{"id":925316,"date":"2025-12-28T01:40:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T01:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmfiixxFZrpaxkpTvM3Hba"},"modified":"2025-12-28T01:40:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T01:40:16","slug":"after-players-reject-the-stratagem-3-times-helldivers-2-devs-snap-and-demand-they-kill-1-5-billion-enemies-or-suffer-the-md-17-anti-tank-mines-as-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/after-players-reject-the-stratagem-3-times-helldivers-2-devs-snap-and-demand-they-kill-1-5-billion-enemies-or-suffer-the-md-17-anti-tank-mines-as-punishment\/","title":{"rendered":"After players reject the stratagem 3 times, Helldivers 2 devs snap and demand they kill 1.5 billion enemies or suffer the MD-17 Anti-Tank Mines as punishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>The poor, unwanted MD-17 Anti-Tank Mines stratagem has been foisted upon players yet again in Helldivers 2\u2014these mines, which have been ready-to-go since April, have been rejected by the community <em>three separate times. <\/em>No, really:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>April: Helldivers 2 players ignore the MD-17 Anti-Tank Mines in favour of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/third-person-shooter\/arrowhead-games-keeps-the-spirit-of-democracy-alive-by-making-helldivers-2-players-choose-which-stratagem-theyd-like-to-unlock-next\/\">RL-77 Airburst Rocket Launcher<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>May: Those same players are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/third-person-shooter\/helldivers-2-major-order-challenges-players-to-scrap-2-billion-bots-but-super-earth-warns-itll-much-be-harder-than-last-time\/\">tasked with killing 2 billion Automatons<\/a> to get the anti-tank mines. They fail to do so.<\/li>\n<li>June: Patriots are given a choice\u2014get the MD-17 Anti-Tank Mines or save the sick, imaginary videogame children. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/third-person-shooter\/the-helldivers-now-have-to-choose-between-unlocking-a-sweet-new-stratagem-or-going-in-to-save-super-citizen-annes-hospital-for-very-sick-children\/\">They chose the children<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Essentially, avoiding these mines\u2014which are, objectively, a new gameplay feature players are choosing <em>not <\/em>to receive\u2014has become a <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/action\/the-helldivers-smash-their-latest-mo-and-for-some-reason-have-taken-against-anti-tank-mines-but-can-finally-go-back-to-killing-bugs-in-good-conscience\/\">running joke<\/a>, and developer Arrowhead Games has quietly admitted defeat:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;High Command has ordered an Efficacy Review of the currently available Mine Stratagems,&#8221; reads an in-game announcement. &#8220;To enable this review, the Helldivers are ordered to kill or dismantle the targeted number of Liberty&#8217;s enemies,&#8221; that is, a whopping 1.5 billion foes, and far too little time to kill them in.<\/p>\n<p>The kicker? A new stratagem, which is, again, a straight upgrade for the player base at large, is being used as a <em>failure state<\/em>: &#8220;If the targeted number of enemies are eliminated, then the currently available Mine Stratagems will be deemed sufficient, and no additions will be authorised at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:544px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:49.26%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"ioq7MyEC6AQq9RYbvafJ2B\" name=\"Screenshot 2024-08-05 105812\" alt=\"A briefing in Helldivers 2 that reads: \"High Command has ordered an Efficacy Review of the currently available Mine Stratagems. To enable this review, the Helldivers are ordered to kill or dismantle the targeted number of Liberty's enemies. If the targeted number is not reached, High Command will specially authorise the urgent addition of Anti-Tank Mines to the Helldivers' repertoire. If the targeted number of enemies are eliminated, then the currently available Mine Stratagems will be deemed sufficient, and no additions will be authorised at this time.\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/after-players-reject-the-stratagem-3-times-helldivers-2-devs-snap-and-demand-they-kill-1-5-billion-enemies-or-suffer-the-md-17-anti-tank-mines-as-punishment.png\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"544\" height=\"268\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Arrowhead Games)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s not looking great for mine haters, though\u2014at the time of writing, approximately 720 million foes have fallen to Super Earth&#8217;s might, which isn&#8217;t even scraping 50%. The Major Order has one day left, and it began on Friday, August 2. The galaxy&#8217;s finest just aren&#8217;t spreading democracy fast enough, but given how exhausted Arrowhead Games must be, watching these mines gather dust, I can&#8217;t help but wonder if they&#8217;ve been set up to fail by the short timespan.<\/p>\n<p>While divers did kill <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/third-person-shooter\/helldivers-2-players-eradicate-2-billion-bugs-in-less-than-a-day-surprising-even-themselves\/\">2 billion bugs<\/a> in a day back in April, that was still during a peak of the game&#8217;s popularity, when Helldivers 2 was averaging around 250,000 thousand players on Steam daily. Right now the 24-hour peak is 38,654. Still very successful by live service game metrics\u2014especially one made by a smaller studio\u2014but operating at around a seventh of the capacity it was then.<\/p>\n<p>Still, like ill-mannered schoolchildren smugly watching their teacher have a meltdown\u2014and I mean that with the utmost respect and appreciation\u2014the player base seems to be smugly satisfied that it took Joel saddling them with an impossible goal, not enough time to tackle it, and using the stratagem as punishment just to get it into their hands. As Reddit user <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Helldivers\/comments\/1ejj5xz\/comment\/lgew5jz\/?utm_source=share&#038;utm_medium=web3x&#038;utm_name=web3xcss&#038;utm_term=1&#038;utm_content=share_button\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AgentNewMexico<\/a> puts it: &#8220;Honestly, kudos to the community for making this Arrowhead&#8217;s solution to giving us the mines \u2026 Well done, everyone. Stand proud, Divers, our meme is strong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Considering some of the beefier tank enemies that&#8217;ll be featured in <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/third-person-shooter\/helldivers-2-announces-a-massive-new-update-the-escalation-of-freedom-bringing-over-3-new-enemy-types-fresh-objectives-a-new-difficulty-and-votekick-protection\/\">The Escalation of Freedom<\/a>, a major content update that&#8217;ll be deploying tomorrow, ol&#8217; Joel might be doing players a mercy here\u2014though given how under-used mines are in the current meta, I wonder if this beefier version will see much play.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/third-person-shooter\/after-players-reject-the-stratagem-3-times-helldivers-2-devs-snap-and-demand-they-kill-1-5-billion-enemies-or-suffer-the-md-17-anti-tank-mines-as-punishment\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The poor, unwanted MD-17 Anti-Tank Mines stratagem has been foisted upon players yet again in Helldivers 2\u2014these mines, which have been ready-to-go since April, have been rejected by the community three separate times. No, really: April: Helldivers 2 players ignore the MD-17 Anti-Tank Mines in favour of the RL-77 Airburst Rocket Launcher. May: Those same players are tasked with killing 2 billion Automatons to get the anti-tank mines. They fail to do so. June: Patriots are given a choice\u2014get the MD-17 Anti-Tank Mines or save the sick, imaginary videogame children. They chose the children. Essentially, avoiding these mines\u2014which are, objectively, a new gameplay feature players are choosing not to receive\u2014has become a running joke, and developer Arrowhead Games has quietly admitted defeat: &#8220;High Command has&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/after-players-reject-the-stratagem-3-times-helldivers-2-devs-snap-and-demand-they-kill-1-5-billion-enemies-or-suffer-the-md-17-anti-tank-mines-as-punishment\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":925317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[748,787],"class_list":["post-925316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-games","tag-third-person-shooter"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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