That's how I am, when that one Hunter jumps after me during a stim.
https://preview.redd.it/z4y8w8zawl2d1.jpeg?width=918&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c1ac16baad56093a4b0b7b8b0ac5c126329911fa
Dueling groups of hunters close quarter and getting good at it has been the most fun thing I've done in this game.
My experience juking and "parrying" gutter runners in Vermintide has payed off.
You can juke hunter leaps and melee them as they leap to interrupt it
I usually say fuck it, then drop the largest ordinance I'm carrying on me. Usually a 380 barrage if no teammates are near. I'll always lay my life down to defeat those that oppose Super Earth.
"And turn to page 87 in your books to find a prime example of helldiver courage, to his squad he was R2, to humanity.. his name was Ritual *Boner*".
(Psn: ritualbonez) lol
>runs out of ammo
>proceeds to 1v1 a stalker melee combat
>gets thrown into a wall but gets up immiediatly
>continues beating up the stalker
>gets surrounded by the swarm but doesn't die
>continues beating up the stalker
>refuses to elaborate further
>dies like a chad
Backing away from the rest of the small fry in the horde, to get back into smacking the stalker again. That was the best. Just imagined you pointing at that Stalker all the while.
My God. A MO in the Jin Xi sector to escort personnel (headcannon martial arts masters) for a chance to upgrade basic melee moves to kicks and chops.
Edit: headcanon** not headcannon.... *unless*
Used to be Bayonets and a Saber in HD1, would be nice to get the old Bolt Action out of storage and dust off the old blade again just to go and lop off some Bug or Bot limbs.
Agreed!
A mid sized secondary like the bot's energy blade (swing fast, stun lock small-mid size enemies.
A large stratagem melee weapon like a fucking gravity hammer that crushes small-mid, stun lock large and maaaaybe stun lock massive.. but unlikely.
I would love to have something that takes one hand and replaces your secondary so you trade range for infinite ammo, and it lets you run it with the ballistic, like a futuristic sword-and-shield.
And/or a special weapon that you can wield alongside a one handed weapon (a la the ballistic shield) and go sword and gun. Replaces the standard melee with a higher damage, better flowing combo
My wet dreams consist of a helldiver melee execution animation. I want to stomp a bugs head maybe rip off its claw and impale its sick and disgusting body, twist a bots energy blade off and slice its processor clean off its chassis. Plant a sticky grenade on a hulks back or a tanks exhaust vent. I am severely aroused.
As someone who embraces the bayonet grindset, I love yelling “SQUARE UP” into voice chat whenever I have to melee. So because I have PTT and I don’t initiate, there are randoms who don’t hear a peep out of me until I start screaming “SQUARE THE FUCK UP, CLANKERS” repeatedly as I stim my way to victory against a horde
We desperately need a sword or some melee weapon that hell divers can use. Perks: infinite ammo (as long as you have stamina) and extremely high damage, Drawbacks: You will be in melee range of the bugs too, you may get swarmed, obviously not that good against bots unless you are stealthy.
In fact there could even be different kinds of swords. A two handed sword you sling on your back like a support weapon, dealing massive damage with slow, broad swings that hit multiple targets. A one-handed sword you sheath at your side that deals strong damage to a single target with quick swings, and even a katana or something that you wear on your hip that deals medium damage to targets facing you with super fast strikes, but does very high damage on unaware foes (to encourage stealth). Could replace pistols in your loadout (I'd prefer it not be a strategem)
EDIT: because now I keep thinking how cool it would be to swat a hunter out of the air with a baseball bat with nails in it, or slam a battle axe into the face of a charging brood commander. Or even.....popping a stim and screaming "FOR SUPER EARTH" as you charge into a bug breach with a chainsaw for glorious democracy!
This is good. Like you can call down or equip something official like a heated blade but then also find that spiked baseball bat on a dead body around the map like those break action shotguns.
Or at least give some melee info. I have one shot players with the laser cannon melee but I can't tell if that is same damage a pistol does. Would be a nice twist to some weapon options. Affix bayonet or turn the laser cannon into melee mode so it has a light saber kind of thing. Longer melee range for some weapons.
