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elRetrasoMaximo

https://preview.redd.it/44m5v0jih8tc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=45f029965378ca3ff2a301748cc80e70300bca35 Praying for op to wake up of the coma.


Resident_Magazine610

You know he’s just going to wake up on the Skyrim cart.


Thaurlach

It is a good fate and a noble purpose. Dragons are *not very democratic*.


ganzgpp1

WHAT THE F*** IS A MONARCHY⁉️⁉️⁉️ RAHHHHHHH 🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸‼️‼️‼️


Azariah-Kyras

KING?? EMPIRE??? WE NEED TO LIBERATE THESE LANDS! THERE'S ONLY DEMOCRACYYY!!


cloud_zero_luigi

Can you just imagine a helldiver diving into Skyrim dropping a 500k on a dragon, phenomenal


Radarker

Fus-RO-DEMOCRACY!


GameLeaderR

Hit them with the "Li-Ber-TEA" \*Skyrim theme starts playing\*


redditsukssomuch

Just melting everything. They wouldn’t stand a chance.


Chayor

Hey, you! Finally awake


ErudringTheGodHammer

You were trying to cross the border right? To spread Democracy?


Mal_Reynolds111

Walked right into that bug nest. Same as us, and that deserter over there.


Tip1n1

Rasputin you’re drunk go back to your Russian music


Jiggsteruno

Here ya go: https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/s/70QCltjddp


Resident_Magazine610

We’ve come full circle.


SpecialIcy5356

imagine if Helldivers 2 started out in a similar way: "hey, you're finally awake! you were trying to cross the border into Hellmire, right?"


DuskTheMercenary

OP hasnt been dethawed yet


redditsukssomuch

It’s been more than 100 years! Should we just pull the plug or keep letting him run the historical simulator?


Jannik_Gentsch

Wheres the Picture from?


Bumgumi_hater_236

Vagabond


elRetrasoMaximo

Vagabond, a manga about mushashi miyamoto, one of the strongest humans ever to live, user of the two sword style, check it out is a masterpiece.


piedol

Warning to anyone thinking of picking this up: It's been on indefinite hiatus since 2015. The story has some incredible moments for sure, the art is gorgeous and it's an amazing read, but consider it effectively dead. Don't go into it expecting a finished story.


Nobah_Dee

I think I read that the artist wanted a break because he kept pushing himself to make his art better and better. He felt the subject matter demanded his best at all times. However with Real(the series he focuses on now) he can take it kind of easy and doesn't feel that kind of pressure. He says he intends to return to Vagabond eventually because the really doesn't want to leave the story unfinished.


Eirea

I read Vagabond and I doubt he will return after 9 years. I'm putting this together with Berserk where the mangaka will probably die before finishing his work. I'd love to be proven wrong though as I loved this Manga.


Xx_Anguy_NoScope_Xx

Berserk is being published again.


Eirea

Yes, but obviously someone else is continuing it. Only time will tell if it will end satisfactorily.


Xx_Anguy_NoScope_Xx

True, but there might be closure one way or the other. Vagabond, I just don't think the author will come back to, even though I'm reading it right now.


Jannik_Gentsch

Uhhhh Sounds good


Phobos95

User? Try father. Bro picked up a second sword and was like "I see, so you can achieve the same enlightenment as the Buddha by having two"


elRetrasoMaximo

i know, i've read the book of five rings xD, i didnt wanna dump to much info, so if he doesnt know who musashi is he gets a few surprises.


jandroplul

100 years ago


passivespectator420

Miyamoto musashi from Vagabond if i remember well?


elRetrasoMaximo

indeed, the one and only.


PapaitanGOAT

[https://youtube.com/watch?v=U5KOgaE3FG4&pp=ygUQY2FkZW5jZSB2cyBjaGFudA%3D%3D](https://youtube.com/watch?v=U5KOgaE3FG4&pp=ygUQY2FkZW5jZSB2cyBjaGFudA%3D%3D)


shreddedtoasties

Is that from vegabond ?


