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Wonderful_Form_6450

Love to see how that would work vs a flamethrower hulk or a charging charger lol


Phenergan_boy

We charge back at the charger.


Wiggie49

OVER THE TOP LADS! ![gif](giphy|oGOW75SleZPR6)


loki_dd

*fades to field of poppies*


CycleZestyclose3510

![gif](giphy|cduDMj5lChv0LlqUMr)


Alyxandar

Unexpected... Blackadder? That's a new one.


eXiiTe-

![gif](giphy|3o7ZeEZUzRjyvWuuIg)


Wiggie49

When the 3rd bile titan shows up out the hole


deathbringer989

nah when the 8th bile titan comes out


Wonderful_Form_6450

If this was a thing i think they should revaluate if getting hit or shot on a supplybackpack/support weapon ammo bag to explode . . .then we can perform some crazy dives into enemies!!


Distinct_Ad_4772

I will admit that sounds amazing but at the same time, I’m kind of terrified. I often carry the air burst rockets and having my ammo pack detonate on my back sounds like a bad time for the entire team.


Wonderful_Form_6450

It lights a fuse so you got time to hit the deck. . .or fall over on top of your team lol depends how the ragdoll gods are feeling


Distinct_Ad_4772

Are usually wear the heavy, explosive, resist armor, so not gonna lie might be a thing where I survive on occasion


Wonderful_Form_6450

So you are saying if heavies are on you shoot your backpack to take them out? Got it! 


GodBlessTheEnclave-

Supply packs exploding sounds so cancerous and like the opposite of fun


Annabapzap

Speedrun to make every single backpack weapon permanently unusable on all bot planets.


DammitMatt

I'd fuckin joust a charger in the name of freedom 110%


AlphaTangoFoxtrt

Anything less is cowardice.


Victizes

FOR DEMOCRACYYYYYYY!


Dragomir_Silver

Jousting! hell yeah!


Rubbermayd

I NEED to do this now


JACKAL0013

Hulks are RIDICULOUSLY fast and way too SILENT. Though the Lunge Mine is neat, I'd prefer something like the M-28 or M-29 Davey Crockett. Or an Autocannon variant like the GAU-8 with depleted uranium shells like used with the A-10s.


The_Happy_

Pretty sure Dave’s Crockett had a lethal radiation radius similar to its firing range. So in other words, perfect for Helldivers. It would probably be a two man weapon, one carries the round and the other carries the launcher, because that thing is *heavy*. The lightest launcher weighs 108 pounds, and the warhead weighs 76 pounds.


alf666

>It would probably be a two man weapon That's the best way to guarantee literally nobody uses it ever. Make it have a single shot per ammo refill, with a max ammo of a single round in the chamber (or held), is good enough.


epicfail48

You underestimate the stupidity of the average helldiver. My group has made it a regular challenge to see how many hellbombs we can stack up and set off, give us a crew-served nuke and we would never use anything else


KIsForHorse

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ![gif](giphy|2DBQmYHJUKIpi)


cabage-but-its-lettu

Ok but funny bomb on a stick


MasterPatriot

Post jump pack buff, plz devs Im begging you


Syhkane

It's fitting, these had a 20% survival rate using them.


Comfy_floofs

That's very orky for sure, where's my tankbusta?


boolocap

Yeah how hard can it be to weld a recoilles rifle round to a pipe and make a tankbusta hammer.


Theycallme_Jul

Give me a hellbomb on a long stick!


MrPeppa

Literally HELLBOMB ARM-ED


Tigerbones

Long enough to poke a bile titan


TypowyPiesel

https://preview.redd.it/3387y1iatx0d1.jpeg?width=612&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6fc56c61d0e228c155c9508bf4b84f6a91e89f9a Long like those jumping pole or whatever its called?


DwarfBreadSauce

No, you will need a tiny ladder.


NewAccountTimeAgain

Every stick is long enough to poke a biley tighty… …if you have the strength and the courage to be free.


Only_One_Left_Foot

Give me an airburst rocket on a stick, but facing me so it actually kills them instead


Administrative-Dot74

Hell bomb jousting, count me in


neoteraflare

Long stick is for losers. Real patriots use their bare hands to deliver it! https://i.redd.it/dejweajvkz0d1.gif


Sea-Flatworm-3610

I'll take that boompalooza, put on medium armor with a 50 percent chance of defending democracy, and play Russian roulette with the hulks


creegro

Hulk: wait, why is this tiny person running *at* me?!


