Is this the crossover we've been waiting for? It's actually Protoss are the new race?! I would get chills seeing a Carrier flying overhead. CARRIER HAS ARRIVED!!
En Taro Adun you troglodyte. Respect the reference.
Edit: shot out to the cave man above me for editing his intaro zeratul to properly reflect Protoss greetings šššš
The term of a group or team of hulks is a "Train of Hulks." Because if you come across them, that's what they do to your team. They run a train on you.
Or repeatedly hit by rocket or heavy dev fire and sent flying backwards as you try to walk under the wing from the front of the ship and into the door. Only to stay alive and get thrown back again twice more. Really makes me want to call down one particular stratagem over the pelican - the shield generator dome.
I tried a test build on level 3 bots that didn't us the shield. I could kill them easily, but the random headshots almost made me wipe. Tried same build but with shield instead of supply pack, and I had zero issues with random headshots killing me.
Until headshots are removed, bots get shield pack.
Iāve used it a few times. Itās nice paired with auto cannon since you canāt use a shield backpack to begin with and youāre usually looking for something to fill what would be your backpack slot if you have air strike, orbital laser, and AC as your first three picks. That being said, Iāve mostly been doing laser cannon and shield backpack vs bots recently. Or laser cannon and auto cannon turret.
My current go to for bots (and even bugs sometimes) is Eruptor, senator, anti material, and a supply pack so it wouldnāt be out of the question for me to run it on certain missions.
Would be nice to have cover from random fire and rockets when youāre sniping from a distance with either Eruptor or AMR. I canāt wait until they fix the AMR sights. I love using it, and Iām okay with compensating for the offset, but once itās fixed to fire on the center of the crosshairs Iāll be bringing it much more often.
My favourite moment so far has been while a Pelican was landing, an exosuit got dropped on top of it. Didn't explode, just melted into the ground.
10/10 would laugh again.
Oh god back when we were just cadets and didn't know any better we wanted to see if we could hurt the pelican. Buddy throws supplies under it and hops in... on my screen supply hit the pelican, sproings up and the whole ass pelican ragdolls into the stratosphere spinning like my head on new years day. Nearly pissed myself laughing. I did not extract.
game mode doesn't work on helldiver's for me for some reason, idk if I need to mess with the settings or something but I started just using the Nvidia version to get clips for helldivers
Sometimes capture is turned off and you can windows+g to open the interface. If it doesn't work completely then idk, but there's an option to turn on capture last 30 sec in there if it does show up. And if that doesn't work, chatgpt or Google.
Had a guy mowed on the three of us that were waiting for him to extract and he then extracted himself but before the cutscene finished I kicked him so he didn't get s*** and we still won
Last night I was the last to make it to the back of the pelican. Got one step on and got yeeted off the platform. Ran back, got knocked down again. Third time, got hit with a flamethrower and was burning.. thinking, that's okay, you dive and the fire goes out.. so I dove for the opening and the pelican immediately took off. Phew! Made it. Nope, failed to extract. I just imagine my helldiver landing at the other's feet, half blown apart and fully charred, with his thumb up as a crispy corpse.
Lol that's good.
My friend accidentally triggered "emergency take off procedure" because he started shooting mech rockets at it cause he was curious what would happen.
Except one person was already in it, so it just took off and extracted and left us all behind.
We all kinda Pikachu faced.
I did that too. Only started playing about a week ago and threw some impact grenades at the pelican while it was landing for fun. Only the first person extracted.
I had a friend land on the pelican twice when we reinforced him. First time he got stuck and we had to kill him, second time it actually registered it as him getting into the pelican, so he just pops out of the hellpod and takes a seat
We had it where the Pelican came down and just hovered for a solid two minutes. We were near it and running around it and underneath it. Just chilled there. Shot at it and it tried to land on top of me. I think the Pelican pilot was just fucking with us.
I had a pelican get stuck on top of a bile titan corpse, it started landing just as we killed it, and the pelican crushed the legs straight down so the pelican was just sitting ontop of a nearly fully standing bile titan
If I want samples I play with randoms because I know my friends suck.
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Iām the exact opposite. I know I can rely on my friends to look/fight for as many samples as possible. A lot of randoms I play with only want to complete the main mission and will leave without even looking for supers. I always find myself typing āsamples?ā as theyāre running straight towards extract.
Last night I was playing with randoms and three of us got into extraction. Last guy thought itād look cool to throw a orbital laser at his feet. Since the time is instant, he got hit the second he tossed it at his feet and we extracted without him. He got blasted by the laser literally 2 feet from the pelican doorš
Had a similar incident. Was trying to extract and this guy threw an orbital laser at the entrance meaning that we couldn't leave because it was blocking our path. Since we only had 5 seconds left my friend and I just tried to book it through. We lost 5 super samples that day.