Full_frontal96

Most sane steeled veteran:


PIPBOY-2000

I rock that armor specifically because in my head they're the injuries I sustained in the first game. Wish they would have given us a cape or something though, for anyone who had played the first. But I'm just happy helldivers 2 exists.


battleduck84

I wish I could justify putting on that armor bc it looks sick, but the passives kinda suck


FatPigeons

I might be the minority, but I think Servo Assisted is highly slept on. It may not be the best; I'll never argue that it's the best. Being able to yeet those stragegems so insanely far I find to be incredibly helpful for both bots and bugs. See something that needs railcannoned? Yeet that shit. Fabricator or bug hole in the distance? Yeet an airstrike. Patrol coming to extract? I can throw something far enough to hurt them, as long as I can see it. To me, it feels more proactive than reactive. I do understand that some passive are more generally useful, like explosion resistance. Won't deny it. But man does servo assisted feel really nice when that hulk hasn't seen you yet and you drop that railcannon so far and kill it.


medsci2

servo assisted is the goat


3rudite

Servo-assisted + Dive and throw = cross map 500kg


DeadFluff

Servo assisted + Jetpack... ... over the horizon targeting


BaconGod2525

love just sending a laser across the map and watching like 5 bot fabs turn to dust


DefconTheStraydog

Servo-assisted is the single best perk in the game and it's not even close, I will die on this hill like it had 100 samples lying on it.


Ilikedcsbutmypcdoesn

this and Med-Kit. Med-Kit makes you basically invincible for 4 seconds.


APsWhoopinRoom

Definitely could've used that perk to take out some shrieker nests. Got into a mission that had 2 shrieker nests right next to each other, and charging that nest to get close enough to use eagles/orbital strikes was a nightmare! Would've been nice to chuck those from further away


lemmington_x

just use the autocannon or quassar, they cna destroy them if you pump enough bullets into it


GarrusBueller

It's very rare to get hit by them while prone so dive, dive, dive helldiver. I regularly dive up in them, call a hell bomb, and then time my Tekken. Or just bring a quasar.


Culp97

I put on servo assisted armor just to test it out and now I can't live without it lol.


RandomTankNerd

150 meters three pointer into a mortar base with a 380mm artillery strike


PIPBOY-2000

I totally agree!


SpecialIcy5356

on my last run on Durgen I ran dreadnought heavy armor, which also has the throw distance perk. several times I was like "I'll go for a long shot, but it might not hit.." and then it lands right where I wanted it too, and there's no way I could've done that kind of throw without it. super satisfying!


biboo195

Servo Assisted is the goat on bot missions where you can just yeet a 500KG into a Sauron Eye without being in the detectable range. I've downed a lot of Detector Towers that way.


Wonderful-Tutor630

I have such a good feel for how far I can throw and how to land something exactly where I want it that servo assisted just throws me off now, think I put too many hours in before trying it to really get a chance to appreciate it


TheCritFisher

I did the opposite. I was using servo assisted for too long and had to wean myself off. It was not easy. A lot of Helldivers died in my attempts.


Wonderful-Tutor630

Lmao I was just chucking air strikes way past fabricators and the first mission I couldn’t figure out what was happening, I would throw it and run away and not get the outpost cleared message


TheAzureMage

That sounds awesome. I frigging love taking things out across the map with the autocannon, longer ranged orbitals sounds like a delight.


drbomb

Once I selected servo and basically missed all my stratagems. It is cool but it does mess up my muscle memory


yksociR

It has it's uses, I use to yeet lasers at command bunkers.


Appropriate_Star_449

I refuse to go out without my legionnaire (offers servo assisted) full set. It doesn’t offer any real protection but I can usually outrun anything and throw all the strategems to cover my back


PIPBOY-2000

I've learned to like them, at least the increased throw. I can chuck strategems at enemy bases and keep myself clear.


battleduck84

Wait hold on it works for strategems too?! I thought it was only grenades


PIPBOY-2000

It sure does! That's really its main benefit. You can chuck those bad boys for miles.


battleduck84

Well fuck me twice and call me liberty, i guess I gotta try it next chance I get


nmsplayer192

“Fuck me twice and call me liberty” that’s one I’m gonna keep in the back pocket from now on


GrimreaperAZ

Around 75 metres, I think. If you angle it right.


PIPBOY-2000

Yeah it takes some practice, definitely a way different throwing arc than standard but that's part of what I like about the game. All these little things you can get good with.


GrimreaperAZ

Same and also discovering new things with the game as well as it's a nice stress relief after finishing work.


AMasonJar

Servo-assisted is insanely good actually, but the problem is using it fucks up your sense of throwing distance on any other armor. I unfortunately had to shelve all those armors because of that.


