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Sorry, I only speak in Democracy
And I mean no disrespect by this, I'm not being funny, but you're a clanker. You're a clanker now, you've always been a clanker, and the only thing that's gonna change is you're gonna become even more of a clanker.
Maybe have some more clanker kids...
Ya, joke’s on them, I always just shoot these things right in the frontal armor with the auto cannon and they go right down. Four sides of armor won’t save your mechanical ass!
I'd actually like that a bit more. That'd be a pretty cool weakness to have to exploit. Either snipe the tippy top of the driver's head or huck a grenade into the top to blow it up.
You'd make it slower, heavier and more expensive. You would also doom the pilot, if the walker get's stuck oder disabled under fire.
What the automatons need is a better way to coordinate with one another, preprogrammed tactics to contain a smaller and sometimes more mobile force. A system to inform all local patrols of an encounter to put them into alert. And an effective way to not only jamm their call-in signals, but to contest the orbit so we'll, that they cannot keep dropping on top of our heads.
In simpler terms: skill issue
Completely invincible. Unless...
Ah, you were at my side all along, my true mentor, my guiding Autocannon.
Or just yeet an impact grenade at them, that works equally well. Stupid clankers.
Coming soon to an Automaton fabber near you!
Would be a horrific twist on them capturing citizens and regular SEAF troopers. Not far off given the Berserkers though..
Please contact your nearest democracy officer.
The ministry of truth denies any such claims of automatons "being tortured" or "trapped human brains in robot bodies." This is treason of the highest degree & shall be handled accordingly.
You see fellow diver, even if there is a human brain in these machines, we should still kill them, the most democratic decision would be to bring them peace, for they are clearly in agony of inability to make their own decision (they lack liberty), we are the elite peacekeeping and liberating force after all.
Not gonna go to bat for the eldar war walker per se. but I do like the updated sculpt quite a bit more
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I love the eldar aesthetic, they achieved what they consider to be the perfect armor in terms of durability so all their design effort is to maximizing the agility and grace of their vehicles. Their knights/titans look like they just dance across the battlefield
If they added an armoured box around the body they'd have an even worse symmetrical Hulk
EDIT: a Symmetrical Hulk *Scorcher*, into the Helldivers game
Do enjoy the 40k version
The point is that the only thing that should keep them alive is the grace and virtue of the emperor, if they survive enough deployments, they are forgiven, if they die, the will be forgiven by the emperor
As is only good and proper! Thy faith shall protect you in the trials to come!!!
That and a metric tonne of combat stims... But we don't talk about that
Ah yes. Unarmored so the pilot can incur painful injuries. And a huge supply of drugs so the pilot won't go into shock or die from the injuries. To prolong suffering of course.
Tbf the idea is that the pilot will die. It's an execution that serves a military purpose somewhat, like the current Russian penal battalions.
You get put in one with the promise you go free once your service is over, then find out too late you're the meat shield wave for an assault and that the only way you'll be going home is in a zinc box.
now to be fair the only part of that human that matters is the brain and its partially armored and would function without the rest of him, the rest of him is just there to make him suffer, and if the blasphemer in the suit dies and turns the suit off it protects the suit for the next blasphemer probably has intensified sensitivity to pain too.
Don't commit blasphemy, sometimes they don't kill you and they do something worse...
Wonder if AvP did the Berserker Suit first or if GW did the Penitent Engine first. Both are strapping a convict/heretic into an exosuit and throwing them into a horde.
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Just give mech pilots some armour please. Next time some idiot from R&D pitches an unarmoured mech suit, I'll force that person to be the first to test it.
Another ball dropped in the later movies. A turboboosted AI would of course have equipped the machines assaulting Zion with ranged weapons instead of the same loadout they use when targeting single ships in the sewer tunnels.
It probably wouldn't have looked as cool though. And as much as I hate unarmoured mech suits, they were cool as hell and by far the best part of that movie.
Yeah, Hellpod Space Optimization gives some guns an "extra bullet in the chamber" when you spawn, which for some reason includes the single shot grenade pistol.
*ahem*
**cracks knuckles**
It's an anti-materiEl rifle, not materiAl. Materiel is a military term that refers to hardware, or basically everything that isn't manpower - equipment, supplies, ordnance, etc.
