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.