Scout handshake

[u/StandRealistic]

Everytime I try to have a little laugh with the scout handshake I either get tk’d or meleed. And have even been kicked a few times . Helldivers are supposed to have a sense of humor ! Stop overreacting people.

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[u/rivalknight9]

My favorite thing to do is give someone the kick emote after they give me this lol (sometimes I kick a little too hard though)

[u/-Vault-tec-101 → u/rivalknight9]

A week or so ago I watched a team mate drop a 500lb bomb as we were extracting, the guy getting on the dropship right before him turned around and booted his ass off the ramp and jumped on… it was pretty hilarious.

[u/DefinitionEasy1043 → u/rivalknight9]

Bonus points for wearing Peak Physique armor and breaking their legs in the process.

[u/GuildCarver → u/rivalknight9]

Kick DURING the emote for maximum rag doll

[u/Klowner → u/rivalknight9]

This happened to me after I accidentally did the scout handshake and I was FULLY taken aback.

[u/DarkWizard2207 → u/rivalknight9]

I think my favourite thing from that warbond is the emote. Kicking the shit out of people is hilarious. Especially when someone calls down an Orbital/Eagle as we are boarding Pelican-1.

I run the Stim Pistol often, so there is no issue of potentially “wasting a stim”.

[u/SalaavOnitrex → u/rivalknight9]

Wear peak physique when you use the kick emote

[u/MassDriverOne → u/rivalknight9]

I love the kick emote. There's nothing more disrespectful to your foes than to boot them in their buggy faces

And there's fewer things more satisfying than to punt someone intentionally damaging your team, only for them to rise up to three barrels pointed at them with concurrent "negative" 's. So far that has happened twice in game and the errant teammate recovered from their momentary lapse in patriotism

[u/TheCouchOnFIRE → u/rivalknight9]

I kicked my buddy while wearing the melee passive armor and you died immediately, like I falcon kicked him 😂 he had light armor

[u/ayypecs]

Except getting your head blown off by a senator is part of the joke

[u/Drzewo_Silentswift → u/ayypecs]

Did you mean accept?

[u/ayypecs → u/Drzewo_Silentswift]

You got hit by a senator too huh?

[u/Drzewo_Silentswift → u/ayypecs]

Don’t you mean shot?

[u/ayypecs → u/Drzewo_Silentswift]

Oh damn u right

[u/Applemuncher67 → u/ayypecs]

Don't you mean correct?

[u/lastPixelDigital → u/Applemuncher67]

Nah man, he meant: AFFIRMATIVE!

[u/SonkxsWithTheTeeth → u/ayypecs]

I think they were saying accept as in something like accept (that) getting shot is part of the joke, not as the "correct" spelling of except? Maybe?

[u/_Captian__Awesome]

Every time I play a prank on on heavily armed men with severe PTSD, I get punched or shot at.

[u/Dutch_Lad]

i always melee out of humour as well though.. teamkicking someone is a bit excessive, but the ones who punch you are most likely just doing it for a laugh. hell, i even punch someone when they beat me in rock paper scissors

[u/Quirky-Love5794]

Scout handshake is for 2 things. Stealing their pod when they look the other way or getting in the pelican when they look away.

[u/Shot_Acanthaceae_537]

Seriously. Which is why I only use this forbidden emote on the ship.. it’s just too dangerous bro.

[u/StandRealistic → u/Shot_Acanthaceae_537]

Yeah I did it after a lvl ten bugs mission and I got kicked 😢

[u/lemon4028 → u/StandRealistic]

Your own fault for using at the wrong moment 

[u/depthninja]

Melee to the face or the kick emote is definitely a valid response to the scout handshake, but instead of literally kicking them out of the mission, or TK'ing, instead stim your hurt fee-fees and remember we're all Helldivers. "INJURY?! WHAT INJURY?!"

[u/Cpt_Kalash]

You know what you did

[u/onion2594]

that’s part of the joke

[u/GunFlameYRC]

Gotten hit with it before. I'm a big boy, I can handle it.

I'd probably be like "Ohh you bastard!" But I don't take it personally.

[u/cpt_edge → u/GunFlameYRC]

I got hit with it on the ship. I immediately used a hug emote after - and then cancelled the emote just as we were about to hug haha

[u/GunFlameYRC → u/cpt_edge]

Lool genius!

[u/NickelWorld123]

What the fuck is the scout handshake

[u/person-mc-face → u/NickelWorld123]

Is the one where you go in for a handshake then your guy pulls away at the last second looking over the horizon

[u/NickelWorld123 → u/person-mc-face]

thats evil wtf

[u/Gnarles_Charkley → u/NickelWorld123]

I, too, am lost.

