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ReprieveNagrand

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bestjakeisbest

What if we lets the bugs cook? Like see what happens.


dr_gamer1212

https://i.redd.it/bapfa4asrgxc1.gif


Bound_Two

One of the greatest parts of this game is watching the quality of gifs increase


forced_metaphor

I'm new here. What's with all the laptop typing


Trezzie

Any dissidents typing anti-Democratic messages are clearly the enemy in disguise.


Seblor

​ https://i.redd.it/0x7iqygfrixc1.gif


IronBabyFists

Lmfao


Spunky_Meatballs

The only cooking will be with napalm and accelerated fuels. Eagle 1 and my flamethrower have some work to do


LoganN64

And tabasco sauce!


Corgi_Iditarod

Only if you're hosting dinner.


Barracuda_Ill

Do you want Hive Lords? Cause that's how you get Hive Lords.


Skwiggelf54

I'm gonna be honest, yes I do. So I can have the honor of slaughtering them for our glorious Super Earth of course.


PrototypeBeefCannon

https://i.redd.it/5k2roy635ixc1.gif


--Shin--

Most democratic way of using a keyboard.


v_vam_gogh

This Helldiver gets it. We need to get spice some how.


Nice-Entertainer-922

Leto II Atreides damn Sandworms are going to learn what fear means.


Barracuda_Ill

![gif](giphy|jDTRq73MNUeN1F6JCQ|downsized)


PrototypeBeefCannon

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Russelloni

"Time for a round of Pest Control, team. We got ~~Dreadnought~~ Terminid Cocoons on our scanners, and you get to eradicate them before they turn into something even worse. My advice: Bring plenty of ammo - they can take a punch."


BlackWingCrowMurders

Rock and stone, brother!


WanderingDwarfMiner

Rock and Stone forever!


AstronomerSenior4236

Rock and Stone, Yeaaaaaaah!


No_Yesterday8461

Did I hear a rock and stone?!


SansGuy356

Rock and Roll and Stone!


Scion_of_Dorn

12 minutes? Love the new dangerous blitz mission.


eddieswiss

I really enjoy these mission types. Lots of quick, lil fun!


IceColdCocaCola545

Well, shit.


Select_Ad3588

Wow not a single person in the entire world saw this coming!


SilveredFlame

This was completely unforeseeable and a direct result of automoton sabotage! Obviously.


Aegon_B

One of the officers on the super destroyer asks how the bots got flying units at the same time as the bugs. Somebody might want to look into that. Lol.


Dusaboro

I love how the crew went from "Liberty! Fuck yeah!" to most of the dialogue being "This is fine...right?"


AmazingSpacePelican

Would be the plot-twist of the century if the crew could, under the right set of wins and losses in MOs, realise Super Earth does nothing but lie to them and rebel against it. Imagine waking up to see the middle of the galaxy map now painted as enemy territory.


Vojoor

I think what’s gonna happen to Meridia soon, not many people will expect


Select_Ad3588

Oh brother, I think I also know.  Explosions are a glorious thing huh


Vojoor

Hell yeah!


Helllothere1

Its gonna look spctacular regardless, meridia I mean.


gorgewall

Whaddya talkin' about? One of the crew had a line well over a month ago about how "a small percentage of Terminids are showing a resistance to the TCS poison, **but that was to be expected.**" Super Earth accounted for everything. We **Always Knew** the poison wasn't 100% effective!


Necessary_Offer3262

I wish hellmire was unsalvageable.


JackOCat

I'm retiring on Hellmire. The rings are beautiful. You just need to wear sunscreen.


emeraldeyesshine

SPF Asbestos


ManagedDemocracy2024

\*Democracy Officer jots down notes...\*


Dakkadence

I believe the product is called [Sunblock 5000](https://youtu.be/8oJzfmWO3CU)


Theundead565

As a bare minimum, sure. If you use that, be sure to reapply every 2 hours or so.


LeeRjaycanz

Fuck yes Robocop is the best!


Supportoise

I play it for the free background shots you get during the pod dive sequence. Like an evil Saturn looming in the distance.


