The Disturbing Truth About The Automatons

Discover the unsettling truth behind the mysterious automatons in Helldivers 2. This video will delve into the lore surrounding these seemingly human machines and uncover their dark secrets. Get ready to explore the dark side of Helldivers and its fascinating automaton enemies.

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Video title: The Disturbing Truth About The Automatons #Helldivers #Helldivers2

[danieladomeit]

I had one tell me to f#$k off, as he was dying

[guapocat]

Occasionally a bot will attempt to throw a grenade or launch missiles, mess up, and end up killing itself and some of its teammates — if that’s not a Helldiver trait, I don’t know what is.

[N-WAR-HOUND]

I can’t help but smirk every time I see the cyborg wattling away with the baby stroller 😂

[shoulderpyro]

Considering bot fabricators can often be found either with cages next to them that still contain humans, or with straight up (opened) supply crates with human bodies - its very likely the fabricators process the bodies into new Automatons akin to the Cybermen of Dr Who. Which means the brain gets cut out and put into a metal body - though in their case an emotional inhibitor prevents them from remembering who they were before the transformation. Chances are the bots have something else in place to maintain loyalty

[vitaliyred]

Well, just like men of iron in Warhammer. They also say, "Give me your skull, " when they charge at you!

[StrifePrime]

has anyone else heard them sing marching songs? tried being sneaky "TRIED"...came across a patrol and they were humming a tune together.

[beemotionstudios]

I've heard some scream "Please God noo!" As they were being gunned down.

[JingKester]

Alright, who forgot to destroy the illegal transmission tower?

[fine_ol_chap]

Why would it be a crime to know the history of Super Earths enemies? If you can't learn the backstory of your enemies, then it ought to be something that's so terrifying it needs to be kept hidden (maybe for citizens to stay calm), or something wanted to be kept a secret.

[awfGold]

Welcome to the 2nd Cyber War, Cybermen are making upgrades to- wait wrong universe. Love this faction though, hope we get to see more variations.

[some-random-idiot]

Surprised that super earth wouldn’t play into this revelation and say yeah they will turn all of us into these if we don’t liberate them!!!

[Kanakeikatsuo]

I wouldn’t be surprised if they were actual former humans then again if they are killing them puts that potential former human at peace removing them from there metal shell

[SkirnirW]

I mean .. It's what _I_ would do if _I_ was a rogue A.I. looking to source economically-viable material for semi-autonomous mobile platforms.
Silicon is a lot harder to work with (energy and resource-wise) than repurposing brain-tissue on a mass-scale.
Neurons can be coaxed and re-trained into whatever neural circuit you need them to be (We're already doing that with lab-grown mouse brain-cells .. we even got one to play 'Doom')
and with humanity ever-expanding into the cosmos, there's no short of cerebellums or thalamus-tissue being delivered hot-and-fresh to your front-door.
With one brain and some frugal use of the tissues within, you could pump out dozens .. even hundreds of 'bots' using the reconfigured grey-matter as the CPU.

Just makes sense.

[AchingScaphoid]

I wouldn't be surprised if this what Super Earth is doing with its subversives. It's clever, if morally repulsive. The military always have someone to fight, propaganda always has something to rally against, the citizens have something to fear - and some of the ones who aren't loyal to Super Earth might actually get what they want from this arrangement.

All it costs is lives, and those are replaceable! (Please contact a Population Management Officer and fill out the required forms before reproducing.)

[kamil]

all those scientist and engineers we saved...could have just ended up as automatons after they entered the 'main building'.

[jacobharris]

To all automatons out there do not back down against helldivers FOR CYBERSTAN!

[badatforkknife]

we should make an emp that disables the automatons so we can repurpose them to fight for us

[MayBeSomething]

If they wanted me to help them, they wouldn't run me down and kill me!

[boi]

This is the Cyber Lin Kuei (MK11) all over again. Are they copying Sektor's thing?

[ReviveHF]

Actually the idea was already conceived by Westwood Studios's Command and Conquer 2 : Tiberian Sun Firestorm( An RTS game from 2000). Where the Cyborg computer named CABAL captured any human beings and forcibly transformed them into Cyborgs.