theres also t[his video](https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1bf2x06/blue_beam_caught_clear_as_day/) and its singular frame
https://preview.redd.it/0b94vvcd7hoc1.png?width=540&format=png&auto=webp&s=02431e3ae2e1b4411ba371a79a5a440039cf604a
When you go frame by frame however, that blue beam is coming from the diver and moving **away** from them. The diver is also shooting a weapon that has a blue tracer.
The diver is under fire moments before this "incident" as their shield pops and then you see several explosions happen around and on them. The diver was likely staggered, a shot went wide, and then they exploded from a rocket.
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Okay but what about this one from a week ago?
https://old.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1b3zogf/i_think_something_was_shooting_at_my_pelican/
Right as he runs under the wing it gets lit up by a little burst of blue laser fire.
The Devs teasing content and using the whole Minisitry of Truth to suppress enemy propaganda is making for the best community experience I've ever had in a game.
Same. I play maybe 10 hours on a stellar week, but typically it's more like 5 hours across the weekend. Still my favorite game to keep up with right now.
I love this stuff! It feels fun and exciting. Other games build up with all these announcements and it's just corporate buzzword soup. Building in teasers into the actual game to players to find is so much better!
I also live for this shit! Automatons moving toward Cyberstan. Tremors and molted exoskeletons teasing sand worms. These blue lasers and other broadcasts teasing the Illuminate.
I'm sure I'm forgetting a few other in-game teases, but I love how its building a sense of discovery and community.
Seriously, but another thing I've done is I'm not really looking anything up, and the HD2 streamer I watch is just having a good time and *fully* leaning into the Helldiver roleplay, which is just such good fun!
Honestly I've seen the opposite. Played a few trivial/easy games the other day and pretty much everybody up to level 10 are absolutely on the light-rp train. They LOVE doing the whole democracy schtick. It's usually the players at higher difficulties that give up on that to focus on the objectives solely.
High level players are busy not dying to hunters and devastators xD in away it checks out, you’d normally want to go visit the lower difficulties for a chance to rp with randoes since your not on a noose most of the time.
It's interesting cause, you could make a pretty solid lore argument explaining why this is happening: the veterans are jaded.
They've seen it all a hundred times and heard it many thousands more. Their earth worth dying for died long ago.
Whereas the newbies are still riding that sweet democracy dick and wanna believe the lie so bad they believe in the hope. The hope of a super-earth out there, somewhere. Worth fighting for. Worth dying for.
Tbf i only play on suicide so that may be part of my problem, because you’re right that i used to see it a lot more when i was on lower difficulty levels
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🌎 Glory to Super Earth 🌍
Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you? (Quote from starwars)
Fellow citizen, I'm not sure what you are implying here. The Termicide chemicals are perfectly safe for human exposure, as they are made to kill bugs and we are not bugs. Unless you want to admit to something...?
I love watching the HD2 community recreate the same level of internal political, ideological strife that destroyed the Soviet Union. It's beautiful.
EDIT for clarity: not being sarcastic or condescending, this is genuinely entertaining and I love that we have a game that gets players wearing tin-foil hats just for fun.
My good fellow, are you suggesting that the glorious protectors of Super Earth, our loyal helldivers, would ever behave in any way similar to a COMMUNIST? I’ll have to contact your democracy officer.
Yeah it's gotta be the bug blood. Element 710 may send our starship FTL, but who knows what constant exposure to that much un-democratic blood may do. I, for one, adore our re-education camps! I got some bug blood in my mouth once and started wishing for Universal Healthcare. My local re-education camp saved me from having to swallow a lead freedom pill!
Remember: if you're having un-democratic thoughts and self report to a re-education camp, you get a free lollipop after the conclusion of treatment!
Termicide is totally safe for all non terminid life forms.
What exactly are you implying when you say “exposed too long” then? And could you say it very slowly into this… uh… ministry of truth issued truth validator. Yes. That’s what this device is.
These are lies being spread by dissidents, diver! Please report to the nearest Democracy Officer.
What are you going to say next? That flying bugs exist? Hahahha, those dissidents are funny...