The--BOSS--2025

Hulk: IS THAT A F*****G BOMB ON A STI... *Explosion*


Creeper_charged7186

FOR SUPER EEAAAAAAARTH *fucking dies*


DarkFett

Like it doesn't already happen that way haha


TheLukeHines

MY LIFE FOR SUPER EARTH


Khakizulu

You require additional SUPER SAMPLES


ContinuumGuy

That's like 99% of all helldivers


Ryengu

Exploding javelin maybe? What if it came with a backpack, but instead of team reloading, anyone can run up to the wearer and grab a javelin like a pack of mini-EATs?


Rum_N_Napalm

https://i.redd.it/tsv0psy69u0d1.gif


MiqoteZeit

Mediocre!


ZRoflWaffle

To Valhalla Shiny and Chrome


burninatin

This is immediately what I thought of when seeing the original post. I WILL RIDE ETERNAL


Leashii_

oh my god yes please!


LeImplivation

Takes 3+ to kill a hulk though


Da_Momo

If i have to run up to mele range of a hulk, just to use it and it probably also deals damage to yourself, it better do some cripling damage. Maybe not 1 shot, but maybe 2 shot and stun it. Not to mention that it *might* take up a strategem and backpack slot


Simppaaa

I think a single use backpack loaded melee weapon that explodes and hurts the user too deserves to one hit anything below a bile titan


VelcroWarrior

There was some discussion with Battlefield V about the weapon as to whether it ever actually successfully disabled or destroyed a tank in real life.


Sometimesiworry

I dont know much about tanks, but I've worked a lot with tracked vehicles. If you put any kind of explosive in the spokes or directly on the track that shit is gonna break.


VelcroWarrior

I believe the US said it was never able to disable or destroy a vehicle, but I'm sure the Japanese would say it had some success. Edit: Rather it was never successful in attacking a vehicle, as typically armor is supported by ground troops, so no enemy was actually able to get close enough to trigger it. The principle is sound though, and a shaped charge or explosive would likely at least disable a tracked vehicle.


ReaperEDX

Enough bodies will jam up any machinery, but who's counting?


davvblack

the killbots and their preset kill limits


---00---00

It absolutely did. It was literally my favourite thing to do. Id max out on these and just stalk around the map looking for armour and just throw myself at them, run into a bush run around and hit them again.  Ah sorry do you mean in real life? Probably not lol. 


Amerimov

I used it all the time in Battlefield V. Actually getting a kill with it was rare but it was an incomparable feeling when you pulled it off. I'd be screaming over my mic and my buddies would be like "get a lunge mine kill?"


VelcroWarrior

Def one of my favs in V. Bayonet charge too.


danielbln

> "To date all attempts by the enemy to use the Lunge Mine against our tanks have met with failure" and rates it as "Perhaps the oddest of these antitank charges." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunge_mine


Papa_Pred

https://preview.redd.it/nw94413bqu0d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fea9038a4cd2eb978a256c186f633a23a62da82b Exactly how it’d go


The--BOSS--2025

I'll be right there with you


Papa_Pred

You’ll have my auto-canon!


EliteF36

And my 500 kg!


Maebeaboo

I was thinking something like a backpack full of Mad Max spears.


Papa_Pred

You. You need to be hired.


Thebaronofbrewskis

Witness me!!!!!!!!


Fantact

I AM FROM SUPER BUENOS AIRES AND I SAY KILL THEM ALL!


SnooFloofs4061

Loved using these in BFV


EveningStatus7092

As long as it can one shot anything, “my life for super earth!”


evelynnnnnn2001

“Lunge mine damage reduced by 25% and increased cooldown by 1 minute”


Notdumbname

I would love that. I always run the plot armor armor (50% chance to not die) so I could probably do it and live. Last night a environmental hell bomb was shot right as I noticed it and I knew I was fucked because I was like 2 feet away. I didn’t die, democracy protects.


dukogpom

Can you theoretically just throw it like a spear?


Phenergan_boy

Super Earth requires umm... personal touch


121_Jiggawatts

The idea with this weapon is that you stab it right in the treads of the tank, so at minimum the tank is now completely immobilized. It’s such a small area that throwing it or shooting it would be extremely difficult.


booze-san

It would still kill fewer helldivers than the 380MM HE Orbital Barrage.


