This warms my heart as a gamer! To know that as a collective, the majority had heart to save a virtual hospital in a virtual war. To see how we were rewarded with the biggest morale booster ever. This is just amazing. Love this game and the community
The 30% who went for the mines, would have actually soaked up a massive force that could have reinforced the enemy attacking the children's planet. The consequences of a good stratagem extends out beyond individual engagements.
People always say they'd be villains if they had powers, nah, they'd think they would bit as soon as they see a children's hospital on fire they're gonna be saving it
People are naturally inclined to be good unless youre either traumatized or a straight up psychopath. If the average guy somehow obtains superpowers, he certainly will do some underhanded stuff normal people couldnt to benefit himself, but he will also try to save anyone who ask for it. Some people think they could be Superman, while most think they would become Homelander, i personally think that they will become like Sonic instead. He is unambigously a good guy but he isnt above "victimless crimes"
70% of soldiers were there to save the children, the other 30% gave there lives to make sure those clankers were distracted and unable to send back up.
Thats honestly a great experiment. That proved humanity can be better. There was no reason to save the hospital. But we did it anyway. Its a video game, yet we still focused on the fictional children. Its awesome they donated. Im happy and proud to have been part of the divers there
To those who said 4 thousand isnt a large amount. Your correct 4 thousand dollar to a game studio is nothing, but its not the game studio that donated the money. The money was donated by Johan himself that funding left his bank account
I mean that's fair, but I don't see why everyone is parading him around like some hero saving many children, when a measly $4311 might partially pay for like a single surgery. If everyone who played (70% of a million player base) gave a single dollar instead, they could have donated $700,000.
@ragnarokaeon8242 very correct, more could have been donated from the studio or player vase if they decided to open up a go fund me in game purchase for a cosmetic
@@ragnarokaeon8242I’m sorry, where’s your 4,000+ dollar donation? Him donating from his own personal funds is better than just yapping away and not going to change anything. Especially when it comes to his own out of bank money where he could’ve used that for his own family, friends, outings, whatever. No need to be like “Why they parade him as a hero?!” Cause people aren’t? It’s just a nice thing someone did and people are realizing “Hey that was actually pretty cool of him” cause he did NOT have to do that over a virtual game he created with the help of others
Legit, one of my friends who's hardcore into HD2 and the community told me the other day; apparently it's become a meme in itself to never take the mines. It's apparently been an option multiple times and people have always chosen the other option, so now even without any expected reward, most players decided that no reward was better than ending the bit and unlocking the mines. Luckily, it had a wholesome outcome as well, but it's still funny to me that something like that wasn't "cool IRL reward from selflessness" but rather "taking a joke so far that it becomes wholesome".
I could imagine they could have a plot point about one of the kids from the hospital being a child prodigy who ends up making a lot of new weapons for the helldivers.
That 30% of those Helldivers weren't against saving the children. They knew they couldn't get out of there with at least one of them dying. They gave their lives so that the 70% could save all the children.
@@nyox.”Helldiver, you’re choosing the weapons over future fellow Divers? Why?” “This isn’t about Stratagems, it’s about the kids. The Clankers need to be distracted to buy those kids more time, to slow reinforcement. I’d rather have those bots shoot at me than be shipped to shoot at kids. Tell them about us, tell them about the 30%. We did it for the future generation of Democracy”
The masculine urge to throw your lives against impossible odds like wet rags against a brick wall just for the slim chance to see the glimmer of hope in the eyes of one who had all but lost it
Listen, I'm a Helljumper from the olden days, and I used to roll my eyes at the new guys... But seeing make decisions like this made me grow some respect for them.
We fight wars that seemingly end in a phyrric victory again and again. Yet moments like these remind you that helldivers, helljumpers, and Spartans alike are all just human. And that sometimes, we DO break through the darkness and keep that stubborn light of hope alive.
Imagine a subscription-based game where part of every payment and purchase is always going to be donated to a specific social fund, depending on what kind of missions you choose to do
@@JeremyTheBreadKnife well in some events like days of color and days of nature, they donate to trevor project and oceancleanup And this one's a long stretch, but they might also pay IP rights for artists like aurora, fellow studios (eg. Season of nine colored deer with the taiwan animation thingy for students), and book authors (eg. Season with the little prince)
"We are the Helldivers. We don't back down, we don't look the other way, we don't sit in silence. When someone calls out for help, WE ANSWER THE CALL."
The MO said that the Workers developing the AT Mines would be losing their jobs since we didnt capture the explosives so we probably wont be unlocking them another time
Anti-tank mines are all well and good but we can already kill bile titans. The children are thus obviously more important. So pick up your gun and follow me you apes, DO YOU WANT TO LIVE FOREVER?!
"I want to grow up to be a Helldiver like the ones that saved us" How awesome is that? 😊😍 Great work Helldivers. you did something out of the kindness of your Heart expecting No in-game Reward. but this action Leads to a Real Life Reward.
The US Space Force is already working on using space craft to transport supplies, so maybe in 15-20 years when these kids are actually old enough to enlist, there will actually be something similar to the Helldivers
@@michaeltheaegisLet's eat, Grandma ☺️. Let's eat Grandma. One of the few (maybe a lot) times it would be better to have a comma regardless if you use that a lot or not
@@peyton-yg5cqI remember seeing someone who wrote “I miss seeing my little brothers fuck”. Or something like that. A comma was desperately needed there.
