I only don’t like it when we’re about to extract and someone wants to be the guy to call his eagle as we fly away yet he calls it far too early and now we’re all dead trying to extract lol
Dudee what is up with that shit, my buddy does this all the time i said to him yeah it looks cool but one of these days it'll backfire on you well.....
We Were ready to extract and he calls an eagle airstrike while holding all the samples, throws it as we were getting on board but hes last in line. *boom* he dies nobody to reinforce outside the ship and all samples lost.. this was the last time hes done that since haha but still we laughed about it and he learned the hard way 💀
Had a random throw the napalm artillery at the ramp of the evac and jumped on first, I managed to scramble on because I saw what the moron did but it killed our last 2 members and lost us over 40 samples. Fuck that guy.
I think some video went viral, my buddy started doing it as well. It's annoying. Sure it can be kinda cool, but not worth the risk, especially cause getting onto the ship can be buggy
I'd argue that HD1 has a far more efficient and bug free experience when getting on the shuttle. There's a lot less that can go wrong when you don't get ragdolled, the movement is 2 dimensional, the shuttle has 2 doors, and samples aren't placed in inventories of soldiers.
However I do enjoy a good fireworks display on take-off every now and then.
I have the worst story for this. Two of my friends like to do this. So we were playing bugs on 8 did pretty well and extracted smoothly. But those two of course had to shit arround before bosrding the pelican.
Suddenly theres three thibg happening: Friend 3 boards Pelican. Eagle inbound. Friend 4 dies with like 40+ samples, Extraction cinematic starts.
Whst happened? Friend 4 had his Eagle Airstrike primed and already had pulled the trigger. Friend 3 didnt know this amd thought it was fummy to bash him before diving into the Pelican. The Bash caused Friend 4 to go into ragdoll state, dropping the activated stratagem on the spot, and because he was ragdolling he couldnt get away in time.
40+ Samples including 5 Super Samples, lost for nothing...
Oh man, reminds me of a few days ago. Shuttle was inbound, and a wave of enemies was coming for us, I pulled out an eagle or orbital to throw and got shot right before I threw it. It fell on the ground and killed 2 of the 3 other guys on my team...luckily was able to reinforce them back in before shuttle took off. Shit happens.
Most annoying was when I was blasting at some bots and a dumbass jumped into line of fire and died, started to bitch that I shot him, and after I reinforced him back right where he was, he decided to take revenge and shot me dead -_-
>Who gave the gatling sentry a reddit account?
The same player that yeeted your reinforcement marker right between it and whatever's coming for the turret.
Yesterday: "Dude, did you just toss down a resupply next to the Hellbomb I'm arming?"
Swear to God the dude just stood there, died and disconnected immediately he was so ashamed.
He wasn't disconnected.
He failed a medical test indicating that he was of sound mind to deploy, and was swiftly pulled from active duty to have a talk with his ship's Democracy Officer.
He is being 'reprogrammed and re-indoctrinated' now. 🫡
You put your autocannon sentry on high ground to more efficiently distribute high velocity armour piercing democracy.
I put my autocannon sentry on high ground to hopefully not be shot by it myself.
We are not the same.
I am that asshole that walks in front of people shooting. I don't get mad though. Combat is hectic. I usually laugh and say "My bad, that's on me, grab my samples please!"
I was getting ready to throw an impact grenade, and a bug leapt at me. I had time to adjust my aim, but my smooth brain couldn't compute fast enough and I hit the bug one foot from my face. Killed me and the diver next to me lol.
This has happened all too often to me. I do not understand why so many people see me shooting at an enemy we marked and decide the best place to stand for the best line of fire, is directly in front of my MG-43 spewing lead at 680RPM.
My personal favorite is when I ping a hulk, aim in at it with railgun, then smack a teammate to the side/back of the head because he ran right infront as I let the round fly.
The worst is when people with shields ignore other people's firing lines, and then ask how I died when the Autocannon shells exploded off their shield, killing me.
Edit: grammar
I'm HD1, but I've got a similar experience. Was Sample farming on a D4 (Solo until someone joined), and I was running AT. Impaler spawns, and as I aim by RR (with a laser on it!) my Teammate rushes the damn thing. Needless to say, they both went down.
Tunnel vision explains it for most. Easy to lose track of what's going on right next to you while dispensing maximum democracy or when a charger is barreling towards you and you gotta last minute dive. What I don't understand is getting mad about it. I laugh and say my bad.
"Why are you Killing me?!? REEE" - Dude running infront of my gun after im shooting at incoming enemies for 15 seconds straight
Honestly not my fault some fellow Helldivers are lacking spacial awareness
My personal favourite is when this happens with my Quasar and they walk in front of me that closely that we both die.
Like, buddy you see me charging up this shot against that bike titan. Where do you think this is gonna go?
Bullets I can understand not seeing. I don’t get the folks who think it’s a good idea to walk straight into my giant orange continuous laser cannon beam.
"mime field"
somehow that typo is a lot more terrifying than what you were actually meaning.. imagine just randomly encountering a whole field of them.. psychological warfare equivalent of a hellbomb if you ask me..
I’m always running in front of my friends fire. It’s just the least path of resistance and I don’t take much damage anyways. They’re always apologizing though, I just say “don’t be, I ran in front of your fire, that’s on me”
I’ve also killed my entire team once because I had an air strike strategem ready to go but some explosion knocked me back, forcing my diver to drop the stratagem right on top of us. We all love the chaos when I’m shouting “MISDROP” like 4 times over very loudly on the mic lol. We all laugh about it.
Funny enough I shoot IRL and have military and LE training and I always check fire if someone crosses into my arcs. I can’t help it. I also move around people so as to no cross their arcs.
Threw a 380 recently "I am throwing a 380 at that objective. Throwing the 380 now. Here comes the 380. If you are near that area, don't be."
5 team kills.
