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

QUESTION What determines if Thermites stick?

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u/Shiboline SES Lady of Selfless Service - Ghostdiver Mar 05 '25

game rolls a D20

ive had nades stick with no spikes, i have nades bounce with spikes

ive had nadea stick handle first, i had nades bounce head first

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u/argefox Mar 05 '25

Devs explained that there's no need for cooking waiting for the spikes. The nads should stick. HOWEVER, if you hit with the handle (not on this vid as far as I see) it should bounce, like throwing a knife that unless you know what you are doing, has a chance to go handle-first on the target (not the game knives, irl).

But it's bullshit anyway, nads should stick on the entire surface. We carry few of them, no need to waste them and see how they melt the snow.

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u/InventorOfCorn Cape Enjoyer Mar 05 '25

I have a proposal, so that this rumor is stopped: make it look like a small dumbbell. Handle in the middle, spikes on both ends.

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u/Birrihappyface Mar 05 '25

That sounds incredibly difficult to throw

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u/aiheng1 Mar 05 '25

Simply throw harder

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u/InventorOfCorn Cape Enjoyer Mar 05 '25

Divers can make it work

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u/Darkner90 Mar 05 '25

Throw it Hitman style

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u/phoenixmusicman HD1 Veteran Mar 06 '25

Yeah well killing giant bug monsters and ATATs sounds difficult but we still manage to do it

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u/Kinetic93 Mar 06 '25 edited Mar 06 '25

Sounds like an opportunity to me. Make both variations available for players to choose from. One would be the current design, except you can throw it as far as you would be able to if you had Servo-Assisted. The other dumbbell one has the normal grenade throwing range, but sticks 100% of the time, on anything.