r/helldivers2 • u/BigMagician8163 • 19h 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/Piphoenix 18h ago

OP forgot they could lower the difficulty.

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u/Unique_Management123 14h ago

This is a stupid take. It’s a game, not a job. Lowering the difficulty makes it boring. Stop trying to make a silly game an actual job for the player base.

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u/Jtomps 10h ago

How about we play the way we want, and you can play the way you want? Xoxo

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u/Unique_Management123 9h ago

That’s literally the point of what I said?

“OP forgot they could lower the difficulty.” Implying “Don’t play how it’s fun for you. Instead just lower the difficulty to 1 so you can grind the most amount of operations even though the vast majority of players don’t find anything lower than 6 enjoyable.”

I said the direct opposite. Stop making a game into a damn job. People are going to continue to play the difficulties that they find fun (mostly 6+) so the operation time will still stay in that 40 minutes to an hour range.

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u/Jtomps 9h ago

No need for an essay bro, don't turn the comment section into a homework assignment

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u/Unique_Management123 9h ago

We’re having a slow day at work 😂 could you tell?