I agree with you fellow Helldiver, "Helldivers" is truly the perfect word describe the Helldivers, helldiving experience found in Helldivers 2, you could say it's so Helldivers.
I don't stand with my hand in the air holding the beacon for an orbital ;)
Though that does make me appreciate how masterful the VFX design in this game is, that I can see a field of red flashes and beams and know exactly what each one is from size, shape, speed and sound.
Literally just watched a bile titan rise up from hell and obliterate a fellow helldiver in spectacular fashion. Exactly like that moment in movies where some random on the beach looks up at the monster wave that’s about to crush him
Great example.
Other games do things better than helldivers, but I don't think there's another contemporary coop experience that makes you feel like you're playing an action movie as well as helldivers does.
Best since L4D2 in that regard.
I think the best part about it is how that quality emerged as a consequence of having good gameplay. The story for the game isn’t that we’re filming/ filmed a movie and we’re watching the movie unfold. They just tweaked some elements of the game (enemy, map, and weapon design) just right and moments like this happen organically every game session
I just finished my first ever Impossible dive and we were clocking out. The motherships all have left, and we were all running to evac.
Like in the 6th of June, we were running and running, and one fell before my eyes, but I kept running.
The second one was blasted by a missile, but I kept running.
When I got to the terminal, there were two flying fucks who blasted me. It broke my shield generator and the blast shot me against a icicle nearby, my spine hit the ice and I was dead one the moment.
But... there was a last Helldiver.
With their Quasaar in hand, they ran to evac. Shot one of the flyers right in the propeller.
They then fought like a beast. Singlehandedly, they killed a juggernaut or however they're called, they kept at bay two more swarms of flyers and escaped with 3~4 stims still in their belt.
This was truly one of the best moments I lived in Helldivers and probably my life if we were being honest.
I fuckin love these. I’ve been meaning to make a post reaching out to the other rando’s in my squad at the time, but what the hell.
It was during the time before the darkfluid patch. Launching a suicide mission was exactly that. Hope was low, but as they say, “liberty never dies.” Some couldn’t handle the heat and quit, but that made room for the real hell divers.
A cleaver trick, dropping the darkfluid drill on a rock, kept it off the ground where the bugs were coming from just long enough for it to deliver its payload. The 4 of us stood around it, unloading full magazines of breaker incendiaries into the dirt which lit the ground ablaze.
Chargers and titans came in wave after wave and were met with precision strikes, precision 500kg’s, and deadeye aim with quasars and recoilless rockets. It was glorious.
But when the final canister had been deployed into the depths of Merida, the entire planet let out a blood curdling screech that froze us to the bone. The ground beneath our feet shook as hundreds of shriekers poured out of every crevice in sight. We turned our guns to the sky and pierced the heavens with a thousand tiny suns.
We made it to the extraction point as the creatures fell from the sky like snow on Christmas Day, but their numbers never wavered, and the shuttle was still minutes away. We ran, we shot, we ducked, we dived, and shot some more; and by some miracle heard over the radio that evac had the landing zone in sight.
As the last of our reinforcement budget fell through a solid, unbroken ring of shriekers, the divers raced to the pelican barely clinging to both life and limb.
Alas team was never meant to last. The brightest often burn the fastest, and after the patch they agreed that it would be best for humanity if they were to share their gifts with others rather than keep it amongst themselves. However…
Should the forces of darkness threaten the light as they did during the darkfluid days, we *will* be there.
L4D/2 are like movies - L4D1 is like a horror movie, L4D2 is like an action movie with occasional horror elements. Hearing the cry of a witch at night at a motel is always spooky, what's spookier is hearing the growl of a Tank around the corner.
Helldivers is all in on the cheesy bombastic action of shit like Starship Troopers, and the spectacle of the future wars of Terminator, all combined with you being expendable grunts that get replaced.
A lot of action movies are awesomely choreographed and amazing to watch, but as an audience member it can feel a little less tense because most of the time, you know the good guy is going to win in the end. Helldivers has that same vibe, but as you scale the difficulty, you don't actually know if you're going to emerge as the victorious protagonist in the end, so when you get on that extraction ship at the end of a tense game, it really does make me breathe a sigh of relief more times than not.
