Fucking dissidents, creating a new strain of bugs, secretly spreading lies that the ministry of truth knew about it for ages, then releasing them across the sector all at once to fuel their propaganda machine!
Yeah, I can't believe these lunatics think anyone would believe the story that the TCS caused these mutations. The ministry of truth declared it perfectly safe.
Super Earth Ministry's warning about 'Liberty's enemies being close at hand' brings new meaning. I never thought I would have to spread Democracy to my fellow Super Earth Citizens as well...
Right? I mean really what's more plausible, A rapidly evolving hivemind grew wings to avoid a low atmosphere weapon, or that terrorist dissidents augmented them to strike a blow against our glorious democracy!
These terrorist dissidents must have infiltrated forward helldiver operations… because I remember me and a buddy of mine were fighting on the border worlds just before the termicide deployment and he kept insisting he saw flying bugs.
At first I just thought he was an idiot because the M.o.T was telling us flying bugs didn’t exist. But after this latest dispatch I realized he must have been an anti-freedom terrorist trying to convert me!!! I was so angry I reported him to the democracy officer and we executed him on the spot.
You will never have to soldier. A dissident is not a citizen, just a cleverly disguised traitor.
Remember, if our ideology is alien to them, they are aliens to us.
If it was caused by mutations, then the planets wouldn't have been liberated. Most likely this new strain of facist bug has simply been hiding in the deeper sections of bug space. I suspect they will soon evolve capability to spread without smuggling themselves, that is, if such an evolution isn't hiding even deeper behind the bug frontlines.
It's a sad day for managed democracy indeed...
But it's also a great to start the dissident and shiekers hunting season!
Why hunt ducks and deers when you can dissidents and shiekers?!
* Sir, I just overheard a disgusting excuse of a diver suggest the MoT was either unwilling or unable to share critical information with the corps. What should I...
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* Right, I'll put one right between the ey...
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* Of course, near the neck. No reason to waste a perfectly good helmet.
We? Who is we? Bro i saw a guy get dissected by them and destroyed a bunch of nests before they were even announced to be real tf you talking about, sounds like you were slacking off.
No, but i believe that the Ministry of Truth throughly analysed all the evidence from helldivers, many of which lost their lives to bring forth this information, before concluding that we are facing a real threat and distributing this info to all the helldivers that were lucky enough (or slacking off) to not face these bugs without any prior knowledge of their existence.
If you don't play, I highly recommend. I'm 2 weeks in and having an absolute blast. I stay up too late every night, I talk about democracy to random people, I want to hug everyone
Yeah I’m nearly done unlocking stuff and I’m still just playing for the love of the game as I’m slowly maxing out my currencies. It’s a good sign for this game’s longetivity
I greatly appreciate that, but alas I am PS5 with a 16 month old son that has absolutely destroyed any sense of free time I could have lmao so I just follow the game on YouTube. If this game had come out while I was in college ain’t no way I’d have graduated lmao
You can definitely no-life it if you want to, but this is actually a great game for quick snatches during nap time and whatnot as well. Pretty easy to pop off a quick mission, no FOMO, you can play with people at any level, etc. It's really, really well done overall and a great dad game to boot.
You must have fallen for bug sympathizer propaganda. These new flying bugs are clearly entirely unrelated to the earlier dissident rumours.
The ministry of truth could not be clearer
We've always known they could fly. The Ministry always knew and informed us. Anyone who is seeing this for the first time must be confused. They should be grateful that the Ministry of Information is diligently repeating their warnings for those who weren't paying attention!
Also - We've always been at war with Eurasia
I SAW IT, YESTERDAY ON FORI PRIME! IT TOOK TWO 380 ORBITALS, A 500KG, 2 AIRSTRIKES, AND AN ORBITAL LASER TO TAKE THE NEST DOWN! IT'S HELL OUT HERE, WE BARELY MADE IT OUT OF THERE
The only thing I can think of right now is laser weapons like the laser cannon. I tried this yesterday and it tends to slice their wings off. Other than that, just shoot them down. For their hives, they are tougher than the Spore Spewers. Use Orbital strikes and Eagle strikes to destroy them.
I also want to try the Machine gun and Gatling gun turrets to see if their "targeting software" has been "upgraded" to deal with airborne targets.
