Helldivers 2: Melee Finishers [Terminids]

[@epg-6]

Not suggesting they add this kind of thing, just having some fun. Next Helldivers video will probably tackle the bigger bots, factory strider included. If you want to get some sneak peeks at that, I'll be logging my progress for supporters over on Patreon. It is optional, but highly appreciated: www.patreon.com/epg6/membership

[@lukemehalick370]

Why are you not suggesting it? I mean, maybe the bt one is a little too much, but the rest are legit

[@manersbams9215]

Can you try applying for an animator position because this would be dope as fuck.

[@daydr3amer120]

Have him jump inside the strider and fuck it up from inside

[@adamstachura2589]

Cant wait for the illuminate finishers!

[@GGBlaster]

@@lukemehalick370there are a couple issues, not with the finishers themselves, but rather how to best make them work in-game. Making the helldiver invincible through the whole thing is probably exploitable, but no one would want to be ragdolled or killed during an unskippable animation. Perhaps instead you make it so that the finishers only trigger when the given enemy is the last one in the vicinity, but then that can lead to long play time without seeing a single one as players might be fighting back to back or from a distance. The bile titan and factory strider would both be really rare occurrences because squads usually have to divert full attention to the greatest threat in the area.

[@VoiceOfSeibun]

You have no fucking idea how satisfying it is watching Hunters get counter-melee finished.

[@Wyvern_Son_Of_Wyvern]

I couldn't agree more, the little bastards

[@Hadfield15]

Agreed

[@Christian-Syndicate]

I enjoyed watching the Hunter get brain-picked by his own arm. I mean..... I REALLY enjoyed it.

[@WildmanTrading]

The little shit gets shat on.

[@AnonymousVenator]

You can melee hunters when they jump at you.

[@Lazarusgaweseb2438]

Nothing is safe from JOHN HELLDIVERS wrath

[@elixavibuddies2951]

John fallout becomes a helldiver its all over for the termanids and automations

[@Lazarusgaweseb2438]

@@elixavibuddies2951 This is just him training

[@OperativeDusk]

No enemy of democracy ever will be…

[@TrixterTheFemboy]

@@OperativeDusk holy shit it's John Helldiver

[@GusHolland-z1d]

I met a dude called John helldiver in game but I don't know if they were the real one

[@MarkChong]

*(Helldiver kills Bile Titan)* Gimli: "That still only counts as one!"

[@KincaidCalder-vn6bo]

More like Driller, hopefully

[@Re_Ben]

This reference I pure gold 😂

[@don8659]

Your comment is pure gold my friend. Upvoted! Lol

[@don8659]

​@@Re_Benagreed lol

[@ZetsubouGintama]

More like "Where did you learned that, Rico".

[@Zivin]

“YOU ARE THE TINDER, AND LIBERTY IS THE MATCH!” Is such a raw line that I’m surprised wasn’t used in the game

[@kingjules8744]

It's like if the Doomslayer visited the Academy for a month to train the new recruits Glory Kills.

[@matanuigaming2556]

That would be an advantage for every Helldivers.

[@KuperSpyronicStudios]

"WHADDYA MEAN YA DON'T TRAIN EM!?"

[@Wiwer230]

Arrowhead should hire this guy.

[@s14duma]

We need this!

[@periwinkle2486]

"nintendo hire this man"

[@sashablazquez]

sorrry bro he isnt trans or a quirky liberal discord dev girl

[@AurelionSass]

@@sashablazquez 💀

[@revan9253]

Definitely

[@Commander_Appo]

1:29 I love the touch of the chest sack rupturing too

[@VoiceOfSeibun]

THAT STILL ONLY COUNTS AS ONE

[@stonewoodstudios]

These are INCREDIBLE, especially the Bile Titan kill. I'd love to see larger Automaton finishers as well, or Automaton finishers ON Helldivers (all heroic sacrifices in the name of Democracy, of course).

[@VoiceOfSeibun]

Oh yeah, when I saw him squaring off against a Titan, I was all "WHAT?! OH NO WAY"

[@metro-v8]

​@@VoiceOfSeibun You'd love starship troopers

[@Maxxatron]

0:55 that slide to dodge their lunge was smooth as hell!