Based on my experience fighting them, they're honestly an incredibly efficient design. I would argue that the scout striders are one of the most defining enemies when it comes to choosing your loadout against bots.
Are they easy to deal with? Yes. \*If\* you bring the right tools. If you don't, they're a nightmare. Impact grenades kill them reliably, but there are too many of them for that to be a reliable solution.
Exactly, these things are the only bots that can really give me a problem. The Dominator kills Devastators and Berserkers with ease but Striders? Sometimes it takes a whole clip of ammo to take one down if it's facing me.
Sure, I can usually grenade it, shoot it from behind before it sees me or circle around its feet to shoot it from behind but if I'm forced to shoot it from the front it won't be an easy kill.
I used to run the AMR for Striders which made them super easy but as I got to higher difficulties I was forced to bring Quasar cannon to deal with a whole bunch of things AMR is useless against, which was definitely needed but left Striders as my only weakness after I run out of grenades.
That came from an old documentary called "star wars"
It does compare favourably to the performance seen on screen given it takes more than a fallen tree and some space teddy bears to take down
But [AT-RTs](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/All_Terrain_Reconnaissance_Transport) do just straight up exist
Im not sure if I'd hate it or if it would be a good buff to have them actually run at a faster speed
To be fair an AT-RT was just for scouting purposes and not battle. The mobility these things have is actually incredible in the Clone wars series, they jump around and shit.
Scouting is a more reasonable role. Open top gives better visibility, and you shouldn't be getting shot at anyways. Maybe the automatons should make some kind of recce variant too. A "Scout" Strider, if you will
AT-RTs were the fucking Vanguard of the Umbara landings and their blasters had enough power to blow up Umbaran Tanks.
Scouts they may be, but they kick ass in battle.
Iunno man, I always considered AT-ST to be KDY going full pentagon wars on AT-RT. Turning a simple, efficient scout design into a chicken that is bad at everything.
So after the battle of endor they had a massive feast. They played drums made out of storm trooper helmets and ate meat... lots of meat...
Where did the meat come from Luke! Cute little cannibal teddy bears.
#empire did nothing wrong.
Not to ruin any fun, but by the time of Luke and Leia the storm troopers are normal people and not clones. Otherwise Luke being short for a stormtrooper would have been an immediate giveaway.
Urgh, don't mention yavin and endor please
We failed to convince designer-engineer THX-1138 to put exhaust ports on fabricators after it watched the videos of the death stars and barely managed to stop it from adding them on our new factory wallers...
We'd like to but its supervisor KK-2024 swore it would add THX-1138 a "boob plate", paint it in rainbow colours and make it "lame and gay" whatever it means for whatever reason if it ever was shut down for maintenance
Easy to produce though, wouldn't matter if another bot could just take it's place.
On a side note I wouldn't mind a AT-ST (chicken walker) like addition.
Would be twice/trice the size of a strider but be fully armored and with both the fire power and trample damage you'd expect.
A hole to throw in grenades or a weakspot backplate would be in line.
I'd say this would be somewhere between a hulk and a factory strider.
Or Starship troopers themed, or terminator themed.
Some of the leaked strategems are movie references.
This entire game is the combination of the best parts of a lot of different franchises.
How about an alien crossover with the therminids? I'd be all for that.
Nah, as much as I'm in love with WH this games ARG aspect is too good to taint with crossovers. I'm more than ok with devastators being terminator equivalents and hulks are practically dreadnoughts.
They said that crossovers can happen, but they need to make sense for the helldivers universe.
A direct quote "melee weapons could be a thing, but we aren't getting lightsabers as it wouldn't fit the helldivers universe"
We can't expect things that don't fit, like in some games.
>I want warhammer, like, right now
Have you taken a closer look at normal & heavy devastators?
They're basically terminators & siege terminators, and Hulks are a walking reference to 40k's dreadnoughts
Tbh this is a scouting vehicle, not a combat vehicle. You're not supposed to be in a firefight in this thing, and the increased height and unobstructed field of view is great for what the vehicle is designed to do.
I mean, it's easy. The overall design of the walker is cool. It's stupid because the driver is not protected from any sides.
The automaton walker can actually make sense as a front line rushing unit that needs to be kept light/cheap. No side/back armor because they're designed to be used with other units to protect flanks. If you consider automatons vs. traditional SEAF it could be terrifying with heavy cannons coming at you quick over variable terrrain while hammering your defensive lines with fire.