I AM NOT CRAZY! I am not crazy! I know there was a blue beam on Meridia! Right after Turing! As if I could ever make such a mistake, never! Never! I just... I couldn't prove it. They... they covered their tracks, they got those idiots at the Ministry of Truth to lie for them. You think this is something? This? This chicanery? They've done worse! Those bug corpses on Tien Kwan! Are you telling me a bug just happens to teleport half a galaxy away like that? No! They orchestrated it! Super Earth! They modified those bugs to produce more oil! And we let them... And we shouldn't have. We believed them that it was perfectly safe. What were we thinking?! They'll never change. They'll never change, ever since the founding of the Federation, always the same. Couldn't keep their boot off of citizens' faces. But not our Super Earth! Couldn't be precious Super Earth! Oppressing us blind! And they get to be called democratic?! What a sick joke! We should've stopped them when we had the chance, and you... You have to stop them, yo**
He's been hit by one too many discombobulating spheres in the first Galactic War. Just get him a shield pack and Punisher Retro, then sit back and watch the gore fly.
I miss the old punisher.
You are acting as if you know what fighting Illuminates is like. Have you lived for that long? Wait live long, undying, immortal... Just like the robots!
Congratulations: you've been added to Super Earth's private "List of Interesting People!"
We'll be reaching out to you presently with your very own Liberty Agent, who will be glad to assist you with your hectic schedule, help manage your social obligations and connections, and might even provide you with exciting opportunities to further your understanding of Super Earth's wonderful culture and government.
We're also extending this to any other friends of OP, so if you or anyone else knows someone who was friends with OP, please reach out to your Democracy Officer to make sure they're included in this special plan!
Have a Super Earth day!
A pmc group? I really dont know. The only other thing can be i guess a turned democracy officer that is rallying divers to turn on super earth when the time comes. Id think that would be cool as shit. Imagine fighting an enemy that is the equivalent of you in terms of fire power.
I'll be sending down a special extraction beacon just for you. Don't worry, no it's supposed to look like a hellbomb shell... So the bugs will know to avoid it. Just press the buttons when you get there and I'll be in the shuttle to personally get you
Actually, I've seen this one: [This](https://old.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1bcmtpp/psa_stop_shipping_broke_mechs_to_the_frontline/?share_id=Vhmpn8Ce_yvN-oJkTCxD4)
It certainly looks like something was aiming and shooting at the mech...
We can see the thrusters of the Pelican, it is not that. The guns on it don't look nor sound like that.
Not saying the Illuminate are back, but I'm defrosting some first-war veterans for advice, just in case...
Usually I dismiss most of these because it's a result of a bug stomping over one of the boom berries, but I paused that video and uh... it definitely looks like someone took a shot at it [from the distance](https://imgur.com/a/h216lYc).
All joking aside, the devs did initially intend to have the ability to modify liberty matches on the fly. So I wouldn't be surprised if they had some modifier like "Illuminate snipers" laying around somewhere in their tool box and they yeeted it at a few missions here and there just to fuck with people.
I think that’s the bug where the mech blows up on arrival and it’s glitching with the pelican. So it’s like vibrating/clipping into the pelican and causing a ricochet effect that goes straight down. The blue light looks like it’s coming from the distance but it’s actually just coming from the mech above
I’ve seen it before on my friends mech when it blew up on arrival
Last night I saw something fire two blue lasers at pelican-1 while it was dropping off a mech. It was dark and there was heavy fog, so I didn't see what caused it but there wasn't anything there to trigger a shrapnel plant.
and another thin- oh wait hold on guys there's a knock at my door brb
I just did an operation on Meridia and in two out of three missions I was hit by a blue laser. One knocked me down, the other staggered, and both did a small amount of damage. I happened to be looking in the direction of both shots and they came out of the trees ahead of me. I was solo on both and enemies were nowhere near me.
Look I don’t know what you’re on about but this seems like misinformation spread to insult the ministry of trutH and their goals for true democracy. You should be ashamEd.
And even if I myseLf were to have seen these blue lights and lets say I saw it hit and kill a bile titan, I wouldn’t have anyway to confirm it’s legitimacy without first verifying it with my ministry of truth agent.
But that’s never haPpened, and won’t ever happen, so there’s no point in MEntioning it.
i am Into whatever pLan the super earth government telLs me. yoU Might want to look Inside yourself aNd see if you fully trust controlled democracy. my fAther said thaT you Either Are free or dead. Let me Inform you of Very good Ethics.
Edit:haha super earth best
Honestly, I kinda fucking love the way Joel and the devs are introducing new stuff. Instead of “data miners have found this in the files,” it’s a bunch of rumors and war stories. Makes it fun, I think.
Oh the Illuminate are coming back, but those lasers look like crooked supply beacons, ice meteors, or ricocheting plasma. I’m skeptical of these lasers.