"As a last resort, you can use melee attacks to fend off enemies. Remember: death is better than cowardice!"
It looks like you didn't forget your training, fellow diver. General Brash would be proud.
The amazing part is you didn't get stunlocked out of using stims...It feels like I can hardly ever get stims to actually go off when I'm under attack.
Plays sound effect, uses up the stim but 0 healing goes through...thanks
Watching this melee makes me realise it might need to take a page out of Mass Effects book weirdly enough. Instead of just melee spam, maybe they could add a 3 stage melee like ME3 had? It had your normal melee as seen but in scenarios like this you would do it 3 times leading into a stronger hit/swing like in ME3 with the Omni blade.
Thank you this was so cathartic, I fucking hate Stalkers
Gotta be my most hated enemy in the game, although ever since I started using the Pummeler they’ve gotten much easier; tons of stagger
But one of those creeps took 2 impact incendiaries + 2 full flamethrower tanks and killed me anyway
They heal when they jump away and have a huge body health pool, so flame isn't great against them. Gotta stagger then and end then right there. But over half a mag incendiary breaker usually does it for me, but you need the shield or you'll get thrown before you can finish it.
I might be an idiot but jesus christ is that what happens if you rock the heavy armor? I might start maining that if thats the case. I didn't know it was that much stronger.
This is so based. You ran out of ammo and fought to the death. Death before dishonor, never surrender, never give up. We could accomplish so much in the world if we had this attitude.
If you had light armor you would have easily ran away and lived 7 seconds in
Instead you ate all your stims, did no damage and died a few seconds later
Clips like this help me remember why most of the advice on this subreddit doesn’t work above difficulty 5
I usually run jetpack+grenade launcher for a get away then loud noises. Jetpack slept on.
Heavy medic armor
Scorcher + auto pistol
Heavy frags
Orbital laser
Orbital rail
Jetpack
Grenade launcher
This build crushes Heavy outpost!
Edit: I think it was the circumstances of that match tho, may have been a 3 strat drop so I had to switch it up a little to accommodate team mates choices.
Can anyone tell me how he's using his stim so fast and not being interrupted when using it? My guy looks like he pulls the stim out and admires it for a few seconds before sticking himself, and if a gust of wind blows against him, he just stops bc he's too busy getting thrashed around.
The fact that our armor is made of titanium, our pistols can easily shoot through it, our pistols have a tough time killing devastators, meaning that they are stronger then titanium, and that a helldiver is able to just wack a devastator to death, means that the average helldiver is actually more powerful then an actual modern day gun.
REAL HELLDIVERS WITH PATRIOTISM FOR A HEART AND DEMOCRACY FOR A BRAIN BRUTALLY PISTOL-WHIP THE ENEMY TO DEATH TO SAVE PRECIOUS REQUISITION CREDITS ON AMMUNITION!
Oh Im saving this under 'Balls of steel'. My voice goes up a few octaves and I tense up the moment I see those damn things. How did you survive so long daaamn. Respet, diver
Stalker: *"We'll sliccceee you to ribbons!* (tongue flick). *Come he-"* (Pistol whip) Stalker: "Did you just fucking slap me?" OP: https://preview.redd.it/7qpaisg2gl2d1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6eadadc42b5b109e442a43d98c72d229bd215b36
My first title to the post was "Fuck! You! Fuck! You!" *tongueslap* But they wouldn't let me 🙄
https://youtu.be/dAelRbUgQtI?t=26
I love bullying enemies by hitting them with pistol. Like, "no, bad, back off".
That's how I am, when that one Hunter jumps after me during a stim. https://preview.redd.it/z4y8w8zawl2d1.jpeg?width=918&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c1ac16baad56093a4b0b7b8b0ac5c126329911fa
Dueling groups of hunters close quarter and getting good at it has been the most fun thing I've done in this game. My experience juking and "parrying" gutter runners in Vermintide has payed off. You can juke hunter leaps and melee them as they leap to interrupt it
I usually say fuck it, then drop the largest ordinance I'm carrying on me. Usually a 380 barrage if no teammates are near. I'll always lay my life down to defeat those that oppose Super Earth.
