An undemocratic overview of the Helldivers universe

[@thatoneguy5856]

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[@andrewreynolds912]

Yes

[@rtoma76]

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[@Elphazo_O-two]

More like ministry of lies.

[@JCDFlex]

@@Elphazo_O-two Greetings, good sir. We've been informed that you made an undemocratic comment. We would like to invite you for a little chat. Please do not resist your re-democratization.

[@CiaranMaxwell]

@@Elphazo_O-two And now this guy has been removed.

[@NewGuy2534]

"Dudes be like, 'Helldivers is military propaganda', my brother in Christ IT WORKED, TRIPLE THE DEFENSE BUGET" - Max0r 2024

[@karlwikman3874]

RimmyDownunder did that joke first

[@irystocrattakodachithatmooms]

"How am I on fire in water?!"- Bao 2024

[@dubuyajay9964]

"FIRE IN DA WATER...WHY!?"-Korone ​@@irystocrattakodachithatmooms

[@irystocrattakodachithatmooms]

@@dubuyajay9964 Another vtuber that doesn't know how much of an equal opportunity employer napalm is.

[@LRK-GT]

"Now, there's a psyop I can get behind!"

[@SuwinTzi]

"How does it feel dying for Super Earth, Helldiver?" "Euphoric."

[@dubuyajay9964]

What the French call s3x. "Le Petit M0rte"/The Second d3@+#."

[@Pr0digyZRX]

Nah bro... I did 57 stims today. HELLDIVERS NEVER DIE!

[@MicroGiantSESSwordofVictory]

​@@Pr0digyZRX Delicious

[@86rowdy65]

So we fight: The bugs for oil The bots cuz they're terrorists And the 3rd faction when they're released (Illuminate) cuz of W.M.Ds... Lemme check my early 2000s American military actions.... ...dude...

[@andrewreynolds912]

As an american the truth is we are actually the bad guys irl its a real haunting fact that many if not most of my people don't know as a gen z socialist last year when I realized this struck me like a million bricks. It destroyed me as a human being and as an American seeing how much I was lied to! This game is litterly very similar or of course similar to the propag'anda my country and bs it has.

[@CiaranMaxwell]

And this is how you do social commentary.

[@fumarc4501]

Scathing

[@draconon7072]

The training is actually supervised. If you die enough times at the turret section a rather concerned woman comes on the speaker saying something along the lines of "Uh... you know you're supposed to dive and stay prone... right?"

[@BeauZoe]

Before anyone tries to get this to happen... You almost just got played. Don't die for nothing.

[@michaelmclaughlin4889]

@@BeauZoeno it does happen, and there are two variations of what she says

[@lonurad1259]

@@BeauZoe yeah this is a real thing lol. I've heard it from rimmy's video I think

[@LordRazer3]

​@@BeauZoeThere a line for if the injury simulator if it ends up killing you. It's not easy to do because you have to get shot by the turrets in a way that leaves you in the red

[@Spaceman0720]

The airforce and eagle pilots being mostly all women must be an homage to the original Starship Troopers book where Juan "Johnny Rico quoted that women can't join the Mobile Infantry but they serve instead as pilots in the navy because they have more "better motor skills and bodies fit for high G maneuvers" or something like that.

[@admiralgalactica]

B..but Eagle 1 and pelican 1 are married❤😂

[@Spaceman0720]

@@admiralgalactica them eagle pilots got enough talent to get a C-01 permit on the spot. Them navy boys are lucky.

[@albusplaustrum06]

LOL, Eagle Sweat...that is worse than telling a private they can get that 2084 Dodge Hellcat with only 35% APR...

[@BlackThanator]

In the first game, there was a bit of lore suggesting that the Terminids, when first encountered on their home world, were a very intelligent hive mind with no ill intentions towards humanity. But, once Super Earth realised that the bugs decompose into oil, peace was never an option. They abducted the bugs to put them into farms on other worlds, and them being cut off from the hive mind essentially turned them into the feral beasts we know today.