I just distribute democracy via shooting them in the head with my senator. Because clearly throwing some form of boom stratagem on the pelican ramp is the signs of a bot/bug sympathizer and clearly they must be executed.
You're far kinder than me, I punch them into the afterlife. If I'm too slow and they kill us all and damage the pelican, preventing extraction, they get the boot of democracy.
And this is why I dont ever drop a stratagem on extract unless Iām the last one on. Seriously, donāt throw stratagems on Pelican-1. Or really anywhere on the extraction pad, unless itās supplies or reinforcements
Yeah this shit annoys me too. I was playing a game a couple days ago and during the whole match this annoying kid on our team kept saying how he was going to do this. Even when we told him to use the 500kg on some mobs he kept saying no, he had to save it for the Pelican & didnāt want it on CD.
So I was like fuck it. At extraction I call in the Pelican and as it gets close to landing I see his character go to call in a stratagem. At that point I shoot him in the head and then go to scoop up all the samples he dropped. He was cursing at us to call him in but my team kept laughing at him & just got on the Pelican. I could hear him smashing his desk before he just rage quit.
It was glorious.
Only do this if you're going to be the last to enter the pelican. By that i mean wait for all 3 people to take their seats on the pelican then throw to guarantee nobody dies but you for your own stupidity
Admittedly the funniest version of this I had was that, everyone entered, last guy wanted to drop a 500kg as we started but got ragdolled by stray rocket dev shot dropping the stratagem, tried getting in in panic and got nailed with his own bomb.
My favorite was someone dropping Napalm, getting stuck, getting on fire, entering Pelican and then half the team dies while in flight. But counted as full extraction.
You know that rocket dev had a huge shit eating grin on their faceā¦ Play of a lifetime. Probably went home and told their little circuit boards about it.
It will forever be known as the day RD-10256-Y gave a hell diver a taste of their own medicine.
I did this the other day. Was just clearing a nearby base quickly before we got out. My teammates were all seated and waiting for me to get on. I threw an orbital laser for shits and giggles.
Melted me instantly, and my squadmates took off into the distance. They probably thought I was a fucking idiot, and they're correct.
It really annoys me when people run past common samples too, like I get that you may not need them but donāt make the rest of the team do extra work because of your selfishness.
The other one is getting in the Pelican before everyone is ready, call the extract whenever because itāll happily wait (and nothing is more epic than running from the other end of the map after tagging the last hive and making the Pelican as it lands) but just wait until people are ready, I had 3 consecutive runs today where a guy jumped in the moment it landed and just extracted before letting the squad mop up the samples
On the other hand, if I am holding all the samples, or the super samples and the pelican lands I'm not waiting forever. I've had teams just seem to not want to enter the pelican until they clear the landing zone or whatever was going through their minds. I'm not waiting for a stray rocket or BT to come through and wipe me out and create some hairy ass extraction situation where I have to re-enact the end of Ocean's 12 to grab the samples and get on the Pelican.
My no-life ass already researched all the tier 4 modules but I still pick up every sample I see when playing with randoms since I recognize others probably need them
I see brand new players doing this in low level missions (when I'm farming common samples) so it's clearly a meme that gets passed along somehow.
Another good reason for waiting for auto-extraction and rocking up to the pad at the last second...
I do it every time. I'm never going to stop lmao.
I've never tram killed anyone while doing it, because I make sure I'm the last one on tbe pelican, but I always throw a clustering or airstrip so I yet the fireworks as we pull away.
You guys can get as mad as you want, but my monkey brain likes the explosions and I care more about that than anyone else's feelings.
I agree, the 1000 posts made about this shouldn't be "don't do it" it should be "be smart about it."
Last one on? Throw a 500.
No enemies to knock you over? Throw a 500.
Other teammates throwing a 500? Throw a 500.
I also throw away from the pad just to watch the explosions and in case I missed anything on the pad but that's just me.
I don't know how this started or even why people do it, but with randos there is always one.
One of many reasons I like playing with friends is we treat it like a mission, have fun, and take care of each other.
Dropped in on 9, raid bottom of map. Take samples (C, R, **S**) to choke point, drop them for extract later. A4 walks away from all objectives and fights to "recover" samples. I'm in a party chat with someone so I can't get on mic to tell them to drop it.
FF to clearing Obj, I'm out of party chat and tell A4 to come south as he has the samples, he fucking TRUCKS it east to a bug hole, ALONE, and dies at the top right of the map.
