I had a debate with some guy who kept saying "they call it super earth because they're fascist" and no other explanation. It drove me up the wall. Ok, they're fascist, but why is it called super earth and not just earth? Calling it super earth implies theres another earth. Then I got called a fascist and they blocked me. I'm glad you said this so I guess Super Earth might be the human homeworld after earth fell... which might explain why the humans are the way they are. They turned to "managed democracy" in order to ensure their homeworld doesnt fall again. Which is neat, I like when there's a reason for why someone is doing sus things.
It's likely they were made by the Cyborgs, who were humans, as a back up last ditch effort after they lost to Super Earth and Cyberstan was "democratized"
@@SlaaneshChampionMako My theory is that they're not fully robotic at all, and are actually some kind of transferred consciousness onto robot bodies (like Necrons from Warhammer 40k) and are actually very much human in how they think, but Super Earth doesn't want it's citizens thinking that we're fighting other humans (even radically changed ones) because it breaks the "humanity united under democracy" propaganda they spread, so they just make Helldivers and other SEAF soldiers think the robots are mindless machines whose only purpose is to ruin our way of life.
@@SlaaneshChampionMakoDid they relay lost or or did they upgraded themselves and super Eath propaganda convinced people they defeated the Cyborgs and them found a completely not related mechanic thread
havent touched on hdii lore but in first game cyborgs were seporatist group of turboaugmented humans with limited full metal robot forces. I guess in second game we are clearing out remains of this self replicating asset of their.
Kommissars were most charismatic in first game here they are again. I think arrowhead struck a gold for all classical COD kids (like me) making a whole caricature wwii german-soviet mix of a faction.
@@kolper6799To be fair the automatons are all AI whereas the cyborgs from helldivers 1 were human/machine hybrids so it stands to reason they’d be more charismatic. Been a while since helldivers 1 but I remember they imprisoned the cyborg leadership and helldivers 2 takes place 100 years later so it seems the remaining cyborgs who went full borg or maybe their AI creations are trying to invade and get them back
I love that everything about the Automatons is designed to instill as much menace possible. I think thats an intentional part on the robots because they want to scare us as a battle tactic.
No joke, during a civilian extraction mission i SWEAR i heard a bit say "they're making me do this" and another say "please help" I am convinced i didn't mishear because i heard it from two separate instances. Luckily I was trained right by the ministry of load screen tips and put lead into them for trying to stay my hand with deplomacy
Yeah the low tier bots with the swrds (and maybe other types?) Are actually Helldivers and SEAF and settlers that have been taken prisoner and turned into automatons so wouldnt be a surprise to hear. All the more reason for their fellow citizens of super earth to put down the socialist automaton menace.
I do wonder about them. If I remember rightly, the cyborgs in helldivers 1 were mostly just guys with robot parts. Helldivers 2 takes place one hundred years after, and the automatons not only seem to be far more machine than man, with only a skull showing on them, but they seem far more militarised with huge bunkers and machine gun nests. Maybe the survivors set about scheming for revenge.
An Automaton is not a soulless abomination because it is a machine, but because it refuses Liberty. Always remember to deliver Democracy at center mass and in healthy quantities.
I’m imagining if the cyborgs from the first game and possibly the automotons just accepted *LIBERTY,* and were citizens or possibly Helldivers against the Termanids.💀
Seeing as we have helldivers outfits with prosthetics depending on the level and reason of augmentation they might just be normal citizens? @@wardenstone6021
they did a pretty good job making the automatons distinct from terminators. it's clear they have ideas, language, autonomy, and separate streams of consciousness. they aren't a hivemind or just following orders because of their programming. they follow orders because they *want* to, like a person. this honestly might make them scarier because they all possess critical thinking and rational judgement ability, even if their basic unit's direct combat ability may be shoddy. their patrols still have the awareness to find and engage you if you aren't stealthy enough. a thinking enemy is an enemy that can improve over time, strategize, and come up with new tactics. I hope they expand on this and make the automatons smarter as the war goes on due to them gaining experience and using it to learn and improve.
My theory is that they were once human probably survivors of the cyborgs in the first game but they uploaded themselves into an AI consciousness there are properly indoctrinated, but they still have self-awareness and independence which would explain why they have things like commissars. It’s probably keep them in line. I wouldn’t be surprised if they operate in a similar way to super earth when it comes to how controlled society is
So kind like the quote of Napoleon, "You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war." Two example I can think of is the Veitnam War and the Afghanistan War.
Something that I didn’t expect about this game was how angry the automatons seem. I love it. They aren’t mindless robots operating on cold logic. They’re pissed off.
_HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE._
I noticed that as well just by a coincident while I was standing still cause I had recorded a clip. There is different types of chants as well. Really fun detail!
