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Tesla Tower has been a much-maligned stratagem in Helldivers 2, often for good reasons. It tends to cause more trouble than it’s worth when plopped down, and players often avoid it. We’ve seen plenty of cases of players getting kicked from groups for using it, whether with good intentions or not. Yet whenever something is suboptimal in a game, players will still keep testing it to try to make it work. While admirable, it sometimes produces results that highlight even more problems than we were aware of.
Perpetual electrocution is a hell(dive) of a way to go
Cornflakesaregross has posted a thread on Reddit, showcasing the latest Tesla Tower fail in a captured video. As the OP states: “Tesla Tower change now stunlocks you to death with no way to escape. I’m wearing the 95% arc-resist armor and it doesn’t help. We need a toggle to stay laying down after a ragdoll like the auto climb toggle in settings to fix this.” To clarify – normally, you would have to crawl under the tower’s arc to be able to escape getting zapped. Yet nowadays, when it ragdolls you, your model will try to get back up again, creating a death loop that you can’t escape from.
Unsurprisingly, other players were less than impressed by the stratagem’s performance. On top of the problems that everyone was already aware of, we can now add another. “This killed me a couple of days ago, it zapped me but not the bug coming for me, the bug ended up killing me.” lamented VigoMago in the comments.
An interesting discussion was started with this comment from SmellyFishPie: “Just imagine the possibilities of having 100% resistance on arc armor. You could be a human conduit, the lightning travelling through you and zapping nearby enemies.” To which the thread’s OP responded: “95% is fine if it stopped the stun ragdoll effect entirely. I’m fine with being a mobile conduit that has to stim every once in a while. Imagine a group of 4 arc throwers in this armor just an electrical web of death.” Now that would be a fun concept to see implemented! As it stands Arc weapons are hit-or-miss, and the Tesla Tower is the worst offender of them all. What would you like to see done to make the stratagem more viable?