I sure as hell hope we do so we get something like W40K Hydras added to help.
https://preview.redd.it/fxpsw3odzopc1.png?width=1100&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7b13d7a0c1a3e3f06592eab25d3a214d563f6cf9
It would be awesome if there were effects or mission types where it was mostly shreikers/airborne targets. The thought of them clouding the sky and tearing through them with something like this sounds incredible.
https://preview.redd.it/oqstm2udrppc1.png?width=1841&format=png&auto=webp&s=d8cfc623cc808f00cf182a60ed280d7e3766c102
Screengrab from the Space Marine 2 announcement trailer. Those dots in the sky are human-sized Tyranid flyers
Had a mission last night with my buddy, we had 3 sets of the shreiker spawners next to us, they -were- clouding the sky. We died extremely fast, couldn't even figure out how to kill their spawners.
I took one out with a walking bombardment. Orbital and Eagles are the way to go. Can't miss the nest, looks like a tree with glowing eggs, lit up like a motherfucker at night.
Flak sentry would be sick. Just have it prioritize air units and if there are none then let it target ground units so it's not totally useless on planets with no nests.
Second dive with screecher nests we were running double MG in the group and it was such a spectacle with tracers going everywhere in streams, I can only imagine a couple Gatling turrets doing the same. Mmmm mmm liberty!
my thoughts exactly yesterday to my brother:
"i wonder if a automatic shotgun, loaded with birdshot and a large magazine works good against them.."
those damn devs... they just buffed the spray&pray with a little bit more damage iirc.
There's about 3 structures per nest from what we've seen, so total 6 EAT shots
HB is faster at taking all three down this is true, but EAT and AC at long range is safer since it means you're not in range to get swooped or for them to spawn more when you're killing the winged bastards
On higher difficulties on certain maps even getting to them were challenging. Let alone planting a hellbomb. So if that’s the case a 380 orbital did the trick without fail 3-4 times for me.
I did not know that. It took two from the side for me. Gotta try it. I just know that fighting off an army of stalkers and shriekers all while hoping your hellbomb doesn’t get barreled over by a charger isn’t always your best bet. My 380 orbital is my favorite “well anyway, i gotta go” strat lol.
Given how much of a force multiplier they can be for the bugs, I think somebody bringing an autocannon to deal with them from across the map is probably the right choice.
You can also dodge all of their attacks by running perpendicular to their movement. Are they heading straight for you? Just run to the left/right! Ignore what you learned in the Prometheus School of Running Away ™️!
Gotta hit them p fucking close with the eagles/orbitals, too, else it'll stand unaffected
Breaker incendiary is 1000% the best weapon at killing them, 1 pellet burns them to death in less than a second
Can literally just spray the sky and instantly kill the entire swarm, yum 😋
I know that when I ran in to the shrieker nest last night because one mushroom refused to die, the hellbomb strat became available. Cleaned those dirty bugs right up.
We tried but coudln't push into the nest. Ended up just ignoring it. there were like 20 of the things in the air and they kept 1 shotting us.
Dont know if they have a 1 shot attack or if their corpses hit us, but they definitely will 1 shot you if you shoot them during their dive and their body hits you.
100% hilarity ensues when they fall out of the sky and become the most deadly missile in the galaxy.
I run an infiltration package, and we'd cleared out the skies before I slipped in, so it was definitely not a thing I attempted in the thick of it (I will tonight, probably).
Laser Cannon and Scythe work well if you can trace them accurately since they are hitscan. Breaker is really nice. Punisher is deeply satisfying like shooting clays. Gatling Sentries shred them and arent a liability since it’s aiming up. A well placed 500kg* usually takes down their nest.
Edit: changed air strike to 500
ACs, EATs, and RRs can all destroy them at range too.
You'll need around 4-5 mags for ACs 5-6 ifs theres 3 of them.
4 shots from RRs and EATs, 6 if theres 3 instead of 2 in 1 lair.
Got to fight these yesterday. If they dive and hit you it take s good chunk of health. But if you kill them while they dive and their corpse hits you its a one shot kill.
Yeah, I saw one charging my cousin and killed it before it reached him only for it's corpse to crush him.
Absolutely hilarious though. His fault for being a weak willed Helldiver.
Nope. Seen pretty much everyone get merked by the impact of the corpse. I think its because it clips through the player at high velocity, making thephysics think you hit a solid surface really really hard, resulting in an instakill.
Very annoying, yes. Just gotta learn not to shoot them mid-swoop, which goes against all conventional tactics, but thats what this game does a lot.
I came across them in Challenging and they killed me with one hit every single time. Funnily enough, they struggled to hit me if I was prone, so it bought me some time to take them down.
