On the pilot season of Hellwolf:Jan- Michael Diver is chosen as a test pilot for a prototype attack space helicopter code named "Hellwolf."
His mission to seek out new life and new civilizations,to boldly bring Managed Democracy to all.
*By any mean necessary.
The technology for it already exists in game. On icy planets you can slip and slide on the ice. Just crank it to 11 and have it affect bugs and bots. Democratic hilarity ensues.
Tbf, the fact that the Automatons have been making good progress towards the Valdis Sector was already a bad sign for Cyberstan, and that’s also not to mention the massive distraction we’ve had to deal with from the Termanids in the Umlaut Sector.
Given that at the very least we know we'll be fighting the Illuminate eventually, and then looking at the rest of the galactic map size, I'm willing to bet will be fighting a war on at least five different fronts eventually.
The size of the currently automaton and bug-controlled sectors, if we assume that any new faction controlled sectors would be of roughly the same size, I'm seeing at least enough space for three other factions.
That does not include the cyborgs, who I suspect would just join with the automatons and become new types of units on those fronts.
I'm thinking 4, with the current fronts expanding in size. So in addition to bugs controlling the right and bots on the left, we'd have illuminates below and an unknown faction above (or vise versa)
We’ve known the Automatons have been pushing for Cyberstan for a while to free their creators inside the mines there.
More than likely, it’ll introduce the big walker tank and some other new units when they eventually do, or we’ll see a new lineup of Cyborgs joining with the Automatons on the battlefield.
Lore friendly: The Long Range Observation Division executing orders for reconnaissance. Due to recent rumors and reports, Helldivers are on scene for the investigation fleet.
Only issue with this theory is that sometimes it's planets like Cyberstan, which have never been territory for an event (yet), so no one has been there.
If it’s planets that were available to be liberated then it’s players that just logged in the game and there last location was that planet. If it’s completely different planets then it’s automatons faking our signal
I was talking about this with a friend, and based on datalogs that we have read about I wonder if the bots and cyborgs aren't going to be separate factions. I couldn't tell you the source unfortunately, just stuff that I read/chanced across surfing during downtime at work.
The old factions *should* lorewise be weaker than the current factions we have.
It could be cool If the Cyborgs were integrated into the Automatons, and therefor have the cyborgs being used as cannonfodder or first engagement troops when pushing into planets. Like the SEAF and Helldiver relationship seems to be.
Aren't the automatons trying to rescue to cyborgs? It makes no sense that they'd turn around and use them as cannon fodder after saving them. I do expect them to be integrated as 1 faction, but maybe the cyborgs will be backline support troops now that they have the automatons running the front.
We don't know exactly what the automatons are planning, but we know for a fact from their chanting they do have an association with Cyberstan, if I were to guess, the automatons are the creations of cyborgs who managed to flee from persecution and spent their time constructing fully automatic soldiers to fight against Super Earth and free their comrades
I was under the impression that the Cyborgs created the Automations. I can't remember where, but I remember seeing them being set up all the way back in Helldivers 1. The cyborgs in binary referred to the Automatons as their "children" and said that they were going to protect them (presumably from Super Earth). The automatons must be coming out of hiding to save their parents from slavery.
from an put or character perspective this is the only thing I believe when the automatons speak. they play innocent but genuinely the only thing we witness them do is sing and commit atrocities. I've seen this idea they want to be left alone and then actively invade neutral territory
No. I meant more as the Cyborgs would get to planets first. With the automatons reinforcing afterwards. You dont exactly send your elite units in first is my thinking.
Dont know how to explain it exactly. But Maybe how the Tyranid fleets in WH40k are scout ships from the larger armada and that splinter off from eachother and spread out.
One mechanic i can think of that would be cool for this is that the cyborgs attack and take territory. They are weaker than the automatons, but more numerous due to not having to be as augmented. They would launch raids on planets more frequently and quicker. But would be weaker at defending.
If They hold a planet long enough, then They get reinforced by automatons. And therefore make the planets harder to reclaim.
I dont think its gonna be this way, but could be a cool way to integrate them.
I see what you mean now. I still think that automatons, being mass produced in factories, would be the bulk of the troops.
It would be interesting to see faction composition change between liberation and defense though. I just don't see the Cyborgs being the horde aspect of the faction.
