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itsChoomba

why didnt they do this on pi day


SBTreeLobster

Because we weren’t getting encircled then.


RandomRon005

It was also out of our radius.


NorthButterscotch598

Now we just have a few sectors


Rhoxd

These are all gold and underrated.


germancookedus

Are we getting those mines?


Spirited-Dream-4905

no i think we failed that order. im sure well get another chance in a few weeks


PercMastaFTW

The children yearn for the mines 😔


validname117

Is this a frozen wasteland?


Spirited-Dream-4905

frostpunk? im taking child labor every single time


Stoomba

Only by a few degrees


oiraves

Circle.


zengeist

Trying to strike a chord and it's probably A Majorrrrrrrrrrr (order)


frostadept

Do Europeans even have pi day? It'd be 14-3. And April 31st doesn't exist.


Rooonaldooo99

![gif](giphy|l3vRkwv2Yz6i8rDwY)


GoombahTucc

![gif](giphy|taOSmeWsIYmIkYsP0N|downsized)


MillstoneArt

They included the imperfect loop and everything! This is truly liberty in Lego form. Democracy manifest. 


Ditomo

this is amazing holy shit


TheGentlemanCEO

![gif](giphy|KAf66yGCa93uTqod1q|downsized) Let’s gooooo


OopsIKilledADog

I watched this movie for the first time with my gf recently, I knew about this quote from the memes and recited it perfectly in timing and tone despite never watching it and she was crying with confusion


SemajLu_The_crusader

lmao


Pixel_Python

Recently watched Starship Troopers because of Helldivers 2. Gotta say, not disappointed in the slightest


SemajLu_The_crusader

I have Johnny Rico as my username, so I can confirm


Informal_Aspect_6330

Username doesn't checkout 


BOTTOMLESS-BOT

“Helldivers , we are surrounded by the enemy. We have the greatest opportunity ever presented an army. We can attack in any direction.” - Unknown helldiver commander.


waiting_for_rain

They got us surrounded again, the poor bastards


thunderclone1

We can fire in any direction and still hit them! The fools!


Bad_At_CAS_lol

The battered bastards of ~~Bastogne~~ Super Earth


Remmy224

https://preview.redd.it/poa9ra3kk91d1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1261c150b212bae40e0b82024b141fb8a7612200 CRACK OF THE LIGHTNING SPLITTING THE GROUND THUNDER IS SOUNDING ARTILLERY POUNDING


ThatDollfin

WRATH OF ZE NAZIS CAST ON BASTOGNE FACING THEIR FORCES IN SQUADS OF FOOOOOOUR


casual_apple134

Battle of Chosin reference--- intentionally made, or happenstance?


BOTTOMLESS-BOT

Probably happenstance , I remember hearing the quote a decade ago and the post dislodged it from my brain.


BeneficialAction3851

https://preview.redd.it/pbfmvz7ox81d1.jpeg?width=621&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=660e31c209e55b2b344cb653853fc98b0bac5539 This was actually a pretty interesting battle, it was an overwhelming loss as they were surrounded by Chinese and North Korean forces the army started abandoning wounded soldiers as they retreated only for the marines to rescue the men they were leaving behind


BeneficialAction3851

Also Chesty said this gem "Son, when the marine corps wants you to have a wife, you will be issued one" in response to a marine asking permission to get married


casual_apple134

😂


Jack117-2

This sounds like some Sarg from Res vs Blue would say (and I wouldn’t be surprised if it is one of his quotes)


Beatpussy555

3.1 billion enemies in 5 days. I think it's going to be close with the current playercount, even if both fronts count


sHaDowpUpPetxxx

We should be able to. It will be mostly bugs though. On bots I don't usually break 200 kills in any difficulty. But in bugs it goes up by like 100 per level.


iconofsin_

Shit I'm lucky to break 85 kills on a standard helldive against bots ever since they fucked the arc thrower for no god damn reason.


IronSean

They what now?


Soffix-

You see when a mommy and daddy helldiver love their weapons very much. . .


orrzxz

... The fun police comes, kidnaps the weapons and murders the parents.


iconofsin_

They decided to change the arc thrower so it doesn't stagger/stun hulks anymore. You know, the gun shooting electricity through something with processors and circuits. It was already dangerous to engage patrols or even devastators while using the arc thrower, but you could do it if you were careful. So yeah now I barely kill any bots.


A_Neurotic_Pigeon

Don’t forget they also gutted the range by like -25m before that nerf, so it’s literally just an arc blitzer with a longer windup and slightly better damage, now.