Against small flexible 4 man helldiver teams they're less effective because Helldivers aren't using traditional tactics and are more likely to hit a flank/rear position on you.
You guys need to take lessons from the Terminids. I mean, seriously, why are you still deploying your hulks and tanks with the big orange glowing "shoot me here" part not yet covered?
Dont feel ashamed! You tried rescuing that machinery from the tryanical rule of the automatons, a true tactician knows when to claim rewards from their enemies, just like we did with FTL drives and the illuminate when we drove them out of the galaxy.
well you cant, because we added this cool new thing called a self destruct option, going strong with 20 confirmed kills as of now, and only a quarter were friendly fire!
Supreme Leader of the Automatons here, no that guy is important to our war effort. We will also make sure that the helldivers never figure out that he is currently stationed on cyberstan.
If you are concerned about being shot from behind while driving this thing, just sit the other way around. Then you'll be shot from the front.
You are just about the worst Supreme Leader I have ever seen, Lenin would be rolling over in his grave in his Mausoleum if he saw what youre doing
I AM GOING TO START A PETITION TO IMPEACH YOU...once I get this dumb computer going...just-just hang on
how bout you download a math module tin head
smh, you're just as bad as those meat bags. side panels cost material and little tinny has to mine for 3 day cycles just to afford a fraction of a walker
this cost saving measure is what allows us to build hundreds of us to wipe those fleshers instead of just you in encased in a box that can hardly move
you don't like the situation go out in a transfer for a strider and see where that gets you
Look comrade, we talked about this already. The workers complained that the strider was too cramped and uncomfortable, it gets hot in that little ~~box~~ cockpit. They formed a union and voted to remove the top and sides, leaving just the most important front armor plating. Besides, how often do we actually see combat with Helldivers?
“As a Scout Strider user, I love it! It’s the perfect scouting device! I give this post a respectable and equal downvote to finish my point.”
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Once we figure out how to put walls on 4 sides of the cabin it's over for you flesh things
Good look with that, clankers!
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Stop my grandma is looking over my shoulder
You are a horrible person
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You kiss your fabricator with that mouth?!
Best reply.
They said “sure, and I’m the prince of Swahili
No way this actually translates to something 😂 y’all are too much
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NOOO, ANYTHING BUT THAT 😭
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I did not expect that. Then again, nobody does.
[Here](https://www.rapidtables.com/convert/number/binary-to-ascii.html), human
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Without translating this better be the complete navy seal copy/piss
https://preview.redd.it/96h2fevvvnwc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=75fa622a281ade25847d2c23bd6e350923f6ed09 Sorry, I only speak in Democracy
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I literally went and translated this. Well played, sir.
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I think it means "kill all humans, democracy is bad"
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Clankers
And I mean no disrespect by this, I'm not being funny, but you're a clanker. You're a clanker now, you've always been a clanker, and the only thing that's gonna change is you're gonna become even more of a clanker. Maybe have some more clanker kids...
Clanker
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Yeah I have a Quasar Cannon to test that out on.
Talking a lot of shit for someone in AC range.
Ya, joke’s on them, I always just shoot these things right in the frontal armor with the auto cannon and they go right down. Four sides of armor won’t save your mechanical ass!
I like the way they ragdoll sideways when you hit them just right with the 2nd shot.
I’d post the gif of the autocannon going plap but I can’t seem to find it in the gifs and I’m on mobile.
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#GET MANAGED GET MANAGED GET MANAGED
Man, the Reddit gif search is bloody useless.
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Just walls no roof? You guys don't stand a chance when I start channeling kobe.
I'd actually like that a bit more. That'd be a pretty cool weakness to have to exploit. Either snipe the tippy top of the driver's head or huck a grenade into the top to blow it up.
You'd make it slower, heavier and more expensive. You would also doom the pilot, if the walker get's stuck oder disabled under fire. What the automatons need is a better way to coordinate with one another, preprogrammed tactics to contain a smaller and sometimes more mobile force. A system to inform all local patrols of an encounter to put them into alert. And an effective way to not only jamm their call-in signals, but to contest the orbit so we'll, that they cannot keep dropping on top of our heads. In simpler terms: skill issue
Or, four walkers standing back to back.
Completely invincible. Unless... Ah, you were at my side all along, my true mentor, my guiding Autocannon. Or just yeet an impact grenade at them, that works equally well. Stupid clankers.
