The Helldivers 2 Iceberg Explained

Let's go down the Helldivers 2 iceberg, exploring every aspect of this wild series and the lore that inspires Helldivers across Super Earth.

#iceberg #helldivers2 #lore

Levels:
Helldivers History: 0:54
Level 1: 05:45
Level 2: 18:09
Level 3: 31:15
Level 4: 42:59

[stephenmartinez]

Your content is boring, do some speech lessons

[beankestoferson]

So this is what happens when I forget to take down the illegal broadcast objective

[ryper]

"Managed Democracy is a lie." Straight to jail.

[Preaplanes]

"What if a bile titan suddenly had the armor of a charger"

Then they'd be half as tanky.

[Somethinorother.]

I will not “open my eyes” for I already know the truth, which super earth has so graciously provided me. Instead: ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️

[JFKxprinc]

Some dive for the Creek.
Some dive for 710.
I dive for the dive, into the thick of it, again and again and again.

[DJ_Dett]

The shovel has been a running joke through Helldivers since the early days of HD1. During a time when people were looking for any hints they could at upcoming content (because the devs tend to add hints into the maps for things that are in the near future), someone spotted a shovel as a prop in a scene and took it to mean that melee weapons would be coming to the game. It was funny enough that the devs decided to start scattering shovels in more places. One of the biggest call outs of this is a scene you can find on some HD2 maps where a shovel is wedged into the front claw of a dead charger.

There's a similar joke with forklifts, since players in HD1 pointed out a vehicle bay in the ship and kept asking when they were getting vehicles. The devs responded with something along the lines of "you already have them. There's a forklift in every Super Destroyer". Now, forklifts are the most prominent vehicle in the game.

[tylerblank]

Every time you said "spaceship troopers" made me want to start drinking again

[retiredchannel]

This illegal broadcast must be terminated! FOR SUPER EARTH

[Antares-Dragon]

You are missing the cyborg red energy they harvest from humans. Ever run through the battles and see the cages, bodies and red energy containers. Looks like the humans are being used like the bugs.

[donosprey]

Man thought Joel would actually let us get to cyberstan in under a month 💀

[johndiddilyjoe]

Superdestroyers en route to negotiate with you, just hold still.

[kyleott]

I think the developers at one point talked about fans wanting them to add shovels because of the common ground with 40k and the memes that came from it. I'd wager that's why the shovel is there.

[skyokimoto]

Fun Super Fact. The Hell Pod was originally named the Help Pod in regards to its function of delivering helpful Helldivers. Helldivers too were actually dubbed Held Ivers, as they were held in the pods and the Swedish word "iver" is a noun for "eagerness" and "zeal".

Treasonous propaganda would try to twist these noble words, but the righteous spirit of Super Earth did as was done with Yankee Doodle, and we took their monikers of mockery as the honorific titles we use today!

[OldNorthFoxx]

I'm feeling gracious today rookie. No democracy officer, but you're armor cleaning duty for the next 6 months.

[better-shotgun]

Helldivers being first deployed to deal with rebels reminds me of Halo SPARTANs. They were both in their respective universes just before their governments needed them for a different purpose.

[TheCrunchyGamer]

About the shovel, there's also a chance to find a person lying dead on a grave on Terminid planets, with a shovel and a dead Stalker next to them, implying that they killed an entire Stalker with that shovel alone while burying their dead teammate, then bled out after.

[Memealytis]

You know it’s a proper community when it has an iceberg, well done!

[mRcOOLYO]

We just glazed over a few important questions when talking about the frozen backup divers. How long have they been on freeze? How many are there on freeze? How can they have a family if they are frozen down?

Potentially, you could give your body for Super Earth, then get frozen during transport to the front, then stay on freeze for hundreds of years until the helldiver before you finally dies. Your "family" is long gone bro.

[JoeMama-mgdk]

36:20 I’d think it’s like the tomb of the unnamed soldier. It’s a place where all helldivers who died and were unrecoverable are paid respects to.