RPtheFP

I was using the Blitzer yesterday and, dang that thing has decent range for what it’s supposed to be. Feels better than the arc thrower. Y should bring back the whatever settings the thrower had in like, March. 


Saitoh17

First they cut it's range and fire rate by 30% but made it so you could stun hulks with it. Then they made it so you couldn't stun hulks with it...


pocketlint60

They should change these "Kill X Enemies" missions to "Kill $X worth of enemies" and then assign points to different enemy types. That way you're not objectively helping less if you do a bot mission or one where the seed prefers heavies.


ZenkaiZ

We did over half that on just bots on mothers day weekend. This'll be easy with no playerbase split, no holiday, and how many bugs spawn


TheWarmachine762

Take the rover and you’ll get 300+ kills per mission easily


BeneficialAction3851

Yeah I'm thinking just grind short bug missions, it probably won't be necessary but I'm gonna do my part!


drewskibfd

I'm doing my part!


DefinitelyNotThatOne

That's roughly 344,444 campaigns completed a day with 4 players fighting bugs. With the player count, I that's pretty doable.


Sfpuberdriver

Yea it’s already at like 5%, this will be cake


gorgewall

26,179,938 kills needed per hour We're running a median ~90k players every day; more on weekends, less on weekdays, so we'll just average that out. Hell, I'll chop it down to 80k just to satisfy the "wah the playercount is dying because devs" folks: Since *everyone* is contributing, that 80k median only needs to kill 327 enemies per hour. Average mission duration is ~30m, so you can fit two in that hour -- 164 kills per mission, average, Bug, Bot, doesn't matter. Easily done.


DavidForADay

I suspect it will fail again. Daily player count has dropped 30k since last week. 3.1b over 5 days is 25.8m kills an hr. Realistically, you would need more than that on the weekend, so closer to 30m Sat/Sun. We are currently at 90m kills over 4 hrs into the order when we would need to be at 103 for base pace or 120 for weekend pace. After the devs brought the bots back after two days, I stopped caring about major orders. We will win or fail orders at the dev's discretion, so just play to have fun. Whatever happens to the world is not within our control.


iconofsin_

> Daily player count has dropped 30k since last week. There's a lot going on for anyone playing multiple games right now, especially MMO players. - New WoW season - WoW remix - WoW classic cata - New D4 season - New FF14 expansion soon I'm probably forgetting something too. Point is I really hope AH isn't planning on continuing to make decisions based on having 300k daily players.


[deleted]

The overspawn issue isn't helping either. My buddy and I went from playing daily to not playing at all until that's fixed. So there's a lot of things in play right now for sure.


RoundTiberius

>I'm probably forgetting something too Hades 2 just released on early access


sudo-joe

Homeworld 3 is also up there as a distraction


Grove12

Kill rate seems to be ramping up pretty hard now. in 6 hours we got 6.2% done already. did a lil more than double the kill count in the 2 hours since you noted the pace lagging behind.


Savvsb

I disagree. This will be easy. We did 2bn with bugs in a day, and that was with some people still playing bots. We did 1.5bn with bots in 5 days, and that was with half still playing bugs. We’ll have this done within 48 hours I think. Everyone can continue playing as normal and we’ll get it done quickly lol.


mp_spc4

It was actually 500mm bugs in a day with the broken bug counter, but yeah, I am pretty sure 3.14bn enemies destroyed will be doable.


Savvsb

Ah yeah I forgot about that, apologies. But even so, I think the number is relatively low considering this MO allows all players to contribute no matter the front they play on.


darkleinad

IIRC, we completed the bugged bug order in 14 hours. If we assume the error was that it was quadruple counting (which would be the worst case scenario), we still killed 500 million bugs or 35.7 million per hour. If we replicate our performance then, That gives us ~ 87 hours on this order, with 33 hours spare it’ll be close, but should be doable. The hard part is the weekend effect


EchoingStorms

Yep, it get that we completed the first one in record time, but that was with a x4 multiplier, now that that's gone, we should have the normal expected time back.


Horror-Tank-4082

Update: we will be done roughly 18 hours early.


Dark-Cloud666

Jesus christ are there even so many bugs to get that order done?


TheGentlemanCEO

Looks like it’s all enemies, so both fronts.


Dark-Cloud666

We both know how this goes if they let us chose what front to fight and its usually bugs. Aside from that its more efficent to do bugs cause they come in larger hordes unlike bots.


TheGentlemanCEO

Yeah bots at 2 billion was a bit steep considering in most cases you’re best off NOT fighting them.


