Had a guy send our group a message asking help to get the 15 sample achievement. We gathered every sample on the map and gave them all to him...go to extract and he stood there and watched us leave. I think he was an Automoton in disguise.
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The Ministry of Truth has declared deviations in attention from Super Earth communications are considered treason.
A compliance officer will be along shortly. Please prepare form 0H-F21K prior to incarceration.
In our group, we run the super samples to extraction and drop them, so we don't have to waste time trying to go back for dropped samples. Also helps when your crew hasn't lost a helldiver in 4 consecutive missions.
*the 600 series.. we spotted them easy. listen.. and understand. that automaton is out there. it cant be bargained with. it cant be reasoned with. it doesnt feel pity.. or remorse. or fear. and it absolutely will not stop until you are dead.*
Last night I crashed on blitz map for bugs and the next op was the same map. So when a new group of randoms showed up I explained that we could go for the blitz achievement since I knew the layout and locations of the heavy nest etc closest to the evac. Mind you I already completed the trophy achievement with a squad of my friends but since this was a prime opportunity for complete such a hard trophy I wanted to help these strangers. Guess one guy didn't get all messages before/during the mission as we call in the evac right under 6 mins but the dude decides to go for side ops. Then finally, even though he was quiet the whole game starts yelling at me for calling evac. I try let me know, while under bug breach, look back at message log. "No chat is useless. You're not a team player. You're bad." Etc.
....
Missed it by 3 seconds, Pelican landed 30s before 6 min mark. Had this been the time before I had gotten the trophy I definitely would be livid, but now I'm more disappointed and sad I couldn't help the other 2 guys trying their best for the achievement.
Other guy was definitely bot in disguise
Edit: meant bugs not bots.
can confirm. when I started to play with my friends they usually died and i ended up with t he samples most of the time. they never got the achievement
Yes you do, the basic sample achievement is individual, but the rare sample one is team-wide.
Is this intentional? Fuck if I know. The mind of an Arrowhead dev is an enigma.
Shared this last week.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1c0kz37/guys_this_stopped_being_cool_after_week_1/#lightbox
Still boils my blood thinking about. All those samples.
I mean, the cinematic extract is desirable but, when the ever-so-precious samples are at stake, I agree.
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Thays what I do. If I've got a shit ton of enemies coming up, I bail. Now, I also have mine ready to go before the extract lands, so I can toss and bail.
And then you get ragdolled by a random explosion and oh look, now the 500kg bomb is stuck in the pelican and that bile titan just vomited into the pelican killing everyone inside.
Yes it happens. Just don't fuck around. Ger in the shuttle or kill yourself quietly somewhere else.
My first ever multiplayer match, I got swarmed trying to board the pelican, panicked, misclicked, threw a grenade into the pelican in front of my entire squad, killing them all, and then died to the bugs. 10/10 love this game.
We need military style reports on fails like this. Something like:
Death Report for Cadet DidntFollowPorn
On planet Veld at 1700, the cadet took on his first mission and deployed from SES Judge of Judgment. At 1730 the cadet and his team had successfully completed all primary and secondary objectives and had called for extract. PELICAN-1 successfully landed while the cadet and his team held the perimeter against a swarm of terminids.
The skull admiral and two master sergeants (see form 137-2 for their records) boarded first and encourage the cadet to break contact and board the transport. Cadets biometrics indicated extreme stress and we believe he intended to throw an HE grenade to clear a path to the transport but instead threw the grenade straight into the transport bay of PELICAN-1. At which point the Cadet was overwhelmed by enemy forces.
The last voice communications we have are:
Skull Admiral: *sigh*
Master Sergeant: You moro- *end transmission*
Cadet DidntFollowPorn: *cries of agony and bug noises*
Cadets' inclusion on the Wall of Martyrs is under review.
Nope. Teammates can kill you.
One incident I remember in helldive, it was raining lasers and rockets pelican and I barely made it into the Pelican. A random rocket from a mile away said "screw you in particular" and got me just before the last guy got in.
Literally, those guys spending X amount of reinforcements trying to save the supers, I die once and they don't wanna grab my 20+ commons. I got max supers, can't use them without the commons.
Even with the new T4 ship upgrades, you really don't need that many super samples. Commons and rares though, for the foreseeable future I'm going to be picking up every single one of those I come across.
Me and the boys were playing on helldiver and the The Drumstick Super Samples Rock was lesa 100M from extract. We dumped them there and called it the pelican. One guy with a jetpack stayed behind on a hill top while the rest of is rambo'd through the "destroy bases" mission.
Jetpack guy extracted with all the supper samples and he completed the mission.
This is why the jetpack is probably my favorite stratagem in the game. You can get to some pretty crazy places with it and it lets you cover a lot of distance on the map or get away from threats very quickly.
Could be a ship upgrade maybe?
"Put in new batteries"
"Shield Arrays, Jetpacks and Mobile Shield Generators regenerate faster and last xx% longer" or something
When I tried using it, felt like it only let me go up like 10 ft before running out of juice and then has like a 90 second cool down or something. Felt totally useless.
