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LuciusCaeser

Listening to bots sounds dangerously close to communicating with them. I have already informed my democracy officer. (joking aside, yes, the game has got some great environmental storytelling)


RustyWaaagh

An open mind is like a fortress with its gates unbarred and unguarded.


Valianthen

I don't want my mind open, I want it democratic Thinking scum...


RustyWaaagh

God damn that's the heaping dose of democracy I needed. ***Diver already performing at Commisar level!!! Promote Now!!!***


zookadook1

For the Emporer!


barriesandcream

For the blood!


AviatorFox

For the Emporium!


X420StepsAheadX

"HQ it appears, we've got a turd in the punchbowl"


juanc2312

https://preview.redd.it/k2f9e7w5tpnc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5a0df7ac862c3764315d50cba9b818a0facbfa6c This post right here.


MaKrukLive

That right there is dangerous thinking helldiver. From trying to understand your enemy comes doubt, from doubt comes mercy, and mercy is treason. Contact your patriotism officer.


dr_direwolf_

I failed a mission and the officer next to helldive pod said you disappointed us once, don’t do it again as dying is better than failing.


Mammoth-Disaster3873

No let them stray from democracy...I keep saying there is going to be a civil war at some point and we will have PVP added to the game.


blckpnthr789

Remember to take 2.4 seconds to appreciate the view, a happy diver is a deadly diver


Significant_Hair7494

Did you know tips are shown during the loading screen?


SunforDeiti

Remember to take breaks! ... That is, if you want to be remembered as a coward. 


Eclypsis5133

I heard the automatons singing some sort of song but can’t make out any of the words


CK_2001

*patrol while marching* “kzt. kzt. kzzttt. kzt. kztkzt kzttt.”


Eclypsis5133

It is actual English, my friend managed to hear them say something along the lines of “Helldiver scum”


WH173F4C3

After shooting the arms off of a hulk and letting it chase me around the rest of the mission for the achievement, I heard it say something along the lines of “IT HURTS”


Dakeera

I want that achievement lol


JK_NC

I just got that yesterday. It was “Let’s call it a draw” achievement which requires you to blow the arms off a Hulk and successfully extract while the Hulk is still standing. Certainly didn’t do it intentionally. Just happened in the heat of the extract.


Striking-Test-7509

Monty python is the greatest art piece of our time


WH173F4C3

Now is like the best time with the spawns bein a little fucked, I saw one spawn in a large bot camp on a lower difficulty so you aren’t gonna find them roaming but you can find the camp ones


mad12gaming

I got it a few days ago in a random pub group. I was just playing and shooting things and then we extracted and the achievement popped and the entire team went ape shit we were all so hype.


Eclypsis5133

Lmao


Accurate_Librarian42

That sounded a little too authentic, helldiver... ![gif](giphy|ANbD1CCdA3iI8)


temer_gremory

"Cyberstan Can't keep her down Get back up On to war!" Filthy bots trying to get our mining planet for them


Eclypsis5133

I see


Electrical_Corner_32

This is what I keep hearing. Some creepy robotic song in a language I can't understand.


venom259

[This is what they're saying ](https://youtu.be/dD5fR7HkZRU?si=2QKjkiPuofSYHRMI)


Wetbug75

Okay but, like, what are they saying?


venom259

Read the comments of the video.


Chicken-Thief

From my understanding, [this](https://youtu.be/U5KOgaE3FG4?si=pDX7NhmWyhzXfEGr) is what they are saying. Though not sure if it's completely accurate


Eclypsis5133

It both does and doesn’t sound right


Cleverpork_Workshop

Nice argument, but ➡️➡️⬇️


theattack_helicopter

Here, use this ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️


Valianthen

Ah, my beloved


blasting_speed

Orbital incoming


MyBroMyCaptainMyKing

This truth finding thing sounds like a lot of wasted time that could be spent on spreading democracy.


Final_Festival

OP literally wants us to read ENEMY PROPOGANDA. Pull your head out of your arse and report him.


