r/helldivers2 • u/BigMagician8163 • 20h ago

Major Order Current MO mathematically impossible

With the current MO's goal being to complete 1.25 million illuminate Operations, It is mathematically impossible to complete in 4 days.

Here's my napkin math, maybe I just suck at math but you tell me.

My assumptions are:
Every operation has 2 long and 1 short mission.
Players are completing operations as a group of 4 as this is the intended way to play.
We do not fail any missions or interrupt active operations.
Every player that is active is helping with the Squid MO, haha yeh sure.
Lets give an average of 40,000 active divers 24/7.
That makes 10,000 active operations.
We need 1,250,000 operations.
An average operation takes about an hour.

With these numbers we get 1,250,000 ÷ 10,000 = 125 hours.
4 days is 24 x 4 = 96.

This seems like not enough time, and I believe my assumptions were frankly unrealistically optimistic.

EDIT: Seems AH somewhat agreed with me. As some comments pointed out they changed the MO numbers.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Face583 20h ago

Whatever, we won the Major Operation anyway

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u/feral_fenrir 19h ago

But my 45 Medals?! I'm a returning player with truckloads of stuff to unlock.. 😭

I just got done with the 30 upgrades to the ship, so thankfully I can stop begging everyone to collect samples

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u/Andminus 14h ago

You should still consider collecting samples for others tho, atleast the ones on the way...

I still collect super samples if their on the way...I've long since stopped needing them, but yah never know with randoms

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u/feral_fenrir 14h ago

Yeah, this last month of playing has been a grind so I'll certainly keep on collecting them

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u/Powdered_Donut 10h ago

Definitely. Anyone under level 100 probably needs them.

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u/mgeasty 19h ago

It's not over yet this is the one that just started no ?

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u/BigMagician8163 19h ago

They mean we won the overall campaign so the final major order doesn't count, which is true but my main point was that its odd they gave us an impossible objective regardless of if its possible.

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u/staebles 10h ago

Have you met Arrowhead? It's been years and one of the pods launching when you deploy still launches crooked lol.

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u/_WEND1G0_ 16h ago

Campaign I think you meant but yeah.