Was doing stealth on malevelon creek just now, crawling my way to evac, and this huge column come my way, chanting like this. Spooked the shit outta me
I you listen closely to their chanting you can make out what they're chanting about. "CY-BER-STAN" "CAN'T KEEP HER DOWN" "GET BACK UP" "GO TO WAR" Despite the automatons being depicted as simple killing machines. The many things they do like chanting, using corpses in their bases for intimidation, etc. Suggests otherwise. They're fully aware of what they are doing.
And they absolutely _despise_ the Helldivers and everything they stand for. You can hear them calling you 'scum' in firefights and one unit literally shrieks out Super Earth propaganda to mock us, I think.
@@Low_commotion Then it later comes back to bite them when the Sentients and Automatons join forces and they become terrifyingly unstoppable adversaries.
What i love is how the patrol reacts when the player makes a noise. The Commisar stops and only two of the faster automatons run to where the noise was. Assuming the player had just turned around and legged it, I'd wager the patrol would have returned to their route. It is actually possible to play this game quite stealthily, evading patrols as much as possible and only engaging if you can wipe them out before they send a flare.
The patrols also react to events like stratagems being called in elsewhere. It's especially evident on difficulty 8-9 when you have to avoid the bots on stuff like a command bunker mission due to how bullshit they are but if you sneak up, drop a 500kg bomb on a light automaton outpost and in the process all the bots present die, any nearby patrols that were in a certain radius will start arriving at the impact site to investigate for a couple minutes.
I have over 800 hours in the first game and the very first time i fought the automotons i instantly knew they where the old borgs. They even have the same voice lines but more glitchy like "super earth will fall" and you can even hear them say "helldiver scum" as there getting zapped at the end of the video. the berserkers some times have the same psycho scream and laugh as the butchers in the first game as well. Im really curious as to how much we discover the longer the galactic war goes on.
Me and my friend have a theory that Automatons were created by a group of AIs that achieved singularity from an alien species and began conquering planets.
Lmao ok I see it now. That was a Commissar that was doing the chanting. Funny ain't it the Automatons having Commissars like the Imperial Guard of WH40K while the Helldivers themselves look like Cadian forces 😂
I mean... there's literally rip-off W40K dreadnoughts as units in the game, and the walkers are basically combined Star wars scout walkers with Imperial guard walkers. And then theres the mid-sized automatons that look close to Mechanicus Robots and the tanks that are 100% a scaled down Baneblade basic chassis... so yer heavily W40K inspired designs because there's a LOT of thematic overlap between them. I'd bet my left nut the devs are W40K fans, with all the great "humanity first" vibes.
I also like how they spun things around by having such a fascist military society to be so goofy, their soldiers are like frat boys out on a party vs the serious tone of Starship Troopers meanwhile they're chanting Liberty and Democracy when what they're doing is the actual opposite of that 🤣
I hope they gotta second amendment or some shit you would not catch me colonizing dick unless I'm armed or am already a Helldiver XD. The bugs look scary and the bots sound scary.
After fighting since launch week on the creek I went to help out in Durgen and was hunting the borgs down by this sounds since I got so used to it here with low visibility it became easy to track in open desert, stay strong divers
As a Helldiver who has done several stealth operations, infiltrating automaton bases and taking them out silently, I am far too familiar with this song and have learned to love it, since it gives clear and constant auditory detection on where a patrol is, where they’re going and if they will be a problem. (I’m not joking, I’m still waiting on them to add silent takedown, Arrowhead, PLEASE)
Just yesterday, a godless unarmed automaton tried to negotiate for “peace.” I immediately saw through the awful attempt at a Trojan Horse and dispensed 500KG of Justice™️. My children will NOT be speaking automaton or eating bolts for breakfast. Glory to Super Earth!!❤️❤️❤️
You stay strong out there solider! Don't listen to those bots tortured voices. Remember The only song louder than your inevitable death is the sounds of Liberty & Freedom they'll hear before it!
I'm still shocked at how good the game look and sound. AT this price, from this small studio, it's trampling over the slop AAA studios have served us in the past decade.
nah terminators aren’t organized like this. They’re more like a hivemind while the Automatons have a more individualistic identity (the commissar is calling cadence like an army drill sgt)
i think it's "you cant hide" instead of do not run but i have been listening to this for like 20 minutes tryna figure out what they're saying so I may be going crazy
It's either that or this: "Cyberstan! Can't keep her down! Back in town! Auto-ma-toooons!" Basically saying "They may have won the war, but they can't keep us down!"
@@rekrn12345 It's not static, it's voice lines put through so many filters no one has any idea what it's actually saying, but just like the sound effects for the Probe Droid of Star Wars, there IS something to be heard, but its so unrecognizable it's up to everyone's interpretation.