Imagine an alternate universe where the helldivers unlock children ingame as a stratagem and the devs do not donate to landmine manufacturing companies
I’m loving this community, they are an incredibly rare display of the true power of a community of gamer with a common goal, to have fun and to help others have fun as well. You won’t find an example of this in many other video game communities. The world needs more of this kindness.
*"I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend."* -- Faramir, Captain of Gondor, Captain of the Rangers of Ithilien, Heir to the Stewardship of Gondor, Son of Denethor II, and Brother of Boromir
Imagine your a child, your watching as the machine's come ripping and tearing. And then just before it's too late. The blackened clouds light up, stars shining through in such quantity that you think the clouds cleared up. Then those very stars turn into comets. Just hundreds of thousands of them raining down. Man those machines felt nearly the entire fleets wrath.
The sad truth is most helldivers players aren't exactly speed and precision incarnate so lots of those kids still got yeeted by the automatons or helldivers that weren't especially careful
now imagine, you're a real child in real life, and a video game company that has made well over 200 million dollars (as of months ago) uses you as a prop to donate one weeks pay of a low paid devs salary to a charity that benefits you lmao truly massive for getting 70% of a few million people to "save the children". Every dollar counts if the money is used properly, but it loses some of its meaning when you know with absolute certainty that the amount provided was skimped on lmao. not doing some sort of silly little skin that proceeds to go the same charity to have the players chip in even, just fuckin 4k and a request for praise, holy.
I remember being there being one of the boys, who went to save the children. I kid you not the pride I felt when I saw the number of players on that planet was amazing. Somewhere more than 100k. And that too when the stratagem in question was lost in 2 separate events before this. Man we made sure those boys went down HARD.
❤ Speaking for everyone thanks, it means a lot ( I’m not one effected but I have meet and have in my family many people who have disorders and have heard of some who have died of cancer) so you have my upmost gratitude❤
Unfortunately, I never read the brief, I just saw the thing saying to attack one of the two planets and picked Marfark at random. Now that I know this happened, I'll definitely pay more attention in the future
That’s why we should value morals over big booms no AAA gaming company can replicate the stuff arrowhead cooks up this is the true reason helldivers is such a good game they show us the importance of human life over simple material possessions thank you arrowhead
The drop pods are just blaring “WE DIVE TOGETHER OR NOT AT ALL, WE DIVE TOGETHER AGAINST THE FALL” and the children seeing thousands of divers coming to protect them, warms the cockles of my heart
@@nugget6820 🧐 did you just edit your comment after reading my comment... because I swear the comment above *did not* mention the double negative or else I wouldn't have bothered making a comment about it. Oh well... "Beter goed gestolen dan slecht verzonnen, zeggen we dan"
I believe those who participated in the saving of the hospital need the special cape with that drawing. I would be honoured to the deepest side of my heart to wear and bear such cape, such sign.
'We stopped and visited some of the kids. Handed out empty shell casings, took some victory pose photos, and S2 even let them sit in their Patriot. It was fun but we kept it brief. The jump coordinates for Marfark were already plotted. C'mon Helldiver. Who wants to live forever!'
This is the kinda thing I like to believe is common, where even without obvious or even any reward, most people will choose to help someone else, especially someone innocent, rather than accept some other reward for not doing so
i had discussions about this with a friend over the Responders faction in fallout 76. in the event of an apocalypse or any disaster, people are more likely to band together and help each other out over raiding and pillaging
@@gusty7153 Raiders in Fallout games are unrealistic not because people are good and prefer peaceful cooperation, but because the raider to non-raider ratio is wildly unsustainable.
Humans are by nature meant to be selfless. If the overwhelming majority of what I can only assume is a community of millions chose human lives over technology, then the other 30% are probably going to hell when they die.
Because games that seem violent are actually just stress relievers like doom, their community is so chill it's the calm looking games like Stardue Valley with the scary community
It isnt winning it after sony drove away 170+ countries from being able to play it and heavily pissing off the playerbase. Is it game of the year. Yes. Is it game of the decade. YES. Will it win it though. I hate to say it but sony pulled defeat from the jaws of victory. And lost over 7 billion dollars because of this action. Alot of investors pulled out because of this. And alot of players still refuse to play it until all countries are not blacklisted anymore "WE DIVE TOGETHER OR WE DONT DIVE AT ALL"
@@jasonwowhero8147 7 billion? That's crazy. But yes, the blacklist should be removed from all countries, so that we can all squash bugs and liquidate automatons!
@@justanicemelon9963 they lost 10% of their entire stock the moment they started pulling that cuz they lost all the money from over 170 countries. Sooo. The refunds didnt kill em. It was the investors saying "wtf" saw the publics massive backlash and they pulled out.
Honestly I did when I saw the high command message. As he said we didn't have a clue while dropping cause we felt it was right that humanity chose lives over material.
Sitting in you're room crying, fearing that it might be the end. Until you hear thousands of pods slam into the ground. Outcome helldivers ready to risk it all to save you. God i love being a gamer sometimes
@@connman8d617 “if you sign up for the premium plus warbond membership, you can get a dollar off every strategem and free reinforcements” i would fucking murder my teammates if i had to pay for reinforces lol, arrowhead games is a breath of air from today’s video game company bullshit
If helldivers is an EA games the slogan would be "for communism" instead of "for democracy" For the thing they've been doing from the past 10 years EA will never redeem themselves amongst players and will keep getting ridiculed by players
That is not a good idea, as this kind of thinking would divide the community that I loved. Before PSN backlash everyone was on the same side. Everyone fought for Super Earth not for some country, we were truely united. You could have a "righty" and a "leftie" having each other backs without knowing. There was no politics involved in the game. That made the game beautiful to me, I now feel like the charm is gone with community managers of Arrowhead picking a side, or well, showing that they were on one.