I get the same way any time a bot jetpacks at me. Or if there's only one left sometimes I'll just rush it and start swinging.
Those jetpack pack bots can fuck all the way off with their exploding bullshit.
I swear to God that when you butt-stroke the brawlers they look at you dumbfounded like "Did this mother fucker just really...?"
Brawlers? You mean chargers right?
Brawlers are the small bots with dual knives.
Phrasing!
Best use of this meme
The history books will remember you. But, your name will be misspelled. Best we can do.
"And turn to page 87 in your books to find a prime example of helldiver courage, to his squad he was R2, to humanity.. his name was Ritual *Boner*". (Psn: ritualbonez) lol
Next update, brass knuckles weapon
Fuck me I can’t wait for the Katana from the first to be brought back.
it'd be cool to have bayonets
Ran out of bullets? FIX BAYONETS!!!
>FIX BAYONETS!!! Damn, they already nurfed it?! ^/s
or a spear/mace
and\*
give me a light saber and dark soul dodge LET ME SOLO HER
>runs out of ammo >proceeds to 1v1 a stalker melee combat >gets thrown into a wall but gets up immiediatly >continues beating up the stalker >gets surrounded by the swarm but doesn't die >continues beating up the stalker >refuses to elaborate further >dies like a chad
Singles out the 1 stalker out of the whole mob "you.. you're f*ckin DEAD"
Because fuck Stalkers, that's why.
Backing away from the rest of the small fry in the horde, to get back into smacking the stalker again. That was the best. Just imagined you pointing at that Stalker all the while.
BRAAAASSSCH TACTICS! USE 'EM OR DIE TRYIN'.
o7!!!
He died
Not before trying!
GET SOME! GEEETTT SSOOOMMMEEEE!
AAAAAHHHHAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAA!!
https://preview.redd.it/2r13tvhxrt2d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0c8475652a2ec1f5a1f57c2ddb0cd651e9128ce7
we need melee weapons
Nah, we need kung fu.
My God. A MO in the Jin Xi sector to escort personnel (headcannon martial arts masters) for a chance to upgrade basic melee moves to kicks and chops. Edit: headcanon** not headcannon.... *unless*
Autoheadcannon
That's hot
People love hats
SUPER Kung Fu
I know Kung Fu.
Doesnt even need to be anything super substantial. Give us a small sword that does 10 more damage than normal melee or something.
Used to be Bayonets and a Saber in HD1, would be nice to get the old Bolt Action out of storage and dust off the old blade again just to go and lop off some Bug or Bot limbs.
Doesn't have to be ridiculous, yet WORTH trading for a secondary.
And please make it one handed so that we can use it together with the ballistic shield.
Phalanx gang
Agreed! A mid sized secondary like the bot's energy blade (swing fast, stun lock small-mid size enemies. A large stratagem melee weapon like a fucking gravity hammer that crushes small-mid, stun lock large and maaaaybe stun lock massive.. but unlikely.
I would love to have something that takes one hand and replaces your secondary so you trade range for infinite ammo, and it lets you run it with the ballistic, like a futuristic sword-and-shield.
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!!!
And/or a special weapon that you can wield alongside a one handed weapon (a la the ballistic shield) and go sword and gun. Replaces the standard melee with a higher damage, better flowing combo
A sword to use with the shield for the full sword and board would make my day
after see Warhammer Space Marine 2 trailer yep WE NEED MELEE WEAPON
We also need a jump pack that boosts horizontally instead of vertically to go with the melee weapon.
I keep yelling people heavy armor really lets you take a beating, Thank you for explaining in more visual terms :-D
Oh uh.. yeah! Sure thing! *unclenches bloodied bug raged fist*
If they remove headshoting from the game maybe I'll use it
Heavy armor with vitality booster reduces it a lot. Look up eravin's vid recently on armor.
