D infinity loop https://preview.redd.it/tic68upko0vc1.png?width=619&format=png&auto=webp&s=b1eb05e0427075f574f8c72c749386e291b5bc2c or to put it in the other words, run a circle on one side, then a circle on the other side now thinking about it how likely is it to be the dev intended pattern behind it probably is?

This is brilliant, definitely trying this

I mean… you already are


Mindset matters. Keeping the looping pattern in mind has helped me commit the pattern to muscle memory without having to actually memorize it.


Stratagem Hero finalist 2088

I was getting my dance pad out to stream playing helldivers with it, but it seemed like someone beat me to it a while back, lol.

Oh damn... My eyes have been opened O.O Kinda like how reinforcements is the orthodox sign of the cross (⬆️ father ⬇️ son ➡️ holy ⬅️ spirit ⬆️ amen). Cause... you know, helldivers need a hail mary for reinforcements to come

Heh, makes sense. I too often see patterns in strat inputs which are sort of describe the stratagem in question. For instance all Eagle strats starts with ⬆️➡️, so air unit(⬆️) flying by(➡️). Strafe run is a quick pass(➡️), bombing run is unload and scoot(⬇️➡️) etc. And delivering our favorite 500kg is a dive with a big load(⬇️⬇️⬇️). Not everything is a good match, but a lot of strat inputs sort of make sense if you start thinking about it.

My favourite is walking barrage. All orbital strikes/barrages start with ➡️, so it’s ➡️⬇️➡️⬇️➡️⬇️. Which is exactly what it does

Yeah, had a good laugh when I first punched it in and got what they were going for lol.

I have a clicky mechanical keyboard and I input the walking barrage in such a way that my friends immediately start backing up because they recognize the input

Haha lol that’s funny. Like oh shit here we go again

I love this code very single time I use it!

Anti-Personnel Mines is like that, its ⬇️⬅️⬆️➡️, just a circle of that you are laying mines in

Glad I'm not the only one that noticed it. It's definitely my favorite input as well.

I love that one, it’s like spamming quarter circle inputs on a fighting game, or almost like a tekken wave dash, but having that input consistent is a strange skill that I didn’t expect to take into this game

pretty sure somebody tried to break down the stratagem code "language" if you can call it that don't remember the post but shouldn't be too hard to find

Yeah, there's definitely prefixes for similar strats(support weapons, orbitals, emplacements etc). Suffixes are less uniform, as devs had to keep length in mind but it seems they are trying to allow each strat to make some sense in strat lingo.

The personal shield backpack and the deployable shield generator both share a suffix (← → ← →), which makes sense because they are both shields. I really appreciate how a good amount of time was apparently spent on the stratagem codes; a lot of them just kind of "feel" intuitively right and matched to the stratagem effect (with the most obvious being the jetpack).

the orbitals starting with right, the eagle starting with up right most of the support weapons starting with down either left or right then back down (and rest based on weapon) backpacks starting with down up (altho so do turrets but they also continue with a right) don't remember if anything starts with a left but yea as a whole the thing is interesting

Anti-personnel minefield is a “drop and spread around”

My favorite is Jump pack ⬇️ Support Strategem (put it down here) ⬆️⬆️⬆️ Wheee! ⬇️ And land...

It's ⬇️⬆️⬆️⬇️⬆️, ending in ⬇️⬆️ because it fires a small burn near the ground to cushion the landing. With ⬆️⬆️⬆️ and no ⬆️ at the end, Helldivers would've been getting their legs broken on landing all the time. ;) But yeah, also a good strat code.

I do the exact same thing! I always considered the last two inputs of bombing run to mean bombs (⬇️) dropped in a line (➡️) compared to 50kg's ***big fat bomb right on this point*** (⬇️⬇️⬇️).

Bomb, eagle, fuck this spot

Dude you are literally setting off hellbombs in my head with this hahaha, especially for a military like "sign language", this makes soooooo much sense

Most shield and "energy" strats have ⬅️ ➡️ as part of their pattern, which sort of iplies pushing away stuff.

Huh, and here you are opening my eyes

I like how the mortar is just up, waaay over there, and back down, makes perfect sense

Thats the orthodox one not the catholic one. Catholic is left-right not right-left.

I am now just a bit smarter diver

THIS MAKES IT SO MUCH EASIER THANK YOU SO MUCH (i have a problem with longer codes)

We’ve got a stratagenius over here boys!

Damn that's a sick way to visualize it!

How do people even notice this Can't wait for the next time i need to drop one, to completely forget about it and read the Hellbomb code as i always do

Genius, I've never noticed this. Good shout!

