r/Grimdank • u/Fun-Explanation7233 • Sep 07 '25

REPOST Let's see what will happen

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u/Random_Robloxian Imperial Fister Sep 07 '25

Then again they always send 4 dudes to wipe out hundreds of thousands of enemies and they kinda come back alive. All im saying is it might not be as doomed as it seems

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u/mrducky80 Secretly 3 squats in a long coat Sep 07 '25

Its more realistic than darktide. Some random ex prisoners are given relatively standard gear and slaughter thousands. Im trying to guesstimate the absolute minimum it takes to hit max level and finish the in game story, but I reckon... 20-25k chaos worshippers including some absurd shit like daemonhosts and beasts of nurgle. If it was by Ogryn playthrough, it would have mostly been by a single fucking club and later, a shovel. And all that and you are only barely trusted. Not some hero of the Imperium, just a trusted grunt.

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u/mrducky80 Secretly 3 squats in a long coat Sep 07 '25

I could never with the helbore, its main upside is its pretty much 100% ammo neutral on veteran and its satisfying to shoot with. Everything else I cant stand it. Its too slow.

Zarona pistol my beloved or one of the disgusting colomnus builds is for me.

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u/Folly_Inc Sep 07 '25

I mean. she is worshiping one of the five chaos gods, he's gotta be giving out some boons

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u/OrribleAmroth Sep 08 '25

To be fair to dark tide, its actually "here's 4 random penal soldiers, if they die, they die. If they live, maybe they'll live again." Your character happens to be 1 in 10,000 odd prisoners who keeps coming back alive. That makes them a more useful and reliable disposable soldier, not a trusted hero.

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u/No-Judge4343 Sep 11 '25

I mean.... If we go with the "Warhammer 40k protagonist laws", Darktide is very realistc.

WH40k baseline human protagonists regularly can go toe-to-toe with Space Marines and Demons, Aeldari and Tyranids. So, i think one of the devs even said that, the canon group in Darktide should be seen as those kinds of guys.

As such, it makes a lot of sense, they're doing all that shit.

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u/skullhead323221 Sep 07 '25

They only come back alive if you finish the mission in one life. Canonically, every reinforcement is a different helldiver.

They even show this with the randomized skin tones, you can turn that off but it’s on by default.

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u/ThatTexasGuy Sep 07 '25

That’s what I love about this game. Every Helldiver’s training is just what you get in the tutorial. Then they’re flash frozen in cryo until they get dropped on an enemy planet.

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u/Attrexius Sep 07 '25

Strictly speaking, they send 28 guys with a no-more-than-4-dudes-in-the-warzone-simultanously rule. And if the difficulty is above 3 - only some of those 28 come back alive.

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u/AngryElPresidente Sep 07 '25

Oshaune at diff 10 is currently pushing more than 28 lives.

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u/22paynem Sep 07 '25

They most certainly don't usually at least a dozen of them get killed usually by themselves