I've heard the Cyborgs say "I can't stop" when attacking and "Sweet Liberty" when killed, I have a very strong belief that they capture and 'convert' people into automatons... and those ones with all the skulls/ close combat beasties are the ones that were driven to madness during the process.
Re-purposed Berserker arm as a support weapon would be cool. Or even an armor set that converted your arm into a chainsaw or something that would be sick
@@TommieTheCommie i showed your response to the democracy officer. I saw his eyes move from your comment, to your name, and land on your profile pic. He then fell on the ground, convulsed, and died. If you see a red line going from your feet to a ship in low orbit, this is the reason.
Since some commentators here mention that they hear "Can't keep her down", i came up with the idea. In the first game privates on your ship could say that "a crazy scientist started replacing body parts on people she had kidnapped". She. So automatons can actually hail their creator in those chants.
Odds are they are once humans that somehow found a way to fully convert themselves into machines. In the first game, there was a very similar faction (with the same logo and color scheme, plus Helldivers 2 Super Earth propaganda have outright pointed this out as well) known as the Cyborgs. So whatever part of the Cyborg faction that was left in exile after the events of the first game likely found a way to go full automaton.
@RichSmithsonthough the propaganda stations are also on the big side. And lore there's been seperate "socialist" uprisings in the past that were purely human, including the one that first called for the creation of the Helldivers. However I do have a theory that these Automata have some truth to the "baby stealing" propaganda where they are actively capturing and converting those with low Patriotism scores, which would mostly include children, so they can convert them. And then everyone whose converted just sort of lives as a disembodied consciousness, while occasionally taking over the robot bodies to either better direct them in combat, or to play out some aspect of their past personality, or as like I theorized most of them are "children" so "to play and explore" might be a more apt phrase.
If I remember correctly the lore goes like this. The cyborgs from the first game were humans that started an uprising but lost. Hinted to in multiple voice lines like the one where the engineer on your ship goes “ we re-enacted the battle of liberty peak” they lost that one and went into exile. Turning themselves into cyborgs. Now in this game they’re automatons. Are they automatons or did they make an army of them since they don’t wanna go to war and lose members anymore? No idea. My moneys on the making robots and not being them one though cause that’s the only way the automatons could have a leader. Edit. After a little bit of delving deep I found a Twitter message of 2 years ago in code of the helldivers Twitter. When translated. The code is from the cyborgs. We’re they call them their children. So long story short the cyborgs created them. Search up helldivers 1 code message encrypted and you’ll find a Reddit thread that decrypted it
had my first experience of the automatons today, squad successfully took a base fairly easily., and then i saw loads of red eyes slowly marching out fo the fog while singing this and opening fire while i jumped on a turret, my diver screaming "for the federation" as an explosion took him out. So amazing, fully of the opinion that the game fully enters its prime against automotons
Goes kind of hard. EDIT: Not as hard as Super Earth's anthem, of course, in case my Ministry of Truth agent is watching. This edit was not a result of any legally binding contract or coercion.
Been playing for a week so far and everything I hear from the internet is that I should be VERY afraid of the Automatons and just stick to killing bugs.
I have a few videos I am going to release of the Automotons yelling "kill me, I don't want to do this", "I don't want to hurt them" and just screaming as if in pain.
Chant Lines - PAIN CUTS THROUGH - CAN'T KEEP IT(HER) DOWN - YOU CAN'T KILL - A NEW DAWN Cadence Lines - (beat) - STEP - (beat) - KILL - (beat) - A - (half beat) - NEW DAWN
(This comment complimenting the automatons is under investigation for treason)
May you always have a vote.
Always trust the Ministry of Truth
@@xGoldenArrow
NO ONE EXPECTS THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH!!!
For libertea
Does your neighbor lift? They could be a cyborg!
I heard an Automaton gloat "Super Earth will fall again" in combat at one point. They also constantly call Helldivers "scum" in combat
That's rad.
They use the same voice lines as in HD1 but slightly modified with a different filter
That's what a traitor would say...@@cryw1092
I had a debate with some guy who kept saying "they call it super earth because they're fascist" and no other explanation.
It drove me up the wall. Ok, they're fascist, but why is it called super earth and not just earth? Calling it super earth implies theres another earth.
Then I got called a fascist and they blocked me.
I'm glad you said this so I guess Super Earth might be the human homeworld after earth fell... which might explain why the humans are the way they are. They turned to "managed democracy" in order to ensure their homeworld doesnt fall again. Which is neat, I like when there's a reason for why someone is doing sus things.
Vergil approves
Automatons are strangely human. Singing marching songs, being supressed by gun fire.