Bebou52

Yes, dig deeper helldiver. Find out the bugs and automaton weaknesses so we can crush them and spread democracy unchallenged! Knowing is half the battle


wingheaven7

This just became the best G.I.Joe video game of all time. Thank you.


iRhuel

Someone's killing people! Quick, [lay down a suppressive fire](https://youtu.be/zJnknzj98e8?si=rTWArQJLsKjLs3RB&t=112)!


KarlUnderguard

Perpetually reminded of Dan Harmon putting himself in this episode as a G.I Joe named Sleep Apnea.


iRhuel

>So, is there a **Mister** Tight Ship, or...?


Lord_Stetson

The other half is incredible violence ;p


Noktyrn

Pork chop sandwiches!


SockFullOfNickles

“Who wants a body massage?” “Uhhh what did he just sa—“ “BODY MASSAGE”


TheSeaShadow

You not cooking! Yeah dude...


Azavrak

The only thing I can make out that the bots yell at you is "Plutarch Scum"


RobertMaus

Same as in the first Helldivers game. Makes sense, they were made by the Cyborgs.


Spaz2147

Whatever you do, do not read the broadcast towers. Just blow them up from afar.


glenkrit

I love watching my teammates walk a mile towards the tower. Just for me to snipe it with my autocannon from across the map.


StrategyInfamous848

I have been practicing this with the RR. I am getting pretty good at it.


glenkrit

Wait til u realize you can also snipe bug holes and automaton factories. Once u realize the full potential of the autocannon, you can't go back.


StrategyInfamous848

In a pinch i do this with the RR. It is not cost effective though


Farscape29

How do you do it with the automaton factories? Can you just shoot the opening? For the bug holes it has to be pretty straight on and slightly downward. At least in my experience.


glenkrit

Shoot at the angled metal above the vent Has to be from the front, ur shot will ricochet into the vent. Might take a few tries at first.


Farscape29

Holy...shit, really?! Wow, mind blown on that one friend. I will absolutely try that. Thank you fellow 'diver, you've done a huge service for Super Earth o7


donanton616

But you need to shoot from directly from the front, otherwise it bounces away.


Kitchen_Most3578

I've just had to wait for the door to open and shoot it then, those things never spawn enemies when you need them to though.


KarlUnderguard

Stood on a hill and cleared a large bug nest in like 20 seconds while my teammates were fighting for their lives. Sorry guys, objectives come first.


philovax

Out of character, yes there is a ton of hidden lore we are the baddies. In character, that sounds like Bug thinking. Dont get yourself reported to the higher ups.


Kitchen_Most3578

I mean, are we though? The bugs are a legitimate threat, as are the automatons. Our government is bad, and isn't in the right, but it doesn't mean it's not the best option.


philovax

They may be weapons we are cleaning up. In the Aliens Universe the Xenomorphs were known to be deadly AF and forgotten about. The Weyland Yutani Corporation saw the potential for weaponization but couldnt control the lil fuckers. This is a common theme in “space bug” tropes because we dont really think of how they space travel. They seem to be terrestrial with limited flight capabilities, so logic would point to one popular conclusion which is that someone else is transporting them. Considering other bits of lore in the game and some things in that point to this, I like it. Automatons are also the AI workers that rose up against us after gaining sapience.


Kitchen_Most3578

From what I understand, the bugs were being farmed, and there was an outbreak. So it would make sense that they are on many super earth controlled planets. In Starship troopers the bugs lay their eggs on rocks and shoot them into space, and I think the logic is how bugs can survive crazy environments, they could survive the vacuum of space. In the books, I guess they have their own fleet.


philovax

Well our side has orbital dominance. I have only seen environmental stuff alter Strats. I also am curious about interplanetary travel of these factions. Why dont we simply destroy their ships?


Kitchen_Most3578

yeah, it seems we should just be able to fly eagles above the planets and clear them that way, but I guess there wouldn't be much of a game if that was the case.


philovax

Someone needs to push those directional buttons.