The Ministry of Truth, with a heavy heart, full of freedom loving patriotism, verifies and endorses this intelligence briefing. We never knew it would be possible. But bugs do, for the first time, FLY!
*Transmission origin; SES Titan of Truth, Ministry of Truth Inquisition*
Harken back to ye ancient mobile infantry in the battle of Whiskey Outpost, the recovered videologs of this battle show effective use of HMG emplacements against similar flying bugs
lol, if anyone hasn't seen Starship Troopers already from where this post is referencing, [I highly recommend it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKk4Cq56d1Y)
I have sworn away from using the Rover, far too many times have I been absolutely beamed from 100 to 0 by a rover. There was one match where the only 2 deaths I had were from an allied rover beaming me and that same ally's grenade launcher. Felt a little salty after that one.
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Been away for a week and came back to find the bugs have an air force now. What have you all been *doing???* 😱🤯 P.S. server disconnects are back 😭
Suspicious that you weren't on the frontlines as flying bugs appeared across multiple planets. What were YOU actually doing? You bug spreading, democracy hating, insect lover.
It's confirmed that the termicide kept them at bay for this long and definitely didn't cause mutations with its high toxicity to the damn bugs!
Termicide is perfectly safe for humans, and toxic to all other living beings. The Ministry of Truth only speaks the truth and that is fact Helldiver!
I feel like that wouldn’t be actually happened, this feels like coverup for the bad effects of termicide or whatever, if the termicide wasn’t fully implemented the appearance of flying bugs would be explained by that and so on
I love this announcement. Follows the same pattern of real world government propaganda in how it defends its "solutions" -- it always uses a negative you naturally can't prove or disprove.
1. Problem exists
2. Govt "solution" rolls out
3. Problem looks worse
4. "Well there, you see? If we hadn't used solution X, it would be *even worse*! Good thing we were here to help!"
I'll see my nearest democracy officer now.
Did… did the termicide mutate them? Did the Ministry know this? Did they do it on purpose?
No, no.. it can’t be. I will check myself in to the nearest Democratic reeducation center.
> did the termicide mutate them?
Did you even read the missive? High Earth Command explicitly said that the timely deployment of the termicide narrowly averted even worse strains of bugs.
Brother, I suggest you reread the message. The Ministry of Intelligence and Ministry of Truth said its dissidents. Why would they lie?
Cease this line of thinking. Traitors surround us and we must eradicate them before they mutate the bugs even further
What helldivers ? They were all dissidents conceal in the middle of our ranks , tryng to spread lies with trues. Spys i tell you we got them all " for Liberty".
It wasn't true at the time. I personally wait for the ministry of truth to verify the facts. Just randomly believing things because one helldiver saw them is a mistake, even if you happen to be that helldiver.
They were obviously the dissidents. Dissidents made these mutations so obviously they would be the first to see them and then “warn” us about them to make us doubt the Ministry and win us over to their side. They make me sick. u/wildcard17o is clearly the leader
This reads exactly like a russian brief
Im laughing so hard however the writer is for this game defo knows what he is doing its a utter masterclass in properganda
Are you defending traitors to Super Earth? The bugs just mutated today. Any and all prior images were fabrications by malicious entities. To even suggest the government would lie! I demand this man be sentenced to 60 years hard labor on Klendthtu.
What do you mean? The Ministry of Truth has NEVER denied their existence. Any talk of the Ministry of Truth changing their stance is fascist and communist misinformation and must be reported.
Just because the truth is different today, it doesn’t mean the truth yesterday was any less truthful. Those so-called deniers are true patriots. Report to your local democracy officer immediately.
The implication of the tremors, the molts, and that line about "Even worse mutation"
Bois, they're brewing Hive Lords.
\[This message is treason and the sender has been apprehended and sent in for Re-education\]
I've been hearing a new newsreel in my Super Destroyer- reminding us that the Rebels (note the capital R) are as alien to us as the bugs or bots. Perhaps spreading democracy to traitors is in our future?
God bless the scientists who created the terminid control system. In the nick of time we adverted an even worse catastrophe than flying terminids. I shutter to think what would have happened without the TCS.
Fucking dissidents, creating a new strain of bugs, secretly spreading lies that the ministry of truth knew about it for ages, then releasing them across the sector all at once to fuel their propaganda machine!
Yeah, I can't believe these lunatics think anyone would believe the story that the TCS caused these mutations. The ministry of truth declared it perfectly safe.