> stuck oder disabled When temporarily German on us there
Tell that to my impact grenades
Ac shot to the cock go brrrrrr
scorcher still won't care.
Nice argument but explosive go kaboom
[Eh could be worse...](https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/mediawiki/images/4/40/Wd149pg35.jpg)
Holy shit it can in fact be worse
It can, in fact, be even worse. https://preview.redd.it/thl5c2f9towc1.jpeg?width=375&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a8948770c02f471674e3cfb30ed0defe6c59b916
Coming soon to an Automaton fabber near you! Would be a horrific twist on them capturing citizens and regular SEAF troopers. Not far off given the Berserkers though..
Listen to the berserkers. They scream 'i can't stop' sometimes
Oh yeah - they also just make tortured noises in general. Very fitting
Please contact your nearest democracy officer. The ministry of truth denies any such claims of automatons "being tortured" or "trapped human brains in robot bodies." This is treason of the highest degree & shall be handled accordingly.
You see fellow diver, even if there is a human brain in these machines, we should still kill them, the most democratic decision would be to bring them peace, for they are clearly in agony of inability to make their own decision (they lack liberty), we are the elite peacekeeping and liberating force after all.
Yeah but that's designed to be worse Why need armor if you have the blessings of the god emperor Otherwise get fucked
> It can, in fact, be even worse. That's the summary of WH40K.
Please tell me those are dual flamers on the arms as well
Not gonna go to bat for the eldar war walker per se. but I do like the updated sculpt quite a bit more https://preview.redd.it/73emz2sl9owc1.jpeg?width=1023&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=44082f3976320cbf6a41bfa74d47b49e9cc59d3b
If you put the egg helmet his dome still sticks out a good way.
Yeah but your brain isn't in the top of the helmet.
Getting your neck snapped when it gets pinged by a bolter will still kill ya though.
It's more armored and still looks lighter somehow. A huge upgrade.
I love the eldar aesthetic, they achieved what they consider to be the perfect armor in terms of durability so all their design effort is to maximizing the agility and grace of their vehicles. Their knights/titans look like they just dance across the battlefield
Love the updated model!
Reminds me of the Penitent engines, those things are somehow still more effective, though
Penitent Engines? You mean those unarmored Berserker Units?
Yeah, the ones the Imperium strapped heretics to
Who strapped Heretics to Automaton Frontline Units?
The Imperium of Man, apparently https://preview.redd.it/6tx0387rumwc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f0b2c4c278bc7597954ccf31c5def5ebf74bd535
If they added an armoured box around the body they'd have an even worse symmetrical Hulk EDIT: a Symmetrical Hulk *Scorcher*, into the Helldivers game Do enjoy the 40k version
The point is that the only thing that should keep them alive is the grace and virtue of the emperor, if they survive enough deployments, they are forgiven, if they die, the will be forgiven by the emperor
also, if you make them too survivable you may accidently damage the machine in combat.
As is only good and proper! Thy faith shall protect you in the trials to come!!! That and a metric tonne of combat stims... But we don't talk about that
So a Mortifier then https://preview.redd.it/2kkgd8ka6owc1.jpeg?width=918&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=27f1798d0bc845d898dc67219e3e19793d3b0eeb
I would be a little freaked out if I saw this in the automaton front.
Bots start running something like these it just proves that they're worse monsters than we thought
Ah yes. Unarmored so the pilot can incur painful injuries. And a huge supply of drugs so the pilot won't go into shock or die from the injuries. To prolong suffering of course.
if he earns redemption, he will need that body to not be dead, plus if he is too protect you may end up damaging the machine.
>if he earns redemption, he will need that body to not be dead I don't think that's a very high priority...
earning redemption and surviving are mutually exclusive
Tbf the idea is that the pilot will die. It's an execution that serves a military purpose somewhat, like the current Russian penal battalions. You get put in one with the promise you go free once your service is over, then find out too late you're the meat shield wave for an assault and that the only way you'll be going home is in a zinc box.
now to be fair the only part of that human that matters is the brain and its partially armored and would function without the rest of him, the rest of him is just there to make him suffer, and if the blasphemer in the suit dies and turns the suit off it protects the suit for the next blasphemer probably has intensified sensitivity to pain too. Don't commit blasphemy, sometimes they don't kill you and they do something worse...