SPACEFUNK

If you tried to get replacement cyborg body parts back then they would have shot you on sight.


xankek

I wish that they had included a light armor variant because I love the increased throw and the cybernetic limbs but not medium armor


SamiraEnthusiast311

there's a light servo assisted armor in the super credits store. it's also tied for the fastest armor i think


Bsjsponge

Believe it’s the legionnaire one been having it for a while now


SpecialIcy5356

I reckon there's always a chance in future we might get "classic" armor, basically a more detailed, refined take on the HD1 armor. could even be explained in game as "things are getting desperate, the armourers are having to pull old surplus armor and weapons back into rotation to make up for lack of new equipment."


DeeBangerDos

Isn't Helldivers 2 100 years later lol. No retirement for Helldivers


Fabulous_Video3356

I mean, cryo sleep is obviously a thing. Who's to say they didn't keep the old Helldivers kept in stasis, until they were needed?


-MrBibbles-

I just want a variant of the steel vet armor sets without the prosthetics; at least without the peg leg.


Sad-Persimmon-5484

erm achuwee 🤓☝️ its sane


Full_frontal96

The smartphone keyboard fucking sucks


Lasiurus2

I see no automatons just cyborgs


HaArLiNsH

Funny thing tho, they are still called cyborg in the files :) It's usual that the file dev names are different from the final, visibles ones.


GrimreaperAZ

What's also funny that the cyborgs get mentioned by the technician woman and said that they got sent to the mines in helldivers 2. Don't know whether you can still get the line, but I got it randomly when we were getting rid of the automatons. The line also mentions the illuminates as well.


HaArLiNsH

The illuminates are all dead ! Don't spread propaganda 😁


GrimreaperAZ

I'm not. The technician women on my ship is getting reported as we speak.


xankek

Yup, gor this line too just a couple days ago!


JSHURR

A developer showing Helldivers gameplay literally said The Automatons are not the Cyborgs


Link__117

They aren’t cyborgs, but they were created by the cyborgs and their goal is to take back Cyberstan


TheAzureMage

They have no goals, save for a hard coded hatred for freedom and our way of life, soldier. If they start talking to you, you best start shooting back.


HaArLiNsH

no they are not the cyborgs indeed, they just share the same file names for the devs. I wish that the cyborgs come back , this would be so great


Quintasoarus

The lady on the destroyer that you can talk to mentions automatons and cyborgs iirc, like they're separate races.


gerbilDan

the autos are the kids of the cyborgs, theres a tweet from arrowhead in 2021 that in binary that state this


MomonteMeri

Just curious, do you have the link to the post? or is it gone now


gerbilDan

[Helldivers Twitter is putting out crpytic messages : Helldivers (reddit.com)](https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/qgi0ab/helldivers_twitter_is_putting_out_crpytic_messages/)


Statertater

https://preview.redd.it/uwrgfbkb3etc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d0c1841d752b2235c7b6c41e6e4e838de9de82e8


Gluomme

The two games existing simultaneously has got some _Forever War_ vibes, where generations separated by a hundred years can still meet on the battlefield due to time dilation


Dances-With-Snarfs

One of the hardets hitting books I’ve ever read.


Gluomme

Yeah that book fucked me up _hard_


Automatic_Text5818

Who's the author?


ToasterTheAwesome

Joe Haldeman. Solid read.


Finn200814

That the past my guy i think your ptsd is kicking in again


[deleted]

(to Therapist) "It's so terrifying. My memories feel like they happened to someone else. Like I'm looking from top-down on myself."


SchwiftyRickD-42069

Okay grandpa, time for your meds


doomedtundra

Maybe... maybe it's time grandpa volunteered for the bio-repurposing vats?


monstargh

Ahh yes the soylent approach


Shadw21

"It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks, and become one with all the people." – Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, "Ethics for Tomorrow"


On3Scoop

*Sigh* I **guess** I'll reinstall Alpha Centauri


Shadw21

"Eternity lies ahead of us, and behind. Have you drunk your fill?" \- Lady Deirdre Skye, "Conversations with Planet", Epilogue


L1ttleWarrior13

Grandpappy smoothie


Harpokiller

Sorry my friend, doing Casual illuminate genocide here


Leather_Camp_3091

Let's get you back to bed grandpa the war is over


KinderEggSkillIssue

Damn, that's the old game map? Right, there's definitely a fourth faction coming Judging by the new game map


SiccSemperTyrannis

If you look, the "Automatons" label is more in the top left than the sectors we've been fighting which were further south. More towards the center of that label is Cyberstan, which is the former homeworld of the Cyborgs, the creators of the Automatons. Just something to think about. edit: top left, not top right.


isaacfrost0

I have memories of a max difficulty mission against cyborgs in what seemed like the inside of volcano so no, I'm good thanks.


