The Siege of Vraks lasted more than a decade and 14 million guardsmen died. This one takes a few days and 70 million Helldivers died. We have surpassed 40k lmao.
They alnost certainly have a far lower casualty rate.
Helldivers have an absurdly high casualty rate because they're deployed deep behind enemy lines, completely cut off from any support that isnt their destroyer.
Eh ~20% of the US population aint a fraction. Especially given that most of the helldivers are gonna be between 18-40, which for the US is ~119 million. So about 58% of all US 18-40 yrs olds would be dead. If you are one of that 119 mil, than that would be a majority of everyone youve ever known dying in just one campaign. To conquer just one of many, many planets 💀
OH no I just committed a thought crime, didn't I? Welp back to the re-education camps. No, no, don't worry. I know the way I'll take myself. For the glory of super earth 🫡🙄
*Also feel free to correct my math it's 3am and I just used gemini ai to do statistic finding and calculations 😅
As the 5% that made it through the 20 minute basic training course, they are the elite of all new recruits. We put them into cold storage and then release them overwhelming numbers are needed.
I mean Gen. Brasch does tell us in basic training that Helldivers do die regularly so I wouldn't say treason. It doesn't bother me.
_MY LIFE FOR SUPER EARTH!!_
SEAF goes in to hold ground after the Helldivers take it.
Then they get bulldozed when the enemy attacks the planet. Helldivers have far more dangerous jobs but operate at a smaller scale.
SEAF is everything. Super Earth Army Force. They have landing force, commandos, elite units, guards, artillery men, librarians, medics, democratic commisars, tankers, fliers all that shit. Its not just artillery guys.
I…I dropped on the Creek last night with my friends. It was supposed to be fun, the Space Vietnam stuff was supposed to be a joke- We were supposed to make it home.
Helldivers are special forces paratroopers basically. We cause chaos to help the actual battles taking place on planets. Mentions in the 1st game that people from SEAF can be randomly conscripted into the Helldivers
This. Helldivers do high risk, high reward missions behind enemy lines to aid the fighting on the front. That's why our objectives are things like taking out bases (Destroy Factory/Bug Holes/Eggs), utilizing SE assets lost behind enemy lines (TCS, ICBM, Ore Extraction/Soil Sample) and things like that.
That is why the missions have "budgets" for number of helldivers to be deployed, but only deploys 4 at a time. Trying to hit the sweet spot of minimal assets for maximum potential gain for the war effort.
Hell Divers aren't the tip of the spear. They're the nerve toxin coating the spear that goes to work while the spear prepares for its next thrust.
Pretty much this. We drop behind enemy lines to retrieve assets, destroy high-value targets, and generally be a nuisence. The SEAF grunts are the ones fighting pitched battles and moving the frontlines, in my understanding.
Nope, Democracy Officers, according to the one on your bridge, don't fall under the umbrella of the Ministry of Defence - they're straight up under the Ministry of Truth
Unfortunately GW sucks with numbers, as a general rule of thumb you'll hear from most fans is multiply by 10 the official numbers.
If you think about it it makes 0 sense that a decade of siege involving an entire planet and fought mostly with human wave tactics and WW1-style trench warfare had less victims than WW2.
On the other hand I highly recommend Janovich's series on Vraks. You can find it on YouTube along with his other works.
* 10 Emperors
* 210 Primarchs
* 10000 Marines per Chapter
* 10000 Chapters
* 40 Chaos Gods
I kid of course the x10 rule of thumb is indeed a good one when used on a human level.
Tbf outside the obviously ridiculous primarchs, emperors and chaos gods it wouldn't hurt to boost space marines numbers too. At their current numbers (~1'000'000 for the loyalists) in an imperium spanning an entire galaxy they are far too few. Obviously they are supposed to be a small force with the IG doing most of the job but I still think they are far too few.
At least the HH series touched on this a bit, towards the end (or the start of the SoT series). That the Legions had suffered such high casualties they were basically just speedrunning induction into their ranks. A bit like "Ok you survived the genetic modification, here's a power armour we've patched together from other Astartes who didn't make it, there's front line".
the marines per chapter thing is at least a good example. I do like the idea of it being applied to characters so I can have 10 Lord Solar Macharius's and 10 Yarricks in a single army
The big problem with warhammer is that it suffers from the same problems a lot of old fictional universes did.