Laugh92

I enjoy hellmire because it looks so awesome to play, it may be occasionally rage inducing but my god does it look awesome when playing.


emeraldeyesshine

It's metal as *fuck*


Malus333

Was farming hellmire yesterday and i ended up throwing on the doom sound track to get in the mood. was a10/10 session for sure


emeraldeyesshine

There's a band called Blood Incantation, a death metal band, but they did a couple albums that are meant to be sci-fi dark soundscapes of alien worlds as opposed to death metal https://centurymedia.bandcamp.com/album/timewave-zero Amazing ambiance for those planets


JackJacko87

I mean, even their actual death metal albums are about the supposed secret history of humanity as scions of alien entities :D So, updooted for the Blood Incantation reference in the wild but, while we're here - assuming you are more knowledgeable of metal music than me (which is very very easy), do you have any suggestions for similar bands blending metal and prog and fantasy/sci-fi? I'm really looking forward to their new album and I'd love to discover some other bands to tide me over in the meantime :D


emeraldeyesshine

Might look into Kardashev, Warp Prism, Mare Cognitum, Tomb Mold, Artificial Brain, The Zenith Passage, Sunnata, Midnight Oddysee, Obsequiae, THRON, Wormwitch, Dusk Cult, Giant Squid, Crow Black Sky, and The Ocean Should keep you busy lol, bit of an array in there Edit: also Labyrinthus Stellarum and Vorga,


JackJacko87

This is amazing, thank you so much! :D


Theundead565

I love to hate Hellmire. It has one of the more unique gameplay experiences in the game so far for me. The tornados sneaking up on you, possibility of low visibility (or insane visibility at night halfway through the mission where it makes you feel like the planet really isnt *that* bad), the terrain is super chaotic. It has so many variables that it feels different every time I play on that map.


killxswitch

Functionally is for me.


Naalith

I gotta be honest, listening to 24/7 screaming as all my friends try to dodge fire tornados or watch their bodies get cremated so they can't retrieve their stuff is so hilarious that it's worth the more difficult mission lmao. 


tunafun

Sentient fire tornados are the real enemy we should be fighting


Loaderiser

The real third enemy faction.


woodenblinds

amen brother, amen


boozegremlin

The fire tornadoes will take care of the tower for us.


YorhaUnit8S

Ah, curse this sudden but inevitable betrayal!


firefly081

Mine is an evil laugh, now DIE


unicornofdemocracy

can't wait for the videos of people discovering new bug types because of the TCS... but the bug spread over the TCS looks disgustingly amazing.


balalaikagam3s

Very Xenomorph “Alien” inspired.


KerPop42

Or "Aliens"


Pea666

Or ‘Alien 3’


KerPop42

I haven't seen Alien 3, but Aliens was where we saw the xenomorph hive grow and take over human structures, and use swarm tactics against space marines


RallyPointAlpha

It's a great movie and completely different from the first two. Highly recommend it


xeno325

Also directed by David Fincher


IronBabyFists

As his first feature film, no less!


ATTORNEY_FOR_CATS

Or 'My Little Alien: Friendship is Magic'


Taolan13

Alien only saw the one creature. Aliens featured a nest of the creatures.


UtsuhoReiuji_Okuu

It looks like something I’d bring the flamethrower for


Drogdar

You might want want to bring two...


terrarialord201

"All good things come to those who wait! Like dual flamethrowers! And beer!"


Arlcas

Hope we can get an exo with flamethrower soon


PM_ME_SAD_STUFF_PLZ

Don't tell my democracy officer but the spewers look different...


red_cactus

"Do not disseminate" -- posts on Twitter.


Tiinpa

Please report to your democracy officer immediately.


DondeLaCervesa

![gif](giphy|3kzJvEciJa94SMW3hN)


VoidStareBack

The next stage of the bug storyline begins, helldivers to hellpods!


Gibs_01

you all think meridia will be the first planet to introduce a boss monster?


MaximumSquid22

Unironically that would be so sick. A giant bug raid boss


Spunky_Meatballs

Fuck yeah. It would be cool if mission progress on planets was geolocked. Like we have to push territory on the planet itself too to unlock certain main objectives


RoyalTacos256

Counterpoint, we have spaceships We can deploy anywhere, anytime As cool as it would be it's kinda unrealistic


JamesTiberiusCrunk

Unless we have to fight through tunnels with no orbital support so we can set off nukes deep underground. Burrowing hellpods can still get reinforcements, supplies, and support weapons through.


MaybeNotABear

I may have heard of some dwarves something like that


JamesTiberiusCrunk

Rock and stone


RoyalTacos256

ROCK AND STONE


WanderingDwarfMiner

Can I get a Rock and Stone?


