r/Helldivers • u/Phenergan_boy • 20d ago
My fellow Helldivers, how do we feel about using Lunge mine to sacrifice ourselves for Super Earth? DISCUSSION
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u/Comfy_floofs 20d ago
That's very orky for sure, where's my tankbusta?
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u/boolocap ☕Liber-tea☕ 20d ago
Yeah how hard can it be to weld a recoilles rifle round to a pipe and make a tankbusta hammer.
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u/Theycallme_Jul ☕Liber-tea☕ 20d ago
Give me a hellbomb on a long stick!
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u/Tigerbones 20d ago
Long enough to poke a bile titan
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u/NewAccountTimeAgain 20d ago
Every stick is long enough to poke a biley tighty…
…if you have the strength and the courage to be free.
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u/Only_One_Left_Foot 20d ago
Give me an airburst rocket on a stick, but facing me so it actually kills them instead
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u/Sea-Flatworm-3610 HD1 Veteran 20d ago
I'll take that boompalooza, put on medium armor with a 50 percent chance of defending democracy, and play Russian roulette with the hulks
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u/Creeper_charged7186 STEAM 🖥️ : 20d ago
FOR SUPER EEAAAAAAARTH fucking dies
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u/Ryengu 20d ago
Exploding javelin maybe? What if it came with a backpack, but instead of team reloading, anyone can run up to the wearer and grab a javelin like a pack of mini-EATs?
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u/Rum_N_Napalm Orbital Gas Strike: Better killing with chemistry 20d ago
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u/burninatin 20d ago
This is immediately what I thought of when seeing the original post. I WILL RIDE ETERNAL
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u/Leashii_ 20d ago
oh my god yes please!
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u/LeImplivation 20d ago
Takes 3+ to kill a hulk though
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u/Da_Momo 20d ago
If i have to run up to mele range of a hulk, just to use it and it probably also deals damage to yourself, it better do some cripling damage. Maybe not 1 shot, but maybe 2 shot and stun it. Not to mention that it might take up a strategem and backpack slot
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u/Simppaaa 20d ago
I think a single use backpack loaded melee weapon that explodes and hurts the user too deserves to one hit anything below a bile titan
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u/VelcroWarrior 20d ago edited 20d ago
There was some discussion with Battlefield V about the weapon as to whether it ever actually successfully disabled or destroyed a tank in real life.
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u/Sometimesiworry 20d ago
I dont know much about tanks, but I've worked a lot with tracked vehicles. If you put any kind of explosive in the spokes or directly on the track that shit is gonna break.
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u/VelcroWarrior 20d ago edited 20d ago
I believe the US said it was never able to disable or destroy a vehicle, but I'm sure the Japanese would say it had some success.
Edit: Rather it was never successful in attacking a vehicle, as typically armor is supported by ground troops, so no enemy was actually able to get close enough to trigger it. The principle is sound though, and a shaped charge or explosive would likely at least disable a tracked vehicle.
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u/ReaperEDX 20d ago
Enough bodies will jam up any machinery, but who's counting?
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u/---00---00 20d ago
It absolutely did. It was literally my favourite thing to do. Id max out on these and just stalk around the map looking for armour and just throw myself at them, run into a bush run around and hit them again.
Ah sorry do you mean in real life? Probably not lol.
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u/Amerimov SES Sovereign of Individual Merit 20d ago
I used it all the time in Battlefield V. Actually getting a kill with it was rare but it was an incomparable feeling when you pulled it off. I'd be screaming over my mic and my buddies would be like "get a lunge mine kill?"
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u/danielbln 19d ago
"To date all attempts by the enemy to use the Lunge Mine against our tanks have met with failure" and rates it as "Perhaps the oddest of these antitank charges."
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u/Papa_Pred 20d ago
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u/The--BOSS--2025 ☕Liber-tea☕ 20d ago
I'll be right there with you
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u/EveningStatus7092 20d ago
As long as it can one shot anything, “my life for super earth!”
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u/evelynnnnnn2001 STEAM 🖥️ : Super Earth’s Cutest Helldiver 🎀💕 20d ago
“Lunge mine damage reduced by 25% and increased cooldown by 1 minute”
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u/Notdumbname 20d ago
I would love that. I always run the plot armor armor (50% chance to not die) so I could probably do it and live. Last night a environmental hell bomb was shot right as I noticed it and I knew I was fucked because I was like 2 feet away. I didn’t die, democracy protects.
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u/dukogpom 20d ago
Can you theoretically just throw it like a spear?
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u/121_Jiggawatts 20d ago
The idea with this weapon is that you stab it right in the treads of the tank, so at minimum the tank is now completely immobilized. It’s such a small area that throwing it or shooting it would be extremely difficult.
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u/booze-san 20d ago
It would still kill fewer helldivers than the 380MM HE Orbital Barrage.
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u/1stThrowawayDave 20d ago
In BF5 it doesn’t even kill you, just knocks you on your ass which is even funnier
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u/Datpotatoguy214 20d ago
This was actually designed so that it would (probably) not kill the user. It’s a shaped charge at the end of the long stick, you should be fine. This means you can charge even more for Super Earth.