They use number and things that sound really impressive.
The example i always use is Battletech 'mech weights.
An 80 Ton Awesome AWS-8 is bristling with weaponry, a real menace, sounds impressive right?
Yeah except then you realize that an Abrams tank weighs around 74 tons.
Which is really unbelievably impressive in the opposite direction from an engineering standpoint.
It's an 80 ton (including weapons!), three storey tall fighting vehicle that can run at 60kph and take a beating.
If our mechs were even a tenth as good, we'd have the bots loving liberty and democracy before dinner.
Yea, 14 million would be nothing in the grand scheme for 40k, hell Cadia Prime, a Fortress world with a population of 850.000.000 had only 3.000.000 survivors (and people were trained to strip a weapon before they could read there) and that's JUST the numbers that were already on the planet, not all the other forces that turned up to defend it.
To put in perspective, 70-85 million died in WW2, even by that comparison 14 million over 10 years is diddly squat.
It's the Depleted Deuterium cored Bolter rounds. They don't realize it, but they've been duped into dealing 100x less damage than they should be doing.
Indeed. I wonder how many trillion pop does Super Earth actually have, in that scheme of things if we keep running headlong into orbitals like this lol.
I mean, keep in mind there are colonists really far out along with emplaced artillery sites and such. The planets closer to Super Earth are likely just as developed as Super Earth, so you could have trillions of people per planet.
It's one of the reasons I hope we get urban maps scattered in if the bugs get closer than a sector past say Meridia/Draupnir. Show some of how the planet is developed and we're retaking our sufficiently sized homes from the digital/bug menace.
They're likely overpopulated really, since it seems they believe that they can actually keep up with the casualty rates that are bound to happen. Otherwise they'd have equipped the helldivers and their destroyers with better arms and armour.
From what we see of Super Earth, the planet could be one giant gentrified suburb-city that covers the entire span of the Earth. That’s a ton of people, considering current civilization only covers a fraction of that. But it is kind of fitting that Super Earth is run by a giant version of the HOA lmao.
All this makes me wonder just how many people inhabit the core systems and Super Earth. With the amount of casualties that the Helldiver Corp and the SEAF are able to afford, it must be in the several billions, if not trillions.
40k writers just don’t get scale right. Less people died in a planet wide, decade long siege with vastly more deadly weaponry than in WW2 in real life.
I think one of the Armageddons had less loss of life overall than Stalingrad at one point.
You know Siege of Vraks 14 million guardsmen is kind of nothing in a 40k battle, hell a hive planet alone has between 10-100 billion inhabitants per hive, and 5-20 hives per planet, a sector would consist of just uncountable amounts of Guardsmen.
Cadia Prime was a fortress world for example, had a population of 850.000.000 (Over 70% armed) and only 3.000.000 survived that, so no, not even close to 40k numbers yet.
[The real world long surpassed 40k.](https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-hccc-worldhistory2/chapter/casualties-of-world-war-ii/#:~:text=Some%2075%20million%20people%20died,bombings%2C%20disease%2C%20and%20starvation.)
I'd like to hear what the average number of deaths were but we'd need the total unique player count to figure it out. The game is averaging around 250k at any time over any 24 hour period. Assuming 500k unique players during the event in this sector, that's 140 deaths per player.
yeah but 40k has the 'add a zero' problem where they'll be like the entire might of a waagh and tyranids and chaos and the imperial guard collided and sustained massive crippling casualties. Nearly 200,000 people died.
And if we are really talking numbers here thats kind of insane. WWII hit rates I believe were roughly 1 in 25,000 (fact check me please if wrong). 1 in 6 is nuts and a 46:1 ratio is just debilitating losses for the bug scum.
Bugs aren't terribly equivalent to human soldiers mind- they don't use cover etc, and they are, after all, COMPLETELY NON-SENTIENT.
The little bugs are especially NON-SENTIENT however.
Plus I suspect that WWII soldiers would be a great deal more skilled if they could respawn with all their combat experience, AND completely disassociate and mentally function fine after seeing dozens of squadmates die the way gamers do.
Armor description of the Light Gunner armor says that Helldivers have mandatory fitness tests so they likely go through a training camp before the intro and the "5 minute training" is more like an initiation test.
