"Squad lost. Deploying full replacements"

@jpjfrey5673

Ай бұрын

And just like that, they're forgotten. The grim reality of war

@mclovin2408

Ай бұрын

@@jpjfrey5673every helldiver accepts that they may likely die, none of them are forgotten, for every helldiver lost we will kill 1000 bots and 5000 bugs.

@jpjfrey5673

Ай бұрын

@@mclovin2408 yeah. According to the propagated "truth" Reality is much grimmer. As the comparison shows

@mclovin2408

Ай бұрын

@@jpjfrey5673 the comparison fails to show the justice that followed their heroic sacrifice.

@jpjfrey5673

Ай бұрын

@@mclovin2408 there wasn't any to begin with. You sign up, you survive training (20% is funny), you die within the next few minutes of deployment, you get replaced. "Justice" would be glassing Super Earth

The fact that we never see the Helldiver with the MG die suggests that perhaps the reason we’re hearing about this story is because of that one diver who lived to tell the tale

@Ublivion01

Ай бұрын

Haven’t you seen war movies? The guy with the MG either dies first in glory, or never dies. It’s the curse and blessing of the MG. Liberty praise I can get one of my own someday 🥹

@Wildgamer2205

Ай бұрын

@@Ublivion01 Riben from Saving Private Ryan is a prime example of the latter case because he was the sole survivor of the ranger squad and he had a BAR an LMG

@killerhellhound

Ай бұрын

As someone who semi regually uses the MG and take on hordes of bots yes its a coin flip you die first or you blaze away in glory

@Ublivion01

Ай бұрын

@@Wildgamer2205 animal mother from Full Metal Jacket as well never died and had a BIG ASS gun

@WhatIsSanity

Ай бұрын

We do see four bodies, MG guy tries to call extract and never makes it past the first button.

1:03 A friendly reminder to fill out your C-01 forms before engaging in any activity that may result in a child.

@JellyGeneralShorts

Ай бұрын

Thank you for serving your glorious super earth. You have been given a higher citizen clearance

@JoltBlade

29 күн бұрын

Aswell as the 180 day wait before these activities

@JellyGeneralShorts

29 күн бұрын

@@JoltBlade you just made your democracy officer proud, sir

@Totally.not.gay23

27 күн бұрын

I love being gay, I can get freaky without having to fill out C-01 forms.

@jpmrwiggles121

11 күн бұрын

helldivers in active combat are exempt from that form.

The part that hit the hardest for me was when she was staring at the man she loves laying on the bed and it just cuts to him laying dead but in the same position. Shows the reality of how badly things can go and the only thing you are left with is memories. 😢

@weldonwin

2 ай бұрын

It's made worse when you consider how young Helldivers generally are. They canonically enlist at an average age of 18-19 and have a roughly one in five chance of surviving their first drop. They're kids, hopped up on propaganda and patriotic fervour, then thrown into a meat-grinder for the benefit of powerful people, far away who will never see anything of the horrors the Helldivers drop into.

@AidanClutter

Ай бұрын

@@weldonwinvietnam

@jpjfrey5673

Ай бұрын

​@@AidanClutterany World War. And nowadays.....Ukraine....... Plenty of Russian and Ukrainian kids are sent to war, to feed into the ego of one man and line the pockets of another country

@GooiYingChyi

Ай бұрын

She died not long after. It leaves little room to endure through grief.

@stoneman206

Ай бұрын

@@weldonwin i have to report you to the Ministry of Truth

"Youre sacrifice will be remembered, whoever you were!"

@Paladin.Brandis

Ай бұрын

Yeah that’s why veterans fucking kill themselves every day right lol? 😂 I wouldn’t even want anyone knowing I served even though it’s a HUGE PART of my life. It is my life.

The Terminid front is where Helldivers go to become real soldiers. The Automaton front is where Helldivers go to become real legends. Super Earth shall never die ✊

@jackr2287

2 ай бұрын

I think you mean Game Keepers. Bug divers are game wardens to me.

@Scalespirit121

Ай бұрын

Illuminate front is where legends become gods.

