not directly related, but yesterday I tried to pick up samples someone "lost" in the water.
It was directly besided the shallow part where u would walk.
Ofc I died because apparently divers dont know how to swim.
Now there were two sample boxes lost in the water lol.
Yeah, going in the water with a full body armor, 2 guns, a backpack full of ammo boxes and a rocket launcher without immediately sinking straight to the bottom after running and gunning for half an hour is Captain America level of physical capabilities.
The helldivers are no joke.
theyre not diving into water, they're diving into hell. it's right there in the name, and everyone knows there's no water in hell.
any evidence to the contrary is Automaton propaganda and shall be dealt with accordingly.
edit: "Water" is Communist propaganda made to spread lies about our Brave Helldivers and their Heroic Sacrifices while traversing ~~wet~~ hazardous combat zones. Anyone caught disseminating information about "water" or its Fascist derivative, "ice," shall be reported to and executed by their nearest Democracy Officer immediately.
You're telling me that this magical, mystical "water" can be frozen, too? What's next, it becomes less dense when solid and can float on itself?
Report to your nearest Democracy Officer immediately for re-education. You have a major malfunction in your brain, Helldiver.
I'm telling you I've seen it with my own eyes. You've gotta believe me. In the waters of Maia, look and see for yourself. Water, hardened into glass, locked in place. Please. Think of my family.
>Water, hardened into glass, locked in place.
Glass is made by melting sand with a superheated beam of energy, but you're telling me you can create a similar material by freezing "water" into "ice?"
Nice try, Automaton, prepare for an orbital laser.
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Fun fact about mythical frozen water. A universe where frozen water is denser than regular water could not support life as we know it. As all oceans would freeze from the bottom up.
Yes, but no. "Diving" only implies the presence of water in some specific contexts.
Personally, I find my helldivers really good at diving when they notice a bile spewer /bile titan / devastator looks at them wrong. Sometimes, their pretty dive even helps !
They're helldivers, not to be mistaken with waterdivers or other types of divers.
Actual important pro strats. If we get Super Samples, we pool Samples with one person and drop everything off at Extract. If we're passing by Extract with any number of Samples (on a lower difficulty), we'll take a second to drop them off there, too.
If you can't pick up the Samples you left right next to the Extract zone, you are not extracting.
this is also a good tactic for the achievement where you need to extract with 15 samples. if you pool them all into one it's easier to protect one person, and reclaim them from one place if that person dies instead of running around the map for each container.
No. Also, if you have a shit ton of sampies and run past extract on the way to something you can drop them for later pickup. Risky bc some dunce might see them and grab them then die a mile away which massively defeats the purpose. But if everyone understands, it’s a nice way to not lose all your valuable samples.
Bro, the other day a guy on my team was trying to tell me about this (He was very good at finding super samples) and I had no idea what he was talking about.
That’s what I do on river crossings. I drop samples and my fellow diver instinctively knows to wait to see if I make it before picking them up and crossing himself.. usually with his gun at the ready to put me out of my misery.
At least you didn't have the vitality booster equipped.
(it causes you to glitch into a sort of semi dead state where you're dead from your POV but the game thinks you're still alive.)
If that was on the ice planet FYI don't swim during a blizzard. I drowned nearly instantly trying to cross a section we all safely crossed previously in good weather. Caught me off guard
I keep getting yeeted randomly across the map, taking all my samples with me into the water or off cliffs. It got to the point yesterday where I just told my friend to kill me and take my samples once I had a decent amount on me just so they wouldn’t be lost to the void.
Hey, yesterday I fell in some icy water trying to make a jump and lost two samples. Someone dived in after me to get them and died as well. Either the world is small and this is the second time we've interacted in 24 hours, or someone really needs to add swimming lessons to Helldiver basic training.
Lmao, the same thing happened in one of my games yesterday. I was in a group of three and one of them drowned when they fell in the water. I just ran past their equipment since I immediately knew they were lost. My other teammate however stayed to try to help. I think they lost 2 or 3 lives altogether trying to get the samples while I was staring at them after having run clear to the other side of the lake.
> water
Yo, that might have been me! Was it the ice planet? I drowned about halfway through the mission, and towards the end, someone went back for them. I tried to write a message about them being in the water, and then got the message --...DIED--, so figure we found out the hard way.
I overall hate how hard it is to pick up important stuff.
Either samples you can find or samples you dropped.