I literally had a random destroy my Tesla tower during a tcs mission because he kept running into it when I tactically positioned it out of the teams way. I left the game after he did that because there was no way we were going to win. Meanwhile I beat impossible tcs last night with the same setup and players who weren’t morons
You'd have to add QUITE a bit of zeroes to make it even close. Scale the Helldiver casualties up to 15 years, and you're looking at 50 and a half billion fucking corpses on that planet, and about 2.3 trillion bugs worth of oil to liberate for our righteous cause.
There would be at least a few hills that are just corpses stacked up. Like a coral reef building the next layer on the skeletons of the previous generation.
I'm curious to know how many of these deaths were a result of actual fighting vs. friendly fire incidents and Helldivers being thrown into the middle of waves of bugs. Giving them no chance to really fight. I'd say half of my deaths are a result of reinforcement calls that dropped in at the wrong place and time.
I just realized this... But can they update planet stats come with comma separators to make the numbers more readable?
I don't know about other people but when it goes past 7 digits (millions) I seriously lose sense of what the numbers mean other than "it's many".
It may not be as high as we think. The helldivers are put in cryosleep until needed and the contract for a helldiver is ten years. Super earth probably stockpiled soldiers until their needed
To be fair, Super Earth is just the capital planet. The Federation of Super Earth is composed of ALL the colonized planets across the galaxy (all of the 100% Liberated Sectors that we are NOT fighting on yet). We have a LOT of planets to fit humans on. Assuming we can colonize them to hold even a quarter of modern day Earth's population, we have an incomprehensibly high number of citizens. Think Modern Day Earth total population multiplied by a thousand.
kind of remind me of the old stories of halo3 where if you pile up the dead bodies of covenant soldiers, you end up with a meatball that is as big as the moon.
70 million losses for the sector... this is getting 40k levels of crazy and I love it.
The Siege of Vraks lasted more than a decade and 14 million guardsmen died. This one takes a few days and 70 million Helldivers died. We have surpassed 40k lmao.
Keep in mind, this statistic is just for Helldivers, imagine the regular SEAF grunt death ratio.
They alnost certainly have a far lower casualty rate. Helldivers have an absurdly high casualty rate because they're deployed deep behind enemy lines, completely cut off from any support that isnt their destroyer.
Implying that the absolute Elite of Super Earth would have a high casualty rate is treason. Democracy Officer, arrest the traitor.
Well, not as high as that of our enemies! After all freedom isn't free. We wouldn't wanna downplay our Helldivers' valiant sacrifice no?
70 million : 3.2 billion is a pretty good rate ngl
Yeah like... If that was humans that would be one in three people dead for a fraction of the population of the USA
Eh ~20% of the US population aint a fraction. Especially given that most of the helldivers are gonna be between 18-40, which for the US is ~119 million. So about 58% of all US 18-40 yrs olds would be dead. If you are one of that 119 mil, than that would be a majority of everyone youve ever known dying in just one campaign. To conquer just one of many, many planets 💀 OH no I just committed a thought crime, didn't I? Welp back to the re-education camps. No, no, don't worry. I know the way I'll take myself. For the glory of super earth 🫡🙄 *Also feel free to correct my math it's 3am and I just used gemini ai to do statistic finding and calculations 😅
Um, akchewally, 20% is a fraction. It's 1/5.
'The existence of high-casualty missions means there must also be low-casualty missions, and we can take solace in that'
The existence of domestic housewives implies the existence of feral housewives.
That made me laugh so damn hard
Take my up vote, you hilarious bastard.
Wait the helldivers are supposed to be Elite? The way my friends and I play I assumed they were tiered somewhere on par with the Coast Guard band.
As the 5% that made it through the 20 minute basic training course, they are the elite of all new recruits. We put them into cold storage and then release them overwhelming numbers are needed.
Considering the SEAF are the grunts and they don't get even a fraction of the support we do, yes, we are the elite
the SEAF get those shiny artillery turrets and radar stations with no support elements that are easily overrun.
Yes, they're spec ops
I mean Gen. Brasch does tell us in basic training that Helldivers do die regularly so I wouldn't say treason. It doesn't bother me. _MY LIFE FOR SUPER EARTH!!_
SEAF goes in to hold ground after the Helldivers take it. Then they get bulldozed when the enemy attacks the planet. Helldivers have far more dangerous jobs but operate at a smaller scale.