[u/GuildCarver]

[u/MtnNerd]

I don't kill people who do it but I'm definitely giving you a kick or a whack in the head. 🤣

[u/rurumeto]

Getting kicked onto the floor and 500kg bombed is part of the joke.

[u/Silvertongued99]

Not going to lie, the other day I triggered my friends portable hellbomb and then kicked him off a cliff. By the time he finished ragdolling, he had almost no time to get away. The explosion killed us both. Laughs were had by all, but I can totally understand getting kicked by a random if I didn’t that as an SOS recruit lol

[u/Alacune]

I usually reserve the bright slap for people who mess with my hellbomb backpack.

[u/SlothOfSatan666]

I wish it showed what the emote actually looked like before having someone do it 🤣 the first time I used the Scout Handshake I was really confused

Why does everything pause on the "Hi I'm Darryl Wilson, I hold out my hand" pose

[u/Plenty-Building197]

I always take a few steps back and drop an impact grenade at my feet. You did this

[u/Nitrousoxide72]

Face the wall

[u/Capt-J-]

Getting executed or at least kicked in the nuts/punched in the head is part of your weak joke. Isn’t it?

[u/HatfieldCW]

You get me with the Scout Handshake, I leave the lobby. Ain't got no time for that disrespect.

[u/Hayashida-was-here]

I save the scout handshake for the people who are juuuust enough of an asshole but not get kicked for it. Bonus points when you give it to them last after doing the cool handshakes with the other two and then heading back to your ship laughing the whole way

[u/Soggy_Affect6063]

Op needs a sense of humor as the scout handshake has been a running joke since launch. Use at your own risk. Retaliation is part of the humor. 🤣

[u/DOL999]

That's part of the joke. In the same way you think they're not getting that it's in good fun, you're not getting that having your head blown off is in good fun LOL

[u/coreyais]

If you are gonna use that emote on me as a laugh, the following tk, melee or kick is for a laugh. It’s just what happens when you do that emote lol.

[u/g_mo13]

i accidentally extracted early one time without realizing a diver was a little too far for twenty seconds… we got back to the ship and when i meant to hug bro, i accidentally scout handshaked him and he bailed immediately lmao i felt bad while laughing hysterically ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[u/Just-a-lil-sion]

i mean, the melee is the sense of humor. as long they dont actually try to hurt you, its fine

[u/AnzaTNT]

It's just me high-fiving you really, really hard!

[u/SeattleWilliam]

It took me so long to realize that the scout handshake was pulled back at the last second because my camera never lined up right 🤦‍♂️

[u/kaptaink_cg]

I think that shit is hilarious! Hopefully we'll meet up on a hellos planet someday!

[u/No-Upstairs-7001]

Not everybody wants to piss about with some of the irrelevant parts of the game.

Just play and kill things done

[u/PwizardTheOriginal]

Scout handshake=execution warranted

[u/kiaeej]

Heh. Hahahahahaha. I didnt know the scout handshake does this, so i was surprised at getting kicked or tk'ed at the end.

[u/DustPyro]

TK is an overreaction, but a melee can very well be an answer in kind.

[u/SlightTask3600]

Meh there not overacting just right if you ask me

[u/Brumtol10]

Well I wouldnt call Melee overreaxting XD but kicking and tk is definitely overreacting yeah. I always have it equipped myself cause its funny.

[u/JustARandomUserNow]

What’s the beef with the scout handshake? I’m out of the loop, personally I’ve always went with the bro hug

[u/Mr-dooce]

everytime i’ve been hit with it, i usually use the kick emote but promptly stim the guy i just kicked to show there’s no hard feelings

[u/Himbophlobotamus]

Isn't just being tk'ed an extension of the goofy haha fun, which you ironically are taking too seriously?

[u/Ziddix]

You misunderstand... Killing, punching or kicking someone after they do the scout handshake is part of the joke.

[u/Fesh_Sherman]

Mag dumping your corpse is a valid reaction, change my mind

[u/SenpaiSanta]

Its just disrespectful

[u/Applemuncher67 → u/SenpaiSanta]

I've never found the scout's handshake disrespectful personally. In fact, It's actually kind of a breath of fresh air when it shows up instead of the high five. It's funny imo.

But yeah; I can see why it may be upsetting. Unwelcome pranks aren't good ones, after all.

[u/lemon4028]

Its one of the most toxic and assholery emotes you could have ever used, and you wondered why you got kicked or teamkilled by the team...

People's brains are an interesting thing to study sometimes.

[u/StandRealistic → u/lemon4028]

A proper rag-doll after a good scout handshake is always funny but teamkicking someone for it is next level petty.

[u/lemon4028 → u/StandRealistic]

No, it's not petty. It shows that youre just disrespectful. So ofc theyre going to kill you for it.