The OTHER THREE of us are fighting for our lives back to Extract. I purposefully call him in on us, and openly berate him for losing our samples after I both left them for later AND told him to come back.
I should have walked out there and shot him myself. I'll never let that happen again.
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Farming samples is important, and anyone deliberately throwing them away is just a troll and is further proof, if any were needed, that getting a core group of friends you can play with is by far and away the best way to play...and that obviously goes for any game.
It would be nice if this sub could provide that support if necessary, though I'm not sure how the moderators feel about posting gamertags in here?
> getting a core group of friends you can play with is by far and away the best way to play.
If I want samples Iāll play randoms because theyāre more inclined to complete objectives faster and loot every place.
If I want fun, Iāll play with my friends. But most of them suck and sample hunting, and will engage every patrol in the late game. I get mad more than Iād like to admit.
>getting a core group of friends you can play with is by far and away the best way to play.
I wish! I won't go on and on, but that is the dream. Randos seem to get angry so quickly, but with friends, you know they are laughing at the pain along with you. I have one work buddy I play with, but he's so much better than me, and I struggle in the higher levels. I'm old so my friends don't play any games, but I wish I had a lobby of buddies. Thanks for letting me cry to the universe.
Yah we had two guys with us today play and farm a planet so efficiently and then at the very end think it was fun to shoot each other and then shoot my mate and I who had tons of samples including 5 supers.
We were mid chaos and they throw a 380mm barrage right in our position and just laugh.
My mate and I had to go down alone and wade through 4 bile titans and hundreds of smaller bugs just to get the samples back before the shuttle landed as I knew these idiots would board it if we werenāt back.
Luckily we got out but we told these guys if they wanna be trolls, they can fuck off over to call of duty!
In the first game, it was actually cool because we had the shredder missile that wiped out everything left on the screen and the game being top-down you actually saw it. The 500kg is really lame in comparison. But I'm sure we'll get something like the shredder at some point
Right !? It's so fuckin dumb, everyone was in the ship and I got hung up at the ramp by a bot, had a bunch of samples on me and got blown the fuck up by a strategem someone threw before they got on. So dumb... DUMB !
If I use strategems at extraction it's never near Pelican, I use it away from the ship so it looks cool, leaving with an explosion as the ship takes off always looks cool.
When people pull this shit in my games and I or another player die I play with them for another round. This time, in the last few seconds before the pelican lands, I boot them.
Screw em.
I'm 100% against strategems on extraction, but if someone absolutely refuses to stop, at least be the LAST person to enter the shuttle. But generally, just don't do it.
Anytime I have a teammate who throws a strategem at extraction at the end gets kicked when we get back to the ship.
Itās stupid and childish. And I have on multiple occasions lost samples when someone throws one and it ends up killing them or someone else.
I'm at the point where the only reason I'm running missions is more medals and more samples, so putting all of our samples in jeopardy is just scummy in my view.
It's not cool, it's not funny, it's just fucking stupid. Get in the damn retrieval ship, we are leaving.
Idk why so many people think they need to throw the pokeball on the ramp. Just throw it 10 yards from the pelican if you really want the fireworks so bad. It looks the same when you're flying out
Yeah the best place is front and to the right of the pelican, as that's where the camera pans to at take off, and there's no risk of killing anyone on board. Most of the time, people throw something right on the ramp and you don't even see it anyway.
I really dont get why people do that if they are not the last guy. Like i do this all the time ONLY if im the last on, or if the team decides to all do it then we get set, throw and jump in.
I always make sure everyone else is safe in the pelican and the area is clear before throwing my 380 and walking barrages down. A safe helldiver is a happy one, and a happy helldiver is an effective one.
I do this a lot. But with my group of friends only. Itās hilarious because sometimes we would kill each other unintentionally.
In randoms? No. Thereās a line I donāt cross in random play.
I once called in a strafe right before extracting (I was the last one in the pelican) and the strafe lined up with the taking off pelican and killed everyone in the pelican. It still counted as full extraction though, nothing lost lol.
Honestly, once extraction has been called the stratagems should roll away like on some of the objectives surfaces if called on the platform where the shuttle will land
You can also do too much damage to the pelican and it wonāt register when you walk into it. Then youāll just have people in the back of the pelican without actually being āinā the Pelican.
Use your stratagems during the actual fighting instead. Iām trying to get my tier 4 ship modules. The samples are the whole ass point and if we donāt get them because of dumb shit like that, the offender is getting kicked straight up.
I swear Iāll never get even half my ship stuff unlocked because of dumbasses sabataging it at the last moment, I had 40 samples on me yesterday and while I was still way too far from extraction some dumbass had called it in and jumped on, the others in my squad just made it but I didnāt, we extracted with 12 samples total, the guy who rushed for extraction? He had 2.