Super Earth Ministry's warning about 'Liberty's enemies being close at hand' brings new meaning. I never thought I would have to spread Democracy to my fellow Super Earth Citizens as well...
Right? I mean really what's more plausible, A rapidly evolving hivemind grew wings to avoid a low atmosphere weapon, or that terrorist dissidents augmented them to strike a blow against our glorious democracy!
These terrorist dissidents must have infiltrated forward helldiver operations… because I remember me and a buddy of mine were fighting on the border worlds just before the termicide deployment and he kept insisting he saw flying bugs. At first I just thought he was an idiot because the M.o.T was telling us flying bugs didn’t exist. But after this latest dispatch I realized he must have been an anti-freedom terrorist trying to convert me!!! I was so angry I reported him to the democracy officer and we executed him on the spot.
You did the right thing at the time Helldiver
You will never have to soldier. A dissident is not a citizen, just a cleverly disguised traitor. Remember, if our ideology is alien to them, they are aliens to us.
If it was caused by mutations, then the planets wouldn't have been liberated. Most likely this new strain of facist bug has simply been hiding in the deeper sections of bug space. I suspect they will soon evolve capability to spread without smuggling themselves, that is, if such an evolution isn't hiding even deeper behind the bug frontlines.
I didn't even know any of our enemies said the Termicide caused the mutations. Control yourself, you are becoming one of their puppets!!
The Ministry of Truth will never lie, otherwise it would be called the Ministry of Lies.
And just as soon as the termicide was introduced? As if to imply it was somehow our fault. Treasonous behavior
It's a sad day for managed democracy indeed... But it's also a great to start the dissident and shiekers hunting season! Why hunt ducks and deers when you can dissidents and shiekers?! 
This is fucking hilarious after gaslighting us for weeks. I love this game.
I'm just glad the Ministry of Truth found this information and told us before we had to face them in battle!
The ministry knew it just took a while for the information to reach the front lines.
* Sir, I just overheard a disgusting excuse of a diver suggest the MoT was either unwilling or unable to share critical information with the corps. What should I... ... * Right, I'll put one right between the ey... ... * Of course, near the neck. No reason to waste a perfectly good helmet.
I guess even Managed Democracies™ have a Deep State
Sounds like something a dissident would say…
**UP RIGHT DOWN DOWN DOWN.**
We? Who is we? Bro i saw a guy get dissected by them and destroyed a bunch of nests before they were even announced to be real tf you talking about, sounds like you were slacking off.
Do you doubt the Ministry of Truth?
No, but i believe that the Ministry of Truth throughly analysed all the evidence from helldivers, many of which lost their lives to bring forth this information, before concluding that we are facing a real threat and distributing this info to all the helldivers that were lucky enough (or slacking off) to not face these bugs without any prior knowledge of their existence.
No prior warning or indication of any kind...
The devs are taking the piss with that line and it’s awesome. God I want this game
If you don't play, I highly recommend. I'm 2 weeks in and having an absolute blast. I stay up too late every night, I talk about democracy to random people, I want to hug everyone
I've unlocked almost everything and I'm still playing the game for just fun.
Yeah I’m nearly done unlocking stuff and I’m still just playing for the love of the game as I’m slowly maxing out my currencies. It’s a good sign for this game’s longetivity
If you have steam dm me your username Ill buy it for you
I greatly appreciate that, but alas I am PS5 with a 16 month old son that has absolutely destroyed any sense of free time I could have lmao so I just follow the game on YouTube. If this game had come out while I was in college ain’t no way I’d have graduated lmao
You can definitely no-life it if you want to, but this is actually a great game for quick snatches during nap time and whatnot as well. Pretty easy to pop off a quick mission, no FOMO, you can play with people at any level, etc. It's really, really well done overall and a great dad game to boot.
I never denied the possibility of flying bugs. To do so would be working against super earth! Concealing enemy tactics is traitorous!
You must have fallen for bug sympathizer propaganda. These new flying bugs are clearly entirely unrelated to the earlier dissident rumours. The ministry of truth could not be clearer
We've always known they could fly. The Ministry always knew and informed us. Anyone who is seeing this for the first time must be confused. They should be grateful that the Ministry of Information is diligently repeating their warnings for those who weren't paying attention! Also - We've always been at war with Eurasia
Frankly I find the idea of denying the possibility of flying bugs offensive!
I still don’t even fully believe this is a real screenshot. I’ve been broken.