[@Atzeonik]

From what I've read, Super Earth went to war before they found that out, and that they only found out terminids make oil just before wiping them out

[@CiaranMaxwell]

So, individually, they're just insects. It's the hive mind, the gestalt, that's intelligent. Gotta get all them neurons somehow, I guess. Linking brains together works.

[@Drolgh101]

Okay so I'm not anyone special from Arrowhead or anything so this is just my understanding as a lore junkie... The Terminids were absolutely being farmed that's not in question. There's been a hundred years since the first Galactic war and they aren't the same species anymore. We defeated them in the first war and (apparently) *then* we discovered E-710 and kept some alive to experiment on using them as a fuel source. "Terminids" are a genetically altered version of bugs designed to be optimal fuel sources for our farms. For the last 100 years they've been on farms and have been the fuel source that has powered our expansion across the galaxy. The question now remains whether this recent breakout from the farms is in fact a real breakout or whether it has been staged by Super Earth, because they are showing unparalleled growth now and to paraphrase a quote from an NPC in the game "the supercolony on meridia is producing spores at a greater rate than any of our farms could have imagined"

[@kyub3y467]

SC.I, Steve. You two are awesome. But I'm going to have to report you both to my local Democracy Officer.

[@primusstar5995]

4:38 the CO-1 form is only needed for any action that could *”result”* in a child. Implying the back door is still a-ok!👌

[@Slytony_09]

man its always a good way to end my day when i see science insanity post although i would love to a command and conquer video!

[@massaosaito4084]

Wait, if the Terminid-fungus theory is correct, they are Orks, like Warhammer 40k Orks

[@Jaeger62]

So we got a war-waging human empire, space orks, a technology advanced alien civilisation, and a group of humans who heavily augmented their bodies with technology. Starship Trooper meets Wh40k.

[@cropathfinder]

This misses a lot of parts including some that make is so SE is not the "bad guy" 1. Automatons literally have extermination camps and harvest captured humans possibly for brains as these camps are always attached to fabricators(this is in gameplay), its all very "86" if you read those novels or watched the adaptation and there are some things that very much feel like a reference to the "headless" from there. 2. We have seen Automatons prioritize killing unarmed civvies over helldivers regularly in gameplay 3. Illuminate tech was already powered by E710 and we took that tech from them so hmmm who was likely spreading the bugs who are incapable of spaceflight and was likely farming them for E710 before SE 4. Humans ARE openly farming bug ,its in lore that humans are openly farming them but that the bugs were docile previously tho. 5. WE did no take their "homeworld" in the second war so far, we only pushed them back into deeps space before they reemerged . 6. The cyborgs are still alive but imprisoned in cyberstan and they were far from being human with their extensive cybernetics in the previous war, however its implied that they are not physically imprisoned but virtually and without bodies. Some extra bits, - Automatons are fighting a third faction on the planets they occupy, in fact we have seen them straight running from fights with this unknown faction several times (i myself have actually gotten one of these encounters as i listened to this video) -Bugs are not mindless they are regularly seen moving in very tactical terms , hitting and fading, surrounding targets and attacking in unison hinting at a high level of coordination or hive mind/telepathy

[@metnah1]

Not to mention that in helldivers 1, if any faction pushes back to super earth and wins, super earth will be blown up & the SE flees to a new place in space to rebuild from scratch.

[@marsar1775]

I play and like Comstar in battletech. Of course i like playing helldivers

[@draconon7072]

Nerd

[@marsar1775]

@@draconon7072 says you cheese curd

[@Logajam.]

​@@draconon7072 May the peace of Blake find you. No. Really. Stop hiding. The collateral damage is adding up.

[@marsar1775]

@@Logajam. not to worry fellow acolyte. i have located his coordinates on terra!

[@Easttowest45]

​@@draconon7072 Somebody didn't pay their phone bill.

[@starfuryms582]

The Automatons may be related to the Cyborgs, but they are *not* the Cyborgs themselves. The Cyborgs were still confined to Cyberstan, being "Democratized" (re-educated)when the Automatons showed up at the edge of known space.

[@vaeleadraconis6943]

"Hello, im Steve" is all i need!