It's likely they were made by the Cyborgs, who were humans, as a back up last ditch effort after they lost to Super Earth and Cyberstan was "democratized"
@@SlaaneshChampionMako My theory is that they're not fully robotic at all, and are actually some kind of transferred consciousness onto robot bodies (like Necrons from Warhammer 40k) and are actually very much human in how they think, but Super Earth doesn't want it's citizens thinking that we're fighting other humans (even radically changed ones) because it breaks the "humanity united under democracy" propaganda they spread, so they just make Helldivers and other SEAF soldiers think the robots are mindless machines whose only purpose is to ruin our way of life.
@@SlaaneshChampionMakoDid they relay lost or or did they upgraded themselves and super Eath propaganda convinced people they defeated the Cyborgs and them found a completely not related mechanic thread
@@viniciusrocha7797shut it down
havent touched on hdii lore but in first game cyborgs were seporatist group of turboaugmented humans with limited full metal robot forces. I guess in second game we are clearing out remains of this self replicating asset of their.
what's even better about this is that the commissar(bot with the sword and pistol) is leading the group lol
Kommissars were most charismatic in first game here they are again. I think arrowhead struck a gold for all classical COD kids (like me) making a whole caricature wwii german-soviet mix of a faction.
Comisars are also the ones with flares so i guess they are leaders
@@kolper6799To be fair the automatons are all AI whereas the cyborgs from helldivers 1 were human/machine hybrids so it stands to reason they’d be more charismatic.
Been a while since helldivers 1 but I remember they imprisoned the cyborg leadership and helldivers 2 takes place 100 years later so it seems the remaining cyborgs who went full borg or maybe their AI creations are trying to invade and get them back
@@grey984 Only the pistol ones can shoot flares? That'll help my future attempts at stealth.
@pretzelbomb6105 all of the grunt bots can shoot flares, but iirc flares shot by commisars bring in more bots and more dangerous bots
I love that everything about the Automatons is designed to instill as much menace possible. I think thats an intentional part on the robots because they want to scare us as a battle tactic.
They sometimes put helldiver helmets on spikes outside their outposts, so yeah - terror and vindictiveness is definitely there.
@@ThrashingMadPLStreamy They also wear trophies from what I've heard
@@ThrashingMadPLStreamy The Hell DIvers *are* the last line of offense. I wouldn't blame the robots for not liking us xD
Not related but rain world pfp spotted
Scug pfp...
No joke, during a civilian extraction mission i SWEAR i heard a bit say "they're making me do this" and another say "please help"
I am convinced i didn't mishear because i heard it from two separate instances. Luckily I was trained right by the ministry of load screen tips and put lead into them for trying to stay my hand with deplomacy
Yeah the low tier bots with the swrds (and maybe other types?) Are actually Helldivers and SEAF and settlers that have been taken prisoner and turned into automatons so wouldnt be a surprise to hear. All the more reason for their fellow citizens of super earth to put down the socialist automaton menace.
I do wonder about them. If I remember rightly, the cyborgs in helldivers 1 were mostly just guys with robot parts. Helldivers 2 takes place one hundred years after, and the automatons not only seem to be far more machine than man, with only a skull showing on them, but they seem far more militarised with huge bunkers and machine gun nests. Maybe the survivors set about scheming for revenge.
Some also say “die hell diver scum”
There’s sacrificial pedestals and lots of cages full of human positioned bodies. Maybe captured humans are made into these
I swear I hear the Robots chant "Bad People Die" in one part.
I mean, the Hell Divers are the last line of Offense xD
An Automaton is not a soulless abomination because it is a machine, but because it refuses Liberty. Always remember to deliver Democracy at center mass and in healthy quantities.
I’m imagining if the cyborgs from the first game and possibly the automotons just accepted *LIBERTY,* and were citizens or possibly Helldivers against the Termanids.💀
@@luckyanubis_ Lol pretty sure if they accepted liberty and democracy they would still be an enemy just for being different and deemed inadequate
Sympathizing with an enemy is considered treason
DEMOCRACY! ⬆➡⬇⬇⬇
Well then why did we make those robots in the first place!?
CYBERSTAN!
CAN'T KEEP HER DOWN!
BACK IN TOWN!
AUTO-MA-TOOOOONS!
Yeah that’s probably what they’re saying though I think heard “BLOOD AND STEEL” somewhere in there but probably not.
They said cyberstan? By name? Interesting..