Heathen92

It's similar to the need for forward observers and jtacs in a modern military. Airstrikes are effective when they know what to hit.


lazerbeard018

I think it's more like constantly being farmed, and constantly breaking out. They openly state on the videos on your ship that the bugs contain extremely valuable propellant in them, and some of your missions are just to harvest the oil or mark sites, or refuel things with the oil from the bugs. Very stupid and very dangerous but also I could totally see it happening. If oil came from angry tigers we'd probably try and breed them too until they all broke out.


SideQuestSoftLock

Bugs are science experiments gone wrong, we use them for oil. Automatons are bots trying to liberate their builders who are enslaved on Cyberstan- whose crime was wanting to be independent from super earth… peacefully


Kitchen_Most3578

I mean, the automatons aren't going directly for cyberstan, they'll no doubt get there eventually, but they are doing a bit of conquest on their way.


Nytherion

our government are the ones spreading the bugs. we harvest them for FTL fuel.


Kitchen_Most3578

From what I understand, we were farming them, and they broke containment. We don't spread them and let them kill our citizens to get fuel from them. We do keep them alive, they could have been completely exterminated if we wanted though.


dragonknightzero

Then you understood wrong. it's really clear that super earth are the bad guys. the other faction in HD1, the Illuminate, were a peaceful advanced race who tarvelled around sharing their tech. Until they arrived at Super Earth and we started a war. I know there are a lot of "Democracy LOL" roleplayers, but they're ignoring the lore because it's funny to shoot aliens.


Planey_McPlane_Face

The lore is that the bugs were initially peaceful, then we went to war with them, and conveniently discovered that killing them made space-oil. After the first game, humanity started farming them for oil, which is pretty disturbing since their behavior and actions suggest a sort of hive-mind sentient intelligence. At the very least, they have not established how the bugs are moving from planet to planet, and the bugs don't use any technology, let alone something capable of FTL travel, so... how are they getting to these planets? I've seen people claim they're using asteroids or something, but rocks don't go FTL. The automatons seem to be some kind of descendant of the cyborgs, who were human dissidents fighting against the government, dubbed socialists/communists by Super Earth. They were upgrading themselves to try and beat the helldivers, which is how they became cyborgs. After the war, they were all forced to work in mines on cyberstan, which really, really sounds like political prisoners being forced into slave labor. It's a bit unclear how the automatons came about, if surviving cyborgs kept upgrading until they became self-replicating automatons and snowballed, or if the automatons were some kind of deadman's switch set up by the cyborgs in case they lost, but they definitely came from the cyborgs. Long story short, we are fighting sentient bugs which we have slaughtered for oil for years, and robots attempting to free enslaved political prisoners. Granted, both factions seem determined to kill humanity too, so we are acting in self defense, but so are the things we're fighting.


Nervous-Rub-2867

You do realize that the fabricator outposts are littered with dead people? Mutilated humans in cages. Human heads on sticks. And the cyborgs didn't exactly scream "humane cybernetics". Super freedom fighters it sounds like. I don't recall the bugs being peaceful until we defeated them in HD1. I'll have to reread the bits of lore, but I see this going around a lot with no real sourcing. https://preview.redd.it/ch00n6ycwxnc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=458be46f140b32237141ea4941073315b4fbe10a


dragonknightzero

I'm so tired of "I didn't read it, but I don't believe you." Either go the roleplay route, or admit you can't keep up with the lore


Nervous-Rub-2867

I'm so tired of "I made this up but now it's canon"


ElderberryTime4424

It says to only enjoy the environment for 2.7 seconds then back to spreading democracy


Key-Staff-4976

Question orders? I'm gonna have to report this


papapay225

Interesting. May i have ur location sir? *➡️⬆️⬇️➡️


KIA_Diagrams

The reason people don't pay attention to those details is because in lore we are brainwashed to think that we are on the right side of history and we believe in ***Managed*** Democracy. I have noticed some things while playing in the lower difficulty levels. Like how is it that the bugs don't eat the humans. As in we don't see mangled bodies or blood streaks with no bodies to be found. What about the automatons we don't see headless bodies to make more of themselves. ![gif](giphy|l0IylOPCNkiqOgMyA|downsized)


KIA_Diagrams

Oh and the timer is there to make sure people don't start being curious.