@@MrSquadallahHow is helping sick children a political issue? Unless you genuinely believe that one side of the political spectrum is just a bunch of psychopathic child murderers, in which case, this is the first time in my life I've ever felt it appropriate to tell someone to touch grass
@@filmandfirearms You clearly have no idea about what is going on the discord then. EndymionTV was banned for just looking for game on a proper channel, all because he doesn't agree with political left and it's not as if he tried to push ideas on discord. Someone went out to his socials, checked on him and banned him for just asking if anyone wants to play. If that isn't political to you then you are the one who has to touch grass. Also, where in my previous, comment did you come to conclusion that I do believe that one political side is a bunch of psychopatic child murderers? You used those words, I didn't until now. Are you looking to start a fight or something? Neither did I claim that helping sick children is a political issue. It's a good thing that this has happened as those children need help (but if you ask me, Arrowhead could afford to give much more with how many sales they had).
@@MrSquadallah You were responding to someone talking about saving kids, on a video about saving kids, and now that you're challenged, you pull out some random case completely disconnected from what you originally said? Go back to what you were originally arguing against, which is that the altruistic actions of the community shouldn't be rewarded because that would be political
Seeing the Helldivers enter the hospital is the opposite of seeing the Avengers come in
LMAO
you right...
Superhero walks in: damn I'm gonna die, last wish and everything
Helldivers walk in: yo we got funding? I might make it
@@AntediluvianGirl no they’re gonna shrink down and gun down the cancer
@@AntediluvianGirl"WE GOT FUNDING!?"
Now I can put on my résumé “worked with several other people towards a goal of donating money to an organization that helps children in need.”
Genius!
Haha it is approved XD
bro just gained the system in both the game and real life. 💀
Technically not wrong.
Worked with several other people in a video game* FTFY
Helldrivers two is turning into one hell of a social experiment
Between making sony bend knee and saving the kids now, this really is something crazy
@@FUBARGunpla Consumers and a corporation united to fight corporativism, proving you can do better without losing money.
@@FUBARGunpla what a beautiful timeline we live in
Yes hell
Drivers
From what i see is that this game has an amazong community
This warms my heart as a gamer! To know that as a collective, the majority had heart to save a virtual hospital in a virtual war. To see how we were rewarded with the biggest morale booster ever. This is just amazing. Love this game and the community
The 30% who went for the mines, would have actually soaked up a massive force that could have reinforced the enemy attacking the children's planet. The consequences of a good stratagem extends out beyond individual engagements.
Imagine what happens when it’s done with large scale organization.
Millions would be raised.
“Soldiers aren’t machines… They’re just people.”
They fought for what they believe in
Captain Laskey, Halo 4
She said that to me once, about being a machine
I miss Lasky..
@@Blaze9498 nit all the time
The media: "Video games cause violence!"
Helldivers 2: "hold my freedom"
"hold my stratagem"
Let's save some kids
This is why I love this game
"hold my liber-tea"
@@Big_ragga69420Preston give me back my gear just because I helped nuka world raiders doesn’t mean you get hold of my weapons
Imagine you're a sick child feeling hopeless, then out of nowhere, the sky starts speaking *d e m o c r a c y .*
Oh, jeez, I legit didn't think it would get so many likes. I'm not even trying to say "ThAnKs FoR tHe LiKeS." I'm just outright surprised.
What the rewrite that you
@lorenbrown7100 are you having a stroke?
Constitutional Republic will always be better
Thus the Heavens opened, and the Voice of Democracy spoke
People always say they'd be villains if they had powers, nah, they'd think they would bit as soon as they see a children's hospital on fire they're gonna be saving it
You can still be a villain and save the kids people said they would be villains not monsters
most ppl would be antiheros
People are naturally inclined to be good unless youre either traumatized or a straight up psychopath.
If the average guy somehow obtains superpowers, he certainly will do some underhanded stuff normal people couldnt to benefit himself, but he will also try to save anyone who ask for it.
Some people think they could be Superman, while most think they would become Homelander, i personally think that they will become like Sonic instead. He is unambigously a good guy but he isnt above "victimless crimes"
Power don't make Villain it onlie allow them be a villain whitout consequences
The child who draw the drawing at the end of the video is a real patriot
fr
They shall be awarded the Junior Soldier’s Medal of Determination.
Patriotism is for the weak and the sheep. Karen. 🙄🙄
He's gonna be a great officer
SALUTE THIS GOD DAMN AMERICAN HERO🫡
70% of soldiers were there to save the children, the other 30% gave there lives to make sure those clankers were distracted and unable to send back up.
Absolutely correct, just like me with the bile titans and the rest of my team doing the missions.
Awesome game I can't wait to try it once I get a pc
And community
@@Quokka357 I'd recommend console tbh. They're doing some wacky account shit on PC
@@landonkam6727 get a ps5 it’s a lot cheaper
"TANK YOU HELDIVEЯS" Is the most *badass* drawing I've seen from a kid yet. I love this community!
TANK YOU HELDIVEЯS*
Best fundraiser ever. we could spend money programing in a new toy... or give the programmers the day off and donate that money to the children.
@@TheSneakySnitch It's U, not YOU, Silly!
@@Somebody-oz4ff no, look at the image again, it says
TANK
YOU
HELDIVEЯS
I saw a post on reddit of capes that had been drawn on by the kids. I want them so bad.
