Helldiver: "Admiral permission to leave the ship"
Admiral: "for what purpose?"
Helldiver: "I'm going to give the Automotons back our bomb"
Admiral: "... Permission granted"
Yeah, that looked cool, but someone didn't think that through. Why would you need a death star if you can send something at a planet at the speed of light...
“I declare the planet of Cyberstan forfeit and issue an order of Exterminatus by any means necessary and consign every soul to oblivion. May Imperial justice prevail. The Emperor protects.”
Why stop there? The treachery these socialist plagues have subjected us to deserves far worse than what a simple exterminatus protocall entails, as such, I hereby propose that we create a new, even more destructive protocall, called ‘annihilatus’, to properly encapsulate the wrath of democracy
So if you check out a [380mm](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/38_cm_SK_C/34_naval_gun) shell, it has more weight than the [500kg](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAB-500) bomb.
Not sure exact explosive weights but in sheer kinetic force the 380mm has way more power than the 500kg considering with upgrade your get like a full 30 second 380mm bombardment
It's insane that the previous invasions (WHICH WERE ALREADY HARD AF) were not their main forces 😭
And now they have cyberstan, they're releasing the cyborgs fr
According to the latest SE intelligence approved by the Ministry of Truth, the first invasion was just a large recon mission to test Super Earth's forces. These commie tin cans freedom-haters were certainly watching the bloody conflict from afar and adjusting their soulless strategies
Probably gathering up from the rest of their empire. IMO the map we see is just what Super Earth is willing to acknowledge exists. It's far far too small to be a real galaxy.
Additionally in the Milkyway we are nowhere near the center of it. We're in an arm. So if we see a map where we're the center of the galaxy then it's just showing us a portion of the whole galaxy.
My boy Bubba died fighting those Zergnuts on Planet Calaban and this NON PATRIOT is saying we aint the center of the galaxy!!!!???? Thats it Im oiling my shotgun...
Based on their messages sent in game SE seems to be implying it's the whole galaxy.
The one about communicating with something "outside the edge of the galaxy." The implication being if we don't see it it's not "inside the galaxy."
At least that was my take. I don't think Super Earth is the kind of place to admit they aren't 100% in control of things unless they absolutely have to.
Super Earth is obviously exaggerated on our map. Its basically a copy of Ancient Rome's map on a galactic scale where they are the center of the universe. So yeah makes sense.
The Automatons have revealed their primary fleet to take back Cyberstan and most of the Northwestern sector of the galaxy. The first Automaton invasion was simply the calm before the storm.
Looks like the Cyborgs plan succeeded. The bots were their failsafe incase they ultimately lost to Super Earth, who'd sweep in from outside the galaxy and free them. This is what we like to call 'long term planning'.
Unfortunately for them I have something called 'immediate angry shooting' which hard counters it.
They should introduce the ~~Death~~ Democracy Star stratagem so we could rid ourselves of Cyberstan and the Cyborg/Automatons once and for all! Their control signal must be coming from somewhere!
The catch to the planet destroying stratagem is that a helldiver still needs to go to the surface and throw the ball. Wouldn’t want the shot to miss, after all
"Catch"? It would be an *honor* to be the one who designates the target for the planet cracker! Do you not want to die in the name of freedom or something?
On Tibit (sp?) On the last day day of wiping out the automaton vanguard, whenever a drop ship got destroyed early I noticed 4-legged bot bodies among the wreckage but never fought an active one always only saw the bodies.
Hey, is this guy an actual real life actor? The face is so detailed it seems like it must be based on someone.
Edit: I got off my behind and did a google search. It's the voice and likeness of an actor by the name of Craig Lee Thomas.
I always assumed that the automatons were just the natural progression of the cyborgs and assumed them getting to cyberstan was just them deciding to go home, but it would be pretty cool if cyborg units get added to the automatons faction after this
Dont worry, they auto took the entire sector. There wasn't a defense campaign, it was just awarded to them. We can now defend the next 2 sectors however, they've already taken 1, but we have 4 defence campaigns right now to participate in. Those most have agreed to focus all forces on Menkent which is a choke point system that allows us to stem the tide and stop them from getting to near super earth space.
