Have you seen this RARE Automaton in Helldivers?  

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I know it’s a bug, but a really strong automaton disguised as a regular small guy would actually be pretty sweet.

You've heard of Randal the Vandal. Now meet Otto the Automaton.

Saw one on the Creek maybe a week and a half ago. He terrified me, but there’s nothing he can do against the Almighty Resupply Pod.

I met him once, and I'm certain that's actually Joel.

We had one the other day called him billy. Billy was hungry so i fed him a 500kg😂

YO this reminds me of Warcraft 3 mod games like Night of the Living Dead, where there were often "super zombies" hidden among the masses that could tank insane damage WAY above their weight and could 1 HKO Often you wouldn't realize theyre here until all the other zombies are cleared out. In fact, the only way to tell (some) variants is to look at their health. Some were darker in color.

I love how this bug just adds more atmosphere to the game, tbh I just find it fun and wacky like the game itself.

Sometimes a group of the normal rifle bots spawn and they don't have a commander, they will walk up to you and surround you but won't fire. They will take steps then step back but will never shoot even if you kill them.

I encountered one of these, but it never fired on us, just followed and watched us, never even called a bot drop.

Me, killing my entire team with an airburst rocket: "I think I spotted a Terminator, guys"

I'm curious if it's devs checking in on people.

I ran onto one I didn't think it was a actual thing, I shot it like 4 times with an auto cannon and was like wtf the whole time

Another type is called “The Bots”. AKA “The Boys”. They are so chill, they will follow you to the ends of the planet. I miss them dearly-

I encountered one and me and a random couldn’t figure out why it wasn’t dying. It didn’t shoot back at us so we decided to give up and go to a near by loot area with a garage door that needed to be blown up. As we got close the door the terminator bot shoots the garage door opening it for us! We then turned around and watched it walk away into the distance 😂

“From that moment, I understood my brothers were too weak…so I became stronger..”

So your telling me, the machine that refused to die on me on my first automaton battle was a terminator? I thought the game was bugged 😎 -puts on the shades to read my comments knowing it was a bug all along-

I encountered 1 yesterday and I was about 10 seconds from getting another reinforcement but he just stood there taking everything I had left, distracting me from other automotan that then killed me

Me and my friend once encountered what we called a zombie charger, he took two 500kg bomb to the face, 6 quasar shot and 7 impact grenade before he finally died of blood loss

That "terminator" is just desync in action. It sometimes happens when the hosts connection drops you for a second when you use a strategem. It's a lot more noticable on at-at striders as sometimes the pilot will die but the strider will persist on riderless. Having a team member damage them at all usually fixes it.

Unluckily for me I encountered a squad of 4 that just would no leave me alone. They chased me right to the extraction zone

It's not a desync either, the whole squad can see it but can't kill it.

There are also different hulks and bile titans, when you tag them it will say hard or elite target thats why 500kg bombs dont always drop bile titans

I've also noticed that sometimes bullets pass right through them. Fortunately, i think grenades still kill them instantly. Im not 100% certain but from the few I've run into, it works

I encountered a few of them already. Always scares me when i turn back as i think a sneaky patrol dropped on me and i double tap it before remembering that it's just a friendly stalker. But a real weird one i had was a strider without it's pilote following all the way through the mission!

Now that their Vanguard are gone, they've deployed troops with a lot heavier armor. There are basic units now that have thicker armor. I've encounter a few that ricocheted a few penetrator rounds before their armor gave and they died.

All of the ones I've have come across over 117 hours of game time prob around a Dozen or so don't have a Weapon and have Always just followed from a medium Distance and watched me and my Squad. It's very uncomfortable

I actually didn't notice this particular bot existed because the Dominator still dominates him. It was just a fleeting "huh that one took two shots."

I saw the terminator a few weeks back, couldn't do anything but run. Truly terrifying

Terminators have adaptive shielding coded to a specific Helldivers. To nulify this you should get your fellow Helldivers involved as those shoelds can't change their polarisation outside of the fabricator, making them easy pickings for your fellow liberators

No way one of my teammate earlier was complaining about a bot and calling it a terminator for tanking EAT in the face and bullet shots.