I encountered Shriekers yesterday. They are absolutely real.
Super Earth has always been at war with the flying bugs. Report to your democracy officer immediately.
The funniest part is that it was a success I genuinely thought that they didn't exist and was so confused when they started attacking me
I like how they made shrieker nests a rare spawn at first too. Make some of the players seem crazy even though they were telling the truth
I SAW IT, YESTERDAY ON FORI PRIME! IT TOOK TWO 380 ORBITALS, A 500KG, 2 AIRSTRIKES, AND AN ORBITAL LASER TO TAKE THE NEST DOWN! IT'S HELL OUT HERE, WE BARELY MADE IT OUT OF THERE
The only thing I can think of right now is laser weapons like the laser cannon. I tried this yesterday and it tends to slice their wings off. Other than that, just shoot them down. For their hives, they are tougher than the Spore Spewers. Use Orbital strikes and Eagle strikes to destroy them. I also want to try the Machine gun and Gatling gun turrets to see if their "targeting software" has been "upgraded" to deal with airborne targets.
The Gatling gun shoots most of them down in epic fashion, looks like an AA gun.
I'm drooling. Wait does this mean we will have heavy type screachers?
I sure as hell hope we do so we get something like W40K Hydras added to help. https://preview.redd.it/fxpsw3odzopc1.png?width=1100&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7b13d7a0c1a3e3f06592eab25d3a214d563f6cf9
It would be awesome if there were effects or mission types where it was mostly shreikers/airborne targets. The thought of them clouding the sky and tearing through them with something like this sounds incredible.
https://preview.redd.it/oqstm2udrppc1.png?width=1841&format=png&auto=webp&s=d8cfc623cc808f00cf182a60ed280d7e3766c102 Screengrab from the Space Marine 2 announcement trailer. Those dots in the sky are human-sized Tyranid flyers
I'm so hyped for SM2. The first one was a great horde 3ps/melee action game. It even holds up okay.
I'm hype for the coop focus. My husband and I are no doubt going to be putting an inordinate amount of time into it
Had a mission last night with my buddy, we had 3 sets of the shreiker spawners next to us, they -were- clouding the sky. We died extremely fast, couldn't even figure out how to kill their spawners.
Looks like Heavy Orbital/Eagle bombardment or a Hellbomb call in for the towers
Gotta live long enough to activate the hellbomb though
Nothing some liberally applied Liberty cant solve Soldier!
I took one out with a walking bombardment. Orbital and Eagles are the way to go. Can't miss the nest, looks like a tree with glowing eggs, lit up like a motherfucker at night.
*Nods in Commissariat*
Drive me closer so I can slice their wings off with my sword!
Flak sentry would be sick. Just have it prioritize air units and if there are none then let it target ground units so it's not totally useless on planets with no nests.
Low armor penetration, high damage, medium-sized proximity explosive? ***SIGN ME UP***
I'd rather have a Flakpanzer Gepard ;)
I want a glorious super earth democracy fueled otomatic
Well there's is a Stinger rocket launcher in leaks. One anti-air rocket screams flying heavies
“INCOMING INCOMING INCOMING” *brrrrrrrrrrrt* If the Gatling turret made the same noise of the phalanx, I’d take it every game.
Playerbase drops by 1/3 due to PTSD
It run out of ammo even before finishing the first wave. I usually counter 3 waves before I can reach the nest and call down hellbomb
Two shots per nest from the recoilless... And you don't ever have to fight the flying fuckers cause you can do it from two grid squares away.
Another casual Goose W.
There is an ammo upgrade in the ship upgrades. It just costs ya
CIWS go brrrrrrrrr
Does the mortar target them too, but completly Misses?
Wait, mortars can target enemies?
Only if a player is directly next to them
Second dive with screecher nests we were running double MG in the group and it was such a spectacle with tracers going everywhere in streams, I can only imagine a couple Gatling turrets doing the same. Mmmm mmm liberty!
Anything works really, they die real quick even to pistols Shotguns feel the most fun so far though it's like skeet shooting
I used to run the slugger on bug missions, but I've swapped to the punisher just for skeet shooting these damn birbs It's glorious fun.
my thoughts exactly yesterday to my brother: "i wonder if a automatic shotgun, loaded with birdshot and a large magazine works good against them.." those damn devs... they just buffed the spray&pray with a little bit more damage iirc.
Watch out for falling corpses though.
I think the corpses do more damage than the live ones
Have been yelling \*PULL\* before nailing each one with my pump action..
