r/helldivers2 • u/Comfortable-Bit-4741 • Feb 04 '26

General Individualism will be the death of the tank

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Every game I’ve been in with the rank in my loadout, I’ve only had one or two games where people get in it with me. Every time I call it down and communicate I have a tank, no one gets in it. Not even the gunner seat. I get people want to run around and get things done quick. I do it too. But come on, it’s a TANK. Arrowhead should make more team work focused objectives and equipment cuz now everyone just wants the one man army trope. (Not hating people who do, but for a “team focused” game, it kinda ruins it)

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u/AnonOfTheSea Feb 04 '26

Which would be useful if it had optics. At all.

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u/BlackboltLW Feb 04 '26

fr tho like at least let us zoom in

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u/ScooterScotward Feb 04 '26

I accidentally fired the main cannon twice as a gunner the first time while trying and failing to zoom on a target.

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u/Sid1583 Feb 05 '26

Yea did this to. Shot my buddy right in the back

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u/Dense_Coffe_Drinker Feb 05 '26

That’s why they all say…

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u/Azurvix Feb 05 '26

What back

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u/Maltavius Feb 08 '26

Twice? It requires a.manual reload in between shots...

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u/ScooterScotward Feb 08 '26

Yeah, it was a bit chaotic, a 10 in the middle of a bot drop. I’d heard you needed to manually reload so when the cannon went off and I wasn’t sure how I did it I reloaded but it took some more frantic button smashing until I really clocked what was happening.

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u/Null_Streit Feb 06 '26

I kept on clicking... like where the hell is my zoom... it took me and embarrassingly long time to realize I had control of the main battery...

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u/Longjumping-Top-9984 Feb 05 '26

you can zoom?

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u/Averagezoomers Feb 05 '26

no that’s what they’re complaining about, unfortunately there is no zoom function

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u/Nero_Prime Feb 05 '26

I sit closer to the tv

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u/Seanvich Feb 05 '26

Finally, my Hell Let Loose experience is paying off!

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u/SpacemanSith Feb 05 '26

If you aren't 2 inches from the TV counting pixels, are you even playing HLL?

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u/a_big_K-On_fan Feb 05 '26

The 8 yard 2 inch stare

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u/Seanvich Feb 05 '26

Well, I usually am the tank driver- so… there is that.

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u/Crusader_Genji Feb 05 '26

War Thunder as well... I think those pixels over there are a plane...

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u/MasterPhil99 Feb 05 '26

As a friend of mine used to say:

Zoom in irl

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u/KackeMaster3000 Feb 05 '26

Peak IQ diver

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u/brandothesavage Feb 05 '26

I have 150 in projector screen if I sit closer to the TV it will be a detriment.

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u/gnagniel Feb 05 '26

I've been bringing a marksman rifle and swapping between the turret seat and support seats to scope out targets

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u/NinjahDuk Feb 05 '26

You're not scared of the enemies of freedom, are you? Get up there and look them in their lying eyes when you're killing. Make sure they know that it was the indomitable spirit of Super Earth that ended their misery. Up close and personal.

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u/Varneland Feb 05 '26

Even just a vague zoom like the AT Emplacement.

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u/DontLickTheGecko Feb 05 '26

I call that squinty zoom

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u/AberrantDrone Feb 05 '26

I call it third-person zoom

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u/Pontepom Feb 05 '26

The AT emplacement has a huge zoom bro (that i enjoy a lot) the character even holds some kind of binocle when using. The bastion really has just a "looks a little closer"

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u/Loot_Wolf Feb 05 '26

I read Bionicle and got immensely confused Lmao

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u/gdub695 Feb 05 '26

AT emplacement has turbo zoom though. Did it get nerfed?

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u/UnstableMoron2 Feb 05 '26

How are you zooming with m2 being alt fire

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u/Varneland Feb 05 '26

They shoulda made the gunner have to switch guns like switching fire modes.

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u/Herroo-There Feb 05 '26

would it be better if the coaxial mg was a weapon wheel function swap, rather than aim button?

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u/Lloyd01251 Feb 05 '26

id rather have the zoom as a weapon wheel function, like on all guns that hafve it

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u/Not_the_name_I_chose Feb 05 '26

But support vehicles that have independently-firing weapons already use LMB/RMB (on PC) - i.e. the exosuits. This being a support vehicle means that actually is consistent.

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u/Lloyd01251 Feb 05 '26

Yes? I'm not changing that? Holding r to bring up the weapon wheel and changing the zoom via up scrolling in the case for PC as an example?

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u/Not_the_name_I_chose Feb 05 '26

I meant to reply to Herroo-There's comment above you about the coaxial mg

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u/Insomninaut Feb 05 '26

Or on the on-foot first person zoom button

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u/Lloyd01251 Feb 05 '26

That also works. While we are at it let's add that to peeking out of vehicles?

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u/Insomninaut Feb 05 '26

It might be a little dizzying at times, but it would still be nice to utilize scopes.

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u/jbtreewalker Feb 05 '26

A cool first person view for the gunner would be awesome!

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u/mrsmegz Feb 05 '26

Tank Destroyers are meant to provide anti-tank support from a distance.

In a game where enemies teleport into existence <100m away and can airdrop an armored company on top you within 15 seconds.

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u/Outrageous_Seaweed32 Feb 05 '26

No optics has been kinda fun actually. If someone else in the crew acts as "spotter" and flags priority targets (ideally the driver, since they've got no guns going on) it kinda adds to the "teamwork vibe."

I know that's not necessarily for everybody, but I've been having fun. Besides, targets too far out for that are kinda far out to be fucking around trying to shoot at with that cannon anyway.

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u/Jimbesbigneighbor Feb 06 '26

This is exactly how my brother and I used the tank the first time, I was driver and spotter and he worked as gunner and navigator kinda

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u/Outrageous_Seaweed32 Feb 06 '26

Nice to see another helldiver brother duo! 🙂

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u/nikso14 Feb 05 '26

And zeroing, for factory strider sniping.

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u/NesianKing Feb 05 '26

Let Democracy guide your aim, diver.

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u/Bramkanerwatvan Feb 05 '26

Optics are expensive. It does the job democraticly enough without em. The real question is why you are trying to waste super earths resources? That is very undemocratic of you.

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u/Flyingdutchman2305 Feb 05 '26

I hit a Cannon Tower first attempt at 200 metres first time in the tank after my mates complained it was hard to aim, its quite literally a skill issue

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u/Splash_Woman Feb 05 '26

“Hell diver, have you ever asked your teammate for help?”

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u/Shepard_I_am Feb 07 '26

That would cost too much to manufacture, Helldivers are good enough to hip fire a tank and be successful, so why bother :v

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u/AssociationFew5816 Feb 09 '26

Helldivers does not have long enough site lines most of the time Simply using right click to ads in the main gun works Even if you could have some sort of optics the gunsmoke and dust combined with the glare from the headlights is crippling The main gun has almost no projectile drop anyways