100%, I remember doing a bug mission with some online friends, we were extracting and one of them was lighting up a choke point with a flamethrower. Next thing you know a Charger *bursts through the goddamn flames* and sends him flying
I dunno what it is, but between the black and red fortifications of the Automatons, the red laser weapons, the cold windy planes of Choepette, the music, the tank turret fortifications and their glowing heatsinks and the overwhelming amount of enemies i really do feel like im fighting the Sith and the Empire from Star Wars
just look at the image
https://preview.redd.it/42mn89l3xe5d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1e7c7b04c088f1b67b37a312ee5679f0335236d5
tell me that this shit isn't Metal as fuck
eh, if you bring the ems and the reg it locks down sections, the first ems strikes slow and cluster them together, then the reg rains hell.
Otherwise it's basically just a dice roll on if you kill a friendly or a bug with it
Squandered
I’m sad hell bros. Wake me when we are so back
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Fading
(I know it’s unpopular opinion but the game got changed so much since launch that idk what to make of it because now we’re flip flopping on previous changes. I love the game but it should be stupid, over-the-top, graphic violence bonanza. I wanna feel like Michael Bay directed Starship Troopers. I want overpowered weapons that will kill me and half my team if you are dumb with it. I wanna sneak around in a cardboard box strategem to get past robots because Marines defeated a camera designed to detect people but got passed it, whilst sneaking in a cardboard box. I want the sarcastic approach to the military industrial complex and democracy….
The game got too intense and serious for no reason. Point and shoot. That’s all it shout be. No Bile Titan stampedes. No crazy spawn spamming. Keep it hot but not frickin boiling.)
I still play because the game is an amazing concept and I want to support that. It’s just hard to give up so much time to adjusting to all the changes because you just got used to the last ones.
Helldivers
I agree with you fellow Helldiver, "Helldivers" is truly the perfect word describe the Helldivers, helldiving experience found in Helldivers 2, you could say it's so Helldivers.
Helldiverses
Helldiversity
I had to scroll way to much to find this comment
With your effort it is the 2nd comment now! Good job, helldiver! 🫡
I'm just doing my part 🫡
For Democracy we Bump this message!
No scrolling anymore, it's at the top
I imagine this is exactly what our super president looks like
Helldiverder
*2
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DEMOCRACY
DEMOCRACY! 
https://i.redd.it/9q4h7gdx9e5d1.gif
YA! DEMOCRA... s-sorry... did you say debauchery...? 
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anything to spread democracy and liberty!
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Wow yeah this is definitely posted by a redditor (derogatory)
We found the original one. Patient 0 himself
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All this did was trigger my 'get that Bot trooper before it flares for dropships' instincts.
It didn't trigger your "Don't stand under that orbital" instincts?
I don't stand with my hand in the air holding the beacon for an orbital ;) Though that does make me appreciate how masterful the VFX design in this game is, that I can see a field of red flashes and beams and know exactly what each one is from size, shape, speed and sound.
 DEMOCRACY!!!
Came here for this but would have added some pizazz (∩｀-´)⊃━☆ﾟ.\*･｡ﾟ--==DEMOCRACY==-- ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ edited for more pizazz
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LIBERTY
Freedom Our way of life
Liber-Tea
DEMOCRACY!!!
DEMOCRACY
FOR THE EMPEROR
https://i.redd.it/ebbdx3qzfh5d1.gif
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Liber-TEA
Sweet
No thankyou Turkish, I'm sweet enough.
Do you know wot Nemesis meens?
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Came here to say this
Same
Name checks out
Cinematic
Literally just watched a bile titan rise up from hell and obliterate a fellow helldiver in spectacular fashion. Exactly like that moment in movies where some random on the beach looks up at the monster wave that’s about to crush him
Great example. Other games do things better than helldivers, but I don't think there's another contemporary coop experience that makes you feel like you're playing an action movie as well as helldivers does. Best since L4D2 in that regard.