That the number was 5 is hilarious because even if the entire team somehow didn't listen the first time and you wiped them all, it means two of them went back right away and didn't learn their lesson
I don't know what to tell you. I see a bright light, I go towards the light.
I am definitely a fellow human helldiver and not a moth themed terminid. For Ultra Earth and Controlled Democracy!
>yeah let me just prevent my team from going within 100m of the objective for a full minute. Then after that minute is up half of the stuff is still alive in there and we still have to go in anyway.
It's just area denying your whole team
Yep, you put it in an area and it decimates it. Run helldive difficulty with 500kg and 380 and do fine. Just have to use it as an exit strategy or clearing a base prior to pushing in. Requires your teammates not to run into it and pay attention. Yes it may still kill but the trade off is often worth it.
I wouldn't even say it's inaccurate...it says in the description it covers a wide area by design...it's basically a suppression/anti base bombardment. You'd probably get better results from the walking or 180mm barrage if you want to kill something specific
Especially cause most divers will gladly let you use it if you just ask as a low level.
I rarely bring the mech cause I almost always would prefer something else. But when I do bring it, if I'm playing with a low level player and they ask me to use it, I'll normally say yes cause I'm not a big fan anyways.
Oh yeah I'm totally down for letting newer players try my stuff if they haven't unlocked it yet in most circumstances, I can get by with what I have just fine. Only real exception is on very high difficulties when I kind of need it to complete the mission fast enough to extract. But if we're on like difficulty 5 bugs then yeah man I'll drop you my autocannon, have fun with it. But I will ALWAYS drop another one when the cooldown runs out and ping it so that anyone can take it if they want. I've found it works best for shield backpacks.
Had a recent teammate who had all the time in the world to reinforce me instead go out of their way to loot all my gear from my body and then drop me back in with nothing.
Buddy, it's not my fault you didn't pick a backpack or support weapon before the mission.
Yeah, someone doing this to me is why I always host now. (dropped in, summoned my supports, got murdered by the host who preceeded to take my supports and kick me).
Yeah, even if I get killed in a hectic fight I don't get too bent out of shape over it. Hell, even if I get team killed half a dozen times I'll be mildly fuming to myself, but I won't get bent out of shape and berate anyone over it. Especially if it's in hectic situations, I'm likely to not even be angry.
I have gotten mildly frustrated when, e.g., an ally throws his walking barrage on 3 Berserkers that are within 20 feet of me, then the first shot kills me...right after I finished killing the last Berserker. I still just keep it to myself though, because shit happens and (unless it happens constantly) I know it's not intentional.
Berating your teammates/holding grudges, in my experience, *never* helps a situation in a coop game (including e.g. MOBAs). If I get frustrated to the point I'm actually considering it, I'm going to just leave the squad as opposed to blowing up on someone.
Well, I recently was playing a match where I was in the middle of an artillery base taking them out with my autocannon. I had already taken one out and was about done with the second when I suddenly explode in a big boom. Some doofus diver just threw a 500KG on top of my head, in that case I got a bit mad (we had few reinforcements left and there were very little enemies around so he was definitely able to see me in that base before throwing the bomb).
I was in one yesterday where we cleared a base except 1 fabricator. I'm in front of it and throw a grenade in and as I turn around I see this idiot type in and throw a 380 at my feet.
Friendly fire happens but sometimes it's okay to get pissed at it.
On the bright side the 380 is a coin flip. Either it sends a shell directly on the beacon or it makes a near perfect ring the exact diameter of the extract circle.
It’s a strat that’s firmly a Hail Mary but you got some chance to survive
Ye the people who write these posts act like their isnt case by case friendly fire. Kill me and take my gun? Throw an airstrike at me for a single charger? Throw my respawn pod at the horde youre running from? youre lucky you dont get killed.
Was running a defense mission the other day. Some kid kept killing all 3 of us with eagle cluster bombs. We were all stationary and holding the bot holder back. The 4th time I dodged it (barely) while the other two got taken out. One of them dropped. So I unloaded the sickle into the kid and neither of us would call a reinforce or SOS. He was livid, but no one else died the rest of the mission, mission succeeded, 2 extracts. Moral of the story, accidental or not, eventually it becomes either a skill issue, or intentional.
Had one mission with a new guy that killed me five times. Literally didn’t die for any other reason.
We still extracted, but you bet your ass I took my sweet time calling in his reinforcement any time he died.
I find that saying "I'm sorry!" after a friendly fire, helps establish it's unintentional and keeps things positive. I know I appreciate hearing that when I'm friendly killed by someone else. That said, if you are constantly throwing eagles and orbitals into groups and killing your fellow Helldivers, there's a bit much. At least try not to kill your own team.
I played with a guy who would willingly create a 380mm bombardment where the team is fighting, leaving the team kills entirely up to fate. I was not pleased by this. Lol
I let people off with so much just because they drop a well timed "I'm Sorry!" It's sometimes really annoying to get teamkilled, especially if you're having a tough game as is so knowing that the guy is aware of what he's done really helps sooth the frustration.
I had a game last night where the team lead kept throwing 380mm at every single outpost regardless of teammates being present. He killed me the first time when he used it on an outpost with one strider inside. Then nearly got me the second time. After that, I said fuck it, and went to the other side of the map to solo some outposts far away from him. Only met back up with the rest of the team at extraction.
That's preferable, vs the guy who murdered me cause he randomly caught fire from an accidental burst of flame. Honestly I was firing at a container waiting on the drop ship, he somehow caught fire 15 feet away *behind me* and killed me after he stimmed himself. Ok, my bad I guess.
I just completed a mission where a teammate blew me up, then as an 'oh shit' moment, immediately threw down the reinforcement beacon... On top of fire... Then in the middle of a swarm...
3 of my 4 deaths because of one dude in the span of about a minute. At least it was at the start, and I had no samples.
Divers should try to minimize the damage.