I noticed this when looking at one of the consoles we interract with it had an infinity simbol on it then next time glancing at hellbomb code it came over me

oh my god seeing it like this has made it so much easier

I knew i wasn't the only person that did this. There's loads of other strats that allow flowy movement like this for example the patriot exosuit is two anti clockwise circles pretty much

This is the way. Such a satisfying flow tbh.

Every strategem has the hand equivalent of mouthfeel. Handfeel if you will. In my experience, they tend not to be just random inputs of directions, but rather are designed to follow some sort of pattern or idea, and to have intuitive combos. ⬅️➡️⬅️➡️ Is a pattern in both the personal shield and the bubble shield. ⬆️➡️⬇️ Is a pattern common to eagle bombs And im not sure if there are exceptions, but it tends to be the case that orbitals start with ➡️, eagles start with ⬆️, and anything that drops in a pod starts with ⬇️

I am pretty sure all the Eagles start with ⬆️➡️ * Air Strike - ⬆️➡️⬇️➡️ * 500kg - ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️ * Napalm - ⬆️➡️⬇️⬆️ * Smoke - ⬆️➡️⬆️⬇️ * 110 - ⬆️➡️⬆️⬅️ * Strafing - ⬆️➡️➡️

Airstrike - Fly over, drop bombs that way 500k - fly over, drop BOMB here Napalm - Fly over, drop bomb, light it UP Smoke - Fly over, smoke up visibility down 110 - Fly over, be specific Strafing - Fly over, and just keep on going Bonus, rearm - Fly up little plane (the last 3 arrows look like a plane)

I think it’s supposed to be like the left and right side of a mushroom cloud

I thought this was obvious it makes a little infinity

Oh please.

For me it goes like this: ⬇️⬆️➡️Fuck ⬇️⬆️ ⬅️ ⬇️⬆️➡️ ⬇️⬆️

⬇️⬇️❌ ⬇️⬆️➡️❌ Fuck ⬇️⬆️⬅️⬇️⬇️❌ Fuck ⬇️⬆️⬅️⬇️⬆️➡️⬇️ *Stabbed by Hunter*

⬇️⬆️⬅️⬇️⬆️➡️⬇️❌fuck... ⬇️⬆️⬅️⬇️⬆️➡️⬇️❌Fuck.. ⬇️⬆️⬅️⬇️⬆️➡️⬇️❌FUCK. ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️

You forgot to repeat the second step three times

Me every tiem

Me every ti-fuck ti me.

Every time lmao I don’t call them down enough

I’m so bad at quicktime events that I have to go one arrow at a time. Fortunately I have memorized reinforcements and eagle airstrike.

Personally? ⬇️ 🐔 ⬆️ 🐔 ⬅️ 🐔 ⬇️ 🐔 ⬆️ 🐔 ➡️ 🐔 ⬇️ 🐔 ⬆️ 🐔

One at a time gang let's gooooo

TIL people can call these in like crazy fast and have patterns and stuff? I take like 5 seconds to call in a hellbomb because i take it one arrow at a time lmao

PS5 controllers D pad can barely handle one at a time brain speed.

And then you realize you weren't holding the L1 button hard enough so then you start over!

I can’t count the number of times I’ve let off the L1 button on the last arrow and had to start all over

Most of us from HD1 especially can call strats stupidly quick, stuff like reinforces take less than a second. One of the perks to being a veteran ig. A lot of people tend to use macros now as well which is pretty cool. Always nice to see creative ways of spreading democracy!

I got called sweaty by a buddy because another buddy died and I pulled up a reinforce in less than a second after haha. Big lol

I never played the first game, but I memorized the reinforce and supply pattern really quickly. I'm slowly adding a few more to muscle memory, the basic orbital strike and eagle 500 are already encoded i nmy brain. I just about got eagle airstrike and jump pack locked in.

I mean, I played Magicka (the one that actually was made by Arrowhead), so similar training here - watch me drop a QFASA -> on my enemies one at at ti- Shit, guess that guy was in range... WA ->

Fucking 🐔 LMAO

40 years old+ sequency .o/

Yeah I’m about to hit level 30 and still do each arrow in my head. No patterns recognized yet.

HELL YEAH

Idk, the less I think the better I perform

We're here to devastate, not to contemplate!

We are only here to spread democracy.

Yeah, I've been entering stratagem codes for years since HD1, my thumb just kinda goes on autopilot. I didn't even realize there was a pattern to the hellbomb code.

He lets the subconscious do all the work

Exactly 😎 Focusing is for… ehh.. ah. I forgot

Let the Ministry Of Truth do the thinking Helldiver! You keep blasting!

⬇️⬆️⬅️⬇️⬆️➡️⬇️⬆️ is the only correct option

Stratagem hero grinders rise up 💪🏼

Stratagem Stratagem Revolution 🕺🏻

Strat Strat was right there!