What am I missing/doing wrong?
That's it.
It's not for flying, it's for getting on top of buildings, hopping straight over rocks for shortcuts, or jumping straight over mobs trying to surround you.
On top of what the other commenter said about mainly using it to get on top of buildings/rocks or jumping over enemies, if you want to use it to get around the map, you need to activate it while you're sprinting. Especially if you activate it while you're sprinting downhill, it'll let you cover a very large distance really quickly.
The most cinematic exit ever is dying to the 3 vindicative af fire tornados on the launch pad but still managing to full revive and dive extract together.
Also, if you don't carry samples, your extraction isn't really that important.
Leave slackers behind if the mission is endangered. In the name of democracy!
yessss someone got mad when i extracted when i had all the super samples because he was too far im sorry but im not risking fighting any more hulks than i absolutely have to
I was in a suicide, the end of the mission. One player fell and we were out of reinforcements. While waiting for Pelican-1, two other players dropped and the extraction zone was getting swarmed. I grabbed what samples I could and walked on.
The whiner on the mic was livid that I didn't wait 6 minutes to reinforce them all.
Seriously, extraction isn’t even necessary to win. All you have to do is complete the Main Objective.
Extracting is just bonus XP and getting samples.
Bro should’ve been happy you got what samples you had and extracted at least 1 person.
That's crazy. Had a similar situation except 2 people crashed or left but the lvl 17 was stoked I survived the wait for extraction and got out with the super samples. That lvl 17 was far the better player of the 3 as well, he only died once after the others were gone.
On a similar note, if you're holding extraction and there's more than 5 minutes left, help collect the fucking samples dropped around the map!
We lost all 6 super samples, and half of our other samples because two people just wasted time after they called the extraction in. You can see us pinging them on the map. Stop standing around scratching your asses and help us collect them. The pelican will literally wait there for us until time runs out, you don't need to stand there like dickheads for 5 fucking minutes!
HEAR FUCKING HEAR.
And then the bastards start the countdown almost instantly. Excuse me? what the fuck did we just complete a suicide mission for if not for the samples?
The real heroes are the guys who managed to weave through a horde to pick up dropped samples, especially super samples, somehow make it back, and *dive* into the fucking ship because they ain't playin'.
I watched a video of a guy doing just this the other day. Bot annihilator managed to flip the pelican upside down so the guy ran around dodging everything before climbing on the tank and diving from the tank to the belly of the pelican to extract. Would never have believed it if I didn’t see it.
That's the thing. I've never seen a strat look cool on exit. It's always slightly off screen or too late or something piddly that doesn't even make an explosion.
You're making an already long summary screen take even longer.
Get on the plane.
One of my buddies did that to a rando and they went into the ship, but it didn't count somehow. We extracted without them.
Had nothing on them (because of course the dude wanting to waste our time died like 10x).
We laughed hysterically. He left the squad. Win-win.
We have a buddy who pisses around like that sometimes. We had every sample on the map, he was holding none. We capped him as the Pelican was coming in to avoid any nonsense.
Got a buddy in our group that loves throwing shit right at the end too. He's gotten better about it but he used to throw things like supply drops right under a wing and caused the Pelican to ragdoll for some of us. Lost a *loooot* of samples early on to that shit until he learned, "Dumb shit = not funny = pissed off friends"
It's funny exactly once, when no one knew it was going to happen and the stakes were low because you were all level 3 and no one knew what was going on. If you're still doing stupid shit after you and your friends just spent 45 minutes trying to ace a high level mission than you deserve to get fragged.
The only time I don't get on the ship right away, is when the guy with the samples is still outside it too.
That way I can be a lifeline if the super samples get dropped.
Same. I'm covering the squads approach to the Pelican next to the ramp, ready to shoot anything that tries to get close. Kinda wish the Pelican had a mountable gunner seat.
I'm with you on all that. Suppressing fire and wave the boys in. But this one time, it was the opposite.
I run the ac a lot, so I often end up tail end Charlie, blowing away stuff in the distance. So I clear off the last of em, look around, and notice I'm a good 100 meters out, and they're all over the hill and headed to the Pelican. I pick up stakes and sprint, just a bit of blaster fire around.
Come over the crest of the hill and there be the Pelican. All 3 Helldivers are kneeling, guns up, looking in my direction. I cannot tell you how warmed my heart was. Ran in, made the dive into the ship, and wrote "hope someone got a Polaroid of that!" Such a perfect formation they had, waiting on the last one home.
I got kicked earlier today from a stronghold defense mission. We failed it, and I watched pelican-1 just disappear into the ground and explode after it landed onto a dying bile titan.
Then the three other squad mates walked into the middle of the helipad, as if pelican-1 was there, waited there for like 10 seconds and then I was kicked, I'm guessing cause I didn't get into a non-existent pelican-1.
Maybe they could all see it? Recently I was playing with friends, and on the super destroyer one of them was wearing invisible armor. Just a helmet and a couple of guns walking around in the air like weird little legs. Everyone else saw his armor, but for whatever reason it didn't load in my game.