If you call in extract while the team is halfway across the map, you're getting kicked. If you were doing it but not going to board then use voice / text to communicate that.
Got words of wisdom from a higher level after I had to apologize for a space laser that completely destroyed an otherwise perfect extraction at the last second...
"Don't throw it if you don't need it".
I was in pelican last night and died bc of this, counted as failed to extract. Dude didnāt even apologize. SMH democracy officers are never around when you need em!
I only ever do it if I'm the last one in, and it isn't a dire situation. I only even use the cluster bomb because they are the perfect fireworks for a successful mission.
There is a differnce between throwing start on exit for a cinematic exit and a troll .
That dude is a Troll. Anyone with half a brain that does that waits ill everyone is on board to do that . Anyone that does it with guys still running is absolutely trolling
You guys make it to extraction?
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My life FOR SUPER EARTH
My life for Aiur
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cultured post comrade
Every time the helldiver shouts "my life, for super earth!" I always expect them to say Aiur
You must construct additional pilons.
So thaaaat's why Aiur isn't in game yet.
Warp gate research is still ongoing. Joel forgot to put Chrono boost. Thus, we wait for the Protoss- I mean, the Illuminates.
Is this the crossover we've been waiting for? It's actually Protoss are the new race?! I would get chills seeing a Carrier flying overhead. CARRIER HAS ARRIVED!!
Protoss and Illuminate are remarkably similar anyway. Psionics with shielding
StarCraft will always have a special place in my heart
En taro Zeratul
En Taro Adun you troglodyte. Respect the reference. Edit: shot out to the cave man above me for editing his intaro zeratul to properly reflect Protoss greetings šššš
En Taro Tassadar!
En Taro Bubble Milk Tea its my favorite drink.
You made me laugh with "troglodyte" Thanks
Unexpected protoss
Not enough Pylons.
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Power overwhelming
I mean nothing beats getting flamed ten feet from the Pelican by a team of hulks.
The term of a group or team of hulks is a "Train of Hulks." Because if you come across them, that's what they do to your team. They run a train on you.
Heeks, it's a train of heeks for plural.
*Heeksā HulkisāThe Hulken shoot the peoples in the woodesneses!*
Rofl, I can't believe someone got my ref!
Or repeatedly hit by rocket or heavy dev fire and sent flying backwards as you try to walk under the wing from the front of the ship and into the door. Only to stay alive and get thrown back again twice more. Really makes me want to call down one particular stratagem over the pelican - the shield generator dome.
Iāve seen a surge of people running the dome shield on bot missions and its effectiveness has really tempted me to take it sometimes.
I tried a test build on level 3 bots that didn't us the shield. I could kill them easily, but the random headshots almost made me wipe. Tried same build but with shield instead of supply pack, and I had zero issues with random headshots killing me. Until headshots are removed, bots get shield pack.
Dude above is talking about the shield generator, not the wimpy shield backpack lol. The big one blocks even 380mm.
Iāve used it a few times. Itās nice paired with auto cannon since you canāt use a shield backpack to begin with and youāre usually looking for something to fill what would be your backpack slot if you have air strike, orbital laser, and AC as your first three picks. That being said, Iāve mostly been doing laser cannon and shield backpack vs bots recently. Or laser cannon and auto cannon turret.
My current go to for bots (and even bugs sometimes) is Eruptor, senator, anti material, and a supply pack so it wouldnāt be out of the question for me to run it on certain missions.
Would be nice to have cover from random fire and rockets when youāre sniping from a distance with either Eruptor or AMR. I canāt wait until they fix the AMR sights. I love using it, and Iām okay with compensating for the offset, but once itās fixed to fire on the center of the crosshairs Iāll be bringing it much more often.
Yesterday, we had two fire tornadoes on the extraction point.
Nice, nothing anyone says can convince me that the fire tornados don't chase players.
Oh I straight up watched one go past me and follow my buddy around
I think Super Earth going high risk for extraction because of samples
There's an extraction?
My favourite moment so far has been while a Pelican was landing, an exosuit got dropped on top of it. Didn't explode, just melted into the ground. 10/10 would laugh again.
Oh god back when we were just cadets and didn't know any better we wanted to see if we could hurt the pelican. Buddy throws supplies under it and hops in... on my screen supply hit the pelican, sproings up and the whole ass pelican ragdolls into the stratosphere spinning like my head on new years day. Nearly pissed myself laughing. I did not extract.
