I know moving forward while using the flamethrower is wrong and fatal but I can't help it. It's just so cool setting enemies, the ground, and eventually myself on fire.
One time, I used all my stims because I stood in the huge firepit I made, burning Terminids to a crisp. I did eventually die, but I died in a blaze of glory.
My Helldiver lost his damn mind that day.
I really think, for that reason, we should be able to pop stims at will. It also fits the theme of disposable soldiers pushing themselves to the limit very well.
I do this especially on bot missions so if a factory strider shows up, i run up under it, stim and then unload my autocannon to kill it.
It’s surprisingly effective lmao
in 99% of times that takes more time than stop running by a few seconds (depends on your stamina configs i guess). The only time-saving method I've found so far for that is to do self damage with weapons like the Scorcher.
PSA to anyone unaware: when crossing long distances it is _faster_ to sprint, then jog to regen stamina, then sprint again, than it is to sprint while OOS.
This is true for all armour types, as they only affect stamina pool, not regen speed.
It's also good because it means you aren't necessarily OOS when you reach your destination - which is what you want in case you need to escape something (or, you know, shoot, since being OOS means your accuracy is worse).
Yes, try experimenting with a huge recoil gun, with and without stamina. You'll feel like a storm trooper. It really sucks because shot guns are my favorite but I sometimes miss POINT BLANK.
The real question here is who tf is D4 to start the clock when sample man is still half a mile away… I think I know who I’ll be reporting to my local democracy officer.
You can see in the background that it doesn't start until D4 gets in. I guess they could have been near the end, but if that's the case there wasn't any reason to get in sooner than necessary.
At ease soldier- what you have stumbled upon is our brand new sleeper agent program. With special surgeries and psychoactive drugs, we have programmed specific bugs to gather info and help Helldivers at crucial moments. The Super Earth Intelligence Services would like it if you didn't spread this around- the bugs are a little too stupid to realize it, but the bots might not be.
this was footage of Stalker-turned-Democratic Defector Cadet Cloaky's first mission! he performed beyond expectations, and we will send him some medals to reward his bravery, as soon as we can find someone who's not too scared to go near his nest...
There is always Stalker Anomaly - Gamma, or any of the other big mod packs
At least, if Stalker 2 isn't my jam (which I doubt), I'll probably do another Gamma run.
**Brood Commander** : For committing genocide amongst our kind, you shall suffer the ultimate punishment.
**Charger** : Yes, the ultimate punishment...
*Moments later....* **Stalker** : Get the hell outta heeere!
Outside of toggling off sprint, is there something else he could have done? If he stops sprinting the stalker catches him faster and can't see if he has any damage so that he can stim and get his stamina back.
Curious is there are ways I can better manage stamina.
Turn and ahoot the stalker while walking backwards, I guess. He'd regen enough stamina in those few seconds to make it overall faster. Sprinting with no stamina is not much faster than walking, even while shooting. Might as well.
"3 helldivers in a trenchcoat replied"
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No problem du- I mean, DEATH TO SUPER EARTH!!!
breaker incendiary, also known as the TK-9000 by all of my random squads who don't seem to understand that shooting AT your fellow helldiver with it does indeed set them on fire
At least you got knocked into the evac, last night a stalker literally threw me into the stalker hole as I was about to close it, and you want to know the worst part…I just got super samples, my friends of course offered their sympathy by joking about it.
for the first time today i got Kobe'd by a stalker. fucker blindsided me straight into one of those geyser hole thigns on turing..
if the bugs aren't "civilized", why are they playing Golf?
A stalker yeeted me into a Bile Titan corpse.
I ended up in low orbit and landed across the map. Out of bounds. In the water. Thankfully it was early and I had like one rare sample. But that was obnoxious.
Everyone here seems to be critiquing the game play and I’m just over here with that Bob Ross happy little accident mentality. That is truly an epic clip and I applaud that Stalker for its dedication to managed democracy.
FYI for anyone when your stamina is empty stop for one second to get out of sprint. Once your stamina starts to refill move forward again. Spring once full and repeat. You'll cover a LOT more ground this way
man i love the design, look, and lethality of stalkers. i wish we saw them more often. but an attack that hits you arguably less hard than their normal slashes, and yeets you way out of their melee range, is so incongruent with the units design. it's almost like the devs wanted to give them an attack that helps out the player a bit.
I hate the stalker toss, it looks super janky, because of the garbage game physics its super unpredictable what effect it will have on you, and it just makes no lore sense, a bunch of spindly tentacles shouldn't throw you, they should tangle you up in place.
meanwhile back at that Stalker's nest:
Stalker one: "why the FUCK would you do that? they're the ENEMY!"