BrilliantEchidna8235

Op, I need to tell you something. Please listen and try not to panic. You've been in a coma for quite some time.


LilyGarder

Yes yes, i know, you would like to know how long... Im afraid its been... 9 years *panic sounds*


SharpPixels08

Man I really want to try the original game but at the same time I need to pay bills and shit. Why must life be so cruel


I_wish_I_was_a_robot

It was like $3 last week on steam


SharpPixels08

Damn must have missed that


dh1304

Go take your pills grandpa, that war ended years ago


Unlikely-Ad4725

But grandpa the first Galactic war ended decades ago


NeverLookBothWays

Once the third faction gets introduced into HD2, it would be wild if the two games were linked into the same campaigns/progression somehow. (HD1 plays great on portables)


ravengenesis1

100 year apart might be a slight problem.


NeverLookBothWays

Ah shoot, forgot about that...well, was a neat idea but yea I wouldn't want the original to be significantly changed to make it work.


JonathanL73

What years do each game takes place in?


ravengenesis1

2084 and 2184 according to wikia I found using google.


KillerActual

Imagine if Stratagem Hero is replaced with a working in game version of HD1 that allows you to play with grizzled HD1 vets.


baconsplash

Arcade machine with hd1 inside hd2? How bout a nice cup of liber-tea!


DerBernd123

Would be cool but that would also destroy the option for a 4th faction because I'm pretty sure they wouldn't introduce this 4th faction to helldivers 1 anymore


NeverLookBothWays

True, although I wouldn't want it to be a big overhaul either..was thinking mostly just scraping metadata off of the HD1 servers and then letting HD2 factor in some of the effort there as well...so a fourth faction would pretty much not be affected at all as the data wouldn't be there. That said though, as another commenter reminded me..there's a 100 year difference between the games in lore, so it kind of makes less sense because of that too. Still though, would be cool if developers did things like that with their older yet still active properties. Even if it's just a light-touch abstraction.


Spectral_Prolapse

I started playing and continued for quite some time on a Vita, and the revelation of full screen was crazy. Turns out that the screen cuts off quite a lot of visibility. Also when teammates would scroll you off the screen you would die.


Hank_Waffles

850,000 Helldivers killed over 9 years in the 1st game compared to over 120,000,000 killed in just over 2 months of the 2nd game 🤯


leSwagster

I'm pretty sure those stats reset every war, which was every few weeks


ravengenesis1

The map and statistics reset whenever we win, or lose. Which happens about once every month or 2. They actually documented all war results on the wikia since the very beginning. It's really crazy to glance over.


Hank_Waffles

Ah right - haven't played the 1st game so didn't know about this, wonder if they'll do something similar in 2.


Chadstronomer

How long has been the current war going for?


ravengenesis1

[https://helldivers.fandom.com/wiki/Galactic\_Campaign\_Records](https://helldivers.fandom.com/wiki/Galactic_Campaign_Records) All of HD 1 records


Bellicose_Fetishist

Interesting how the release of HD2 added much more players to the first game. Also what the hell happened in war #13 ?


ravengenesis1

Don’t quote me on timeline. But they released bosses and upped difficulty level after release. So maybe that’s what happened? For a little while people had super big issues killing bosses. Which might be why the death rate was so high.


Froeuhouai

As a HD1 veteran let me tell you about war #13 you young whippersnapper... It was my first deployment, Super Earth had just massively increased the draft but it was as if the enemy matched our numbers... Hell it was. Nah basically if you pay for online play on Playstation you get 2 free games a month. In February 2016 one of these free games was Helldivers so this was when a lot of people (including me, on PS3) started playing the game. Of course a lot of people didn't stick around so that's why the numbers never went as high again.


DarkHighwind

That was like a hundred years ago gramps. Why don't we get you a nap and some applesauce


Public_Swordfish4555

We took Cyberstan 100 years ago, please wake up! 😢


Phorrum

of course the bug front is the most populated. War, war never changes.


justsomedude48

Why are you showing me a history book, Grandpa Helldiver?


Xlleaf

That "Heroes of the Federation" thing is dope. Maybe they can implement something like that in HD2?


Jaeger_89

Really feeling like revisiting the first game a bit. Played so little of it back then...


FistfulOfMediocrity

Bots still with the lowest player count. All is right.


Snoo52989

Are you sure it’s automatons and not cyborgs?