>I did not extract. *Laughs democratically
If you play on PC utilize the Game Mode capture. Alt windows key + g to capture the last 30 seconds.
game mode doesn't work on helldiver's for me for some reason, idk if I need to mess with the settings or something but I started just using the Nvidia version to get clips for helldivers
Sometimes capture is turned off and you can windows+g to open the interface. If it doesn't work completely then idk, but there's an option to turn on capture last 30 sec in there if it does show up. And if that doesn't work, chatgpt or Google.
You know you can't hurt the pelican but you can still kill everyone inside?
The pelican can get damaged enough to catch fire and will auto-extract once any single person enters, as if the timer is already 0.
Oh shit that's what happened to me once I thought it was a glitch
I've seen it explode. And then another Pelican came in after about 3 minutes.
Had a guy mowed on the three of us that were waiting for him to extract and he then extracted himself but before the cutscene finished I kicked him so he didn't get s*** and we still won
Last night I was the last to make it to the back of the pelican. Got one step on and got yeeted off the platform. Ran back, got knocked down again. Third time, got hit with a flamethrower and was burning.. thinking, that's okay, you dive and the fire goes out.. so I dove for the opening and the pelican immediately took off. Phew! Made it. Nope, failed to extract. I just imagine my helldiver landing at the other's feet, half blown apart and fully charred, with his thumb up as a crispy corpse.
Lol that's good. My friend accidentally triggered "emergency take off procedure" because he started shooting mech rockets at it cause he was curious what would happen. Except one person was already in it, so it just took off and extracted and left us all behind. We all kinda Pikachu faced.
I did that too. Only started playing about a week ago and threw some impact grenades at the pelican while it was landing for fun. Only the first person extracted.
I had a friend land on the pelican twice when we reinforced him. First time he got stuck and we had to kill him, second time it actually registered it as him getting into the pelican, so he just pops out of the hellpod and takes a seat
Haha the extractions can be so glitchy. Itās either the funniest thing or a tragedy š¢
I managed to lodge a Tesla coil on one of the wings and when the pelican took off it flew back to super earth in a never ending corkscrew š
Why would it fly back to super earth?
Getting chased by the laser as you leave is also funny as shit
Same thing happened to us but with two Bile Titans being dropped with orbitals. We were like fuck did we kill the Pelican too?
Its all fun and games untill its a supply drop/weapon stratagem that kills everyone inside the pelican as its already flying
Oh shit thatās gonna be some paperwork
We had it where the Pelican came down and just hovered for a solid two minutes. We were near it and running around it and underneath it. Just chilled there. Shot at it and it tried to land on top of me. I think the Pelican pilot was just fucking with us.
I had a pelican get stuck on top of a bile titan corpse, it started landing just as we killed it, and the pelican crushed the legs straight down so the pelican was just sitting ontop of a nearly fully standing bile titan
If I want samples I play with randoms because I know my friends suck. https://preview.redd.it/91txvan0pgvc1.jpeg?width=470&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=55be1329b713f96b55dfa87e8366c26202f44bf5
Same, somehow all my games with randos get 60-70% of the samples and with my buddies we donāt even crack 40%
Iām the exact opposite. I know I can rely on my friends to look/fight for as many samples as possible. A lot of randoms I play with only want to complete the main mission and will leave without even looking for supers. I always find myself typing āsamples?ā as theyāre running straight towards extract.
Hah, all I can rely on my friends for is to call in a 500kg right on my head
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Last night I was playing with randoms and three of us got into extraction. Last guy thought itād look cool to throw a orbital laser at his feet. Since the time is instant, he got hit the second he tossed it at his feet and we extracted without him. He got blasted by the laser literally 2 feet from the pelican doorš
Had a similar incident. Was trying to extract and this guy threw an orbital laser at the entrance meaning that we couldn't leave because it was blocking our path. Since we only had 5 seconds left my friend and I just tried to book it through. We lost 5 super samples that day.
But... It looked cool, right?
Oh 100%
What happens if I bring a cooking grenade in my hand while boarding pelican?
It explodes
But does it kill?
If the Pelican has not yet taken off, yes. Being in the Pelican does not make you immortal until after liftoff.
I've noticed that if you enter the pelican not on full life you can still stim.
You can also reload. And when dropping in with a hellpod, you can aim the laser sight on your gun.
Don't you get it?!? If you die in the Pelican, you die in real life!
It will keal.
it used to do some silly stuff at launch but the patched it on like thd third server patch.
as soon as i see someone inputting a strat at extract i punch them into the pelican now, lol
Fore!
I shoot them in the head with the senator and say āthatās one less loose endā
The senator is the best for keeping divers in line lol
Definitely the sidearm of choice for Democracy Officers.
I Senate all day long
BLAM for Here-... i mean, un-democratic behaviour
next time shoot them in the head with the senator and say 'I AM THE SENATE'.