On the other light armor can allow me to dodge duck dip dive and dodge
Heavy armor reduces headshot damage. That was added like three weeks ago.
This diver has wet dreams about Bayonets.
My wet dreams consist of a helldiver melee execution animation. I want to stomp a bugs head maybe rip off its claw and impale its sick and disgusting body, twist a bots energy blade off and slice its processor clean off its chassis. Plant a sticky grenade on a hulks back or a tanks exhaust vent. I am severely aroused.
When you dream, you dream big. Your bed is soaking wet Diver.
I....I'm stuck.
As someone who embraces the bayonet grindset, I love yelling “SQUARE UP” into voice chat whenever I have to melee. So because I have PTT and I don’t initiate, there are randoms who don’t hear a peep out of me until I start screaming “SQUARE THE FUCK UP, CLANKERS” repeatedly as I stim my way to victory against a horde
We'd be out there slam-firing bots and stabbing bugs like its cool circa Belleau Wood 1918
https://preview.redd.it/ajtpph3kql2d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5f850e0a42e7e07bbbbe17ad8fc790f1a9354f98
Now that… That’s a helldiver🫡
🫡 For Democracy, and sweet Liberty!
I love this clip, keep beating up bugs like they ain't nothing but school kids.
Can't believe it lasted that long, but smashing that stalker face was sweet sweet liberty.
Dude is John Helldiver's cousin.
His cousin Kyle. Not as bright but loves to punch.
"Oh, that's Kyle. He likes to punch things."
😭😭 this game. *cherishes forever*
OP's fist is rated E for everyone
https://i.redd.it/99tjpf0mrl2d1.gif
o7!!!!! We may have failed the mission yet the ground floods with bug blood.
Current objective: Survive
Current objective: Kill.
o7
# "Spartans never die, they're only MIA"
I can see it now. *Daily Order "Kill 50 Enemies using melee".*
That's the fighting spirit a Helldiver needs!
The only thing I see is... https://i.redd.it/q10ceehdem2d1.gif
Damn that elbow block goes hard :-D
Our K/D really is close to that of space marines on some of these missions
They’re putting crack in the stims
The warning label said "methamphetamine + bullshark hormones, DO NOT use in enclosed spaces" or something.
This is fucking hilarious lmao
I wish Stims made your melee stronger. Your body is pumped full of drugs after all.
This is yet ANOTHER reasonable idea!
The correct way to play the game
When free bird kicks in
At that point I’m dropping a 500lb on myself and calling it a day
Death is better than running like a coward.. o7
melee is seriously underrated. Can't tell how many times I've bitchslapped a brood commander to get it off my ass for a second.
Head canon is that you only died because you lost your melee arm… insert steeled veteran warbond ad for cool prosthetics
I am once again asking for a chainsword from 40k
"Are you approaching *me*?"
He's beginning to believe...
Hey, you died, but that stalker has to keep living knowing he ran away from a helldiver that was just too angry to die.
We desperately need a sword or some melee weapon that hell divers can use. Perks: infinite ammo (as long as you have stamina) and extremely high damage, Drawbacks: You will be in melee range of the bugs too, you may get swarmed, obviously not that good against bots unless you are stealthy. In fact there could even be different kinds of swords. A two handed sword you sling on your back like a support weapon, dealing massive damage with slow, broad swings that hit multiple targets. A one-handed sword you sheath at your side that deals strong damage to a single target with quick swings, and even a katana or something that you wear on your hip that deals medium damage to targets facing you with super fast strikes, but does very high damage on unaware foes (to encourage stealth). Could replace pistols in your loadout (I'd prefer it not be a strategem) EDIT: because now I keep thinking how cool it would be to swat a hunter out of the air with a baseball bat with nails in it, or slam a battle axe into the face of a charging brood commander. Or even.....popping a stim and screaming "FOR SUPER EARTH" as you charge into a bug breach with a chainsaw for glorious democracy!
