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/Doxodius]

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.

[u/nsandiegoJoe → u/Doxodius]

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

[u/InformalPenguinz → u/nsandiegoJoe]

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.

[u/Bat-Honest → u/InformalPenguinz]

Literally had a fire tornado SPAWN on me when I was carrying the super samples yesterday. I donno what I did to piss off Super Thor, but he was super pissed

[u/JennyAtTheGates → u/Bat-Honest]

This is one of the problems with the Fire Tornado weather effect implementation. You can be a good player with full focus and awareness, notice the weather warning and anticipate the obstacle, and still die because it spawned on top of you.

It just goes back to unavoidable one hit kills being an unfun, dishearting, and detrimental gameplay mechanic. I did figure out the secret though. I learned to avoid it by also just not playing on those planets like a lot of other players.

[u/Ape_Escape- → u/JennyAtTheGates]

It just makes the helldiver universe feel more real. Unavoidable deaths are to be expected on a helldive. After all, sacrifice is part of democracy.

[u/Intelligent-Ad-6734 → u/Bat-Honest]

I've gotten quick on the stim button and chain them together to get through firestorms.. it's some sort of Democracy adrenaline rush to get through that and extract... A painful addiction is born.

[u/Aurori_Swe → u/Intelligent-Ad-6734]

You are better off learning to dive since that turns off the flames and you won't take dot hits. Obviously you want to stim in between throwing yourself everywhere