@basic_avarage_person

Ай бұрын

automaton front is where helldiver become corpse

@karal_the_crazy

Ай бұрын

@@jackr2287yup and us both divers are the disassembly squad

@KalanWerling

Ай бұрын

It's all fun and games with the bugs and collecting oil. But when it comes time to fight the socialist toasters...you.... you.... *Malevolon Creek flashbacks*

A friend of mine was interested in Helldivers and the 2 videos I sent him were the game intro, to show the propaganda, and this to show the reality. You nailed the feel of being a Helldiver in a way I have not seen anyone else do.

@TheMrCGW

2 ай бұрын

And the friend saw them both! Well done Roruka! Nicely done

@saitamaonepunchman8176

8 күн бұрын

thats a great way to intro someone to the setting

Being killed on the last button of the mission terminal is SO F TRUE

This is what I’d want out of a helldivers anime 4 trainees and like 2 seasons of character development just for the final episode to just be this.

@arieson7715

Ай бұрын

Serious adult-catered animation doesn't have to only be anime.

@friendlycrusader8892

Ай бұрын

2 seasons when boot camp is like 72 hours!

@Victoria_Bloodmoon

Ай бұрын

@arieson7715 In all fairness, though, animated (western or eastern) shows tend to do an excellent job at showing off the theme and tone of that kind of world. The only Live action I can think of from recent times that's done justice to it's world setting is the fallout show. Edit: an example would be the animations sodaz makes and this one as well. If a show was made, it would have to have the same tone and energy as the Halo ODST live action, and not end up like literally any Halo Live action series has.

@mclovin2408

Ай бұрын

@@friendlycrusader8892 well a lot can happen in 72 hours so I’m thinking season 1 would be a group of friends signing up for training then season 2 could be the actual training and then the last episode would be a melevelon creek mission where they complete the mission but fail to extract.

@mclovin2408

Ай бұрын

@@arieson7715 yeah but with the whole vibe of the game it just seems like the entire universe is one big anime

That last bit where the orbital strike lands and cuts to black on impact, ALWAYS sends a chill up my spine no matter how many times I watch it. With how it all played out, the music AND the visuals, SO damn good! I'm glad YT randomly recommended this to me, awesome work!

Fantastic work. ICaptured the bot front really well and added a little more realism grusome detail to the gunfights.

@Roruka8

2 ай бұрын

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it :)

“Freedom doesn’t come free”

That friendly fire hit me in my soul.

@mclovin2408

Ай бұрын

I can’t count how many times I’ve died to my own stratagem, often because it’s been shot out of my hand and I have to make a futile attempt to run away from the 500kg bomb at my feet

@WhatIsSanity

Ай бұрын

@@mclovin2408 Why run when you can just keep shooting for a few more seconds?

@hobothekingforever

Ай бұрын

​@@WhatIsSanity Helldivers should never die. They must live to a patriotic death while spreading democracy against many bots or being bugs. Speak like this again or I will report you to a democracy officer for treason.

I managed to live with one helldiver for a maximum of 3 landings. And that's the best case!

@zuberk8812

Ай бұрын

A true legend

@Baugette_Warrior

Ай бұрын

@@zuberk8812 ive once managed to survive 15 on suicide mission, bot front too. smoke stratagems are essential

@Wayofswords

Ай бұрын

For me it was 20 the trick was suicidal moving from cover to cover and good use of air and positioning with team

@mclovin2408

Ай бұрын

I survived 2 helldive bot missions one destroy command centers the other was fabricators, I died on the 3rd mission as the 2nd to last survivor on extract citizens mission… Also yes I use the machine gun stratagem regularly.

@majorplothole2620

Ай бұрын

When I'm playing with (most of) my friends, I can basically survive indefinitely. But... When I'm playing with random-no-mics-who-think-380mm-barrage-is-a-close-air-support-weapon........ Most I've done is four drops in a row.

Dude you couldn’t have captured the duality of war better. Like this brings me back to joining the actual military, feeling hyped, kicking ass, and then just pure hell. This is absolutely amazing!

I just noticed, you synced the calm moments of the song with the emotional segments of the video, the decision to enlist, finding love, and the protagonist becoming a casualty, while the metal segments are played during the combat. Don't know if that was intentional but it's genius storytelling. 10/10

They were the first divers to get past one mission. They thought themselves invincible until we went to the creak. Each helldivers baptism in fire it decided who was strong enough to survive.