AUTO-MA-TOOOOONS! 🗣️🗣️🗣️
@@woosaaa3486the devs seem to have made it somewhat clear that the automatons and cyborgs are different so i wonder how they will mix
Seeing as we have helldivers outfits with prosthetics depending on the level and reason of augmentation they might just be normal citizens? @@wardenstone6021
_"Do you hear that, Mr.Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability. It is the sound of your Death."_
My name is Neo
they did a pretty good job making the automatons distinct from terminators. it's clear they have ideas, language, autonomy, and separate streams of consciousness. they aren't a hivemind or just following orders because of their programming. they follow orders because they *want* to, like a person. this honestly might make them scarier because they all possess critical thinking and rational judgement ability, even if their basic unit's direct combat ability may be shoddy. their patrols still have the awareness to find and engage you if you aren't stealthy enough. a thinking enemy is an enemy that can improve over time, strategize, and come up with new tactics. I hope they expand on this and make the automatons smarter as the war goes on due to them gaining experience and using it to learn and improve.
My theory is that they were once human probably survivors of the cyborgs in the first game but they uploaded themselves into an AI consciousness there are properly indoctrinated, but they still have self-awareness and independence which would explain why they have things like commissars. It’s probably keep them in line. I wouldn’t be surprised if they operate in a similar way to super earth when it comes to how controlled society is
Or we are playing enders game and actively invading a planet in the Milky Way through a video game
Soldier are you wishing our enemy to kick our ass harder!?
I mean, yeah their bases are just fabricators and turrets, but they also have flags up, and are communicating with traitors, somehow.
So kind like the quote of Napoleon, "You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war."
Two example I can think of is the Veitnam War and the Afghanistan War.
I feel like they sing:
Heart of steel
Cant keep us down
Marching on
On to war
You might be right actually
Spot on
Damn
Or it could be:
Heart of Steal
Death to Mankind
Marching on
On to war
I can't unhear it
"One pork snack
Work every day
Burger king
Are you gay"
Dude.. How far did you have to go to get that 😂
I can't unhear this ...
You are legend, and I can't unhear this too.
You’ve poisoned my mind. This is hilarious. Haha
Burger King, lmao
Something that I didn’t expect about this game was how angry the automatons seem. I love it. They aren’t mindless robots operating on cold logic. They’re pissed off.
Imagine A.M from I have no mouth and I must scream then put him in a T-800 that's a automaton
They're pretty mad that their creators were enslaved
_HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE._
I noticed that as well just by a coincident while I was standing still cause I had recorded a clip. There is different types of chants as well. Really fun detail!
Was doing stealth on malevelon creek just now, crawling my way to evac, and this huge column come my way, chanting like this. Spooked the shit outta me
I you listen closely to their chanting you can make out what they're chanting about.
"CY-BER-STAN"
"CAN'T KEEP HER DOWN"
"GET BACK UP"
"GO TO WAR"
Despite the automatons being depicted as simple killing machines. The many things they do like chanting, using corpses in their bases for intimidation, etc. Suggests otherwise. They're fully aware of what they are doing.
And they absolutely _despise_ the Helldivers and everything they stand for. You can hear them calling you 'scum' in firefights and one unit literally shrieks out Super Earth propaganda to mock us, I think.
@@jahrusalem3658I mean, super earth are literally super nazi´s.
Cant blame them for hating us.
@@jahrusalem3658 I've had some apologise as I'm fighting them. Convinced they're using dead helldiver brains to power the machines
I think it's implied the cyborg faction from one made them, is posible they're infected with sentience
@@massgunner4152 They are the Cyborgs, just completely removed any of the human aspect. Probably moved their sentience from them to these new "husks".
"And we all. Lift. Together!"
It's fitting because the hyper-capitalist Corpus would indeed throw the socialist automatons into their debt camps 😅
@@Low_commotion Then it later comes back to bite them when the Sentients and Automatons join forces and they become terrifyingly unstoppable adversaries.
@@TheCrimsonElite666 and then the tenno have to come in and clean up the mess again
@@kaden-sd6vb Tenno: "Notto Disu Shitto Agen".
@@Low_commotionin canon the corpus would absolutely kill the automatons on sight since they don't like robots with feelings.
I hope someday someone uploads a compilation of the bot noises
Ikr. Need someone to find the files
Pretty sure this is the file th-cam.com/video/U5KOgaE3FG4/w-d-xo.html
Ah yes, the good old song of ↑→↓↓↓
lmao that cinematic "stepped on a twig" moment got me.
What i love is how the patrol reacts when the player makes a noise. The Commisar stops and only two of the faster automatons run to where the noise was. Assuming the player had just turned around and legged it, I'd wager the patrol would have returned to their route.
It is actually possible to play this game quite stealthily, evading patrols as much as possible and only engaging if you can wipe them out before they send a flare.
The patrols also react to events like stratagems being called in elsewhere. It's especially evident on difficulty 8-9 when you have to avoid the bots on stuff like a command bunker mission due to how bullshit they are but if you sneak up, drop a 500kg bomb on a light automaton outpost and in the process all the bots present die, any nearby patrols that were in a certain radius will start arriving at the impact site to investigate for a couple minutes.
