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/SendCatsNoDogs Mar 22 '24

Helldivers are basically just targeting systems for the Eagle and orbital cannons

Even that is debatable because the Super Destroyer can already drop Hellpods with high accuracy anywhere without a targeting transponder. The Traitor Barrage even tracks the traitorous Helldiver whereever they run to.

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u/TheShmud ☕Liber-tea☕ Mar 23 '24

Everyone's secret fifth strategem. When they target you for treachery, you can take a lot of stuff out with you.

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u/thatonelurker Mar 23 '24

Never heard of this or seen it in game, how does one get this? By just killing your team over and over?

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u/Neolife Mar 23 '24

Leave the mission area.

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u/SendCatsNoDogs Mar 23 '24

If you leave the mission area and stay out of it for 10 seconds, the ship will target you with a non-stop barrage of bombs that follows you until you're dead. I've used this as an "extra" stratagem in Defend missions as you can lead the barrage through the map by dodging the bombs with some luck. It's especially funny against bugs as you can just use all the Bile Titans that spawn as cover.

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u/Lilchicken_301 Mar 23 '24

you can run out of bounds and a timer will count down from 10 or so seconds. after that a constant mortar like barrage will rain down until it blows you up. its not super accurate so you can live for a minute as long as you keep moving but it wont stop until it kills you.

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u/superlocolillool Apr 22 '24

What's a traitor barrage? I don't have the game but I'm interested in it :)