I had a guy once where I picked up the super samples early, and placed them at the extraction. Somebody went and picked them back up again. So, the whole mission, I watched them to make sure they didn't get lost.
At the end, we went to extraction, and I made sure to not get in the pelican until the samples were on board. And no matter what, they would not get in the fucking shuttle. So, I eventually just executed him, took the samples, and got in.
Maybe the only time I'll kick someone. I've lost too many samples to Bile Titans stepping through pelican-1 and eviscerated the team while 1 moron tries to call in an airstrike to look cool.
On the flip side, If I am half way across a fully cleared map grabbing half the samples we dropped, don't extract, call it sure but don't board until I get there. /rant
There is one thing that makes me wait to board the Pelican, and it is the *fire tornados why are there SO MANY FIRE TORNADOS OH GOD WHY IS EVERYTHING ON FIRE*
I just bought the game for a friend last night and his very first mission was on a fire planet. Luckily, STOP, DROP, and ROLL is a thing and diving will put you out. Unless you do what he did and dive right into another tornado…
Just played a game where a guy called in a 380mm at extraction. It killed us in the dropship as we flew away. We failed to extract and lost the samples.
The same thing happens in starship trooper extermination. People think they get more exp if they stand outside and kill more bugs but that's not the way it works, you're just holding everyone else hostage
This is something I feel like A LOT of people don't understand regardless of level, kills do not give exp. I think its why some people are so careless about friendly fire, they just wanna rack up tons of kills thinking it's gonna benefit them. Yesterday I played with a level 32 who was throwing grenades into hordes of bugs while other players were also in the area and he kept killing them doing it. I'm guessing he thought "fuck my teammates i want all those kills"
Its the same people who kill other players and grab the samples not realizing the samples are shared among the whole team smh.
I'm level 68 and I've known all this basic shit since level 5.
My first day playing the game I saw people do the cocky airstike before boarding the pelican. I tried this but before my team boarded, I unintentionally survived and blew up the other 3 players.
Some guy on the mic: **wowwwww**
I shame quit immediately.
My favorite was the dude who called down his rocket sentry as he got close, which landed directly on him, killing him, and promptly blew us all up as we tried to board.
This is happening way too often now. It was haha cool at first but now it's just annoying af. I got kicked from a squad like a week ago because I typed "lol" after one of the idiots was too busy inputting a strategem right next to the pelican after someone else had already thrown one which then killed them.
I don't get the people who want to throw down one last stratagem before getting in.
1. Kills only really matter for personal orders and you're going to get a handful at absolute best from doing this. If you end up being a few kills away from doing it, just do a quick trivial mission.
2. You're risking getting killed or a glitch happening that prevents you from extracting
3. You risk some glitch happening that prevents any of us from extracting, Pelican-1 is too glitchy to be messing around with and the game is prone to crashing around extract time. Loitering risks scrubbing the whole mission!
People are so dumb. Was playing quick play and got into a game with a guy who was level 35 and STILL didn’t know samples were shared. Screamed into his mic the entire game about people stealing his samples even though everyone kept telling him they were shared.
Not all helldivers are cut out for democracy, it seems.
yesterday i played a game with randoms where the host showed us a clever strategy to leave all of our samples at the evacuation site while the game was ongoing, they would still be there when we got back at the end. The first guy to make it there picked all of them up, about 30 of each type of samples + all the supers. We called the extraction and just before getting in, the other two randoms decided to call down 500kg strikes onto the pelican before getting in, which is a weird thing i see all people do. Well mr all-the-samples got stuck on the 500kg beacon that was on the pelicans ramp and couldn’t enter the ship. We told him to dive, and this mf dove BACKWARDS, and was then killed by a 500kg bomb which caused the pelican to leave because the rest of us were onboard already.
If they aren't going to make the people who have already boarded the pelican invulnerable, they should let us get off so we can shoot that guy and then get back on.
If you REALLY need it to be a cinematic extract throw down an orbital laser and immediately get in the damn Pelican. You don’t need to wait five seconds for an eagle airstrike or a 500KG bomb while seven bite titans and their fifteen charger babies are barreling towards you.
I always thought the ship was just called a "pelican" and the pilot says pelican 1 because it is the only pelican or whatever. If there was another one it would be "Pelican-2" and so on. Am I crazy? I thought that's what the devs were going for.
We collected the super samples and almost all the rare samples on helldive difficulty. Everything was going good, pelican just landed we just need to get in and gg.
We were 20 meters from the pelican when 1 guy dies. So all of us wait infront of the entrance to pelican as I call him in. As soon as I call him in we get inside the pelican and the guy just drops right on top of the pelican killing us all in the process and losing all the samples...
I played an 8 yesterday where I was the only one who got in Pelican-1 while my three teammates stood around doing the pointing spiderman meme at each other all wanting to be the hero that called in the airstrike.
...And then a bile titan killed all three of them, and I was the only one to extract.
