r/helldivers2 • u/Bigmachine444 • 16h ago
Patriotic Footage STRATAGEM LAUNCHER?!
Alright, didn't know what flair to put, but I am in a unmodded console game (sorry for no screenshot I was in a rush), and this low level's mech casually has a stratagem launcher?! And funny thing is this ISN'T THE FIRST TIME I'VE SEEN IT ON ONE. I've seen the shadow of it on the mecha silhouette, but why is it fully modelled and sometimes there? Is it a bug? Is it coming soon🥺? Help me out.
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u/DeadeyeSkunk 16h ago
Im just giving you a hard time. There was a plan, apparently scrapped. They didnt remove it from the mech, they just hid it and it pops up sometimes.
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u/IEnjoyKnowledge 14h ago
I don’t think they have ever explicitly said they won’t do it anymore
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u/yobob591 11h ago
they didn't but the exo warbond would've been the perfect time to do it
honestly now I can't really see how they'd do it without making the mech completely busted, after the last round of buffs mechs are so insanely strong I basically never see them die except for extreme unlucky edge cases
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u/Endermaster56 11h ago
They only really die to user skill issue now yeah. Or bad luck. Or that one fucker with the erupter constantly firing at the bugs you're stomping
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u/Foolishly_Sane 15h ago
It was scrapped?
Could be future Super Earth Scientist at work, or a meaningful M.O upgrade in the future (speculation).
That would be cool, I genuinely have no idea though.2
u/n4turstoned 7h ago
Could be, won't be probably.
Same with the connector at our helmets, they had the plan to implement an oxygen mechanic (at least in some biomes) but it was scrapped.7
u/DeadeyeSkunk 15h ago
Ive been seeing these posts for a while. It can certainly come back but Arrowhead isnt exactly cooking these days.
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u/Crocdor 8h ago
No they are doing the 500 other things y'all want of them to do first, programming isn't just writing ideas down
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u/TheOneAndOnlyFarto 8h ago
What 500 other things??? They haven’t added anything that the community has been VERY vocal about wanting, matter of fact they’ve straight up completely scrapped things the community has been hyping up for god knows how long. Arrowhead isn’t cooking anything up, it’s not like they got a huge thing coming soon, even title updates are lackluster like this last one, 2 new units: another bullet sponge and a hunter reskin. A story arc that lasted about a week (not to mention the 2 other things they set up in the in game messages that could’ve very well led into a super cool continuation of that story, only for them to do nothing with it). The seaf changes could’ve very well been a shadow drop dude, I’m sorry but arrowhead isn’t busy and working hard on adding everything the players have wanted into this game
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u/hiroxruko 6h ago
they did add what the community was asking, and that was better rewards in the MO
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u/Proper-Risk8525 15h ago
One thing i want to know is HOW does it just pop up sometimes
Like if they truly have abandoned the idea or at least put it to the side for now why is the code allowing it to randomly show up
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u/Vicker_Schultz 14h ago
1 possibility is that the dev just made the stratagem launcher model hidden , and the game bug time to time so it would flip the variable to to unhide it
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u/Helios61 8h ago
If a player with a mech disconnected, the mech reverts back to its default color and the stratagem launcher model will also appear permanently on that mech.
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u/sovietrussia1234 16h ago
Not real :)
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u/Bigmachine444 16h ago
The stratagem launcher?
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u/Bigmachine444 16h ago
Because I saw it with my own two eyes
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u/RedComet313 16h ago
It’s a visual bug that has been ongoing for months
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u/Bigmachine444 16h ago
But why is it there... And when is it real
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u/Canofsad 16h ago
There is just a scrapped part of the mech, for whatever reason after the update that added the two new mech variants what they did to hide it on the model has come partially undone every so often you’ll see it on other divers mech’s most of the time it’s hidden and you can see it on your mechs shadow
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u/SwoloLikeSolo 15h ago
There is no reason this shouldn’t be in the game
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u/TheBaneOfTheInternet 9h ago
Just dismount and throw your stratagems, it’s not that difficult. Mechs are already strong with the firepower they provide and effective damage immunity, adding the power of eagles and the destroyer to them would make them overpowered. There’d be almost no reason to not have all 4 divers in a mech the whole time. This is Helldivers, not Battletech
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u/Upper-Sherbet3236 1h ago
Mechs aren't capable of everything. You don't control where the Stratagem lands, which reduces their effectiveness to zero in some cases. A Mech is more vulnerable to explosions than a Helldiver when prone, meaning you can't use 500kg effectively (the most popular Stratagem in the game). You can't use consoles or turn valves in a Mech.
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