[@catgath9718]

Rig the algorithm! For Managed Democracy! 'Offers hug to increase co-operation '

[@TheRyderShotgunn]

bro you shouldve talked about the descriptions to the ship upgrades you can get in HD2. a max upgraded eagle-1 has both her legs cut off, has the plane's safety systems removed, and the cockpit is filled with breathable liquid. the ship's cannons were muzzle-loaded before you put in the breach loading upgrade. im pretty sure one of the upgrades mentions you upgrading from trial software to a subscription service.

[@LethinGabbins]

The lack of lore has made it fun. We are the history of helldivers. (And some of us are back around for a second tour)

[@TerranArt]

Something something iraq war Something something patriot act comes to mind

[@25xxfrostxx]

You don't drink the Eagle Sweat. You rub some on your upper lip and spritz the inside of your helmet for maximum permeation of the sinus cavities.

[@cp1cupcake]

"I love sci fi in all its forms and want to bring it to you" -Some guy who is more interested in the Starship Troopers film than the book...

[@sordolaxder3.420]

the funniest thing about helldivers to me is that the soldiers get stored in cryo tubes like bullets.

[@MM22966]

That is actually yet another parody, this time of the Colonial Marines from Aliens. Also possibly a line from the Clint Eastwood movie Heartbreak Ridge "They should store you away between conflicts, Highway; 'Break Glass in Case of War'!!!"

[@M0rtunodos]

I was on board until you said the base assault rifle sucks. That gun actually fucks.

[@nottonyhawk123]

You've heard of gamer girl bath water, now get ready for Eagle Sweat!

[@zeehero7280]

Someone send this guy to the FREEDOM CAMP!

[@mathewkelly9968]

9:41 there's a Klathandu IV in BattleTech stolen no doubt from the book not movie

[@Beliyal1125]

So the funnier part about helldi erst, your character isn't a continuous entity. Every time you die, they just thaw out another Helldiver and send thm in.. their is t any respawn. So basically your playing a meat sack who's purpose is to deploy HIGHLY ADVANCED MUEDERMACHINES to a battle field.

[@swj719]

See, I was gonna give it a like, until I was reminded that "Eagle Sweat" existed.

[@irystocrattakodachithatmooms]

Yeah, think I'd rather eat some Eagle Toes.

[@clydemarshall8095]

Yes Democracy Officer, this man right here!

[@blacklazard2081]

FPS is FPS... maybe one should tell Steve that Helldivers is not a First Person Shooter XD

[@Pr0digyZRX]

Actually teleporting bugs makes sense tbh... as many times as ill be running a helldive mission and they just appear behind me or around me and i get absolutely slammed by a mob of bugs that teleported in around me 😂😂😂 I have also been killed by the Illuminate. I mean idk fr but theyre the only ones that use blue laser weapons that could possibly be out here randomly sniping helldivers in the head. Even on bug planets... where ya know they dont use guns... or have hands 😂

[@TheMichaellathrop]

The hilarious implication of the spoor theory is that human space fairers are unintentionally spreading them everywhere they go do to insufficient decontamination procedures.

[@Writer-Two]

Thank you for the LORE! Now I can die on the frontline fulfill-AHHHHHHHHHH

[@Irobert1115HD]

apparently you can scrap the angry part because apparently the first contact with the therminids was quite calm on the side of them bugs. the blender part is true thou.

[@TheOntos]

Is Helldivers just a democracy version of 40k?

[@AAX11111]

Very yes. Honestly you could easily start screaming "FOR THE EMPEROR!!!" and get the exact same vibes. You would only get shot by the Commis.... DEMOCRACY OFFICERS for insulting DEMOCRACY!

[@kieranadamson3224]

Honestly? Yeah. Super Earth feels a lot like a less overtly grim Imperium. Including how they are definitely a nasty society to live in but they aren't the only group being mean. All the different factions see each other as the villains or just don't care for their own reasons.

[@WhitzWolf92]

​@@kieranadamson3224 Yeah, it's tone is tongue-in-cheek instead of grimdark, but similar vibe (from my perspective as an outside observer).