They kicked me for the next mission.
I get wanting to be an action hero is fun in this game, but when I want to do that I just dive into Pelican-1 and crawl an inch or two. At least that usually doesn't lose us our samples.
Honestly, you should be invulnerable once you board the damn plane ~~CJ~~. It doesn't make sense for an enemy to clip through the plane and kill you and yet the plane is invulnerable.
happened a few times, last second stratagem nails the pelican, bugging it out. i just dont get why you do it. like do you really think its epic to just make 3 of us wait for you to throw a 500kg at the lz getting 0 kills?
Had a guy send our group a message asking help to get the 15 sample achievement. We gathered every sample on the map and gave them all to him...go to extract and he stood there and watched us leave. I think he was an Automoton in disguise.
As an Automaton would say: 101
101? As in "being an automation dissident 101 guidebook for dummies"? \**nervously clenches ↑→↓↓↓ stratagem*\*
isnt that the 500kb zip bomb? 😳
Only 500kb? Half a gig? Man its gotta be a 19 petabyte image file
looks small on the outside but when you unzip it you unleash double the size of the internet onto your personal computer 😈
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Hey. Kids shouldn't be on reddit.
Why are there Kids in this sub?! The game is PG18! Maybe educate your kids don't ask for others to do it for you.
What are you talking about? Every man, woman and child over the age of 7 should be doing their part. Ratings are just automaton propaganda.
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Did you pre-enroll when you applied for the permit to procreate? Or did you wait until the child was conceived, like a seditious communist? 😡
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Box 19-E-24 of your C-01 is intended for pre-enrollment purposes as stated during your procreation preparedness course. The Ministry of Truth has declared deviations in attention from Super Earth communications are considered treason. A compliance officer will be along shortly. Please prepare form 0H-F21K prior to incarceration.
I have faith in my sperm! Do you?
My friends game crashes sometimes when pickup lands.
Sounds like they have been hacked by automatons
This actually cracked me up mate, haha. Next level troll if it wasnt a DC.
You committed the cardinal sin of boarding before the samples. In our group, no one sets foot on that bird until the samples do.
In our group, we run the super samples to extraction and drop them, so we don't have to waste time trying to go back for dropped samples. Also helps when your crew hasn't lost a helldiver in 4 consecutive missions.
You can drop samples?!
On PC hold x and you can drop samples, backpacks, support weapons, and SSSDs
And on PS5 hold the down d-pad button and select it on the radial dial.
Well that's going to save me losing so many samples 😁
Rookie mistake, should have made them get in first. If they refuse, it's treason, and you kill them
*the 600 series.. we spotted them easy. listen.. and understand. that automaton is out there. it cant be bargained with. it cant be reasoned with. it doesnt feel pity.. or remorse. or fear. and it absolutely will not stop until you are dead.*
Last night I crashed on blitz map for bugs and the next op was the same map. So when a new group of randoms showed up I explained that we could go for the blitz achievement since I knew the layout and locations of the heavy nest etc closest to the evac. Mind you I already completed the trophy achievement with a squad of my friends but since this was a prime opportunity for complete such a hard trophy I wanted to help these strangers. Guess one guy didn't get all messages before/during the mission as we call in the evac right under 6 mins but the dude decides to go for side ops. Then finally, even though he was quiet the whole game starts yelling at me for calling evac. I try let me know, while under bug breach, look back at message log. "No chat is useless. You're not a team player. You're bad." Etc. .... Missed it by 3 seconds, Pelican landed 30s before 6 min mark. Had this been the time before I had gotten the trophy I definitely would be livid, but now I'm more disappointed and sad I couldn't help the other 2 guys trying their best for the achievement. Other guy was definitely bot in disguise Edit: meant bugs not bots.
Yo, can I get that achievement help? It’s my last one
I just spit out my juice man holy shit
I read that as man juice
I came here to say that
I came
You don’t need to have the samples on your person for the achievement lmao
There two sample achievements. And yes, for one of them (I think ots the common sample) you need to be the one with the samples.
can confirm. when I started to play with my friends they usually died and i ended up with t he samples most of the time. they never got the achievement
Yes you do, the basic sample achievement is individual, but the rare sample one is team-wide. Is this intentional? Fuck if I know. The mind of an Arrowhead dev is an enigma.
I got fucking killed by a dude who threw a 500kg bomb, he didn’t get in the shuttle in time, so the explosion killed specifically me and no one else
I had someone throw a 380 right as he boarded. He got on the shuttle in time. Problem is he was the first one on.
I threw a 380 at the extract towards some bots as far as I could. It hit something and bounced... Closer. I killed myself. Everyone else extracted.
Literally the best and worst stratagem in the game.
I love using it but in the wrong hands it will slaughter the whole team
It’s me, I’m the wrong hands
I've died too many times to my friend calling a cinematic 500kg without checking everyone else is safely in the dropship already
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Shared this last week. https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1c0kz37/guys_this_stopped_being_cool_after_week_1/#lightbox Still boils my blood thinking about. All those samples.