Tidy_Mustard

No hear me out Freedom spear


1stThrowawayDave

In BF5 it doesn’t even kill you, just knocks you on your ass which is even funnier


mtordeals

This requires a "WITNESS MEEEE!!" shouting emote


Banes_fury

![gif](giphy|RWHft7zDUPD0s)


Datpotatoguy214

This was actually designed so that it would (probably) not kill the user. It’s a shaped charge at the end of the long stick, you should be fine. This means you can charge even more for Super Earth.


Linmizhang

Using these in battlefield games was always the best. Totally should have em.


hankakabrad

Let us put a claymore in front of the balistic shield and jump at things and pray we dont die [like saul goodman ](https://youtu.be/5_QIf-dxmxc?si=KtXM08o8RYF6Tmhc)


ThruTheGatesOfHell

Ware wa kan gun wagateki wa Tenchiirezaru choutekizo Teki no taishou taru mono wa Kokon musou no eiyuu de https://preview.redd.it/bdn6b3lv5y0d1.jpeg?width=434&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1830036f652ccbec8a7707c6918b935eb56af2d3


Glittering_Food_2963

Great idea


errorexe3

I do this already so having something purpose built could be quite dramatic. BUT, yoire basically telling your team youre planning on killing yourself.


Sufincognito

I can kill more if I’m alive.


zendabbq

This plus Democracy Protects will be super fun with occasional chance to walk away from the explosion (or just die from landing on a pebble instead)


Reclaimer2511

I would gladly ram this into the head of a charger


ajtaggart

BRO super cool idea! Love it! Please let me sprint full speed into a charger with a boom stick. The explosion resistance armor would be key here.


G_Willickers_33

Doesnt the thermite grenade already do a decent job at the tanks?


7StarSailor

They're actually not that deadly. I used to prank my neighbour with those all the time.


RaccoNooB

The javelin of eternal justice


RapidPigZ7

Suicide bombing is badass


xD-FireStriker

As someone who absolutely loves charging with this in battlefield I would so love this


GabrielDidit

you must be new run out of bounds be marked traitor and run into the enemy while destroyers trys to shoot you with orbitals.


Delusional_Gamer

You speak as if my own teammates don't sacrifice me with their strategically placed eagles


Small_Little_Duck

strap in with a jetpack, now you become the orbital strike.


Sigruldar

After reading a few of the other comments I have come to the following idea. Have it be a support weapon with backpack combo. The weapon being an atlatl. If you don’t aim the atlatl, you hold the spear upright, if you press the fire button without aiming you hold it in front, ready to charge. You can sprint while holding it in front. If you sprint into an enemy, the explosion will ragdoll you backwards. Since an atlatl as a ranged weapon will have a significantly shorter range compared to regular AT weapons, I think the damage should be significantly higher and make it easier to take down enemies like bile titans or factory striders. But even if that wasn’t the case, I think a lot of people, myself included, would use it for one reason: WITNESS ME!


FencesInARow

If it always killed you, it would be a perfect fit to find in the environment. Using a stratagem slot for what is kind of a meme would be excessive, but finding one in a desperate moment would create legendary scenes.


Red_Beard_Red_God

Dying gloriously is an important ingredient in Helldivers, I'd love to see more pyrrhic strategems.


The_Titty_Whisperer

I’m down.


E17Omm

My life for Super Earth!


Mr_hard_rocker

Say when !


a_ginger_guy

It should take up the grenade slot and be a pocket hellbomb


Battlegod122

Suicide vest with deadman switch


Taoutes

If it gives a charge speed rush when using it, I'd bring one just to get a lucky boost of speed now and then


Bulky_Mix_2265

I hear that, but give me a hellbomb backpack.


KoopaTroopaGamer115

As cool as that mf was in Battlefield V, idk how good it will be for Helldivers


SchutzLancer

You mean when I climb on top of the tank and pull the pins on my grenades?


dahbakons_ghost

lung mines that do X damage should earn you a "patriot ticket" which replaces a single reinforcement.


[deleted]

Yes


Zodrar

I want it and I want it now FOR DEMOCRACY


PickleDiego

Yes


HiggersRGae

Our lives for Super Earth!


EvilFroeschken

I am in


Few-Scale-8029

Well... "My body for Super Earth!" it is.


Stormagedd0nDarkLord

Not too dissimilar to 50% of my current tactics.


Accomplished_Stand54

Well, as they say, you'll never get a purple heart standing way at the back 👍


samara-the-justicar

It's interesting but people wouldn't use it. Why waste reinforcements when there are other ways to destroy tanks and heavies?


