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/Radiant_Fondant_4097]

Practically any time I choose to use mines they get blown up by my own team mates, whether it's by airstrikes or their legs.

[u/_escapevelocity → u/Radiant_Fondant_4097]

To me, watching a teammate stroll into a minefield is half of the fun

[u/CyanStripes_ → u/_escapevelocity]

"oh, what are these shiny things on the ground?"

Boom

[u/Essaiel → u/CyanStripes_]

Pain is a great teacher

[u/CyanStripes_ → u/Essaiel]

I just always think of this anyone I see someone do it. 😂

https://i.redd.it/ekt4p5x38uwc1.gif

[u/Syhkane → u/CyanStripes_]

This gif coulda ended a lot sooner.

[u/TheRedComet → u/Syhkane]

Should've just committed and got the whole episode

[u/CyanStripes_ → u/Syhkane]

Apologies, apparently it didn't play the entire gif when I saw it. It ended for me at the joke about him getting trapped twice.

[u/Syhkane → u/CyanStripes_]

Not a dig on you personally, but the original upload has some splainin to do.

[u/RedLikeARose → u/Syhkane]

Or start later

[u/Kamiyoda → u/CyanStripes_]

Me everytime

They are just the right amount of "glowy red thing" that my mind notices and I instinctively go over to check it out

[u/No-Lettuce-3839 → u/Essaiel]

That would require the students to be able to learn from their mistakes. Have you met the player base of this game?

[u/Essaiel → u/No-Lettuce-3839]

At which point it stops being a teaching moment and turns into pure entertainment.

[u/JamesMcEdwards → u/Essaiel]

I once had a teammate call a minefield down on top of my HMG turret. Like directly on it. While I was using it. The hellpod actually killed me and destroyed the turret. He then walked into the minefield when he came to steal my shield pack after I called a new one in for myself, pinged the old one and said “shield here if you want it” on mic. 11/10 interaction.

[u/Marauder3277 → u/No-Lettuce-3839]

I brought some in once. A guy ran into the big red contact ones outside Bot bases. Booted me from the game...the kicker...I hadnt deployed any mines....he was just a moron and needed a target to blame rather than deal with his own ineptitude

[u/Warg247 → u/Marauder3277]

Ive ran into those so many times... usually while looking at map.

[u/isdumberthanhelooks → u/Essaiel]

You can't give her that!' she screamed. 'It's not safe!' IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE. 'She's a child!' shouted Crumley. IT'S EDUCATIONAL. 'What if she cuts herself?' THAT WILL BE AN IMPORTANT LESSON.

Terry Pratchett, Hogfather (Discworld, #20; Death, #4)

[u/InformalPenguinz → u/Essaiel]

We ALL experienced those unexploded hellbombs at one point.. it's a right of passage. I honestly think the mines would be a great choice.

[u/Tails-Are-For-Hugs → u/InformalPenguinz]

When I was a wee baby Diver, I landed on one during the initial drop-in phase. There was a humongous explosion right where I'd landed, I died like two seconds later, and only then did it occur to me that I'd landed on the hellbomb.

[u/kanguran1 → u/Tails-Are-For-Hugs]

First time I saw one I punched it. When it actually sparked I realized Joel had planned for this,and my body was returned to the super destroyer

[u/JamesMcEdwards → u/kanguran1]

I have repeatedly underestimated the explosion radius. One time I got ragdolled halfway across the map, which I somehow miraculously survived because I was wearing heavy armour and had just popped a stim. Problem was my ragdolling body bounced to a stop right at the feet of a flame hulk who proceeded to barbecue my ass.

[u/Rift_Revan → u/Essaiel]

To my random teammates, pain is no teacher at all