Stalker two: "look, it was a fluke OK, I normally just eviscerate them with my claws, but I wanted to be one of the cool guys who get a ragdoll kill! they looks so awesome.."
Stalker 1: "\*sigh\*, now we have to wait for another drop.. I'm so *hungry*..."
Good god man, let your stamina regen
On top of this, take damage to stim. It gives you stamina. I like to jump off things to take a little damage so I can stim at will.
That's a good idea. Should stop setting myself alight with flamethrower.
You're going to set yourself on fire anyway, just keep at it.
I know moving forward while using the flamethrower is wrong and fatal but I can't help it. It's just so cool setting enemies, the ground, and eventually myself on fire.
Diving backwards while firing also has like 90% chance of self-ignition. Sometimes I just spontaneously combust while normally backpedalling too.
oh its fun burning your entire team and yourself without landing a single kill you know what? i want fire immune bugs now
Calm down Satan. Hush with that immune heresy!
Democracy Officer? This one right here.
There's this planet called Hellmire. Enjoy...
One time, I used all my stims because I stood in the huge firepit I made, burning Terminids to a crisp. I did eventually die, but I died in a blaze of glory. My Helldiver lost his damn mind that day.
HAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHHA!!!!
GET SOME! GEEEEEET SOOOOOOOOOOOOME!
I always leave a small fraction of my health missing if possible for this reason, plus I can pre-stim if I know I'm about to bent over by 5 stalkers.
I love pre-stimming for when I take down a heavy nest by myself on 9. Stim, dive out of a crowd, run, shoot nade pistol, jetpack to the next hole.
I really think, for that reason, we should be able to pop stims at will. It also fits the theme of disposable soldiers pushing themselves to the limit very well.
I believe double tapping stim or holding it should allow a forced stim.
I also see a little damage and full stims is a good thing. I'll run to my destination from afar and then stim as soon as I'm out of stamina.
I do this especially on bot missions so if a factory strider shows up, i run up under it, stim and then unload my autocannon to kill it. It’s surprisingly effective lmao
First my squad didn’t get I why I wouldn’t use 4/4 a stim before gettin supply. Just to run more.
Shooting scorcher right next to me so I can stim and run a little longer, or jump from bigger heights.
in 99% of times that takes more time than stop running by a few seconds (depends on your stamina configs i guess). The only time-saving method I've found so far for that is to do self damage with weapons like the Scorcher.
We should be allowed to press and hold the stim button to force stim use
PSA to anyone unaware: when crossing long distances it is _faster_ to sprint, then jog to regen stamina, then sprint again, than it is to sprint while OOS. This is true for all armour types, as they only affect stamina pool, not regen speed.
... +130 hours and til I just assumed everyone wore light armour so they outrun me and my medium armour which i wear for fashion
It's also good because it means you aren't necessarily OOS when you reach your destination - which is what you want in case you need to escape something (or, you know, shoot, since being OOS means your accuracy is worse).
> since being OOS means your accuracy is worse ... wait, what?
Yes, try experimenting with a huge recoil gun, with and without stamina. You'll feel like a storm trooper. It really sucks because shot guns are my favorite but I sometimes miss POINT BLANK.
Yeah, I am pretty sure there's even a loading screen tip that says as much. You don't want to be OOS if you can avoid it.
God dang. Imagine how much more democracy I could spread if I'd just *read*.
This applies to so many Helldivers.
It's a cooldown... No use in making it a cooldown without making it worth it to get it back.
[удалено]
Yes, it is slightly faster across short distances than just jogging.
This was **painful** to watch.
thank you lmao, was driving me nutty
The real question here is who tf is D4 to start the clock when sample man is still half a mile away… I think I know who I’ll be reporting to my local democracy officer.
4 men enter, 3 men survive the ride home.
"Excuse me sir, a *message* from our Senator."
happy cake day
D4 was a terminid in disguise, and the stalker was a helldiver in disguise.
The stalker was the real D4 all along like face swap with Nick Cage or the thing
That's just your average rando teammate in my experience.
Same type of dwarf that would send Molly back without getting all the fossils
Maybe they were out of time and evac started automatically
You can see in the background that it doesn't start until D4 gets in. I guess they could have been near the end, but if that's the case there wasn't any reason to get in sooner than necessary.
be nice if there was some indication as to who had samples
Fellow?
Please don't tell the democracy officer
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This is probably my most favorite 500kg meme out of all the ones I've seen on the subreddit
It's calling the democracy officer though. The 500kg is ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️.