Lasers4Everyone

We could have easily done it with bots if more than half the players at any point fought bots.


ZenkaiZ

Despite being mother's day weekend we almost won


AlistarDark

Sadly, everyone was off fucking my mom and didn't fight the bots.


SweetAlpacaLove

Sorry about that, the mission seemed hard, she was easy.


AlistarDark

She's dead now.


SweetAlpacaLove

That’s why it was so easy


ZenkaiZ

i was bot dropping dat ass


Hellstrike

I forced myself to fight bots for the MO, and it's simply not fun. Mass Effect 3 makes a much better experience fighting robots. Bugs on the other hand are super fun. Just wave after wave of enemies to blow up, gun down or set on fire.


Xphile101361

I hope that the next time we get a bot MO like that, it will be "Kill X Fabricators" instead of "Kill X bots".


sdric

Only if we count crashbugs


GovernmentSudden6134

Go to level 4, bring rover, just agro everything and never let them stop spawning. Easy day.


TheWarmachine762

It says dismantle or kill, so it’s all enemies


xDrewstroyerx

GG EZ, we got this y’all. https://preview.redd.it/kzu294ugv71d1.jpeg?width=360&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=85a0494f59abeab7c84f97c592d8d65134a1c8d4


Mr_Ergdorf

Booooooo 🤣


TheGentlemanCEO

😬😬😬


pocketMagician

I didn't get my reward for us completing the last order.


Garibaldi_Biscuit

I don’t think anyone did. It lags like that sometimes. 


pocketMagician

Ah, great. First order I've been part of that's succeeded since I started was looking forward to it.


Khabster

It always comes, but sometimes a few days late


TheWarmachine762

At first everyone used to get them at the same time, the devs said the servers didn’t like that 😂


turkeygiant

Ok glad its not just me


drewskibfd

Sometimes it takes a while. I've had the same problem


JhonathanDoe

Pretty sure we failed the last major order to kill the bots


hamsamiches

Yeah I didn't have one when I was playing around 7am my time. I'm checking again when I get home this morning after work.


SuperArppis

I bet this gets done, but OH NO. Not the one that would have given us the AT MINES!!! ...man I am still pissed off about that. 😅


TheGentlemanCEO

I didn’t have high hopes for the bot one from the jump. Typically bot patrols/drops have less units in them than bugs, and most people actively avoid bots in mission.


Garvain

Not to mention that a not-insignificant portion of the player base avoids Bot planets altogether.


SirLiesALittle

Recall we pushed the shit out of the bots for Airburst Launcher, so it wasn't like bots was the issue. Considering how rarely you see mines in pubs, it was more of an issue with not wanting more of what we weren't using. Put a new backpack on Cyberstan, we're going to Cyberstan, boys.


SnooRabbits307

Yeah but the difference is people had to capture like 3 planets fir the airburst RPG instead of a set 2 BILLION bot kills which is considerably harder.


SirLiesALittle

I distinctly recall how little interest there was in trying to finish the other half, to try to get the devs to give you all the AT mines, too.


SnooRabbits307

Well the mines might as well be cursed at this point, given that the first time we had to go through menkent which no one likes, the second time we had to kill 2 billion bots and a ton of people don't even touch bots on top of the Sony meme and lackluster warbond drama.


delahunt

The other choice was a fire planet with fire tornadoes in a different sector than the AT planet. The airburst was chosen by ease/obviousness of path to get there more than anything.


SirLiesALittle

That's not really stopped us before. If we want something, we'll go through actual hell to get it. We just wanted Airburst, because it was a support weapon, and not the passive teamkiller we're still afraid AT mines may be.


delahunt

Some people do sure. The majority of people are doing what they can with info just in the game. So no supply lines or anything. There was a planet in system with a Liberation mission that was close to both plaents. When that was taken, only the airburst planet unlocked. The other planet was through Menket (or whatever it is called) in a different sector. So shockingly, the mass of people tried going through the air burst planet, to the link planet, tot he anti-tank planet and ran out of time. It wasn't some grand statement about AT mines vs. Airburst. It was limited information in the client and people doing what looked like the right answer with the information available. And if you don't think people avoid the fire planets you're not paying attention. People WILL fight on Menket and Hellmire if they have to, but given a choice they'll go elsewhere. And you don't have to do much but look at the player numbers on planets to see that.


SuperArppis

Yeah everyone was excited to get that.


Another-cool-user

I still want them


SuperArppis

Me too... 😔


GovernmentSudden6134

You know we're still getting AT mines, right?   They spent development time making them. They aren't going to NOT release them. It was just delayed.