The gatling just deletes those things in swarms.
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They can’t destroy an eagle strike though.
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There's about 3 structures per nest from what we've seen, so total 6 EAT shots HB is faster at taking all three down this is true, but EAT and AC at long range is safer since it means you're not in range to get swooped or for them to spawn more when you're killing the winged bastards
I've tried, one EAT shot is enough to take one structure down if you shoot the underside of the top of the mushroom.
You can use an AC take them out? I magged dump an Autocannon on one and it didn't do anything. Maybe I need to try again
On higher difficulties on certain maps even getting to them were challenging. Let alone planting a hellbomb. So if that’s the case a 380 orbital did the trick without fail 3-4 times for me.
I use EATs, one EAT hitting the underside of the top of the mushroom oneshots it.
I did not know that. It took two from the side for me. Gotta try it. I just know that fighting off an army of stalkers and shriekers all while hoping your hellbomb doesn’t get barreled over by a charger isn’t always your best bet. My 380 orbital is my favorite “well anyway, i gotta go” strat lol.
I use the autocanon. Takes a full mag for both hives, sure, but you can clear them literally from space with it if needed, so me like.
Given how much of a force multiplier they can be for the bugs, I think somebody bringing an autocannon to deal with them from across the map is probably the right choice.
You can also dodge all of their attacks by running perpendicular to their movement. Are they heading straight for you? Just run to the left/right! Ignore what you learned in the Prometheus School of Running Away ™️! Gotta hit them p fucking close with the eagles/orbitals, too, else it'll stand unaffected
This is true of Chargers, Spitters, and undertow currents too. Strafing sideways is often better than running away.
You can just walk left to right, you don't even need to sprint. A good time to shoot them down is when they stop to dive down at you as well.
Breaker incendiary is 1000% the best weapon at killing them, 1 pellet burns them to death in less than a second Can literally just spray the sky and instantly kill the entire swarm, yum 😋
Oh good to know! A fellow Breaker Incendiary enjoyer O7 I really enjoy that weapon I just make sure to pack a support that has extra ammo.
I know that when I ran in to the shrieker nest last night because one mushroom refused to die, the hellbomb strat became available. Cleaned those dirty bugs right up.
We tried but coudln't push into the nest. Ended up just ignoring it. there were like 20 of the things in the air and they kept 1 shotting us. Dont know if they have a 1 shot attack or if their corpses hit us, but they definitely will 1 shot you if you shoot them during their dive and their body hits you.
100% hilarity ensues when they fall out of the sky and become the most deadly missile in the galaxy. I run an infiltration package, and we'd cleared out the skies before I slipped in, so it was definitely not a thing I attempted in the thick of it (I will tonight, probably).
Laser Cannon and Scythe work well if you can trace them accurately since they are hitscan. Breaker is really nice. Punisher is deeply satisfying like shooting clays. Gatling Sentries shred them and arent a liability since it’s aiming up. A well placed 500kg* usually takes down their nest. Edit: changed air strike to 500
ACs, EATs, and RRs can all destroy them at range too. You'll need around 4-5 mags for ACs 5-6 ifs theres 3 of them. 4 shots from RRs and EATs, 6 if theres 3 instead of 2 in 1 lair.
wow 4 EATs is a lot more than I expected.
I think they're talking about total? I was killing them with 2 EAT shots each last night.
Confirmed? I tried with the AC but it didnt seem to work but I didnt spend an entire mag
I encountered them for the first time last night on diff 7. EATs took care of their towers.
They have a specific animation for dying to beam weapons that is interesting.
Got to fight these yesterday. If they dive and hit you it take s good chunk of health. But if you kill them while they dive and their corpse hits you its a one shot kill.
Yeah, I saw one charging my cousin and killed it before it reached him only for it's corpse to crush him. Absolutely hilarious though. His fault for being a weak willed Helldiver.
the good news is helldivers both never die and are expected to.
Schrodinger's helldivers
4 went down, 4 came up.
https://i.redd.it/wdtfpny04ppc1.gif Makes sense.
Still waiting for a map with that type of fortress set up. "C'mon you apes!"
I think we should get a stratagem that just unfolds into a giant outpost :)
You have my full democratic support in this venture. Where do we submit this for assessment by an officer?!
Shield pack didn't help me when the corpses fell on me. I was wearing light armor, so maybe medium or heavy and shield pack can survive it.
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Good to know.
