When the developers actually care about realism...

This is Helldivers 2 gameplay

[Prefix]

They should give her a line for when she gets damaged and go on cool down just to clarify that it isn't a bug.

[ryanalving]

You really don't want to mess with the Helldivers favorite waifu like that

[Rena]

I lowkey hoped that the flares would disrupt the Spear's lock on, but that would be an extremely rare detail

[NovakDjokovik]

No eagle one pilots were
Harmed during testing

Edit: man! 1 month later and 1.5k likes wow that's awesome thanks for the likes guys and don't forget we are all brothers and sisters

[laggingjaeger]

Holy shit so THAT'S why Eagle-1 goes on random ass cooldowns sometimes! They really should add some voicelines like: "Ah, they clipped my wings, commencing early nest return!" or "Caught some strays, must patch up!"

[TheNorthie]

I love seeing the AA guns shoot when someone across the map uses an Eagle. But I didn’t know it would put the Eagles in cooldown

[George_M_]

Given how the SEAF is, for lack of a better term, dumb, the flare system is probably hardcoded to go off even when totally unnecessary. Keeps the machine spirit happy.

[giabao]

She also does this when fighting the bugs. Terminids have anti air confirmed

[Wonzling]

Those are not flares, those are propaganda pamphlets rolled up with a reading lamp.

[PabloHernandez-glij]

You can't stop freedom loving democracy. 😂

[PlebNC]

Virgin Helldivers: Blow up teammates.
Chad Helldivers: Blow up Eagle 1.

[shizumeru_]

I actually used this mechanic to get a straggler AA gun to turn away from me so I could snipe it with the AMR.

[venompool]

Flares right now don't disrupt Spear lock on, but I'm pretty sure they did before the buff (tho let's be honest, even a forager's fart would disrupt it then) so canonically, Super Earth outdid itself with Spear lock on and let's hope Automatons won't get their metallic hands on new systems

[SirMattomaton]

See that AA coming at her (even though I know she's not in actual danger) makes my heart runneth over with homicidal rage against the trashcans...

[rafael-qozd]

*throws flares to avoid lock on*
still locks on
-what

[foxtrot]

I once sent in Eagle-1 with the anti-air still active, she got messed up so bad by just one maneuver that she had to retreat immediately. Boy I felt so bad.

[kuatiogui]

holy fuck that explains it... i always bring 500kg and eagle cluster bombs and sometimes when i used 1 or 2 of them and i'm pretty sure i have 3 or 4 of them more but then suddenly they're in cool down mode... i always thought it's an in game bug....

[LunarTikOfficial]

*This didn't age well.. "Laughs in 90% player drop because of a flamethrower"..*

[battelbad]

She was not kidding with attack underway

[Rashed]

The back of the engines is the hottest and so the target of heat seeker missiles, meaning something like a MANPAD can’t do anything until the after jet has passed, for this reason flares are released after an attack since theres no point in doing so before, u can actually see this being done IRL as well. =3