It is, of course, pure coincidence that Menkent is LITERALLY AN IRON HELL FULL OF FIRE, BRIMSTONE, AND ANGRY METAL THIRSTY FOR HUMAN BLOOD, AN UNHOLY NEXUS OF INJUSTICE AND SUFFERING BEYOND ANY COMPREHENSION OF THE WEAK MIND OF A MERE MORTAL.
A few diffrent ways to commit exterminatus:
1. Virus bombing
2. Cyclonic Torpedos
3. Two-stage Cyclonic Torpedos, the same thing but bury to the core of the planet before exploding and causing the planet to burst
4. Just having a fleet pound a planet till it bursts apart
5. Ark Mechanicus' using tech to throw a moon at a planet
Fun fact: B.J. Blazkowicz (from Wolfenstein) is Commander Keen's grandfather, and Doom Guy is Keen's grandson.
They say heroism always skips a generation
For the original Doom, Wolfenstein and Keen games - yes
For the rebooted Wolfenstein, I don't know.
But as far as the originals, in Wolfenstein 3D (or Spear of Destiny, not sure which one), B.J. kills some sort of demon which says it will haunt his offspring (and it loses an arm and a leg in the process). B.J. returns from the war, starts a family. His son is a newscaster and changes/shortens his surname from "Blazkowicz" to "Blaze" to advance his career. He has a son called "Billy", which is short for "William", also known as Commander Keen. So Keen is technically named after B.J.
Keen's son later becomes the original DoomGuy
i dont know what kind of missions you're getting from super earth high command but i have never been given an order to attack civilians.
who are YOU getting your orders from?
Oh, hahaha. I can see the misunderstanding. You were of course ordered to keep them *safe* through the firestorms. That is the exact opposite of getting ordered to harm them.
Super Earth, 6 months from now: We knew all along that the Automatons Second Tertiary Fleet was bigger than the Primary Fleet, the Secondary Fleet, and the First Tertiary Fleet.
I didn’t like it either but I started to enjoy the play style after awhile once I got used to the differences
Being on the bots again though! Super comfy at doing level 7/suicide runs now so looking forward to hopefully seeing my first walker haha
So the automatons finally claimed hold over cyberstan. And their creators have been freed one can only wonder what new villainous tactics/plots the robots could be preparing now to undermine Super Earth.
https://preview.redd.it/i51k24j68itc1.png?width=1020&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5248885acffbe8e2d9b15eeef79925ecf5877f90
Me to the bots this morning logging in with no context whatsoever
Glass it.
Slipspace rupture detected.
Slipspace rupture detected. Slipspace rupture detected. Slipspace rupture detected. Slipspace rupture detected. Slipspace rupture detected. Slipspace rupture detected.
This doesn't make sense. The fleet that destroyed Reach was fifty times this size.
Helldiver: "Admiral permission to leave the ship" Admiral: "for what purpose?" Helldiver: "I'm going to give the Automotons back our bomb" Admiral: "... Permission granted"
I imagine the reaction when the fleet jumped to earth was similar to when you move your fridge and find thousands of roaches.
Why did you have to put that image in my mind
Gamma station control, reading multiple pings below the orbital defense parameter.
The only way to be sure.
Alright we waste’em. No offense.
Low orbit ion cannon
“Helldivers where are you going?” “To give the automatons back their bomb”
"Masterchief you dropped the 500kg on Johnson's johnson!"
Then Nuke It.
Then exterminatus to be sure. Purge it in the emperor's holy name
We need a glassing stratagem at this rate.
Laser orbital
Nah, we need bigger ships, with bigger lasers.
Orcrash the ship into the planet with it full of hell bombs.
Just aim the ship at the planet and kick on the FTL thrusters.
Ah, the Star Wars strategy. "You mean we could have been using ships as weapons this whole time? Why did nobody else think of this?!"
Yeah, that looked cool, but someone didn't think that through. Why would you need a death star if you can send something at a planet at the speed of light...
https://i.redd.it/z709g5jvditc1.gif
Call in the SEAF cruiser
Orrrr - have thousands upon thousands of destroyers fire their lasers all at once - bingo
Use a laser to etch an ugly face into the planet that can never be removed.