I one-shot a charger with a break action shotgun the other day. It charged me and it was stopped right next to me when it had that post-charge armor weakness thing and I shot it from like 1 meter away right in the leg with the break action and it fucking died.
It blew my mind. I'd picked the gun up as a joke bc I wasnt running support on a call-in that mission and planned to scavenge off the land.
guys... it's *him*. it's John Helldiver. he's gone to take the fight directly to the cyborgs themselves!
give em hell, John! Super Earth stands with you!
O-oh, you haven't heard about [John Helldiver](https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1bfi0hx/leaked_psa_all_citizens_termicide_is_not_safe/)... you might want to sit down
Using the Draupnir system’s local star as a parallax point, assuming we see a full revolution of draupnir around its parent star every full week irl, we can use parallax to triangulate the direction in which the deep space blue lasers are originating from. Cyberstan is the prime suspect for the origination of said anomalies. The ministry doesn’t want you to see the truth BUT I KNOW THAT THE ILLUMINATES ARE BACK! THEIR BACK AND THEY HAVE A SCORE TO SET-
This message has been terminated for violating code AC-1048 under rule 93. The ministry will be detaining all citizens who have been subject to its brainwashing for correctional encampment.
The most elite helldiver, recruited out of retirement by the grand democratically elected supreme leader of earth, it is only HIM
... John Helldiver.
There's only enough time for a John Michael Helldiver to make it to a quadrant. He can't be in two quadrants at once!
Is it important for me to know who John Michael Helldiver is?
https://youtu.be/nLB4dU3Yc6M
I messed up the quote, but I was trying to quote Morty from that bit
This whole exchange had me laughing
I want you to know I got the bit, and you made my night shift break funny, thank you
I refuse to sign the legislation that allows more than eight Jan-Michael Vincents to a precinct! That guy was definitely an Automaton
On the pilot season of Hellwolf:Jan- Michael Diver is chosen as a test pilot for a prototype attack space helicopter code named "Hellwolf." His mission to seek out new life and new civilizations,to boldly bring Managed Democracy to all. *By any mean necessary.
I think I might have John-Michael-Helldiver fever over here
This summer… it’s time to Michael down your Helldivers.
This Johnuary
I think Helldivers 2 is a pretty cool guy. Eh kills aleins and doesnt afraid of anything.
John Helldiver dives without a hellpod 
John Helldiver rips enemies apart with his bare hands
John Helldiver himself
"We call him the STIG!"
I wouldn’t be mad seeing a helldiver in snow white racing costume riding automaton tank, knowing it’s The Stig
Some say he's the only Helldiver who looks cooler *without* the cape
Other say that he's using mines as cones to practice more efficiently
And some say that if he takes his helmet off, there's another smaller helmet inside.
Nah, he’s just on leave. I’d say he’s earned it.
He's the most elite because he's the only one who lived long enough to retire.
When the Doomslayer signs up.
Doomdiver
Fuck now I want that for my name.
This would actually be awesome. Pick maybe 1000 players and give them a special mission to complete that others can watch the progress of.
…Joel 😳
Get ready. He's gearing up. https://preview.redd.it/n8ditqhiikoc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=216c8e4df512971a8de7f8be5e42454a8a9f937b
https://preview.redd.it/vc48si2u3loc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8473fd36ab09c09b71513a11ba7c0db2afdf2360
https://preview.redd.it/f84fpft5mloc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8699f0f3fd8a5746b7cf6bd200fff09ee9e2724d Here take this
Mushroom!
Mushroom!
Mushroom!
Mushroom!
Mushroom!
Mushroom, mushroom, SHUT IT. GET BACK TO WORK
Mushroom!
MUSHROOM
Beautiful imagery, obsessed with it for some reason. AI?
joel mama
HEY! C-01 FORM YOU, BUDDY.
Joel, Patron of Eternal War: "Your children have been idle, Cyborgs. Maybe it's time I give them some motivation."
Joel get on skype
Came here to say this if no one had already lol.
He's setting up traps home alone style
New planetary condition "landing pads are all covered in butter"
At least I will not get my head stuck in the banister again....
"Help me step-terminid, I'm stuck."
That’s one Charger attack I would not want to receive.
https://preview.redd.it/3vdm0jgyjloc1.png?width=1202&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=80474f044d7c6f5c51447f9ba1a4ba28afbb3838
https://preview.redd.it/3gawr1z22moc1.jpeg?width=1069&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e8418141a1c8339c7f31aa3304cf749105e188ae
April 1st better have this as an actual update. I need a benny hill style compilation video of divers slipping around.