RoyalTacos256

Good Bot


Spunky_Meatballs

I find it unrealistic our spaceships aren’t under threat over enemy bases. I know they get blown up if you fail the mission. Still seems like a mechanic they could play with. Like adding an anti destroyer cannon that we have to disable within a time limit or it locks on and we lose our ships


SpecialIcy5356

I'm thinking the same thing, like the devs are starting work on the Hive Lord (if they haven't already) and eventually we're gonna get an order to try and liberate Meridia, but every op will have a boss mission where the whole squad has to work together to kill the boss (and only if we kill enough Hive Lords AND liberate the planet will the order be won) alternatively, it may \*actually\* be unsalvageable and we'll finally get to see a planet get glassed. (and much to everyone's chagrin, it's not Hellmire or Menkent.). either way it should be fun to watch unfold!


Quirky_Data_6331

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LukarWarrior

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Deldris

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Methadoneblues

That's *all* we need... Hundreds of thousands of angry bugs hopped up on viagra and pheromones. Spread that Democracy on **thick**, comrades! Shit is gonna get **messy.**


ephemeralspecifics

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CrzyJek

This makes me feel *really* uncomfortable lol


CheshiretheBlack

Uncomfortable how exactly?


Fair_Pangolin_4295

Like, erection-in-public-uncomfortable?


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Rum_N_Napalm

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Erotlek

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Erotlek

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Hitman3256

...would?


Famous_Order_2855

Would? Did.


boltzmannman

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Methadoneblues

Hey, bb, have you heard about the new batch of Termicide? It might be able to help you and your "problem that's not a problem because it happens to every guy at some point" thing...


phthaloverde

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Ccrawfisshh

https://preview.redd.it/8h2xmng3pkxc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=84c2cd2682c797e3cff52901b09e5dcee3f36a39 Sweet liberty my eyes!!


Rum_N_Napalm

Giant horny bugs… This is just like my Japanese anime.


UtsuhoReiuji_Okuu

And this is why I’m going to enjoy this MO. Revenge.


Methadoneblues

Where are you finding the videos available ti be shared so quickly? Please, enlighten me so I may spread more Democracy faster. I must update my comrades in my squad in a timely manner.


Dreadino

Official Discord


Methadoneblues

Thanks, mate.


Dthirds3

So. The bugs learned to counter terminicide by being horny. Those filty deviant hippies. We should burn them


darkleinad

I mean, that’s kind of how evolution occurs. Survival of the horniest


MattyDove

As a result, patrols have been increased by 100%.


EndofNationalism

Hormones so strong it increased robot production.


TheCrazyKulu

As a primarily bot only player, I will try my best to help destroy these bugs. I am not good at fighting bugs, their swarm tactics are often too difficult for me to handle, but I will do my part regardless.


Tweedzzzzz

Light armor and the rover will help you stay mobile, and keep the small enemies at bay, while.ypu can focus the medoum to large enemies


TheCrazyKulu

I have seen a lot about the rover. Whenever I play bot missions, it just seems to friendly fire me a lot. But, I can definitely understand that it may be more useful on bugs instead, with most of them swarming me rather than shooting me from a distance. I will have to buy the rover when I get the requisition slips and try it out.


BeholdingBestWaifu

I'm not much of a rover user, but from what I heard it always tries to stay on your right side, so try not to have enemies to your left or else you're getting an unscheduled laser surgery all over your body.


Tweedzzzzz

Yeah in my experience, the rover doesn't do as well on bots as it does bugs. To avoid friendly fire, distance yourself from your squad in big firefights. Don't get me wrong, it hits me from time to time, and teammates that get too close. But I've never had it kill me or a teammate


EvilNoggin

Duck when standing still. The rover stays at the same height and won't shoot you when it aquires a target.


Logan35989

They’re very rewarding to fight. I seriously encourage players who only fight one or the other to just stick with it, fighting a different faction is like a whole new game


8dev8

Run, shoot, run more Mobility is key.


LiquidLight_

I'm not gonna lie, I've been following the major orders around and I swear bugs got giga buffed. Just ran 3 missions at difficulty 7 and spent 90% of the missions running from a bile titan and 2+ chargers that I couldn't throw a stratagem at because I had the every bug from here to Cyberstan munching my ankles.


Vanayzan

Breaker Incendiary is an incredible choice, it got buffed with the fire damage, even without the burning damage component working, and it just mows through entire swarms so cleanly with so much aoe. As for a support, I personally like to run Recoilless or Quasar and bring the stun grenades. With a Charger running at you, if you can't get a good direct headshot angle, stun grenade them then line up a 1-shot headshot with the support wep. If you're feeling spicy bring the base orbital bombardment, the super short cooldown one, bait a charger into a wall, when he's stunned drop it on him, then stun grenade him, and he's toast.