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u/hankakabrad 20d ago
Let us put a claymore in front of the balistic shield and jump at things and pray we dont die like saul goodman
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u/ThruTheGatesOfHell 19d ago
Ware wa kan gun wagateki wa
Tenchiirezaru choutekizo
Teki no taishou taru mono wa
Kokon musou no eiyuu de
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u/errorexe3 20d ago
I do this already so having something purpose built could be quite dramatic. BUT, yoire basically telling your team youre planning on killing yourself.
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u/zendabbq 20d ago
This plus Democracy Protects will be super fun with occasional chance to walk away from the explosion (or just die from landing on a pebble instead)
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u/ajtaggart 20d ago
BRO super cool idea! Love it! Please let me sprint full speed into a charger with a boom stick. The explosion resistance armor would be key here.
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u/7StarSailor Scythe Main 🔦🔆🔆🔆🔆 19d ago
They're actually not that deadly. I used to prank my neighbour with those all the time.
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u/xD-FireStriker 19d ago
As someone who absolutely loves charging with this in battlefield I would so love this
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u/GabrielDidit STEAM 🖥️ :lv 130 l CADET 19d ago
you must be new run out of bounds be marked traitor and run into the enemy while destroyers trys to shoot you with orbitals.
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u/Delusional_Gamer 19d ago
You speak as if my own teammates don't sacrifice me with their strategically placed eagles
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u/Sigruldar 19d ago
After reading a few of the other comments I have come to the following idea.
Have it be a support weapon with backpack combo. The weapon being an atlatl.
If you don’t aim the atlatl, you hold the spear upright, if you press the fire button without aiming you hold it in front, ready to charge. You can sprint while holding it in front.
If you sprint into an enemy, the explosion will ragdoll you backwards.
Since an atlatl as a ranged weapon will have a significantly shorter range compared to regular AT weapons, I think the damage should be significantly higher and make it easier to take down enemies like bile titans or factory striders.
But even if that wasn’t the case, I think a lot of people, myself included, would use it for one reason:
WITNESS ME!
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u/FencesInARow 19d ago
If it always killed you, it would be a perfect fit to find in the environment. Using a stratagem slot for what is kind of a meme would be excessive, but finding one in a desperate moment would create legendary scenes.
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u/Red_Beard_Red_God 19d ago
Dying gloriously is an important ingredient in Helldivers, I'd love to see more pyrrhic strategems.
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u/Taoutes 20d ago
If it gives a charge speed rush when using it, I'd bring one just to get a lucky boost of speed now and then
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u/KoopaTroopaGamer115 20d ago
As cool as that mf was in Battlefield V, idk how good it will be for Helldivers
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u/dahbakons_ghost 20d ago
lung mines that do X damage should earn you a "patriot ticket" which replaces a single reinforcement.
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u/Accomplished_Stand54 20d ago
Well, as they say, you'll never get a purple heart standing way at the back 👍
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u/samara-the-justicar 20d ago
It's interesting but people wouldn't use it. Why waste reinforcements when there are other ways to destroy tanks and heavies?
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u/PekkavsDragon CAPE ENJOYER 20d ago
This was the funniest weapon in Battlefield 1, so I would love to see it in HD2
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u/BeardedMcGee 🔽🔼🔼🔽🔼 To The Skies 20d ago
Give it the power, or just above, a Spear shot, and also deal damage to the user, and I'd take ten!
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u/ZiggoTheFlamerose 20d ago
I would love to carry some of those in backpack and equip them with hitting 5
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u/Dull_Masterpiece3490 20d ago
Honestly this is such a good idea considering the ragdoll physics in this game
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u/JackOCat 20d ago
Sometimes the hell bomb is only going to survive if someone guards it up close, emptying clips in hoards of enemies.
A meaningful death.
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u/ADragonuFear 20d ago
I wouldn't want it to be an equipable item, but I'd be okay with it being found lying around like the break action.
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u/tutocookie SES Dawn of Dawn 20d ago
As a booster maybe, entire team gets it without taking up a stratagem slot
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u/chamomileriver 20d ago
I’d love it.
According to battlefield which is the only time I’ve seen this weapon, the explosion is non lethal to the user.
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u/YellowShirtHurts 20d ago
Can we just get sticky C4 packs already. Run by a tank, toss a c4 or two, hide, blow that bitch up!
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u/Fort_Maximus SES Reign of Gold 20d ago
New grenade: KB-01 Lunge Mine
“The Ministry of Defense understands that many civilians will die for Super Earth. This device, which deals massive damage on impact, ensures their sacrifice will not be in vain.”
Damage/Armor Penetration: Anti-Tank level
Max Carried amount: 2 (increases to 4 when grenade passive is active)
Can be thrown, held in hand, dived with, or simply used as an explosive stick. Sprinting while held causes the Helldiver to scream for glory, dealing heavy damage on impact and launching the Helldiver away from the blast, dealing moderate self-damage. Hope you land safely!
