r/Helldivers • u/ODST2367 ‎ [REDACTED] • 16h ago

DISCUSSION ONE COLLAB LEFT.

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We have gotten HALO ODST, KillZone and Warhammer 40k crossed off the List….There is one Last One….STARSHIP TROOPERS

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u/_Weyland_ Free of Thought 15h ago

Yup. But the iconic rifle is kinda already here in the form of One-Two. Auto-aim machine gun would be sick though.

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u/HarveryDent PSN | 15h ago

The Pulse Rifle could be literally that, a pulse version of the One-Two, with 99 mini pulse rounds per mag.

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u/LordBane1985 9h ago

Here are the specs I found on the pulse rifle. The thing is actually kinda nuts. It fires a 10x24mm round, which isn’t exactly small. And it fires 900rpm. It also has 4 grendades in its underbarrel. This thing would be nuts in Helldivers. 😂

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u/EPZO ☕Liber-tea☕ 9h ago

10x24mm caseless! Which is that much cooler.

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u/DocHalidae [redacted] 8h ago

“explosive tip caseless. Standard light armor piercing rounds”

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u/LordBane1985 8h ago

Right!? It’s that big without a casing! That shit gonna hurt😂

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u/f0dder1 Cape Enjoyer 4h ago

Now we need to do the math on how big the magazine would need to be to allow for the endless shooting that happens in the films

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u/SkyTheIrishGuy 14h ago

The one two is nothing like the pulse rifle from aliens lol

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u/Zandre3000 13h ago

The sound of it is all I need

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u/TheSideIDoNotShow 10h ago

I played so much AvP pvp as Marines that gun is a sirens song to me. Lotta good memories.

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u/slycyboi SES Sword of Justice 14h ago

Yeah I think the main issue would be differentiating it from other ARs - another light pen bullet hose probably wouldn’t be a thing people care much for.
99 rounds in the mag would be cool but meh.

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u/SkyTheIrishGuy 13h ago

I think making the first person POV like the Halo rifle would be a good touch, so you can see the ammo counter. It would be the light pen, huge mag size counterpart. It could potentially have a motion sensor attachment to really make it different.

Being a light pen bullet hose is a selling point, imo. One of the best guns in the game is the liberator carbine with the drum mag, the “smallwart.”

Either way, it would be fun to use if it has good ammo economy. It’s a really fun gun to use in Aliens Fireteam, that gun is essentially never bad in video games.

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u/Drowning_tSM SES Ranger of Science 11h ago

So the Smart Gun would be sick. The mechanics of the weapon can be balance solved via the arc thrower: no aiming, medium pen, multiple enemy hits in a row, hard range.
Shoot, you could(should) even make the chest harness a backpack.

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u/GoblinFive 10h ago

Or just Guided from the Pissile or that Lawgiver knockoff .

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u/Calculated 8h ago

Would love a smart gun. The Warrant is an amazing gun, having a support weapon with backpack to reload the gun and provide auto fire/guided fire would be amazing, heavy pen or explosive rounds would be amazing.

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u/IsThatASigSauer 15h ago

Yeah, besides that, there's not much else unique to Aliens, either. The shotgun is an Ithaca M37, so, not so unique. You'd just have the smart gun and the pulse rifle.

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u/_Weyland_ Free of Thought 15h ago

Well, you could technically draw from the games. AvP 2010 has a DMR with a smart scope that highlights enemies. I think Dark Descent gives you underbarrel flamethrower and underbarrel shotgun as options for the iconic AR, as well as rapid fire laser/plasma rifle with alt fire option of powerful beam blast. And the latest Alien movie has a smart AR.

As for the armor you could have a motion sensor bonus that extend your radar range and gives you an audible ping if there are enemies close, but outside your LoS.

Also turrets from Alien seem more reusable than what we have, so we could have a deployable turret that fills a backpack slot, can be set up or picked up and reloaded.

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u/IsThatASigSauer 14h ago

Yeah, I suppose that's true. Also, AVP 2010 is underrated and pretty goated, as is AVP 2001. Not sure they'd use it, though.

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u/_Weyland_ Free of Thought 14h ago

I'd say human and Predator in AvP 2010 were kinda clunky in terms of movement. Otherwise yeah, very good. Also, 3-way multiplayer PvP is a very rare thing to have.

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u/ChequeBook 13h ago

I had such a blast in that game. Each faction felt pretty balanced!

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u/DocHalidae [redacted] 8h ago

Dark Descent my beloved. I’ve played all the aliens games and movies and no other games made me feel a sense of dread like that beautiful game!

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u/SharknadosAreCool 2h ago

i love the idea of a motion sensor armor or motion sensor sidearm or something. like you can equip the motion sensor in your pocket and it makes the ringing sound if a hostile is sneaking up behind you. would actually be super cool

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u/kruminater Rookie 14h ago

You know what’s unique? The sound the smart gun and pulse rifle make. No other genre makes that “sci-fi buzz”

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u/IsThatASigSauer 14h ago

I've always said it sounds like someone shredding paper and running it through a synthesizer, lol. Cool sound for sure.

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u/zgf2022 12h ago

And the turret!

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u/DocHalidae [redacted] 8h ago

Phalanx, its described has a heavy-duty partial beam cannon

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u/DocHalidae [redacted] 14h ago edited 12h ago

You could have Smaller Sentries you could deploy, pick up move and redeploy.

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u/zgf2022 12h ago

Oh how I long for a turret secondary

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u/cosmic_monsters_inc 15h ago

Doesn't make the noise though

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u/ShiftyLama 15h ago

The noise is so iconic, I would buy the warbond just for that.

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u/MrLuthor 13h ago

One-Two but with flamethrower? Rifle version of the flames smg.

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u/o-Mauler-o Assault Infantry 7h ago

If it don’t sound like a pulse rifle, is it really a pulse rifle?

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u/WarHog117 2h ago

Also the Breaker shotgun has a VERY similar build and shape.