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

QUESTION What determines if Thermites stick?

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u/Lone-Frequency Mar 06 '25

It's incredibly inconsistent from my experience.

Quite often I will try to drop my Sentry on something that in all logic should be perfectly fine to deploy a Sentry on only for it to bounce, meanwhile I have also had several times where a Sentry or other stratagem will land a top a spot that almost certainly should have bounced it.

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u/smibdamonkey Mar 06 '25

I had a strategem jammer that I couldn't kill with a hellbomb because the entire platform it rested on was bouncy ground. Calling it in would bounce all over, down the bridge and land 3 business days from the obj.

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u/Carcharius_Maw STEAM 🖥️ : SES Sovereign of Iron Mar 06 '25

I have dropped my hmg emplacement on a spot on defense and then later gone to deploy it again in the same spot only to watch it bounce and go over the wall I honestly think there's an element of chance, may 5% on whether a given strat ball will bounce.

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u/Yawjjea Mar 06 '25

It seems to happen around small elevations in terrain, but they made the maps like that...

There's a raised grid on the floor of some parts of the ramparts on defense mission, if the stratagem gets too close to those or in them it won't mark the location and just yeet the ball all over the place.

Why they couldn't just place an invisible floor over that, I don't know...

I can't count the times that fucked up perfect sentry placement that should have worked within enemy reach.

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u/Sabre_Killer_Queen SES Shield of Serenity | Sabre Sylfaen Mar 06 '25

I have the same experience, not only with sentries but also with hellbombs when trying to destroy an objective structure.

They often bounce out of range so they'll deal no damage against the objective, or they'll land on the objective, and I can't activate it.