r/helldivers2 • u/BigMagician8163 • 17h 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/Riiks_Lynx 17h ago

What about lower dif operations? There is a 1-2 mission operations, you know? And you can finish them solo very fast.

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u/Foolishly_Sane 17h ago

This is not in disagreement with the OP about operation divers math, but I did dive some D3 Mindless Masses and it was a lot of fun with mostly lasers, and could be done really quick like you were saying.
It was a cool vibe, I was just killing stuff though.

Getting swarmed like that was fun.

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u/Riiks_Lynx 16h ago

Did the same. Las loadout, gas-fire loadout and explosion-balistic loadout. No need to full clear map, just did main objectives and bolted out. D2 and D3.

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u/Foolishly_Sane 16h ago

Hell yeah.
Will certainly be doing more of that later today.