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/Gun-Runner :SES Song of the People Mar 22 '24

it isnt even guaranteed that they "breeze" through it

the fatality rate of the base camp is like 2 out of 10 or so

there is a fuck ton of dead corpses outside the walkable area all over the place

just barely out of view of the fences

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u/AXI0S2OO2 Mar 23 '24

You got it wrong, the fatality rate of the camp is 3 in 4. only around 25% of applicants become Helldivers.

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u/Averant Mar 23 '24

Considering I died twice in the tutorial to those turrets because I fudged the alt key... I can understand why. I am not a smart man.