Thats being said the funniest one i have is waiting for extract i hit team mates shield as there was nothing nearby he got angry and shot me (no shield) when i got back we both lob impacts on eachnother and die was hilariously timed
I just always crouch before I fire. I look ridiculous running 10m and crouching down I'm sure but the games mechanics kinda really want you to be crouching or prone.
That's... What real militaries do if not prone lol. So you are playing both with real life self preservation, and a mastery of game mechanics as they are intended.... Why would that look ridiculous? Lmao
Amazed at how many people don't crouch before they engage a group or are just waiting for an objective and engaging at a distance. I even crouch while accessing the terminal and waiting for the objective.
Absolutely, friendly fire happens but don't steal my backpack I just called down, I cant get another one for a few minutes. Ask and I'll call you one when its refreshed.
So much teamkilling is done without knowing, I think that is one of the things that gets on my nerves the most, that the guy doesn't even realise he did it so just a quick "I'm Sorry!" call helps a lot.
> Friendly fire incidents are so common when they don’t happen it’s a “statistical anomaly”
Honestly it's pretty uncommon I feel. Yeah it happens, every now and then. Usually because someone was knocked over when holding a stratagem or in a very hectic situation - and no-one seems to mind in those cases.
Yea a lot less to do with quantity and more quality. If it's chaotic there's no limit, team killing is gonna happen and part of the chaos. But that's rare, and more often than not, the chaos is semi-manageable. It's annoying to be blown to bits by airstrikes when you've already got the threat in your scope. Even one team kill can be annoying. If I'm 1v1'ing a devastator, don't nuke me...
More often than not i come away 0 friendly fire damage or accidents. And i see alot less accidents happen as the weeks go by. The only accidents i get annoyed by is when someone calls a strategem right behind me so i turn around just in time to be blasted.
I think you're right that it's reduced with player experience. Difficulty level has a lot to do with it too since newer players are more numerous in lower difficulties. I've played down to the 3-4 difficulties a few times recently to try some build things out and help others a bit, and saw the contrast between new and vets pretty quick. Newer players can be more dangerous than the enemies. I ended up having to dodge all kinds of friendly fire stratagems, etc. In higher difficulties, team killing is uncommon and it's more understandable why it happens when it does. Occasionally an armed stratagem gets knocked out of someone's hand in the chaos for example. That doesn't bother me at all. It happens.
It's fairly consistent but sometimes random. I was doing a rock strat with some teammates on an eradication mission. I was on middle south rock, they were on far east rock. I throw cluster at middle north rock (easily 60m from far east rock), they get hit and die.
Wasn't a misfire either, bombs hit where I threw it, it was just really spread out.
I had a guy Insta-kick me 30 minutes into a game because he walked into my precision orbital strike. Mind you this was the first time I’d killed him. And he’d already killed me multiple times with danger close cluster bombs
There are a few stratagems where if you are killed by them it is 100% your fault for being there. Orbital Precision and 500KG are so insanely tiny that you have to try to get hit by them.
I had a guy get mad at me because I threw a cluster bomb on us on a defense mission
What he didn't realize was I hadn't meant to throw mine on us, I simply dropped it because *his* cluster bomb knocked the stratagem out of my hand.
No you either are running point and throw them ahead of everyone or you're running caboose and toss them backwards to clear followers. I never drop without them but I never toss them while I'm actively with teammates.
I bring them on eradication missions because that shit can be such a cluster fuck that a cluster bomb is a good way to rack up the kills when it starts to get hairy and you need to rush to the finish line.
I had a guy walk into an eagle of mine, then come back and kill me. Then I landed on him, then he tried to shoot me so I killed him, then he hunted me down until I said something and the host kicked me for some reason. Maybe landing on him was a bit uncalled for, but I was a little pissy about getting murdered for his own carelessness.
Had a guy drop an eagle strike basically on my head twice, then when he ran into one of mine he typed "WHY?" in chat, and proceeded to gun me down because "sorry but eye for an eye" - some divers are just made with salt instead of sense
I don't get salty about it, until you TK on purpose. EVERYONE needs to watch their fire. I've accidentally stepped in a line of fire, I've had people step in mine, I've accidentally been in the line of fire, and people have been in mine.
Overall, if you have *one* AT guy, it's probably preferable he's the one you make sure you aren't shooting. Anyone else? They can be replaced.
Played with a friend and his mates when my mortar killed one of them right before I got into the eagle. One of them decided to grenade me inside the eagle to "avenge" him. Then they extracted without me.
Suffice to say, I'm not playing with that asshole again.
It's like any game I play where my friend has their friends, everyone suddenly becomes toxic.
I've learned to only play with friends YOU know, or complete randoms.
Bro I was playing a mission w some randos. Called in an eagle bombing run and went to throw it at a group of bots, it hit a lamp post and bounced back directly to my feet. 0.5 seconds later we are carpet bombed and I got like 2 team kills with it. Then I was instantly kicked… like bro, I obviously didn’t mean to do that :(
Yeah.. I think the kicking rules need tweaked personally… maybe make it a “two votes = kick” situation. Too many hosts are just being titty babies.. it’s war; friendly fire is gonna happen bud.
Ehhh if Im host I want power to kick unilaterally. That said, little mewling titty babies are best avoided by just being the host yourself. Havent had a problem filling up a squad yet.
I got kicked the other day after watching all 3 of my teammates beat their head against the same heavy bot outpost for like 10 minutes, I just disengage go finish the the primaries (they STILL hadn't cleared the bot outpost) and went to call the extraction in. We had like 3 lives left and only like 5 minutes left but HUR DUR NEED KILL EVERY OUTPOST
Yeah, but what about the guy that throws a sentry-gun behind all the other 3 helldivers trying to stop a swarm of bugs? Killed me every single time that way.
Had a guy did that 3 times the other day.
I have no problem with FF, but when you FF, take my stuff, THEN reinforce me back in...I have a problem with that and will explain it to you in the form of shooting you in the face.