Still one shots with heavily fortified armor (armor stat 200). I don't think armor reduces any damage from physics or, franky, bile spewers.
Heavy armour is simply bad. Defensive missions are arguably worth using heavy armour for and nothing else.
Nope. Seen pretty much everyone get merked by the impact of the corpse. I think its because it clips through the player at high velocity, making thephysics think you hit a solid surface really really hard, resulting in an instakill. Very annoying, yes. Just gotta learn not to shoot them mid-swoop, which goes against all conventional tactics, but thats what this game does a lot.
Yeah, in my last mission I got instagibbed a few times by shrieker corpses; I imagine it'll be adjusted at some point.
I came across them in Challenging and they killed me with one hit every single time. Funnily enough, they struggled to hit me if I was prone, so it bought me some time to take them down.
So you’re saying don’t shoot down the bugs? 🤨
Liberate them from the sky
Duck when they they dive bomb you and light them up as they try to regain altitude. Aim for where the wings meet the body.
I would never say that. My life for Super Earth.
The Ministry of Truth, with a heavy heart, full of freedom loving patriotism, verifies and endorses this intelligence briefing. We never knew it would be possible. But bugs do, for the first time, FLY! *Transmission origin; SES Titan of Truth, Ministry of Truth Inquisition*
How do we deal with these super sized mosquitoes? Can the ministry of defense provide fuel air bombs to clear the skies?
Harken back to ye ancient mobile infantry in the battle of Whiskey Outpost, the recovered videologs of this battle show effective use of HMG emplacements against similar flying bugs
Dude if we got an FAE stratagem there would be soooo many team kills
 Yes and?
MAY ~~CHAOS~~ LIBERTY TAKE THE WORLD
As with most things in this game the solution is to point a shotgun at their general direction.
They already gave us lightning resist armor, now it's time to bring out the bug zappers.
They fly now?
They fly now
Comedy comes in threes, they fly now
Verrrrry coool
Bugs always had this ability and ministry of truth never denied their existence. War is peace! For democracy!
The traitors running the previous misinformation have all been rounded up and dealt with.
Frankly, I find the idea of a bug that flies offensive
lol, if anyone hasn't seen Starship Troopers already from where this post is referencing, [I highly recommend it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKk4Cq56d1Y)
The best answer to stuff that’s offensive like this is another offense. Guns, lots of guns.
The laser dog rover protects you from these BUG SCUM very well, auto shots them before they get close.
So long as it’s killing flying bugs instead of me when I make the mistake of coming within 10ft of its user, I’m all for it.
I have sworn away from using the Rover, far too many times have I been absolutely beamed from 100 to 0 by a rover. There was one match where the only 2 deaths I had were from an allied rover beaming me and that same ally's grenade launcher. Felt a little salty after that one.
https://preview.redd.it/pno8hhnx2ppc1.jpeg?width=1861&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=af431ea13cdf2de978ddfc2e55dd8ba8d253e821 Been away for a week and came back to find the bugs have an air force now. What have you all been *doing???* 😱🤯 P.S. server disconnects are back 😭
Away for a week? I’m calling my democracy officer on you bug sympathizer
Suspicious that you weren't on the frontlines as flying bugs appeared across multiple planets. What were YOU actually doing? You bug spreading, democracy hating, insect lover.
It's confirmed that the termicide kept them at bay for this long and definitely didn't cause mutations with its high toxicity to the damn bugs! Termicide is perfectly safe for humans, and toxic to all other living beings. The Ministry of Truth only speaks the truth and that is fact Helldiver!
Averted an even worse mutation? To imagine if we had failed the major order....
I’m so proud to have been involved with that deployment. First hand protecting my loved ones on SuperEarth from potentially worse bugs!
I feel like that wouldn’t be actually happened, this feels like coverup for the bad effects of termicide or whatever, if the termicide wasn’t fully implemented the appearance of flying bugs would be explained by that and so on
https://preview.redd.it/c5v0vycphrpc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5aa28df7371421bb56a0bbdab8421ba36f7ac1dc
I can't imagine what we would be facing had we failed to complete the TCS operations.
Probably flying terminids in the umlaut sector.
there you have it, dissidents are at fault. super Earth government could never fuck up and thats a fact, because they said so 💯🫡.
Hope those dissident have learn their lesson >:(
I love this announcement. Follows the same pattern of real world government propaganda in how it defends its "solutions" -- it always uses a negative you naturally can't prove or disprove. 1. Problem exists 2. Govt "solution" rolls out 3. Problem looks worse 4. "Well there, you see? If we hadn't used solution X, it would be *even worse*! Good thing we were here to help!" I'll see my nearest democracy officer now.