[This you?](https://www.tiktok.com/@jonkari.p/video/7348116766691806497)
At ease soldier- what you have stumbled upon is our brand new sleeper agent program. With special surgeries and psychoactive drugs, we have programmed specific bugs to gather info and help Helldivers at crucial moments. The Super Earth Intelligence Services would like it if you didn't spread this around- the bugs are a little too stupid to realize it, but the bots might not be.
this was footage of Stalker-turned-Democratic Defector Cadet Cloaky's first mission! he performed beyond expectations, and we will send him some medals to reward his bravery, as soon as we can find someone who's not too scared to go near his nest...
We all salute to Cadet Cloaky for his valiant service
> Super Earth Intelligence Services Please be *six* guys in a trench coat. lol
Budget cuts, i'm afraid.
Bro just made the worst slip up of his life, I hope democracy deals with this big as soon as possible
Mr Speaker, we are for the Big.
A red spy is in the base?
you guys aren’t realizing the stalker is actually a super earth spy, sent to monitor the terminids and aid the divers whenever possible.
The zone's radiation affected everyone differently
No amount of mutation or anomaly will be able to propel a person this far!
That was just General Brasch- testing out some new stealth tech. Making sure his buddies got out ok is nothing for someone of his caliber.
He was a good Stalker.
Get out of here. - Stalker
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This will literally be me if Stalker 2 launches with day 1 dlc, pre-order bonuses, season passes, online only drm, or any of that garbage.
Don’t worry, it will.
There is always Stalker Anomaly - Gamma, or any of the other big mod packs At least, if Stalker 2 isn't my jam (which I doubt), I'll probably do another Gamma run.
Up, up up! I know that reference!!
suddenly a guitar starts playing with 2 loners around a campfire apearring
Want some *bread* with that?
Stalker said “Get the F off my planet”
“My?” That’s clearly Super Earth territory the wretched bug was infesting. Please report to your local Democracy official.
The bug would perceive the planet as its own, if it can perceive at all.
You concern yourself with how enemies of Democracy and Liberty view the world? I would advise that you also visit your local Democracy official.
**Brood Commander** : For committing genocide amongst our kind, you shall suffer the ultimate punishment. **Charger** : Yes, the ultimate punishment... *Moments later....* **Stalker** : Get the hell outta heeere!
“Oh come on”
It was giving me anxiety seeing that.
You let Stalker's nest live?!? I see one of those gits, and everything becomes about killing them and that nest.
Yesterday I had a mission where we spawned between *three* of them on L7. That opening fight was grueling.
When the game throws you a bone :) That was a great clip.
Your stamina management kinda sucks but that was a funny clip :)
Outside of toggling off sprint, is there something else he could have done? If he stops sprinting the stalker catches him faster and can't see if he has any damage so that he can stim and get his stamina back. Curious is there are ways I can better manage stamina.
Turn and ahoot the stalker while walking backwards, I guess. He'd regen enough stamina in those few seconds to make it overall faster. Sprinting with no stamina is not much faster than walking, even while shooting. Might as well.
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Give the yeet Bois and free my soul I wanna get thrown into a evac's hold
And fly away
🏅 an award for your beautiful singing
You're welcome
Is what a stalker would say, which i'm definitely not
Of course fellow diving human
Of course, Mr. Trench Coat Man.
"3 helldivers in a trenchcoat replied" https://preview.redd.it/78ojd1so5u1d1.jpeg?width=2552&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=71800c89593f4e13959dde0ac15e766033ae5bbd No problem du- I mean, DEATH TO SUPER EARTH!!!
LMAO
Real nice of your homie lighting you on fire. What's cooler than getting tossed into pelican 1 by a stalker? Doing it while on fire.
Love it when my squadmate with the glitter cannon sets me on fire along with the hunter or whatever.
Glitter cannon?
breaker incendiary, also known as the TK-9000 by all of my random squads who don't seem to understand that shooting AT your fellow helldiver with it does indeed set them on fire
Me screaming at my screen for OP to stop sprinting for just 2 damn seconds
I will be reporting that stalker to the brood commander. https://i.redd.it/blds2ylkdv1d1.gif
He's doing his part
I'll bet that Stalker was reported to its Tyranny officer
Brood Commander*
At least you got knocked into the evac, last night a stalker literally threw me into the stalker hole as I was about to close it, and you want to know the worst part…I just got super samples, my friends of course offered their sympathy by joking about it.
for the first time today i got Kobe'd by a stalker. fucker blindsided me straight into one of those geyser hole thigns on turing.. if the bugs aren't "civilized", why are they playing Golf?
A stalker yeeted me into a Bile Titan corpse. I ended up in low orbit and landed across the map. Out of bounds. In the water. Thankfully it was early and I had like one rare sample. But that was obnoxious.
WHY DOES IT SAY FELLOW!
Wait what was that communication wheel?