I met one. He didn’t kill me, tanked an autocannon pod drop, a full magdump of said autocannon, and a few grenades. He marched off before another automaton smoked him in one shot. Wildest thing I ever saw on the automaton front.

The 2 I've found were unkillable, and they did not fire back. He followed me to the exit and sat there with us. I told my teammates he was outer pet now.

I had one yesterday, I had initially thought my friend was sympathizing with the robot, but it turned out that no matter how many bullets were shot, it would both go down, salute to my friend for being loyal to democracy, and as a meatshield for when the missile struck.

The only use for shoulder the mantle is deepstrike cheese. You can use it to shorten your deepstrike charge. Its still wildly unwieldy and dumb and probably not intended but it is A use for it

Thought you were gonna talk about Fred for a second the automaton that follows the player around but doesn't shoot, alert others to your presence, or call in dropships. He must count as a random patrol cause as long as he is near the player no patrols will spawn in.

I also encountered a few unique enemies. Scout walker with no pilot still attacking. An utterly dismembered brood commander attacking with berserk rage despite having no limbs or head.

*Hell Divers are all gangsta until T800s and T1000s walk out of the frabricators with theme playing*

I love finding these guys! I've passed 4-5 in my games over the last few months.

You can always find them hidden behind “Bad Connection” and under a “Lag Spikes” or also in the “You’re an idiot if you think this is real” and on top of the “This is what happens when servers die lol.”

By now I encountered two striders (those operated by infantry units, easily to take out from the back), that kept shooting and walking while the infantry operatimg it was already dead, kind of like a "zombie strider". It took an explosion to take it out!

“It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... ever, until you are dead!”

It’s bugged trooper, sometimes it can have no weapon and just staring at you silently, or even when it has a weapon, it still won’t use it. I’ve meet them a few time, mostly on Creek, never saw them shoot back. But a few times it’s changed with another trooper and start to shoot me in a back when i has stopped looking at it. It was not a same trooper that unbugged and began to fight properly, but different type of trooper. So be careful and keep it in your sight if you meet one.

It's just a server communication glitch. A fellow diver was wrestling with one, I walked up and killed it with two melee hits. A few days later, I was struggling with one, and the same friend killed it with a single headshot.

Red hulks that can run, automatons that have human skulls decorating their armor, hunters that can jump into space and land on top of you 1min later with pinpoint accuracy, though that last one might just be a bug [canned laughter]

I may have encountered this guy once or twice. Though a lone trooper seemingly sneaking up on me/ scouting around is something i've encountered alot. Sometimes they dont even shoot. Like their only job is to run and follow and keep an eye on me.

The terminator is just a bug, for anyone thinking this is serious. The host, or sometimes just another player, can damage and kill them as normal.

I ran into one of these a few weeks ago and thought it was a game master observing the game. The "terminator" I encountered didn't shoot at me, he just followed me around until one of my squadmates killed him by knocking him over with a melee attack.

i just started playing, got to one of my first like hectic missions. I was so overwhelened seeing all the chaos, thick smoke covering everything. Then out of the rubble he appeared, i peed myself. Everytime i thought id killed him, he walked out of the dust a rubble and kept marching straight at me. This encounter made me hopelessly addicted to this game. So cool, total nerdgasm.

I met one like this, but assumed it was a bug in the game. He was all alone away from any fighting or base, and utterly indestructible. I emptied primary, secondary and support weapon into him, called down a gatling barrage, a 500kg, and then my friends called a railcannon strike, an orbital laser, and a mech on him. He just shrugged it all off, and we decided to leave him on that hill and get on with the mission.

I’ve met six of these guys and my finding are disturbing: it seems that they are not just physically more robust, but perhaps more mentally complex, as those I met didn’t engage. They followed me or maintained a middle distance, but seemed uninterested in battle, eventually wondering off.

