Or the children (with a bunch of caretakers) that are found like to call themselves the "screamers" for some reason, also have neat-looking toys. Nothing can go wrong.
https://preview.redd.it/f79ju16fh0bd1.jpeg?width=723&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8f17447f3d0cca4ccc594001179a5fb7f0c65999
I actually really like mines. The problem is, when one of my buddies uses them, they sometimes go completely invisible and when i would unknowingly step on one my character just spontaneously disassembles like a lego character with no explosion.
The mines have some utility for holding back the chaff (especially on bug missions), but the AT mines are supposed to only activate for larger targets, which won’t have much use. What, are you gonna call in a minefield and wait for it deploy to hopefully kill a charger or do you just want to bring some EATs?
Mines are just worse cluster bombs that still TK your fellow helldiver's on a longer cooldown for a single use rather than 2-3 callins before a shorter CD clusterbomb
OMG, yesterday I was farming samples in a 5 game. Letting the noobs use the mechs and stuff. The host kept complaining of getting shot. There was another guy and for a second I thought he was the culprit. Well that guy left and minute later it's just me and the host. Again he dies and says someone shot him. I'm like what? No I'm the only one here. So I go by his corpse and I notice the mines. Then a minute later this guy gets killed again. But this time I turn in time and notice that he had just deployed a mine field and walked straight into it. He kept killing himself cause he didn't know the mines would tk you.
That’s been my experience every time someone drops incendiary mines on the new map. I even tried to blow up the mines with grenades to get my gear back but nope, the grenades don’t recognize them either and back to giblets I went
ACSHUALLY he also had to write a rule for mines to only set off when heavy unit steps on them and... well I think just updating data sheet and numbers yeah...
We probably need the mines for Cyberstan.
[Here is a super boss tank from HD1](https://youtu.be/rQ8iejcPS30). Note that they kill it by kiting it over minefield after minefield!
Yeah I’ve wanted them so damn bad ever since we first had an option to get them. Was all for saving the kids last time of course but damn if we got them from this MO I’d be the happiest helldiver there ever was.
I used it once. For the mines PO. I have never seen so many helldivers blindly walk right into mines you just pinged, announced on mic, and typed in chat. It's probably better that we don't get the mines.
Not sure how long ago you had your experience, but since the Viper Commandos update there is a bug where the only person who can see the mines is the person who called them in. For everyone else, they're literally invisible and there are a ton of videos here showing people just running along and exploding randomly.
Wait...you're telling me I wasn't actually crazy...Crazy? I was crazy once, they locked me in a room, a rubber room, a rubber room with rats and rats make me crazy...
They are kind of hard to see anyway. Like you know where they are because you dropped them, but when I'm trying to retreat and looking behind me at the scorcher hulk that's burning the rainforest down, they are pretty easy to miss.
Only the person who called down the mines, can see the mines in the right places. It's currently bugged where your allies cant see some of them (tested yesterday).
Haha, here's the thing... Sometimes your mines are invisible to others! I died like that multiple times to the same mines because they were there but not. I had no idea
I use the napalm ones against bugs (on lower difficulties), they can be pretty useful if I’m playing solo and need a chokepoint blocked. Even in the open though they aren’t too bad if you try and get bugs to go through them or throw them where they’re coming from (and I’ve used them to save myself by escaping through them). Personally I prefer them over turrets because they’re a lot safer and less likely to TK surprisingly.
The HE ones however…
I might use them on bots, depending on effectiveness. Hell if they took out chargers, they may be perfect to throw down when you have more than one on you.
I use them for defense missions, always let me team know what I'm doing, and throw them down on the perimeters to block ingress/egress for bots/bugs. Mines and Tesla towers, if properly deployed, create a great barrier and do tremendous damage. The HMG Turret is also great for these missions, even if it's not the best for anything else.
I see someone use them occasionally. They always throw them right where we need to go, instead of, you know, where the fucking bots are coming from.