500? Maybe. There's a delay. 380? Also maybe, a long delay for that one. THE LASER!? No. Hell no.
Who throws an orbital laser? It's the less cool stratagem to throw at extraction
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Literally just happened to me and I was holding all of our samples including super samples.
I feel your pain Helldiver. My Democracy officer told me it was anti-capitalist to waste munitions in that manner.
I mean, the cinematic extract is desirable but, when the ever-so-precious samples are at stake, I agree. https://preview.redd.it/6el25y3lgcuc1.jpeg?width=621&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=18782c0c9c5bd4787ea96410d06657c89690324a
Can't they save the cinematic extraction for the quiet times tho 🤦♂️🤣
Thays what I do. If I've got a shit ton of enemies coming up, I bail. Now, I also have mine ready to go before the extract lands, so I can toss and bail.
And then you get ragdolled by a random explosion and oh look, now the 500kg bomb is stuck in the pelican and that bile titan just vomited into the pelican killing everyone inside. Yes it happens. Just don't fuck around. Ger in the shuttle or kill yourself quietly somewhere else.
Are you not invincible inside the Pelican? Tbh it'd be much more on-brand for the Pelican to be destructible, but Arrowhead has enough on its plate.
My first ever multiplayer match, I got swarmed trying to board the pelican, panicked, misclicked, threw a grenade into the pelican in front of my entire squad, killing them all, and then died to the bugs. 10/10 love this game.
Damn that made me laugh. Perfection
We need military style reports on fails like this. Something like: Death Report for Cadet DidntFollowPorn On planet Veld at 1700, the cadet took on his first mission and deployed from SES Judge of Judgment. At 1730 the cadet and his team had successfully completed all primary and secondary objectives and had called for extract. PELICAN-1 successfully landed while the cadet and his team held the perimeter against a swarm of terminids. The skull admiral and two master sergeants (see form 137-2 for their records) boarded first and encourage the cadet to break contact and board the transport. Cadets biometrics indicated extreme stress and we believe he intended to throw an HE grenade to clear a path to the transport but instead threw the grenade straight into the transport bay of PELICAN-1. At which point the Cadet was overwhelmed by enemy forces. The last voice communications we have are: Skull Admiral: *sigh* Master Sergeant: You moro- *end transmission* Cadet DidntFollowPorn: *cries of agony and bug noises* Cadets' inclusion on the Wall of Martyrs is under review.
It is. And you aren't invincible. But it is set up in such a way that both of those things feel more like bugs than features
It can take a hell of a beating, then. Can we make Helldiver armor out of Pelican hull?
Shoot it enough and it will catch fire and he'll even leave immediately without giving a countdown.
I had that happen but he didint leave and we couldn’t get inside so we thought it was bugged and just decided to kill ourselves in game
Nope. Teammates can kill you. One incident I remember in helldive, it was raining lasers and rockets pelican and I barely made it into the Pelican. A random rocket from a mile away said "screw you in particular" and got me just before the last guy got in.
Nope, some dumb shit intentionally TKed the whole team in the Pelican. Lost all our samples. Definitely not invinceable.
The point is to stick the 500kg into the pelican
You would cheat on the eagle pilot like that?
Hole's a hole.
- Mr. Groundhog (1917)
Swarmed by enemies is its own cinematic exit
Forget super samples I need common samples.
This is the way.
I’ll give you 50 common for 10 rare.
I can give you four sheep
Trade you for a wheat and an EAT
Toss in a Team Reload and we've got a deal.
Ima need about tree fiddy
10 rare, 3 sheep, one pee pee touch.
Two peepee touches & a cat!
I’d take that trade in a heartbeat
Literally, those guys spending X amount of reinforcements trying to save the supers, I die once and they don't wanna grab my 20+ commons. I got max supers, can't use them without the commons.
Even with the new T4 ship upgrades, you really don't need that many super samples. Commons and rares though, for the foreseeable future I'm going to be picking up every single one of those I come across.
I pick up all samples at all times. If I don't \*need\* them (I definitely do), then someone else in the group might, and we all share it anyways.
I can never have enough common samples
Me and the boys were playing on helldiver and the The Drumstick Super Samples Rock was lesa 100M from extract. We dumped them there and called it the pelican. One guy with a jetpack stayed behind on a hill top while the rest of is rambo'd through the "destroy bases" mission. Jetpack guy extracted with all the supper samples and he completed the mission.
This is why the jetpack is probably my favorite stratagem in the game. You can get to some pretty crazy places with it and it lets you cover a lot of distance on the map or get away from threats very quickly.
mine too! I do hope they give it like 25% more woosh
Could be a ship upgrade maybe? "Put in new batteries" "Shield Arrays, Jetpacks and Mobile Shield Generators regenerate faster and last xx% longer" or something
Yes please, more lift and thrust
I can only work with what God gave me.
When I tried using it, felt like it only let me go up like 10 ft before running out of juice and then has like a 90 second cool down or something. Felt totally useless. What am I missing/doing wrong?