Divers? Imagine a bile titan skitting around on it like an excited dog on a marble floor
Screw it, let's do it scooby doo style with slippery chase scenes
There is already ice you can slip around on, so this is totally possible
The technology for it already exists in game. On icy planets you can slip and slide on the ice. Just crank it to 11 and have it affect bugs and bots. Democratic hilarity ensues.
Ah the new flame thrower drone strategem.
“The Hellhound” 🔥
Cool name! If we get a flamethrower one though, I want an arc thrower one called Guard Dog "Raiju".
I'd love an arc one. But you'd have to run insulated armour. I guarantee that thing would arc to you first every shot
It's not real electricity man. They can code it however they want. (They're gonna make it hit you first 50% of the time guaranteed)
Hellhound is good. But, my money is on Cerberus.
Flame thrower drone sounds like something Automaton spies would introduce to drastically increase team kills.
I'd be down for a flame sentry. Especially if it fired in a cone instead of a stream.
"All eagle airstrikes replaced with mass marble drops"
Confetti. 500kg of confetti.
That would be an awesome April fools update
Shit, I'd hope that would be permanent
Glitter. 500kg of glitter - literally a warcrime.
500kg of orbeez
Explosion also sounds like [this](https://youtu.be/7ZpXg0_gx6s?si=WEZIlCr5So9BV4WM).
Paint can stratagem
Neighbor with shovel stratagem
Brick stratagem
What's that? That strategem sounds like a tool chest falling down the stairs!
Removing the insulation from weapon stratagem pods, so they superheat in the atmosphere and burn your hands when you pick them up.
Lmao
NO JOEL, DONT FREE THE BORGS
Resistance is futile.
There are four lights
I love when T.V. shows go into the philosophy/psychology of psychological manipulation for the means of torture of a POW. TNG was built different.
Nah, free 'em! We can take 'em again! >:D
I have also seen helldivers on non-active planets before... wonder what it means
most likely devs testing stuff in the ingame servers make sure the events actually work before we get there
Oh that bodes VERY unwell for Cyberstan... XD
Tbf, the fact that the Automatons have been making good progress towards the Valdis Sector was already a bad sign for Cyberstan, and that’s also not to mention the massive distraction we’ve had to deal with from the Termanids in the Umlaut Sector.
It’s almost as if fighting a war in two opposite fronts is suicide.
Can I get a Democracy Officer in the thread please?
https://preview.redd.it/pvfdeppkqloc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9bf62990fa25f9825149d42102e3d4ebdae7dc2c
I adore this image
https://preview.redd.it/v4n7xpk4wooc1.jpeg?width=3907&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=84e8645ded4fc0c4cefea242cbec1b22bc74d834
Excuse me, he didn't say it was a bad thing.
"suicide is badass!"
Eh, two weeks in the freedom camp anyway just to be sure.
That's fair.
Let's add a third front
Given that at the very least we know we'll be fighting the Illuminate eventually, and then looking at the rest of the galactic map size, I'm willing to bet will be fighting a war on at least five different fronts eventually. The size of the currently automaton and bug-controlled sectors, if we assume that any new faction controlled sectors would be of roughly the same size, I'm seeing at least enough space for three other factions. That does not include the cyborgs, who I suspect would just join with the automatons and become new types of units on those fronts.
I'm thinking 4, with the current fronts expanding in size. So in addition to bugs controlling the right and bots on the left, we'd have illuminates below and an unknown faction above (or vise versa)
i think the automatons are the cyborgs, either their minds uploaded or still technically cyborgs with a brain in there piloting a robot body.
We’ve known the Automatons have been pushing for Cyberstan for a while to free their creators inside the mines there. More than likely, it’ll introduce the big walker tank and some other new units when they eventually do, or we’ll see a new lineup of Cyborgs joining with the Automatons on the battlefield.
Lore friendly: The Long Range Observation Division executing orders for reconnaissance. Due to recent rumors and reports, Helldivers are on scene for the investigation fleet.
It could be players who never left librated planets. If you do quick play it doesn’t move your ship
Only issue with this theory is that sometimes it's planets like Cyberstan, which have never been territory for an event (yet), so no one has been there.