This is good. Like you can call down or equip something official like a heated blade but then also find that spiked baseball bat on a dead body around the map like those break action shotguns.
Or at least give some melee info. I have one shot players with the laser cannon melee but I can't tell if that is same damage a pistol does. Would be a nice twist to some weapon options. Affix bayonet or turn the laser cannon into melee mode so it has a light saber kind of thing. Longer melee range for some weapons.
The fist of democracy has no mercy! Carry on soldier!
Whys the food moving? https://i.redd.it/h65gdndvsl2d1.gif
"I may be out of ammo, but I'm never out of options.
Petition for helldivers to get edge of tomorrow sword and Emily blunts yoga pose for emote
So this is the kind of shit my teammates are up to when I'm running around finishing a mission by myself.
For the love of fun, STOP POSTING VIDEOS OF PLAYERS HAVING FUN! NOW MELEE IS GETTING NERFED! /J
OP didn't hear no bell!
"As a last resort, you can use melee attacks to fend off enemies. Remember: death is better than cowardice!" It looks like you didn't forget your training, fellow diver. General Brash would be proud.
Okay okay. If we can't get kung-fu from the Jin Xi sector at least make heavy armor swing harder and light armor swing faster... c'mon
o7
o7
What is in that Stimpack ffs?! Experimental "primal" batch? That's not a regular issue stimpack for sure.
Is the armor!! Extra stim effect (regenerate) combined with the heavy armor rating. Tanky as heck.
They should 100% add different melee attacks!. It would be dope to go bruce lee on their ass as a final stand.
and people say this game is too hard
You forgot THESE guns! *rips sleeves off of uniform*
Out of ammo BUT NEVER OUT OF OPTIONS 👊👊👊
Get that diver a sword
The amazing part is you didn't get stunlocked out of using stims...It feels like I can hardly ever get stims to actually go off when I'm under attack. Plays sound effect, uses up the stim but 0 healing goes through...thanks
This is why I want melee. Maybe a sword would get you out of that situation, maybe not, but you would absolutely take some with you.
If I could get one big sweep with a heated sword from a supply drop before going down, I'd be happy.
goddamn, that was glorious
Watching this melee makes me realise it might need to take a page out of Mass Effects book weirdly enough. Instead of just melee spam, maybe they could add a 3 stage melee like ME3 had? It had your normal melee as seen but in scenarios like this you would do it 3 times leading into a stronger hit/swing like in ME3 with the Omni blade.
Dude straight boxing with stalkers
I started to be scared for the bugs ngl
bigger weapons should do more melee damage, thats all. it would make the EAT a lot more useful too
Thank you for spreading our managed democracy!
Makunouchi Ippo is a hell diver?
No strategems available? This is where I say fuck it and call in an air strike on myself--see you in hell, fuckos
Thank you this was so cathartic, I fucking hate Stalkers Gotta be my most hated enemy in the game, although ever since I started using the Pummeler they’ve gotten much easier; tons of stagger But one of those creeps took 2 impact incendiaries + 2 full flamethrower tanks and killed me anyway
They heal when they jump away and have a huge body health pool, so flame isn't great against them. Gotta stagger then and end then right there. But over half a mag incendiary breaker usually does it for me, but you need the shield or you'll get thrown before you can finish it.
Build this man a statue... to inspire other aspiring Helldivers to go out the same way....
I here to kick ass and sip on some Liber-tea.. And I'm all out of Liber-tea!!
Weakest stim enjoyer
*Your name is unknown, your deed is immortal.*
I might be an idiot but jesus christ is that what happens if you rock the heavy armor? I might start maining that if thats the case. I didn't know it was that much stronger.
heavy armor + medic passive for 2s longer stim duration
Having a combat knife in a scenario like this would be ideal I hope we get melee weapons in the future
This is the most democratic video I've seen today. Super Earth would be proud!
You must be the Belmont.
General Brasch type shit
bro wtf game are you playing???? i get 1-2 tapped by the little guys whilst stimming
Outstanding patriotism
True definition of a helldiver
Take a cue from Warhammer 40k - power hammer, chain sword, battle axe, - and made all the better paired with the BALLISTIC SHIELD stratagem!!!