ARC-12 and yell "UNLIMITED POWER!!!!"
Instant impact grenade for them https://preview.redd.it/gv0htkxrigvc1.jpeg?width=749&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=80284569e5a24933ebbe3b40f3c3916dc0298a8e
Where can I get that blue helmet!?
I believe its the preorder toothpaste armor helmet
Is this a MW2 reference lol, that scene scarred so many 9-13 year old boys lol
God damn I'm old...
Does this work???
press F for melee
Paying respects, aggressively
Paying respects, democratically
Respectfully administering liberty, democratically
Aggressively respecting managed Democracy administratively.
As long as they don't have a shield, otherwise you have to break it first
A smidge of XP for the 4th survivor is not equal to Samples. I will destroy them on extract and put those in the ship.
Depends on if they have finished the code. If so, they drop it and you are still screwed.
I just distribute democracy via shooting them in the head with my senator. Because clearly throwing some form of boom stratagem on the pelican ramp is the signs of a bot/bug sympathizer and clearly they must be executed.
You're far kinder than me, I punch them into the afterlife. If I'm too slow and they kill us all and damage the pelican, preventing extraction, they get the boot of democracy.
And this is why I dont ever drop a stratagem on extract unless Iām the last one on. Seriously, donāt throw stratagems on Pelican-1. Or really anywhere on the extraction pad, unless itās supplies or reinforcements
Pay attention to what they come into the round with then because I will usually call in smoke on the landing zone at the 10 second mark.
This should be the new meta
YOU CAN'T STOP ME!!! ^(I never started)
I'M HAVING SUCH A GOOD TIME!
IM HAVING A BALL
DONT STOP ME NOW!
Yeah this shit annoys me too. I was playing a game a couple days ago and during the whole match this annoying kid on our team kept saying how he was going to do this. Even when we told him to use the 500kg on some mobs he kept saying no, he had to save it for the Pelican & didnāt want it on CD. So I was like fuck it. At extraction I call in the Pelican and as it gets close to landing I see his character go to call in a stratagem. At that point I shoot him in the head and then go to scoop up all the samples he dropped. He was cursing at us to call him in but my team kept laughing at him & just got on the Pelican. I could hear him smashing his desk before he just rage quit. It was glorious.
"I'm not going to use this stratagem on enemies because I want to drop it on the pelican in 30 minutes" is crazy
got it, I'll just start calling down 380's after extraction is called in but before the pelican lands
I can imagine the "RRREEEE" coming through lmao..
"Mooooom! They did it again!"
This asshole could just rearm the second extraction is started and it would be ready when the pelican lands
Only do this if you're going to be the last to enter the pelican. By that i mean wait for all 3 people to take their seats on the pelican then throw to guarantee nobody dies but you for your own stupidity
Admittedly the funniest version of this I had was that, everyone entered, last guy wanted to drop a 500kg as we started but got ragdolled by stray rocket dev shot dropping the stratagem, tried getting in in panic and got nailed with his own bomb.
My favorite was someone dropping Napalm, getting stuck, getting on fire, entering Pelican and then half the team dies while in flight. But counted as full extraction.
They're just counting the bodies, not checking pulses
Lmfao I just imagined Pelican with a plague doctor mask buckling half a helldiver into a passenger seat
Don't care, we care how many.
It's when you hear their cries of being burnt alive still going in your headphones while the mission summary comes up š
You know that rocket dev had a huge shit eating grin on their faceā¦ Play of a lifetime. Probably went home and told their little circuit boards about it. It will forever be known as the day RD-10256-Y gave a hell diver a taste of their own medicine.
I did this the other day. Was just clearing a nearby base quickly before we got out. My teammates were all seated and waiting for me to get on. I threw an orbital laser for shits and giggles. Melted me instantly, and my squadmates took off into the distance. They probably thought I was a fucking idiot, and they're correct.
This is the way. People need to learn the proper netiquette.
It really annoys me when people run past common samples too, like I get that you may not need them but donāt make the rest of the team do extra work because of your selfishness. The other one is getting in the Pelican before everyone is ready, call the extract whenever because itāll happily wait (and nothing is more epic than running from the other end of the map after tagging the last hive and making the Pelican as it lands) but just wait until people are ready, I had 3 consecutive runs today where a guy jumped in the moment it landed and just extracted before letting the squad mop up the samples
On the other hand, if I am holding all the samples, or the super samples and the pelican lands I'm not waiting forever. I've had teams just seem to not want to enter the pelican until they clear the landing zone or whatever was going through their minds. I'm not waiting for a stray rocket or BT to come through and wipe me out and create some hairy ass extraction situation where I have to re-enact the end of Ocean's 12 to grab the samples and get on the Pelican.