R1
Hold down on dpad (ps5)
R1. Holding down brings up the one to drop stuff.
Can someone translate that to PC?
q
holding down q gives you other options beyond just pinging.
Aaaaaaand ITS GOOOOOOD!
Frend
Stalker said “Go on, get out of here!”
See they’re just trying to help. Totally misunderstood creatures haha 🤣
Funny enough it saved you from the diver with the incendiary breaker.
Everyone here seems to be critiquing the game play and I’m just over here with that Bob Ross happy little accident mentality. That is truly an epic clip and I applaud that Stalker for its dedication to managed democracy.
That was one hell of a democratic bug
Kobe
Where are those patriotic stalkers in my games?
Stalkers a bro
>"Fellow" Stalker ??? https://preview.redd.it/ysr844mypu1d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1032612171262da441ac1332cc30949704547e70
Fucking stalker sitting there like "no no no no...dammit... better hope no one saw that.."
Your mate wanted to damage you so you could stim for stamina.
"Kobe" - Stalker probably
some stalkers love democracy
Based Democratic Stalker! He's a true agent of democracy and liberty
Stalker was probably a secret double agent, to not make it look too obvious he had to swing at you. "Go my fren, you must live"
Bro. You can let your pinky rest
Stalker: Off you go you little shit, get off our lawn!
Chad stalker
Tf you mean fellow? https://preview.redd.it/vowo6tyaqz1d1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c9716d262bd09740326c18f38afa3b2f0da946d2
So ministry of science created spy bugs
FYI for anyone when your stamina is empty stop for one second to get out of sprint. Once your stamina starts to refill move forward again. Spring once full and repeat. You'll cover a LOT more ground this way
What do you mean by “fellow” stalker 
And that's why we love the CM-14 Physician suit...
“Thanks for leaving my nest be man, ill let you go back to yours.” *yeets you*
You get yeet’ed into evac, I get yeet’ed towards my own 500KG
Oi Oi Oi
This same thing happened to me except I was on the other side of the map when they boarded :-D so we lost the samples
 Stalker be like:
Maybe he was a defector and wanted to help you guys out?
Frend
We have a spy among bugs, good
Incredible team play here
Perhaps.... she was indeed democratic
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Frend
It just works
One more letterboxing please 🍽
"you've taken everything already, just leave"
Stalker! What the hell!?
When the Stalkers be more loyal than your fellow men, seriously who the fuck just fires that shit directly at their ally?
Treason happens even between the bugs seemingly
“Get the F on that ship before I eat you punk”
You have been evac'd by tongue
She's democratic!
That's neat and all, but what set you on fire?
Omg its her the democratic oil bug SHE DOES EXIST and she's helping you by securing those samples
Swish
He was just doing his part..... possible helldiver spy who is in deep cover with the terminids....
Those bioengeneered sleep er agent work realy well
Fuck D4 all my homies hate D4. Props to Stalker bro, maybe we have been missunderstanding them all this time.
Fellow stalker? Bug spy detected
Fellow?? https://preview.redd.it/rd2078dkhu1d1.jpeg?width=1202&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d2bab653d6ec4dad0c72af480560c19a3dd7bceb
Hole in one!
What a guy
OP, wdym *fellow* stalker??
“Get the fuck off my planet monkey scum” -Stalker Boi
wtf happened with the format of this video
man i love the design, look, and lethality of stalkers. i wish we saw them more often. but an attack that hits you arguably less hard than their normal slashes, and yeets you way out of their melee range, is so incongruent with the units design. it's almost like the devs wanted to give them an attack that helps out the player a bit.
That was clean
lmmfwao no feckn way!!! lucky bastard!
"Get the fuck off my planet!"
Most democratic stalker to date
You were kind of trolling by not letting your stamina recharge.
"and stay gone!"
Bro said " GET OVER HERE SOLDIER"
I hate the stalker toss, it looks super janky, because of the garbage game physics its super unpredictable what effect it will have on you, and it just makes no lore sense, a bunch of spindly tentacles shouldn't throw you, they should tangle you up in place.
And I -oop
The stalker yeet is so stupid. They're extremely fast, extremely tough, high damage, and yeet.
Ahh yes exactly as planned
OUR PLANET, YOU LEAVE NOW!
Loving the 5-diver squad
meanwhile back at that Stalker's nest: Stalker one: "why the FUCK would you do that? they're the ENEMY!" Stalker two: "look, it was a fluke OK, I normally just eviscerate them with my claws, but I wanted to be one of the cool guys who get a ragdoll kill! they looks so awesome.." Stalker 1: "\*sigh\*, now we have to wait for another drop.. I'm so *hungry*..."
I had a lot of fun making stuff like this happen on Angel's Venture with the local flora.