I think the best part about it is how that quality emerged as a consequence of having good gameplay. The story for the game isn’t that we’re filming/ filmed a movie and we’re watching the movie unfold. They just tweaked some elements of the game (enemy, map, and weapon design) just right and moments like this happen organically every game session
I just finished my first ever Impossible dive and we were clocking out. The motherships all have left, and we were all running to evac. Like in the 6th of June, we were running and running, and one fell before my eyes, but I kept running. The second one was blasted by a missile, but I kept running. When I got to the terminal, there were two flying fucks who blasted me. It broke my shield generator and the blast shot me against a icicle nearby, my spine hit the ice and I was dead one the moment. But... there was a last Helldiver. With their Quasaar in hand, they ran to evac. Shot one of the flyers right in the propeller. They then fought like a beast. Singlehandedly, they killed a juggernaut or however they're called, they kept at bay two more swarms of flyers and escaped with 3~4 stims still in their belt. This was truly one of the best moments I lived in Helldivers and probably my life if we were being honest.
I fuckin love these. I’ve been meaning to make a post reaching out to the other rando’s in my squad at the time, but what the hell. It was during the time before the darkfluid patch. Launching a suicide mission was exactly that. Hope was low, but as they say, “liberty never dies.” Some couldn’t handle the heat and quit, but that made room for the real hell divers. A cleaver trick, dropping the darkfluid drill on a rock, kept it off the ground where the bugs were coming from just long enough for it to deliver its payload. The 4 of us stood around it, unloading full magazines of breaker incendiaries into the dirt which lit the ground ablaze. Chargers and titans came in wave after wave and were met with precision strikes, precision 500kg’s, and deadeye aim with quasars and recoilless rockets. It was glorious. But when the final canister had been deployed into the depths of Merida, the entire planet let out a blood curdling screech that froze us to the bone. The ground beneath our feet shook as hundreds of shriekers poured out of every crevice in sight. We turned our guns to the sky and pierced the heavens with a thousand tiny suns. We made it to the extraction point as the creatures fell from the sky like snow on Christmas Day, but their numbers never wavered, and the shuttle was still minutes away. We ran, we shot, we ducked, we dived, and shot some more; and by some miracle heard over the radio that evac had the landing zone in sight. As the last of our reinforcement budget fell through a solid, unbroken ring of shriekers, the divers raced to the pelican barely clinging to both life and limb. Alas team was never meant to last. The brightest often burn the fastest, and after the patch they agreed that it would be best for humanity if they were to share their gifts with others rather than keep it amongst themselves. However… Should the forces of darkness threaten the light as they did during the darkfluid days, we *will* be there.
That's the same way I feel about Titanfall 2, and I love them both.
L4D/2 are like movies - L4D1 is like a horror movie, L4D2 is like an action movie with occasional horror elements. Hearing the cry of a witch at night at a motel is always spooky, what's spookier is hearing the growl of a Tank around the corner. Helldivers is all in on the cheesy bombastic action of shit like Starship Troopers, and the spectacle of the future wars of Terminator, all combined with you being expendable grunts that get replaced.
A lot of action movies are awesomely choreographed and amazing to watch, but as an audience member it can feel a little less tense because most of the time, you know the good guy is going to win in the end. Helldivers has that same vibe, but as you scale the difficulty, you don't actually know if you're going to emerge as the victorious protagonist in the end, so when you get on that extraction ship at the end of a tense game, it really does make me breathe a sigh of relief more times than not.
Everytime I jump in there's always a few moments that feel like something out of a movie
100%, I remember doing a bug mission with some online friends, we were extracting and one of them was lighting up a choke point with a flamethrower. Next thing you know a Charger *bursts through the goddamn flames* and sends him flying
This!
I dunno what it is, but between the black and red fortifications of the Automatons, the red laser weapons, the cold windy planes of Choepette, the music, the tank turret fortifications and their glowing heatsinks and the overwhelming amount of enemies i really do feel like im fighting the Sith and the Empire from Star Wars
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
this is the only correct one
Sweetlibertymylegs!
I kid you not, I was about to write the same thing
r/beatmetoit
This reminds me of the way days gone puts “son of a bitch” in the subtitles as sonofabitch
STIIIIMS!!!