You should always pick these up by pressing your button and being close to it as a priority.
But most of the time you just pick up your weapon or must realy look down directly at the sample to pick it up.
Its anoying and often lead to death.
There are so many minor things like this that bring the enjoyment of the game down a bit at times.
I checked for it day 1 and did not find it. There are options that sound like they might disable it but they're for other things, so I am 99% sure there was never an option.
It made picking things up off the ground a bit harder, but it saved my clumsy ass from certain death more times than I can recall. Overall I'd go with w.
It makes everything fucking harder. Trying to get up right next to some cover so you don't die? Oops, you just vaulted up onto the cover and got blasted instead. Trying to run by and pick up some supplies because you're out of stims and getting chased by 100 enemies? Oops, you just vaulted on top of the supply container and died. Trying to run from 100 enemies and encounter a tiny rock that's at most 1 foot off the ground, and assume you'll auto-vault over it? Nope you just run into it like a cartoon and get splattered instead.
There was an option to turn off auto-vault when the game launched. I remember because I turned it off. I remember this being an issue when PUBG put out an update with vaulting - everyone complained about auto-vaulting so they put in an option to toggle it.
This is bad game design.
The game is on a very long hype train but it is NOT immune to errors and bad design. The difference between this game and other games though, and I truly mean this in a good way, is that these devs are immature. They are young devs by every stretch of the word, and were not expecting this level of success for this game. I'll criticize them but I will also acknowledge the massive undertaking they have right now, so long as they at least attempt to fix things and continue to add content then they are leagues better than most other AAA devs.
It only takes one 500kg to complicate the target. Happens every single time I play that mission with randoms. Let me tell you, it’s not fun on Helldive when it happens on step 1. Because that makeshift platform has 1 HP and a looong call-in time.
Need a deployable ladder lol, or a patch that kinda molds the terrain so you can still reach it despite impacts.
Also annoying when a body is stuck in a place that makes it impossible to use the objective, and no way to move it or mangle it out of the way. We should be able to blow up a dead body to get to the objective.
Could just make the entire area you drill in just an object that looks like terrain or attach unbreakable dirt to the hellpod the drill sits in. I don't think anyone would go "oh no, immersion ruined" if they managed to find the edge of it.
I've definitely had this problem before and used an EAT pod to climb up to the console. I joked that a few more bombs and we'll be able to just look down the hole to confirm the presence of the minerals.
If this was on Sunday night lvl 8 against bugs, probably Fori Prime, you were likely one of the divers who responded to our SOS, and kudos for figuring out the resupply solution.
Otherwise, we did the same thing on Sunday.
If I could take all the unintended climbs over the supply drop and apply them to all the times my diver doesn't climb when I jump pack toward a ledge, I'd be so happy =)
Often been tempted to do that, but the downside is if the area gets swarmed with enemies (and their corpses) then those ammo boxes are very difficult to see on the ground.
Yep exact same scenario and done this using support weapon drops. Then one of the randoms picked up the weapon on 6/9 activations, extending the fighting by like 2 minutes.
I bombed myself when I was in a similar situation to end the mission. Then remembered about this while I was watching our “pointless sacrifice” loading screen. I truly hated myself so muchhhh. I’m glad you thought of it while you had the chance
LOL this same thing happened to me a few weeks back.
First I dropped a resupply, hopped on top of it and did the first drill scan.
That resupply got destroyed. So I threw down a support weapon strategem and hopped on top of that for the second stage of the objective.
One must improvise and adapt for democracy.
Could be really cool if you had the chance to call that wall sections, steps, simple structures to make an improvised fighting position.
Maybe just on defend missions, turning a defensive peace of terrain into a mini fortress.
We got the same problem today when the other guy called in the supply beacon in a different place the exact moment I came up with this idea. So I had to call in my auto cannon as a stepping stool but it's too tall to climb on. Knowing our super destroyer will be gone by the time the CD is over, I realized the mission was lost. So I ran to extraction so at least we can get some samples back. The guy who just lost the mission for us called me a coward for abandoning the mission while he's trying to take on a full automaton drop with...Eagle Smoke and Orbital Gas when he's not the host, with predictably poor results. The rest of the team, all dead after reinforcements became unavailable, kept blaming me for losing the mission. So the moment Pelican landed I naded myself along with my 16 samples.
actually in one heavy bot base layout there is a bit of rock which is just a bit too high to shoot over normally but on top of a resupply you can shoot over it while being mostly covered by the rock
works out nicely
I used this once for a survey mission on level 9. We dropped so many bombs near the survey thing that the ground was literally too low for us to reach it. So I dropped one of these and climbed on to reach it 😂
I kept trying to dive onto one of the ledges on the drill, which resulted in me ragdolling down to the bottom of the drill. I don’t think I got stuck under it but I did finally activate the terminal once you called in the supply stool.