Thats honestly a great experiment. That proved humanity can be better. There was no reason to save the hospital. But we did it anyway. Its a video game, yet we still focused on the fictional children. Its awesome they donated. Im happy and proud to have been part of the divers there
Just got the game. I heard of this by my friend who fought this battle, when i heard about this, i wanted this game, and now i just bought it.
Imagine being one of those kids thinking there is no hope but then suddenly you see thousands of pods dropping from the sky
*a cup of liber-tea soundtrack starts playing democratically*
There's a starman, waiting in the sky
Picturing the scene make my eyes wet
@@Anonymous_Gentleman He'd like to come and meet us, but he thinks he'd blew our minds
And then some dumbass gets the kid killed in collateral anyway
Literally 70% of the player base was like, "there's a secret ending here, I can feel it"
The ending was kindness.
Of course, why would there be a decision if only one would do something?
The real life collectible was the reward
isnt this the best ending?
everybody liked that
Helldivers players: "Fuck those mines! Save the children!"
Not gonna lie, I thought about it longer then I should have.
@@cyberwarlord7363 mines are temporary the greatness of saving children and getting new helldivers is eternal
not the 30% bruh . . . :(
FOR DEMOCRACY
@@proyoo19 lets be real everyone did it just for the meme of the never unlocked mines (btw are they finally in the game or the meme is still alive?)
The media: “video games cause violence”
Helldivers players: “FOR THE CHILDREN!!”
To those who said 4 thousand isnt a large amount.
Your correct 4 thousand dollar to a game studio is nothing, but its not the game studio that donated the money. The money was donated by Johan himself that funding left his bank account
Thanks for stating the obvious for those Terminids in this chat
I mean that's fair, but I don't see why everyone is parading him around like some hero saving many children, when a measly $4311 might partially pay for like a single surgery.
If everyone who played (70% of a million player base) gave a single dollar instead, they could have donated $700,000.
@ragnarokaeon8242 very correct, more could have been donated from the studio or player vase if they decided to open up a go fund me in game purchase for a cosmetic
@@ragnarokaeon8242I’m sorry, where’s your 4,000+ dollar donation? Him donating from his own personal funds is better than just yapping away and not going to change anything. Especially when it comes to his own out of bank money where he could’ve used that for his own family, friends, outings, whatever. No need to be like “Why they parade him as a hero?!” Cause people aren’t? It’s just a nice thing someone did and people are realizing “Hey that was actually pretty cool of him” cause he did NOT have to do that over a virtual game he created with the help of others
Okay so like were is you 4,000+ donation...
70%: we got the kids
30%: Those clankers are never gonna get backup!
Respect that 30%!!!!!
Both got respect
@@Audioslave_Fanthat's gross
@@loamin4712 ok?
@@loamin4712the 70% is, they saved in game people instead of weapons💀
as one of my friends put it "FUCK THE MINES NOBODY USES THOSE ANYWAYS, we need to save future helldivers!"
Legit, one of my friends who's hardcore into HD2 and the community told me the other day; apparently it's become a meme in itself to never take the mines. It's apparently been an option multiple times and people have always chosen the other option, so now even without any expected reward, most players decided that no reward was better than ending the bit and unlocking the mines.
Luckily, it had a wholesome outcome as well, but it's still funny to me that something like that wasn't "cool IRL reward from selflessness" but rather "taking a joke so far that it becomes wholesome".
FOR DEMOCRACY
@@JacklynBurnanything but mines is the new “anything but the metric system”
“Mines? No, more men power and some guns would easily do the job”
I use mines though :( but yeah help the kids
"The children want to grow up to be helldivers." oh god who's going to tell them
They do exist in the military they actually jump into combat with parachutes
@ingamingpc1634 Airborne assault troops, otherwise known as Paratroopers.
Survived in a hospital, getting killed by bugs
25% of Helldivers: "But, the stratagem..."
75% of Helldivers: "We're saving those damn kids!"
I could imagine they could have a plot point about one of the kids from the hospital being a child prodigy who ends up making a lot of new weapons for the helldivers.
That 30% of those Helldivers weren't against saving the children.
They knew they couldn't get out of there with at least one of them dying. They gave their lives so that the 70% could save all the children.
@@nyox.”Helldiver, you’re choosing the weapons over future fellow Divers? Why?”
“This isn’t about Stratagems, it’s about the kids. The Clankers need to be distracted to buy those kids more time, to slow reinforcement. I’d rather have those bots shoot at me than be shipped to shoot at kids. Tell them about us, tell them about the 30%. We did it for the future generation of Democracy”
you mean 12% stratagem 25% we are saving kids and then rest cant even play
One day, they will have to vote
The masculine urge to throw your lives against impossible odds like wet rags against a brick wall just for the slim chance to see the glimmer of hope in the eyes of one who had all but lost it
Indeed
Indeed
Indeed
Indeed
Indeed
For Democracy ❌
For Super Earth ❌
For The Children ✅
Same energy as Kahl from Warframe
And that's fucking beautiful
Why not all
PROTECT DA LITTLE 'UUUUUUUUUNZ!
The fate of all Humanities children lay in your grasp. Do not let them down
Ah the 1/10 times for the children isn't a political power play. well done.
Listen, I'm a Helljumper from the olden days, and I used to roll my eyes at the new guys... But seeing make decisions like this made me grow some respect for them.
We fight wars that seemingly end in a phyrric victory again and again. Yet moments like these remind you that helldivers, helljumpers, and Spartans alike are all just human. And that sometimes, we DO break through the darkness and keep that stubborn light of hope alive.