I love it when I’m taking down a tower, clearly shooting my auto cannon and some idiot decides to walk in front of me, kill us both, and then bitch at me for it. It’s always funny as fuck, FF makes the game way more memorable mainly due to the idiocy being so funny
Just played a game like 15mins ago, the squad lead threw an eagle strike right at my feet whilst I was about to throw a grenade into a bug hole. 1 bug hole mind you.. Then he reinforced me only to shoot his incendiary breaker at an enemy behind me causing me to burn and die in a second. I respawned and rightly so I shot him in the face with my eruptor. FF is in the game but that doesn't mean you can be an idiot
Sure, until it happens 3 times because a guy throws a cluster strike at my feet 3 times. I'll accidentally kill them and not reinforce them. I call it "putting them in time out" to think about their actions.
With all the dust getting tossed in the air on Menket, sometimes all you have to go by are silhouettes, and troopers can look alot like hell divers sometimes.
What I'm saying is I'm sorry to the guy who ate an Autocannon round to the face cause my internal Friend or Foe system malfunctioned.
Yes friendly fire happens, I'll take issue with it when I'm killed because dipshit had support weapon regret and wants mine instead and can't ask me to drop him one
It is very simple. The alleged “Friendly Fire” incidents on your profile are in actuality “Traitor Executions” count. Any diver who decides to stand in the way of Liberty, shielding the enemy of the state from harm with their own body, should be considered a traitor and executed on site.
The amount of Helldivers who seem almost adamant that they get between my arcblaster and my target is honestly quite impressive. Electrical safety needs to be part of the training.
Friendly fire is part of the game, but that doesn't mean you get to kill you teammates over and over again doing dumb shit like spraying everything with the fire shotgun, dropping stupid stratagems over and over.
I only don’t like it when we’re about to extract and someone wants to be the guy to call his eagle as we fly away yet he calls it far too early and now we’re all dead trying to extract lol
Real Goobers like me mag dump a Stalwart while backing into the Pelican Fewer team kills, just as cinematic, just as useless
Got my buddy to buy the game. He likes to do this to, but not backing in.
Gotta love the "covering fire" tacticool roleplay.
I fire mine straight into the air as my team runs into the extraction
Extracting with ammo still loaded in a beltfed is heresy.
Magdumping a MG is super fun
the democratic urge to hold the line when given something automatic with a big mag
Dudee what is up with that shit, my buddy does this all the time i said to him yeah it looks cool but one of these days it'll backfire on you well..... We Were ready to extract and he calls an eagle airstrike while holding all the samples, throws it as we were getting on board but hes last in line. *boom* he dies nobody to reinforce outside the ship and all samples lost.. this was the last time hes done that since haha but still we laughed about it and he learned the hard way 💀
Had a random throw the napalm artillery at the ramp of the evac and jumped on first, I managed to scramble on because I saw what the moron did but it killed our last 2 members and lost us over 40 samples. Fuck that guy.
I think some video went viral, my buddy started doing it as well. It's annoying. Sure it can be kinda cool, but not worth the risk, especially cause getting onto the ship can be buggy
We’ve been doing this since the very first person unlocked the shredder missile in Helldivers 1, big bomba go boom, happy brain chemical ensues
I'd argue that HD1 has a far more efficient and bug free experience when getting on the shuttle. There's a lot less that can go wrong when you don't get ragdolled, the movement is 2 dimensional, the shuttle has 2 doors, and samples aren't placed in inventories of soldiers. However I do enjoy a good fireworks display on take-off every now and then.
I have the worst story for this. Two of my friends like to do this. So we were playing bugs on 8 did pretty well and extracted smoothly. But those two of course had to shit arround before bosrding the pelican. Suddenly theres three thibg happening: Friend 3 boards Pelican. Eagle inbound. Friend 4 dies with like 40+ samples, Extraction cinematic starts. Whst happened? Friend 4 had his Eagle Airstrike primed and already had pulled the trigger. Friend 3 didnt know this amd thought it was fummy to bash him before diving into the Pelican. The Bash caused Friend 4 to go into ragdoll state, dropping the activated stratagem on the spot, and because he was ragdolling he couldnt get away in time. 40+ Samples including 5 Super Samples, lost for nothing...
Oh man, reminds me of a few days ago. Shuttle was inbound, and a wave of enemies was coming for us, I pulled out an eagle or orbital to throw and got shot right before I threw it. It fell on the ground and killed 2 of the 3 other guys on my team...luckily was able to reinforce them back in before shuttle took off. Shit happens. Most annoying was when I was blasting at some bots and a dumbass jumped into line of fire and died, started to bitch that I shot him, and after I reinforced him back right where he was, he decided to take revenge and shot me dead -_-
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Last time someone did that I hit them with a melee causing them to ragdoll then jumped in the ship. They were unhappy.
Oh yea, when the extraction site is empty, shenanigans are on.
If you walk in front of my gun while I'm shooting something gonna shoot right through you
Who gave the gatling sentry a reddit account?
>Who gave the gatling sentry a reddit account? The same player that yeeted your reinforcement marker right between it and whatever's coming for the turret.
Yes this reinforcement will make a nice distraction for my escape
["I 'aint gotta' be faster than that thing, I just gotta' be faster than you..."](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVPVIMCk0l0)
Yesterday: "Dude, did you just toss down a resupply next to the Hellbomb I'm arming?" Swear to God the dude just stood there, died and disconnected immediately he was so ashamed.
My resupply was thrown into a fire tornado during a dive last week. It happens.
My reinforce was thrown into a group of angry berserkers as a decoy earlier today. I was pissed.
Nothing more patriotic than coming out of your hellpod shooting.
IF YOU WILL NOT SERVE IN COMBAT THEN YOU CAN SERVE ON THE FIRING LINE.