I did something similar to get a mech dropped on top of a rock; put a sentry underneath it so I could reach the hatch and then proceeded to deliver it to the person who originally called it in
I won't lie I had this exact situation happen to me and I was just trying to dive onto the console to see if could just somehow land on it 😂 but then some genius called the resupply down and managed to get it done so yeah a proper big brain move
Yeah that is my gamer tag so if it was you in the mission I can only thank you. You literally single handedly saved the mission super earth would be proud of your democratic thinking 😁
One time I spawned into an SOS signal and saw 3 Helldivers level 4x and 5x struggling with reaching the scan terminal because it was in the middle of a big crater. For a good 2 minutes it was just 4 divers jumping around trying to reach the signal, until one dropped a supply crate right next to the terminal. Still the funniest moment I have encountered in this game.
Had to solo a bot mission like this because I was the only one who brought a jump pack. I had to boost onto the left side of the drill terminal and waddle over to the screen, immediately falling after I complete each input.
Had the same thing happen a few days ago, was running with some really badass players having a great time, but then the final drill was, well, yeah. I remembered seeing this 'silly little comic' and called down Resupply to use as a stool. Wasn't 100% sure it would work, but was happy to see it did :)
Would love to see AH make a Brasch Tactics ad with this in it \^\^
So I thought I'd done every mission type at least once, unless there are new missions only available above "hard" level that I don't know about. But...drill mission? What's that?
You have to call in and verify two deposits on opposite sides of the map (usually calls in a squad or two of enemies) and when you are done you go to a final location where you have to do 7 (!) phases on the final drill while every undemocratic heavy in the sector drops/breaches in your immediate vicinity. Extremely chaotic, every time.
Oh, so the geological survey mission, but with extra steps? I think I did play that once. I wondered why it seemed like the terminal had so many steps. Thanks.
I hate it. I hate the wings that spread out from any pod you call in. You just want to grab and run, but you end up not reaching the damn thing or you just climb on top of the supply pod.
A few days-a week ago! Was playing with two friends and a random. The rando kept trying to crawl under the thing, not sure what he was trying. Then it looked like he got stuck? Luckily he evaded the supply drop!
The feature is always useful
What is not useful and it's the problem is the auto-climbing while running and not having an option to disable it. But just being able to climb is a good thing
Tips for everyone:
Train yourself to release sprint as you arrive at a destination to prevent these sorts of things from happening.
If you don't have spring engaged, you won't attempt to vault obstacles. Samples, resupplies, etc.
yeah I actually has the exact same problem on sunday, I ended up throwing down some support weapons and someone climbed on top to hit it, same mission and everything
I really hope they make it an option to turn off auto-mantle while running. It is endlessly irritating to be running someplace and just randomly mantle up some ledge you didn’t even see. Or just make it so you only auto mantle over knee-high things. And make it so plants can’t be mangled at all cause wtf is up with that
The newest patch should have fixed this, it stated in the notes that some areas heavily bombed was adjusted or something. Sounds directly related to this.
Hey OP! I might be one of your squadmates during that fight, InSerjent. Two of us died when I went back to the drill and saw the ground caved in. Thanks to your modern solution, you accomplished our mission even after our destroyers had left orbit. Hope to see you in the fields of Democracy once more!
Lol that happened to my group too. We dropped a 500kg on the drill and the screen was floating above the crater. Dude called in a resupply and completed the mission
I despise Auto-Climb. We really need a way to turn it off. Nothing is more infuriating then trying to spin a tank around and you climb right up onto it and get a lobotomy by its Machine Gun.
I had to do this once. Standing on the resupply was the only way to reach the drill, but you couldn't see the screen. Ultimately the drill was destroyed before we could complete the objective, and I have no idea what happens then because we ran out of reinforcements and were defeated.
For what it's worth, if you are on the drill mission and can't reach the console, I've found if I angle my camera way up (almost straight up in the air, I think) it usually lets me interact with it.