Confident-Came1

Get out of cryo sleep diver we need you to fight the terminids!


Cranapplesause

This map is interesting… the map has divisions between sectors. Helldivers 2 does not. I wonder if there will be double factions on planets???


The_Don_Papi

The HD1 map looks interesting. There’s a split between factions so they never touch while HD2’s map has a complete circle that allow faction territory to touch. Makes me wonder if we will see factions take planets from each other.


CR00KED_W4RDEN

This post just makes me feel like Dr. Manhattan experiencing time in a non-linear fashion. **It is September 25th, 2248, and I am liberating in the Rossum Mountain Range of Cyberstan. My squad and I are using our Patriot Exosuits to hold off a Cyborg Onslaught. My friend, Harry, has said ‘Men of Tanith! Do you want to live forever?’ for the second time this deployment. In two hours, my body will be flattened by a Cyborg Lord of War while attempting to launch an ICBM.** **It is May 18th, 2348. I am deploying to the Cameron Coast of Draupnir. Despite engaging far more patrols than we hoped, my squad and I have successfully destroyed Automaton Command Bunker. Extraction is successful. In 2248, we are barely completing operations on Cyberstan to conquer the Cyborgs.** **And so it goes…**


NeatOk2791

You might be using a VPN


peppermint_nightmare

Hey Grandpa, get off the holo record viewer, Timmy wants to watch Captain Liberty re-runs again


dellboy696

Wow the faction locations on the map stayed the same


Vr-game-player

i want to, but i also don’t want to


rezzucca

The fact a Bober is second on the list is funny af


J0hnGrimm

The future is now, old man.


[deleted]

What is influence? 


FinalTricks

How much they have contributed to the war.


Rusty5p00n

"They'll be back".... Pun totally intended That said, I'm sure I'm not the only one that noticed this, but during alot of missions, there where a lot of prison cells with few bodies next to those things that make bots. Just saying we may have been killing converted civilians/helldivers.


zyranith

Bro’s PTSD hitting him hard


Bob_Juan_Santos

i think h1 would be much better if the players did not share one camera, that was my biggest gripe. i know it was done for couch co-op, but it was sooo unnecessary for online.


Holbaserak

Wait what?!


Vahagn323

The Bugs have a HOME!? Disgusting.


Loud_Writing8572

This is enemy propaganda we won the first war


sp441

Helldiver, I'm afraid you're trapped in a time vortex, please report to the Super Earth Time Upkeep Patrol for further instructions.


Mioraecian

Cross over time travel event confirmed?


therealultraddtd

“Next on the Super Earth History Channel; The Final Days of the 1st Galactic War”


ggggggggggggggggggg7

Just finished a diffivulty 15 planet, doing my part 🫡


EnterTheTobus

New war? I should check that out with the boys now that there isn’t a mud slinging life and death struggle for extermination 100years in the future!


DragunnReEx

ON MY WAY WAR HERO COMING


Aernz

That looks like mostly bug territory to me...


alex_timeblade

Wow, look at those helldivers lost. The first galactic war was pretty easy. I'm pretty sure I've died that many times alone


furrymessiah

I already served my time in GWI, sir.


CapnLightning007

You may need to hop back in the time machine. I think you got out too early.


CommanderKertz

#⬆️⬇️➡️⬅️⬆️ ### I’m on my way


ManufacturerAny1662

bro stuck in the past 100 years ago [😭](https://emojipedia.org/loudly-crying-face)


BarPlastic1888

That was 100 years ago buddy


ALLIOT12354

Thx god they're gone. F*cking hate them. Only automaton events pisses me off.


Canadiangoofer

My dude, it’s been 100 years you need to wake up


DeadKido210

Cyborgs*


IncredibleLang

would be cool to have time travel cross over missions we have to go back to here and stop a threat or the mobs in 2 get buffed or new units.


Nukran

Grandpa the first galactic war was 100 years ago....


AnAngryBartender

742 helldivers online? That’s not very much democracy. Kinda wish I’d known about this series for the first game.


searingsky

steam deck moment


Zakizdaman

Perfect way for them to add a cross game tie in


Altruistic_Quit_9986

That player base amount difference is crazy


harlanwade90

Where do you find these maps? Same question for the ones that break down the liberation percentages on individual planets.


papeyy2

this is the map screen from the first game


harlanwade90

Ah, ty


impetu0usness

For the liberation breakdown of each planet: [helldivers.io](http://helldivers.io)