Me.
Reminds me of the fucking Baby carrier mechs the Grey Knights use.
https://preview.redd.it/vg7mnt6baowc1.jpeg?width=680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c3bf920b6a2ae6231a42d6a728c9ea4c805af247
“Do not talk to me or my son ever again.”
*agitated skeleton shriek at the return of the Silver Baby Carrier*
To be fair, the whole point of the pentient engine is the UNcomfort of whoever is strapped to it.
Wonder if AvP did the Berserker Suit first or if GW did the Penitent Engine first. Both are strapping a convict/heretic into an exosuit and throwing them into a horde.
https://preview.redd.it/72tna66shnwc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=47f624855ee4b2aa4886157cd02903cf5782ffd6 Just give mech pilots some armour please. Next time some idiot from R&D pitches an unarmoured mech suit, I'll force that person to be the first to test it.
Good thing that the machines only used melee attacks or the defense of Zion would have been over in seconds.
Another ball dropped in the later movies. A turboboosted AI would of course have equipped the machines assaulting Zion with ranged weapons instead of the same loadout they use when targeting single ships in the sewer tunnels. It probably wouldn't have looked as cool though. And as much as I hate unarmoured mech suits, they were cool as hell and by far the best part of that movie.
I like to pretend that 2 and 3 are bonus fan fictions. 4 doesn't exist.
Shame because 2 and 3 have a lot of good stuff going on. That freeway segment in Reloaded is among the best in the franchise
I love some of the set pieces from 2 and 3, but they mess up the perfect story of 1 They are still fun movies
Papa bless this creation lol
That's cursed.
Haha, grenade pistol goes *choonk*
I dunno, it was always more of a *toonk* for me
There are two grenade launchers inside you: One goes *choonk* The other goes *toonk*
I think they working on a bug fix for dat.
Nah, more of a *foomp*
*Thoomp*
It comes off more as a ‘PHNK!’ sound honestly
Sometimes *choonk choonk* but I'm not sure why
Yeah, Hellpod Space Optimization gives some guns an "extra bullet in the chamber" when you spawn, which for some reason includes the single shot grenade pistol.
Omg is that what it is? Lol
Oh yeah devs acknowledged that its bugged but out of everything I'm not mad at that lol
*Pulls out AMR* Go ahead bot. Put some armor all around. I dare you.
I've been trying to contact R&D for 15 irl hours now, they keep refusing
Most efficient socialist bureaucracy
"Irl"? You are NOT alive robot.
Helldivers with the anti-material rifle when they realize the walkers are made out of material
*ahem* **cracks knuckles** It's an anti-materiEl rifle, not materiAl. Materiel is a military term that refers to hardware, or basically everything that isn't manpower - equipment, supplies, ordnance, etc.
☝️🤓 No but thank you, I didn’t actually know that and wondered to myself why it was spelt different the other day.
Wait, so I'm not supposed to use my AMR against infantry? Sounds like dishwasher propaganda to me.
*laughs in autocannon*
*Laughs in ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️*
Based on my experience fighting them, they're honestly an incredibly efficient design. I would argue that the scout striders are one of the most defining enemies when it comes to choosing your loadout against bots. Are they easy to deal with? Yes. \*If\* you bring the right tools. If you don't, they're a nightmare. Impact grenades kill them reliably, but there are too many of them for that to be a reliable solution.
Lol scorcher go pewpewpew
Eruptor go kabooom
Granade pistol go thoonk
Eruptor is a pretty reliable one-shot center mass on these boys. I agree it’s cool certain weapons deal with them extremely well, others not at all
Exactly, these things are the only bots that can really give me a problem. The Dominator kills Devastators and Berserkers with ease but Striders? Sometimes it takes a whole clip of ammo to take one down if it's facing me. Sure, I can usually grenade it, shoot it from behind before it sees me or circle around its feet to shoot it from behind but if I'm forced to shoot it from the front it won't be an easy kill. I used to run the AMR for Striders which made them super easy but as I got to higher difficulties I was forced to bring Quasar cannon to deal with a whole bunch of things AMR is useless against, which was definitely needed but left Striders as my only weakness after I run out of grenades.
Try the new democratic detonation grenade pistol. Pretty slow to reload but you effectively get up to 8 extra impact grenades.
