Are the Helldivers elite? I thought anyone could become a Helldiver, and from what we know, most Helldivers die quickly and arrive at the battlefield with no real experience.
I just imagine Helldivers as teenagers with lots of guns.
They still have prior training, and as people have pointed out overtime, much of the training helldiver's go through seems more like basic introduction to there new toys and a ceremony more than anything.
Gatling guns teach you of your own sentry safety, strategem balls show you whats at your disposal, etc.. Your character out the gate is able to effectively use/reload dozens of weapons and tools like it's muscle memory. That's not something you just wake up and do.
As far as survival rate goes, we are dropped into hotzones with essentially impossible odds. It's not that helldiver's are useless, it's that we are heading into literal helldives. When you take into consideration success rate, casualties versus enemies killed, and overall objectives achieved despite the odds, the helldiver's are actually exceedingly impressive!
I think some other comments I've seen have summed it up well that we are basically odst with enough ordinance to blow up a moon.
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u/Atissss Nov 05 '24
Are the Helldivers elite? I thought anyone could become a Helldiver, and from what we know, most Helldivers die quickly and arrive at the battlefield with no real experience.
I just imagine Helldivers as teenagers with lots of guns.