[deleted by the cyber security bot after detecting an anti patriotic comment]
[Citizenship revoked]
Don't worry comrade, you can live with me sence you had citizenship revoked
@@TommieTheCommie Hello? Ministry of Truth? Yes, this man right here.
@@TommieTheCommieNot if Fleets orbital strikes have anything to say about it 😤
@@Italkmadshitlol but sharing is caring? Is it not?
@@TommieTheCommie ANTI-DEMOCRATIC RHEOTRIC DETECTED
And they say that helldivers 1 cyborgs and helldivers 2 automatons are different factions
It's been 100 years since HD1 when the cyborgs were pacified. This is a new faction that probably grew out of the remnants of the cyborgs.
@@Ebolaface or hear me out the dossiers are just propaganda pieces
I have over 800 hours in the first game and the very first time i fought the automotons i instantly knew they where the old borgs. They even have the same voice lines but more glitchy like "super earth will fall" and you can even hear them say "helldiver scum" as there getting zapped at the end of the video. the berserkers some times have the same psycho scream and laugh as the butchers in the first game as well.
Im really curious as to how much we discover the longer the galactic war goes on.
IIRC the Automatons are fighting to free their Cyborg creators who were enslaved by Super Earth after the first game.
Me and my friend have a theory that Automatons were created by a group of AIs that achieved singularity from an alien species and began conquering planets.
Lmao ok I see it now. That was a Commissar that was doing the chanting. Funny ain't it the Automatons having Commissars like the Imperial Guard of WH40K while the Helldivers themselves look like Cadian forces 😂
I mean... there's literally rip-off W40K dreadnoughts as units in the game, and the walkers are basically combined Star wars scout walkers with Imperial guard walkers. And then theres the mid-sized automatons that look close to Mechanicus Robots and the tanks that are 100% a scaled down Baneblade basic chassis... so yer heavily W40K inspired designs because there's a LOT of thematic overlap between them. I'd bet my left nut the devs are W40K fans, with all the great "humanity first" vibes.
@@GarlicAvenger You are 100% correct, Arrowhead are very open about their W40k inspiration, as well as star wars and starship troopers
I also like how they spun things around by having such a fascist military society to be so goofy, their soldiers are like frat boys out on a party vs the serious tone of Starship Troopers meanwhile they're chanting Liberty and Democracy when what they're doing is the actual opposite of that 🤣
@@bingusdingus39 yer I know, which is great. Need more devs like this. Fun > all.
Helldivers have "Democracy Officers" and practically universal snitching, so everything is under control
Hearing this and then having it suddenly stop is always terrifying
That chant is fucking terrifying. Imagine being a civilian colonist hearing it get louder and louder
I hope they gotta second amendment or some shit you would not catch me colonizing dick unless I'm armed or am already a Helldiver XD. The bugs look scary and the bots sound scary.
After fighting since launch week on the creek I went to help out in Durgen and was hunting the borgs down by this sounds since I got so used to it here with low visibility it became easy to track in open desert, stay strong divers
HEART OF STEEL
CANT KEEP US DOWN
MARCHING ON
ON TO WAR
Yes
"I don't stop. I'll never fall. I can't die, LIKE YOU CAAAAAN!"
As a Helldiver who has done several stealth operations, infiltrating automaton bases and taking them out silently, I am far too familiar with this song and have learned to love it, since it gives clear and constant auditory detection on where a patrol is, where they’re going and if they will be a problem. (I’m not joking, I’m still waiting on them to add silent takedown, Arrowhead, PLEASE)
Just yesterday, a godless unarmed automaton tried to negotiate for “peace.” I immediately saw through the awful attempt at a Trojan Horse and dispensed 500KG of Justice™️. My children will NOT be speaking automaton or eating bolts for breakfast. Glory to Super Earth!!❤️❤️❤️
Reminds me of my Army basic training cadence lol. Left, right left, stay in step.
*the chanting stops* "haha i'm in danger!"
Yes, yes i hear it, they’re saying something along “freedom is bad, democracy is bad” i hear them say that fellow Helldivers
You stay strong out there solider! Don't listen to those bots tortured voices. Remember The only song louder than your inevitable death is the sounds of Liberty & Freedom they'll hear before it!
I heard this once too! Pretty cool if you ask me.
I'm still shocked at how good the game look and sound.
AT this price, from this small studio, it's trampling over the slop AAA studios have served us in the past decade.