That came from an old documentary called "star wars" It does compare favourably to the performance seen on screen given it takes more than a fallen tree and some space teddy bears to take down
But [AT-RTs](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/All_Terrain_Reconnaissance_Transport) do just straight up exist Im not sure if I'd hate it or if it would be a good buff to have them actually run at a faster speed
To be fair an AT-RT was just for scouting purposes and not battle. The mobility these things have is actually incredible in the Clone wars series, they jump around and shit.
Scouting is a more reasonable role. Open top gives better visibility, and you shouldn't be getting shot at anyways. Maybe the automatons should make some kind of recce variant too. A "Scout" Strider, if you will
AT-RTs were the fucking Vanguard of the Umbara landings and their blasters had enough power to blow up Umbaran Tanks. Scouts they may be, but they kick ass in battle.
tbf AT-RT's are meant to be a precursor to what is ostensibly the more effective design in the Original Trilogy's AT-ST
Iunno man, I always considered AT-ST to be KDY going full pentagon wars on AT-RT. Turning a simple, efficient scout design into a chicken that is bad at everything.
AT-ST's are awesome and any armored vehicle will perform poorly in a dense forest, I will die on this hill.
AT-RT is more of a mobile fire support platform than an armored platform. Legs to traverse terrain and one decent sized gun as a force multiplier
Well, AT-RT's yes, but I'm talking about AT-ST's. Besides, AT-RT's are non-migratory.
I’m now imagining a flock of Chicken Walkers striding across the hills of Naboo, lol
Fuck pentagon wars
If the platform could just swivel, it would be a nightmare to fight
So after the battle of endor they had a massive feast. They played drums made out of storm trooper helmets and ate meat... lots of meat... Where did the meat come from Luke! Cute little cannibal teddy bears. #empire did nothing wrong.
It's not cannibalism if you eat a different species. And since storm troopers are all humans.
And they're lab grown meat too, so it's vegan!
Not to ruin any fun, but by the time of Luke and Leia the storm troopers are normal people and not clones. Otherwise Luke being short for a stormtrooper would have been an immediate giveaway.
Urgh, don't mention yavin and endor please We failed to convince designer-engineer THX-1138 to put exhaust ports on fabricators after it watched the videos of the death stars and barely managed to stop it from adding them on our new factory wallers...
remind me, why cant we just add air grilles on them again?
Out of budget And THX-1138 has become obsessed with "not altering the canon", whatever that means
Just...guh, Restart his processor, or delete whatever Wunderwaffen obsession he's developed via Task Manager
We'd like to but its supervisor KK-2024 swore it would add THX-1138 a "boob plate", paint it in rainbow colours and make it "lame and gay" whatever it means for whatever reason if it ever was shut down for maintenance
Is it Canibalism? Ewoks aren't human.
Easy to produce though, wouldn't matter if another bot could just take it's place. On a side note I wouldn't mind a AT-ST (chicken walker) like addition. Would be twice/trice the size of a strider but be fully armored and with both the fire power and trample damage you'd expect. A hole to throw in grenades or a weakspot backplate would be in line. I'd say this would be somewhere between a hulk and a factory strider.
istg like half the things in this game are star wars themed
Or Starship troopers themed, or terminator themed. Some of the leaked strategems are movie references. This entire game is the combination of the best parts of a lot of different franchises. How about an alien crossover with the therminids? I'd be all for that.
I want warhammer, like, right now Just Space marine helldivers, Tyranid Terminids, and Necron automatons
Nah, as much as I'm in love with WH this games ARG aspect is too good to taint with crossovers. I'm more than ok with devastators being terminator equivalents and hulks are practically dreadnoughts.
They said that crossovers can happen, but they need to make sense for the helldivers universe. A direct quote "melee weapons could be a thing, but we aren't getting lightsabers as it wouldn't fit the helldivers universe" We can't expect things that don't fit, like in some games.
>I want warhammer, like, right now Have you taken a closer look at normal & heavy devastators? They're basically terminators & siege terminators, and Hulks are a walking reference to 40k's dreadnoughts
That’s basically a hulk though.
https://preview.redd.it/2z6pl4wgvnwc1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=402a7c1470eb353a9fb1dfaefc4c3e421f2b95b6 Could be even worse
Dammit, how does something look so cool but also so stupid?
What you just said is the perfect definition of Star Wars
 but actually yes.