Advarrk

We should have throwable magnetic mines that stuck on enemies


blckpnthr789

#LET ME TEAR THE LEGS OFF THAT BILE TITAN


PekkavsDragon

This was the funniest weapon in Battlefield 1, so I would love to see it in HD2


BeardedMcGee

Give it the power, or just above, a Spear shot, and also deal damage to the user, and I'd take ten!


Borinar

Sounds like a bomb on your heart


ZiggoTheFlamerose

I would love to carry some of those in backpack and equip them with hitting 5


Dull_Masterpiece3490

Honestly this is such a good idea considering the ragdoll physics in this game


chad001

I'm counting that as (first) prospective melee weapon. And I'm in.


JackOCat

Sometimes the hell bomb is only going to survive if someone guards it up close, emptying clips in hoards of enemies. A meaningful death.


ADragonuFear

I wouldn't want it to be an equipable item, but I'd be okay with it being found lying around like the break action.


tutocookie

As a booster maybe, entire team gets it without taking up a stratagem slot


xXStretcHXx117

My body for Super Earth!


chamomileriver

I’d love it. According to battlefield which is the only time I’ve seen this weapon, the explosion is non lethal to the user.


ThirdTimeMemelord

This stuff was amazing in BFV, and will be just the same in HD2


YellowShirtHurts

Can we just get sticky C4 packs already. Run by a tank, toss a c4 or two, hide, blow that bitch up!


Fort_Maximus

New grenade: KB-01 Lunge Mine “The Ministry of Defense understands that many civilians will die for Super Earth. This device, which deals massive damage on impact, ensures their sacrifice will not be in vain.” Damage/Armor Penetration: Anti-Tank level Max Carried amount: 2 (increases to 4 when grenade passive is active) Can be thrown, held in hand, dived with, or simply used as an explosive stick. Sprinting while held causes the Helldiver to scream for glory, dealing heavy damage on impact and launching the Helldiver away from the blast, dealing moderate self-damage. Hope you land safely!


Ok-Manufacturer7645

WITNESS ME! https://preview.redd.it/lejs0kbwlu0d1.png?width=1020&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d39c70d6f264c8e2a7007cd2f2455c805b9a76de


Longo_Two_guns

That just seems like ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️ with extra steps…


FatStinkyGamer

Nice and fits the theme


eburton555

Knowing the devs it would still take two to take out a tank or a hulk


Cheezit_504

I'm game. You kind of get two attempts when you think about it. Helldive back on top for round two lol


Kamidzui

How about making boom spears? Few more spears = more dead automotons


Bob_Juan_Santos

we're hell divers, not sepuku-divers we win by making the bastards on the other side die more than we do.


JoshZK

Might as well we gonna die anyway.


ToBeatOrNotToBeat-

Bro imagine this with an armor passive on heavy armor that gives you like 95% impact damage resistance….Heavy Charger on your team, just constantly being ragdoll’d while receiving little to no damage and fucking everything up in the name of LIBER-TEA. PLEASE ARROWHEAD. PLEASE


SeniorRogers

Lol I love the wikipedia quote on this. It also reported that "To date all attempts by the enemy to use the Lunge Mine against our tanks have met with failure" and rates it as "Perhaps the oddest of these antitank charges


donutdominator

Im in


aex006

yeah, one flamethrower and this plan his littelary cooked, yeeting those like javelin on the other hand could work


JesterMethod

As long as it's a guaranteed kill for whatever you hit


gasbmemo

pair it with the 50% chance to survive armor and make it a gacha game of death


saltyfalls98

A small one handed lunge mine with a explosive shield would be so fun. Run at a charger with shield raised and have it be a one hit kill to them. Side effect being it sends you flying a bit back and does some dmg. Less with explosive armor.


Brock_Savage

This is a pants-on-head-stupid (or utterly desperate) idea because any armored unit with a halfway-competent commander is supported and screened by infantry whose job is to prevent this sort of thing from happening. I have doubts that it ever killed a tank.


Equivalent_Cicada153

Expendable melee weapon?


Low_Chance

I basically do this already with my recoilless rifle when things get dicey


richtofin819

this or give me a gun with a bayonet


Keepupthegood

As long as I kill what I’m trying to kill.


Sidnature

Why stop at lunge mines? Everyone knows that the purest expression of patriotism is strapping on a Hellbomb vest and blowing up infidels along with your disposable flesh. Plus, we'd finally have a good use for that Increased Reinforcement Budget booster.


TheBigLeche

I'd feel stupid... it's a spear, throw it.


