Why is there a button to activate someone else's hellbomb backpack???

[20 Percent Cooler]

Tried to give this dude some supplies, only to accidentally turn him into an unwilling suicide bomber. Later on someone else drops in and sees a popup and assumes it's a stim prompt, and in attempting to save his life he instead blows him to hell... not to mention this is also completely wasting the stratagem every time this happens, on a 5-minute cooldown.

I really don't know what they were thinking with this one, imagine if someone could walk up and steal ammo from your supply pack or something lmao, please remove the ability for other players to arm your hellbomb backpack.

[Helldivers™ 2]

Well they dont playtest so they couldnt possibly know how it will play out. Personally i activate every single hellbomb and it's always as funny

[Katokevin]

They were probably thinking that it would be hilarious to see everybody panic each time it happens. I've had people activate mine (I'm cautious now if anybody is behind me while I have one on) and I just drop it and run (unless they did it on purpose in which case I'll follow them, or knock them down and drop it).

If I don't want it set off, I simply wait until I need it, call it down, run to the objective, activate it, drop it, then run (or take myself and a ton of enemies out with me for the hell of it).

[Danyaell]

Everything in this game is designed to mess you up. Next question.

[Midas]

It exists exclusively to allow trolling.

[Krim]

As someone who uses the portable hellbomb, I think its hilarious.

[Mahjik]

AH has always has a bit of a silly side if you've tried their previous games. The aren't as serious as some of their users.

[Corporal-Sheppard]

because its funny and if you dont think so then leave lol

[HeyBooBear]

i was actually hoping its a semi guaranteed suicide, like you can only barely survive if you sprinted a straight line away

[Razer]

For trolling. They put this in on purpose.

[Mosey]

I've had a lot of people push it, and they clearly didn't know what they just did because they stood there like a blind monkey right next to the pack I took off. One actually put it on.

So I'm going to go with general lack of human intelligence mixed with a tiny splash of trolling is why people do it. A few did it and ran, so they knew. They also learned you can't run fast enough to get away since it's super, super obvious when someone pushes your button.

Why Arrowhead decided to do it can only be because they knew the above and intentionally wanted people to learn a lesson in the hardest way possible. Unlike accidental friendly fire, this is either ignorant or malicious. At best, as the OP notes, someone was trying to help but the bomb is apparently taking primary precedence over saving their life.

Amusing, since they are wearing a suicide vest while you're trying to heal them.

[Mepho]

First question that came to mind: why the one you call in has a combination then?
I thought this one would be just the same.

But nevermind that, this is extremely stupid and hilarious. AH are really taking the piss at this point lol.

[David Davidson]

For trolling.
The description printed on the portable hellbomb literally says "Not for use by people 12 years or younger" they knew squeakers would run up and push button as soon as they got a chance.

I troll exclusively at the end of missions, so long as we're not getting overrun and can call in reinforcements easily while holding the boat. Even the guy with the backpack found it funny.

However the activate backpack should have maybe 2 keypresses, as I ended up giving him supplies then deploying his aloha snackbar.

But if something is back mounted and can be used by other players, I want to be able to reload my own autocannon/karl gustav/javelin from other people's ammo backpacks and also swipe resupplies from resupply packs. Arrowhead should at least have some consistency.

[Bum Ghost]

Originally posted by David Davidson:

For trolling.
The description printed on the portable hellbomb literally says "Not for use by people 12 years or younger" they knew squeakers would run up and push button as soon as they got a chance.

comedy gold

[Mosey]

Originally posted by David Davidson:

But if something is back mounted and can be used by other players, I want to be able to reload my own autocannon/karl gustav/javelin from other people's ammo backpacks and also swipe resupplies from resupply packs. Arrowhead should at least have some consistency.

Honestly, that's a fantastic point.

[Khryst]

Originally posted by David Davidson:

But if something is back mounted and can be used by other players, I want to be able to reload my own autocannon/karl gustav/javelin from other people's ammo backpacks and also swipe resupplies from resupply packs. Arrowhead should at least have some consistency.

i did not realize I wanted this until you said it.

♥♥♥♥, now I REALLY want it.