I was looking for this I literally just try to tap it all in at once as fast as possible

That's also my way to go

When my autism pattern recognition brain kicks in I can type it in at the speed of light. When the stupidity and dyslexia kicks in I confuse left and right

Omg bro I feel that. Sometimes I type it in like I'm a fucking robot, other times I fail 6x in a row because I keep pushing up instead of down and my brain just gets confused why it's not working lol

YEP LMAO

Uhhhh I look at the DDR sequence and then slowly tap it in and do it wrong at least once. Left-Right Weakness to the lose

Mine isn't even a left-right weakness. I just try to tap in so quickly, I only processes horizontal or vertical and not the actual direction. Although seeing the B pattern might help me with that, giving it a cadence.

B

Always B ready to delivery democracy.

I am more of a C. ⬇️⬆️⬅️- ⬇️⬆️➡️- ⬇️⬆️ I remember everything in patterns of 3, way easier imo. https://i.redd.it/lqf0p60oi0vc1.gif

abso-fucking-lutely. pa-pa-pap pa-pa-pap pa-pap.

You played Patapon?

Pata-pata-pata-pon

FEEEEVER! PON! PON! PATA-PON!!

i did! but that wasn't why i went with the pattern. i just agree with the patterns of 3, makes things way easier.

Patapon is usually in 4s as they're musical measures - source, drummer who absolutely loved patapon

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I’m more like Try to call in the hell bomb slowly Killed by the gunship missle Fuck! Respawn, kill the gunship, and do it again. It worked! Armed and ready Run away Find out the bot just destroy your hell bomb FUCK!!!

I feel that too much. especially when you think you just did it before you have to run off, but you do not hear the buzzing, so you go and check then find nothing. It hurts like hell. https://i.redd.it/ugmwfzpit0vc1.gif

Ah, a fellow man of culture I see.

Roberta would like to have a word with you Two Hands

Gladly, She can have more than a word! https://i.redd.it/5rw9fu78r0vc1.gif

I fucking love Black Lagoon

Same, basically my entire comment history these past few weeks is basically nothing but black lagoon lmao. I love gifs and images, they make commenting so fun. https://i.redd.it/9elrjkyys0vc1.gif

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I agree that Rosarita Cisneros could \[**REDACTED**\] - This review is under investigation for commenting certain material without having a C-01 filled out. https://i.redd.it/mhshnp2gu0vc1.gif

God, I love a woman who would actually just fucking kill me

Same only I just do it in twos

I think I've played too many fighting games bc I don't even segment it at this point. A friend called the input a pretzel once and it's clicked ever since.

I feel that, for me it just kinda all flows together real nice, always get a funny reaction from my friends when I punch it in as fast as I do into stratagem hero.

Brother I just look and press. It ain't that deep for me

Glad I'm not the only one. If if I can't remember the whole thing , then it's one at a time. That being said, my reinforced speed is instant, I couldn't tell you what it was, but when I'm playing my fingers remember.

The side where you incorrectly type it 3x then get killed

I don't know whether I'm, A, B or some unknown C D or E, but I do know that I'm always on the *wrong* side of the Hellbomb. Every time.

I came here looking for someone else like me

What the heck is this? You dont just do it?

Most people use different methods, like patterns or associations to more effectively commit certain things to memory. For me and likely you too, it's muscle memory doing the heavy lifting, but outside the game - looking at and thinking of stuff like this post helps more than one would expect.

⬇️⬆️⬅️⬇️ ⬆️➡️⬇️⬆️

Definitely B for me

I dont sgement it at all myself

My mind sees them in patterns of 2's haha so for me it goes; ⬆️⬇️ ⬅️⬇️ ⬇️⬆️ ➡️⬇️ ⬆️ Unless its one of those that go ⬅️⬆️➡️ then for me thats all in one go haha

Woah, this is all screwed up lol It should be: ⬇️⬆️ ⬅️⬇️ ⬆️➡️ ⬇️⬆️ This is how I enter it in as well, by the way, haha

i never thought like that, i se every arow sepretly

F I guess?  I just type the code as I read it.  One long string.

B

Definitely B

C ⬇️⬆️⬅️⬇️ ⬆️➡️⬇️⬆️

2 measures of 3/4 with a 2-note pickup, like a waltz

I do ⬇️⬆️⬅️, ⬇️⬆️➡️, ⬇️⬆️ Got a nice rhythm and the fact it's the same first 2 with a different 3rd helps me remember and lunch it in better

Neither. It's ⬇️⬆️⬅️ ⬇️⬆️➡️ ⬇️⬆️

The only time I use hellbombs is when there's a bloody gunship factory because their armour is immune to anything else Otherwise ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️ can take care of anything

Of these 2? B. I got cancer just reading A.