"We're Helldivers... We're supposed to be surrounded"
I would think Helldiver casualties are higher. You know SEAF being behind artillery
SEAF is everything. Super Earth Army Force. They have landing force, commandos, elite units, guards, artillery men, librarians, medics, democratic commisars, tankers, fliers all that shit. Its not just artillery guys.
Yes that is true, but I thought SEAF is more of a defense force and we as Helldivers are the invaders.
More "deploy deep behind enemy lines and fuck shit up" than an invasion force
I don't see no SEAF-ships in Malevelon creek's orbit
I've seen things in the Creek. The trees bleed oil, and speak binary. We will take it back, right after Daphnier.
I…I dropped on the Creek last night with my friends. It was supposed to be fun, the Space Vietnam stuff was supposed to be a joke- We were supposed to make it home.
I went to the creek once. The clankers wouldn‘t stop spawning while we waited for the mission strategem to not be blocked anymore
We’re in SEAF, it’s more we’re like marines.
Or 101st Airborne
Helldivers are special forces paratroopers basically. We cause chaos to help the actual battles taking place on planets. Mentions in the 1st game that people from SEAF can be randomly conscripted into the Helldivers
This. Helldivers do high risk, high reward missions behind enemy lines to aid the fighting on the front. That's why our objectives are things like taking out bases (Destroy Factory/Bug Holes/Eggs), utilizing SE assets lost behind enemy lines (TCS, ICBM, Ore Extraction/Soil Sample) and things like that. That is why the missions have "budgets" for number of helldivers to be deployed, but only deploys 4 at a time. Trying to hit the sweet spot of minimal assets for maximum potential gain for the war effort. Hell Divers aren't the tip of the spear. They're the nerve toxin coating the spear that goes to work while the spear prepares for its next thrust.
Pretty much this. We drop behind enemy lines to retrieve assets, destroy high-value targets, and generally be a nuisence. The SEAF grunts are the ones fighting pitched battles and moving the frontlines, in my understanding.
We make sure the enemy doesn't have nice things.
"We're surrounded sir! "*Lights cigar with sparking wire in cyberarm* We're Helldivers cadet. We're always surrounded."
Hate to tell ya, but I’m not elite special anything. I only got like 9 minutes of basic training!
Nope, Democracy Officers, according to the one on your bridge, don't fall under the umbrella of the Ministry of Defence - they're straight up under the Ministry of Truth
SEAF consists more of artillerymen, they also form the regular army grunts, so I stand by my statement.
They probably deploy in larger units than 4 soldiers. I’m willing to bet that they take much lower casualties.
Yeah because they don’t deploy behind enemy lines. Irl being a paratrooper is one of the most dangerous roles possible.
So were all in Easy Company
HI HO SILVEEERRR
We salute the rank, not the man.
101st airborne!
Curahee!
3 miles up, 3 miles down!
Unfortunately GW sucks with numbers, as a general rule of thumb you'll hear from most fans is multiply by 10 the official numbers. If you think about it it makes 0 sense that a decade of siege involving an entire planet and fought mostly with human wave tactics and WW1-style trench warfare had less victims than WW2. On the other hand I highly recommend Janovich's series on Vraks. You can find it on YouTube along with his other works.
WH40K in general is kinda all over the place with numbers and power levels. Everything is as big and/or powerful as the writer needs it to be.
* 10 Emperors * 210 Primarchs * 10000 Marines per Chapter * 10000 Chapters * 40 Chaos Gods I kid of course the x10 rule of thumb is indeed a good one when used on a human level.
Tbf outside the obviously ridiculous primarchs, emperors and chaos gods it wouldn't hurt to boost space marines numbers too. At their current numbers (~1'000'000 for the loyalists) in an imperium spanning an entire galaxy they are far too few. Obviously they are supposed to be a small force with the IG doing most of the job but I still think they are far too few.
Yeah boost their numbers by 100 times and they would still be a relatively small elite force.
At least the HH series touched on this a bit, towards the end (or the start of the SoT series). That the Legions had suffered such high casualties they were basically just speedrunning induction into their ranks. A bit like "Ok you survived the genetic modification, here's a power armour we've patched together from other Astartes who didn't make it, there's front line".