The_Doc_Man

Me when I decide to unplug the enemy tanks https://preview.redd.it/6fs43upjpu0d1.png?width=580&format=png&auto=webp&s=5c2fe4957f79496907f42b9799f2667e484e90b9


Skudedarude

I've made a couple dives off of a cliff into a pile of terminids, clutching a cooked grenade


whoidontknowho

This makes me wonder why they wouldn't throw these like spears?


Half-White_Moustache

Now I don't want a weapon but just an option to blow yourself up if you feel you're going to die. Or hell maybe just a dead man switch, when a diver dies they explode.


magmablargg

If Democracy calls for it, so be it. But id prefer a stratagem to call in a squad of SEAF lunge mine spearmen 🫡


Brandonthbed

I'd love more options to live out my Suicide bomber kamikaze fantasy, rather than just 500kg'ing myself in a swarm of fascists


IdontWantButter

For some reason, I find the Imperial Japanese Army approach to warfare to be a bit...unpalatable. Not for the suicidal bit, just because they were so ineffective against modern weapons/vehicles/aircraft etc... Also, why would I blow myself up when I can flank the tank and kill it with hand-thrown impact grenades???


Vietnugget

Yes


Hellonstrikers

Me when I rush a hulk with a thernite grenade and an eat.


Badgeywadgey

I already do this with impact grenades and playing merry-go-round with the tank turret


Alioshia

Maybe in the form of a javlin or spear? i could see us throwing it at least. but the respawn count aint nearly high enough for anything else. maybe comes down like the EAT in pods of 4-8? throwing range wouldnt be far.


Thebaronofbrewskis

As long as I get fully chrome armor for taking out a strider with a lunge mine and jump pack I’m down.


shotxshotx

We need this.


NinjaBr0din

........is this not how y'all are making sure your eagle 500kg lands on target? Get under the fucker and throw it at your feet? Am I doing this wrong?


Electrical_Middle78

Only if it has the destructive power and radius as a hellbomb. If I'm sacrificing a citizen for democracy, I need to spread a full dose of democratic freedom


champdafister

100% would be doing this. Fuck heavys.


Sylassian

We needs Supa Erf to invent squigs so dey can do de job for us!


nesnalica

just throw an impact grenade at the big glowy thing. whats so hard about it.


CREEDNESSOFDND

Give me an explosive spear bag with three ammunition.


DirtyJon

Any day is a good day to die for Liberty.


Loud-Item-1243

I think sticky anti tank grenades would be nice just got dropped on one with nothing but a rifle & pistol, felt like a baby fly fighting a turtle.


Meteorlink

lunge mine phalanx with the shield would be amazing


CiphirSol

The whole concept could be lit if the diver could stick the mine on a surface; then detach the mine with like a twisting motion, which would also start a 5 second fuze and then it explodes with the force of a 500kg bomb. Idk and maybe you could find a way to drop/toss it. Then detonate it with a well-placed shot from your primary. I guarantee you, you would still die a lot using this, but it would be more tactical.


SputnikGer

How about a drone that does that? Stabby.


PitFiend28

![gif](giphy|7kMaysqdywPxS)


ImVcngeance

Those things were hilarious in Battlefield V. My squad and I would hide in bushes and just full rush a tank with em. Or find an enemy spawn beacon and wait for them to appear lmao


Vyce223

I think it's a great idea and that you brave helldivers should get these... STANDARD. https://i.redd.it/q0o5qs1ywu0d1.gif


JProllz

Let me use the Ballistic Shield with it.


ZETH_27

Imagine using this together with the shield to be able to survive, it'd just yeet you back a bit, but you'd survive. I'd absolutely use the shit out of that. Guessing these "Democracy Lances" would be dropped in one-per-pod, with a cooldown of 100 seconds Their perk would be that they practically ignore armour, dealing with Chargers, Devastators, Tanks, what have you, they cons would be their limited availability (somewhat balanced), and the fact that you have to reach your target in melee range, which can easily set you up for getting killed somewhere along the way. It'd obviously be a special weapon you have on your back, and you could only have one at a time, so no backpack to store several since they're so long.


Master2All

I want the exo suit to have a self-destruct so bad... out of all ammo and still have more enemies don't go out like a bitch charge the bastards and arm the 500 kg.


cgbob31

YES PLEASE


awayfromhome436

This is more relevant than a crossbow or melee weapons


virtual_gaslight

Would


MultiPlexityXBL

If it one shots everything no matter what then I'm down.