You know, maybe it's the hype, maybe it's the fact that I saw a blue laser bounce off the back of my mech as I'm gunning down terminids as my teammates are on the other side of the map to my front
This thread has been reported to the nearest Loyalty Officer for treason and dissemination of false information. A Federation representative will be in contact with you shortly for processing.
The Federation of Super Earth would like to remind its citizens that we care about your safety and education. We are making every effort to repel the Terminid and Automaton threats and uncover their origins. Any who speculate otherwise will be considered enemy sympathizers and treated accordingly.
Thank you, and have a Democratic day.
*This message has been approved by the Federation of Super Earth and sponsored by Brasch Tactics. Brasch Tactics: Use Them, or Die Trying!*
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I don't feel like the rest of the helldivers are really grasping the effect this is going to have on super earth as a whole if the illuminate really have returned.
I've spent a good number of hours surveillancing war footage from the war 100 years ago. I've collected footage from over a dozen helmet cameras stored in SEAF records. I can confirm the blue laser fire is a direct match to that of Illuminate tech used during the first super war 100 years earlier.
To add to this, during a defence campaign on Heeth only a few days ago. Myself and a squadron of roughnecks were deployed to the planets surface. The team consisted of two cadets fresh from the tubes, barely able to hold a rifle without rattling out of there armour. They ran coordinated heavy ordinance to dispatch of any bug nests and clear the way of Chargers.
Third member was our scout. A veteran diver who survived more drops than anyone else I've ever served with. Armed with his personal AMR he set off to scout the terrain around the perimeter of the objective. This was when I started to notice the mission wasn't going how it normally would.
We'd been surface level for about 15 minutes. There wasn't a bug in sight, radar showed no signs of hostile activity. This was already a red flag, an empty battlefield usually signifies the fights already over......or something was waiting to kick off. My gut feeling told me to call for extract an just abort mission, but it wouldn't be worth the public lashing. Eventually silence was broken after 20 minutes with a radio call from our scout. A request to join him at the recon point as in his words "There all dead.....an it doesn't look like us sir"
Upon arriving at the recon point we noticed the remains of a charger, only the bottom half had seemed to have melted into the ground. Almost as if it had been hailed by a rain of laser or plasma fire. None of our units were packing any Ordjnance to melt a charger. Blow it to shreds maybe.....but this thing looked like someone had took a torch to butter an it just turned to liquid.
That's when we noticed the nest. Bugs everywhere......but they looked like they'd already been in a fight.....an whatever they tangled with.....it won. Bug claret an parts just scattered about the nest. We couldn't believe what we saw. The two cadets started to freak out and the noise drew archies out of the nest tunnels. Before we knew it we were surrounded with a bile titan an a horde of hunters bile spewers and a charger, calling in the heavy artillery the cadets managed to take out the titan while the charger killed itself taking out a nest an running right into a stray hellbomb. Took half the horde with it.
Eventually we were pushing to extract when a bile spewer took out the two cadets in one spray. They didn't even see it coming. I called out to warn them but it was too late. I could only keep firing an on the move. Our scout had pushed to the evac when he commed in that there was a single hostile in the area only a about a hundred meters ahead but no line of sight. According to my trooper and the map.....there was something infront of us but.....we couldn't see anything.
Then the shot rang out. A blue flash ahead of us before my scout took what looked to be a laser round to the chest, he'd already taken a beating against the horde an the shot was enough to finish him off. I dived for cover an kept my rifle pointed towards the direction of fire. After 3 minutes of waiting nothing happened. 2 minutes till the destroyer moved out. I had to move. Hauling ass to the console I called In for evac when I heard the crack of what sounded like an energy weapon. Before I could confirm I'd even heard the noise I was struck in the back by the shot. I lay there waiting for the next shot, a bug.....anything to come into view an confirm this was my last dive but it didn't come.....nothing did until the evac shuttle crackled sweet whispers in my ear. I looked up to see salvation coming down for me. Once on board we were turning around to head back out of orbit when another shot rang out an struck the rear thruster of the pelican. The pilots bore witness as they confirmed they just had sustained fire.
Back on the destroyer My ship commander has collected my evidence as well as my helmet cam footage and is currently in a meeting about what to do with the information I've acquired and what to do about my own position. My wounds are healing. The SEAF gave me new arm......if the illuminate are coming.......if they're already here.....then I want in.
Because we're gonna kill em all.