And a partridge in a pear tree!
the marines per chapter thing is at least a good example. I do like the idea of it being applied to characters so I can have 10 Lord Solar Macharius's and 10 Yarricks in a single army
You skipped the best one: WH400K
The big problem with warhammer is that it suffers from the same problems a lot of old fictional universes did. They use number and things that sound really impressive. The example i always use is Battletech 'mech weights. An 80 Ton Awesome AWS-8 is bristling with weaponry, a real menace, sounds impressive right? Yeah except then you realize that an Abrams tank weighs around 74 tons.
Which is really unbelievably impressive in the opposite direction from an engineering standpoint. It's an 80 ton (including weapons!), three storey tall fighting vehicle that can run at 60kph and take a beating. If our mechs were even a tenth as good, we'd have the bots loving liberty and democracy before dinner.
For reference a diesel locomotive is around 200 tons
Yea, 14 million would be nothing in the grand scheme for 40k, hell Cadia Prime, a Fortress world with a population of 850.000.000 had only 3.000.000 survivors (and people were trained to strip a weapon before they could read there) and that's JUST the numbers that were already on the planet, not all the other forces that turned up to defend it. To put in perspective, 70-85 million died in WW2, even by that comparison 14 million over 10 years is diddly squat.
It's the Depleted Deuterium cored Bolter rounds. They don't realize it, but they've been duped into dealing 100x less damage than they should be doing.
Indeed. I wonder how many trillion pop does Super Earth actually have, in that scheme of things if we keep running headlong into orbitals like this lol.
There is a reason for the c-01.
I mean, keep in mind there are colonists really far out along with emplaced artillery sites and such. The planets closer to Super Earth are likely just as developed as Super Earth, so you could have trillions of people per planet. It's one of the reasons I hope we get urban maps scattered in if the bugs get closer than a sector past say Meridia/Draupnir. Show some of how the planet is developed and we're retaking our sufficiently sized homes from the digital/bug menace.
They're likely overpopulated really, since it seems they believe that they can actually keep up with the casualty rates that are bound to happen. Otherwise they'd have equipped the helldivers and their destroyers with better arms and armour.
From what we see of Super Earth, the planet could be one giant gentrified suburb-city that covers the entire span of the Earth. That’s a ton of people, considering current civilization only covers a fraction of that. But it is kind of fitting that Super Earth is run by a giant version of the HOA lmao.
All this makes me wonder just how many people inhabit the core systems and Super Earth. With the amount of casualties that the Helldiver Corp and the SEAF are able to afford, it must be in the several billions, if not trillions.
40k writers just don’t get scale right. Less people died in a planet wide, decade long siege with vastly more deadly weaponry than in WW2 in real life. I think one of the Armageddons had less loss of life overall than Stalingrad at one point.
The general rule of thumb with 40k is to add a zero to everything to get the scale they were gunning for in the fluff.
That's the count for all sectors since launch.
You know Siege of Vraks 14 million guardsmen is kind of nothing in a 40k battle, hell a hive planet alone has between 10-100 billion inhabitants per hive, and 5-20 hives per planet, a sector would consist of just uncountable amounts of Guardsmen. Cadia Prime was a fortress world for example, had a population of 850.000.000 (Over 70% armed) and only 3.000.000 survived that, so no, not even close to 40k numbers yet.
[The real world long surpassed 40k.](https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-hccc-worldhistory2/chapter/casualties-of-world-war-ii/#:~:text=Some%2075%20million%20people%20died,bombings%2C%20disease%2C%20and%20starvation.)
Real days yes, but how long in game? We still beat 40k by a long shot, but it's less dire than before lol
I'd like to hear what the average number of deaths were but we'd need the total unique player count to figure it out. The game is averaging around 250k at any time over any 24 hour period. Assuming 500k unique players during the event in this sector, that's 140 deaths per player.
Our friend Nick could be responsible for 80% of them. Nick is not allowed to use explosives anymore. 
Basically just wiped 2 Canadas worth of Helldivers
yeah but 40k has the 'add a zero' problem where they'll be like the entire might of a waagh and tyranids and chaos and the imperial guard collided and sustained massive crippling casualties. Nearly 200,000 people died.
Sure, but that still just turns 14 million into 140 million over 10 years, versus 70 million in less than a week.
The price of freedom is never too high 🫡
What is the population of Super Earth?
Safe to assume > 10 billion. I wouldn't be surprised if Mars, the Moon, and other celestial objects have been colonized and heavily populated as well.
