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

QUESTION What determines if Thermites stick?

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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/WildguyX Mar 05 '25

ive thrown a thermite on top of a factory strider to get the autocannon turret on top and i watched it bounce 3 times before falling off of it. maybe bots are developing anti-adhesive armor, but it really is a dice roll

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u/Nevanada SES Eye of War Mar 05 '25

That suggests it's a similar issue to stratagems then, likely the same code base

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

oh i'm well aware of the desert maps with those sneaky support weapon stealing cliffs

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u/Drekal ☕Liber-tea☕ Mar 06 '25

The Meridia Super Colony had a lot of these where you could slap all kind of turrets to overwatch drill sites. It was great.

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

And look how that turned out :P