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Imagine Factory Striders, but worse. Add all the stuff the nightmares are made out of and you’ll get these Factory Strider variants, as imagined by one devious Helldivers 2 player. Well, let’s hope the developers don’t stumble upon and rethink their future plans.
Amazing Ideas for Factory Strider Variants
After many, many buffs, Helldivers are obviously craving for a bigger challenge. As you know, increasing the enemies’ HP on higher difficulties is generally frowned upon, as it’s considered lazy and unimaginative. On the other hand, coming up with completely new enemies is a huge task, and it’s extremely demanding.
So, that leaves one option for adding variety to the enemies. Yes, one player, cougar_cat, merged Factory Striders with already existing items and created… monsters. This player made three new variants of Factory Striders.
The first variant (bottom right) combines what resembles Rocket Devastator’s missile rack and a Factory Strider. The second variant (top) gives them a Shield Generator. Finally, the last variant (bottom left) has a Stratagem jammer on top of it.
Helldivers Are Mainly Terrified of the Variants
These suggestions for Factory Strider variants simply blew the Helldivers 2 community away. At the time of writing this article, they received around 7,5k upvotes and more than 750 comments on Reddit. Sure enough, Helldivers had a lot of feelings and they gladly shared them.
Dr_Aoste noted: “I mean, f**k #1 but 2 and 3 would be awesome. #1 could be good if the top cannon and fabrication functions are removed and the bottom guns are made weaker, like regular Devastator guns for instance, or Hulk Bruiser cannons before they were removed”.
Chaos-Kiwi stated: “The jammer one would be very, VERY hard to deal with, but I kinda feel like it could be fun”. However, Phwoa_, disagreed. This player explained: “The Shield is a better variant. It forces you to change tactics. Jammers just feel bad, but the shield forces you to get close so you can deal with it without completely removing your ability to deal with anything outside of the bubble”.
Well, “hell” is right there in the name of the game, so these atrocities might fit right in. All jokes aside, we love seeing players suggesting their designs and thinking outside of the box. Ideas like this one go to show how much the players care about the game. So, put your creative cap on and think of something less terrifying before the devs decide to apply these. For Liberty and Super Earth.