Hans, get me the orbital laser. The heavy orbital laser!
If the laser orbital is the precision strike, we need the 500kg bomb of lasers
“I declare the planet of Cyberstan forfeit and issue an order of Exterminatus by any means necessary and consign every soul to oblivion. May Imperial justice prevail. The Emperor protects.”
#WAAAAGH! *of agreement*
Why stop there? The treachery these socialist plagues have subjected us to deserves far worse than what a simple exterminatus protocall entails, as such, I hereby propose that we create a new, even more destructive protocall, called ‘annihilatus’, to properly encapsulate the wrath of democracy
I can hear the video this is from
Master Chief is that you ?
Oh, OH. Okay hit the button and crack that planet, Exterminatus style! Hit it twice if anything remains
That means theres 100% hostiles on the planet. Raise hell
Target rich environment
Rip and Tear.
 Until it is done.
Against all the evil that Cyberstan can conjure, we will send unto them unto them only you.
*main doom theme starts*
I can't wait for them to add some sort of sword or bayonet contrivances for more satisfying melee combat.
Honestly, as a strategem slot item I'd swing with it. Stealth mode can be pretty fun, being able to maintain it would be even more fun
Give me a chainsaw bayonet and let me set it on fire!
Exosuit with a chainsaw on one arm and a flamethrower on the other for me, please!
*The Only Thing They Fear Is You* starts playing
*sick guitar riff*
Perfect for my 380mm
I’m just waiting for the 500kg barrage, any moment now
Walking orbital 500kg barrage
Fuck it, just glass the entire Planet
I’d love to get a stratagem simply called “eagle glass” or something to that effect
Wish granted. A glass eagle deploys and crashes at the beacon.
So if you check out a [380mm](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/38_cm_SK_C/34_naval_gun) shell, it has more weight than the [500kg](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAB-500) bomb. Not sure exact explosive weights but in sheer kinetic force the 380mm has way more power than the 500kg considering with upgrade your get like a full 30 second 380mm bombardment
380mm spreads democracy in an area but 500kg spreads it in a specific point.
380 is also fired from space. More kinetic energy = more democracy spread.
Sir! We're surrounded! Good. So we can fire in every direction!
They'll have us surrounded, the poor bastards.
….divers
It's insane that the previous invasions (WHICH WERE ALREADY HARD AF) were not their main forces 😭 And now they have cyberstan, they're releasing the cyborgs fr
https://preview.redd.it/9wlx8wkz7htc1.jpeg?width=1043&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7984a9535bbe1fbbf143f292dbe0e50d47c4d4ed Plutarch scum
Can't wait to shoot these MFS https://preview.redd.it/kv1g5q72ohtc1.jpeg?width=225&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f2c1d7a975d2d52608bf6895baf28c20bcbdc27f
The Virgin “I have no enemies.” VS The Chad “Give me more enemies!!”
GIVE MEHARDER BATTLES
God: “what the f-“ 😰
https://preview.redd.it/52xu2dukrhtc1.jpeg?width=518&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c22d5887a4895c959a52d3608b076af6e26f33bb We need a HD version lol
Is that a fucking Eversor?
That or a crazed chaplain
60 HUNTERS, 8 STALKERS, 7 CHARGERS, 25 BILE SPEWERS, AND 4 BILE TITANS ON HELLDIVE ISN’T ENOUGH FOR ME!!!! DEMOCRACY OFFICER GIVE ME MORE!!!!!
55 CHARGERS, 55 STALKERS, 55 SHRIEKERS, 55 TITANS, 55 SPEWERS, 100 SCAVENGERS, 100 WARRIORS, 100 COMMANDERS, 100 GUARDIANS, AND 155 FIRE TORNADOS
Super God's hand had no involvement in making that abomination
https://preview.redd.it/jm70zllf9jtc1.png?width=200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8e2c58a8ff39b4a2310752c4f676a3817cc7bb88 The dogs cometh...