“Honey are you ready to go on our date yet?”
“Shut the fuck up cant you see I’m trying to help these kids?”
"Honey....give me the other controller. We are SAVING THOSE KIDS! *BECAUSE DEMOCRACY!!!*
@@mastadonking3816"FUCK YEAH SUGAR, ITS TIME FOR FREEDOM"
@@Un-Usuario-Comunwhat are heartwarming couple.
#couplesgoals
"Shit honey that's all I needed to hear. LETS SAVE THE CHILDREN TOGETHER"
That comic page of the child being saved by a helldiver nearly brought me to tears. I felt the moisture building up in my eye.
I Wonder who made the art
''...U...Uh? S...Sir...''
''It's alright Kid, your safe.''
''...T...Thank you...''
''No need. Freedom never asks for 'thank you's.''
can you find it in game?
@@enthusiasticallydry no
@@SunnyNTidk thanks liberator
When you are a Helldiver on the outside, but a 40k Salamander on the inside.
Vulkan would be proud, and offer hugs.
I got a joke in mind but I’m not saying
@@mrkhim3427 A joke about Eldari children?
@@warex4501 Ironically Vulkan ended up regretting killing the eldar child.
Or a space wolf.
*this shit happens.*
Child with cancer: “my life for Super Earth!!!!”
Imagine a subscription-based game where part of every payment and purchase is always going to be donated to a specific social fund, depending on what kind of missions you choose to do
Yeah it's called Sky: Children of The Light but instead of subscriptions you pay for adventure passes and designer cosmetics every other season 😂
@@gebbygebbers great game tho
@gebbygebbers wait they do that? I just vibed with my friends on it never knew they did that lol
@@JeremyTheBreadKnife well in some events like days of color and days of nature, they donate to trevor project and oceancleanup
And this one's a long stretch, but they might also pay IP rights for artists like aurora, fellow studios (eg. Season of nine colored deer with the taiwan animation thingy for students), and book authors (eg. Season with the little prince)
@@gebbygebbersdafuq, I've played that game for like years now, I didn't know that the game actually donate shit.
The indomitable human spirit wins again
We were born to inherit the stars
We were the only ones made in gods image
And the fact that noone wanted anti tank mines XD
Humanity first.
Democracy wins over greed.
"We are the Helldivers. We don't back down, we don't look the other way, we don't sit in silence. When someone calls out for help, WE ANSWER THE CALL."
Atreides?
HOORAH!!! o7
HELL YEAH 🦅🦅🔥🔥🔥🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
That should absolutely be the helldivers motto
Mr Dingus? Damn didnt expect Baskin Robbins Cotton Candy hair here
the kids wishing to become helldivers themselves is both comforting and scary at the same time
Stratagem can be unlocked for another time, but a human life and soul cannot be unlocked. My respect for helldivers
The MO said that the Workers developing the AT Mines would be losing their jobs since we didnt capture the explosives so we probably wont be unlocking them another time
@@esogaming8539eh fair enough, but money ain't worth the same as lives no?
@@esogaming8539 we can make a petition about it
The tank mines are worthless anyway
just wait untill nerve gear comes out in real life
Helldivers: * _saves a planet because a children's hospital is on there_ *
Vulkan: Those are some good boys.
@@SkyKingAzure Vulkan lives *stomp stomp*
@@DemitriVladMaximov valery sablin ahh vibes.
Making sure papa Vulcan will always be proud of us is our goal
Vulkan while burning an Eldar child alive.
vulkan would be disappointed in me.. i went for the mines😂
If we didn't save the kids then we would be no better than the bots
The truth
🫡
Lo
o7
Goes to show how great the Helldivers community is
*trying not to cry...democratically*
I gave up, I'm crying
You can cry, as long as it is democratically soldier......, just don't dwell on it too much BECAUSE WE GOT MORE PLANETS TO LIBERATE!!!
@@Jan-oe4cc Sir, yes sir! Getting myself together, sir! :)
Fuck yeah im all bout liberating democratically violent.
Make sure to fill out form 209-c thank u for your democratic tears@@hendricksonja
I love how the community instantly thought that this wasn't even a dilemma and went straight to the children ❤
Anti-tank mines are all well and good but we can already kill bile titans.
The children are thus obviously more important. So pick up your gun and follow me you apes, DO YOU WANT TO LIVE FOREVER?!
same
the children are the next generation of divers who will defend democracy. our job is to protect the citizens.
Dude, that's actually freaking awesome. I love this game
Best game ever
Facts
The over 70% of players must've been like: Sacrifices must be made.
"I want to grow up to be a Helldiver like the ones that saved us"
How awesome is that? 😊😍
Great work Helldivers. you did something out of the kindness of your Heart expecting No in-game Reward.
but this action Leads to a Real Life Reward.
There is no better reward than helping others.
For Super Earth.
@@thelore9749Hell yeaaaahhh!!!!! For humanity!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
something in my eye...
but i wanted the STRATAGEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The US Space Force is already working on using space craft to transport supplies, so maybe in 15-20 years when these kids are actually old enough to enlist, there will actually be something similar to the Helldivers
- Sir, are we villains?
- No, just humans...
Only human after all
@@faner117 cant put the blame on me
@@simple__sigma3287dont put the blame of me
Im only human
I make mistakes
Im only human its all it takes to put the blame on me
I frickin love this. This community is awesome, and mad props to Johan and AH.
Johan is awesome. Legend.