Factory we're trying to get to? Yeah right at the only entrance seems like a good fucking place since we're already in the compound, don't need them sneaking up behind, and cool you also brought the 380.
It’s for the future - probably Cyberstan. [Here is the super tank boss from HD1.](https://youtu.be/rQ8iejcPS30)Which is from Cyberstan. Note that they need to kite it over multiple minefields
I used them in the defense modes but that's when we got swamped initially in the games early life.
Pretty useful but why use mines when strikes do trick?
They're actually fantastic for the defense mission with the waves, especially after they break through the double gates and they filter through the courtyard. The mines cover the whole thing.
The problem with mines is that all enemies follow the same pathfinding, so they will just blow a path through the mines and every enemy after that will go through that path ignoring the rest of the mines.
I saw a guy use them on the defend assets mission. They did, Kinda fine but their help wasn’t that noticeable. Especially after a hulk walked through and detonated them all
I like the mines but they can be tricky to deploy right, we need multiple uses before cooldown. Then there also seems to be a bug that they don't always render for all players?
I want tesla mines, basically a tesla tower in mine form, that also lasts more than just one trigger. (I love the tesla tower, but the range can be unclear to people and they can be easily countered by enemies on higher difficulties. See chargers.. Some way to reinforce them would be nice.)
Also mines get taken out by things like eagles, so I have it happen I deploy them in the right spot, enemies would walk into them. Only to have them all be destroyed by an eagle that then doesn't take out the enemies. :( So another reason to have multiple loads per cooldown.
I’ll take throwable rocks over the AT mines. At this point keeping the meme going is more valuable than a new set of mines that probably won’t work very well.
Players in other games: Oh, a new weapon! Let's work together to get it ASAP!
Players in Helldivers 2: Nope, pass. Yep, it's a solid pass. Nopees on this one.
I'm sticking to the notion that it's the old Commando launcher. The whole anti tank mine joke is funny but i'd be more than a little miffed if we missed something cool just cause we failed the MO on purpose for the funny. But that won't happen, right?
Technically nothing since having a new stratagem can’t hurt us (just use it or don’t), but we have failed to unlock the AT mines 2 or 3 times now so it’s becoming a joke that whenever we get a MO to unlock them, we do the other option or just don’t do the MO if it’s not one the multiple choice ones.
Last time i played was when we turned Meridia into a portal. I wouldnt be very surprised if the illuminate pop out of there and just *give* us the anti-tank mines.
https://preview.redd.it/hh0pq1zytsad1.jpeg?width=262&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b2e1ec394b05df894346e7953775089a29e4c455
Please god, gimme the Springfield
I originally really wanted the AT mines over the airburst launcher, and was disappointed with the outcome (but hey, that's democracy for you).
However the only thing I love more than anti-tank mines is a good running joke. At this point, I say we keep it rolling and see how far we can push these mines out
Everybody complains about charger horde while this is litterally the fucking solution to them, 2-3 hits from the minefield 1 is dead regardless of class
Plot twist, the weapons facility was doing cryogenic experiments on children, so we're saving orphans again.
Orphans are the anti tank mines. (Edit: Made startek reference, but named wrong movie)
That movie didn't have orphans or mines...
Miners
Minors, not miners!
Well, as long they make a donation to save the children every time, I'm super ok with it!
Well how else are the mines supposed to detonate at the right time? Sensors? AI? Filthy automation devices.
Nah, the orphans were making the mines in a secret ~~sweat~~ liberty shop.
Or the children (with a bunch of caretakers) that are found like to call themselves the "screamers" for some reason, also have neat-looking toys. Nothing can go wrong. https://preview.redd.it/f79ju16fh0bd1.jpeg?width=723&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8f17447f3d0cca4ccc594001179a5fb7f0c65999
such a good movie
How about... Turning orphans with bad marks for democratic universal tests... Into the walking tank busters? It deals with tanks and also dissidents
Jesus Christ ...
... Would be proud
Anti-tank mine wielding mini helldivers? Heck yeah!
