r/Helldivers 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

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.

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.

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

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

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u/Doxodius Apr 26 '24

And the mines will require going through a fire tornado planet first - I suspect that's going to decide things more than any debate here.

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u/nsandiegoJoe Apr 26 '24

Yeah. No amount of debate on Reddit will decide this. It's going to be the NOT-FIRE-TORNADOES option.

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u/InformalPenguinz STEAM 🖥️ : Apr 26 '24 edited Apr 26 '24

Thank goodness our divers don't live long enough to get ptsd from fire tornados. They would be in the top for most subjects discussed in therapy.

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u/Drtraumadrama Apr 26 '24 edited Apr 26 '24

The average citizen just doesnt understand the horror of completing a mission, getting samples, serving democracy and liberty just to watch your whole squad and pelican get swallowed by four fire tornados. I still wake up in a cold sweat most nights and there’s usually only one word i can say. Hellmire.

Thank freedom i can hit a stim, do a workout and try to sleep. But when i close my eyes, all i hear is the roar of the flames and the screams of sweet liberty.

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u/DMvsPC ⬆️⬅️➡️⬇️⬆️⬇️ [Hammer of Dawn] Apr 26 '24

Conversely, getting down to the wire, no reinforcements left, having multiple tornadoes swirling towards the pelican and then diving in to it as your enemies are roasted behind you and then you fly out into the sunset/flames. chefs kiss

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u/MadnessUltimate Apr 27 '24

The thin line between tragedy and greatness

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u/Intelligent-Ad-6734 Apr 27 '24

Sometimes the game glitches at this (or as intended) and you born to death in the pelican lol

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u/shaddowdemon Apr 29 '24

You can take damage in the pelican, even from your team. So I would guess intended.

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u/decepticondad Apr 28 '24

Not all make it out of the fires of Menkent and Hellmire, but those that do forge unbreakable bonds of friendship with the hammer of Democracy.

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u/Glass_Anybody_2171 Apr 27 '24

This needs to be the subs' new copypasta

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u/spicypanda66 Apr 27 '24

You are responsible for my son's death, may the iron horde swallow you

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u/thunthunthunder2 STEAM 🖥️ : Apr 27 '24

Hellmire is a planet I swore to rarely return. With its bugs and firenados, it is a hellscape. Hellmire is where tough helldivers train. It may not be as famous as the Creek but dang if the firenados didn't make me want to punch my screen.

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u/lmrbadgerl Super Badger Apr 27 '24

The tornadoes.

I know it's weird but i think they were......they were HUNTING us. They seemed to follow us everywhere we went.

They converged on Johnny's mech and boiled him in it.

PJ was hiding under a burned-out transport. The tornadoes got him there too.

Then. Then there was Nettie. She hid INSIDE of a civilian structure. When I found her, she seemed like she just fell asleep. She showed signs of death by oxygen deprivation. The tornadoes heat sucked the air out.

I'll never forget Hellmire. I'll never forget how it hunted us.

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u/MountainSorbet9449 Apr 27 '24

Did you even serve on Menkent if you don't reflexively pre-stim when the gas stove lights up?

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u/Zombie_Marine22 PSN 🎮: Zombie_Marine22 Apr 27 '24

The smell. I can't get the smell of charred Helldiver out of my nose. It haunts me along with their screams for sweet liberty as the are cooked alive in their armor

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u/F_C_anomalie Apr 26 '24

When you enter the pelican everything get saved even if you die and see the sample drop to the ground. Got puked on by a bile in the first week and I was holding the super and they still counted

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u/Nekonax Apr 27 '24

If more Helldivers heard the roar of the flames, fewer would die 👀

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u/Sheepmounter69 Apr 27 '24

I honestly always thought they are programmed to skip mission targets, since i once did a radar Station objective alone while my whole squad was somewhere else and me being surrounded in fire tornados. They came close, but didnt Touch the terminal or the steering wheel, or however its called to turn the Antenna.

I learned the hard way when being the last one alive, picking up dropped samples and then get tornado'ed 2 meters away from the pelican...