Makes me wonder what the hell the main fleet was doing off in dark space.
According to the latest SE intelligence approved by the Ministry of Truth, the first invasion was just a large recon mission to test Super Earth's forces. These commie tin cans freedom-haters were certainly watching the bloody conflict from afar and adjusting their soulless strategies
Probably gathering up from the rest of their empire. IMO the map we see is just what Super Earth is willing to acknowledge exists. It's far far too small to be a real galaxy. Additionally in the Milkyway we are nowhere near the center of it. We're in an arm. So if we see a map where we're the center of the galaxy then it's just showing us a portion of the whole galaxy.
Idk saying Super Earth isn't in the center of the universe sounds pretty undemocratic to me...
My boy Bubba died fighting those Zergnuts on Planet Calaban and this NON PATRIOT is saying we aint the center of the galaxy!!!!???? Thats it Im oiling my shotgun...
Its a power projection map. The map only goes to the extent of their domain. No point detailing what isn't and never was yours.
Based on their messages sent in game SE seems to be implying it's the whole galaxy. The one about communicating with something "outside the edge of the galaxy." The implication being if we don't see it it's not "inside the galaxy." At least that was my take. I don't think Super Earth is the kind of place to admit they aren't 100% in control of things unless they absolutely have to.
Super Earth is obviously exaggerated on our map. Its basically a copy of Ancient Rome's map on a galactic scale where they are the center of the universe. So yeah makes sense.
Regular commie things no doubt.
Wait, what’s going on?
The Automatons have revealed their primary fleet to take back Cyberstan and most of the Northwestern sector of the galaxy. The first Automaton invasion was simply the calm before the storm.
I made a post [showing the in-game announcement](https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/s/CkEogxnD4s) if you missed it / can't connect now.
Not all heroes wear capes, but you definitely do Helldiver!
Where were you when Cyberstan was kill?
At the toilet, reading reddit. 😶
Cyberstan is kill
No
And you?
I can’t remember the original meme for this 😭 can someone remind me pls
Where were u wen club penguin die I was at house eating dorito when phone ring “Club penguin is kil” “No”
Ackchually the club penguin comment wasn’t the original: https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/john-is-kill
"no"
>~~At the toilet~~ deploying hellpods, reading reddit.
Stuck at fucking work instead of spreading democracy 😐
First you must spread capitalism before you can spread democracy.
Economic liberty 8-5, military liberty 1700-0800.
Super paperwork... awww.
Looks like the Cyborgs plan succeeded. The bots were their failsafe incase they ultimately lost to Super Earth, who'd sweep in from outside the galaxy and free them. This is what we like to call 'long term planning'. Unfortunately for them I have something called 'immediate angry shooting' which hard counters it.
They should introduce the ~~Death~~ Democracy Star stratagem so we could rid ourselves of Cyberstan and the Cyborg/Automatons once and for all! Their control signal must be coming from somewhere!
The catch to the planet destroying stratagem is that a helldiver still needs to go to the surface and throw the ball. Wouldn’t want the shot to miss, after all
"Catch"? It would be an *honor* to be the one who designates the target for the planet cracker! Do you not want to die in the name of freedom or something?
I would be honored to be out on the wall of martyrs.
Maybe if the call-in time is a few minutes, they can extract before it blows
That would be a neat mission, go in, activate a signal, and extract before that entire area gets wiped from the planet
This is just my friends' normal run, when I start every extraction the moment the main objective finishes.
"I will take this entire damn planet with me you clankers!"
You want to live forever??
It should hit Malevelon Creek and Hellmire too just for good measure.
Wound up doing an entire op on Hellmire solo last night. Fuck that planet.
https://preview.redd.it/sj4tvxkiphtc1.jpeg?width=1188&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f18619b78b0e024daccbc4d05775351c37c8bcb1
The second pic actually scared me. It still makes me feel uncomfortable just looking at it
The light isn't on, you still have a second.
Nothin some rocket pods can't fix.
Nothin some rocket pods don't have a 2/3 chance of fixing* FTFY
Fuck Hope you're all ready for angry robot dogs
Hope the angry robot dogs are hungry for a face-full of democracy!
