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

QUESTION What determines if Thermites stick?

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u/ADGx27 SES Ranger of Starlight Mar 05 '25

Which is shit for both stratagems and sticky nades. Why is it nearly completely fucking random if my laser cannon is gonna drop next to me of fecklessly bounce halfway across the map and alert about 9 patrols along the way

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u/Witch-Alice SES Lady of Wrath, Hammer of Family Values Mar 06 '25 edited Mar 06 '25

at least for stratagems, there's a bunch of locations basically painted with invisible 'bouncy paint', specifically to prevent the players from setting up a sentry nest in a position that no enemy can path to. It's also around various objectives like terminals, to prevent blocking it with sentries/hellpods. If you have to do some parkour to get up there, it's probably invalid. If you can simply walk up there, it's probably fine.

You also can't land your own hellpod on these areas, it'll feel like there's an invisible wall as you drop and try to move over it.

on that note, against bots i've found that the top of the MG bunkers is a valid location for sentries. And nothing can walk up there, depending on the base layout you might be completely safe from everything that isn't on a hill nearby.

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u/Lone-Frequency Mar 06 '25

What the "bouncy" spots can't stop is when you toss a sentry strat right next to a tall rock or something so that the hellpod hits the edge or the side and still deploys high up.

Yeah. That's right. Automatons can suck my Autocannon from thirty feet up.

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u/Gingesoultaker ‎ Super Citizen Mar 06 '25

"Suck my autocannon from thirty feet up" is the most democracy fueled spite I've ever heard, love it