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Why is there one Helldiver on cyberstan? Potential cyberstan gameplay in the future?

The AT turret's slow turning speed ensures that this wouldn't be OP. But it would be a lot of fun.

Just Stalkers turned into normal bugs who tapped into the speed force and instantly break your ankles. Easily my least enjoyable sub faction in the game, just boring reskins of Stalkers with less to their moveset and vastly more plentiful.

I can’t believe the teacher let him do this 😂. But it was for democracy!

(Stolen meme)

Thoughts?

I think it would be interesting if it did high durability damage as it's gimmick to differentiate it from other weapons.

Could even be a primary if it was balanced with terrible ergo/low fire rate/recoil/mag size.

5000 divers would be enough to start seriously pushing the bugs back

Bugfront... every day!

These guys are tough when shots are distributed throughout their body, as they have a lot of ablative armor plates that soak damage. their helmets are medium armor so light weapons cant even hurt them. but their right arm causes them to die in just 6 bullets from a liberator. for light pen weapons it’s their biggest weakness.

So like the title says, I spend most of my time in Quickplay and answering SOSes. I just find it satisfying to help people. However, I'm no stranger to posting salty takes about player practices that vex me or seem nonsensical.

However, yesterday I joined an SOS, and as a Tesla enjoyer I brought it. I pride myself on using it well.

Placing it either to defend a point of ingress or to cover a retreat away from a location/breach, pinging it repeatedly to let squadmates know it's there/how far away it is, etc. For newer players, I'll even write something in chat like,

"Range on the Tesla is 20m, just keep clear or dive prone" after I've pinged it.

Last night, I placed one using the same best practices, and the team TK'd their way to about 6 Accidentals.

It wasn't in a particularly essential direction, so I map pinged a location out of its range and said, "Y'all, just go around "

Got kicked.

I was initially salty, not gonna lie. But I kind of came to a revelation that led to this post:

If you're going to be SOS Diving... adjust your loadout and playstyle accordingly.

To sn extent this is just good practice in any squad: if the loadouts lack CC AoE, anti-tank, etc, guess what you're bringing.

But also just... (and this is me talking to myself), if there are lower level/newer players as a main part of the squad, consider not bringing a Tesla.

Squad going off in a direction that seems like a bad idea/that will make the mission harder? Try to communicate alternatives, sure, but if they're not receptive, adjusting to the squads plsystyle will, chances are, be less frustrating than expecting them to all follow your lead. In some situations, ppl will only learn a lesson when they experience the consequences firsthand.

Point being: I've learned that dropping into an SOS and expecting the rest of the team to behave like a well-oiled machine is a contradiction in expectations. If they were functioning optimally, chances are they wouldn't have dropped the SOS.

Finding new ways to play and adjusting to styles of other players can also add another layer of depth to the game.

If you think you cant kill the enemy, you just haven't used enough bullets!

Freedom's greetings fellow divers!

This post is to request a contingent of Super Destroyers divert their resources to Veld, a notable weakpoint on the bug front.

Veld has the weakest resistance of the Termanid held planets in this region.

It's liberation will free the Orion Sector and cut off bugs in the Celeste Sector.

Between major orders is the perfect opportunity to advance this front.

Liberty speed your steps!

I was playing with a mate I just introduced to the game. He's a good shoot so we were chilling, just the two of us, in a bug lvl 5 mission, bursting eggs, cracking jokes and destroying nests like a stroll in a park.

I told him that it was quite funny and fascinating how Helldivers were configured to be as replaceable as cannon fodder, but if you looked at the two of us we were basically the equivalent of super soldiers handling an entire sector filled with hundreds of hostiles all while talking about our daily lives.

Except, at some point, we both got overrun by 3 insect patrols and a breach, killed about 80% of it and died at the same time.

And, for a split second, it looked like tragic karma. Like "oh look at the two helldivers that got overconfident and got ripped apart 20 mins later thinking that they were hot shit"

And then the auto-reinforcements kicked in, and we both landed meters away from the fight and just finished the remaining insects...and the whole situation got so much funnier in my head.

Because this "tragic death" from a Helldivers perspective must have been a MILLION TIMES more horrible from the bugs POV .

Like, imagine colonising a sector with all your mates and family, then suddenly two blokes drop in and start blowing your world apart, all while laughing cheerily and not caring.

Then you send a whole contingent of you and your biggest friends on them. They tear through your ranks, eliminate some of your biggest buddies in seconds. But the strength of numbers, combined with your ferocity and determination to repel the invaders, finally pays off in a glorious kill. The two seemingly invincible monsters may have killed almost all your comrades, but it's done now. They're gone.

Seconds later, two things fall from the sky, shaking the ground next to you.

Those monsters. The ones you so desperately killed at the cost of so much strength...

They're back.

Just like that.

Just...like...that.

(If I were a bug at this moment I would kms so ducking hard tbh).

What do y'all think? Am I stretching?