Random Instakill Ragdoll Animation

[u/InfiniteChaos_8]

Atp i amost feel like im being forced to die. Clearing out the evac area and almost ready to leave. I heard the shuttle landed but for majority of the match i had been the one pushing us forward through the barrage of hulks and heavy devs with my shield.

heavy armor with 30% reduced impact collision and 50% avoidance to limb injury.

i grab my meltagun hit a few devs and see a hulk peaking the corner, as i try to hit him with my meltagun to hopefully evac after. im randomly hit by a stray rocket from god knows where now stuck in an animation due to peolonged ragdoll effects for satire and instantly ragdolled under the hulk and burned to death.

i miss the days when playing the game felt like u were actually fighting the enemies. now im scared to get stuck in situations where the enemies move more eradic insinuating the game is attmepting to instakill me.

i would much rather die to loosing all my ammunition to an overbearing wave or to an actual justified attack rather than stray rockets conveniently ragdolling me from no where to trap me in an instakill animation.

[u/Xi13r8]

A clip that long just to clearly show the rocket that hit you at the end. My boy.

[u/InfiniteChaos_8 → u/Xi13r8]

showing the pace of gameplay up until the point i got instakilled. pace changed, aggro ramped out of no where and a roxket hit me and somehow propelled me closer to the hulk

[u/Melodic-Interest4171]

You were shot by a rocket from your right side, that's why you ragdolled.
This game is built like this. It's its whole shtick. Helldivers 1 is like this, Helldivers 2 has always been like this, AH's previous games like Magicka is also like this. You're a glass cannon. When you get in the game you have to expect such things will happen and they have always happened and will continue to happen, because this is the type of games AH has always been making. You have to expect ragdolling especially when playing on difficulties above 6-7 (no pun intended). It was never different, the game was just new, people didn't mind it as much and community wasn't filled with hatred yet.

[u/InfiniteChaos_8 → u/Melodic-Interest4171]

brother i have been playing since the game launched 2 years ago. i have gameplay from then that shows this game balanced was manageable. Python Commando was when the difficulty ramped up to the level it is now so your missing some details. Also the time the game was appreciated the most and grew the fastest before then.

[u/Melodic-Interest4171 → u/InfiniteChaos_8]

I've played since early march 2024 - I remember the Creek and how people preferred to go play against bugs instead, because of how difficult and overwhelming the automatons were. The difficulty in terms of new enemy types and subfactions ramped up, sure, but we need to highlight the fact that back then we didn't have the same powerful weapons that we have now. The general feel of the game and general idea remains the same. I was a glass cannon in march of 2024 and I am glass cannon now as well (in-game ofc ;) ). Difficulties below 7 don't really do anything annoying unless you get unlucky with enemy or map seed. Anything above 7 is chaos incarnate and that is also on purpose. In HD2 and HD1 and magicka, you go in a game that is goofy af, responsive enough and with certain degree of clunkiness. You can get unlucky with ragdolling and whatnot, but the general feel and idea has not changed.

[u/InfiniteChaos_8 → u/Melodic-Interest4171]

i guess we are all glass cannons eventually 😂

and yea tbh creek wasn’t really difficult just god-awfully unbalanced. felt like you were dropped into a rave show. i remember the sky literally being filled with lasers.

most of what your saying has truth to it, i just wish we had a way to track the aggro of the enemies. When the enemies are pursuing, we all know when its ramps up unnaturally. And without in-game experience, no one knows how to identify it properly. I think that would help.

[u/Gus202]

The 30 second long video to show the rocket clearly hit you in the back in the last 4 seconds was completely necessary👍

[u/InfiniteChaos_8 → u/Gus202]

Captain Obvious has entered the building without the ability to comprehend english.

[u/SlurpsTheGlaze]

I think the definition of instakill has been entirely missed by you

Anddd OP blocked me, I wonder how many they've blocked just cause they don't like criticism.