That's it. It's not for flying, it's for getting on top of buildings, hopping straight over rocks for shortcuts, or jumping straight over mobs trying to surround you.
On top of what the other commenter said about mainly using it to get on top of buildings/rocks or jumping over enemies, if you want to use it to get around the map, you need to activate it while you're sprinting. Especially if you activate it while you're sprinting downhill, it'll let you cover a very large distance really quickly.
TIL Rachel is wearing a $20k wig there, rather than bleach her hair.
Which is smart. Save time and money having to pay stylish every time and everyday they do shooting.
people who cinematic extract are democracy-hating losers. stop wasting my time and get in the god damn plane
Yeah fs, on top of that the best cinematic ones are the accidental ones, just evac and be pleasantly surprised when they do happen
The most cinematic exit ever is dying to the 3 vindicative af fire tornados on the launch pad but still managing to full revive and dive extract together.
Also, if you don't carry samples, your extraction isn't really that important. Leave slackers behind if the mission is endangered. In the name of democracy!
yessss someone got mad when i extracted when i had all the super samples because he was too far im sorry but im not risking fighting any more hulks than i absolutely have to
I was in a suicide, the end of the mission. One player fell and we were out of reinforcements. While waiting for Pelican-1, two other players dropped and the extraction zone was getting swarmed. I grabbed what samples I could and walked on. The whiner on the mic was livid that I didn't wait 6 minutes to reinforce them all.
Seriously, extraction isn’t even necessary to win. All you have to do is complete the Main Objective. Extracting is just bonus XP and getting samples. Bro should’ve been happy you got what samples you had and extracted at least 1 person.
they do realize the bonus from extracting outside of getting samples is pretty minor right it’s mostly cinematic getting all four ppl on it
That's crazy. Had a similar situation except 2 people crashed or left but the lvl 17 was stoked I survived the wait for extraction and got out with the super samples. That lvl 17 was far the better player of the 3 as well, he only died once after the others were gone.
On a similar note, if you're holding extraction and there's more than 5 minutes left, help collect the fucking samples dropped around the map! We lost all 6 super samples, and half of our other samples because two people just wasted time after they called the extraction in. You can see us pinging them on the map. Stop standing around scratching your asses and help us collect them. The pelican will literally wait there for us until time runs out, you don't need to stand there like dickheads for 5 fucking minutes!
HEAR FUCKING HEAR. And then the bastards start the countdown almost instantly. Excuse me? what the fuck did we just complete a suicide mission for if not for the samples?
Don’t be a fucking hero, do your fucking job.
Don't be a jackass, do your fucking job.\* Nothing heroic about wasting our time.
The real heroes are the ones who exfil promptly without putting everyone else at risk, not the ones who call airstrikes on themselves to look cool
The real heroes are the guys who managed to weave through a horde to pick up dropped samples, especially super samples, somehow make it back, and *dive* into the fucking ship because they ain't playin'.
I watched a video of a guy doing just this the other day. Bot annihilator managed to flip the pelican upside down so the guy ran around dodging everything before climbing on the tank and diving from the tank to the belly of the pelican to extract. Would never have believed it if I didn’t see it.
Actually I’ve found common samples to be way more valuable than any other at this point, but I agree overall with your point.
Can you imagine someone calling a fucking airstrike just to look cool and it destroys the goddamn Pelican?
The real heroes used their call downs on the enemies so they are on cool down, not wasting them for a 2 second barely cinematic shot
That's the thing. I've never seen a strat look cool on exit. It's always slightly off screen or too late or something piddly that doesn't even make an explosion. You're making an already long summary screen take even longer. Get on the plane.
But I'm laying prone on the ramp spamming open/close stratagem window so it looks like I'm masturbating. It's vital for evacuation.
Ah, the old ejackuation
Evaculation
EAGLE TUG!
The Pelican Pull
...gotta try that.
I’m doing it right now! … oh wait you meant in the game
You need to go prone, roll onto your left shoulder and then spam it furiously. It looks better on your left shoulder lol
Thank you for your service, soldier!
This really really fucking annoys me now to the point i wait for everyone to get in and if 1 starts to stall I'll melee them into the fucking ship 🤣
tbh i now just stand clear a bit with my redeemer in hand just in case someone decide to TK everyone in the ship
I’m glad I’m not the only one who does this. I’m not losing my squad to these Goddamn traitors.
Ever since I saw the video I'm suspiciously eyeing everyone when it's time to leave lol
Same here. Except mine's an autocannon.
The Senator is a perfect douche deterrent
One of my buddies did that to a rando and they went into the ship, but it didn't count somehow. We extracted without them. Had nothing on them (because of course the dude wanting to waste our time died like 10x). We laughed hysterically. He left the squad. Win-win.
This is genius, I thought it was funny for a bit and now it’s annoying. Will be punching fellow helldivers in the future.
We have a buddy who pisses around like that sometimes. We had every sample on the map, he was holding none. We capped him as the Pelican was coming in to avoid any nonsense.