Damn, they actually are a bunch of Terminators
*Soviet Terminators. So much worse. 😬
nah terminators aren’t organized like this. They’re more like a hivemind while the Automatons have a more individualistic identity (the commissar is calling cadence like an army drill sgt)
"You cant escape"
"Your going to die"
"Do not run"
"You will die"
Yikes man, thats some scary stuff
people really do be making up awfully written dialogue from static, scary
i think it's "you cant hide" instead of do not run but i have been listening to this for like 20 minutes tryna figure out what they're saying so I may be going crazy
That isn't what they are saying at all lol.
thought i heard one say "We cant let them extract!" when we got to the extraction point, pretty cool
CY-BER-STAN
CAN'T KEEP HER DOWN
GET BACK UP
GO TO WAR
(They are definetly gonna try to attack cyberstan and ally with the cyborgs i swear)
Heart and steel
Can’t keep us down
Can’t keep us down
Marching on
ONTO TO WAR.
Also hear her … that’s concerning
Can’t keep her down…
It's either that or this:
"Cyberstan!
Can't keep her down!
Back in town!
Auto-ma-toooons!"
Basically saying "They may have won the war, but they can't keep us down!"
Its literally just static and nothing to be heard. Stop making shit up lol.
@@rekrn12345 It's not static, it's voice lines put through so many filters no one has any idea what it's actually saying, but just like the sound effects for the Probe Droid of Star Wars, there IS something to be heard, but its so unrecognizable it's up to everyone's interpretation.
I've heard the Cyborgs say "I can't stop" when attacking and "Sweet Liberty" when killed, I have a very strong belief that they capture and 'convert' people into automatons... and those ones with all the skulls/ close combat beasties are the ones that were driven to madness during the process.
Ngl that's so sad if true.
We're those berserkers? Because they use the screams and shouts of people they killed before.
I wonder if all automatons have a different role in the march. Maybe the Hulks only sing the lower notes, and the berserkers only scat 😂
The game definitely needs dedicated melee weapons, I wanna go full 40k with a chainsword
Re-purposed Berserker arm as a support weapon would be cool. Or even an armor set that converted your arm into a chainsaw or something that would be sick
When they saw you "ITS PETER GRIFFIN"
BRO I CANT UNHEAR IT 😭😭😭
Ah, excellent! This means we can teach them fear.
that helldiver scum was personal especially that second of silence as they turn and scan you, they will not forget a diver now will the rest
XD
Cute song. Lets see how it sounds with fifty-thousand volts coursing through that voice box, Bot.
automatons are so badass for no reason
Speed it up to x2 and listen again. Kinda nice
This sounds like you just inserted the platinum chip and activated an army of securitrons.
You can also hear one Automaton go "Helldiver scum!" right as he gets spotted. Never really noticed that
My reaction to that information: ⬇️⬆️➡️⬅️⬇️⬆️➡️
Sounds like they need Freedom.
From their mortal coils.
Did you forget comrade, that the machine is immortal?
@@TommieTheCommie i showed your response to the democracy officer. I saw his eyes move from your comment, to your name, and land on your profile pic.
He then fell on the ground, convulsed, and died.
If you see a red line going from your feet to a ship in low orbit, this is the reason.
@@zaelheimricht4978like I said the machine is immortal, you only waste value on me, I will return, we will return
@@zaelheimricht4978 The Inquisition will deal with him. Abominable Intelligence is a heresy that cannot be tolerated. The Emperor Protects!
Hearing it again is giving me ptsd.
Bout to be “calling in a orbital” all night tonight thanks.
Imagine hearing this chanting behind you only to see an army of automatons headed toward your team
Since some commentators here mention that they hear "Can't keep her down", i came up with the idea. In the first game privates on your ship could say that "a crazy scientist started replacing body parts on people she had kidnapped". She. So automatons can actually hail their creator in those chants.
One of them said the line before that one sounded like “Cyberstan” so it could also be that. Referring cyberstan as her (as most countries do)
when i first heard this last week i was shitting myself ngl
They did such a good job with the sound design the bots are genuinely unnerving/scary
I heard one say something like “it’s easier if you quit”
Actually gave me a chill when he made a noise and the chant immediately came to a dead stop
Them detecting you would scare the crap out of me
Bad people stay.
Bad people pay.
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Haaappyyy daaayyy!
Whilst trying to hear what they are chanting 😅
HAIL KU GATH
Nothing scares a patriot more than the idea of fair distribution of resources
I can’t tell the other lines but it sounds like the final line of the chant is them saying “Never Die” like ne-ver die
*automatons casually singing in cadence*
Me standing silently in a bush holding a 500 pound bomb strategem
even tho its a third person game this game has some really good immersion
Cyberstan can't keep her down? Well you put them all down with the power of Super Earth.
Well done citizen!
That is terrifying 😂
Looks like someone wants to be liberated.