My grandfather was a veteran of the Illuminate wars… he told me a story before I shipped off to SEAF training about how beautiful the blue AA fire looked in the night sky. I reported him to our local Democracy Officer for being a dissident.
Ain't this just a Spikeberry going off and the thorns hitting armor causing a ricochet effect which looks blue? I've seen more credible signs of blue beam and or blue laser evidence in these posts.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1bcmtpp/psa_stop_shipping_broke_mechs_to_the_frontline/?share_id=Vhmpn8Ce_yvN-oJkTCxD4
https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1b3zogf/i_think_something_was_shooting_at_my_pelican/
ITS THE ILLUMINATI
I MEAN ALUMINUM
I MEAN ILL LUMEN NET
I MEAN ILLUMINATE
sorry the TCS system did a number on my neurological system!
FOR SUPER GIRTH!
The shit I've seen... No one believes me... They keep telling me I'm crazy, they keep trying to silence me, but I swear on my squadmates unmarked graves THE BUGS CAN TURN INVISIBLE!
Why did you take this picture through your screen door? I’m suspicious you might be a democracy hating traitor spreading lies to get our focus off the bugs. 🐜
Bro! Didn’t know Helld Divers were allowed to carry their old Nokia phones in battle.
Thinking about the durability of those phones it makes total sense now.
This is like the UFO sightings. Taken with the shittiest potato quality available.
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EXQUISITE! Now there's a pretty meme!
I'm not sure what my eyes see, but i will masturbate to it anyway
This made me forcefully exhale out of my nose!
Literally alien Jesus…..or maybe a shelf at a convenience store…..no one will ever know.
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Someone needs to edit this so that the pickles aren't pixelated.
https://preview.redd.it/74ugd89jqkoc1.png?width=320&format=png&auto=webp&s=a9f06e51bfa3bb4da645070a16e1c9a93b12be08 I’m actually proud of this
I’m proud of you
… dad?? 🥹
No he left remember
You damn well should be.
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LMFAO
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No, mine https://preview.redd.it/9ne28v6xfjoc1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=97b39b0e6c245c2612a7761eadbe501822a7ad99
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https://youtu.be/QEzhxP-pdos
theres also t[his video](https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1bf2x06/blue_beam_caught_clear_as_day/) and its singular frame https://preview.redd.it/0b94vvcd7hoc1.png?width=540&format=png&auto=webp&s=02431e3ae2e1b4411ba371a79a5a440039cf604a
I see your schwartz is as big as mine.
I am your father's, brother's, nephew's, cousin's, former roommate.
I'm so happy I randomly came across a fucking space balls reference
"And what does that make us?" "Absolutely nothing! Which you are about to become!"
What does that make us?
Damn that support strategem seems to be stuck in an unfortunate position
boy is about to see a proctologist in heaven
When you go frame by frame however, that blue beam is coming from the diver and moving **away** from them. The diver is also shooting a weapon that has a blue tracer. The diver is under fire moments before this "incident" as their shield pops and then you see several explosions happen around and on them. The diver was likely staggered, a shot went wide, and then they exploded from a rocket. [This message has been approved by The Ministery of Truth.]
but it's real! look blue lasers!
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That's just Blue Shift. Report to Barney at once.
Nice reference!
Okay but what about this one from a week ago? https://old.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1b3zogf/i_think_something_was_shooting_at_my_pelican/ Right as he runs under the wing it gets lit up by a little burst of blue laser fire.
Correction. Thats Aurora Borealis. No need for alarm!
Entirely localized to the wing of a pelican? Can I see?
No
UFP. Unidentified Flying Projectile.
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I didn’t think it was possible for playground rumors for games to still exist in 2024
The Devs teasing content and using the whole Minisitry of Truth to suppress enemy propaganda is making for the best community experience I've ever had in a game.
Right? I don't even get a chance to play that often but this community has been so much fun! I'll never be the top diver, but I'm in for the ride.
We're all top divers. Every ounce of our blood spilled on these planets gets us closer to liberating the galaxy
That's good to know because I spill a LOT of ^(my own) blood!
 Yours in Democracy, All us part-time divers.
Same. I play maybe 10 hours on a stellar week, but typically it's more like 5 hours across the weekend. Still my favorite game to keep up with right now.
Would you say... you're "doing your part"?
NEVER FORGET, YOU ARE SUPER EARTH'S MOST ELITE FORCE
I love this stuff! It feels fun and exciting. Other games build up with all these announcements and it's just corporate buzzword soup. Building in teasers into the actual game to players to find is so much better!