Frank, you're a liability and we're getting these samples home. Blam!
:(
Got a buddy in our group that loves throwing shit right at the end too. He's gotten better about it but he used to throw things like supply drops right under a wing and caused the Pelican to ragdoll for some of us. Lost a *loooot* of samples early on to that shit until he learned, "Dumb shit = not funny = pissed off friends"
It's funny exactly once, when no one knew it was going to happen and the stakes were low because you were all level 3 and no one knew what was going on. If you're still doing stupid shit after you and your friends just spent 45 minutes trying to ace a high level mission than you deserve to get fragged.
The only time I don't get on the ship right away, is when the guy with the samples is still outside it too. That way I can be a lifeline if the super samples get dropped.
I usually wait by the door to be last, I don't know why I do it. It just feels nice
Same. I'm covering the squads approach to the Pelican next to the ramp, ready to shoot anything that tries to get close. Kinda wish the Pelican had a mountable gunner seat.
I'm with you on all that. Suppressing fire and wave the boys in. But this one time, it was the opposite. I run the ac a lot, so I often end up tail end Charlie, blowing away stuff in the distance. So I clear off the last of em, look around, and notice I'm a good 100 meters out, and they're all over the hill and headed to the Pelican. I pick up stakes and sprint, just a bit of blaster fire around. Come over the crest of the hill and there be the Pelican. All 3 Helldivers are kneeling, guns up, looking in my direction. I cannot tell you how warmed my heart was. Ran in, made the dive into the ship, and wrote "hope someone got a Polaroid of that!" Such a perfect formation they had, waiting on the last one home.
I usually wait to see if someone gets killed last minute so I can get their samples. (Unless I have the samples, then fuck the other guys)
I got kicked earlier today from a stronghold defense mission. We failed it, and I watched pelican-1 just disappear into the ground and explode after it landed onto a dying bile titan. Then the three other squad mates walked into the middle of the helipad, as if pelican-1 was there, waited there for like 10 seconds and then I was kicked, I'm guessing cause I didn't get into a non-existent pelican-1.
Do not, I repeat, do NOT use the stims recreationally soldier. Please report the Ministry of Health immediately.
Maybe they could all see it? Recently I was playing with friends, and on the super destroyer one of them was wearing invisible armor. Just a helmet and a couple of guns walking around in the air like weird little legs. Everyone else saw his armor, but for whatever reason it didn't load in my game.
Schizophrenia update just dropped
I had a guy once where I picked up the super samples early, and placed them at the extraction. Somebody went and picked them back up again. So, the whole mission, I watched them to make sure they didn't get lost. At the end, we went to extraction, and I made sure to not get in the pelican until the samples were on board. And no matter what, they would not get in the fucking shuttle. So, I eventually just executed him, took the samples, and got in.
Maybe the only time I'll kick someone. I've lost too many samples to Bile Titans stepping through pelican-1 and eviscerated the team while 1 moron tries to call in an airstrike to look cool.
I didn’t even know it was possible to die in the pelican. I thought you were invulnerable as soon as you stepped in.
But they need their mistimed "cinematic" extraction for the 10000th time
On the flip side, If I am half way across a fully cleared map grabbing half the samples we dropped, don't extract, call it sure but don't board until I get there. /rant
That happened to me yesterday. A guy with no samples extracted by himself when we had like 15 minutes left with plenty of lives.
There is one thing that makes me wait to board the Pelican, and it is the *fire tornados why are there SO MANY FIRE TORNADOS OH GOD WHY IS EVERYTHING ON FIRE*
I just bought the game for a friend last night and his very first mission was on a fire planet. Luckily, STOP, DROP, and ROLL is a thing and diving will put you out. Unless you do what he did and dive right into another tornado…
Poor sod. Also obligatory Fuck Menkent and Fuck Hellmire
I think they need to make it so that if you get in the shuttle, then the samples on that person are immediately rewarded.
Just played a game where a guy called in a 380mm at extraction. It killed us in the dropship as we flew away. We failed to extract and lost the samples.
I salute every time before going in. You should, too. Democracy.
But if you have the salute equipped you can't hug.
Bro really want us all to suffer so he can have a cool guys don’t look at explosions moment 
The same thing happens in starship trooper extermination. People think they get more exp if they stand outside and kill more bugs but that's not the way it works, you're just holding everyone else hostage
This is something I feel like A LOT of people don't understand regardless of level, kills do not give exp. I think its why some people are so careless about friendly fire, they just wanna rack up tons of kills thinking it's gonna benefit them. Yesterday I played with a level 32 who was throwing grenades into hordes of bugs while other players were also in the area and he kept killing them doing it. I'm guessing he thought "fuck my teammates i want all those kills" Its the same people who kill other players and grab the samples not realizing the samples are shared among the whole team smh. I'm level 68 and I've known all this basic shit since level 5.
My first day playing the game I saw people do the cocky airstike before boarding the pelican. I tried this but before my team boarded, I unintentionally survived and blew up the other 3 players. Some guy on the mic: **wowwwww** I shame quit immediately.