[@memes_the_dna_of_the_soul5487]

1:09 _"YES! SPLIT IT WIDE OPEN!"_

[@CaptDuty491]

"And it all comes crashing down."

[@Spin818]

Now I need a helldiver catching a bile’s leg with rules of nature playing.

[@ruphite9521]

RULES OF NATURE

[@Marcin-qy6cn]

Rules of nature!!!

[@loltwest9423]

RULES OF NATURE!

[@TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs]

Honestly being able to pull off 1:06 just once per mission would be awesome as heck. Really awesome animation work :D

[@allergic2bulletz875]

Why do you like everything I like

[@puffairfish1629]

you are the guy from warthunder

[@drdickqueso]

Lmao a stratagem for this would be rather interesting 😂

[@Auzzymandias]

I almost thought he was gonna go full Metal Gear Rising on the bile titan

[@espresso_makes_depresso5905]

RULES OF NATURE

[@Auzzymandias]

@@espresso_makes_depresso5905 AND THEY RUN WHEN THE SUN COMES UP

[@aperson1754]

​@@Auzzymandias WITH THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE

[@Auzzymandias]

@@aperson1754 ALIIIIIIIIIIVE!!!!!!

[@Astreious]

@@AuzzymandiasFOR A WHIIIILLLLEEEEEEE!!!

[@tycho7006]

The “liberty is the match” animation goes so hard

[@billjones642]

is that voiceline even in the game?

[@GameStrider-z4u]

Now that has to be General Brasch!

[@WisdomThumbs]

The Warrior kills make me laugh because, if implemented with ragdolls for bugs that fall off cliffs/walls, those kill animations could lead to players falling off cliffs and taking bugs with them. Especially the second Warrior kill, because the Helldiver would end up jumping off cliffs onto the backs of Warriors they just fucking dodged, just to stab them to death while falling and screaming "FOR SUPER EEEEEAAAAAARRRRRRRRTH!!!" btw all of these are fucking slick and badass, though the Warrior could probably still hit us with its small front legs during that first Warrior animation. That's my one critique! Love this. Love it so much! I would actually love if they included a bit of this over time.

[@on_the_inverse_5193]

Even funnier if the bug could fall out of the animation. Like, imagine seeing the warrior charge off a cliff and then a helldiver leaping off after it like "I AINT FINISHED WITH YOU!!!"

[@WisdomThumbs]

@@on_the_inverse_5193 I want it. I want it!

[@Soren93DR]

Helldivers' training should include more advanced melee combat techniques rather than simple weapon thrusts to make them truly elite soldiers. Someone warn the Ministry of Defense.

[@saikaamri5871]

simple weapon thrusts? you see how far you can launch a teammate with those?? you dont understand the power of Liberty /s

[@Soren93DR]

@@saikaamri5871 on the contrary, i perfectly understand, i only said that maybe we Need more preparation. Why have only liberty when you can get MORE LIBERTY?

[@TrixterTheFemboy]

like, y'know, stabbing with knives lol

[@Sanchouzz.]

​@@TrixterTheFemboy TWENTY EIGHT STAB WOUNDS! You don't wanna leave him a chance, huh?! Good work, Helldiver...

[@crampuswincent9404]

Damn the new peak physics armor perk seems pretty OP

[@wanderer2657]

These are all fantastic, the BT one is really cool but something about Push and Twist just feels so right to me.

[@Akar42718]

That neck snap though

[@GoblinRaccoon]

Bro went crocodile… alligator? Whichever ones do the death roll

[@judet2992]

0:34 love how he looks at the arm like “huh what do I do now” 😂

[@RandoGrunt]

1:18 That still only counts as one!

[@kainepeterson6638]

The Bile titan one is great but my favorite is the over under. That's some like action hero "All You Need is Kill" type shit

[@ElliFong]

I love that manga

[@brambo3011]

These remind me so much of Halo's Assassinations mixed with some of Destiny 2's finishers, I love it.

[@thatdumbguy4131]

I can’t wait to see what the illuminates melee finishers are going to look like

[@marneus90]

These remind me of the sync kill animations from the Dawn of War games. Absolutely impractical in anything other than a casual scenario, but goddamn amazing to look at. Even now I still stop and stare when a force commander smacks a bloodthirster's head around with the hammer.