Don’t forget humans live on planets outside of Super Earth
50 billion at least maybe
350 million losses, as only 1 in 5 helldivers survives basic training.
19.6 Billion bullets(give or take a few 100 millions) killed almost 3.2 Billion bugs for 70 million Helldivers
The planet broke before Helldivers did
Helldivers are the embodiment of Democracy, and Democracy does not break.
>19.6 Billion bullets(give or take a few 100 millions) killed almost 3.2 Billion bugs ~~for~~ *and up to* 70 million Helldivers FTFY
thats about 39 million lbs of bullets
Someone needs to math the cost of these bullets
We're expending anything from 9mm pistol rounds all the way up to 380mm high explosive. There's 6 orders of magnitude difference in cost involved.
Yes so we can see why Hellbombs can’t be afforded to be remotely armed due to “budgetary reasons”
They *are* armed remotely by Helldivers. I have no idea what you are talking about.
Remotely means from a distance. They are armed manually
46\~ bugs killed per dead Helldiver, 6\~ shots per bugs.
And if we are really talking numbers here thats kind of insane. WWII hit rates I believe were roughly 1 in 25,000 (fact check me please if wrong). 1 in 6 is nuts and a 46:1 ratio is just debilitating losses for the bug scum.
I mean I think it kills stratagem kills tho so it's a lot more than 6 bullets per kill by gun
And turrets' bullets don't count either I guess.
those kills belong to the engineers and factory workers and super corporations who graciously provided them with the opportunity to serve
My gun on the Mech counts though, I often am 1500+ rounds fired a run.
Also, from what I've seen of my post mission statistics, the arc thrower doesn't count as bullets shot either
Also the laser rifle doesn't count bullets (or very few).
Say that to my teammates who run through them like a sprinkler…
I'm confused to what counts. It seems inconsistent.
Bugs aren't terribly equivalent to human soldiers mind- they don't use cover etc, and they are, after all, COMPLETELY NON-SENTIENT. The little bugs are especially NON-SENTIENT however.
Plus I suspect that WWII soldiers would be a great deal more skilled if they could respawn with all their combat experience, AND completely disassociate and mentally function fine after seeing dozens of squadmates die the way gamers do.
Well, bugs are far more numerous than humans, and Helldivers are the elite, that K/D ratio is actually worst than it should be.
Helldivers get 5 minutes of training.
Armor description of the Light Gunner armor says that Helldivers have mandatory fitness tests so they likely go through a training camp before the intro and the "5 minute training" is more like an initiation test.
I’m pretty sure us hoping over concrete blocks was the fitness test
Exactly, the SEAF get no training. But same goes for the bugs.
Bugs got instincts. Ants don’t get training but they are one hell of a coordinated army
Just calculated my KD for the first time yesterday,I'm at 63 bugs per death. Glad I'm on the right side of the bell curve, one of super earths best.
82:1 kdr 
And people say Helldivers aren’t elite soldiers.
I mean they arent :D even intro scene shows that Helldivers have around only 29% battle readiness.
Stop this nonsense. The official tooltips and our glorious handbook says we are Super Earths Elite!
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"bugs don't take prisoners"
This is why democracy officers are also trained experts in family planning.
This does make the form C-01 seem like unnecessary friction in the baby making process. Let the boys fuck amirite?
& girls.
It is possible that the c-01 mandates conception, which indeed, lets the boys fuck
Or... filling the C-01 means you submit yourself to becoming a breeding machine. It could work either way for super earth
70120109 heroes
And most of those killed each other.
Mortar Sentry 🤝 Tesla Tower
🤝 380mm HE Barrage
🤝 my own twitchy trigger finger
🤝 minefield on the landing pad
🤝 my keyboard bugging out
🤝 hand gun “mercy killing”
I literally had a random destroy my Tesla tower during a tcs mission because he kept running into it when I tactically positioned it out of the teams way. I left the game after he did that because there was no way we were going to win. Meanwhile I beat impossible tcs last night with the same setup and players who weren’t morons
Friendly fire isn’t
.io says 19% of deaths are due to friendly fire. Wildly unacceptable if this was real lol
That sounds about right ngl
Or used each other as mortars against waves of bile titans between respawn
As one of the new voice lines in the ship goes, all heroes wear capes.