W Johan
This does put a smile on my face
It’s been a while since something actually almost made me shed a tear by how much kindness was shown with what the children sent as a message.
Love how everyone in message boards was like "fuck them kids" but in reality it was "fuck, them kids needs to be saved*
The keyboards only managed to capture a part of their thoughts
Comma placement can change the whole meaning of a sentence.
@@michaeltheaegisLet's eat, Grandma ☺️. Let's eat Grandma. One of the few (maybe a lot) times it would be better to have a comma regardless if you use that a lot or not
@@peyton-yg5cqI remember seeing someone who wrote “I miss seeing my little brothers fuck”.
Or something like that. A comma was desperately needed there.
Imagine in an alternate universe. Helldivers unlock anti tank mines. And then there is a donation to a hospital for very sick anti tank landmines.
Now hold on a minute...
Imagine an alternate universe where the helldivers unlock children ingame as a stratagem and the devs do not donate to landmine manufacturing companies
That’s a bad ending
Bro i full on laughed HOW DO U DO THAT thtas like an achient spell i mever do that /pos
Or the CEO buys 5000 anti tank mines for Ukraine
The opening cinematic lives up to its word
"Become a hero, Become a legend, Become a Helldiver!"
I’m loving this community, they are an incredibly rare display of the true power of a community of gamer with a common goal, to have fun and to help others have fun as well. You won’t find an example of this in many other video game communities. The world needs more of this kindness.
“Tank you heldivers” is so fucking sweet 😭
The word Tank is just the cherry on top
Its HELDIVEЯS
40 yr old Dad / level 110 Helldiver here. I Cried and Saluted my screen right now.
salute to you fellow hell diver and may youre life be fruitful and your riches be many!
Put that fist up to the sky!
Everytime I see that picture it makes me cry a little… it’s so sweet
Where can I find it?
@@ryderadams8575google images lol
FOR LIBERTY!!
@@ryderadams8575 at the end
there is missing to your sweet it should be "Sweat Liberty MY ****!!!!!!!"
Joy isn’t something you think of when spreading democracy to other planets…
But this
* saving children *
This puts a smile on my face
"What are we fighting for if not the future?" One of the name less helldiver's that fell in the recapturing of the vernen wells
Reminds me of the line from one of the Sin City stories.
"The old man dies, the little [kid] lives. Fair trade..."
The soldier does not fight because he hates what is in front of him, it is because he loves what waits behind him
*"I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend."*
-- Faramir, Captain of Gondor, Captain of the Rangers of Ithilien, Heir to the Stewardship of Gondor, Son of Denethor II, and Brother of Boromir
The only person this isn't true to is probably Emile LoL
If everybody always defends then whos attacks? Evil creatures from space hell?
@@rivanrn9079 orders from non soldiers, duh (government's dictator etc.)
That's kinda gay man
Imagine your a child, your watching as the machine's come ripping and tearing. And then just before it's too late. The blackened clouds light up, stars shining through in such quantity that you think the clouds cleared up. Then those very stars turn into comets. Just hundreds of thousands of them raining down.
Man those machines felt nearly the entire fleets wrath.
To the children those soldiers were super heroes coming to save them.
The sad truth is most helldivers players aren't exactly speed and precision incarnate so lots of those kids still got yeeted by the automatons or helldivers that weren't especially careful
@@Pokemaster-wg9gx at least they got the spirit , technique.... we will not discuss that
@@Pokemaster-wg9gxthat sounds like treason…
now imagine, you're a real child in real life, and a video game company that has made well over 200 million dollars (as of months ago) uses you as a prop to donate one weeks pay of a low paid devs salary to a charity that benefits you lmao
truly massive for getting 70% of a few million people to "save the children". Every dollar counts if the money is used properly, but it loses some of its meaning when you know with absolute certainty that the amount provided was skimped on lmao.
not doing some sort of silly little skin that proceeds to go the same charity to have the players chip in even, just fuckin 4k and a request for praise, holy.
I remember being there being one of the boys, who went to save the children. I kid you not the pride I felt when I saw the number of players on that planet was amazing. Somewhere more than 100k. And that too when the stratagem in question was lost in 2 separate events before this. Man we made sure those boys went down HARD.
Even if I am in the most evil and bad guy of settings...I'm still a salamander space marine at heart.
❤
Yes SIR
Vulkan will be proud of you
Get this man a hammer!
Into the fire, unto the anvil!
Nothing brings a smile to my face more then this. I’m glad to be amongst the divers that chose to save the children.
❤ Speaking for everyone thanks, it means a lot ( I’m not one effected but I have meet and have in my family many people who have disorders and have heard of some who have died of cancer) so you have my upmost gratitude❤
There was never another option for me even if it was fictional children.
Unfortunately, I never read the brief, I just saw the thing saying to attack one of the two planets and picked Marfark at random. Now that I know this happened, I'll definitely pay more attention in the future
Cringe.
@@capybara9521 Your cringe
Imagine being a sick child losing hope and all the sudden free bird starts playing from the sky
and then you also hear either "VULKAN LIVES!" or "FOR THOSE WE CHERISH, *_WE DIE IN GLORY!"_*
🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅
“Ohh..I can’t change..”
“Why don’t you fly? Fly? Free bird..”
"Son I don't care what stage of cancer you got you've always got that LIBER-TEA"
"AND THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED!"
Children are the future soldiers, was the correct choice to protect freedom!
That’s why we should value morals over big booms no AAA gaming company can replicate the stuff arrowhead cooks up this is the true reason helldivers is such a good game they show us the importance of human life over simple material possessions thank you arrowhead
Warhorse studios definitely does the same
This is the only nice thing they've done in months. Helldivers is sadly going to hell at a diving speed.