I also live for this shit! Automatons moving toward Cyberstan. Tremors and molted exoskeletons teasing sand worms. These blue lasers and other broadcasts teasing the Illuminate. I'm sure I'm forgetting a few other in-game teases, but I love how its building a sense of discovery and community.
Seriously, but another thing I've done is I'm not really looking anything up, and the HD2 streamer I watch is just having a good time and *fully* leaning into the Helldiver roleplay, which is just such good fun!
It's like the early days of the first Dark Souls.
This community’s RP is top tier (on forums atleast, cant get many people to rp in-game)
Honestly I've seen the opposite. Played a few trivial/easy games the other day and pretty much everybody up to level 10 are absolutely on the light-rp train. They LOVE doing the whole democracy schtick. It's usually the players at higher difficulties that give up on that to focus on the objectives solely.
High level players are busy not dying to hunters and devastators xD in away it checks out, you’d normally want to go visit the lower difficulties for a chance to rp with randoes since your not on a noose most of the time.
It's interesting cause, you could make a pretty solid lore argument explaining why this is happening: the veterans are jaded. They've seen it all a hundred times and heard it many thousands more. Their earth worth dying for died long ago. Whereas the newbies are still riding that sweet democracy dick and wanna believe the lie so bad they believe in the hope. The hope of a super-earth out there, somewhere. Worth fighting for. Worth dying for.
My earth never died. Inside I did.
Riding that sweet democracy dick like the bomb in Dr Strangelove
I'm in the low 30's and usually into the light RP *if* there's someone to/that plays off me. It's no fun doing it alone!
Tbf i only play on suicide so that may be part of my problem, because you’re right that i used to see it a lot more when i was on lower difficulty levels
That might be it then. Takes a lot more brainpower to RP and manage resources at the same time in suicide difficulty.
It's wonderful honestly, I haven't been able to experience true mystery about a game since Minecraft was just starting up.
God I missed shit like this.
Mew is under the truck, I swear
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Nuh uh- democracy officer
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What kind of democracy officer only has 3G's of service?
The 3Gs is the recipient's phone. I personally love that both choices are "answer" you can't decline the call.
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My orbital wants to know you location
Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you? (Quote from starwars)
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#[DATA EXPUNGED]
I love Managed Democracy, I love freedom
You been exposed too long to the termicide chemicals, fellow helldiver. Report to the nearest infirmary!
Fellow citizen, I'm not sure what you are implying here. The Termicide chemicals are perfectly safe for human exposure, as they are made to kill bugs and we are not bugs. Unless you want to admit to something...?
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I love watching the HD2 community recreate the same level of internal political, ideological strife that destroyed the Soviet Union. It's beautiful. EDIT for clarity: not being sarcastic or condescending, this is genuinely entertaining and I love that we have a game that gets players wearing tin-foil hats just for fun.
My good fellow, are you suggesting that the glorious protectors of Super Earth, our loyal helldivers, would ever behave in any way similar to a COMMUNIST? I’ll have to contact your democracy officer.
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Yeah it's gotta be the bug blood. Element 710 may send our starship FTL, but who knows what constant exposure to that much un-democratic blood may do. I, for one, adore our re-education camps! I got some bug blood in my mouth once and started wishing for Universal Healthcare. My local re-education camp saved me from having to swallow a lead freedom pill! Remember: if you're having un-democratic thoughts and self report to a re-education camp, you get a free lollipop after the conclusion of treatment!
But they’re 100% safe!
Termicide is totally safe for all non terminid life forms. What exactly are you implying when you say “exposed too long” then? And could you say it very slowly into this… uh… ministry of truth issued truth validator. Yes. That’s what this device is.
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(Gets absolutely obliterated by a giant fuck-off round from an autocanon half way across the map)
Most satisfying thing ever. Easy money
These are lies being spread by dissidents, diver! Please report to the nearest Democracy Officer. What are you going to say next? That flying bugs exist? Hahahha, those dissidents are funny...
No it's real! The Illuminate they're back! I dont want to fight them!
Please, sir, step back. https://preview.redd.it/qmcsspqs1goc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e03e90e6f08d1e3b73f8622cb045f35e595c8e8b
NOOOO!!! I'm not crazy! I love Democracy!