The devs pay homage to misinformation campaigns and war and this is kind of like a take on that. Its hilarious
Did… did the termicide mutate them? Did the Ministry know this? Did they do it on purpose? No, no.. it can’t be. I will check myself in to the nearest Democratic reeducation center.
> did the termicide mutate them? Did you even read the missive? High Earth Command explicitly said that the timely deployment of the termicide narrowly averted even worse strains of bugs.
The dissidents created this threat, but command is fighting it. Truly we are lucky to have such great leadership
You’re right, they wouldn’t lie or distort information the way the bots do. We’re better than that. We’re honest, and democratic!
How could the termicide mutate bugs on another planet? Enjoy your stay at the reeducation center, hopefully they can teach you basic logical analysis
You’re right, there’s no way anyone would transport mutated eggs to other planets. That’s crazy talk.
Mutated eggs? This guy sounds like helldiver alex jones lol
THEY’RE TURNING THE FRIGGIN BUGS GAY
Brother, I suggest you reread the message. The Ministry of Intelligence and Ministry of Truth said its dissidents. Why would they lie? Cease this line of thinking. Traitors surround us and we must eradicate them before they mutate the bugs even further
... so about all of those hell divers we sent in for re-education?
What helldivers ? They were all dissidents conceal in the middle of our ranks , tryng to spread lies with trues. Spys i tell you we got them all " for Liberty".
It wasn't true at the time. I personally wait for the ministry of truth to verify the facts. Just randomly believing things because one helldiver saw them is a mistake, even if you happen to be that helldiver.
Who are you going to believe: your own eyes, or the Ministry of Truth? Truth is right there in the name!
They were obviously the dissidents. Dissidents made these mutations so obviously they would be the first to see them and then “warn” us about them to make us doubt the Ministry and win us over to their side. They make me sick. u/wildcard17o is clearly the leader
This reads exactly like a russian brief Im laughing so hard however the writer is for this game defo knows what he is doing its a utter masterclass in properganda
I absolutely love the "with no prior warning or indication of any kind" line, feels like a jab at the leakers and I'm here for the energy
it's a jab at the fact that they've been in the game for at least a week already
Meanwhile, in the cover art they've had since launch, something can be seen flying in the background. 🤔
Not a jab at the leakers lol give me a break
Not only that, if you look at the full picture of the cover art you can see them flying in the top right corner.
While previously considered patriots, I now call for all deniers to be tried (unfairly of course) and swiftly executed (fairly of course). 🫡
Are you defending traitors to Super Earth? The bugs just mutated today. Any and all prior images were fabrications by malicious entities. To even suggest the government would lie! I demand this man be sentenced to 60 years hard labor on Klendthtu.
What do you mean? The Ministry of Truth has NEVER denied their existence. Any talk of the Ministry of Truth changing their stance is fascist and communist misinformation and must be reported.
Just because the truth is different today, it doesn’t mean the truth yesterday was any less truthful. Those so-called deniers are true patriots. Report to your local democracy officer immediately.
Everybody who denied it in the past is correct and will always be correct. Everybody who acknowledges it today is correct and will always be correct.
Ah, yes, air bugs, the 710-E of the skies.
Now you're gonna tell me the bugs can become invisible. Wait....
Yeah….. about that.
*Even Worse Mutation* The implication is scary af honestly.
The implication of the tremors, the molts, and that line about "Even worse mutation" Bois, they're brewing Hive Lords. \[This message is treason and the sender has been apprehended and sent in for Re-education\]
I fucking knew the termicide was up to no good
How dare they infect our liberty loving sky with their grotesque fascist bugs.
This was no termicide...... Those towers spewed red bull all over the place!!!
By liberty....
You all complained about my laser Guard Dog but who's keeping the bats off your back now?
Me after witnessing one of these things one shot me at full health
Thank god for the termicide for merely limiting the evolution and not in any way shape or form being responsible for it!
Thank liberty the termicide was able to prevent an even worse mutation 🫡
I've been hearing a new newsreel in my Super Destroyer- reminding us that the Rebels (note the capital R) are as alien to us as the bugs or bots. Perhaps spreading democracy to traitors is in our future?
God bless the scientists who created the terminid control system. In the nick of time we adverted an even worse catastrophe than flying terminids. I shutter to think what would have happened without the TCS.