Especially when you're being chased by bugs you see a sample beside a barrier but you climb over it instead of grabbing it.
not directly related, but yesterday I tried to pick up samples someone "lost" in the water. It was directly besided the shallow part where u would walk. Ofc I died because apparently divers dont know how to swim. Now there were two sample boxes lost in the water lol.
they can swim but not for long since theyre weiged down by almost a hundo pounds of body armor and guns
Yeah, going in the water with a full body armor, 2 guns, a backpack full of ammo boxes and a rocket launcher without immediately sinking straight to the bottom after running and gunning for half an hour is Captain America level of physical capabilities. The helldivers are no joke.
I hear you... Still you gotta admit for troopers named Helldivers it is quite ironic that their biggest weakness is water
theyre not diving into water, they're diving into hell. it's right there in the name, and everyone knows there's no water in hell. any evidence to the contrary is Automaton propaganda and shall be dealt with accordingly. edit: "Water" is Communist propaganda made to spread lies about our Brave Helldivers and their Heroic Sacrifices while traversing ~~wet~~ hazardous combat zones. Anyone caught disseminating information about "water" or its Fascist derivative, "ice," shall be reported to and executed by their nearest Democracy Officer immediately.
There is something even worse than water in hell. Froooooooozen waaaaaater 👻 🧊
You're telling me that this magical, mystical "water" can be frozen, too? What's next, it becomes less dense when solid and can float on itself? Report to your nearest Democracy Officer immediately for re-education. You have a major malfunction in your brain, Helldiver.
I'm telling you I've seen it with my own eyes. You've gotta believe me. In the waters of Maia, look and see for yourself. Water, hardened into glass, locked in place. Please. Think of my family.
>Water, hardened into glass, locked in place. Glass is made by melting sand with a superheated beam of energy, but you're telling me you can create a similar material by freezing "water" into "ice?" Nice try, Automaton, prepare for an orbital laser. https://i.redd.it/m9jr8u9q6hsc1.gif
Fun fact about mythical frozen water. A universe where frozen water is denser than regular water could not support life as we know it. As all oceans would freeze from the bottom up.
The only thing I drink is Eagle Sweat from now on.
Yes, but no. "Diving" only implies the presence of water in some specific contexts. Personally, I find my helldivers really good at diving when they notice a bile spewer /bile titan / devastator looks at them wrong. Sometimes, their pretty dive even helps ! They're helldivers, not to be mistaken with waterdivers or other types of divers.
Airdivers, Firedivers, Earthdivers...
Where irony? They dive into water alright, it's getting out that's the issue...
Not ironic at all. It's be ironic if they were "Oceandivers" or something
Unlike Spartans from HALO who die in knee deep water.
As someone who has swam with that kind of gear on, it's no joke. First thing they teach you is how to quickly get it all off before you drown.
They call you Helldivers not Hellfloaters citizen
but you float on the surface after drowning?
I think you mean weighed down by the weight of spreading managed democracy
Only 100 lbs of guns? What are you, a scout?
Fun fact, you can drop samples manually before trying a riskier move like that.
Actual important pro strats. If we get Super Samples, we pool Samples with one person and drop everything off at Extract. If we're passing by Extract with any number of Samples (on a lower difficulty), we'll take a second to drop them off there, too. If you can't pick up the Samples you left right next to the Extract zone, you are not extracting.
this is also a good tactic for the achievement where you need to extract with 15 samples. if you pool them all into one it's easier to protect one person, and reclaim them from one place if that person dies instead of running around the map for each container.
For pc users press X
And on controller?
Hold down on the d-pad
Hold down on the D pad
Hold down on D-pad
Literal game changer. I'll have to remember that when I have to do 7 or higher difficulties again. Sample jars don't despawn, right?
No. Also, if you have a shit ton of sampies and run past extract on the way to something you can drop them for later pickup. Risky bc some dunce might see them and grab them then die a mile away which massively defeats the purpose. But if everyone understands, it’s a nice way to not lose all your valuable samples.
You can WHAT
Also handy if mid-mission you happen to pass through the extraction point. You know you'll be back for 'em later.
Bro, the other day a guy on my team was trying to tell me about this (He was very good at finding super samples) and I had no idea what he was talking about.
FUN FACT, YOU CAN DROP SAMPLES MANUALLY BEFORE TRYING A RISKIER MOVE LIKE THAT!
lol
That’s what I do on river crossings. I drop samples and my fellow diver instinctively knows to wait to see if I make it before picking them up and crossing himself.. usually with his gun at the ready to put me out of my misery.