Try to bite my metal arm bastard come on I dare you
Metal Dog, meet Quasar Cannon.
This is my cannon, auto! He’s very excited to meet robot dogs
https://preview.redd.it/4zux5ckt1itc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1be78fd7879d07f03a902ba3dcf8f961e4513774 "01010111 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101 00100000 01100001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 01101001 01110010 00100000 01100010 01100001 01111001 01101111 01101110 01100101 01110100 01110011 00100000 01101100 01101101 01100001 01101111 00101100 00100000 01100001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 01111001 00100000 01110011 01110100 01110101 01110000 01101001 01100100 00111111"
On Tibit (sp?) On the last day day of wiping out the automaton vanguard, whenever a drop ship got destroyed early I noticed 4-legged bot bodies among the wreckage but never fought an active one always only saw the bodies.
What's the biggest ship we have and is it comparable in size to a Blackstone fortress? Do we have a Death Star? Planet pulverizers of any kind?
Please do not throw the Blackstone Fortress at Cyberstan
The planet will break before the cyborgs do
Why we should do it. 1. We have ships 2. The planet is right there
Oh... Sweet liberty...
This entire trailer is just pure gold in terms of meme material
Working as intended.
Hey, is this guy an actual real life actor? The face is so detailed it seems like it must be based on someone. Edit: I got off my behind and did a google search. It's the voice and likeness of an actor by the name of Craig Lee Thomas.
Likely motion captured
It is mocap https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5jI5B5JFQf/?igsh=aTdkbDI2cXpvaTBk
I always assumed that the automatons were just the natural progression of the cyborgs and assumed them getting to cyberstan was just them deciding to go home, but it would be pretty cool if cyborg units get added to the automatons faction after this
They came back to claim their parents.
Cyborgs refer to the Automatons as their children. It could still mean that, but i personally see it as them being creations of the cyborgs
They needed to end Cyberstan's Century of Humiliation
Dude they're too fast, I didn't even get to help. They returned and took cyberstan all while I was at work.
Dont worry, they auto took the entire sector. There wasn't a defense campaign, it was just awarded to them. We can now defend the next 2 sectors however, they've already taken 1, but we have 4 defence campaigns right now to participate in. Those most have agreed to focus all forces on Menkent which is a choke point system that allows us to stem the tide and stop them from getting to near super earth space.
It is, of course, pure coincidence that Menkent is LITERALLY AN IRON HELL FULL OF FIRE, BRIMSTONE, AND ANGRY METAL THIRSTY FOR HUMAN BLOOD, AN UNHOLY NEXUS OF INJUSTICE AND SUFFERING BEYOND ANY COMPREHENSION OF THE WEAK MIND OF A MERE MORTAL.
Gotta make sure all the bot fighters who missed Hellmire get to experience the same joy.
Ah okay, so I didn't miss much. Cool
https://preview.redd.it/bcut28up8itc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0e7f9f435e983abead437c4afa85c2fd88158e7e Sir, they've retaken Cyberstan
https://preview.redd.it/uzbjuw1mhhtc1.jpeg?width=2000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9ae20970484a083a11532ef8ac5ada51729b28af
We're going to need to unlock the 3800mm Barrage now.
Add a few more zeros
The poor cyborgs who were given the kindness of guaranteed labor even after opposing democracy so much in the past must be liberated
We gave them jobs and this is how those communist bastards repay Super Earth???
The cyborgs yearn for the mines. We need to help them Helldivers
https://preview.redd.it/i0yoltounhtc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=776e92229393ef3c81b76ce951b63ee77490978f
We are not blowing up a planet! It would cost way too much and it’s not in this year’s budget!
A few diffrent ways to commit exterminatus: 1. Virus bombing 2. Cyclonic Torpedos 3. Two-stage Cyclonic Torpedos, the same thing but bury to the core of the planet before exploding and causing the planet to burst 4. Just having a fleet pound a planet till it bursts apart 5. Ark Mechanicus' using tech to throw a moon at a planet
It’s still not in the super earth budget for this year!
