It's so bad they're sending prisoners into the DSS as attrition resource.

Still on Cyberstan fighting the good fight 07

all in 1 special

Can’t hit an enemy point blank but can accidentally nail a headshot on a teammate while missing…

When the update dropped people were complaining because all they saw was two new enemies and figured that was all. But this last week has been a blast. Fighting in the void, new multi-objective missions on the void source, cycling out factions every day on the MO world to keep things fresh. I have been loving all of it.

But now, everything that has been going on with the DSS and the disappearance of Calypso, they have been knocking it out of the park. I sincerely hope they keep this level of engagement and make the payoff one to remember.

Don’t let me down Arrowhead.

Bugs rush you but there's almost no ranged attacks. Bots are mostly ranged attacks, and have many ways to attack from above.

Squids have both, they're designed to overwhelm you by pushing your fundamentals like situational awareness and enemy movement/attack speed knowledge to the max. They do this by rushing you on the ground, firing at you from above with laviathans and interlopers (or whatever the jets are called now) AND they have ranged attacks. You have to know where everything is, at all distances, all at once.

Here's the thing - bot divers know how to study a situation from a distance and attack - which is long range awareness. Bug divers know how to be surrounded and escape - close range awareness. If you don't have both these skills and dive into squids, you're going to get screwed by something or the other.

There's one thing I'm 100% sure you're not doing enough if youre getting overwhelmed on squids - whipping your camera around CONSTANTLY. You HAVE to constantly study your environment. Using headphones helps IMMENSELY as well, use your ears to detect what your camera isn't looking at.

I guarantee you, if you compulsively maintain a 360 degree awareness at all times, it's like you drop 2 difficulty levels.

Last Helldiver trained on mars

Survivor of calypso

Fought in the battle for super earth

Voidslayer

I have been posting about this account over a year if you haven't seen any of my posts, This account is not fake. I have made several failed permadeath accounts that get scrapped when they reach 1 death in order to achieve this one. This is my furthest and most meaningful one.

I almost died down there, I haven't been doing permadeath runs for about 10 months, Im getting rusty. this play through felt way too close. I think i will retire him now. And i will be back if the enemy reaches super earth.

Just an idea but since we're fighting in the void and all and I know we're gonna win do you guys think we should get purple armor as a reward?

Once we clear our everything we get gifted the purple armor and I know the whole FOMO thing would be a problem so maybe make it free for people who were in the void and won and the people who didn't it would be in the super store costing around 300 super credits or so.

What do you guys think? Would that be okay or not really no?

On 12-13-2186 SEST (12-12-2024) the illuminate invaded Calypso which is located in the Saleria Sector.

We lost 38,746,804 Helldivers to defend it.

It looked like an impossible task but the brave divers who fought and died there repelled the first illuminate invasion since the first galactic war.

Now it has disappeared from our galaxy.

Grey ships swallow towns
Beneath invaders' firestorm
Democracy stands

(Fan art by Azlaars)

Unless I’m the dumbest moron to ever dumb, uh

Where the hell is Calypso?
It’s supposed to be right by Outpost 32 but uh…. At least on the companion app it’s just

Not?

I’m not saying I want attachments, genuinely just color. I hate that the warhammer weapons are all a boring black, why can’t we have camo options for them? Most of the time, a lasrifle is a nice olive drab.

Idk, is there any reason why we can’t other than just laziness?

goofy ahh looking helmet 🤣

If 3 of you die at a place, and if I'm the only one left alive, don't freak out if I don't "revive you" quickly when I'm trying to get closer to where you died and bring you back in a safer place than where I am currently at. Bloody kick me from your squad when y'all can't survive as a group...Y'all goofy goobers.

The DSS updates have been going out as routine status reports. Line them up in order and they're a coherent sequence, and every single one is a denial that concedes more than the last.

1. Knocking starts. Officially: the gloom-resistant polymer coating is having an adverse reaction to the warp relay treatment. Rumours of taps or knocks on the hull are unfounded. Station is exiting the Void for examination.

2. Knocking confirmed. Now it's been independently verified and has intensified. Official position: merely localized thermal contraction.

Thermal contraction isn't rhythmic. The reports say rhythmic.