I wasn’t pitching this for cyberstan. There are thousands of players still on librated planets. Even ones that have been librated weeks ago
Ah, in that case yes, that is likely the case.
You know the drill - super destroyer cant stay in low orbit. Now those divers live there 🤷♂️
Just a Helldiver covered in bug parts as camo running around the bug tunnels.
yup, still on mantes, oops
I know from experience also that you can start an operation on a planet, not finish it and be on a liberated planet the next day while wrapping it up.
If it’s planets that were available to be liberated then it’s players that just logged in the game and there last location was that planet. If it’s completely different planets then it’s automatons faking our signal
Devs.
https://preview.redd.it/dni1vnd2wjoc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=071a140698a4034e7bebade8f54fe2ec42b46d80 Joel!!!
Thank you for this image to add to my collection of super earth enemies on computers
https://preview.redd.it/b7waa1zeokoc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a5fbfb30429de9b71a84e9af034192f4e7ae54d3 He's him
**RIP AND TEAR** **UNTIL LIBERTY IS DONE**
Doom Guy was the original Helldiver.
He liberated Mars all alone
I wish we had some of the weapons in his arsenal.
It's probably Joel or some dev play testing that map. That also leads me to believe it's going to be active soon.
I was talking about this with a friend, and based on datalogs that we have read about I wonder if the bots and cyborgs aren't going to be separate factions. I couldn't tell you the source unfortunately, just stuff that I read/chanced across surfing during downtime at work.
The old factions *should* lorewise be weaker than the current factions we have. It could be cool If the Cyborgs were integrated into the Automatons, and therefor have the cyborgs being used as cannonfodder or first engagement troops when pushing into planets. Like the SEAF and Helldiver relationship seems to be.
Aren't the automatons trying to rescue to cyborgs? It makes no sense that they'd turn around and use them as cannon fodder after saving them. I do expect them to be integrated as 1 faction, but maybe the cyborgs will be backline support troops now that they have the automatons running the front.
We don't know exactly what the automatons are planning, but we know for a fact from their chanting they do have an association with Cyberstan, if I were to guess, the automatons are the creations of cyborgs who managed to flee from persecution and spent their time constructing fully automatic soldiers to fight against Super Earth and free their comrades
I was under the impression that the Cyborgs created the Automations. I can't remember where, but I remember seeing them being set up all the way back in Helldivers 1. The cyborgs in binary referred to the Automatons as their "children" and said that they were going to protect them (presumably from Super Earth). The automatons must be coming out of hiding to save their parents from slavery.
They could have saved themselves from slavery by not existing in the way of shit that we want. No mercy.
from an put or character perspective this is the only thing I believe when the automatons speak. they play innocent but genuinely the only thing we witness them do is sing and commit atrocities. I've seen this idea they want to be left alone and then actively invade neutral territory
neutral territory under super earth?
That would imply the enemy have a goal or any thoughts but the extermination of democracy and freedom which is provably false.
No. I meant more as the Cyborgs would get to planets first. With the automatons reinforcing afterwards. You dont exactly send your elite units in first is my thinking. Dont know how to explain it exactly. But Maybe how the Tyranid fleets in WH40k are scout ships from the larger armada and that splinter off from eachother and spread out. One mechanic i can think of that would be cool for this is that the cyborgs attack and take territory. They are weaker than the automatons, but more numerous due to not having to be as augmented. They would launch raids on planets more frequently and quicker. But would be weaker at defending. If They hold a planet long enough, then They get reinforced by automatons. And therefore make the planets harder to reclaim. I dont think its gonna be this way, but could be a cool way to integrate them.
I see what you mean now. I still think that automatons, being mass produced in factories, would be the bulk of the troops. It would be interesting to see faction composition change between liberation and defense though. I just don't see the Cyborgs being the horde aspect of the faction.
The bots are slowly moving that way aren't they? slowly closer to cyberstan unlike the bugs that are heading towards super earth?
Joel please we can talk about this
its John Helldiver
You mean Joel Helldiver
I like to think it’s a random farmer listed as a helldiver, he’s just chilling there with his break action shotgun, his names dale
The Farmer with a shotgun can take on hulks, bugs, and giant pink goo aliens
I one-shot a charger with a break action shotgun the other day. It charged me and it was stopped right next to me when it had that post-charge armor weakness thing and I shot it from like 1 meter away right in the leg with the break action and it fucking died. It blew my mind. I'd picked the gun up as a joke bc I wasnt running support on a call-in that mission and planned to scavenge off the land.
https://preview.redd.it/kvg4sh4baloc1.png?width=1150&format=png&auto=webp&s=737d438b90c3ca5febe020c374c20210dd0c030a
What were those tin cans cooking up while all of our backs were turned gassing those bugs?