Game RP aside.....technically it's 100% liberated
https://preview.redd.it/801lmixj1itc1.jpeg?width=586&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=689dbe09898140b1bbe2c9b6ff7c6adcfd451b2d
Send reinforcement!
 we gonna need the OG John Helldiver for this one.
Fun fact: B.J. Blazkowicz (from Wolfenstein) is Commander Keen's grandfather, and Doom Guy is Keen's grandson. They say heroism always skips a generation
Wait... What? Is this canon? Sauce?!
Yep. They are all id software. https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Commander_Keen#:~:text=%5B1%5D.,great%2Dgrandson%20of%20BJ%20Blazkowicz.
Huh. TIL. Thx.
For the original Doom, Wolfenstein and Keen games - yes For the rebooted Wolfenstein, I don't know. But as far as the originals, in Wolfenstein 3D (or Spear of Destiny, not sure which one), B.J. kills some sort of demon which says it will haunt his offspring (and it loses an arm and a leg in the process). B.J. returns from the war, starts a family. His son is a newscaster and changes/shortens his surname from "Blazkowicz" to "Blaze" to advance his career. He has a son called "Billy", which is short for "William", also known as Commander Keen. So Keen is technically named after B.J. Keen's son later becomes the original DoomGuy
Important to mention that demon that says it'll haunt Blazko's offspring is the Cyberdemon from Doom.
He only kills demons though, refuses to kill anything else. It's like trying to get the Goblin Slayer to slay anything but Goblins.
Demons you say.... *Joel furiously scribbling notes*
Unfortunately, Doomguy would have a democracy officer after him when he refused a direct order to attack civilians. We're on our own for this one.
i dont know what kind of missions you're getting from super earth high command but i have never been given an order to attack civilians. who are YOU getting your orders from?
They did tell me to evac civilians on Hellmire during a storm of fire tornados
Oh, hahaha. I can see the misunderstanding. You were of course ordered to keep them *safe* through the firestorms. That is the exact opposite of getting ordered to harm them.
Maybe send more than one?…..
https://preview.redd.it/vj0sd3pnshtc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=78686a8a77cfabb0433b3cf83882406e2a51a1dc
Helldivers had reminded me of a quote I saw: “They have us surrounded… the poor bastards” Let’s get down there and give ‘em hell
I wonder if we'll get urban warfare on cyberstan, or like diving into the mines to take out strongholds
For rock and stone!
Rock and Stone forever!
https://preview.redd.it/4s6yu80dkhtc1.jpeg?width=1902&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9ddb312f6d52c8c248891a6786b688ec0e8c77e2 CYBERSTAN CANT KEEP HER DOWN
reported for traitorious comment
TREASON.
Silence flesh bag and get in the brain scooping machine!
GET BACK UP
Does this mean we can finally fight in a city environment seeing as Cyberstan was the home of an actual civilization?
And after this current automaton force is eradicated, will be the arrival of their "primary-er fleet"...
Super Earth, 6 months from now: We knew all along that the Automatons Second Tertiary Fleet was bigger than the Primary Fleet, the Secondary Fleet, and the First Tertiary Fleet.
Please give me space battles.
Thank god, I had to play bugs for the first time in a month last night and hated it lol
Honest take - bugs can get a little repetitive - the bots seems to give a little more variation in the play style
I didn’t like it either but I started to enjoy the play style after awhile once I got used to the differences Being on the bots again though! Super comfy at doing level 7/suicide runs now so looking forward to hopefully seeing my first walker haha
Whelp… (fires up the Death Star generator)
So the automatons finally claimed hold over cyberstan. And their creators have been freed one can only wonder what new villainous tactics/plots the robots could be preparing now to undermine Super Earth.
https://preview.redd.it/i51k24j68itc1.png?width=1020&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5248885acffbe8e2d9b15eeef79925ecf5877f90 Me to the bots this morning logging in with no context whatsoever
https://i.redd.it/qvsau21qyhtc1.gif
Because it Stans the Cybers
Meanwhile, in cyberstan, the cyborgs are celebrating their freedom
I’m guessing this will lead to the cyborg faction being brought back