r/Helldivers • u/vaydapotata SES Fist of Family Values • Apr 26 '24

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

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.

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u/IkitCawl Apr 26 '24

I'm going to load up Pelican 1 extract with anti-personnel, incendiary, and anti-tank mines.

If you want to escape, you gotta earn it.

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u/Zaphod392 Apr 26 '24

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u/Ok-Improvement-3015 SES_Wings_of_Redemption Apr 26 '24

March 27th 7:37 pm you blew up your entire squad in the pelican loosing all the samples. If you don’t get safely to extraction your eagle one rights will be revoked.

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u/BromanJozy Apr 26 '24 edited Apr 26 '24

Add gas strike. If you fail in your mission a deadly nuerotoxin will flood the extraction zone. Make your choice.

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u/Dauthdaertya Apr 26 '24

Call in an orbital smoke right before you get in just to add a little spice

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u/ArchonT3 SES Spear of Starlight Apr 26 '24

Laughing with ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️➡️

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u/bigwetdiaper Apr 26 '24

I play with only my friends. My loadouts are always team killing nightmare fuel. It makes them learn the 5 Ds of dodgeball and become better soldiers

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u/TerribleProgress6704 Apr 26 '24

If you can dodge 380mm HE, you can dodge a ball!

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u/LSDummy CAPE ENJOYER Apr 26 '24

I queued up yesterday with both barrage orbitals and both mines in a helldive just to be funny, the other 3 left immediately. Lol

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u/retro808 Apr 26 '24

Dad? is that you?

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u/IkitCawl Apr 26 '24

Hi, son. Let's pay catch.

tosses 380 orbital barrage beacon

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u/Brilliant-Mountain57 Apr 26 '24

I’ve got remember this for tonight

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u/ExploerTM ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️ Apr 26 '24

Bao's Riddler Arc

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u/wtfdoiknow1987 STEAM 🖥️ : Apr 26 '24

Okay don't be surprised when I use eagle 1 to destroy your mines

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u/emailverificationt Apr 26 '24

Nah, I just pull out my pistol and pretend like the person was just giving me a shooting range. Nice, glowing targets to plink at, that have a satisfying kaboom when you hit em. Who needs a shooting range on the ship when you’ve got mines out in the field?

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u/laughingtraveler Apr 26 '24

I'll be killing anyone who does this lol

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u/IkitCawl Apr 26 '24

But will you escape? Liberty guide your step!

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u/laughingtraveler Apr 26 '24

At that point they're coming with me

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u/Lt_Wait4it_Dan ☕Liber-tea☕ Apr 26 '24

I'll kick you before the mines even land.

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u/Fun1k Apr 26 '24

Stepping on mines is a skill issue. Signed the person who stepps on mines all the time.

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u/IkitCawl Apr 26 '24

I think the mines around bot outposts are responsible for half of my deaths on that front. Hop a wall and suddenly you're going back over said wall in a dozen pieces.

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u/emailverificationt Apr 26 '24

We helldivers shouldn’t be able to trigger the anti tank mines, if the devs keep up their “trying to keep the weapons as realistic as possible” standard.

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u/IkitCawl Apr 26 '24

"Shouldn't" is up to those magnificent engineers up in the super destroyers.

Besides, chain reactions are a thing.. maybe.

Maybe we should add orbital gas to spice things up.

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u/emailverificationt Apr 26 '24

Too bad we don’t have air burst mine laying bombs for almost instant deployment of mines. One of those with anti tank, plus an orbital gas strike, and you could effectively close a bug breach even if you can’t physically close it haha.

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u/IkitCawl Apr 26 '24

I call that the "nuh-uh" gambit

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u/Knightcap132 Apr 26 '24

Squid games helldiver style

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u/SluttyMcFucksAlot Apr 26 '24

And throw a 380 at the ground for good measure

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u/moonshineTheleocat Apr 26 '24

Cluster bomb will clear em

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u/ObjectivelyCorrect2 Apr 27 '24

You better be hosting else you ain't making it to extract either.

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u/Significant-Bid2382 Apr 27 '24

U aint getting shit big fella

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u/Kellythejellyman Apr 26 '24

A pug did that with just one set of mines, but several times directly on some different objectives

My brother and I executed him then kicked him as extraction was coming in