Imagine hearing that during the massacre at Malevelon creek and then you hear it ringing in your ears years after the campaign. Lorewise of course.
it all started here
I seem to constantly hear "You can't escape" while fighting automatons.
So are they alive or is there a faction controlling them? As in are they sentient or like droids?
Odds are they are once humans that somehow found a way to fully convert themselves into machines. In the first game, there was a very similar faction (with the same logo and color scheme, plus Helldivers 2 Super Earth propaganda have outright pointed this out as well) known as the Cyborgs. So whatever part of the Cyborg faction that was left in exile after the events of the first game likely found a way to go full automaton.
@@jtr7377also worth mentioning the grunt sword guys are made out of dead helldivers
@@SneednFeed21 what makes you think that?
@RichSmithsonthough the propaganda stations are also on the big side. And lore there's been seperate "socialist" uprisings in the past that were purely human, including the one that first called for the creation of the Helldivers.
However I do have a theory that these Automata have some truth to the "baby stealing" propaganda where they are actively capturing and converting those with low Patriotism scores, which would mostly include children, so they can convert them. And then everyone whose converted just sort of lives as a disembodied consciousness, while occasionally taking over the robot bodies to either better direct them in combat, or to play out some aspect of their past personality, or as like I theorized most of them are "children" so "to play and explore" might be a more apt phrase.
If I remember correctly the lore goes like this. The cyborgs from the first game were humans that started an uprising but lost. Hinted to in multiple voice lines like the one where the engineer on your ship goes “ we re-enacted the battle of liberty peak” they lost that one and went into exile. Turning themselves into cyborgs. Now in this game they’re automatons. Are they automatons or did they make an army of them since they don’t wanna go to war and lose members anymore? No idea. My moneys on the making robots and not being them one though cause that’s the only way the automatons could have a leader.
Edit. After a little bit of delving deep I found a Twitter message of 2 years ago in code of the helldivers Twitter. When translated. The code is from the cyborgs. We’re they call them their children. So long story short the cyborgs created them. Search up helldivers 1 code message encrypted and you’ll find a Reddit thread that decrypted it
The last thing we heard on Malevelon Creek
That's not just a banger. . . thats a *super* banger.
cyber banger
The Automatons are trying to reconquer their homeworld!!! Creek was a distraction.
When they are alerted, I hear "I see something."
I heard something like "Bones and skulls can't keep us down. Go to war! Go to waaaaar!"
had my first experience of the automatons today, squad successfully took a base fairly easily., and then i saw loads of red eyes slowly marching out fo the fog while singing this and opening fire while i jumped on a turret, my diver screaming "for the federation" as an explosion took him out. So amazing, fully of the opinion that the game fully enters its prime against automotons
Goes kind of hard.
EDIT: Not as hard as Super Earth's anthem, of course, in case my Ministry of Truth agent is watching. This edit was not a result of any legally binding contract or coercion.
I’d buy this game if I could play as the Automatons
Automatons thought they were cool for a second
Been playing for a week so far and everything I hear from the internet is that I should be VERY afraid of the Automatons and just stick to killing bugs.
All of that bravado just to shot full of lightning...
Ngl from a distance I thought they were singing " Napalm Sticks to Kids "- which for robots that hate all organic life makes sense.
0:48 "Grill me a grilled cheese"
😂😂😂😂😂
Ya know that sounds pretty epic honest- wait hold on I just heard a knock on my door.
honestly its sounds to me like they are saying locate the scum
I'm going to try my first Malevelon Creek mission! Wish me luck!
Didnt think the robots had their own marching songs thats pretty cool theyd do that at all
HEARTS of STEEL!
CAN'T keep us DOWN!
MAR-ching ON!
HERE WE COOOOMMMEEE!!!
Holy crap it does sound like they're saying that!
I think the last part is on to war
Melevelon Creek traumatised me so much I had to take vacation of fightning bug titans!
I remember hearing them sing for the first time. And yelling “THEY HAVE A FUCKING CADENCE!?” My boyfriend laughed for a hot minute
Honestly horrifying if your alone in the forest
the equivilant of stappin on a twig 😂😂
"Cyberstan - Can't keep her down - Legion go - Until dawn"
"Heart steel - we kill - ?"
iron will
Good work soldier, dispensing justice at the end of the clip. For super earth!
I have a few videos I am going to release of the Automotons yelling "kill me, I don't want to do this", "I don't want to hurt them" and just screaming as if in pain.
Chant Lines
- PAIN CUTS THROUGH
- CAN'T KEEP IT(HER) DOWN
- YOU CAN'T KILL
- A NEW DAWN
Cadence Lines
- (beat)
- STEP
- (beat)
- KILL
- (beat)
- A
- (half beat)
- NEW DAWN