[@bosstwind7010]

*after the bile titan kill* "that still only counts as one!"

[@HindruD]

seeing the Hunter set was EXTREEMLY cathartic. They are the one enemy I hate the most.

[@shoopylol]

dude the last one should be a feature of being able to throw grenades into bigger enemies mouths

[@pierree.27]

1:12 That helldiver with no anti armor watching you go Legolas style on the bile titan : "That still only count as one !"

[@themoltenedge1148]

These give me such massive Turok 2008 vibes, love it

[@ChromiumDome411]

The second Arrowhead adds the “Helldiver Counter” or “Super Parry”, all bugs in the universe are gonna have to start running.

[@RavenNestFriends]

GREAT sound design! Can't believe people don't talk about that part of your work!

[@NepZz]

someone hire this guy for For Honor

[@GordonF1]

I cant believe John helldiver did a kratos-like finisher on one of the terminids

[@withinfinite5104]

The existence of Helldiver finishers implies there are Bug and Bot ones

[@doomslayer1879]

bro really pulled a Fred Flintstone at end that was amazing 👍

[@Misiek1682]

This gives me Dead Space vibes

[@salmonstrike8]

These neeeeeed to be added to the game! It would be amazing to get an extra animation when finishing off an enemy with a melee attack.

[@jackenotion]

love your animation. it's beautiful. Your style of action is the exactly what I want to do. Can you make a lengthy video about your process from scratch to finished animation? if not, maybe give me some pointers to how to create animation like this? Thanks a lot man. your works are really inspiring.

[@dunamisd]

I really feel that having this be a randomized chance of occuring would add a lot to the game

[@aslightlystablefootsoldier9838]

The fact they cut the “YOU ARE THE TINDER, AND LIBERTY IS THE MATCH” line from the game is a undemocractic move

[@tzimiable]

Goddamn, that bile titan takedown almost made me cry.

[@guardianof2fort964]

That last one is what you get when a veteran Titanfall player joins the game

[@thatone2293]

THE VOICELINE WAS SO GOOD WHAT THE HECK

[@cursedhawkins1305]

The animation for the Bile Titan, fucking chef's kiss because that's so Dawn of War 1 vibes with the takedown.

[@cladladd]

You should add a finisher where he makes the bug make a PSN account so it stops playing.

[@acowthatjumpedoverthemoon3038]

theres a scene in star wars episode 3 when a clone ran up to a crab droid, jumped on top of it and shot it a bunch of times till it died, a badass scene which this reminded me of

[@furkan_smith_guven418]

You have no idea how much of a RUSH seeing this in the middle of a game would give.. No this is not the adrenaline rush it's the LIBERTY RUSH.

[@FujioParis]

Being interrupted while doing these would suit the true HellDivers experience 😂 start the animation only to be stunlocked and torn apart

[@raptoroverlord4581]

YOOOO. We need to run this up in the Helldivers Discord. Obviously you'd get obliterated doing these in a group, but being able to do these for lone bugs would be HYPE

[@spinesauce2687]

I feel like the unamed one should be like, "return to sender" or "you dropped this"

[@Stookinator]

GENERAL BRASCH IN HIS DEFINING CAREER MOMENTS

[@nuggetsschumaker4371]

the bile titan one is incredible. They need to hire you and put this in the game.

[@Mike_Rotch2002]

If Helldivers 2 met Doom glory kills and I'm all here for it

[@Sanchouzz.]

Chainsaw/sword kills, for more oil... i mean, more democratic type of extermination?

[@mimicray]

how helldivers imagine their first(only) mission to go

[@CatWithaGun0719]

Didn't expect DOOM glory kills, I love it

[@Astreious]

This is nothing compared to the time General Brasch used a charger as a jumping pad, jumped into a Bile Titans stomach, lit an incendiary grenade, crawled out, and held its mouth shut with his bare hands, burning it alive from the inside.