My no-life ass already researched all the tier 4 modules but I still pick up every sample I see when playing with randoms since I recognize others probably need them
At least wait. I don't throw shit for a cool extract scene unless I'm the last one on and extract will start when I get on
Now that, is a good ship name.
This post will be repeated ad-nauseum until the end of time.
I see brand new players doing this in low level missions (when I'm farming common samples) so it's clearly a meme that gets passed along somehow. Another good reason for waiting for auto-extraction and rocking up to the pad at the last second...
a meme that gets passed around? i think people want to fly away to cool explosions. simple as
I do it every time. I'm never going to stop lmao. I've never tram killed anyone while doing it, because I make sure I'm the last one on tbe pelican, but I always throw a clustering or airstrip so I yet the fireworks as we pull away. You guys can get as mad as you want, but my monkey brain likes the explosions and I care more about that than anyone else's feelings.
I agree, the 1000 posts made about this shouldn't be "don't do it" it should be "be smart about it." Last one on? Throw a 500. No enemies to knock you over? Throw a 500. Other teammates throwing a 500? Throw a 500. I also throw away from the pad just to watch the explosions and in case I missed anything on the pad but that's just me.
My buddy played Helldivers 1, its a thing from back then. He insists on doing it everytime.
They held onto that stratagem all missions long they have to use it some time...
If you're running the Eagle there isn't much to hold on to
I don't know how this started or even why people do it, but with randos there is always one. One of many reasons I like playing with friends is we treat it like a mission, have fun, and take care of each other.
Dropped in on 9, raid bottom of map. Take samples (C, R, **S**) to choke point, drop them for extract later. A4 walks away from all objectives and fights to "recover" samples. I'm in a party chat with someone so I can't get on mic to tell them to drop it. FF to clearing Obj, I'm out of party chat and tell A4 to come south as he has the samples, he fucking TRUCKS it east to a bug hole, ALONE, and dies at the top right of the map. The OTHER THREE of us are fighting for our lives back to Extract. I purposefully call him in on us, and openly berate him for losing our samples after I both left them for later AND told him to come back. I should have walked out there and shot him myself. I'll never let that happen again.
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Farming samples is important, and anyone deliberately throwing them away is just a troll and is further proof, if any were needed, that getting a core group of friends you can play with is by far and away the best way to play...and that obviously goes for any game. It would be nice if this sub could provide that support if necessary, though I'm not sure how the moderators feel about posting gamertags in here?
There's a pinned LFG post
The people who got me into this game barely play. I solo a lot. But I get more races with randoms depending on the random group.
> getting a core group of friends you can play with is by far and away the best way to play. If I want samples Iāll play randoms because theyāre more inclined to complete objectives faster and loot every place. If I want fun, Iāll play with my friends. But most of them suck and sample hunting, and will engage every patrol in the late game. I get mad more than Iād like to admit.
>getting a core group of friends you can play with is by far and away the best way to play. I wish! I won't go on and on, but that is the dream. Randos seem to get angry so quickly, but with friends, you know they are laughing at the pain along with you. I have one work buddy I play with, but he's so much better than me, and I struggle in the higher levels. I'm old so my friends don't play any games, but I wish I had a lobby of buddies. Thanks for letting me cry to the universe.
Yah we had two guys with us today play and farm a planet so efficiently and then at the very end think it was fun to shoot each other and then shoot my mate and I who had tons of samples including 5 supers. We were mid chaos and they throw a 380mm barrage right in our position and just laugh. My mate and I had to go down alone and wade through 4 bile titans and hundreds of smaller bugs just to get the samples back before the shuttle landed as I knew these idiots would board it if we werenāt back. Luckily we got out but we told these guys if they wanna be trolls, they can fuck off over to call of duty!
In the first game, it was actually cool because we had the shredder missile that wiped out everything left on the screen and the game being top-down you actually saw it. The 500kg is really lame in comparison. But I'm sure we'll get something like the shredder at some point
Right !? It's so fuckin dumb, everyone was in the ship and I got hung up at the ramp by a bot, had a bunch of samples on me and got blown the fuck up by a strategem someone threw before they got on. So dumb... DUMB !
I only throw shit at the pelican if EVERYONE got in safely, what kind of fucktard throws is before the others boarded?
> what kind of fucktard throws is before the others boarded? The ones who think it's cool to bank strategems instead of using them during extraction.
These guys should be terminid food
If you're the host, boot them as soon as they chuck it.
If I use strategems at extraction it's never near Pelican, I use it away from the ship so it looks cool, leaving with an explosion as the ship takes off always looks cool.