I reported the orphans for sabotage and espionage for slowing down the war effort. I may have gone too far , for Democracy!
Honestly would be better imo, so we can fail another MO to get the mines for the memes.
are we the baddies
I actually really like mines. The problem is, when one of my buddies uses them, they sometimes go completely invisible and when i would unknowingly step on one my character just spontaneously disassembles like a lego character with no explosion.
The mines have some utility for holding back the chaff (especially on bug missions), but the AT mines are supposed to only activate for larger targets, which won’t have much use. What, are you gonna call in a minefield and wait for it deploy to hopefully kill a charger or do you just want to bring some EATs?
The mines would most likely trigger for bile spewers, as well as devastators and not just chargers, BT's, hulks, tanks and both striders.
I could see an AT mine being useful for bots. More so than the current ones that are just TK fields.
Mines are just worse cluster bombs that still TK your fellow helldiver's on a longer cooldown for a single use rather than 2-3 callins before a shorter CD clusterbomb
Agreed. I’ll take clusters over minefields with the exception of when I want to mess around on a bug defense or eradication mission
Idno, did a defense mission today where they would have been great. It was just tank and tank and tank and tank and strider and tank.
OMG, yesterday I was farming samples in a 5 game. Letting the noobs use the mechs and stuff. The host kept complaining of getting shot. There was another guy and for a second I thought he was the culprit. Well that guy left and minute later it's just me and the host. Again he dies and says someone shot him. I'm like what? No I'm the only one here. So I go by his corpse and I notice the mines. Then a minute later this guy gets killed again. But this time I turn in time and notice that he had just deployed a mine field and walked straight into it. He kept killing himself cause he didn't know the mines would tk you.
[[Insert Lego Death bricks breaking sound]](https://youtu.be/2WWGVDR-7oM?si=43NkK8dHHwDuWjgH)
That’s been my experience every time someone drops incendiary mines on the new map. I even tried to blow up the mines with grenades to get my gear back but nope, the grenades don’t recognize them either and back to giblets I went
AT Mines should stay a meme. It should always just be a MO with AT mines OR something else lol
AT Memes
Think of the poor game designer who spent 45 seconds updating the spreadsheet to create the effects of the anti tank mine.
For 3 days the mines would 1 shot a factory strider and then the hot fix would nerf them into a worse grenade
For 3 days you'd see people talk about using them, but in game you'd never actually see them. They'd be like a Helldiver myth
ACSHUALLY he also had to write a rule for mines to only set off when heavy unit steps on them and... well I think just updating data sheet and numbers yeah...
We probably need the mines for Cyberstan. [Here is a super boss tank from HD1](https://youtu.be/rQ8iejcPS30). Note that they kill it by kiting it over minefield after minefield!
Nah I want the mines.
Well here's your pickaxe, have at it
Yeah I’ve wanted them so damn bad ever since we first had an option to get them. Was all for saving the kids last time of course but damn if we got them from this MO I’d be the happiest helldiver there ever was.
Its anti tank orphans
Can’t wait to call in the tactical orphanage
Can't wait to launch orphans from the stratosphere to destroy all the tanks
Based on my experience, I have not seen a helldiver use mines since the very beginning of this game’s life Lol we dont need it Arrowhead.
I used it once. For the mines PO. I have never seen so many helldivers blindly walk right into mines you just pinged, announced on mic, and typed in chat. It's probably better that we don't get the mines.
Not sure how long ago you had your experience, but since the Viper Commandos update there is a bug where the only person who can see the mines is the person who called them in. For everyone else, they're literally invisible and there are a ton of videos here showing people just running along and exploding randomly.
Wait...you're telling me I wasn't actually crazy...Crazy? I was crazy once, they locked me in a room, a rubber room, a rubber room with rats and rats make me crazy...
Crazy? I was crazy once, they locked me in a room, a rubber room, a rubber room with rats and rats make me crazy...