Don’t forget the X-Ray automaton who can see and shoot you through solid rock, or the infinite vision automatons who know your precise location from miles away.

I've had this happen with bugs as well. Like a hunter who's texture is just bulletholes but keeps walking.

You mean Phil, he's a lovely robot sometimes, He's followed me across the map. One time, I followed him, and he led me straight to the purples. Haven't seen him in a week. Hope he's doing alright. Good old Phil 👍

I've encountered him. He followed me silently through the entire mission without alerting any other bots. He was like my shadow, just hanging around. I miss him.

For the record, they’re actually are rare enemies like the alternate charger I’ve only ever seen it on civilian evacuation missions

That one is probably a bug. But there are indeed enemy variants. For example some hulks have missiles while other use flame throwers.

Its the perfect metal only a legend in the foundry never would have thought to see one much less from an Automaton!...

I Ran into one Just Last Night! It wouldn't attack me but it wouldn't even Flinch to direct hits from my Eruptor and kept backing away out of Melee Range. It wasn't until I brought my Entire Squad to look at him that he immediately started shooting his Machinegun and completely wiped us all out with some ridiculous headshots! These dudes are No Joke!

This reminds me of a clip i saw of 4 helldivers entering the dropship and extracting at the end of a mission... except there were only 3 players in the lobby. would be cool if there were ACTUAL terminators that disguise themselves as the players.

OHHHH! I actually fought one of these. It confused me at first. Turns out he easily dies to friendly fire after walking in front of an automoton pilbox and was gunned down.

I always thought they were just an annoying glitch, not an actual thing lol

When I found one of these terminators I called him Tyson and we completed missions together He was such a nice guy

I'm convinced this is secretly Joel having a blast pretending it's an rts

One once followed me in the creek for an entire mission without shooting. We named him bob, at the end of the mission he walked in front of a salvo of devastate missiles which finally killed him, but giving the only one of us left alive enough time to get in the drop ship. Rest in piece bob our little mechanical Helldiver🫡

It’s just a damage output bug . Happens to every enemy type. Sucks when it happens to bile titans or hulks . They will take all the orbitals and 500s and still walk

I encountered what I like to call "the headless chicken". It's a Scout Strider that continues to operate without the driver. I've only seen it once

I've seen one before, after hitting him with multiple stratagems he still didn't die, but he did run out of ammo so it was basically a draw.

I love finding the one that likes to follow you everywhere you go.

I in fact did know. I encountered a couple myself. One was stuck in the air, the scariest one walked through a huge mountain poped out then went back in and called a drop ship inside the massive rock. I would also like to bring up the ghost tanks,,ships, and hulks they are dead but a faint outline of them can be seen and there weak spot on the back

Yeah, had one of these boys a few days ago. he might be tough, but when he's in the middle of a base with a live hellbomb, his resilience isn't gonna do him any good

There are secret enemies you can find which..you waont believe it but its actually controlled by a player. They dress like helldiver, has the arsenal of the helldiver, wear helldiver’s gear. But they can devastate you behind you, from above, or before extraction. Watch your backs

There should be missions where we have to crawl through a mechanical jungle, so the bots have to chase us, but if we time it right, they get crushed by a 100 ton hydraulic press.

impact grenade takes care of them, also sometimes melee attack works too

Nah, he's EXTREMELY common. Almost every automaton map has at least a few hundred.

My brother in Joel, it's not a secret special Automaton unit. It's just a bugged bot. Usually they don't fire at you at all and remain unkillable. This is literally just a game bug.

There is a hulk variant with an automaton banner for those of you wondering about the actual rarest automaton to come across

An encounter with a terminator is a sign your game will crash and leave you stranded in a solo dive. If you see one, just flat out avoid them. My friends joke it is one of Joel's "Avatars" and attempting to kill it will invoke his wrath personally.

Have met them tons of times, but on my screen, they were just invincible. But after about 20-30 secs 1 GRENED AND DED!