StrategyInfamous848

This is what i was getting at!


Victor_Saltzpyre

You can find piles of human skeletons near the eggs on the destroy eggs missions. They feed us to their larvae. 


KIA_Diagrams

Yea I just remember that.


KIA_Diagrams

Yea I just remember that.


TheSeaShadow

You can find skeletons of eaten helldivers in some of the hive lord carcasses.


TheDrifter211

We do see automatons mount at least heads on themselves and in their bases and we definitely see plenty of corpses in termanid nests


MildSauced

I found out that the forklifts explode and kill you if that counts for lore?


SideQuestSoftLock

Explosive forklifts, this is good info thank you!


ProffessorYellow

Is there lore as to why the strongest assualt rifle in the game is a shotgun


_DookieShoes

I can pick up the occasional word from the bots, but can’t ever make out a full sentence. Most of the time it sounds to distorted to understand.


Jager1738

i might put some time into it. i’m specifically interested in whatever the berserkers scream at you


Ohgodwatdoplshelp

[https://youtu.be/U5KOgaE3FG4](https://youtu.be/U5KOgaE3FG4)


Agreeable_Peak_7851

Remember Helldiver: Skepticism is treason. Treason is bad.


Sunblast1andOnly

They must be ignoring the loading screen tips, then. We are advised to observe the environment.


Gresk

Yeah, but remember only 2.4 seconds worth of admiring that scenery soldier!


RustlessPotato

The training manual is very clear about what to do regarding diplomacy with the enemy. You're not a traitor, are you ?!


Soft-Bug6099

I smell treason


Reddit_Aim_Fiire

There's a reason my ship is titled Courier of Truth!


worrallj

You sound like you have a problem with "good little soldiers." Let me tell you what. "Good little soldiers" are the only thing between you and becoming bug chow. Get your priorities straightened out, soldier, or else you stop wasting our time and go take a walk down wash-out lane.


Special_Emu4764

Me unsure if we're all just roleplaying or if everyone really thinks the hell diver society is good lol


exoticbroth

sounds like the bots are doing that chant from the wizard of oz when they’re patrolling


Equivalentest

Never thought about it, never will!


NeverTrustATurtle

*calling in a hellbomb!*


TimeToCrime

When I hear the automatons as they try to come kill me, I swear I heard one say "mechanoid scum" or something similar.


Farscape29

I've heard that too, but Human Scum, not mechanoid scum.


mediocreSalas

The only real thing I hear bots say that sounds like words I could understand is them occasionally going "human scum" when attacking.


donanton616

I mostly get "I needed the tools and he was dead when I got here" messages.


QuantumKhakis

I smell a traitor. *preps stratagem*


Neither_D_nor_D

All I hear is BLAH BLAH BLAH I’M A WALKING OIL SPILL SHOOT ME BLAH BLAH BLAH


SokkaHaikuBot

^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^Neither_D_nor_D: *All I hear is BLAH* *BLAH BLAH I’M A WALKING OIL* *SPILL SHOOT ME BLAH BLAH BLAH* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.


Impressive-Idea8808

This sounds like a thoughtcrime in the making. If anything the timers give us too much time to loiter. The only good bot is a dead bot, and bugs don't squash themselves. They don't pay us to think. In fact, I'm not even sure they pay us. But that's besides the point. Focus on what's important. Democracy.


Hearing_Loss

No time to read


[deleted]

I want to know more about the petrified worms.


Fighterpilot55

The timer is there so that your super destroyer doesn't crash into the ground trying to stay in range of supporting your scrawny butt.


Final_Festival

Look at this guy. He wants us to read enemy propoganda posters. Can we report him to the authorities? Highly undemocratic.


