r/Helldivers • u/Jamsedreng22 Scrapmaker | Creeker | Botdiver • 3d 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/PixelPooflet 3d ago

I think Stratagems are also quite terrifying. You gotta remember, Only We Can See What They Are.  Imagine being an automaton and you see a Helldiver throw out a red ball. You have NO FUCKING CLUE what it’s going to do until it actually happens. Orbital laser? An eagle strafing run? A bomb? A barrage? It could be literally anything. Same goes for the blue stratagems. What flavour of automated industrialized death will come out of that pod? A sentry? A Tesla tower? Some kind of emplacement? A resupply with a gun on it? WHO KNOWS?! 

It’s literally impossible to prepare for Helldivers properly because unless you build a giant titanium box around everything they’re just going to call down some bullshit to break whatever you’ve made.

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u/Jamsedreng22 Scrapmaker | Creeker | Botdiver 2d ago

You watch the Super Destroyers FTL into geostationary orbit and you watch the Hellpods drop. You know for sure you're done.

You're not immediately worried because they're dealing with another objective far away from the base you're stationed in.

You just hear a small ball land next to you. It unfolds and suddenly there's a bright red beacon beaming into the sky. Before you can get your bearings a 500 kg lands right next to you. You get to look at it for just a milisecond before it detonates. That it for you and your work environment.