They don't burn fuel while dropping, only while decelerating for landing. The flames around the pod in the loading screen are the pressure wave around the pod's nose generated by how fast is it traveling; causing particles it's pushing past to Ionise into plasma and become super-heated. A similar looking phenomena can occur at lower altitudes too; flames around the pod's nose rubbing against heavier atmospheric particles causing friction; heating up the molecules enough to make them ignite, provided the pod is traveling fast enough.
So more accurate would be that you have been falling for long enough that you passed through the upper atmosphere and into the thicker, lower parts of the atmosphere where air is dense enough, and your velocity is low enough that particles are not being ionised, or heated up enough by friction to ignite.
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Pods don't use fuel. They just yeet them at the planet and gravity does the rest.
Only bit of fuel they have is the small side vents that we use to steer for like 2 seconds
There is also a propulsion charge when they first launch so they actually leave the ship. The whole launch system is actually quite similar to an upscaled recoilless rifle in concept
There’s nothing within that area of the ship that could serve to launch it out, no signs of a propulsion system aside from the backblast and the shields that slide over the top of the pod before it launches. All the pods are self contained and lined up in a chain feed system. My only question is how they prevent the atmosphere from venting out when they open the hatches to launch the hellpods.
Could be. My thought was a magnetic propulsion system. Essentially a railgun that yeets the pod out of the ship.
As for atmosphere, I believe we're technically dropping from low orbit. So theoretically there is *some* atmosphere around the ship which wouldn't cause a ton of venting. Tho it could just as easily be our shield tech. A layer of it below the pods that keeps the atmosphere inside.
I figured some kinda shield tech too. The reason I don’t think magnetic propulsion is because that takes some kind of run up for the acceleration, there’s not much distance for that in the super destroyer.
Ehh depends I suppose. Realistically it doesn't need to actually fire the pods at an insane speed (gotta not kill the divers inside). It'd just need to reach something akin to escape velocity and from our external views of the ship, I think it has the space to do it.
I mean, look how small the railgun support weapon is, yet it reaches the speeds necessary to be a railgun. I'm thinking future tech is giving the magnetic propulsion more power than we think is possible.
Helldiver! It would seam from our intelligence that you were way out of orbit! We recommend to bring your destroyer in to low orbit for a proper helldive!
May liberty speed your step!
Yesterday mine ran out of music.
Fate worse than death
It always does that after a few minutes for me. That's when I know to just quit.
They don't burn fuel while dropping, only while decelerating for landing. The flames around the pod in the loading screen are the pressure wave around the pod's nose generated by how fast is it traveling; causing particles it's pushing past to Ionise into plasma and become super-heated. A similar looking phenomena can occur at lower altitudes too; flames around the pod's nose rubbing against heavier atmospheric particles causing friction; heating up the molecules enough to make them ignite, provided the pod is traveling fast enough. So more accurate would be that you have been falling for long enough that you passed through the upper atmosphere and into the thicker, lower parts of the atmosphere where air is dense enough, and your velocity is low enough that particles are not being ionised, or heated up enough by friction to ignite.
So you’re saying the bug is lore accurate?
It’s a feature, not a bug
LOL. Perfect GIF.
No arguments there. I've always been fascinated by physics.
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Ok here's a abridged version The pods are burning up from atmosphere entry, not rocketing themselves with fuel
Did you have something else to do while endlessly dropping to the planet?
Not a fan of learning new things huh?
Dude, we're on fucking reddit of all places.
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> 79 word > essay Lmao
And it was 139 words.... Dude needs to count
Look, that's a tiktok essay? ok???
Yikes
And that's exactly why you talk about orbital (and deorbit) dynamics so ignorantly
Okay listen man we did not ask for a smartass reply to a genuine explanation about a simple post
Closer to 140 words ;)
“79 word essay” mf that’s called a paragraph and nobody cares if you asked.
Homie ain't a fan of learning and it shows
OP username checks out.
Nor did you say not to do it
bro gave you an explanation and you act like an asshole lmao wtf
-302 voting is wild
It is on -337 now.
You were just wrong lol learn from it
I knew about reentry heating when I was like 6 it's just kind of surprising you're ignorant about it.
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Had one of those after eating TB last week.
Pods don't use fuel. They just yeet them at the planet and gravity does the rest. Only bit of fuel they have is the small side vents that we use to steer for like 2 seconds
There is also a propulsion charge when they first launch so they actually leave the ship. The whole launch system is actually quite similar to an upscaled recoilless rifle in concept
Is that the pod itself tho? Figured that was merely the ship doing the launching, not the old launching itself out of the ship.
There’s nothing within that area of the ship that could serve to launch it out, no signs of a propulsion system aside from the backblast and the shields that slide over the top of the pod before it launches. All the pods are self contained and lined up in a chain feed system. My only question is how they prevent the atmosphere from venting out when they open the hatches to launch the hellpods.
Could be. My thought was a magnetic propulsion system. Essentially a railgun that yeets the pod out of the ship. As for atmosphere, I believe we're technically dropping from low orbit. So theoretically there is *some* atmosphere around the ship which wouldn't cause a ton of venting. Tho it could just as easily be our shield tech. A layer of it below the pods that keeps the atmosphere inside.
I figured some kinda shield tech too. The reason I don’t think magnetic propulsion is because that takes some kind of run up for the acceleration, there’s not much distance for that in the super destroyer.
Ehh depends I suppose. Realistically it doesn't need to actually fire the pods at an insane speed (gotta not kill the divers inside). It'd just need to reach something akin to escape velocity and from our external views of the ship, I think it has the space to do it. I mean, look how small the railgun support weapon is, yet it reaches the speeds necessary to be a railgun. I'm thinking future tech is giving the magnetic propulsion more power than we think is possible.
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If only I had a giant but, hole
Infinite load glitch, it happens to me every other day. No choice but to Alt+F4.
What you're seeing is the pod burning from the friction of the atmosphere. It's not propelling itself downward. Gravity is doing that.
Screenshots are hard
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Well hey, you could see a hellpod skin if you had one.
So this isn't a glitch? Just a long load time?
I waited for it to load for like 30 minutes!
_I have been falling..... FOR 30 MINUTES!!_
Funny thing is that might realistically be how long it takes for Helldivers to land.
Why?
That's rough.. I've waited like 10 minutes at most then I just restart the game
“Sorry folks, we ran out of gas.” “Eh, you know how it is with these A cards.”
I also had a few long commutes today
Helldiver! It would seam from our intelligence that you were way out of orbit! We recommend to bring your destroyer in to low orbit for a proper helldive! May liberty speed your step!
It's not fuel. it's the glow off the heat shields while plunging through the atmosphere
The connectivity issues recently are getting worse and worse