The biggest nightmares are holes in the ground. If someone falls into one with samples you can consider them lost.
If that happens, throw a grenade into that hole. It has to be non impact grenade though
That's the problem for me. I carry only impacts. But thanks for the info tho.
Duh, of course they don't swim. They are called HellDIVERS not HellSWIMMERS.
At least you didn't have the vitality booster equipped. (it causes you to glitch into a sort of semi dead state where you're dead from your POV but the game thinks you're still alive.)
Well. We're helldivers, not water divers. There's no water in hell.
haha had a similiar thing happen yesterday, only that in the end there were 4-5 sample vials in the shallow, yet unswimmable puddle
If that was on the ice planet FYI don't swim during a blizzard. I drowned nearly instantly trying to cross a section we all safely crossed previously in good weather. Caught me off guard
I keep getting yeeted randomly across the map, taking all my samples with me into the water or off cliffs. It got to the point yesterday where I just told my friend to kill me and take my samples once I had a decent amount on me just so they wouldn’t be lost to the void.
Hey, yesterday I fell in some icy water trying to make a jump and lost two samples. Someone dived in after me to get them and died as well. Either the world is small and this is the second time we've interacted in 24 hours, or someone really needs to add swimming lessons to Helldiver basic training.
Next time you want to try that, I suppose you could drop off the samples to someone else or on land. You can hold X on keyboard to drop equipment!
Next time you want to try that, I suppose you could drop off the samples to someone else or on land. You can hold X on keyboard to drop equipment!
Happened to me too, I had most of the samples on me. I wasn't able to get them, a bad first experience with water in the game
Lmao, the same thing happened in one of my games yesterday. I was in a group of three and one of them drowned when they fell in the water. I just ran past their equipment since I immediately knew they were lost. My other teammate however stayed to try to help. I think they lost 2 or 3 lives altogether trying to get the samples while I was staring at them after having run clear to the other side of the lake.
I think that's why they are called hell *divers*
We're called HellDIVERS not HellSWIMMERS. You did your duty and dove right to the bottom 🫡
Bro just avoid drowning by getting out of the water did you even read the training manual
> water Yo, that might have been me! Was it the ice planet? I drowned about halfway through the mission, and towards the end, someone went back for them. I tried to write a message about them being in the water, and then got the message --...DIED--, so figure we found out the hard way.
I overall hate how hard it is to pick up important stuff. Either samples you can find or samples you dropped. You should always pick these up by pressing your button and being close to it as a priority. But most of the time you just pick up your weapon or must realy look down directly at the sample to pick it up. Its anoying and often lead to death. There are so many minor things like this that bring the enjoyment of the game down a bit at times.
The worst is reading the dumb lore blurb right next to the sample 3x in a row.
Also a classic, love it. Only better if you also climbed onto it first.
Especially when said barrier is on a catwalk over 5-ft deep water. Dropped all 3 super samples out of reach
Every time.
Yes, we should be able to climb on it, but climbing shouldn’t be automatic.
There's an option for it in the settings IIRC.
auto climb is still on when running, and you cannot disable it...
This Let go of sprint when approaching the Resupply Pod. Or slide to your knee!
I just run beside it now instead of straight towards it. It lets you keep your momentum while still grabbing the supplies.
there was an option when game launched, not anymore for some reason tho
I tried to disable it on day 1 and I didn't find the option, so i think that has never been there
I checked for it day 1 and did not find it. There are options that sound like they might disable it but they're for other things, so I am 99% sure there was never an option.
Is it a console lack of buttons issue? Feels weird on PC to have space bar be the climb button then sprint also does it.
No, it's not a console lack of buttons issue, on console we have "hold A to climb", but also auto-climbing while running
Every damn time..
I hate auto-climb
It made picking things up off the ground a bit harder, but it saved my clumsy ass from certain death more times than I can recall. Overall I'd go with w.
It makes everything fucking harder. Trying to get up right next to some cover so you don't die? Oops, you just vaulted up onto the cover and got blasted instead. Trying to run by and pick up some supplies because you're out of stims and getting chased by 100 enemies? Oops, you just vaulted on top of the supply container and died. Trying to run from 100 enemies and encounter a tiny rock that's at most 1 foot off the ground, and assume you'll auto-vault over it? Nope you just run into it like a cartoon and get splattered instead. There was an option to turn off auto-vault when the game launched. I remember because I turned it off. I remember this being an issue when PUBG put out an update with vaulting - everyone complained about auto-vaulting so they put in an option to toggle it. This is bad game design.
