Helldivers 2 player pleads for help after a bot tank eats a 500kg bomb like it's nothing – accidentally summoning the creative director, who says: "Agree, that should be bye-bye"

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A Helldivers 2 player recently discovered the agonizing truth that some bot tanks in the co-op third person shooter are bulletproof. Or, more accurately, 500kg bomb-proof.

In a recent Reddit post, the user SLAYA_27 begged devs for relief after their attempt to decimate an enemy tank resulted in an earth-shaking explosion and their untimely, bloody elimination. 

"Please fix this enemy tank," they wrote on Reddit. "How tf can it survive a 500kg in its turret!!" 

In the corresponding gameplay video, SLAYA_27 deploys the massive Eagle 500kg Bomb stratagem, a hefty explosive best suited to hurting close-range enemies. Some Helldivers 2 fans find that fact disappointing — "500kg is incredibly strong, vaporizes anything within 1m of the blast zone," says one popular Reddit comment. "Sadly, even though the explosion itself is huge, outside of that 1m it's a wet fart." 

Tragically, wet farts are not compatible with Helldivers 2's new tanks, which are wildly strong. After SLAYA_27 drops their 500kg Bomb, it bursts in a beam of inescapable orange light and… nothing happens. The tank is unscathed, and SLAYA_27's character becomes a droopy ragdoll in the explosion. But they aren't alone in the experience. In another Reddit thread, a fan complains that tanks are "bugged into being OP." 

"It blew me and my friend into smithereens with a burst barrage," they said. "It could AT LEAST have had the decency to blow itself up, but I guess that privilege is only for our mech." 

At least Helldivers 2 devs seem to recognize that their tanks' excessive tankiness is a problem. After a commenter on SLAYA_27's post mused on how "a piece of thermite can burn through [a tank], but half a ton of liberty does nothing," creative director Johan Pilestedt replied "Agree, that should be bye-bye." For players' safety, hopefully tanks' strange imperviousness does go bye-bye soon. 

Ashley Bardhan
Ashley Bardhan
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Ashley is a Senior Writer at GamesRadar+. She's been a staff writer at Kotaku and Inverse, too, and she's written freelance pieces about horror and women in games for sites like Rolling Stone, Vulture, IGN, and Polygon. When she's not covering gaming news, she's usually working on expanding her doll collection while watching Saw movies one through 11.