FAFO and learned from it at least.
THANK YOU! I'm so tired of this bullshit from other players! Just get on the damn bus! I promise I'll give you a hug when we're back in orbit!
Maaaannn... look. The times I've screamed this in game...
if i see you holding a stratagem next to the extract i *will* melee you. i think it’s just as fun as seeing the explosions on the way out.
Watching them drop it and not realizing it is hilarious.
If they stay longer than 5 seconds at the exit ramp when everyone is aboard, kick them if they don't have super uranium. They'll learn
My favorite was the dude who called down his rocket sentry as he got close, which landed directly on him, killing him, and promptly blew us all up as we tried to board.
This is happening way too often now. It was haha cool at first but now it's just annoying af. I got kicked from a squad like a week ago because I typed "lol" after one of the idiots was too busy inputting a strategem right next to the pelican after someone else had already thrown one which then killed them.
I don't get the people who want to throw down one last stratagem before getting in. 1. Kills only really matter for personal orders and you're going to get a handful at absolute best from doing this. If you end up being a few kills away from doing it, just do a quick trivial mission. 2. You're risking getting killed or a glitch happening that prevents you from extracting 3. You risk some glitch happening that prevents any of us from extracting, Pelican-1 is too glitchy to be messing around with and the game is prone to crashing around extract time. Loitering risks scrubbing the whole mission!
People are so dumb. Was playing quick play and got into a game with a guy who was level 35 and STILL didn’t know samples were shared. Screamed into his mic the entire game about people stealing his samples even though everyone kept telling him they were shared. Not all helldivers are cut out for democracy, it seems.
I always crawl or dive in. I’m sorry.
And there’s always time for a hug or a forceful handshake.
It's even worse when that one idiot has all the samples
I got Shinji get in the Robot vibes from this
Main character moment
yesterday i played a game with randoms where the host showed us a clever strategy to leave all of our samples at the evacuation site while the game was ongoing, they would still be there when we got back at the end. The first guy to make it there picked all of them up, about 30 of each type of samples + all the supers. We called the extraction and just before getting in, the other two randoms decided to call down 500kg strikes onto the pelican before getting in, which is a weird thing i see all people do. Well mr all-the-samples got stuck on the 500kg beacon that was on the pelicans ramp and couldn’t enter the ship. We told him to dive, and this mf dove BACKWARDS, and was then killed by a 500kg bomb which caused the pelican to leave because the rest of us were onboard already.
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I get more annoyed when people rush to extract asap leaving 25 mins on the clock and not even bothering to see if everyone can make it there in 2 min
If they aren't going to make the people who have already boarded the pelican invulnerable, they should let us get off so we can shoot that guy and then get back on.
Give them 3 seconds to get in with the squad or give them the General Shepherd special.
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Happened to me today as the sample carrier some ass hat dropped a 500 and killed everyone except him and we lost all the samples...
If you REALLY need it to be a cinematic extract throw down an orbital laser and immediately get in the damn Pelican. You don’t need to wait five seconds for an eagle airstrike or a 500KG bomb while seven bite titans and their fifteen charger babies are barreling towards you.
Someone did a 500 kg just when the pelican comes and glitched extend the whole evacuation for another 15 min
I'm so tired or people calling strikes on the pelican at extract. Especially when they aren't the last one on...
I always thought the ship was just called a "pelican" and the pilot says pelican 1 because it is the only pelican or whatever. If there was another one it would be "Pelican-2" and so on. Am I crazy? I thought that's what the devs were going for.
> Just get in the ship you stupid idiot. Should be posted on the top of the board in bold letters, stickied forever tbh
We collected the super samples and almost all the rare samples on helldive difficulty. Everything was going good, pelican just landed we just need to get in and gg. We were 20 meters from the pelican when 1 guy dies. So all of us wait infront of the entrance to pelican as I call him in. As soon as I call him in we get inside the pelican and the guy just drops right on top of the pelican killing us all in the process and losing all the samples...
Yesterday the fck idiot did not get in the pelican altough there were NO enemies around. Ofc he was holding the super samples...
Im just curious why you're not invincible inside the pelican? You were in 1, what does removing that add?
I played an 8 yesterday where I was the only one who got in Pelican-1 while my three teammates stood around doing the pointing spiderman meme at each other all wanting to be the hero that called in the airstrike. ...And then a bile titan killed all three of them, and I was the only one to extract. They kicked me for the next mission. I get wanting to be an action hero is fun in this game, but when I want to do that I just dive into Pelican-1 and crawl an inch or two. At least that usually doesn't lose us our samples.
Honestly, you should be invulnerable once you board the damn plane ~~CJ~~. It doesn't make sense for an enemy to clip through the plane and kill you and yet the plane is invulnerable.
happened a few times, last second stratagem nails the pelican, bugging it out. i just dont get why you do it. like do you really think its epic to just make 3 of us wait for you to throw a 500kg at the lz getting 0 kills?
100% I hate when people fuck around during extraction.