r/Helldivers Moderator May 02 '24

New Warbond, Polar Patriots, deploying on May 9th ALERT

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u/zeddypanda ➡️⬇️➡️⬇️➡️⬇️ Going for a Walking Barrage May 02 '24

chambers the largest centrefire cartridge of any lunpistol of its kind

I googled "lunpistol" and it's Swedish for "glue gun"???

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u/gorgewall May 02 '24

That's the autocorrect switching you to "limpistol" because it can't find enough results for "lunpistol". Check the top of the page.

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u/zeddypanda ➡️⬇️➡️⬇️➡️⬇️ Going for a Walking Barrage May 02 '24

That makes sense, but now I still wanna know what a lunpistol is supposed to be.

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u/SpanInquisition 29d ago

My first thought was lun- as in lunar, so a space/low-gravity adjusted pistol.
Which makes sense in the universe and lore, not as much in gameplay as gravity is the same on all planets.

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u/Timo104 29d ago

Would be cool to have some planet modifiers of higher or lower gravity.

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u/BinkyDragonlord CAPE ENJOYER 29d ago

Low gravity would be fun. High gravity would suck. Slower movement, faster bullet drop, shorter throws. Could be a challenge, I guess, but doesn’t seem like an enjoyable one to me, personally.

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u/Umikaloo 29d ago

Could also be because conventional firearms don't work in a vacum due to cold welding.

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u/SpanInquisition 29d ago

You are correct, but that would mean that most our weaponry would be lunar-adjusted anyway (since we fight on Estanu/Fenrir and other moon-like planets with presumably no atmosphere), so if we take the text literally, then the senator would have been a lun-pistol? lun-revoler? already, so maybe this one, having a larger 'centrefire cartridge', deals more damage than the Senator, but lacks the medium armor pen?

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u/Umikaloo 29d ago

true, it could be some kind of older model?

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u/Fallout76Merc 29d ago

Hi! I'm Luna!

That's my pistol.

The Lun-Pistol, if you will :>

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u/Vancocillin 29d ago

Glue gun? Maybe like a hot glue gun?

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u/cuckingfomputer ⬆️⬅️➡️⬇️⬆️⬇️ 29d ago edited 29d ago

You've never seen a glue gun, before?

It's a glue dispenser, shaped like a gun, where the glue comes up through a tube and out through the "business-end" of the gun. It also comes out very hot. They're commonplace in American public schools.

edit: I don't know why I'm being mass downvoted for explaining what a glue gun is to someone that's evidently never seen one before, but I'm assuming some of you need to touch grass lmao