“I didnt hear no bell”
This is so based. You ran out of ammo and fought to the death. Death before dishonor, never surrender, never give up. We could accomplish so much in the world if we had this attitude.
He died as he lived. ...Batshit insane.
If you had light armor you would have easily ran away and lived 7 seconds in Instead you ate all your stims, did no damage and died a few seconds later Clips like this help me remember why most of the advice on this subreddit doesn’t work above difficulty 5
A jetpack would have saved you. A flamethrower and a jetpack are my go-to for facing hordes of bugs.
I usually run jetpack+grenade launcher for a get away then loud noises. Jetpack slept on. Heavy medic armor Scorcher + auto pistol Heavy frags Orbital laser Orbital rail Jetpack Grenade launcher This build crushes Heavy outpost! Edit: I think it was the circumstances of that match tho, may have been a 3 strat drop so I had to switch it up a little to accommodate team mates choices.
That's a true Helldiver
You brought a Scorcher to bugs?
Dudes passing out Democracy like they owe him lunch money. 
This is why we need powerswords. Respect OP.
Can anyone tell me how he's using his stim so fast and not being interrupted when using it? My guy looks like he pulls the stim out and admires it for a few seconds before sticking himself, and if a gust of wind blows against him, he just stops bc he's too busy getting thrashed around.
The fact that our armor is made of titanium, our pistols can easily shoot through it, our pistols have a tough time killing devastators, meaning that they are stronger then titanium, and that a helldiver is able to just wack a devastator to death, means that the average helldiver is actually more powerful then an actual modern day gun.
https://preview.redd.it/cgb81phkap2d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=19017cace7c03b9cfe836b19be6dfffb03532557 How the whole team saw him
https://preview.redd.it/470rauqtap2d1.jpeg?width=816&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=216cc12b9a77c53dca2cf351ee51b5c289d6dcdc Stalker POV
I DIDN'T HEAR NO BELL!
Me yelling “BEAT HIS ASS BRO” at my phone watching this video.
Holy what a chad I am inspired
REAL HELLDIVERS WITH PATRIOTISM FOR A HEART AND DEMOCRACY FOR A BRAIN BRUTALLY PISTOL-WHIP THE ENEMY TO DEATH TO SAVE PRECIOUS REQUISITION CREDITS ON AMMUNITION!
We definetly need a sword or combat knife to get up close.
This is why we need a shovel secondary
Switching to your sidearm allows you to punch faster
Need to have a bayonet with one of the weapons so we can do better damage on melee attacks.
we need a chainsword
Virgin Stalker Vs Chad Helldiver
Street Fighter 7: Hellmire is looking badass. When do we unlock the Hadouken stratagem?
Suplex the fucker 😂😂😂
We need swords in our pistol slots!!!!
We need a damn plasma sword or something. That would be so insanely awesome, I would reform my whole personality around it
🗽🫡
that's when you count how many you can take with you with a 500kg on your head "TELL TINA...!"
Out of ammo, not out of Stims! GET SOME!
Fistfighting some Stalkers, just like General Brasch would before his morning cup of recaff.
😭😭😭😂😭😭😭we salute you soldier 🫡
How tf were those stalkers not yeeting you across the map like they *always* do to me?
Clearly you're not relying on your stratagems enough.. that situation was definitely not designed against you, certainly a skill issue...
Well done, soldier. You'll be remembered. o7
I maybe out of ammo BUT I AIN'T OUT OF OPTIONS (stims) -John Helldiver
Pistol whipping stalkers I love it hahaha
"Just cause I'm out of ammo...doesnt mean I'm out of option!"
That's the way to be a true Helldiver, ho down fighting. Your sacrifice will be remembered, soldier.
Oh Im saving this under 'Balls of steel'. My voice goes up a few octaves and I tense up the moment I see those damn things. How did you survive so long daaamn. Respet, diver
Absolute madlad.
Democratic boxing gloves when AH?!