No amount of fire power is worth losing future patriots of Super Earth for!
And the update. dont forget@@-Triumph
@@-Triumphare you even playing
Now this is how companies should interact with players/gaming community and at the same time you promote your game and help people IRL.
A better marketing strategy
Is a giga chad strategy.
Win-win? Nah, let's put another win in there.
Great pr move
Mad respect this is such a good way of doing charity in games honestly.
Yeah so much PR for just 4K donation, the people at Sony are already writing bonus checks in tens of thousands for themselves for job well done.
@@Resmundthe helldiver dev team didn’t donate, just that one guy.
@@Resmund Sony didn’t do it it was one guy in the helldivers team
I heard about this before, as an outsider to Helldivers, and it NEVER fails to put a smile on my face.
"Im sorry timmy... theres nothing we can do to save you now"
Helldivers players: **Starman theme**
Wait like mario, or is there a helldivers song called starman
@@Weldedhodag Starman by David Bowie mate. You know the "Theres a STAR-MAN waiting in the sky"
He like to come and meet us
@@judithsilva6231 But he thinks he'd blow our minds
@@Thop_JatThere’s a Star… Man!
The drop pods are just blaring “WE DIVE TOGETHER OR NOT AT ALL, WE DIVE TOGETHER AGAINST THE FALL” and the children seeing thousands of divers coming to protect them, warms the cockles of my heart
And my mom used to say i wouldn't achieve nothing by playing videogames
Guess u proved your mom wrong then.
"Video games make people violent!" ppl when Helldivers do the right thing:
"wouldn't achieve nothing" double negative, so you COULD achieve something, clearly she believed in you
considering that's a double negative *your mom was right*
@@nugget6820 🧐 did you just edit your comment after reading my comment... because I swear the comment above *did not* mention the double negative or else I wouldn't have bothered making a comment about it. Oh well... "Beter goed gestolen dan slecht verzonnen, zeggen we dan"
Bro that children’s note made me fucking cry tears of pure democracy and patriotism
I believe those who participated in the saving of the hospital need the special cape with that drawing. I would be honoured to the deepest side of my heart to wear and bear such cape, such sign.
Yes
That would be the coolest most wholesome thing ever
YES
SOMEBODY SEND THIS COMMENT TO ARROWHEAD I SUPPORT IT 1000%. I would wear this cape indefinitely!
This is why we love this company and fun ideas like one of the drawings could actually be like a cape
A cape supporting future Helldivers is an epic idea!
imagine if we put the drawing on the cryro pod doors, like hanging a kids drawing on a fridge
@@LinWarai Yes please.
"We can always build new weapons later. We need future Helldivers TODAY!"
😊
245 likes and no reply let me fix that
tha goes hard
@@Captain-flamingo874 Thank you.
I was worried about the lack of managed democracy!😁
This... This gives me hope for humanity. May this universe remain the same. Good job, Helldivers.
'We stopped and visited some of the kids. Handed out empty shell casings, took some victory pose photos, and S2 even let them sit in their Patriot.
It was fun but we kept it brief. The jump coordinates for Marfark were already plotted.
C'mon Helldiver. Who wants to live forever!'
God please someone make a animation of this
Just like the Startrooper commercial in doing their part...
This is the kinda thing I like to believe is common, where even without obvious or even any reward, most people will choose to help someone else, especially someone innocent, rather than accept some other reward for not doing so
i had discussions about this with a friend over the Responders faction in fallout 76. in the event of an apocalypse or any disaster, people are more likely to band together and help each other out over raiding and pillaging
@@gusty7153Cringe raiding and pillaging vs The good Rebuild together
@@gusty7153and then there is the real chads the ones who want to rebuild the old world and hate the mutants on surface. God bless the enclave
It's not common in _some_ places, which is why it's all the more special.
@@gusty7153 Raiders in Fallout games are unrealistic not because people are good and prefer peaceful cooperation, but because the raider to non-raider ratio is wildly unsustainable.
There was a reward, and that reward was the smile on the children's faces.
If you say so
@@gilgameshthetreasurehunter2750 what do you mean by that.
@@NexisBhe was probably forced to save the children and he wanted the new
Whatever it was
@@JodaroKujo looks like somebody isn't a patriot.
Cringe.
Nothing heals sickness better than FREEDOM
All jokes aside, those children are going to become the greatest HellDivers
One of those kids will become the MC and 1v1 Joel 🙏🏾
Not many things make a man cry, but this... this is one of them.
Yes
Things like this give me a tiny bit of hope for Humanity.
Same. The small candle to illuminate the vast darkness.
Humans are by nature meant to be selfless. If the overwhelming majority of what I can only assume is a community of millions chose human lives over technology, then the other 30% are probably going to hell when they die.
That was the most wholesome news I've heard. Respect helldivers
"Playing videogames will never amount to anything."
Helldiver community:
All our moms going crazy
They understood the assignment.
Those children could be future helldivers, we can’t leave them behind.
yeah that's the rewards The Future Next Generation of Helldivers!
Helldivers 2 is always doing sum wholesome bro I swear I wish I could’ve been fighting for sick children like I was in ‘nam against robots
Because games that seem violent are actually just stress relievers like doom, their community is so chill it's the calm looking games like Stardue Valley with the scary community
@@MichaelGonzalez-el8orWhat's happening with the Stardew Valley community?