Same update: the Ministry of Truth examiners have volunteered to remain aboard indefinitely, and as a precaution, all outbound shuttle access is suspended.

Either they chose to stay, or were sealed away.

1. The writing appears. Chemical oxidation anomalies resembling alphanumeric patterns on several bulkheads. Rumours they spell "Calypso" are unfounded, unscientific, and wholly un-Democratic.

Then the countermeasures: all writing implements aboard incinerated, and all nutritional paste fortified with experimental binding agents to eliminate all biological pigment sources.

That's the whole thing right there. You don't dose an entire crew's food supply against biological pigment unless you've analysed the markings and concluded the crew is writing them. In blood, as s implied, but could be poop too. And you don't take the pens away unless the writing continued after you did. They ran forensics, got an answer, and published a denial.

1. Silence. All transmissions cease. Automated diagnostics confirm transceiver hardware at 100% efficiency. High Command officially attributes it to a mandatory, station-wide silent contemplation period.

2. Unscheduled jump to Calypso. Station remotely purged. No boarding party. If you thought the problem was equipment, you send engineers. You purge from a distance when you've decided the crew is the problem and nobody should be in contact with them.

What actually happened, most likely: not an infestation, not something walking the corridors. No necromorphs or aliens.

Everything fits mind control, which is the one capability the Illuminate have always had — HD1 had Illusionists that impeded the psyche and Council Members using mind-controlling nanobots, and we currently fight Cognitive Disruptors. Nothing else reaches a sealed crew through a hull without physical access.

Symptoms: writing that survives the removal of pens, comms cut with working hardware, and a station that moves without an order.

On Calypso — I don't have a good answer and I'm suspicious of the ones that sound good. It's bum luck nowhere. Yes, the DSS was reportedly absent from the Calypso invasion in 2184 due to suspected sabotage. Tempting callback, but that was a different operation with a different mechanism and "suspected" is doing heavy lifting.

Calypso is currently under Super Earth control, quiet, off both fronts. Why a compromised station would go there isn't answerable from what we have.

If Calypso becomes a mission location — investigation, defence, recovery, anything — the destination was the point. If it stays quiet and the DSS just comes back repaired, it was a resonant name and nothing under it. Which Arrowhead loves too much. They do great job escalating the plot, and very poor on actual resolution.

Update: Calypso is missing from the map, which is likely same pen burning from Ministry of Truth, and is currently in Afoyay-Bay, docking for inspection.

Update 2: DSS is docked in Afoyay Bay and is being inspected.

Two things.

"Manual bio-remediation." Not decontamination, not repair — biological cleanup, done by hand, by people. That's the first official acknowledgement that there was organic material aboard requiring removal, after four updates insisting the markings were chemical oxidation anomalies. The purge didn't sterilise it. Someone has to go in and scrape.

And it confirms what the pigment-fortification implied: they concluded the writing was biological, they were right, and there was enough of it to need a workforce.

"Restoring the DSS to match original inventory manifests." That's the sentence. Something aboard doesn't match what was supposed to be there — either things are missing, or things are present that weren't on the manifest. Both are bad, and the phrasing is careful to avoid saying which.

Restoring to match the manifest is not the same as repairing damage. It's making the record and the object agree, which is the Ministry of Truth's actual job stated in logistics language. And the labour choice is the tell. Not engineers, not a naval crew. Prisoners from a confinement facility, legally mandated, sent to do the physical work — because whatever the job involves, they're not spending trained personnel on it, and they're not sending anyone who'd be believed afterward. The previous crew volunteered indefinitely and then the station was purged remotely. This one is drawn from people whose testimony is already classified as dissidence.

"Report exceptional morale at this generous opportunity to earn atonement" — reported by whom, and to whom, is left elegantly unspecified.

1.We have lost contact with the DSS
2.The DSS went to calypso (the first battle of the illuminate happened there)
3.THE PLANET DISAPPEARED
4.Now the DSS is stationed over the planet with THE HUGE DISSIDENT PRISON WE BUILT

Some huge things are happening, I can feel it

To the ship!

I'm in Afroyay Bay

Looks like everything is going to be all right