This shot at 1:07 is carrying the whole video. Even if they're brave, otherwise completely zealous, the fact those people are seen as completely disposable is really sad. I like the exercise of taking a fictionnal world and switch the tune. Very good work !

This is fantastic. You’re a born storyteller, my friend, with an incredible technical and directorial ability as well. The match cut from the ‘lover’ in bed/being dead was CHEFS KISS filmmaking. Keep it up!

The best part in my opinion is, how the true horrors of war are shown, when in the end noone wins.

@mclovin2408

Ай бұрын

Except for super earth, and a win for super earth is a win for me!

@nicholailatchana339

16 күн бұрын

Doesnt determine who is right, only who is left.

@mclovin2408

16 күн бұрын

@@nicholailatchana339 super earth will be left

Saw this on Facebook and had to find the artist, 10/10 subscribed

Retired as a lvl90...I've been ignoring my duty far too long. Time for me to dive again, time to avenge all the lost divers.

@aliaslanz8627

Ай бұрын

See you at the front, sir o7

This is amazing! Fantastic work roruka

@Roruka8

2 ай бұрын

Thank you! 😄

That shot of the barrage shells against the sun, casting shadows and cutting through the clouds... That keeps me coming back.

All I could hear inside my when her hand was chopped off: "SWEET LIBERTY MY ARM!"

It's so fricking good man. It may not be made by the best cgi or best artists with a lot of time to draw but it has soul man.

I don't know a lot about animating but that was really cool

That cut from "Bed to Dead" was so fuckign clean god damn, and the eye movements behind her visor giving them feels yo.

This animation had every right to go absolutely hard

For freedom! For oil! For Earthen values! Together we shall prevail against the nations of dark that form the axis of evil. Did I mention the oil?

*Video approved by the ministry of truth for true patriotism your medal awaits you at your local democracy officer*

Coming back 4 weeks later to rewatch yet again. Sad this hasn't blown up like it deserves to.

Wow! That was absolutely incredible!

A better love story in less than a minute, than Twilight across four novels.

Helldivers is all fun and chaos until you really think about...this being how it really is for them

This is metal as hell! \m/

This is epic, share this elsewhere it needs more attention!!!

1:13 "COME ON YOU B******, I'VE GOT YOUR NUMBER! I'VE GOT ALL YOUR NUMBERRRRRRS!"

went out like a true soldier, godbless

Something funny happened that just felt epic for some reason,I was still a cadet,on a bot mission with higher levels,I wad getting reinforced just as the pelican left,but I stilk landed and got out the pod,there was a machine gun and I could still use stratagems,picked up the gun,dropped a 500kg and let loose till I died again

It's kinda crazy how damn tragic a Helldivers story can be. Also that part where the shot cuts from the lover being alive to dead remi is me alot of the trauma team comic from cp2077

I loved the detail of the gunfire clearing the smoke at first, but damn, I wasn’t expecting the feels. Best original HD animation I’ve seen. Your cinematography skills are fantastic! Bravo! 👏

The stratagem sound hit hard

I found it! This got attention on reddit, hope it spreads here on yt.

Best thing I've ever seen about helldivers 🚨

Deserves way more views. Absolutely phenomenal work. And remember, y'all, "Scenes like these are happening all over the galaxy!"

holy f. shit. music? great. story? classic. "Rest your eyes now soldier, you did your part." o7

"Every time you die and get reinforced, that's a new citizen" put into perspective

that is hell of a perspective shift from the gratuitous patriotism and cinematic heroism we've come to know and love from most of the community, well done

Holy hell you did so much with such constrained animation! I really felt this from start to finish, and as others have said the transition at 1:08 was a brutal gut punch. Absolutely fantastic work.

This was a good animation loved it, i hope part 2 comes out mate! Loved your work the storyline and character development was spot on

Only a true diver does not shy away from bot missions. Wasat's liberation MO awaits!

This is really well done, soldier. Keep it up!

Loving the ''You must be this tall to dive'' !!!😆

The part when the scene cuts to that guy laying cold on the ground really hit me in the feels. Must say, you did a really damn good job. I wish to see more sooner or later (No rush, animation, drawing, coloring, ect. takes a lot of time..)

BROOOOO. Why did this hit so hard....!?!?!?? This gave me the chills. Well done!