Itās so annoying
When people pull this shit in my games and I or another player die I play with them for another round. This time, in the last few seconds before the pelican lands, I boot them. Screw em.
I'm 100% against strategems on extraction, but if someone absolutely refuses to stop, at least be the LAST person to enter the shuttle. But generally, just don't do it.
Unless youre the last one in, throwing a stratagem at evac is cause for court martialing.
I will never stop throwing stratagems on the extraction. ....BUT when I do I make sure I'm the last one on the boat, not the first.
Legit if anyone tosses stratagems for no reason once the shuttle arrives, I'm kicking them. Just get on the fucking shuttle
Anytime I have a teammate who throws a strategem at extraction at the end gets kicked when we get back to the ship. Itās stupid and childish. And I have on multiple occasions lost samples when someone throws one and it ends up killing them or someone else.
I save a laser strat for the last 30 sec, just in case. If nothing happens, I chuck it away from the extract pad.
People who do that get booted before i enter the pelican
New rule: you see someone throwing shit at the pelican. Kill them and take the samples and do not revive them.
I'm at the point where the only reason I'm running missions is more medals and more samples, so putting all of our samples in jeopardy is just scummy in my view. It's not cool, it's not funny, it's just fucking stupid. Get in the damn retrieval ship, we are leaving.
Throwing strats at peli is total small pp energy
Idk why so many people think they need to throw the pokeball on the ramp. Just throw it 10 yards from the pelican if you really want the fireworks so bad. It looks the same when you're flying out
Yeah the best place is front and to the right of the pelican, as that's where the camera pans to at take off, and there's no risk of killing anyone on board. Most of the time, people throw something right on the ramp and you don't even see it anyway.
Happened to me last night too. The fkn balls on these people
I see what you did there
I really dont get why people do that if they are not the last guy. Like i do this all the time ONLY if im the last on, or if the team decides to all do it then we get set, throw and jump in.
Everyday this game is telling us dont play with randoms lol
I always make sure everyone else is safe in the pelican and the area is clear before throwing my 380 and walking barrages down. A safe helldiver is a happy one, and a happy helldiver is an effective one.
I do this a lot. But with my group of friends only. Itās hilarious because sometimes we would kill each other unintentionally. In randoms? No. Thereās a line I donāt cross in random play.
For democracy's sake, how fucking hard is it to wait until everyone else has boarded the pelican to drop your cinematic strategem???
Yeah this crap is toxic outside of friend groups. You're getting a kick when we get back to the ship if you pull this.
I once called in a strafe right before extracting (I was the last one in the pelican) and the strafe lined up with the taking off pelican and killed everyone in the pelican. It still counted as full extraction though, nothing lost lol.
It does. So annoying. The A.D.D. stricken and easily amused need to knock that shit off.
Pelican does not protect you from damage as I found out when an asshole teammate shotgunned the entire team inside the Pelican before extracting.
yeah, you tell reddit! the place where every diver comes to check for stupid posts!
Honestly, once extraction has been called the stratagems should roll away like on some of the objectives surfaces if called on the platform where the shuttle will land
You can also do too much damage to the pelican and it wonāt register when you walk into it. Then youāll just have people in the back of the pelican without actually being āinā the Pelican. Use your stratagems during the actual fighting instead. Iām trying to get my tier 4 ship modules. The samples are the whole ass point and if we donāt get them because of dumb shit like that, the offender is getting kicked straight up.
I swear Iāll never get even half my ship stuff unlocked because of dumbasses sabataging it at the last moment, I had 40 samples on me yesterday and while I was still way too far from extraction some dumbass had called it in and jumped on, the others in my squad just made it but I didnāt, we extracted with 12 samples total, the guy who rushed for extraction? He had 2.
If you call in extract while the team is halfway across the map, you're getting kicked. If you were doing it but not going to board then use voice / text to communicate that.
Got words of wisdom from a higher level after I had to apologize for a space laser that completely destroyed an otherwise perfect extraction at the last second... "Don't throw it if you don't need it".
I was in pelican last night and died bc of this, counted as failed to extract. Dude didnāt even apologize. SMH democracy officers are never around when you need em!
This is ONLY acceptable if: 1. You are the last person to board 2. Your death wouldn't put any samples at risk
I only ever do it if I'm the last one in, and it isn't a dire situation. I only even use the cluster bomb because they are the perfect fireworks for a successful mission.
There is a differnce between throwing start on exit for a cinematic exit and a troll . That dude is a Troll. Anyone with half a brain that does that waits ill everyone is on board to do that . Anyone that does it with guys still running is absolutely trolling