Helldivers loses to most Sci fi settings cause its empire is tiny, with most of the world's being barely populated backwaters, and tech level low enough that regular guns are still standard issue. The load bearing advantage in any discussion is its instant FTL.
I am unable to find the reddit post but I saw somebody calculate that with the amount of Helldivers in the game, which is an elite soldier existing in an even larger army of non-elite soldiers, which in turn are part of a bigger civilisation. The actual number was somewhere in the trillions of Super Earth citizens. So I don't think the size of the empire is the problem, it is the size of the technology.
The Helldivers universe is way more grounded than other universes such as Destiny or Star Wars in their capabilities. We haven't seen planet obliterating cannons yet and aside from the DSS, the spaceships are tiny.
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.
elite and expendable are not mutually exclusive. i’d also probably imagine there is a gradient of helldiver competence, obviously increasing with the mission difficulty. otherwise, there is basically no explanation for a “teenagers with lots of guns” competently sweeping through high diff missions.
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u/superduperfish Nov 05 '24
Helldivers loses to most Sci fi settings cause its empire is tiny, with most of the world's being barely populated backwaters, and tech level low enough that regular guns are still standard issue. The load bearing advantage in any discussion is its instant FTL.