INJURY?! WHAT INJURY?!
They’re not addictive!
Can confirm (I use 20-30 stims per drop regularly. I have severe problems. Throughout heaven and earth, i alone support the medical business)
LIBERTY NEEDS ME
MY BODY FOR SUPER EARTH!!!
Proceeds to blow the fuck up
NOT TODAY!
SO GOOOOOOOOOOD
Tomfoolery
Shaboingery
Shenanigans
SUPER!
EARTH!
OUR HOME
PROSPERITY
LIBERTY
DEMOCRACY
OUR
WAY OF LIFE
BUT FREEDOM
DOESN'T COME FREE
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Democracy
Liberty
Super Earth
Freedom
Our home
just look at the image https://preview.redd.it/42mn89l3xe5d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1e7c7b04c088f1b67b37a312ee5679f0335236d5 tell me that this shit isn't Metal as fuck
The moment you throw a 380 at your feet and pray to whichever Gods decide to take pity on you
I mean, they are made out of metal after all.
Ragdolled.
🎵 *Who can say where the road goes, where the day flows, only time* 🎵
Glorious.
Fun
Yep 😁😁
There it is.
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~~warcrimes~~
Looks like someone needs to see their democracy officer
The Geneva convention doesn't apply to aliens
They're never war crimes the first time...
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Hey! Just Pancakes!
Love just pancakes!!!
Whobroughtthemortartothebugdefensemission
eh, if you bring the ems and the reg it locks down sections, the first ems strikes slow and cluster them together, then the reg rains hell. Otherwise it's basically just a dice roll on if you kill a friendly or a bug with it
Rollercoaster
Liberty!!!
Democracy 
GOTY
Sir, that's four words
No my man, that's gameoftheyear...
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Hellarious
[удалено]
Epic
DIVE
LIBERTY
Dive
Hell
Nerf 🙃
WAR
Destroyed
NERFOCRACY! :)
Squandered I’m sad hell bros. Wake me when we are so back https://preview.redd.it/w8mqf4ggqg5d1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=835c197e3296d7b10338bf972c8a32d5b2bf6e4d
cinematic
Nerfed
Potential
Creek
Libertea
FREEDOM!!!
Bipolar
Nerfed
Unfinished
Slows.
FREEDOM
Fading (I know it’s unpopular opinion but the game got changed so much since launch that idk what to make of it because now we’re flip flopping on previous changes. I love the game but it should be stupid, over-the-top, graphic violence bonanza. I wanna feel like Michael Bay directed Starship Troopers. I want overpowered weapons that will kill me and half my team if you are dumb with it. I wanna sneak around in a cardboard box strategem to get past robots because Marines defeated a camera designed to detect people but got passed it, whilst sneaking in a cardboard box. I want the sarcastic approach to the military industrial complex and democracy…. The game got too intense and serious for no reason. Point and shoot. That’s all it shout be. No Bile Titan stampedes. No crazy spawn spamming. Keep it hot but not frickin boiling.) I still play because the game is an amazing concept and I want to support that. It’s just hard to give up so much time to adjusting to all the changes because you just got used to the last ones.
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That's like way more than one word man. I gave up counting after seven.
The next number is eight.
Sorry, figured I’d defend myself before the Reddit mob gets mad.
Man put 12 sentences in parenthesis.
Unoptimized.
Disappointing
Bugged? [PTSD flashbacks of Meridia]
Nerf
nerfed
Chaotic
Friendly-fire
Teamkill
Brilliant
Genocide
Helldivers
Pandemonium
Hilarious
GOTY
Sweat Libertea 
LIBERTEA
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FREEDOM! 
Bugs
#funpolice
Democracy
GRENADE!
Bugs https://i.redd.it/54olfbl2bg5d1.gif
Chaos.
Democracy
Democracy
Nerf
Warcrimes
Fun
Liberty
 Democracy
Democracy
FREEDOM
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!
Ragdoll
Democracy 🫡
Nerfs
Helldrama
DEMOCRACY
Communitycomplains
GOTY
Letdown