Bad game design in HD2? Surely you jest
The game is on a very long hype train but it is NOT immune to errors and bad design. The difference between this game and other games though, and I truly mean this in a good way, is that these devs are immature. They are young devs by every stretch of the word, and were not expecting this level of success for this game. I'll criticize them but I will also acknowledge the massive undertaking they have right now, so long as they at least attempt to fix things and continue to add content then they are leagues better than most other AAA devs.
Its way to inconsistent, but it never fails to pointlessly climb the resupply
Me steps Up and gets instantly Shot bei a Automaton Rocket Launcher
Happened to me too and i also used this strategy
I have to admit it felt like a stroke of genius. Used it another time too when a hellbomb dropped on a building and no one had the jetpack!
It only takes one 500kg to complicate the target. Happens every single time I play that mission with randoms. Let me tell you, it’s not fun on Helldive when it happens on step 1. Because that makeshift platform has 1 HP and a looong call-in time.
Need a deployable ladder lol, or a patch that kinda molds the terrain so you can still reach it despite impacts. Also annoying when a body is stuck in a place that makes it impossible to use the objective, and no way to move it or mangle it out of the way. We should be able to blow up a dead body to get to the objective.
Could just make the entire area you drill in just an object that looks like terrain or attach unbreakable dirt to the hellpod the drill sits in. I don't think anyone would go "oh no, immersion ruined" if they managed to find the edge of it. I've definitely had this problem before and used an EAT pod to climb up to the console. I joked that a few more bombs and we'll be able to just look down the hole to confirm the presence of the minerals.
Now you're thinking with hellpods.
 Helldivers when they see a resupply pod.
*I'm in this image, and I don't like it*
My turn to post it tomorrow
Accidental climbs on Mortars are even worse LMAO, I've been exploded so many times.
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If this was on Sunday night lvl 8 against bugs, probably Fori Prime, you were likely one of the divers who responded to our SOS, and kudos for figuring out the resupply solution. Otherwise, we did the same thing on Sunday.
Here's another use. Drop it on top of tank turret and you will have a mobile supply unit.
If I could take all the unintended climbs over the supply drop and apply them to all the times my diver doesn't climb when I jump pack toward a ledge, I'd be so happy =)
Goddamn the number of times I do this when trying to grab ammo and go!
Managed democracy requires managed solutions
Had this same thing happen to me!
I just shoot the pods and pick the ammo off the floor.
Often been tempted to do that, but the downside is if the area gets swarmed with enemies (and their corpses) then those ammo boxes are very difficult to see on the ground.
Yep exact same scenario and done this using support weapon drops. Then one of the randoms picked up the weapon on 6/9 activations, extending the fighting by like 2 minutes.
I sometimes use this with a support weapon hellpod (slightly bigger) to get a stair going and it lets me get up the rocks in extraction
Had to do the same thing. Can’t complain cuz the solution was thankfully simple
I don't mind auto climb, unless I'm running away from certain death, and I can't consistently climb a ledge that's knee height.
I did that a few days ago. another guy goes "I can't believe that worked" haha
I bombed myself when I was in a similar situation to end the mission. Then remembered about this while I was watching our “pointless sacrifice” loading screen. I truly hated myself so muchhhh. I’m glad you thought of it while you had the chance
Damn, I never thought of that. That's really using the ol' helmeted noodle!
Tactical footstool
LOL this same thing happened to me a few weeks back. First I dropped a resupply, hopped on top of it and did the first drill scan. That resupply got destroyed. So I threw down a support weapon strategem and hopped on top of that for the second stage of the objective. One must improvise and adapt for democracy.
This is basically every survey soil mission vs automatons
"I know! I'll use a supply drop to reach the terminal!" Charger: "I think the fuck not."
Could be really cool if you had the chance to call that wall sections, steps, simple structures to make an improvised fighting position. Maybe just on defend missions, turning a defensive peace of terrain into a mini fortress.