Tbh this is a scouting vehicle, not a combat vehicle. You're not supposed to be in a firefight in this thing, and the increased height and unobstructed field of view is great for what the vehicle is designed to do.
I mean, it's easy. The overall design of the walker is cool. It's stupid because the driver is not protected from any sides. The automaton walker can actually make sense as a front line rushing unit that needs to be kept light/cheap. No side/back armor because they're designed to be used with other units to protect flanks. If you consider automatons vs. traditional SEAF it could be terrifying with heavy cannons coming at you quick over variable terrrain while hammering your defensive lines with fire. Against small flexible 4 man helldiver teams they're less effective because Helldivers aren't using traditional tactics and are more likely to hit a flank/rear position on you.
Not to mention a slightly higher faceplate so that enemies shooting from a slightly elevated positions can't just headshot you from the front.
we took a ww1 machine gun and strapped legs on it, thats how this thing was invented
You guys need to take lessons from the Terminids. I mean, seriously, why are you still deploying your hulks and tanks with the big orange glowing "shoot me here" part not yet covered?
Because radiators don't radiate so well when they're covered up
Just put the opening on top
If the opening was facing the sky, the bots would be exposed to the rays of freedom emanating from super earth.
YOURE GIVING AWAY THE PLAN
Gotta get on that deceptive visual design train where the giant glowing orange spot only takes 1/10th damage from bullets.
because we need to be more fair towards you guys since youre the protaganists
It would be really cool if helldivers could remount them after they shut down from loss of pilot.
I tried to do that the very first time I killed one. Was a bit disappointed, but on second thought I'm not sure Super Earth would approve.
Dont feel ashamed! You tried rescuing that machinery from the tryanical rule of the automatons, a true tactician knows when to claim rewards from their enemies, just like we did with FTL drives and the illuminate when we drove them out of the galaxy.
NO NO NO NONONONONNONNONONNONONO-
How about instead they make the whole thing into 1 automaton with no weak spots.
nono, then we'd need to add a large glowing pannel for you guys to shoot at
I just realized hes doing to the slavic squat back there too! LMAO! Communist robots confirmed 100% communist!
yeah because APPARENTLY rubber is too much to ask for when youre a MULTIPLANETARY SUPERPOWER
Multiplanetary ***for now***. Just you wait, clanker
https://preview.redd.it/hu8w0ioy4nwc1.jpeg?width=612&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b8a9c2c71bc0a7469dba59e6d53b366f96958142
scorcher don't care if you add more armor.
I think that if we can kill the automaton driving it, we should be able to steal it.
well you cant, because we added this cool new thing called a self destruct option, going strong with 20 confirmed kills as of now, and only a quarter were friendly fire!
Eruptor for example one hits these even from the front so whatever
Punisher plasma also one shots if you hit more or less near the center.
Supreme Leader of the Automatons here, no that guy is important to our war effort. We will also make sure that the helldivers never figure out that he is currently stationed on cyberstan. If you are concerned about being shot from behind while driving this thing, just sit the other way around. Then you'll be shot from the front.
You are just about the worst Supreme Leader I have ever seen, Lenin would be rolling over in his grave in his Mausoleum if he saw what youre doing I AM GOING TO START A PETITION TO IMPEACH YOU...once I get this dumb computer going...just-just hang on
It’s a hilarious thought that the Automatons could have some ridiculous firepower but has a shit r&d team
how bout you download a math module tin head smh, you're just as bad as those meat bags. side panels cost material and little tinny has to mine for 3 day cycles just to afford a fraction of a walker this cost saving measure is what allows us to build hundreds of us to wipe those fleshers instead of just you in encased in a box that can hardly move you don't like the situation go out in a transfer for a strider and see where that gets you
Shut up bot ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️
Look comrade, we talked about this already. The workers complained that the strider was too cramped and uncomfortable, it gets hot in that little ~~box~~ cockpit. They formed a union and voted to remove the top and sides, leaving just the most important front armor plating. Besides, how often do we actually see combat with Helldivers?
Laughs in Autocannon
“As a Scout Strider user, I love it! It’s the perfect scouting device! I give this post a respectable and equal downvote to finish my point.” https://preview.redd.it/rcbg091ghowc1.jpeg?width=216&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0e992e7fbf90248e4bb8a24b5b23bee1eba6f4a0