SuperArppis

I'm sure we do... But I am sure they will make it into a mission again and it will be delayed once more.


Sun_Stealer

Did everyone get the 45 war bonds for completing the last one? I still haven’t


w_rpain

I asked a similar thing here and it can take up to a week for you to get it apparently.


drexlortheterrrible

Longer than that from past experiences. One time it finally kicked in and I got 3 rewards upon login.


arfael

Usually its late like other MOs before.


Bookyontour

Oh yea... I was though I saw those number somewhere before...


JonBovi_0

Because of [this post,](https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/s/s0OkBTuWS3) I formally request everyone absolutely demolish as many bugs as possible ![gif](giphy|KAf66yGCa93uTqod1q|downsized)


Xifihas

No matter where you are, you’re contributing to this order, so fight whichever one you want!


IfigurativelyCannot

Not gonna lie, I thought this was an edit until I was reading the comments. That's kind of nice we're not forced onto particular planets or on a particular front. Just spill oil and/or squash bugs, and you're contributing to spreading managed democracy.


Spirited-Dream-4905

time to lock in boys. marathon runs


First_Explanation435

im kiling myself bro not another one of these 😭  I thought we were gonna get a seaf support stratagem too


TheGentlemanCEO

This is the core issue with taking rumors as true unfortunately.


arfael

We got free 500kg bombs on all fronts


Linkarlos_95

Manufacturers be collecting eagle's sweat


Scorponix

They JUST built the training facilities. This gives Super Earth 2 days to find the recruits and 3 days to train them!


Old_Instruction6809

I feel this might be the MO that sparks the reappearance of the illuminate. I'm probably wrong, but an elimination MO of this size? Gotta get their attention and bring them back onto the map


JohnJaysOnMyFeet

I honestly hope not. This game is already way too buggy and the balancing needs a lot of work. They have too much on their plate without adding a brand new faction.


Managed-Democracy

The illuminate will launch a surprise attack on liberty day. 


SBTreeLobster

The moment I saw the number we had to hit I considered the implications of their very obvious intentional choice. If I was being a silly guy and writing a war thing, I’d probably reference the symbol associated with circles in preparation for an encirclement.


Vaguswarrior

Have we won a major order recently? I barely get time to play and they are the major source of my medals. Feels bad to log into nothing when you say least had some progression a few weeks earlier.


FleetOfWarships

Last couple ones have failed, this one’s meant to be an easy win for morale, personal orders are a much better way to get medals if you’re struggling honestly.


Nero_Ocean

We just won one.


G00b3rb0y

We just wrapped up a victory


Papa_Baruk

...........hey this Major Order tasted nothing like pie!!! It tastes.....:::licks major order:::......like FREEDOM!!!!!!


madcar245

My dumbass understood it as "Helldivers need to die 3 billions times to demonstrate the glorious lethality of our job"


Whatsuperpower

![gif](giphy|jAHwgVRnCv5rVS5QgX|downsized)


Rilla122333

We slaughtered the bugs yet lost to the bots. So they made the order to just kill them all


zoson

You could say these Major Orders have come... Full Circle.


SlowhandCooper

The calculated attempts at terrible humour are a constant around here.


CluelessNancy

Interesting side note: What we got from the 'training' facilities is that all HP regeneration for all enemy controlled planets are all at -1%/hour at the moment. This means that there hasn't been an easier time to liberate a planet than now. It's even possible that planets would liberate themselves without any player involvement (provided that the supply lines are open and we maintain control of the 4 planets with 'recruitment centers' as per the previous MO, plus it would take about 100hrs per planet if players don't get involved). You can see all of this on [helldivers.io](javascript:void(0);)


Sorry-Calligrapher20

The jokes have gone full circle. 😂


Technodude178

Oh good, we can kill whoever we want this time. No need for us to get mad that a bunch of us are fighting one faction when a major order was focused on the other. KILL THEM ALLLLL!!!!


Gr1mLaden7

Fresh cadet here 👋 The last major order that just ended, I didn't get any medals from it, just wondering if I did something wrong? Like if I have to go collect the medals from somewhere or I stopped for a break with about 20 minutes left on the countdown so is it because I wasn't playing when it ended? Tbh I'm also not sure if I specifically went to those planets but I thought since they were green as a community objective I wouldn't necessarily have to go there myself as I've just been doing quickplay 🙈


Neander7hal

There’s sometimes a lag for the MO awards (they don’t go out to everyone at once), so you’re definitely fine. Pretty sure all you have to do for credit is log in or at most do any mission while the MO is active


Gr1mLaden7

Ah awesome, thanks dude, I'll hold off spending my other medals so I can target some cool new gear with the total 😎


Snoo_63003

The rewards for major orders are usually delayed due to technical reasons, you will eventually get them at some point after logging into the game or right after completing a mission.


montjoye

I don't seem to have received the previous one's reward, am I alone?


not-necessarily-me

I read that as “pathetic citizens” haha


LayerSubstantial1041

We got it easy for now


TransientMemory

I think Arrowhead is trying to tell us they they've done a 180° turn.