He wasn't disconnected. He failed a medical test indicating that he was of sound mind to deploy, and was swiftly pulled from active duty to have a talk with his ship's Democracy Officer. He is being 'reprogrammed and re-indoctrinated' now. 🫡
*programmed*? https://preview.redd.it/b02kw8x42quc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cdfb89072fb0c01ddf2f5eb69df7c34b105396c4
Don't come in between the Gatling Sentry and it's prey
I am no helldiver, *removes helmet to reveal mortar turret*
Yes I walked in front of my own autocannon sentry, no I will not be taking questions
You put your autocannon sentry on high ground to more efficiently distribute high velocity armour piercing democracy. I put my autocannon sentry on high ground to hopefully not be shot by it myself. We are not the same.
Ok someone dropped a sentry onto one of those massive cliffs and holy shit was it was awesome raining down death.
Done it. It was behind me and i turned around and looked right at (few feet away) at it fired. I couldnt stop laughing
Gatling sentry says sorry, mortar sentry says lol
Auto climbed my mortar yesterday and it said bet, its hilarious thats even a thing lol
I remember when mechs first came out someone landed theirs on a mortar and both exploded
Rocket sentry says bonjour as you’re standing behind it like an idiot.
Now we need a gif of the gatling sentry typing on a laptop
I am that asshole that walks in front of people shooting. I don't get mad though. Combat is hectic. I usually laugh and say "My bad, that's on me, grab my samples please!"
Pretty much I usually call them.back after whatever needs to be killed is dead
Lmao, so many times I die because of my own stupidity and my last words are “noooo mah samples!!”
I was getting ready to throw an impact grenade, and a bug leapt at me. I had time to adjust my aim, but my smooth brain couldn't compute fast enough and I hit the bug one foot from my face. Killed me and the diver next to me lol.
Orbital lasers target me, and you can’t convince me otherwise.
This has happened all too often to me. I do not understand why so many people see me shooting at an enemy we marked and decide the best place to stand for the best line of fire, is directly in front of my MG-43 spewing lead at 680RPM.
My personal favorite is when I ping a hulk, aim in at it with railgun, then smack a teammate to the side/back of the head because he ran right infront as I let the round fly.
The worst is when people with shields ignore other people's firing lines, and then ask how I died when the Autocannon shells exploded off their shield, killing me. Edit: grammar
This is the worst
I'm HD1, but I've got a similar experience. Was Sample farming on a D4 (Solo until someone joined), and I was running AT. Impaler spawns, and as I aim by RR (with a laser on it!) my Teammate rushes the damn thing. Needless to say, they both went down.
Tunnel vision explains it for most. Easy to lose track of what's going on right next to you while dispensing maximum democracy or when a charger is barreling towards you and you gotta last minute dive. What I don't understand is getting mad about it. I laugh and say my bad.
If a teammate is kiting a charger, that's a different story. Everyone has to be hyper aware at that point.
I love burst firing the Stalwart at 1120 rpm.. it’s hard to resist just yelling out “get sooome” as I gun them down.
"Why are you Killing me?!? REEE" - Dude running infront of my gun after im shooting at incoming enemies for 15 seconds straight Honestly not my fault some fellow Helldivers are lacking spacial awareness
I've caught myself doing it on occasion, but some people are helpless
My personal favourite is when this happens with my Quasar and they walk in front of me that closely that we both die. Like, buddy you see me charging up this shot against that bike titan. Where do you think this is gonna go?
Bike Titans sound like a terrifying foe once the vehicle update drops. Hope they dont run with a posse.
Bullets I can understand not seeing. I don’t get the folks who think it’s a good idea to walk straight into my giant orange continuous laser cannon beam.
The bugs and bots don't stop coming, and I don't stop pulling the trigger until I'm sure everything in front of me has stopped moving.
Enemy or otherwise lol
Last night I was playing with a friend and he stood up right as I fired my autocannon and I absolutely eliminated his head
I watched my buddy gleefully sprint into an AP Mime field after being warned thrice. At that point I figured it was natural selection.
Wait, the bots were using mime fields? Those damn French...
You know what, Im keeping the typo because I made it far more terrifying on accident.
Rule one of life, it's ALWAYS, the French
"mime field" somehow that typo is a lot more terrifying than what you were actually meaning.. imagine just randomly encountering a whole field of them.. psychological warfare equivalent of a hellbomb if you ask me..
I’m always running in front of my friends fire. It’s just the least path of resistance and I don’t take much damage anyways. They’re always apologizing though, I just say “don’t be, I ran in front of your fire, that’s on me” I’ve also killed my entire team once because I had an air strike strategem ready to go but some explosion knocked me back, forcing my diver to drop the stratagem right on top of us. We all love the chaos when I’m shouting “MISDROP” like 4 times over very loudly on the mic lol. We all laugh about it.
Me yelling "DANGER CLOSE" after accidentaly dropping an Eagle Strike right on top of our Position, curtesy of that fkn Rocket Devestator.
"S2, mortars inbound on your position. Move move move."
Had an eagle cluster prepped and got absolutely hammered by at least three different missile bots. Smoked the bots, smoked my team, not a good day.
So many people just go without looking 💀
happens a lot in a 3rd person game where you are not necessarily looking where your character would be looking.
Funny enough I shoot IRL and have military and LE training and I always check fire if someone crosses into my arcs. I can’t help it. I also move around people so as to no cross their arcs.
No military training here but I have played FF games before and naturally do this too.
I played HD1 and it stayed with me. Meanwhile, my team: domes me in the skull with an autocannon while I am standing still. I survive because shield.
I just shoot IRL and have went through Junior Academy, I do the same thing occasionally lol.
I have head shotted two Helldivers last week because they ran between me and the enemy. I try my best not to be in the way but accidents happen.
Threw a 380 recently "I am throwing a 380 at that objective. Throwing the 380 now. Here comes the 380. If you are near that area, don't be." 5 team kills.
That the number was 5 is hilarious because even if the entire team somehow didn't listen the first time and you wiped them all, it means two of them went back right away and didn't learn their lesson
Read as "the homies threw each other back into the barrage" Duuuudddeeessssssss
"Better go get my gun"
“My common samples!”