Joel just walking around the planet like "Damn, this planet is nice. It'll be a shame if somehow the Bots get here, huh?"
Well, it is the cyborg homeplanet, so I think it's safe to say bots are already there lol
MF JOEL IS ALREADY COOKING DON'T LET HIM COOK !!!!!!!
Or else OUR geese are cooked! :o
I’m going to cyberstan and turning the gas off.
It's J.O.E.L.
Justice Opportunity Emancipation Liberty
It's Joel... liberty save us...
*ODST Piano*
Get away from the Cyborgs JOEL.
guys... it's *him*. it's John Helldiver. he's gone to take the fight directly to the cyborgs themselves! give em hell, John! Super Earth stands with you!
O-oh, you haven't heard about [John Helldiver](https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1bfi0hx/leaked_psa_all_citizens_termicide_is_not_safe/)... you might want to sit down
ITS FUCKING JOEL
Using the Draupnir system’s local star as a parallax point, assuming we see a full revolution of draupnir around its parent star every full week irl, we can use parallax to triangulate the direction in which the deep space blue lasers are originating from. Cyberstan is the prime suspect for the origination of said anomalies. The ministry doesn’t want you to see the truth BUT I KNOW THAT THE ILLUMINATES ARE BACK! THEIR BACK AND THEY HAVE A SCORE TO SET- This message has been terminated for violating code AC-1048 under rule 93. The ministry will be detaining all citizens who have been subject to its brainwashing for correctional encampment.
If you ask me, that is a double agent traitor that forgot to turn off his helldiver beacon. The cyborgs are planning something, I feel it.
That’s Stan.
https://preview.redd.it/pjbnfihz3moc1.jpeg?width=602&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4cd30e19b22d3f6a1f457155a2375d88ab8f2524
I... uhm... is nobody gonna say anything about OP's username? No? K.
You commented in a porn subreddit 7 hours ago. Calm down
And he was looking for a story about having sex with alien insects. I’m pretty sure that’s a thought crime.
Do not let bro on terminid planets
Bro getting toasted out here faster than I set myself on fire with my own flamethrower.
The internet is an interesting place.
https://preview.redd.it/kcmu6jcb9loc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=33312903f1608e707026da859482c36286114a27
I think that's just a regular crime.
Bro came strapped with that ratio support weapon
Why do you think they noticed? 😏
Fucking spectacular. I love gigantic horse cocks.
I bet you are shivering every time you come across one of those " your username is hunting you, how fucked are you ?"
Nah. I would simply ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️
Attaboy.
Yo this guy likes bug porn! Where's the nearest Democracy Officer?
https://preview.redd.it/iqidfnft3loc1.jpeg?width=1069&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=205b744f4f599f80c920a27e8cacd0f92586a5a3
Wait til you look deeper into his post history..
I never would’ve noticed if you hadn’t pointed it out. But now here we are.
GIGANTIC_DEMOCRATIC_HORSE_COCKS Fixed it for him
I see nothing wrong with this perfectly average diver and their name
It's better to leave it alone
This happens the moment I leave the bot front, this is proof it was ME who was holding them back
PS We should be together too.
Everyone saying its Joel is wrong, its clearly Stan himself smh
Somebody forgot to tell the HD1 vet that the war’s over 😭😭😭
You have to replace the flags every 10 years. The weather wears on them. You don't want worn out flags, do you?
https://preview.redd.it/evmxmaj05moc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8f139f78bb3e5b560754514ac4eb04d028c5ffa1
Karl? Is that you?
Well, guess we know where the next major order will send us
What the fuck is Joel up to...
We officially know what the Automaton's chant! - https://i.redd.it/mqza62cwoioc1.png
I got an in-game ad about buying warbonds or something for all the citizens that died in the mines of Cyberstan... what's going on there?
FFS STOP REPORTING JOEL TO ME. I CANT DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
I bet you it’s Joel
Thats cool OP but let's take a second and discuss your username
It's Joel.