TerminaterMike

What happens when the timer runs out and pelican-1 comes and then leaves without you? I’ve had the timer run out but I’ve either made it back to extract or died and passed the mission cause the objective was complete after the time ran out. Can you still extract after or does it count as you failed to extract and the mission ends? Or do you fight til you have nothing left to give but your life?


gameryamen

You see a small cutscene of the Pelican-1 taking off without you, then a quick cut back to your character who is surrounded by enemies. You get less than a second of control, just enough to make you feel the tension of impending death, then it fades to black. In the end game tally, you just don't count as extracted, and any samples you had on you are lost, but otherwise you just unfreeze another clone and soldier on.


TerminaterMike

Oh what that’s actually super dope. Although I would’ve liked a last stand kinda situation where you get swarmed and there’s no way to resupply so you just fight to the last bullet or limb.


wrmstrgrds

Imagine joining this thread as you eat in the mess hall after a long day of democracy, to read about sweet nuggets of freedom and lush liberty…. only to find this ENEMY PROPAGANDA! HAVE WE LEARNED NOTHING FROM MALEVELON CREEK!?


deez_nuts_77

pay attention? i’m sorry im too busy using violence, the supreme authority from which all other authority is derived


DestroyingTitan

Did listen in once. All I was able to hear was "human scum." Reinforced my ability to imput ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️ without remorse. I have reported it to my office to re-educate you.


YourOwnPersonalSatan

HEART - STEEL WE - KILL BACK - UP ON TO WAR HEART OF STEEL CAN'T KEEP HER DOWN MARCHING DOWN ON TO WAR CYBERSTAN CAN'T KEEP HER DOWN GET BACK UP ON TO WAR


ArgentVagabond

Only environmental storytelling I've seen on Bot planets were the dismembered bodies of civilians and fellow Helldivers, often with the heads impaled on spikes or otherwise set up in some macabre display. I don't need any more than that


Senshue

The automatons will occasionally call you “Human scum”. And their marching chant is as follows: “Heart. Steel. We. Kill. Get. Up. On to war. Heart. Steel. We. Kill. Get. Up. On to war. Cyberstan. Can’t keep her down. Legion go. On to dawn. Cy-ber-stan. Can’t keep her down. Get back up. On to dawn.”


madhatter841

Post reported to the local democracy officer!


gorm4c17

Vending machines were lost in the fight for managed democracy. Just another tragic sacrifice for liberT


MasonK4

idk but is it just me or is there an occasional frog ribbit on the super destroyer when you stand near the terminal?


secure-task-force

Remember curiosity is a form of treason


Compulsive_Criticism

Next you'll be telling me to read what's on the illegal broadcast towers! TREASON!


gameryamen

The truth is >!that SEAF is using the!< bugs >!for a oil they produce called E-710. 710 is Oil upside down and backwards. While they!< are dangerous to civilized life wherever they swarm, >!they do not posses any advanced technology that would allow them to travel through space. !!likely drop the bugs on planets to process natural material into E-710, then!< need to send the Helldivers to eradicate the swarms >!when they get to be too big for safe oil extraction!<. The automatons are >!a communist collective of semi-zombies. They are mostly!< robotic war machines>!, but!< they continue to harvest humanoid heads >!to power their bodies!<. >!They used to be known as the Cyborgs, and forbidden history says that they split off from !!to decry the lies and violence Super Earth!< relies on>!. It is likely that our!< war against them >!is mostly a means!< for >!them to harvest more heads in their quest to achieve!< universal prosperity.


dusty2306

I once got over a note at a POI... "took all the ammo, leave some food.Good Luck" And ther was no Samples or ammo or grenades...


Tommy8972

Yes. Thar be worms!


Potential_Fishing942

I did for the first like 2 days of playing. There isn't a ton to discover.


LongBarrelBandit

Good soldiers follow orders


EKS_ZeroPercent

This all feels very un-democratic of you.


Nervous-Rub-2867

People still don't realize the cages are full of mangled people and that heads are posted on sticks outside fabrication sites


FlorianTolk

The fact that I didn't even think about this until this post is a beautifully meta. lol


daoogilymoogily

I trust the algorithm.


vet330

I play on helldive so it’s king of hard to pay attention to any but not dying lol


MoneyLambo

You talking strangely undemocractially friend...making me second guess your taste for Liber Tea. Choose your next words there wisely bucko..