[@pothead9963]

1:15 Bro slid down its back like Fred Flintston getting off work

[@JerichoYeet]

I imagine a Helldiver who once worked at a Terminid bug farm planet know every weaknesses of every Terminid species. And have the training of General Brasch and the legendary Skull Major Boss to exploit the Terminid weakness even further by the knowledge of CQC.

[@alotofhoopla7624]

For honor mentioned!!!! 🗣️🗣️🗣️WHAT IS A SANE AND HEALTHY MIND🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@ethansears2490]

They gave us melee buffing armour yet still left it to the community to make melee even kind of interesting.

[@AntTonyPony]

This has to be my favorite. 0:43. Amazing work again!

[@Verminator4]

This is how the average Helldiver pictures themself in their head fresh out of basic training (they are going to get blown up by Automaton mortar fire 30 seconds after they make landfall on their first mission)

[@justahotdog8430]

imagine a new backpack thats an exosuit that allows you to do parries and lug around large melee weapons.

[@davidweaver4436]

I love the warrior ones. The slide is so cool.

[@ThatOneCWhite]

how inconvenient these would be pains me because holy hell i LOVE melee finishers.

[@Floorbanana]

1:06 "RULES OF NATURE" ahh finisher also real cool animation

[@MrKeyblader]

The bile titian was master chief af ❤

[@greenhydra10]

The sixth one was certainly... disarming!

[@abrahamalviarez5870]

0:43 absolute fantastic job, all other ones are really nice, but this one, it's 100% ready for sale.

[@darthbatman2852]

That bile titan finisher goes unfathomably hard

[@aidencatalano9688]

Ok I know we’d be getting into the triple A Call of Duty Territory, but I wouldn’t hate these

[@shadowifrit1816]

lore accurate helldivers

[@РоманЖуравлев-п4б]

This is some doom 2016 lvl stuf. Astonishing! RIP AND DEMOCRACY!!!

[@Unbalanced]

Damn. Those are epic! Would love to see this in-game!

[@jayking2617]

It does state that we are super earths finest….

[@jameshrab659]

The warrior kill is sooo sick man

[@TaggartDownare]

Didnt know helldivers were this badass

[@ReviveHF]

Should add an alternate title : "Lore accurate Starship Troopers Mobile Infantry". Because in Paul Verhoeven's movie, Mobile Infantry were cannon fodders in melee combat..

[@jeremy6647]

This would be sick asf ngl it's the main reason why I'm so excited for space marines 2 it's litterly Helldivers 2 with executions and demons instead of robots

[@thomasmann9727]

Push and Twist: Ohhh YEAHHH Snap it into a Slim Jim!

[@brandonmoya3322]

Push & twist was pretty damn cool

[@roboticrebel4092]

the glory kill for scavengers is cool and inconsequential enough that you could get away with the quicker ones

[@Diabetic_troglodyte6152]

Leaked footage of experimental super-helldiver training

[@yuiindiegamingchannel9424]

If they really add this, it's 10 times awesome ❤

[@BlueTunda0000g]

I love every part of this!

[@kubzos]

I wish the game had finishers like these.

[@angryfoxzd5233]

These moves look like something the Doomguy would use.

[@TheKillerham5ter]

I like how there’s no Stalker finisher because if they get into Melee range you’re just screwed anyway lol

[@ZeonicMerc-nt3cv]

Good good! We should teach all helldivers the ancient art of CQC

[@squidy7207]

"Nice moves. Where'd ya learn how to do that, soldier?"

[@delcox8165]

Even in the fast-paced gameplay of Helldivers, this would be welcome, despite how many cases of "killed me while I was stuck in the finisher animation" would arise. Melee was quite viable for anything that got close in the first game, while now it has no use other than venting frustration when all of your weapons need reloads. Potent finishers would bring in a much greater degree of satisfaction.

[@thevibedoctorphd]

Curb stomping the bug is crazy work

[@Benjy1]

This is awesome

[@saipranavpalla1467]

It would be cool if they added these to the high ranking helldivers who are more skilled than regular ones

[@lucabellemoi3851]

Those are some very very nice finishers.

[@MrTypicalPlayer]

Push&twist is sick

[@lemondeestfou4724]

It a good day to die, when you made a finisher !

[@KAPPACHIO]

at least for medium sized enemies, finishers would be an amazing piece of flavor.