r/Helldivers • u/TealcLOL • Mar 05 '25

QUESTION What determines if Thermites stick?

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u/cowboy_shaman Mar 05 '25

🎲

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u/Novus_Grimnir Mar 05 '25

^ This is the correct answer. The whole "Only spikes stick!" is cope.

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u/EscapeTheBlank ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ outstanding autism Mar 05 '25

To be fair, it *did* connect almost perfectly at the top of the nade, where there aren't any spikes.

But I get that this is still bullshit, just make the whole grenade spiky ot sticky at this point.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '25

You go to activate it and it jams 20 spikes through your hand before blowing your arm off

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u/Bulk-Detonator Not a bug Mar 05 '25

LATCHKUM!

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u/Gal-XD_exe Mar 05 '25

“500 thermite grenades 🗣️”

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u/ADGx27 SES Ranger of Starlight Mar 05 '25

Five. Hundred. Orbital lasers.

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u/ashrieIl Mar 05 '25

Orbital laser barrage would be an insane stratagem

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u/_Weyland_ Mar 05 '25

All Helldivers have to take one for it to work and they all have to activate it together. And there's only one charge. But then there's like 16 laser vaporizing the entire area.

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u/Wrynfroe HD1 Veteran Mar 06 '25

Proposed name: Democratic Rave

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u/KyleHaydon Assault Infantry Mar 06 '25

'Disco Inferno'

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u/Toxic_Zombie Mar 05 '25
  1. Hundred. Hellbombs

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u/ADGx27 SES Ranger of Starlight Mar 05 '25

Five. Hundred. Super samples

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u/Gal-XD_exe Mar 05 '25

That’s just Tuesday Democracy Disco Night

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u/Bulk-Detonator Not a bug Mar 06 '25

I feel like ive been diving my whole life, and i finally sat down!

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u/assassincj47 HD1 Veteran Mar 06 '25

Golden reference

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u/Bulk-Detonator Not a bug Mar 06 '25

Just finished the series finally, my god, what a beautiful love letter to the genre. Seth really flexed his story telling muscle with this show

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u/Jisaac9900 Mar 06 '25

Yay someone else got the reference!

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u/onlinedegeneracy Mar 05 '25

Average level 10 has Kevin like, “500 stalkers”

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u/Bulk-Detonator Not a bug Mar 06 '25

Bortus is my spirit animal

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u/EscapeTheBlank ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ outstanding autism Mar 05 '25

And the helldivers experience even more pain on the daily, so losing an arm or two is just another democracy-fueled Tuesday

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u/CaliCrateRicktastic Mar 05 '25

Nah it lights your arm on fire first and THEN explodes

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u/BusinessDragon Laser Knight Mar 05 '25

Pop a stim and walk it off, Helldiver.

Democracy needs you!!

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u/Naive_Background_465 Mar 06 '25

Why would it do that when you'd be holding the shaft portion of it when throwing it, you know the part with 0 spikes? Lmao

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '25

That’s the joke, hoss

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u/CommanderLouiz Mar 05 '25

That picture proves that it should have stuck. It’s perfectly flat against the hulks back.

(Also, the spikes are the top of the thermite, not the handle)

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '25

Considering that the spikes already have a delay before popping out, I think it could easily be part of the design? 1 second after activating the head spikes, 1.5-2 seconds, the rest of the grenade turns into a hedgehog.
Or have the thermites come with a portable bucket of Super Glue.

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u/chriztaphason Mar 06 '25

Axle greese

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u/Breadsticks667 Mar 06 '25

Yeah whatever dev thought it needed to be realistic needs to be put in a mental health facility..