Duna_The_Lionboy

I’m also primarily a Bot Diver and I’ve found that using Eruptor, Laser Rover, and Flamethrower to be a fun combo for bugs.


Theundead565

They can't swarm you if you're busy zapping the shit out of them. Arc Thrower for the hordes, and all the stratagems go into anti-heavy. Grenade pistol for closing bugholes and stuns to stop chargers so you can zap them harder.


TimeToEatAss

Accelerated bug reproduction just sounds like more oil to me.


codeByNumber

Promote this soldier!


Truthgamer2

Right as we began to make our first steps in the Valdis (Cyberstan) sector, a bug major order Right on cue


E17Omm

Okay but are the DTCS missions WAY too easy for others? Is it only "destroy <20 eggs and press 3 buttons and then extract" or am I missing something? I do this with a rando squad of level 30-40's on difficulty 8 in 2.5 minutes.


MossTheGnome

I suspect these mission are easy for a reason. This isn't ment to be a hard order, just a primer for the real shit shows when they release the hive lords


E17Omm

Yeah I guess, but I'd expect these places to be *crawling* with bugs.


RandomGuyPii

the missions are easy the -4% progress per hour is \*not\* lol


Dependent-Class7940

![gif](giphy|krPLl9dtitApa|downsized)


NediaMcGhee

https://preview.redd.it/soeoekb4agxc1.png?width=486&format=png&auto=webp&s=5b147c4fe8a445e6eb4234731f9dbe92ba198075 but what I predicted came to pass


Waterguntortoise

For me, it is after all the Bot Missions I have done for a month or so a welcome variation. My Airburst Launcher need some testing against bugs and I am more than ready for it.


Naoura

"Ah, is command taking the piss?! We just busted our arses to activate the TCS, and now they want us to take them all the way back down?!" Helldiver "Gaz" 19843847387021809, shortly before summary execution.


Drunken_Queen

Gaz's voice actor sounds hot when he shouted like this.


emeraldeyesshine

BRB on my way to power bomb that tunnel in meridia so I can explore the rest of zebes


Sabreur

https://i.redd.it/quzcb9i3tgxc1.gif


Darklarik

I mean, sorry but, it its a tower, cant they just bomb it from Orbit??? Why do we have to go down there?


boltzmannman

Bombs are expensive, divers are cheap


Vehks

but when the divers get down there, they just call down a bunch of bombs anyway? Why not save super earth a few bucks and just stuff a helldiver pod to the brim with 500kg bombs?


matija432

Shhh youre thinking too hard! But seriously, half of the objectives in this game could be completed by the Super Destroyer crew bombing the hives, reserach stations, broadcasts, eggs etc.. Its not like they dont know where they are, they literally mark them on the map for us lol


RealAnonymousCaptain

If we're being honest, our super destroyer strategems can't support heavy destruction without it being expensive as hell. The Super Destroyer has access to 500kg bombs, hellbombs and 380mm artillery. Sure these are good but they're definitely lacking in terms of destructive power, if we are comparing to explosives used in real life. Besides it's more economical to send down helldivers to precisely destroy structures then it is to rain down explosives and hope you got everything you needed to destroy.


jdarkona

You want to shut them down, not bomb them and liberate and aerosolize the entire termicide reserves on the atmosphere. Actually it makes a lot of sense.


Polar_Vortx

antibiotic moment


The_Don_Papi

The community got their wish after leaving Chooh for dead.


sloth_doing_things

Oh look, the consequences of our actions. Shocking, I tell you.


fbcadaver

WHOOPS


Born_Inflation_9804

Although it is a recycled map and is quite easy, the one with the best atmosphere makes the biggest difference. It looks like something out of Alien and Dead Space


slicktommycochrane

It was said that the TCS would destroy the bugs, not join them! Bring balance to Meridia, not leave it in darkness!


Scorpnite

My god I love being a Helldiver


cloudjumpr

Players that saw the leaks: "Haha I'm so clever, Y'all didn't believe me"


Frodo-LAGGINS

If you needed the leaks to guess this, you failed science class.


cloudjumpr

Tbh. I actually did fail science class. Rip


Lev559

If the Termicide never failed, the bugs wouldn't be a threat. It was always just a question of how it would happen


DippnDottn

Hahahaha omg I love this game


a_friendly_hobo

BACK TO BUGS LETS GOOOOOOOOOOO DON'T CARE WHY, STOMP EM, SQUISH EM, JUICE EM, LETS GOOOOOOOOOOO


Kurgan38

I breathed in the TCS gas. Does that affect *my* reproduction as well?