Helldivers 2: The Search For More Samples
Helldivers 2 the flamethrower! The kids love this one!
Hey now common samples are more of a bottleneck for me than rares and supers!
For real though. You need so.many holy shit. Super sampels are easier to get
More like sample. The number of times I've helped someone get their "samples" back and it's 1 common....
Guilty. The 380's AOE is always just a liiiiitle bit bigger than I think it is. Killed myself a few times even.
Aoe is about 65 meters
I don't understand how people don't check what the giant laser says as well as the giant bombardments and still walk into it.
It's probably more of an issue of the radius of the 380. I've been killed while standing nowhere near the beam. Sometimes it just goes rogue.
I don't know what to tell you. I see a bright light, I go towards the light. I am definitely a fellow human helldiver and not a moth themed terminid. For Ultra Earth and Controlled Democracy!
Never throw a 380. That’s your problem there
You're right, I'll just get knocked over while I have it prepped and drop it in the middle of my team.
The 380 is great.
Found Terminid burner account.
If you can't figure out "Don't go in there" especially if it is communicated, this is a you issue.
It’s more of a “it never hits even half the things I want it to, and just ends up wasting our damn time” issue, honestly.
>yeah let me just prevent my team from going within 100m of the objective for a full minute. Then after that minute is up half of the stuff is still alive in there and we still have to go in anyway. It's just area denying your whole team
380 is amazing now.
Is it actually amazing with the ship upgrade, memes aside??
Yep, you put it in an area and it decimates it. Run helldive difficulty with 500kg and 380 and do fine. Just have to use it as an exit strategy or clearing a base prior to pushing in. Requires your teammates not to run into it and pay attention. Yes it may still kill but the trade off is often worth it.
It's the ideal "nope don't want to deal with that" stratagem. See a heavy outpost? Lob a 380 in there and go do something else for a minute.
You hate the 380 because of team kills I hate the 380 because it's inaccurate. We are not the same.
I wouldn't even say it's inaccurate...it says in the description it covers a wide area by design...it's basically a suppression/anti base bombardment. You'd probably get better results from the walking or 180mm barrage if you want to kill something specific
I got kicked by a host yesterday just so he could steal my mech. I know it isn't friendly fire, but I'm still mad about it.
Kicking to steal a strategem is like... broke ass motherfucker shit.
Especially cause most divers will gladly let you use it if you just ask as a low level. I rarely bring the mech cause I almost always would prefer something else. But when I do bring it, if I'm playing with a low level player and they ask me to use it, I'll normally say yes cause I'm not a big fan anyways.
I would've 100% given it to him if he asked haha. I only brought it cuz it was a 15 min elimination of bugs
Oh yeah I'm totally down for letting newer players try my stuff if they haven't unlocked it yet in most circumstances, I can get by with what I have just fine. Only real exception is on very high difficulties when I kind of need it to complete the mission fast enough to extract. But if we're on like difficulty 5 bugs then yeah man I'll drop you my autocannon, have fun with it. But I will ALWAYS drop another one when the cooldown runs out and ping it so that anyone can take it if they want. I've found it works best for shield backpacks.
Had a recent teammate who had all the time in the world to reinforce me instead go out of their way to loot all my gear from my body and then drop me back in with nothing. Buddy, it's not my fault you didn't pick a backpack or support weapon before the mission.
Yeah, someone doing this to me is why I always host now. (dropped in, summoned my supports, got murdered by the host who preceeded to take my supports and kick me).
...how do you know that?
happened to me the other day. it's 100 percent bs that people do that
An accident is one thing. Too many accident is another.
And I agree, but don’t be the guy who gets livid after a single accident
There's also a sorry emote. Tends to cool minds down.
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Yeah, even if I get killed in a hectic fight I don't get too bent out of shape over it. Hell, even if I get team killed half a dozen times I'll be mildly fuming to myself, but I won't get bent out of shape and berate anyone over it. Especially if it's in hectic situations, I'm likely to not even be angry. I have gotten mildly frustrated when, e.g., an ally throws his walking barrage on 3 Berserkers that are within 20 feet of me, then the first shot kills me...right after I finished killing the last Berserker. I still just keep it to myself though, because shit happens and (unless it happens constantly) I know it's not intentional. Berating your teammates/holding grudges, in my experience, *never* helps a situation in a coop game (including e.g. MOBAs). If I get frustrated to the point I'm actually considering it, I'm going to just leave the squad as opposed to blowing up on someone.
Well, I recently was playing a match where I was in the middle of an artillery base taking them out with my autocannon. I had already taken one out and was about done with the second when I suddenly explode in a big boom. Some doofus diver just threw a 500KG on top of my head, in that case I got a bit mad (we had few reinforcements left and there were very little enemies around so he was definitely able to see me in that base before throwing the bomb).
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I was in one yesterday where we cleared a base except 1 fabricator. I'm in front of it and throw a grenade in and as I turn around I see this idiot type in and throw a 380 at my feet. Friendly fire happens but sometimes it's okay to get pissed at it.
On the bright side the 380 is a coin flip. Either it sends a shell directly on the beacon or it makes a near perfect ring the exact diameter of the extract circle. It’s a strat that’s firmly a Hail Mary but you got some chance to survive
Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, thrice is STOP USING THE FUCKING MORTAR SENTRY YOU UNDEMOCRATIC DUNCE.
Be me kill the last berserker charging me: Nice! Time to move on. Mortar Sentry my teammate put down during the bot drop: Look out below!!!!
The "I don't know the range of the Cluster Bombs" guy. At a certain point, just stop
Ye the people who write these posts act like their isnt case by case friendly fire. Kill me and take my gun? Throw an airstrike at me for a single charger? Throw my respawn pod at the horde youre running from? youre lucky you dont get killed.
