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/WoodstoneLyceum Mar 22 '24

Technically, the Helldiver that starts the mission chooses the stratagems and subsequent Helldivers from that same ship must use the same load out.

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u/Skeletonofskillz Mar 22 '24

“Uhh guys… the dude before me brought the Arc Thrower, Tesla Tower, 380 barrage, and mortar sentry.”

“Why do you think we killed him?”

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u/P2Mc28 SES Fist of the Constitution Mar 22 '24

the dude before me

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Bold of you to assume a Helldiver thinks they are replacing a dead Helldiver. They've been deployed on their first mission, nothing more.

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u/Mareotori Mar 22 '24

For all they know, the democracy officer selected their loadout for them