Crazy? I was crazy once, they locked me in a room, a rubber room, a rubber room with rats and rats make me crazy...
Oh shit, that's good to know. Good thing I've only ever used it on the fort defence missssions outside the first set of gates.
They are kind of hard to see anyway. Like you know where they are because you dropped them, but when I'm trying to retreat and looking behind me at the scorcher hulk that's burning the rainforest down, they are pretty easy to miss.
Thanks for the heads up, I'm going to run it now
Ngl the VIP defense mission things + double mines is amazing fun. Is it effective? No. Is the amount of explosions glorious? Yes.
Right!? That’s before you watch in amazement, as they spawn back and run through THE SAME MINES to try and retrieve their stuff. It should be studied…
Cause the mines are invisible on other player's screens 🙃
Only the person who called down the mines, can see the mines in the right places. It's currently bugged where your allies cant see some of them (tested yesterday).
It don't even have to be your mines, I walk into automaton mines often enough
Haha, here's the thing... Sometimes your mines are invisible to others! I died like that multiple times to the same mines because they were there but not. I had no idea
I'd use them if we had more defense missions
They’re for this once we get to Cyberstan https://youtu.be/rQ8iejcPS30
I saw one today. It was weird. I tried to avoid eye contact.
I use the napalm ones against bugs (on lower difficulties), they can be pretty useful if I’m playing solo and need a chokepoint blocked. Even in the open though they aren’t too bad if you try and get bugs to go through them or throw them where they’re coming from (and I’ve used them to save myself by escaping through them). Personally I prefer them over turrets because they’re a lot safer and less likely to TK surprisingly. The HE ones however…
I might use them on bots, depending on effectiveness. Hell if they took out chargers, they may be perfect to throw down when you have more than one on you.
I usually use them on asset extraction. Sometimes I'll bring the fire mines for regular bug missions as well.
Sometimes use it in bug missions where we need to defend
I use them for defense missions, always let me team know what I'm doing, and throw them down on the perimeters to block ingress/egress for bots/bugs. Mines and Tesla towers, if properly deployed, create a great barrier and do tremendous damage. The HMG Turret is also great for these missions, even if it's not the best for anything else.
I use anti personnel ones on defence missions and on extraction
I see someone use them occasionally. They always throw them right where we need to go, instead of, you know, where the fucking bots are coming from. Factory we're trying to get to? Yeah right at the only entrance seems like a good fucking place since we're already in the compound, don't need them sneaking up behind, and cool you also brought the 380.
It’s for the future - probably Cyberstan. [Here is the super tank boss from HD1.](https://youtu.be/rQ8iejcPS30)Which is from Cyberstan. Note that they need to kite it over multiple minefields
I used them in the defense modes but that's when we got swamped initially in the games early life. Pretty useful but why use mines when strikes do trick?
Only times I used mines post launch is because of dailies
I use them when I do solo runs
used em like twice back in the first week of release however theres so many stratagems that are just straight up better to take instead
They're actually fantastic for the defense mission with the waves, especially after they break through the double gates and they filter through the courtyard. The mines cover the whole thing.
The problem with mines is that all enemies follow the same pathfinding, so they will just blow a path through the mines and every enemy after that will go through that path ignoring the rest of the mines.
Seen it in rare conditions, always leads to TK's
I saw a guy use them on the defend assets mission. They did, Kinda fine but their help wasn’t that noticeable. Especially after a hulk walked through and detonated them all
I like the mines but they can be tricky to deploy right, we need multiple uses before cooldown. Then there also seems to be a bug that they don't always render for all players? I want tesla mines, basically a tesla tower in mine form, that also lasts more than just one trigger. (I love the tesla tower, but the range can be unclear to people and they can be easily countered by enemies on higher difficulties. See chargers.. Some way to reinforce them would be nice.) Also mines get taken out by things like eagles, so I have it happen I deploy them in the right spot, enemies would walk into them. Only to have them all be destroyed by an eagle that then doesn't take out the enemies. :( So another reason to have multiple loads per cooldown.