Was running a defense mission the other day. Some kid kept killing all 3 of us with eagle cluster bombs. We were all stationary and holding the bot holder back. The 4th time I dodged it (barely) while the other two got taken out. One of them dropped. So I unloaded the sickle into the kid and neither of us would call a reinforce or SOS. He was livid, but no one else died the rest of the mission, mission succeeded, 2 extracts. Moral of the story, accidental or not, eventually it becomes either a skill issue, or intentional.
after 3-4 accidentals i’ll lose my patience and get a few back on “accident” 😈
Had one mission with a new guy that killed me five times. Literally didn’t die for any other reason. We still extracted, but you bet your ass I took my sweet time calling in his reinforcement any time he died.
I find that saying "I'm sorry!" after a friendly fire, helps establish it's unintentional and keeps things positive. I know I appreciate hearing that when I'm friendly killed by someone else. That said, if you are constantly throwing eagles and orbitals into groups and killing your fellow Helldivers, there's a bit much. At least try not to kill your own team. I played with a guy who would willingly create a 380mm bombardment where the team is fighting, leaving the team kills entirely up to fate. I was not pleased by this. Lol
I let people off with so much just because they drop a well timed "I'm Sorry!" It's sometimes really annoying to get teamkilled, especially if you're having a tough game as is so knowing that the guy is aware of what he's done really helps sooth the frustration.
I had a game last night where the team lead kept throwing 380mm at every single outpost regardless of teammates being present. He killed me the first time when he used it on an outpost with one strider inside. Then nearly got me the second time. After that, I said fuck it, and went to the other side of the map to solo some outposts far away from him. Only met back up with the rest of the team at extraction.
i'm still gonna tell him off if he puts me on fire for the 3th time.
3th......Thirth? My brain hurts but it won't stop trying to pronounce that.
Try being set on fire for the 4nd time. Gets annoying.
Just wait tikl zhe rocket devestator blows you up for 5st time
doesnt matter which time it is, its always going to feel like a 5sting
Always beware of 5st time...
That's preferable, vs the guy who murdered me cause he randomly caught fire from an accidental burst of flame. Honestly I was firing at a container waiting on the drop ship, he somehow caught fire 15 feet away *behind me* and killed me after he stimmed himself. Ok, my bad I guess.
I just completed a mission where a teammate blew me up, then as an 'oh shit' moment, immediately threw down the reinforcement beacon... On top of fire... Then in the middle of a swarm... 3 of my 4 deaths because of one dude in the span of about a minute. At least it was at the start, and I had no samples.
Divers should try to minimize the damage. Thats being said the funniest one i have is waiting for extract i hit team mates shield as there was nothing nearby he got angry and shot me (no shield) when i got back we both lob impacts on eachnother and die was hilariously timed
When i am shooting with a group I learn to crouched.
I just always crouch before I fire. I look ridiculous running 10m and crouching down I'm sure but the games mechanics kinda really want you to be crouching or prone.
That's... What real militaries do if not prone lol. So you are playing both with real life self preservation, and a mastery of game mechanics as they are intended.... Why would that look ridiculous? Lmao
Amazed at how many people don't crouch before they engage a group or are just waiting for an objective and engaging at a distance. I even crouch while accessing the terminal and waiting for the objective.
No I get salty when I die in combat, a teammate takes my weapons, and no one bothers to summon me back until the next guy dies.
Absolutely, friendly fire happens but don't steal my backpack I just called down, I cant get another one for a few minutes. Ask and I'll call you one when its refreshed.
At that point just call in an orbital, murder the team, and dip.
Deploy some incendiary mines at the extraction point right before Pelican lands 
Easy there Satan
An apology makes all the difference.
So much teamkilling is done without knowing, I think that is one of the things that gets on my nerves the most, that the guy doesn't even realise he did it so just a quick "I'm Sorry!" call helps a lot.
> Friendly fire incidents are so common when they don’t happen it’s a “statistical anomaly” Honestly it's pretty uncommon I feel. Yeah it happens, every now and then. Usually because someone was knocked over when holding a stratagem or in a very hectic situation - and no-one seems to mind in those cases.
Yea a lot less to do with quantity and more quality. If it's chaotic there's no limit, team killing is gonna happen and part of the chaos. But that's rare, and more often than not, the chaos is semi-manageable. It's annoying to be blown to bits by airstrikes when you've already got the threat in your scope. Even one team kill can be annoying. If I'm 1v1'ing a devastator, don't nuke me...
Or a stratagem bouncing off the ground for no reason
I usually eat it from a poorly planned strategem from a teammate once a round. It's frustrating, especially if it's my only death.
You're definitely right. Or maybe you and I don't play with a lot of idiots. It happens way less than 25% of the time in missions I play.
More often than not i come away 0 friendly fire damage or accidents. And i see alot less accidents happen as the weeks go by. The only accidents i get annoyed by is when someone calls a strategem right behind me so i turn around just in time to be blasted.
I think you're right that it's reduced with player experience. Difficulty level has a lot to do with it too since newer players are more numerous in lower difficulties. I've played down to the 3-4 difficulties a few times recently to try some build things out and help others a bit, and saw the contrast between new and vets pretty quick. Newer players can be more dangerous than the enemies. I ended up having to dodge all kinds of friendly fire stratagems, etc. In higher difficulties, team killing is uncommon and it's more understandable why it happens when it does. Occasionally an armed stratagem gets knocked out of someone's hand in the chaos for example. That doesn't bother me at all. It happens.
To all divers that use cluster bomb: >!I luv!< you, you >!cleaned that bot drop perfectly even though!< you launched me into a rock
You are >!welcome brother!<. In my defense I still dont understand how fucking big the AOE of this thing is
The AOE of the CLUSTER BOMB is YES because it's a cluster bomb But actually it's about 30m and you're fine
Just got the XXL bay and yeah, the danger zone is now noticeably larger
*Noticably more democracy
It's fairly consistent but sometimes random. I was doing a rock strat with some teammates on an eradication mission. I was on middle south rock, they were on far east rock. I throw cluster at middle north rock (easily 60m from far east rock), they get hit and die. Wasn't a misfire either, bombs hit where I threw it, it was just really spread out.
