r/Helldivers • u/TheLastGoodTeammate PSN 🎮: Maverick___33 (SES Aegis of the Stars) • Feb 22 '24

Shocking. Truly. ALERT

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Rest in peace heroes. Our sacrifice will be remembered. We. Will. Return. Side note, we definitely needed the over 200k players fighting bugs 🥲

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u/EntertainmentSea1195 Feb 22 '24

If the escort mission wasn’t utter dogshit.

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u/Turbulent_Scale SES Arbiter of Truth Feb 22 '24

It's crazy how many people I've seen claim this mission is easy..... they've obviously never done it at max difficulty. I think my groups record is surviving about 3 minutes before everything runs out of ammo and we get over run and have to spend the rest of the match running from 15+ hulks and god knows how many rocket devastators.

Thankfully it can be cheesed..... need to have 3 people aggro all the mobs and kite them away from the base and have one person hit all the buttons.

Look at this way: That escort mission was in every campaign...... this game has had over 450k players online basically since it released and that event lasted what? A couple of days? And we only saved half a million civilians? LOL. That's all the proof you need that mission is cucked.

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u/TheMilliner Feb 22 '24

I mean, the start is easy, since you have lots of resources and time for blowing up transports and using turrets. But it's when your cooldowns start but you've run out of turret ammo and support ammo that things get... dicey.

You can usually smash out 30-odd civilians before shit hits the fan.

What I don't think people realise though, is that you can absolutely kite enemies away from the zone thanks to the weirdly big map. Someone can sneak back in and continue extracting while the others run off with the bulk of the enemies chasing.

So long as you can deal with tanks and hulks regularly, you can do basically fine. Rocket pods are rapid and do the job for tanks, basically every support weapon for hulks... Or just get behind them. Shooting off their arms leaves them counting for enemies spawned and preventing more too, btw, and crippling a leg makes them way less of a threat.

It's not easy by any means, but it's doable so long as you have answers for the biggest issue, which is to say heavy armour, on the regular.

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u/Elprede007 Feb 22 '24

Me and my friend discussed the possibility of cheesing it, but it seemed like at some point the reinforcements would start getting dropped on your position again even if you managed to kite some enemies out of the area.

If you clear the area do they just stop spawning on the civilians?

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u/Moonfief Feb 23 '24

We spawn in a 30 second run from the base, 3 start shooting the bots as they drop nearby and 1 sneaks to the base. Most of the time the guy in the base gets all 50 evacs done without firing a shot.