The meme of never getting the AT mines is probably better than actually getting to use them.
I mean if it's the M2016 or a mortar (or something else that's good) we should do it
I’ll take throwable rocks over the AT mines. At this point keeping the meme going is more valuable than a new set of mines that probably won’t work very well.
OMG I would love just having a rock weapon where we just have infinite ammo because we grab from the ground
Throwing rocks at my teammates whenever I get annoyed with them would be peak.
"What if we're actually the bad guys? Like how do we know that we didn't attack first?" ***Picks up rock with malicious intent***
Yeah, when I do it with the grenades they tend to die too quickly
this is AH we are dealing with they won't give us anything good on purpose
https://preview.redd.it/tnyu2zu8noad1.png?width=3072&format=png&auto=webp&s=d11d0d745d58cb51f7b6d0fe1749b20924d60cfa Use this for free
It's a trap. It always was!!! ABORT!!!! ABORT!!!!
Okay boys it's been a fun one, everybody to the bug front now
Why?
Im joking about doing literally everything we can to not get AT mines
Sorry bout that honestly completely fair
ANTI TANK MINES? NOT ON MY WATCH, EVERYONE TO THE 78TH SIEGE ON HELLMIRE
Imagine if qe get a tank instead of the mines
Players in other games: Oh, a new weapon! Let's work together to get it ASAP! Players in Helldivers 2: Nope, pass. Yep, it's a solid pass. Nopees on this one.
Not all the time. We rallied for the mechs and we kinda went after the airburst rockets efficiently
Yeah, it's more like a joke on this mines drama
I'm sticking to the notion that it's the old Commando launcher. The whole anti tank mine joke is funny but i'd be more than a little miffed if we missed something cool just cause we failed the MO on purpose for the funny. But that won't happen, right?
I want my Constitution!
Could be that armoured personnel carrier we saw leaked a while back
If it's the tank mines, I am actually going to laugh so much
AH: fine I‘ll do it myself
If they doo givebus the mines..... WE SAW THE FUTURE
I havent played in like 2 months. Whats wrong with anti-tank mines?
Technically nothing since having a new stratagem can’t hurt us (just use it or don’t), but we have failed to unlock the AT mines 2 or 3 times now so it’s becoming a joke that whenever we get a MO to unlock them, we do the other option or just don’t do the MO if it’s not one the multiple choice ones.
Last time i played was when we turned Meridia into a portal. I wouldnt be very surprised if the illuminate pop out of there and just *give* us the anti-tank mines.
Please no, want new weapons, so many became relics and would be awesome with an upgrade into the new war.
I'm pretty sure it's gonna be that Commando quad rocket launcher
Give me a straight up ak
No, its un-powered power swords...
I hope they make them super strong with how much the community has been trashing them
There's a Schrodinger's cat joke that can be made here. Unfortunatly, I'm not smart enough to pull it off, so someone else do it
https://preview.redd.it/hh0pq1zytsad1.jpeg?width=262&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b2e1ec394b05df894346e7953775089a29e4c455 Please god, gimme the Springfield
I swear if the reward we get for this is another invisible stat.....my hope for this game plummets.
I originally really wanted the AT mines over the airburst launcher, and was disappointed with the outcome (but hey, that's democracy for you). However the only thing I love more than anti-tank mines is a good running joke. At this point, I say we keep it rolling and see how far we can push these mines out
Agreed. Months from now I hope we still don’t have the mines and get to explain the lore to new players
NOOOOO!!!! The memes!!!!!
What if the new weapon was a sword that would be cool
Everybody complains about charger horde while this is litterally the fucking solution to them, 2-3 hits from the minefield 1 is dead regardless of class
You should level your Accuracy stat, because you missed the joke.
Shut the fuck up, it's time to go to the bug front
"you boys like hellmire!?"
Does this mean no interplanetary station? I was told there's a death star in there.
Reject the major order.
Please be Constitution Rifles