[@Dany94256]

​@@kieranadamson3224their unholy fusion would be the Managed Autocracy of Svper Terra

[@robkemp598]

I hate that in the Helldivers online community it's VERY hard to tell if people get that they playing the villians and this isn't an endorsement of these atrobutes. Or if they fully agree with Superearth not understanding its satire because media literacy is for nerds. Then there's the fact they all just re-use Warhammer 40k memes that haven't been funny for over a decade.

[@jondoe4624]

They are living the dream

[@akknight3872]

Yeah this one right here democracy officer

[@damonx99]

I’d like a sequel to this with an update to the Eagle sweat situation.

[@lindenbyrne7725]

Man you sound happier now that you ain’t stuck on WoW

[@scienceinsanity6927]

I very much am

[@Baloolax]

A juniper Actias stream schedule in the outro? I see the bug agenda has infiltrated super earth.

[@randomusernameCallin]

Helldivers is in many ways a dialed down EDF.

[@gmradio2436]

My luck in this game is horrible. I play and if I experience less than 2 game affecting bugs a minute, my team cheers for a good run. Glitches range from spawning underground, enemies walking/shooting through walls, or grenades bouncing off invisible terrain. My best guess is that my graphic card is out of date and overloaded. That might explain the client side issues at least. Nav meshes overlaying with terrain and not updating properly. At this point I am not sure why my version is a glitch simulator, but it is. Half the time the crew is just trying to figure out how my game broke.

[@Easttowest45]

I mean, we're not GREAT guys, I'll give you that. But those bugs and 'bots sure as hell aren't the good guys.

[@derekburge5294]

Steve gets it! The xeno must die.

[@librarian5657]

You will be visited by a democarcy officer in the near future to help you with your anti super earth sentiments.

[@thejoey468983]

I'm reporting you to the ministry of truth for wrongthink, you traitor, also I simp for eagle 1 and buy eagle sweat by the pallet. BY THE PALLET

[@thomassierp5583]

Success good sir. I am possibly more confused about helldivers than before I watched this video.

[@LordRazer3]

Also the training tutorial is more of a final test and not the actual training. The whole thing is set up as a gag because you are expendable and it's clearly a joke but helldiver's do actually have real training. The biggest clue is the fact there's almost no weapon that any given helldiver can't use and for anyone that's ever fired a full auto shotgun for the first time knows just how difficult it really is. Plus elite or not your fighting a numbers game where your out numbered 10+ to 1 and no amount of training will make the difference if you get shoot from a tank 300 meters away

[@soccerandtrack10]

30:37 video game anaylisis type thing video?

[@AndresJr-y3y]

This just makes the bugs more revolting then what they already are 🔼⏩⏬⏬⏬

[@anto9571]

E-Girl 1, brings the support

[@jaredragland4707]

Even--perhaps especially--if you accidentally stuck the drop beacon to your shield.

[@chriswoodend2036]

This sounds like sympathizer talk.

[@sharkenjoyer]

booo get a new joke boooo

[@chriswoodend2036]

@@sharkenjoyer No

[@AlexHunter2525]

Not a fan of Helldivers but there's quite a bit wrong here. To be a Helldiver you have to be prior service and 18 years old, this works because you can canonically join the military at 7 years old. Also every Diver gets a destroyer, every single one. It's fucking insane. Plus their armor is able to protect them in extreme cold, heat, against acid, in vacuum and against small arms with a shield. So it's not terrible armor. They also go through years of training, however during HD2 you do set up an emergency training base to train people in like a few weeks versus years. The limited gear initially is not cannon either. That's just gameplay each Diver gets access to all gear and all strategems as well as their own destroyer from the start. Also the Bugs, at least in old lore are intelligent and were entirely peaceful with no desire to fight. We basically made them feral with the farming.

[@lonurad1259]

I never made the connection to eagle sweat until now. Oh my god.

[@Yacovo]

Thanks for the video.

[@soccerandtrack10]

7:36 it sounds like judge dredd/the names too.

[@TheMorbose]

Actually the termanids were sentient but now I dont know, they have been breed for death, makes it even darker.

[@alexs5814]

thanks for the funy! pretty sure i'll never play the game but the loredive is enjoyable.