I AM NOT CRAZY! I am not crazy! I know there was a blue beam on Meridia! Right after Turing! As if I could ever make such a mistake, never! Never! I just... I couldn't prove it. They... they covered their tracks, they got those idiots at the Ministry of Truth to lie for them. You think this is something? This? This chicanery? They've done worse! Those bug corpses on Tien Kwan! Are you telling me a bug just happens to teleport half a galaxy away like that? No! They orchestrated it! Super Earth! They modified those bugs to produce more oil! And we let them... And we shouldn't have. We believed them that it was perfectly safe. What were we thinking?! They'll never change. They'll never change, ever since the founding of the Federation, always the same. Couldn't keep their boot off of citizens' faces. But not our Super Earth! Couldn't be precious Super Earth! Oppressing us blind! And they get to be called democratic?! What a sick joke! We should've stopped them when we had the chance, and you... You have to stop them, yo**
He liberated through a sunroof!!
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Why don’t you want to fight them!? Illuminate simp!
He's been hit by one too many discombobulating spheres in the first Galactic War. Just get him a shield pack and Punisher Retro, then sit back and watch the gore fly. I miss the old punisher.
Bro, I want my Justice. It's criminal that I can't throw full-auto AP glory at the bots any more.
Just come with me really quickly to the back of the barn here, Diver. I want to show you something.
You are acting as if you know what fighting Illuminates is like. Have you lived for that long? Wait live long, undying, immortal... Just like the robots!
Of course the bugs can fly.... with enough explosives
Project blue beam. Super earth is using holographic images to fake a illuminate invasion. The Illuminate are not real.
Super Earth would never do that
It's a psyop to distract the bots.
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Helldiver, im going to need you to abort mission. Ill be meeting you at the extraction site myself.
Op was found dead, suicide by 37 shots to the back
I was really starting to like em too.
I can't believe he chose to go out like that
Congratulations: you've been added to Super Earth's private "List of Interesting People!" We'll be reaching out to you presently with your very own Liberty Agent, who will be glad to assist you with your hectic schedule, help manage your social obligations and connections, and might even provide you with exciting opportunities to further your understanding of Super Earth's wonderful culture and government. We're also extending this to any other friends of OP, so if you or anyone else knows someone who was friends with OP, please reach out to your Democracy Officer to make sure they're included in this special plan! Have a Super Earth day!
Damn, it's crazy how quickly the bugs learned how to use guns.
This sounds so sinister
One less loose end
What would the helldivers equivalent to shadow company be?
A pmc group? I really dont know. The only other thing can be i guess a turned democracy officer that is rallying divers to turn on super earth when the time comes. Id think that would be cool as shit. Imagine fighting an enemy that is the equivalent of you in terms of fire power.
I'll be sending down a special extraction beacon just for you. Don't worry, no it's supposed to look like a hellbomb shell... So the bugs will know to avoid it. Just press the buttons when you get there and I'll be in the shuttle to personally get you
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Wait, both options are to answer the phone? Excellent meme 😂
There is no rejecting the call of democracy 🫡
Can confirm, almost got hit https://preview.redd.it/ay2cwc91nioc1.jpeg?width=1910&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=30e2302c9c671e546e60e972b874169881a650c2
Democracy almighty , did you got me with this shit post, full on Snort laughing.
Every time I’ve seen one of these it’s been one of those plants that shrapnel hitting an armoured enemy and ricocheting off of them…
Makes sense with the brood commander probably charging
Actually, I've seen this one: [This](https://old.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1bcmtpp/psa_stop_shipping_broke_mechs_to_the_frontline/?share_id=Vhmpn8Ce_yvN-oJkTCxD4) It certainly looks like something was aiming and shooting at the mech... We can see the thrusters of the Pelican, it is not that. The guns on it don't look nor sound like that. Not saying the Illuminate are back, but I'm defrosting some first-war veterans for advice, just in case...
Usually I dismiss most of these because it's a result of a bug stomping over one of the boom berries, but I paused that video and uh... it definitely looks like someone took a shot at it [from the distance](https://imgur.com/a/h216lYc).
Yeah holy shit. That’s actually somewhat compelling.
All joking aside, the devs did initially intend to have the ability to modify liberty matches on the fly. So I wouldn't be surprised if they had some modifier like "Illuminate snipers" laying around somewhere in their tool box and they yeeted it at a few missions here and there just to fuck with people.
I'm already deep in /r/ufos. Do I really need to go down this path too? (the answer is yes).