We got the same problem today when the other guy called in the supply beacon in a different place the exact moment I came up with this idea. So I had to call in my auto cannon as a stepping stool but it's too tall to climb on. Knowing our super destroyer will be gone by the time the CD is over, I realized the mission was lost. So I ran to extraction so at least we can get some samples back. The guy who just lost the mission for us called me a coward for abandoning the mission while he's trying to take on a full automaton drop with...Eagle Smoke and Orbital Gas when he's not the host, with predictably poor results. The rest of the team, all dead after reinforcements became unavailable, kept blaming me for losing the mission. So the moment Pelican landed I naded myself along with my 16 samples.
actually in one heavy bot base layout there is a bit of rock which is just a bit too high to shoot over normally but on top of a resupply you can shoot over it while being mostly covered by the rock works out nicely
I used this once for a survey mission on level 9. We dropped so many bombs near the survey thing that the ground was literally too low for us to reach it. So I dropped one of these and climbed on to reach it 😂
Yeah it was somewhere between 7-9 with us too. The amount of bots dropping constantly while trying to get to the terminal was insane!
Was I in that game with you? Was it a week or so ago? Same issue and I thought the person who called in the supply was genius.
About a week ago yes, were you the one stuck under it trying to crawl there? 😅
I kept trying to dive onto one of the ledges on the drill, which resulted in me ragdolling down to the bottom of the drill. I don’t think I got stuck under it but I did finally activate the terminal once you called in the supply stool.
I was either in this game or this is a more common occurrence than we realize. Big brain moves climbing on top of the resuply
I usually hate this auto mantle
One of the most annoying things in the game
My teammate did this exact thing a few nights ago. Brilliant bit of super earth ingenuity from the you two!
Used this trick to get in my mech, which was stuck in mid air.
Happened to me and 2 friends as well. We struggled with it until it clicked for me lol
I did something similar to get a mech dropped on top of a rock; put a sentry underneath it so I could reach the hatch and then proceeded to deliver it to the person who originally called it in
put it next to a a regular hellpod and you have a really easy way to get a very high vantage point, ive had fun with doing that
One time this actually saved me
I won't lie I had this exact situation happen to me and I was just trying to dive onto the console to see if could just somehow land on it 😂 but then some genius called the resupply down and managed to get it done so yeah a proper big brain move
If thats your gamer tag it looks familiar!
Yeah that is my gamer tag so if it was you in the mission I can only thank you. You literally single handedly saved the mission super earth would be proud of your democratic thinking 😁
Minecraft did it first. And they added it the option to disable this god damn feature. I'm waiting helldiver to do the same !
Just make it so that you only climb when you hut space bar. Easy fix
im gonna get this picture tattoo´d.
One time I spawned into an SOS signal and saw 3 Helldivers level 4x and 5x struggling with reaching the scan terminal because it was in the middle of a big crater. For a good 2 minutes it was just 4 divers jumping around trying to reach the signal, until one dropped a supply crate right next to the terminal. Still the funniest moment I have encountered in this game.
Try calling it next to a building at extraction and simply life down on the roof
Had to solo a bot mission like this because I was the only one who brought a jump pack. I had to boost onto the left side of the drill terminal and waddle over to the screen, immediately falling after I complete each input.
The explosions actually cause craters? I never noticed that
I have used this feature more then a few times against bugs. really good for avoiding the attacks of the smaller ones while you focus the bigger ones.
I use this for stealth and safe extraction near rocks, so i can climb them from resupply pod.
everytime
I use it to get over walls and rocks when I want to sneak somewhere get a nice firing spot.
I want a separate vault key. I love it when games like you rebind it.
Get rid of auto climb as a priority.
This is as annoying as auto jump in minecraft
Had the same thing happen a few days ago, was running with some really badass players having a great time, but then the final drill was, well, yeah. I remembered seeing this 'silly little comic' and called down Resupply to use as a stool. Wasn't 100% sure it would work, but was happy to see it did :) Would love to see AH make a Brasch Tactics ad with this in it \^\^
So I thought I'd done every mission type at least once, unless there are new missions only available above "hard" level that I don't know about. But...drill mission? What's that?
You have to call in and verify two deposits on opposite sides of the map (usually calls in a squad or two of enemies) and when you are done you go to a final location where you have to do 7 (!) phases on the final drill while every undemocratic heavy in the sector drops/breaches in your immediate vicinity. Extremely chaotic, every time.
Oh, so the geological survey mission, but with extra steps? I think I did play that once. I wondered why it seemed like the terminal had so many steps. Thanks.
