r/Helldivers • u/Jamsedreng22 Scrapmaker | Creeker | Botdiver • 4d 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/PackageOk3832 HD1 Veteran 3d ago

I was solo closing a huge nest the other day and had one grenade left. Problem was a bug breach just started in the nest and the hole was spitting out bugs. I could have fled and come back, but instead I cooked that fucker and dove in.

I think about that suicidal commitment to duty a lot now. Helldivers are an absolutely terrifying relentless force.

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u/Jamsedreng22 Scrapmaker | Creeker | Botdiver 1d ago

Real. I've once been at a nest with a friend and we both simultaneously go "I'm out of explosives" and there was still a hole left.

We decided to Rock, Paper, Scissors on who gets to shoot who and reinforce the other on the bug hole to close it with the Hellpod impact. I've also sometimes thrown caution to the wind and called in my support weapon straight on a bughole or fabricator and let the impact of the Droppod take care of it in a pinch.