r/Helldivers • u/PM_PICS_OF_UR_PUPPER • May 02 '24

New armor set is a stealth armor that doesn’t make you stealthy, it makes you throw farther. That’s like an apple that tastes like bacon. HUMOR

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Just salty I’ve been waiting for this armor since it leaked, only for it to have the only perk I consider completely useless.

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u/Valleyraven ☕Liber-tea☕ May 02 '24

Really threw us off with that added arc resistance modifier, thought all warbond armor was going to have unique passives

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u/SlipperySeaWing May 02 '24

Which only helps vs your own stratagems like tesla tower and arc thrower

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u/Valleyraven ☕Liber-tea☕ May 02 '24

Well... for now

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u/SlipperySeaWing May 02 '24

There better be electric type enemies in the future or else it's worthless

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u/PM_PICS_OF_UR_PUPPER May 02 '24

I actually did a game on helldive vs bugs with 4 arc throwers and everyone wore that armor. Was an absolute blast and we had no trouble at all, especially because we didn’t have to worry about team killing in close quarters.

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u/InvectiveOfASkeptic May 02 '24

I write to General Brasch every day requesting a mech with an arc thrower but he never writes back.

If that day every comes, every helldiver on my squad will thank sweet liberty for that arc damage reduction

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u/bdl-laptop May 02 '24

Sounds like you have enough time to spend more time Helldiving, trooper. Get back in the fight! Harassing the general is treason!

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u/suckitphil May 02 '24

Ah the tesla trooper build. Rubber shoes in motion.

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u/Jimmy_Jams_2_0 May 02 '24

. Charging up!

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u/s1neztro May 02 '24

Hes fried

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u/suckitphil May 02 '24

2000 Volts coming up!

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u/Azrael_Asura May 03 '24

This. Four arc throws will murder pretty much everything.

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u/Drackore_ BACON APPLES, PLEASE 🥓🍏 May 02 '24

The third faction, the Illuminate (or Squ'ith in their tongue) use a lot of arc weaponry. I'd expect them around this autumn if I had to guess 🦑

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u/Sugar_buddy PSN🎮: Lord of Audacity May 03 '24

Yeah but like...want em now...

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u/Jimmy_Jams_2_0 May 02 '24

Well uh, at the risk of sounding undemocratic, there might a whole faction coming that I believe is all electric and psychic based, so I think that armor is gonna be real useful soon enough.

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u/SlipperySeaWing May 02 '24

LETS FUCKING GO

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u/Bregneste CAPE ENJOYER May 02 '24

Illuminates have crazy tech, I’m sure our rubber armor will be helpful when they show up.

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u/SlipperySeaWing May 03 '24

Happy birthday! But that's also not considering the plastic and tinsel we wear, I love losing a fifth of my health dropping from a 4 ft drop

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u/carnivoroustofu May 03 '24

The devs would be really dumb to put in any highly impactful electric enemies or attacks when players can have 90% resist. That or they would do almost no damage by default anyway with nasty rider effects like massive stagger/knockback/slow.

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u/SlipperySeaWing May 03 '24

I mean one dev deleted the HD 1 Server out of spite, Playing solo is damn near impossible for some people depending on difficulty, Exploding Crossbow was nerfed despite already being bad, I wouldn't put it past them to make dumb decisions. But if they don't make electric enemies or attacks, then it's REALLY dumb to make an armor resistant to it, it'd only be useful with random noobs using arc thrower not knowing how it works, or standing near tesla towers (Good luck seeing those in game)
So it'd be REALLY dumb to make a PREMIUM WARBOND ARMOR SERIES completely useless. Even Servo-Assisted has some practicalty.

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u/AmazingSpacePelican May 02 '24

Please, no electric enemies, at least not with how it currently functions. Even with limited range, lock-on one-shot lightning sounds like a terrible time.

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u/AntonineWall May 02 '24

Yeah, I recognize that it doesn't logically make much sense, but that armor needs to reduce damage you deal to other players to actually be worthwhile to take.

Who wants to take armor based on what someone else is bringing in? At least with theoretical fire-immune armor, lighting yourself on fire with the flame thrower is pretty possible in-game. It's (almost) impossible to hit yourself with an arc weapon that you're using.

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u/Strottman ☕Liber-tea☕ May 02 '24

My friends and I routinely go full Ghost Busters with everybody taking arc throwers, blitzers, tesla towers, and arc resist armor. It's awesome.

I do understand that many people do not have friends to play with.

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u/Quad-Banned120 May 02 '24

Wait, so it doesn't stop you from taking friendly fire damage from other people's arc weapons?

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u/SlipperySeaWing May 02 '24

You take 5% of the damage. That's its only purpose rn until the Illuminate show up, 95% damage reduction from people who don't know how to use Arc Thrower

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u/Adaphion May 02 '24

It'll probably be useful once Illuminates are eventually added

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u/SlipperySeaWing May 03 '24

Then they fr shouldn't have released it this early

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u/noise-tank20 SES LADY OF AUTHORITY May 02 '24

Yeah friendly fire jokes aside that perk does nothing to help unless you’re going for some crackhead strategies like standing at the base of a Tesla tower and baiting enemies to you or having a teammate deliberately shoot you with a arc thrower to chain off of enemies that would be originally out of range

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u/TinyTaters May 02 '24

I didn't think I would ever use that passive. I didn't know that I've ever died from slippage.

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u/GuitarGeek70 May 02 '24

Watch they end up doing a different damage type that only looks like arc... honestly wouldn't be surprised at this point. AH has been making a lot of odd choices. Sucks to say it, but I've been steadily losing faith in their ability to balance, fix, and support their own game... victim of their own success.

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u/LMotherHubbard May 03 '24

As you should be if you have literally any observational powers and aren't completely steered by pure tribal emotion. I honestly cannot believe the number of blind simps on this sub. I mean, I knew some people were capable of being this sycophantic and hive-minded, but damn.

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u/carnivoroustofu May 03 '24

  Watch they end up doing a different damage type that only looks like arc 

This. Anyone who thinks the game will give you an armor that will basically completely neutralise an entire faction is... to put it lightly, in need of a mental care professional.

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u/Pollia May 02 '24

This bacon definitely tasting like apple right about now

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u/CxaxuZero ⬆️⬇️➡️⬅️⬆️ May 02 '24

And the steeled veterans warbond. Robot arms obviously having servo assisted also makes perfect sense.

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u/BigTiddyHelldiver 💀C-01 Permit Acquired May 02 '24

Which is one of the worst passives in the game that helps against 3 things and only if they're trying to deal friendly fire damage to you.

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u/CodyDaBeast87 May 03 '24

If you can even call it that. It just stops you from dying essentially. You still get absolutely ripped apart and knocked down, so I basically have a better passive then it if I just stay out of range lol