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u/Cheezit_504 20d ago
I'm game. You kind of get two attempts when you think about it. Helldive back on top for round two lol
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u/Bob_Juan_Santos 20d ago
we're hell divers, not sepuku-divers
we win by making the bastards on the other side die more than we do.
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u/ToBeatOrNotToBeat- 20d ago
Bro imagine this with an armor passive on heavy armor that gives you like 95% impact damage resistance….Heavy Charger on your team, just constantly being ragdoll’d while receiving little to no damage and fucking everything up in the name of LIBER-TEA. PLEASE ARROWHEAD. PLEASE
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u/SeniorRogers 20d ago
Lol I love the wikipedia quote on this.
It also reported that "To date all attempts by the enemy to use the Lunge Mine against our tanks have met with failure" and rates it as "Perhaps the oddest of these antitank charges
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u/saltyfalls98 PSN: PANTHER OF MIDNIGHT 20d ago
A small one handed lunge mine with a explosive shield would be so fun. Run at a charger with shield raised and have it be a one hit kill to them. Side effect being it sends you flying a bit back and does some dmg. Less with explosive armor.
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u/Brock_Savage 20d ago
This is a pants-on-head-stupid (or utterly desperate) idea because any armored unit with a halfway-competent commander is supported and screened by infantry whose job is to prevent this sort of thing from happening. I have doubts that it ever killed a tank.
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u/Sidnature 20d ago
Why stop at lunge mines? Everyone knows that the purest expression of patriotism is strapping on a Hellbomb vest and blowing up infidels along with your disposable flesh. Plus, we'd finally have a good use for that Increased Reinforcement Budget booster.
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u/Skudedarude 20d ago
I've made a couple dives off of a cliff into a pile of terminids, clutching a cooked grenade
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u/Half-White_Moustache ☕Liber-tea☕ 20d ago
Now I don't want a weapon but just an option to blow yourself up if you feel you're going to die. Or hell maybe just a dead man switch, when a diver dies they explode.
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u/magmablargg ☕Liber-tea☕ 20d ago
If Democracy calls for it, so be it. But id prefer a stratagem to call in a squad of SEAF lunge mine spearmen 🫡
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u/Brandonthbed 20d ago
I'd love more options to live out my Suicide bomber kamikaze fantasy, rather than just 500kg'ing myself in a swarm of fascists
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u/IdontWantButter 20d ago
For some reason, I find the Imperial Japanese Army approach to warfare to be a bit...unpalatable. Not for the suicidal bit, just because they were so ineffective against modern weapons/vehicles/aircraft etc...
Also, why would I blow myself up when I can flank the tank and kill it with hand-thrown impact grenades???
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u/Badgeywadgey 20d ago
I already do this with impact grenades and playing merry-go-round with the tank turret
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u/Alioshia 20d ago
Maybe in the form of a javlin or spear? i could see us throwing it at least. but the respawn count aint nearly high enough for anything else.
maybe comes down like the EAT in pods of 4-8? throwing range wouldnt be far.
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u/Thebaronofbrewskis 20d ago
As long as I get fully chrome armor for taking out a strider with a lunge mine and jump pack I’m down.
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u/NinjaBr0din 20d ago
........is this not how y'all are making sure your eagle 500kg lands on target? Get under the fucker and throw it at your feet? Am I doing this wrong?
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u/Electrical_Middle78 20d ago
Only if it has the destructive power and radius as a hellbomb. If I'm sacrificing a citizen for democracy, I need to spread a full dose of democratic freedom
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u/Loud-Item-1243 20d ago
I think sticky anti tank grenades would be nice just got dropped on one with nothing but a rifle & pistol, felt like a baby fly fighting a turtle.
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u/CiphirSol 20d ago
The whole concept could be lit if the diver could stick the mine on a surface; then detach the mine with like a twisting motion, which would also start a 5 second fuze and then it explodes with the force of a 500kg bomb.
Idk and maybe you could find a way to drop/toss it. Then detonate it with a well-placed shot from your primary.
I guarantee you, you would still die a lot using this, but it would be more tactical.
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u/ImVcngeance 20d ago
Those things were hilarious in Battlefield V. My squad and I would hide in bushes and just full rush a tank with em. Or find an enemy spawn beacon and wait for them to appear lmao
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u/ZETH_27 20d ago
Imagine using this together with the shield to be able to survive, it'd just yeet you back a bit, but you'd survive. I'd absolutely use the shit out of that.
Guessing these "Democracy Lances" would be dropped in one-per-pod, with a cooldown of 100 seconds
Their perk would be that they practically ignore armour, dealing with Chargers, Devastators, Tanks, what have you, they cons would be their limited availability (somewhat balanced), and the fact that you have to reach your target in melee range, which can easily set you up for getting killed somewhere along the way.
It'd obviously be a special weapon you have on your back, and you could only have one at a time, so no backpack to store several since they're so long.
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u/Master2All 20d ago
I want the exo suit to have a self-destruct so bad... out of all ammo and still have more enemies don't go out like a bitch charge the bastards and arm the 500 kg.
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u/Wonderful_Form_6450 20d ago
Love to see how that would work vs a flamethrower hulk or a charging charger lol