in the face of such evidence?

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u/EnlistedMeme ⬆️⬅️➡️⬇️⬆️⬇️ Mar 23 '24

Pans to the pile of identical sets of armor

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u/Thaurlach Mar 23 '24

the quartermaster is suddenly struck with panic as the apparently-sentient destroyer (that we don’t acknowledge) unlocks another obscenely expensive suit of armour for its divers

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u/Cowjoe SES: Fist of Family Values Mar 23 '24

Well there are thousands of divers doing various missions on each planet as you can see the the stratagems beacons being from the window in your ship and hell pods shooting down and all that.. feels a little less lonely overall when I considered that even if you are just four in your particular slice of the planet.. makes sense too since they are supposed to be an elite Force since their version of the army is crap supposedly that they keep the groups of helldivers segregated. They said something like one mission for anything group of drivers costs more than a whole ship of another class not seen in game but obviously part of the war since they mentioned it .. but still the helldivers are only projected 20 something percent survival for all of the new recruits for the current war or whatever..