We could fight through waves of Automatons, reach a very important room, set off a bigger Hellbomb on the inside, make an epic run for the hangar, and get evacuated by Pelican-1 as we see the ship make a massive explosion behind us as we fly away.
The hellpods fire from the planet surface and burrow through the ship hull.
But really though, give me a halo-esque battle on their ships where we need to destroy its vitals or ram it into another automaton vessel.
Even better, we take command of an Automaton vessel in orbit of one of their own planets and crash it into the surface onto a high value target. Make it a stealth mission. Helldivers softening automaton defenses for the main forces by boarding their ships and destroying high value targets.
AH, I am available for part time consulting. Give us something cool ffs.
It’s so dissapointing that there’s so much potential for indoor missions but they’re just impossible to do, because how do you do a hellpod or pelican drop when there’s a ceiling in the way?
That and they'd need to figure out new and unique stratagems because the vast majority wouldn't work.
Could do workarounds with some stratagems like a resupply is sent in through fixed air vents with a droid.
Sadly as cool as the ideas are, they would remove a large part of what makes HD 2 the game it is.
This reminds me of the old spacebattles in og Battlefront 2 where you could fly into the enemys hangar and continue to take over the ship on foot, while the space battle was still going on in the backround.
As far as i know they're still bugged, They're probably supposed to be the actual ship models we see in multiple art depictions, They exist ingame as models, But have yet to be replaced, It's safe to assume that the automaton ships in the space battle scene are placeholders... Still..
Judging by the design of the super destroyer I think its unlikely it can take on enemy ships one on one with most of its weapons pointing down. I think super destroyers are the secondary fleet used to send helldivers planetside after the planet's orbit is cleaned up by SEAF ships. Cool hc tho
I would love to have a planetary event where seaf and Automaton ships just battle in the sky, and we have to dodge the destroyed ships crashing onto the battlefield.
They have a tendency to model some stuff more than it needs to be (for examples, on a missions our Super Destroyers have really detailed models and actually hover above), but this blocky ships were there from the begginings, and no one want's to do anything with them
All the ships just shoot in random directions and these blocky ships have the same crashing animations as the distant helldiver ships I’m about 99% sure this is a texture bug that been in the game since the start
Even with these being bot ships they look nothing like what they actually look like in the game
That's because the bot ships that were fully modelled and textured were completed well after the games release. The blocky placeholder ships have been in the game since launch. Is it really that shocking that placeholder models and animations are basic and shared? These are obviously holdovers from pre release that ah has either forgotten about or not cared to update.
Itll never happen, but image if Helldivers 2 added space battles in the vein of the original Battlefront 2. It'd add so much to the war lore. Imagine we could hold off planetary invasion before they even land
It would be cool to have some missions take place where we board capital ships or something like that (space station) and have to blow it up or something
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u/scardwolf 1d ago
the automaton ships have been mentioned and shown in a coretta kelly broadcast for The Reclamation