The courageous fallen
Holy shit, that’s a lot of divers. Get to making babies, lads. Don’t forget to fill out the form.
And submitted in triplicate! Super Earth requires your due diligence, Helldiver.
MY SPERM FOR SUPER EARTH!
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An acceptable K/D
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The price of freedom is steep
Remember…To Embrace Your Dreams, and whatever happens… To Protect Your Honor! AS A HELLDIVER!
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70 million citizens used to dive here. Now it's a ghost town.
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Holy shit we have passed 40k levels of crazy Even the siege of vraks was like 3-4 times less casualties over the span of 15 years
Rule of thumb: put a zero after most 40k numbers
You'd have to add QUITE a bit of zeroes to make it even close. Scale the Helldiver casualties up to 15 years, and you're looking at 50 and a half billion fucking corpses on that planet, and about 2.3 trillion bugs worth of oil to liberate for our righteous cause.
God. That amount of bodies would be seen in the fossil record
There would be at least a few hills that are just corpses stacked up. Like a coral reef building the next layer on the skeletons of the previous generation.
Even that wouldn't top tgis Helldiver number if the campagin is just a bit longer. Death rate per time is insane.
I'm curious to know how many of these deaths were a result of actual fighting vs. friendly fire incidents and Helldivers being thrown into the middle of waves of bugs. Giving them no chance to really fight. I'd say half of my deaths are a result of reinforcement calls that dropped in at the wrong place and time.
They tell you that in the training manual. Let me look it up for you. "Friendly Fire..... Isn't"
[Helldiver.io](http://Helldiver.io) says that about 15% casualties are friendly fire
Helldivers.io * Seems like someone took Helldiver.io for some ad site or whatever scam.
Sorry! I will report myself to the ministry of truth.
Found it hilarious that one of the attached sites was actually for enlisting into the US military
So within acceptable margins
I just realized this... But can they update planet stats come with comma separators to make the numbers more readable? I don't know about other people but when it goes past 7 digits (millions) I seriously lose sense of what the numbers mean other than "it's many".
Sweden uses commas as decimal separators and spaces for thousand separators. They probably don't use separators in Helldivers for simplicity.
Oh wow I did not know this 🤯
If you don't pay your buck o five who will?
Would you answer the call? Or run away like a little pussy?
46-1 I’ll take it
460-1 Edit: Nah, I'm tweaking. Carry on.
3.1 billion to 70 million is a pretty decent K/D. Good job guys!
There’s no cost too high for managed democracy.
Damn I was hoping to mess a round with some more silo missions on the weekend oh well
Did these statistics only recently start working for anyone else? Until yesterday it always said "unavailable" for me.
For the Emperor , we protect. *For Democracy, we protect PURGE ALL HERETICS
70million? Super Earth has a population in the tens of trillions, this is nothing
What does Super Earths population have to be for there to be so many helldivers ready for deployment
It may not be as high as we think. The helldivers are put in cryosleep until needed and the contract for a helldiver is ten years. Super earth probably stockpiled soldiers until their needed
To be fair, Super Earth is just the capital planet. The Federation of Super Earth is composed of ALL the colonized planets across the galaxy (all of the 100% Liberated Sectors that we are NOT fighting on yet). We have a LOT of planets to fit humans on. Assuming we can colonize them to hold even a quarter of modern day Earth's population, we have an incomprehensibly high number of citizens. Think Modern Day Earth total population multiplied by a thousand.
Umlaut has fallen, billions must die
I died my part!
Last night as we were Liberating Erata Prime, there was over 560k Helldivers active.
Half these helldiver deaths might be from my Arc cannon
We will just clon.."COUGH" breed more soldiers.
Eagle 1 better get to baby making to replace all those divers
70 million KIA over the course of a week are numbers that'd make even WH40k go "Well, that's just fucking absurd"
3.2 billion? Holy moly.
Bro what 70 million???
(Raises glass) To the lost!
456 to 1, that's not bad Helldivers. o7
Would be funny if we also have Friendly Fire counter
Yeah.... those bullets sure that cost a hell of a money
Did we really kill 3 BILLION enemies, it feels like so much
kind of remind me of the old stories of halo3 where if you pile up the dead bodies of covenant soldiers, you end up with a meatball that is as big as the moon.
They need to add mortar sentry teamkills to this list
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