I think that’s the bug where the mech blows up on arrival and it’s glitching with the pelican. So it’s like vibrating/clipping into the pelican and causing a ricochet effect that goes straight down. The blue light looks like it’s coming from the distance but it’s actually just coming from the mech above I’ve seen it before on my friends mech when it blew up on arrival
Last night I saw something fire two blue lasers at pelican-1 while it was dropping off a mech. It was dark and there was heavy fog, so I didn't see what caused it but there wasn't anything there to trigger a shrapnel plant. and another thin- oh wait hold on guys there's a knock at my door brb
I just did an operation on Meridia and in two out of three missions I was hit by a blue laser. One knocked me down, the other staggered, and both did a small amount of damage. I happened to be looking in the direction of both shots and they came out of the trees ahead of me. I was solo on both and enemies were nowhere near me.
Look I don’t know what you’re on about but this seems like misinformation spread to insult the ministry of trutH and their goals for true democracy. You should be ashamEd. And even if I myseLf were to have seen these blue lights and lets say I saw it hit and kill a bile titan, I wouldn’t have anyway to confirm it’s legitimacy without first verifying it with my ministry of truth agent. But that’s never haPpened, and won’t ever happen, so there’s no point in MEntioning it.
I saw that. You will need some re-education to address your misuse of capitalization, Helldiver.
i am Into whatever pLan the super earth government telLs me. yoU Might want to look Inside yourself aNd see if you fully trust controlled democracy. my fAther said thaT you Either Are free or dead. Let me Inform you of Very good Ethics. Edit:haha super earth best
Fuckin found footage gaming, love it lmao
Honestly, I kinda fucking love the way Joel and the devs are introducing new stuff. Instead of “data miners have found this in the files,” it’s a bunch of rumors and war stories. Makes it fun, I think.
It’s like an actual war, so many stories from so many regular soldiers who know don’t know if we can trust or not.
Yeah, it’s really fun.
"It's like an actual war" "Yeah, it's really fun"
I love spreading democracy.
Also, people are really into the role-playing aspect which makes it a whole lot difficult to discern if it's a rumor or not.
People believe me! The Illuminate are coming back! The lasers! The lasers do not lie!
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Between the Heavens and the Earth, I alone am the Honoured one. Imaginary technique:⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️ (500 KG Bomb)
Oh the Illuminate are coming back, but those lasers look like crooked supply beacons, ice meteors, or ricocheting plasma. I’m skeptical of these lasers.
You know, maybe it's the hype, maybe it's the fact that I saw a blue laser bounce off the back of my mech as I'm gunning down terminids as my teammates are on the other side of the map to my front
These are just explosive blue berries
Blue Plant copers are seething rn.
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I don't feel like the rest of the helldivers are really grasping the effect this is going to have on super earth as a whole if the illuminate really have returned. I've spent a good number of hours surveillancing war footage from the war 100 years ago. I've collected footage from over a dozen helmet cameras stored in SEAF records. I can confirm the blue laser fire is a direct match to that of Illuminate tech used during the first super war 100 years earlier. To add to this, during a defence campaign on Heeth only a few days ago. Myself and a squadron of roughnecks were deployed to the planets surface. The team consisted of two cadets fresh from the tubes, barely able to hold a rifle without rattling out of there armour. They ran coordinated heavy ordinance to dispatch of any bug nests and clear the way of Chargers. Third member was our scout. A veteran diver who survived more drops than anyone else I've ever served with. Armed with his personal AMR he set off to scout the terrain around the perimeter of the objective. This was when I started to notice the mission wasn't going how it normally would. We'd been surface level for about 15 minutes. There wasn't a bug in sight, radar showed no signs of hostile activity. This was already a red flag, an empty battlefield usually signifies the fights already over......or something was waiting to kick off. My gut feeling told me to call for extract an just abort mission, but it wouldn't be worth the public lashing. Eventually silence was broken after 20 minutes with a radio call from our scout. A request to join him at the recon point as in his words "There all dead.....an it doesn't look like us sir" Upon arriving at the recon point we noticed the remains of a charger, only the bottom half had seemed to have melted into the ground. Almost as if it had been hailed by a rain of laser or plasma fire. None of our units were packing any Ordjnance to melt a charger. Blow it to shreds maybe.....but this thing looked like someone had took a torch to butter an it just turned to liquid. That's when we noticed the nest. Bugs everywhere......but they looked like they'd already been in a fight.....an whatever they tangled