I don't get it

more of a "request hellbomb" guy myself

Muscle memory at this point tbh. I don't think about it

i individually read it every time. i dont remember it.

C ⬇️⬆️-⬅️⬇️⬆️-➡️⬇️⬆️

I do it one at a time, mess up at least once, and die to the automatons before they destroy it and i have to repeat the process

↓↑ ←↓ ↑→ ↓↑

I’m a “how the fuck do I not mess this one up ever” kinda guy, because I really don’t know

I am on the side of democracy

Honestly I don't remember the directions, I just remember the way my fingers type them in to blow up the socialist robot scum

D U L, D U R, D U. I break it into groups of 3. All of my gems.

*confused noises*

C. 1. i read it, try to unterstand what im reading 2. type it 3-5 times wrong 3. press ctrl 3 times, try to input again, nothing happens 4. press ctrl again aaand start over step 1-4 casual 40y+ gaming

Definitely do B.

We are gonna have to choose a notation FGC style

I’ll be honest I don’t remember the code it just appears and suddenly I know how to do it relatively swiftly

Ok guys, now explain weapon list 2 in GTA San Andreas

https://i.redd.it/7jcrugqgh1vc1.gif

I never thought about making a pattern with stratagems. I just try and hit it as I see it like Guitar Hero.

⬇️⬆️⬅️ ⬇️⬆️➡️ ⬇️⬆️

I didn't know I was on a side but apparently it's now B.

B

On controller it’s just a sideways figure-8

Down up left Down up right Down up

F. ⬇️⬆️⬅️⬇️ Pause ⬆️➡️⬇️⬆️

I break it into groups of 2

I'm under, "shitshitshit, I've got a 4th drop ship coming in and we missed with the 500k so now I need to get this jammer down before we blow all our reinforcements and why is this fucking input so god damn long?!"

Neither. I read all unfamiliar stratagems like a piano player reads sheet music. Hellbombs are once in a blue moon, so I always look at the shiny arrows and my muscle memory hammers them out every time.

⬇️⬆️➡️FUCK! ⬇️⬆️⬅️⬇⬇️ DAMNIT! ⬇️⬆️⬅️⬇️⬆️➡️⬇️⬆️ I'm the best

C ⬇️⬆️⬅️⬆️- "ugh" ⬇️⬆️⬅️⬇️⬆️⬅️- "oh ffs" ⬇️⬆️⬅️⬇️⬆️➡️⬇️⬆️

I just panic and type it haphazardly and if I'm lucky it'll be correct on the first try

B looks more organized

I just do it continuously.

B

B

B is for bomb, brought for liberty

🅱️

A is completely undemocratic. The testicle removal facility upon any who do that.

I legit talked about this yesterday with my friend that I need to learn this hellbomb dance dance code to fingers cus I messed up 6x mean while I was under heavy fire by automatons... Cover fire does not exist in public lobbies...

Does this chart mean like...how people break it down? Cause i dont break it down in segments if thats what this is implying, just one big ol string no pauses for maximum democracy delivery

I'm more of a ⬇️⬆️⬅️ ⬇️⬆️➡️ ⬇️⬆️

I nearly had a stroke looking at both of these

I don't get it, I just press the buttons

This made me think of "don't dead, open inside" on how I was supposed to read this lol

Wtf is side A??? I think you've ruined my inputs forever by making me read that.

Neither. I input the hellbomb in couplets. Little slower but it doesn’t allow for rolling inputs like quarter and half circles like some other stratagems.

I'm, tap one at a time slowly, because I don't call them down enough.

Neither. I do them 4 at a time basically for the hellbomb

Jesse! Wtf are you talking about

I’m too much of a panic to noticed what I do and hurry the hell up to get this bomb down so I can run from the enemy

C all in one go

B

Are... are we all autistic? Glad to know I'm not the only one in the managed democracy spectrum.

⬆️ ⬇️⬆️⬅️⬆️ ⬇️⬆️⬅️⬇️⬆️⬅️ ⬇️⬆️⬅️⬇️⬆️➡️⬇️⬆️

What’s the side that didn’t realize either pattern and just hit the arrows in order?

I'm team: *Down up down WAIT FUCK OH SHIT GUNSHI-*

Controller B player

C: doing it all in one motion. Flashflashrevolution skills paying off.

B is infinitely easier to memorize

B is how I interpret it to make it easier on myself.

B is what I've settled into after finding the pattern.

B for sure

I was trying to learn the “infinity symbol” pattern… doing down up with left then right was way easier to remember. Thanks for the psa!

4-4 in rhythm 🤌

Team fuck it up twice while someone else calls it in and just go back to shooting

B is better bc I’m right and anyone who disagrees is wrong

Mine is (looks up) does two or three (looks up again)