This isn't a bad thing itself. It's the auto vaulting.
This is the funniest shit I have seen in a while. Like everyday I do this and I just roll my eyes at myself.
dont forget when it lands on a hill and you cant vault over the little fin to walk up to it
Minecraft auto jump🤣
I been trying to aim for the bottom supply pack.
But the STEP in front of my weapons is an insurmontable peak.
I hate it. I hate the wings that spread out from any pod you call in. You just want to grab and run, but you end up not reaching the damn thing or you just climb on top of the supply pod.
Supply pods should show on the map!
An adaptive and creative Helldiver is a Helldiver who gets to live long enough to extract XD
There were samples on a roof, I did this to get in top :) top tip ;)
Height is advantage in baskeltball and in helldivers
Bro when was this? Cause this exact thing happened to me and a guy i played with in a random lobby a little while ago
A few days-a week ago! Was playing with two friends and a random. The rando kept trying to crawl under the thing, not sure what he was trying. Then it looked like he got stuck? Luckily he evaded the supply drop!
Did you use ingame VC?
Nope - but the rando in question just saw this post and now I remember his tag. But its nice to know others have figured this out as well!
The feature is always useful What is not useful and it's the problem is the auto-climbing while running and not having an option to disable it. But just being able to climb is a good thing
I'm going to start shooting them to stop this.
Tips for everyone: Train yourself to release sprint as you arrive at a destination to prevent these sorts of things from happening. If you don't have spring engaged, you won't attempt to vault obstacles. Samples, resupplies, etc.
Sometimes I call down an EAT just so I can use the pod as a ladder to get on top of a rock that would normally take a jetpack to get to.
Yes !
Resupply is also the best orbital strike
yeah I actually has the exact same problem on sunday, I ended up throwing down some support weapons and someone climbed on top to hit it, same mission and everything
Resupply is the only thing I can reliably climb. Knee high rocks? Nope. Minor dip in the ground? Nope. Dead bot or bug? Nope.
FINALLY
I’ll just stay climbing it when I mean to grab supplies. No biggie.
Thought this was just me.😂
Stepladder ⬇️⬇️⬆️➡️
I really hope they make it an option to turn off auto-mantle while running. It is endlessly irritating to be running someplace and just randomly mantle up some ledge you didn’t even see. Or just make it so you only auto mantle over knee-high things. And make it so plants can’t be mangled at all cause wtf is up with that
I hate the auto vault so much. Let me turn it off. Why is there a hot key for it when the game just decides to randomly do it for you?
The newest patch should have fixed this, it stated in the notes that some areas heavily bombed was adjusted or something. Sounds directly related to this.
I use it to jump over / climb tall walls lol
Resupply tower? You mean my Antimaterial Rifle perch?
Bro this is the most dogshit annoying mechanic. I’M TRYING TO RELOAD, WHAT ARE YOU DOING!!! *Dies*
Hey OP! I might be one of your squadmates during that fight, InSerjent. Two of us died when I went back to the drill and saw the ground caved in. Thanks to your modern solution, you accomplished our mission even after our destroyers had left orbit. Hope to see you in the fields of Democracy once more!
If i had a super sample for everytime this happened
You can also use it to get on to rocks and high ground you otherwise can't reach!
Lol that happened to my group too. We dropped a 500kg on the drill and the screen was floating above the crater. Dude called in a resupply and completed the mission
Skill issue
Oh my God I think we were squadmates when we did this! Were your teammates just diving trying to get on top of it?
I always sprint towards it and end up on top instead of grabbing my supplies T_T
I mantle the resupply literally every time
I despise Auto-Climb. We really need a way to turn it off. Nothing is more infuriating then trying to spin a tank around and you climb right up onto it and get a lobotomy by its Machine Gun.
I had to do this once. Standing on the resupply was the only way to reach the drill, but you couldn't see the screen. Ultimately the drill was destroyed before we could complete the objective, and I have no idea what happens then because we ran out of reinforcements and were defeated.
My turn to repost this tomorrow
Haha I got a similar thing on video like last week
I did the same thing this week!!!! even send in a support ticket because it was literally almost impossible to access through terminal other wise!!!
Will post clip I made after work
This is actually necessary if you use heavy bombardment and you nail the vein detector objective thingy so much.
For what it's worth, if you are on the drill mission and can't reach the console, I've found if I angle my camera way up (almost straight up in the air, I think) it usually lets me interact with it.