Of all the new enemies Helldivers 2’s Heart of Democracy update brought in when it deployed players onto the war-torn streets of their home planet, the flying Leviathan might have been the most intimidating.
It’s up there in the sky, while you, your fellow Helldivers and any SEAF buddies you might have recruited are on the ground. People struggled to take the airbourne Illuminate worms down at first, but this is HD2, so of course we’re now at the stage where at least one player’s managed to master the Leviathans to the extent they’ve figured out how to surf on top of them through the Mega Cities.
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The player in question, Reddit user Beautiful-Injury7738, has shared a couple of different clips of them managing to clib aboard Leviathans and ride them around while waving the Super Earth flag, because democracy.
“I spent longer than I would like to admit setting this up”, they wrote of their first clip, which you can watch below. As you can see, they’ve somehow managed to scale an antenna via some hover pack stratagem parkour, leaving them high enough to boost-jump across to the top of the Leviathan as it floats past. Once on top, they can happily stay there without slipping off or getting shot, since the flying baddie doesn’t have any weapons mounted to take out stuff above it.
Sadly, it seems there also isn’t a weak point up there that’d allow players who manage to do this to take out the Leviathan from there and then try to survive the rapid descent that’d ensue. In that first clip, Beautiful-Injury7738 tries to stab the Super Earth flag stratagem added by the Masters of Ceremony Warbond into the flying bastie’s back, but to no avail. They eventually end up riding it outside of the combat zone and are automatically blown to bits for deserting.
Their second attempt saw them try out some thermite explosives and flamethrower, but neither of those can seemingly be used to take out one of the beasties from the above either. “It’s a lot of fun, there’s only one building I can consistently scale with the hover pack,” the Super surfer summarised, “You shoot a couple of signs off of one of the buildings and can slowly hover up in a few jumps.”
Naturally, their fellow divers have been singing their praises and showering them in Dune memes. This isn’t the first time Helldivers 2 players have found a way to surf on top of vehicle-style enemies they’ve previously found tough to take out – surfing on top of factory striders was a trend last year
Plus, mech riding was a thing before that. They’re accomplished rodeo riders, these Helldivers.
Are you going to try and do some Leviathan surfing next time you drop in? Let us know below!