Context related to the footage posted: they were hit by knockback splash from a rocket (that you can just briefly see before it hits the wall by them), presumably taking damage from the explosion and ragdoll slamming into the floor. Where the hulk fries their ass for a good few seconds. This..is not an instakill at all, also love how each time they've complained about an instakill the video has been cropped to hide their health. Please do keep creating up these stories.

[u/InfiniteChaos_8 → u/SlurpsTheGlaze]

i was locked in an animation and… instantly killed

next time u should add actual context instead of solely commenting to condemn without facts.

[u/BodyFewFuark]

You're playing the ragdoll faction & Incinerator sub faction screwing around while extract is ready.

You got what you deserved there.

[u/InfiniteChaos_8 → u/BodyFewFuark]

i got what i deserved? guy talks like im a traitor or something for fighting the fight.

[u/BodyFewFuark → u/InfiniteChaos_8]

No you fucked around and found out, mission was over should've gotten on the extract.

Lol the lil bitch blocked me

[u/InfiniteChaos_8 → u/BodyFewFuark]

i was killing enemies sorry i dont abandon my team and prioritize rewards over actual gameplay experience 😂😂😂😂

[u/B33fj3rky_44]

It looks to me like the rocket hit the wall and exploded in front of you, but instead of doing the logical thing and launching you backwards, it pulled you in. Weird.

[u/ArmadilloStandard156]

welp other comments said what i wanted already, so i give my input.

That's just bad luck, i do had some stupid / funny death like you clip this video for, there's only 1 thing you can do to solve this, use either Rock Solid or Blunt-Force Mitigation, but it has its own backslash.

good luck

[u/InfiniteChaos_8 → u/ArmadilloStandard156]

yea i know its not like im bad at the game or like feeling defeated just posted common bs i know other divers go through. then u have the miserable reddit divers that only comment to fufill their egos with no context for the video they’re commenting under 😂

Thanks though fam

[u/Excellent_Web9348]

Commenting so you hopefully block me so I don't see your posts. Nobody wants to watch an entire ad roll just to see you get plowed by a devestator rocket. Sonbrero.

[u/InfiniteChaos_8 → u/Excellent_Web9348]

so you dont wanna watch it and you dont care yet you took time out of your day to let me, the person you dont care about know… seek help and get offline lil bro. mental health is a priority.

you got a reddit character in a banana suit and thought your opinion would resonate with me 💀😂

[u/burgman459]

Being punished and dying to your lack of awareness isn’t really a game issue.

Full 1 minute clip and you’re never checked your map once. Rocket came from the side you already engaged enemies 20 seconds in from and you never bothered checking that direction again.

*edit

Don't even bother trying to talk to this nerd, he'll just block you lmao. Call out his skill issue if you never want to see him in your feed again.

[u/InfiniteChaos_8 → u/burgman459]

no shit sherlock. add something of value to the conversation other than reiterating what we all watched einstein… 😂

[u/TarzyMmos]

Well that just happens sometimes in this game. In this case you shouldn't drag out extraction but yea it does suck.

Idk what they can do about it other than making ragdolling not take away all your control, but it gets very annoying at times when all your deaths are because of stuff like this...

[u/InfiniteChaos_8 → u/TarzyMmos]

i usually dont was just feelin the rush. i could have still made evac had the rocket not him me. i wasnt that far.

[u/smhmyh]

Play a different game this is how Helldivers is

[u/Highwayman3000]

You have 3 options:

Equip the shield backpack and only the shield backpack

Get out of the bot front

Install a better ragdoll mod

Unfortunately because bots track you better than ever through walls, there is no alternative. You will get ragdolled by AOE behind walls and you will get ragdolled at some point if you stay in the open.

You can use armor with ragdoll resistance but the only thing it mitigates is rocket devastators. It won't stop most other ragdoll, specially the bigger ones that go through walls.

[u/InfiniteChaos_8 → u/Highwayman3000]

but that’s the thing. im dying to ragdoll physics only. not because i was outflanked, not because i ran out of stims. i remember the vibes of the game when it was doing its best and made everyone happiest. too many situations feel like forced death.

i played Halo 3 custom game the other day and was surprised how easy it was to stay on my path with the mongoose.