Players of Helldivers 2 have found a way to survive falls from great heights. They use a specific emote for this. It safely brings them back to the ground while putting a grin on their faces.
What about the damage? If you fall from a great height in Helldivers 2, you suffer fall damage. Depending on how high you were before, this can be fatal. If you are in explosions, it can also throw you across the map – in this case, the impact can be deadly too.
Resourceful players have now found a way to at least partially circumvent the problem. They use emotes to prevent the harsh and deadly impact. The key is just to get the timing right.
An emote can save lives
Which emote is it? Emotes are part of the mechanics that not all players may know. But they can be very useful, just like eight other hidden features of Helldivers 2.
As user Chunke-Funke-Monke illustrates in a post on Reddit, an emote can help survive the fall. In the video, he demonstrates it with the emote ‘High Five’, but the hug, which has saved other Helldivers players’ lives, is also said to work.
If you fall from great heights in the game, you need to use one of the mentioned emotes at the right moment. Your character performs it in the air and enters a kind of “stasis”. If you get the timing right, you will hit the ground while still in the animation. This way, fall damage is ignored, and you survive.
Players suspect that this is a bug that developer Arrowhead may patch in the future. It might be triggered by the physics that calculate damage differently for various body parts.
The players’ theory suggests that the rigid body posture during the emote causes them to only impact with a small part, like a hand. Therefore, damage is only calculated at this point, and it is correspondingly low.
What do the players think about the bug? As expected, the discovery is well received among Helldivers players. Chunke-Funke-Monke, who posted the clip on Reddit, thanks the unknown person who inspired him to try the trick with the emote.
Other users in the comments also find it practical and amuse themselves over the funny image of the stiff soldier in the air:
- „He turns into an action figure in mid-air,” writes snooparip.
- „That’s damn funny, from now on I will take T-poses in the air to survive,” says Educational-Solid-92.
- „One of the few bugs/glitches that are too funny to be removed,” says sergeantpancake.
- „Please don’t patch this. This is now a mechanic,” hopes Quetzal.
It remains to be seen whether Arrowhead will address the bug and remove it or if the studio will keep the “T-Pose of Democracy” in the game and continue to save many brave soldiers from certain death. Currently, besides this, there is a lull in Helldivers 2 – read on MeinMMO about the low player numbers.