I met this guy yesterday! Also saw flying smaller drop ships that shot missiles at us. We nearly lost that fight

Those damn clankers are getting more powerful!!! I think there has to be some kind of misregister of damage that makes some of these monsters last longer.

That wolf howl was unnecessary, I checked behind me thinking it was my cat going through something lol

Came across a few of these, The most recent time it never fired on us and followed the fire team for the whole mission. we called him Fredward. thought it was a dev taking direct control or caused by connection issues but none of us lagged out

I was lucky enough to have one walk away from me when I realized it wasn't dying.

This game is fantastic. Graphics, music gameplay. Really is superb.

Met him just yesterday on Lesath, actually. The only difference was that he wasn’t attacking me at all. I was so confused 😂

Tbh I haven’t met any AT-AT since update, where they were added. It’s hella funny since when I say update dropped I got to play game as fast as I could

I once saw a clip of a Hulk that moved at abnormal speeds. Everything else looked normal speed, so I doubt the footage was accelerated! I wonder if that was one of the rare units!

I came across one a few days ago, luckily I had a bolter a fellow Helldiver gave me. Took so many shots I literally thought I was missing him.

This happened to my friend when he went to helldive on malevolon creek, he emptied mags into him, did nothing, threw nades, removed one of his arms, but the bot kept shooting, so he threw a 500kg bomb on him. He survived.

I noticed one enemy tsking a ton of damage like this, but the moment I said something aloud to my squadmates, it dropped... Spooky.

Although a defective type of regular bots it is very favored among the highrr ranks of official but the attempt to recreate such bot is near impossible, its ratio of creation is one in a million.

Lol, i remember times when flamethrowers was rare, now its like 20 flamethrowers and 30 heavy rocket launchers at the same time)) I remember Malevelon Creek and it was a child play comparing how game becomes now unfair and to difficult. You can facing with 4 heavy rocket launcher bots, tanks and shilded bots with extra heavy bots on 3-rd lvl of difficulty. Now difference between 3rd and 4rth lvl difficulty gone, and only difference 4 and 7 lvl of difficulty is amount of drop ships. And on 7 lvl difficulty tanks has more HP than on 3-4 lvl of difficulty. Amount of bots increased to values that game engine can't handle and enemy patrol spawns under the map and on players. My mates who was playing on console were crashing, my game on PC was starting from hardly lagging sound and 15-30 fps gameplay later as bots were spawning and spawning around us and under the map (due increase in spawn values in game). Some patrols can spawn in walls/hills or under the bot base and shooting you from there and not letting you to complete mission. I don't like how they making this game so unplayable and laggy and glitchy. Yes, there is some players that plays 9 lvl in solo and picking all extra-rare samples in 10 min, but those people living in this game, but we have irl things to do instead of playing 24/7, we playing for fun not work at second job))

Im afraid of the troopers for one reason.... they have the ability to call in a bot drop. And they ALWAYS do it the moment i run out of ammo in my mag for both guns so i cant stop them

True story. I have encountered this monstrosity. It didn’t shoot a lot, it just followed our group and wouldn’t die. Rather annoyingly, while it didn’t shoot much itself, it did keep calling reinforcements… the git.

I find one of these things almost every bot mission on 7 or higher. It’s SO ANNOYING but I just ignore them when I find them at this point, they’re just bullet sponges if you just walk away they’re no more deadly than if you just forget to kill one marauder in a group

I met a few that were floating, one was even standing on a fence; at first I just thought they were a graphical glitch, but no, I watched in shock as they fired away at my squad. This isn’t just me playing this up for drama, this legit startled me.

These are probably the dudes that get dropped but glitched out when you destroy their drop ship. Their health is stuck or the hit box.

Fun fact, if you use an interactive remote he may indulge you and then kill you. Have had him hug me once and then it said I died from a trooper.

I encountered one of these once. I was lucky enough to not be its target though. Let it be noted, they can and will walk on air. The one I encountered never touched the ground