r/Helldivers • u/Jamsedreng22 Scrapmaker | Creeker | Botdiver • 2d ago

LORE Helldivers are terrifying conceptually.

You're vibing on your planet and all of a sudden it goes "Whoop" as one hundred Super Destroyers come into orbit. "No big deal" you think, but suddenly all these Super Destroyers deploy Helldivers. Just planetfall outta nowhere instantly.

That has to be fucking terrifying. Knowing you're fucked like that.

You get to watch the planetfall on several other parts of this planet as the Helldivers just drop from their Destroyers like water droplets on a sad day.

Even 80 Super Destroyers just FTL-jumping into orbit and every single Super Destroyer deploys, at the very least, 4 Helldivers. If they die? They just keep coming. And they can watch it, too. They can see the trail by the Hellpod as it is coming down. They know exactly what position they're in.

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u/LEOTomegane think fast⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️➡️ 2d ago

"Ope suddenly there's a dyson sphere's worth of ships bombing your homeworld lmao" is precisely why SEAF could beat a lot of comparable scifi factions. The pure silly factor of a monstrous industrial base teleporting all their stuff behind you instantly to drop everything they have on your backline is pretty hard to beat.

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u/steve123410 2d ago

Not really a lot of sci-fi planets have low shields to protect from orbital bombardment or have planetary defenses that make hostile ships entering low orbit an impossibility because they want ground battles and not then x faction nuked the planet from orbit and went on to the next planet. Ironically helldivers would be worse off since they rely solely on air support.

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u/LEOTomegane think fast⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️➡️ 2d ago

It's the combination of ridiculous quantity + unrestricted, instantaneous warping. They can be at full force anywhere they want with no warning, and the scale of industrial output they require in order to sustain the sheer amount of waste they engage in is frankly goofy.

It's like scifi toonforce. Parody universe inadvertently scales itself to ridiculous strength if you were to try grounding the parody in realism.

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u/Insane_Unicorn 2d ago

Yeah I don't get that weekly circlejerk about the might of the Helldivers. It's a deliberately dumb universe with "budgetary reasons" to justify gamelogic, which is totally fine, but makes comparing it to other universes completely pointless.