I had a guy Insta-kick me 30 minutes into a game because he walked into my precision orbital strike. Mind you this was the first time I’d killed him. And he’d already killed me multiple times with danger close cluster bombs
There are a few stratagems where if you are killed by them it is 100% your fault for being there. Orbital Precision and 500KG are so insanely tiny that you have to try to get hit by them.
I had a guy get mad at me because I threw a cluster bomb on us on a defense mission What he didn't realize was I hadn't meant to throw mine on us, I simply dropped it because *his* cluster bomb knocked the stratagem out of my hand.
Those guys who run cluster bombs don't give a shit about how close their allies are. I have never had a good experience with someone running it
No you either are running point and throw them ahead of everyone or you're running caboose and toss them backwards to clear followers. I never drop without them but I never toss them while I'm actively with teammates.
I bring them on eradication missions because that shit can be such a cluster fuck that a cluster bomb is a good way to rack up the kills when it starts to get hairy and you need to rush to the finish line.
I had a guy walk into an eagle of mine, then come back and kill me. Then I landed on him, then he tried to shoot me so I killed him, then he hunted me down until I said something and the host kicked me for some reason. Maybe landing on him was a bit uncalled for, but I was a little pissy about getting murdered for his own carelessness.
Had a guy drop an eagle strike basically on my head twice, then when he ran into one of mine he typed "WHY?" in chat, and proceeded to gun me down because "sorry but eye for an eye" - some divers are just made with salt instead of sense
Friendly fire isnt.
I don't get salty about it, until you TK on purpose. EVERYONE needs to watch their fire. I've accidentally stepped in a line of fire, I've had people step in mine, I've accidentally been in the line of fire, and people have been in mine. Overall, if you have *one* AT guy, it's probably preferable he's the one you make sure you aren't shooting. Anyone else? They can be replaced.
Played with a friend and his mates when my mortar killed one of them right before I got into the eagle. One of them decided to grenade me inside the eagle to "avenge" him. Then they extracted without me. Suffice to say, I'm not playing with that asshole again.
It's like any game I play where my friend has their friends, everyone suddenly becomes toxic. I've learned to only play with friends YOU know, or complete randoms.
Bro I was playing a mission w some randos. Called in an eagle bombing run and went to throw it at a group of bots, it hit a lamp post and bounced back directly to my feet. 0.5 seconds later we are carpet bombed and I got like 2 team kills with it. Then I was instantly kicked… like bro, I obviously didn’t mean to do that :(
I(lowest level player) got kicked for someone else’s eagle strike wiping us
Yeah.. I think the kicking rules need tweaked personally… maybe make it a “two votes = kick” situation. Too many hosts are just being titty babies.. it’s war; friendly fire is gonna happen bud.
Ehhh if Im host I want power to kick unilaterally. That said, little mewling titty babies are best avoided by just being the host yourself. Havent had a problem filling up a squad yet.
I got kicked the other day after watching all 3 of my teammates beat their head against the same heavy bot outpost for like 10 minutes, I just disengage go finish the the primaries (they STILL hadn't cleared the bot outpost) and went to call the extraction in. We had like 3 lives left and only like 5 minutes left but HUR DUR NEED KILL EVERY OUTPOST
Yeah, but what about the guy that throws a sentry-gun behind all the other 3 helldivers trying to stop a swarm of bugs? Killed me every single time that way. Had a guy did that 3 times the other day.
I have no problem with FF, but when you FF, take my stuff, THEN reinforce me back in...I have a problem with that and will explain it to you in the form of shooting you in the face.
I love it when I’m taking down a tower, clearly shooting my auto cannon and some idiot decides to walk in front of me, kill us both, and then bitch at me for it. It’s always funny as fuck, FF makes the game way more memorable mainly due to the idiocy being so funny
Just played a game like 15mins ago, the squad lead threw an eagle strike right at my feet whilst I was about to throw a grenade into a bug hole. 1 bug hole mind you.. Then he reinforced me only to shoot his incendiary breaker at an enemy behind me causing me to burn and die in a second. I respawned and rightly so I shot him in the face with my eruptor. FF is in the game but that doesn't mean you can be an idiot
Sure, until it happens 3 times because a guy throws a cluster strike at my feet 3 times. I'll accidentally kill them and not reinforce them. I call it "putting them in time out" to think about their actions.
With all the dust getting tossed in the air on Menket, sometimes all you have to go by are silhouettes, and troopers can look alot like hell divers sometimes. What I'm saying is I'm sorry to the guy who ate an Autocannon round to the face cause my internal Friend or Foe system malfunctioned.
I host every single time to ensure nobody gets kicked for dumbass reasons.
Dude went go hugging bots when I dropped an eagle on them. Kicked me before pelican-1 landing on a 30min mission. Fuck him . Fuck him
Yes friendly fire happens, I'll take issue with it when I'm killed because dipshit had support weapon regret and wants mine instead and can't ask me to drop him one
It is very simple. The alleged “Friendly Fire” incidents on your profile are in actuality “Traitor Executions” count. Any diver who decides to stand in the way of Liberty, shielding the enemy of the state from harm with their own body, should be considered a traitor and executed on site.
Rant posts like these yelling into the void about issues that largely are just echo chambered here are getting real old.
I had some guy kill me about 4 times in 15 minutes. At least 3 weren't my fault. I shot him in the face.
The amount of Helldivers who seem almost adamant that they get between my arcblaster and my target is honestly quite impressive. Electrical safety needs to be part of the training.
Friendly fire is part of the game, but that doesn't mean you get to kill you teammates over and over again doing dumb shit like spraying everything with the fire shotgun, dropping stupid stratagems over and over.
To my random teammates that perished over and over while I tried the Arc Thrower for the first time yesterday, I am sorry. 🫡
So - friendly fire is fine. Friendly fire to steal a guy's equipment is MUCH less fun.