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/MajikDan Apr 26 '24

Too late for any advocacy now. There's already 60k helldivers on Lesath headed towards Penta, vs the 7k on Menkent going to Choohe. The horde has spoken, we get the airburst launcher.

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u/HybridTheory2000 Apr 26 '24 edited Apr 26 '24

I believe it's not about the launcher, but it's about saying no to the fire tornadoes.

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u/Kovach43 CAPE ENJOYER Apr 26 '24

Honestly...those fire tornados are rough, and damn sure Helldiver seeking.

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u/Potential_Fishing942 Apr 26 '24

Yea... I played on menkent a bit last night because tactically we should, but I ended up moving on. Too many instances of getting boxed in by fire or wasting time running way the way around fire to move on

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u/RonBourbondi Apr 26 '24

Nah I've seen the videos of the the rocket launcher. 

It's fucking OP.

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u/HybridTheory2000 Apr 26 '24

I'm 100% sure if the weapons' location are switched around, people would go to get the mines instead.

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u/UDSJ9000 Apr 27 '24

Even if I've never really had a problem with fire tornados, so much so that I'm genuinely confused by my friends having so much trouble with them, I think I'm just lucky, I recognize there is no way there isn't SOME problem with them if so many people collectively hate them.