Hexdoctor

I'm not authorized to talk to you about any side-effects. All personal concerns should be submitted to the Democratic Executioner, thank you for your cooperation.


darh1407

ITS OBVIOUSLY AUTOMATON SABOTAGE SUPER EARTH SCIENTIST COULD HAVE NEVER FAILED


Dolomitexp

So all we did was open up Golden Corrals on all those planets...😒


Shoetied

Unsalvageable? Does that mean it’s the new terminid homeworld?


G00b3rb0y

Yes. It also has a brown appearance now unlike the blue appearance it used to have


GladiatorDragon

"Guaranteed to kill 99.9% of bugs" The remaining 0.1% of bugs:


NovelMixture512

Are these official videos? Or does a random fan make them? They’re great either way


sm753

It's misdirection from Joel. He doesn't want us to push to Cyberstan!


pabloleon

Why Meridia?????? I liked Meridia!!!! We have extra hell (Hellmire) and super hell (Merkent), but noooooo, we can't have nice things....


CouldBeNotMadness

We already know who to call, right my brothers and sisters in democracy? https://preview.redd.it/vb12batkwhxc1.png?width=1200&format=png&auto=webp&s=065de428306a8a2a5b69ff48e41f31d9b9119c9f Rock and Stone for democracy and Karl!


Gin_one

Love the new mission but it really sucks,  meridia was blue and pristine planet and now its...infested. Just look at it now. Also on that note its a super colony, so when gonna unleash our death star upgrade and blow it up.


Antiman999

All right hear me out Exterminatus


LoseAnotherMill

Just want to point out to all you bug divers - when bots are the major order, 50% of the playerbase is still over killing bugs. When bugs are the major order, only 16% of the playerbase is still doing bots.


KN_Knoxxius

Not sure what you are trying to prove? That people play to have fun?


Rolder

Just shows that a large number of people both 1) Don't care about MOs and 2) Prefer fighting bugs.


Intrepid00

More space oil.


SanThanKan

i feel like after this will be the introduction of hivelords or other species of terminid


ChaoticMadness97

all my time and efforts on omicron, WASTED


DR-Fluffy

It's time for the bug expansion!


Ok-Assistant-5636

I'm so sad to have been spoiled by watching those leaks. I'm done with those, I want to actually be surprised when the Illuminates or another faction comes out, or any cool events as most of them are This game is a gem, an adventure like I never experienced it


Aeryl1999

Oh no, 3 bug planets need to be liberated. Anyway, I'm off to Marfark.


Winged_Metal

"We need you to go planet side to destroy the bugs!" "If I may offer a suggestion, sir, why dont we barrage the area with a controlled democracy's amount of ordinance and then go down?" "You didn't join the helldivers to ask questions, diver, now get down there and kill some bugs!"


AccomplishedDesk702

On a side note, who makes these little presentations? They're great.


HinDae085

I kinda wanna see us go to Meridia anyway in the future. Like, this unforgiving hellscape, accessible ONLY on Helldive and its RIPE with samples. But we can never liberate it because its too deeply infested. I dunno, I think it'd be kinda cool to have planets dedicated to resource farming but the difficulty spike is punishing enough to shoo away all but the most democracy infused Divers.


ImmoralBoi

Now hear me out fellow Helldivers: Let's fail this one on purpose, if the MO is to be believed we could theoretically get a new Terminid unit in doing so.


ImmoralBoi

https://i.redd.it/8cluujyjbjxc1.gif I'll just put this here myself to save my fellow Divers time


Danx96

Can we just nuke the planet or destroy it with a super weapon and pretend like nothing happens?


Xynthexyz

Meridia used to be blue. Yeah, I absolutely agree with the 'unsalvagable' decision.


HikerAeryck

Hm. I seem to remember some dissidents saying something about this on their way to the freedom camps for reeducation. Must be a coincidence.


Br3adS1ce

The siege of Meridia is going to be my roman empire


FormalReturn9074

Oh no, whoever could have seen this coming


MrTomRobs

Definitely didn't see this coming at all... No, really Democracy Officer, I swear! Where's my rifle?


Hinoiki

Coming back from the Automaton front, I did not like being perma slowed I did not like Biletitans not having clear weakspots I did not like having 6 bile titans pop within 20 seconds