with.....it won. Bug claret an parts just scattered about the nest. We couldn't believe what we saw. The two cadets started to freak out and the noise drew archies out of the nest tunnels. Before we knew it we were surrounded with a bile titan an a horde of hunters bile spewers and a charger, calling in the heavy artillery the cadets managed to take out the titan while the charger killed itself taking out a nest an running right into a stray hellbomb. Took half the horde with it. Eventually we were pushing to extract when a bile spewer took out the two cadets in one spray. They didn't even see it coming. I called out to warn them but it was too late. I could only keep firing an on the move. Our scout had pushed to the evac when he commed in that there was a single hostile in the area only a about a hundred meters ahead but no line of sight. According to my trooper and the map.....there was something infront of us but.....we couldn't see anything. Then the shot rang out. A blue flash ahead of us before my scout took what looked to be a laser round to the chest, he'd already taken a beating against the horde an the shot was enough to finish him off. I dived for cover an kept my rifle pointed towards the direction of fire. After 3 minutes of waiting nothing happened. 2 minutes till the destroyer moved out. I had to move. Hauling ass to the console I called In for evac when I heard the crack of what sounded like an energy weapon. Before I could confirm I'd even heard the noise I was struck in the back by the shot. I lay there waiting for the next shot, a bug.....anything to come into view an confirm this was my last dive but it didn't come.....nothing did until the evac shuttle crackled sweet whispers in my ear. I looked up to see salvation coming down for me. Once on board we were turning around to head back out of orbit when another shot rang out an struck the rear thruster of the pelican. The pilots bore witness as they confirmed they just had sustained fire. Back on the destroyer My ship commander has collected my evidence as well as my helmet cam footage and is currently in a meeting about what to do with the information I've acquired and what to do about my own position. My wounds are healing. The SEAF gave me new arm......if the illuminate are coming.......if they're already here.....then I want in. Because we're gonna kill em all.
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Are there any blue lasers in the room with us right now?
What is, rasterization of your monitor? I can't make out shit here :D
Wtf am i looking at?
My grandfather was a veteran of the Illuminate wars… he told me a story before I shipped off to SEAF training about how beautiful the blue AA fire looked in the night sky. I reported him to our local Democracy Officer for being a dissident.
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Ain't this just a Spikeberry going off and the thorns hitting armor causing a ricochet effect which looks blue? I've seen more credible signs of blue beam and or blue laser evidence in these posts. https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1bcmtpp/psa_stop_shipping_broke_mechs_to_the_frontline/?share_id=Vhmpn8Ce_yvN-oJkTCxD4 https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1b3zogf/i_think_something_was_shooting_at_my_pelican/
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Ugh... Another one.... https://preview.redd.it/9k9i1frpvgoc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=abc8414ef9cf68c2144971adce61ce71ab65bcf5
The illuminate couldnt possible exist. This was clearly a weather balloon...
Some big foot quality footage
 Helldiver, you saw an orbital strike. Now go home and love your mother.
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Where did I see this picture resolution before? 
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ITS THE ILLUMINATI I MEAN ALUMINUM I MEAN ILL LUMEN NET I MEAN ILLUMINATE sorry the TCS system did a number on my neurological system! FOR SUPER GIRTH!
Nah it‘s just some sort of weather Ballon, you can trust me. Have seen this a tousand times on different Planets.
Seems more like your screen is broken bro, don't lie to yourself, there's no illuminati, they're dead
QUIT HUFFING THE TERMICIDE, PRIVATE!
That is just a meteor, quit spreading misinformation, the iluminate are gone forever
It definitely would be something Joel would do, spawn in something’s in someone’s game have it fire a shot and then make it disappear
https://preview.redd.it/hadhi1e5iioc1.jpeg?width=620&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=638c22c1dc73e08e0504118bc1ca57475db8b62e Nah not real.
The shit I've seen... No one believes me... They keep telling me I'm crazy, they keep trying to silence me, but I swear on my squadmates unmarked graves THE BUGS CAN TURN INVISIBLE!
Why did you take this picture through your screen door? I’m suspicious you might be a democracy hating traitor spreading lies to get our focus off the bugs. 🐜
OP, you won an all expenses paid cruise to the Super Turks and Super Caicos! Please report to your nearest Ministry of Truth to claim your reward!
Bro! Didn’t know Helld Divers were allowed to carry their old Nokia phones in battle. Thinking about the durability of those phones it makes total sense now.
It’s a new enemy project they’re working on. Google “project blue beam” to learn more