*your faith in humanity has been restored*
The last drawing actually got me *almost* teared up. Has to be AT LEAST nominated for GOTY, as even excluding this, it's an awesome game!
It isnt winning it after sony drove away 170+ countries from being able to play it and heavily pissing off the playerbase. Is it game of the year. Yes. Is it game of the decade. YES. Will it win it though. I hate to say it but sony pulled defeat from the jaws of victory. And lost over 7 billion dollars because of this action. Alot of investors pulled out because of this. And alot of players still refuse to play it until all countries are not blacklisted anymore "WE DIVE TOGETHER OR WE DONT DIVE AT ALL"
@@jasonwowhero8147 7 billion? That's crazy. But yes, the blacklist should be removed from all countries, so that we can all squash bugs and liquidate automatons!
@@justanicemelon9963 they lost 10% of their entire stock the moment they started pulling that cuz they lost all the money from over 170 countries. Sooo. The refunds didnt kill em. It was the investors saying "wtf" saw the publics massive backlash and they pulled out.
@@jasonwowhero8147 thanks for specifying!
This is enough to make a grow man crying
Honestly I did when I saw the high command message. As he said we didn't have a clue while dropping cause we felt it was right that humanity chose lives over material.
And that's okay... You go right on ahead tear...
Whats funny is that he donated $4311 because its a reference to the word HELL 😅
That should have been 4377, except the other way 7734
Pretty sure it is the same amount of children that were saved in game
@@mkcane yes
@@bartegexe8182 it's in l33t speak though. The version you said is a way to write it on a calculator
We saved 4311 kids
this gives me hope for humanity
it's nice to see that all the seven level difficulty missions i endured actually made a positive effect
I'm actually tearing up. It's things like this make me enjoy this community.
Sitting in you're room crying, fearing that it might be the end. Until you hear thousands of pods slam into the ground. Outcome helldivers ready to risk it all to save you. God i love being a gamer sometimes
Thanks, helldivers. This is very amazing to see 😢
DEFEND THE DEMOCRATIC UNTIL THEY CAN STAND UP FOR THEMSELVES
In all seriousness that's epic, can't see EA doing that lol
YEAAA
I do wish more companies would do this...
Dude, if EA ran this game each strategem would be a micro transaction. And I'm not talking about acquiring them, I'm talking about USING them.
@@connman8d617 “if you sign up for the premium plus warbond membership, you can get a dollar off every strategem and free reinforcements” i would fucking murder my teammates if i had to pay for reinforces lol, arrowhead games is a breath of air from today’s video game company bullshit
If helldivers is an EA games the slogan would be "for communism" instead of "for democracy"
For the thing they've been doing from the past 10 years EA will never redeem themselves amongst players and will keep getting ridiculed by players
SWEET LIBERTY MY EYES ARE WATERING
We are the Helldivers, our duty is to serve citizens of super earth, not all heroes wear capes but the best ones do
I wanna say this quote comes from a JT music song but I'm scared I'd be wrong on that
@@amirhaikal6672 you are not wrong, im quoting JT music pretty often
None of whom are less than equal
NO CAPES
@@TechnicallyJune except for a few
Ngl I woule have loved if they made capes with drawings made with crayon by the kids
That would be wholesome and cool af
Those 70% of Helldivers who saved the children deserve the stratagem change my mind. Absolute Chads
That is not a good idea, as this kind of thinking would divide the community that I loved. Before PSN backlash everyone was on the same side. Everyone fought for Super Earth not for some country, we were truely united. You could have a "righty" and a "leftie" having each other backs without knowing. There was no politics involved in the game. That made the game beautiful to me, I now feel like the charm is gone with community managers of Arrowhead picking a side, or well, showing that they were on one.
@@MrSquadallah Save Children. Weapons Later. Oorah. Democracy.
@@MrSquadallahHow is helping sick children a political issue? Unless you genuinely believe that one side of the political spectrum is just a bunch of psychopathic child murderers, in which case, this is the first time in my life I've ever felt it appropriate to tell someone to touch grass
@@filmandfirearms You clearly have no idea about what is going on the discord then. EndymionTV was banned for just looking for game on a proper channel, all because he doesn't agree with political left and it's not as if he tried to push ideas on discord. Someone went out to his socials, checked on him and banned him for just asking if anyone wants to play. If that isn't political to you then you are the one who has to touch grass.
Also, where in my previous, comment did you come to conclusion that I do believe that one political side is a bunch of psychopatic child murderers? You used those words, I didn't until now. Are you looking to start a fight or something? Neither did I claim that helping sick children is a political issue. It's a good thing that this has happened as those children need help (but if you ask me, Arrowhead could afford to give much more with how many sales they had).
@@MrSquadallah You were responding to someone talking about saving kids, on a video about saving kids, and now that you're challenged, you pull out some random case completely disconnected from what you originally said? Go back to what you were originally arguing against, which is that the altruistic actions of the community shouldn't be rewarded because that would be political
“I want grew up to be a helldiver” oh god what have we done 😂
That's more recruits, worth way more than some mines.
We need them so we can Respond
We’ve made a adult that will save a future child
A 'BPM: Bullets Per Minute' profile picture? Didn't expect to see you here, Göll.
Preserve Democracy
Great!......
Can the children make anti-tank mines?
They yearn for the mines
Good idea 😂
no strat will boost my effectiveness in my dives as much as that cute drawing will
no but they become future Hell Divers
Mine is gonna be shit. Let's be real here, we would run into our own mines and die during combat.
Stratagems are temporary. Future Helldivers’s key to liberty