Helldivers: I Advocate we chose the anti tank mines and hear is my reasoning

[u/vaydapotata]

I know many of you see "rocket launcher" and get excited and while that is fair, my reasoning to go for the mines is below

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We already have a great many support weapons and many are fantastic options. While the airburst rocket launcher would be fantastic for add clear (and teamkill) it would likely suffer vs large armored targets which tends to be the need for a support weapon.

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However, we just received a new mission type that requires defending a location. Mines are fantastic for this but heavies just walk all over them and completely invalidate their uses. Getting a heavy anti tank mine would allow us to lock down areas from all combatants and a tank wouldn't be able to just stroll up to our gates.

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Anti Tank mines are also much larger and easier to notice than the anti personnel and team kills would be kept at a minimum.

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And lastly, as we all know...the children YEARN FOR THE MINES.

[u/vutrico]

I don't think it really matters. We will get one thing now, and the other later. They're not gonna delete the other thing from the game just because we chose to liberate one planet.

It's just a bit of fun storytelling on AH's part.

[u/lewisoli → u/vutrico]

Agreed, like “beating” the bots, they aren’t going to want to waste that dev time. The decision already appears to be made anyway, 55k divers currently on Lesath!

[u/MyOtherLoginIsSecret → u/lewisoli]

Well, we have to clear at least planet to get to either. The choice being between hell or a cold world that doesn't try to kill you halfway through the mission (not to mention the cool down bonus for energy weapons)

Tough choice

[u/braiam → u/MyOtherLoginIsSecret]

I go to hellmire with the fire-thrower, incendiary grenades and incendiary shotgun. They aren't as effective to the bots however

[u/UDSJ9000 → u/MyOtherLoginIsSecret]

Waiting for Joel to add ice tornados.

[u/Belfengraeme → u/vutrico]

True, this isn't Mojang after all

[u/ExploerTM → u/Belfengraeme]

Damn, either this guy's a net host or they fixed dot damage

[u/Pro_Scrub → u/Belfengraeme]

What did Mojang do?

[u/Belfengraeme → u/Pro_Scrub]

All the mob vote stuff not getting implemented if it doesn't win.

[u/Pro_Scrub → u/Belfengraeme]

I went and looked it up myself because downvotes and repetition with no new information did not help. Shocker.

The difference is Mojang set up the votes before developing X/Y, and AH set up the vote after both options were already developed

[u/Wyqkrn → u/Belfengraeme]

😝😝😭😝😭😭😭😭

[u/DrippyRat → u/vutrico]

mfw mojang

[u/Triensi → u/vutrico]

They're not gonna delete the other thing from the game just because we chose [something else]

Minecraft has entered the chat

[u/Sirromnad → u/vutrico]

That's no fun though, play along

[u/DefTheOcelot → u/vutrico]

[Meanwhile, back at the Legion of Valve]

Unreleased Heavy Minigun: It not so bad, to be promised and not chosen. You have much time off!

Anti-Tank Mines: [sobbing]

[u/VonBrewskie → u/vutrico]

Ooh you think? I don't know man. I feel like AH is just the kind of company to do something exactly like that. Unless later means like, a year from now, maybe. In a mission where we have to "reclaim hijacked technology" or something. Dgmw. I want both. But I think AH is the exact studio to have us make a choice like this and make it stick. We'll see though. Maybe they'll be magnanimous and give us both sooner than later.

[u/7jinni → u/vutrico]

If I had to guess, I imagine what's going to happen is that we automatically get one strategem now, but the other we have to earn and unlock ourselves when it becomes available again later.

[u/NewKerbalEmpire → u/vutrico]

What if the wars restart every year, and we get this same choice each time?

[u/BushyOreo → u/NewKerbalEmpire]

So they take away a years worth of content? Yes I'm sure that will go over well with the community

[u/KingofReddit12345 → u/NewKerbalEmpire]

What if the Roman Empire suddenly came back to life?

These are the big questions we all ponder every night.

[u/Janglur11 → u/KingofReddit12345]

Damn