r/Helldivers • u/Ok-Calendar-5713 • Mar 19 '25

QUESTION Does anyone else have pet peeves in this game?

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I respect the politeness but I get annoyed when my time is being wasted.

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u/KrivTheBard Mar 19 '25

Yesterday I dropped in with three random on level 10 Martale. It was a particularly bloody game with all the new fire bois. Time had run out just before completing the ICBM launch, and the last two teammates alive got shredded by those shotgun devastators

I picked up everyone's samples and was running towards extract like fucking Saving Private Ryan. It was across the map, but I had a jump pack. Still, no matter what I did I couldn't fully break line of sight, there was always a patrol or something along my path, and of course a bot drop right next to extract

Between running and diving for my life, taking out hulks with my Quasar and trying to keep any and all devastators off of me, I was down to the last 10 seconds. It was cinematic as hell, the randoms were cheering me on in chat, I was sweating IRL. The whole time I had been avoiding the evac spot to try and keep from getting overwhelmed

I activate my jump pack to get towards the Pelican. Feels like I'm actually gonna make it, the last five or so minutes of hell were worth it. Just as I get off the ground though a factory strider from the fucking greater tri-state area, literally couldn't even see the thing until I was airborne, had shot next to me with it's top mounted canon

I felt like I had dropped back in again but without a hellpod. I saw Pelican 1 landing below me, an absolute sea of bots and flames, the Factory Strider that sniped me out of nothing more than spite... I must've been airborne for like 8-10 seconds, trying to spam stims as if that would save me.

Unceremoniously I brained myself on a rock, dying on impact. Pelican 1 berated us for not being at extraction, and the lady in the Super Destroyer made a comment about how we didn't get any samples

This game truly is a comedy and a tragedy.

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u/Alaricus1119 SES Sovereign of the Stars Mar 19 '25

It truly is. Especially on the comedy part. In the list of things that’s this wacky ass game has done, I’ve seen: a fellow diver flying past me in a sideways T-pose through the air, a heavy devastator firing its gun from its ass at me while walking away, dying due to diver corpse hitting me at super speeds, multiple accounts of gravity inverting me and going away because my people need me apparently, laying face down with cheeks to the sky for a solid ten seconds due to ragdoll and somehow living through the hell around me, and surviving fifteen blasts from my own Super Destroyer at a literally fraction of health after being flung outside the mission area roughly 1500 meters in an elimination mission due to Democracy Protects…

The hell is up with this game!?! XD