[@forrestlin9590]

So Terminids are like Orks in that they are both mushroom💀

[@AlexSterling]

I mean... there is a recent(-ish) Starship Troopers game out.

[@soccerandtrack10]

11:43 they didn't even attack them?...

[@davidblack9071]

I am just here to report this to my democracy officer.

[@mercedeswalt6621]

That was hilarious! I’m reporting you.

[@kwyoushyt6356]

34:27 Dawg, I was fxcking my ass while watching you guys in the background :skull: But nevertheless hilarious video❤

[@dominikprobst515]

It´s better to dive for Democracy than to life for yourself !

[@soccerandtrack10]

19:32 😁😄i just noticed,some1 else noticed that freedom and liberty are dogwistles for crime,slavery,and sadism, and just called the fascist country that,(it looks like a satire for the names{i dont know yet.},but its just making the munipulation EXTREMELY OVBIOS!!).

[@Kaiju-Driver]

Nice.

[@Tsunamiatunzen1]

Poor Steve, he doesn't know the democratic power of... Eagle Sweat With patented nano-fragrance technology that that literally puts odor molecules to the rack until they give up their secrets.

[@ChuJungyin]

For the KZbin algorithm. I mean For Democracy! 🌍🗳

[@Warren_Peace]

I find it ironic that historically speaking, the least democratic form of Democracy is the Democracy practiced in Athens.... In short, the original form of Democracy is also the least Democratic one.

[@ironboy3245]

Clear dissident propaganda ⬆➡⬇⬇⬇

[@Vaulthunt3r2710]

Yes democracy

[@MicroGiantSESSwordofVictory]

It's treason, then....

[@kerbaman5125]

14:10 mushrooms are the best pizza topping, disliking and unsubbing rn 🤬🤬

[@soccerandtrack10]

29:53 real guns=like extremists terrorists training?

[@GiRR007]

Nuh uh

[@josebarron5684]

Report to your democracy officer for re-education

[@chrischase2508]

malevelon creek, where the trees speak binary.

[@boxfoxscoot1614]

shame about the sony issue good its fixed

[@Sh1tbagActual]

IMO, the Terminids are bugs with a parasitic fungus they've evolved alongside and are codependent with. Two separate lifeforms, but neither is nearly as dangerous without the other.

[@lloydgush]

Nah. Imagine siding with genocidal bugs and cyborgs...

[@alf421701]

So it's starship troopers pretending to be Warhammer 40k

[@xendakakorva3267]

Helldivers 2 is just Humanity but their fucking BORED and don't have anything else to DO, Super earth yeets us helldivers at stuff to keep us OCCUPIED and not get bored, even if it kills us! XD

[@Spaceman0720]

I would not be surprised if thats the actual reason for the galactic war

[@mongul305]

please hold as your local democracy officer will arrive shortly

[@aetherial87]

"Super Earth is the worst thing ever" How undemocratic of you.

[@TheOriginalDuckley]

[Redacted]

[@mathewkelly9968]

3:50 so Super Earth is Australia then with the compulsory voting , deffo not the US where voting is made as hard as possible

[@courtadbobtail600]

"FPS is FPS"... It's not an FPS...

[@Romuls753]

1:45 I am going to be disappointed if Sci does the "Media Literacy" bit

[@warhiever1803]

So if I get a house, healthcare, food and, not worry about crime. Is it really a bad thing?

[@TheIronHip]

I'm calling the democracy officer on you

[@julianmolder8162]

First and i Love this game

[@soccerandtrack10]

😂😂😂😂😂😂trump propaganda before the video.augest 28,2024.

[@justiron2999]

Okay and?

[@03dashk64]

Not talking about the biggest enemy to HD2? Snoy and Arrowhead are trying their best to murder the golden goose

[@surryan]

How very 2024 of you?!?.... Wrong or right is even less subjective in HD2 than your bs...

[@heboric6136]

This person is 💯 a democracy officer. 🫡 For liberty & democracy!

[@sharkenjoyer]

Jeez don't shit yourself

[@Verdis_deMosays]

FOR DEMOCRACY AND SUPER EARTH!