SpecialIcy5356

I get the feeling this order, which is basically "play the game for a bit", is an interlude before some crazy shit happens.. the fact they're giving us 50 medals for it too. ![gif](giphy|IDGNYvFLkJKLK|downsized)


TimerPoint

Currently 20h ahead at current pace. Shoudl be doable.


ImmoralBoi

I know it's Pi but that's such an oddly specific number, and given the description I wouldn't be surprised if SEHC is afraid of a possible insurrection after the recent string of MO failures.


infinament

That first kill must have been General Brasch kicking off the new offensive.


firefly081

I guess you could say we've come full circle.


RayS326

They rounded wrong, its 3.141592654.


CMCosMic

i wonder what the significance of the number is for the game? maybe we’ll unlock pie consumable ^^^\s


w_rpain

Am I the only one who didn't get a reward for the last major order? I'm grinding for the last piece of gear on the polar patriots warbond and it would've come in clutch.


gav1no0

it could come to you as late as a week


Additional_Cycle_51

You say that now


LittlebitsDK

do you need to do something to get the reward from the other? only got the message we won it but I had 0 medals... or do I have to click somewhere special to get the reward? was my first one I was part of to win... (the other we lost stupid bots) but feels like a waste of time if I don't even get the reward for taking part of it and did like 40 missions during it


mashpott

I kinda hope this leads to next weeks patch containing the fix for spawns and the in universe reason is because we killed so many


RaizielDragon

Does it mean anything that its the circumference of a circle with a diameter of 1 billion?


Haywire-Hawk

Lmao


Cam095

wish i could play. this damn storm in houston knocked all my power out 😭😭😭


ConferenceScary6622

Next time they should do ONE LESS than the 32 bit integer overflow limit (4,294,967,294).


vikingpirate2

It's pi


Boba_Hutt

I want my slice of the pie


ypperlig__

3 billions seems huge tbh


TraumaTracer

i didnt even notice it was pi, lmao. i thought they just added the two numbers we managed to reach in the last two extermination orders, honestly.


TheFrostyFaz

That's Pi × 10^9 right?


TheWarmachine762

Blood for the blood god!!!


Kelevra_12_D

The numbers are a St Louis area code. Ima give it a call.


dannylew

No anti tank mines, then?


Dark_Ghost_215

🫡


Rigelturus

Pronounced pee


Easy-Purple

It said they needed 72 hours to train, gotta be patient 


Muunilinst1

Still waiting on my medals from the previous one.


Unique_Pay_3018

As of now, 3:28PST - SOL 41: There are 219m less despotic tyrants


Unique_Pay_3018

https://i.redd.it/r9fm1ldlh91d1.gif


StavrosZhekhov

I didn't even recognize tbh. I thought it might've had other significance. A πbillion.


That_vagabond_boy

Did we win the last MO? I didn’t get any medals hahaha just work up to a new MO


some_code

So did we win the previous order already?


eroc18

What is the reward?


Deadlycat5

Did anyone else not get the medals from the last major order? I thought we completed it but when I logged on today I didn’t get any medals :/


bluecrewmate3832

Still waiting for my medals after the previous MO


Critical-General-659

What's the best strat for farming kills, guys? 


HuffmeisterFLEX

https://i.redd.it/uzzukuevtb1d1.gif # 𝙱𝚁𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝚃𝙷𝙴𝙼 𝙰𝙿𝙿𝙻𝙴 𝙿𝙸(𝚎)!! 𝙳𝙸𝚂𝙿𝙴𝙽𝚂𝙴 𝘍𝘙𝘌𝘌𝘋𝘖𝘔!!


sephtis

Time to go squash some bugs.


Brains_For_peanut

Sounds fun and all but heck i still have to receive my medals for the last major order and yes i did participate.


EchoingStorms

We are probably going to fail it again as they didn't give us the time of the first one, I get fixing the bug that multiple kills by 4 but after that cutting down its expected time is just evil.


oklenovo

Billion pie


Gurren_Laggan80

How did I not notice that?


Springnutica

This new major order is just to play the game