Lost for words in this. The horrors of war being so raw. The struggle to live is endless.

I understand this animation. These are all rookies going into an automata mission without knowing what to do, so they get wrecked. I always say it's best to bring an experienced Helldiver with you when you first start out fighting robots. They'll teach you the ins and outs of spilling oil and how to really handle yourself. My theory why Melevelon Creek was so bad was because it was when a fresh wave of rookies were sent to it without knowing what they were doing, like myself. So we were outgunned and not properly geared at first.

Well, I'm going back to the front to help my brothers who are still fighting.

wow! watta piece of art!!! great great work w this. really hits a diver in the feels.

This short is absolutely perfect

dude this was so good. keep going

"when you fights bugs, you are a helldivers when you start fighting automatons you becoma a citizen" -Democracy

This would've just been some other fan fiction... if it weren't for the music bro... that music choice alone almost made me wanna cry 🫠

Great animation dude! This deserves way more views

Fuck dude you know your good because of the feelings i got during the ending, the ability to tell such a good story in 2 minutes is phenomenal

I love this story and the animation was awesome! Keep it up!

I feel that Helldivers is the type of satire that doesn't need to explicitly say how fucked shit is in order for us to realize it, so you can playfully join the satire, but these types of things where it makes you not only know how fucked it us, but also like, EXPERIENCE in a more serious tone how fucked it is, really makes you think about how fucked this universe is

damn that was good. hope to see a full mini animated series out of this.

I remembered why I am familiar with the style of this animation. The animation in this video is the same as Strike Force Heroes! Such nostalgia!

TRAINING? HAH I HAVE NO TRAINING AND YET I STILL DOMINATE THE GROUND YOU FOUGHT WELL KID👍

Well done. Direct impact to the feels. Good effect on target.

Dam. This was amazing.

This... One... Hit... Hard... Amazing work!

You guys have no business being this talented. I love watching fan art of games I play, love this.

My only regret is that I can't like it more than once. Subscribed. Wonderful story telling. Hits right in the feels. Great work @Roruka!

I love the art style and story. this is just awesome! insta subscribe from this!

Damn good animation, really captures the reality of the war

It hits because theres been so many times where im killed right at that extract beacon. And youd think they just slump over to the flooe. But holy, seeing that position is like, damn that sucks

Heres a detail I think nobody actually noticed, actually reflects on the helldiver's life span, so when she got her buzz cut, she died with the same buz cut, it didn't even grow close to what she had before, hair usually takes about 6 months to grow back from my full buzz cut, which means she wasn't a helldiver for very long

insanely cool

THIS GOT ME FEELIN' PATRIOTIC

One major thing you miss, SEAF service, citizens have to do around 2 years of SEAF service to be able to join the Helldiver Corps, one simply cannot just slap on the belly and join the Helldivers

Love this, some great work!

Holy shit, this is so good. Good choice on music for great art

Simple, but very well executed. Bravo.

Absolutely incredible work!

“Their sacrifice will not be forgotten, nor the incremental gains they achieved”

My democracy officer told me "Just as victors celebrate victory without thinking about the obvious loss of life, similarly the democracy rejoices in the lives lost for the cause with pride rather than weep for them for they went out with a bang, like a legend, LIKE A HELLDIVER." Some years back when I was still a skull admiral I had the great pleasure of meeting General Brasch, he was using a bile titan's leg (that he killed by simply staring at it too hard) as a toothpick. I asked him, "How does one do more for the cause?" He simply responds "With each victory you become strong, not because of how many you killed but because you survived. With each victory you have the wishes of the lives lost resting upon your shoulder and fulfilling their will becomes your responsibility and in return they grant you strength. Keep pushing helldiver, keep winning, can't you hear it? EVERYBODY IS CHEERING FOR YOU!"

Great job!!! Keep up the good work.

Well, the typical four cadets - zero cover, the machine gunner shoots at full height, the main character, instead of retreating to cover and calling stratagems from there, also does it at full height in front of the machine gun devastators. The result is logical, which is why there are few of us at the front with automata.

god damn, this is fucking good, well done brow.

This was sick.

Wow... That is perfect

This is amazing.

This is amazing!

Just discovered Nick DePirro from this vid. Thanks - he's great!

This is awesome

damn that was good

wow this video is really awesome