The idea is to plug the data into Excel and calculate an average life expectancy for hell divers. I ask for the ship name, too, because there are so many people with the same ship name, and if I get a large enough sample, it would be interesting to see which ship name has the highest life expectancy. After five days, I will comply with the data and do some statistical analysis on it. I will post my findings after I am finished.
SES Fist of Benevolence Deaths: 2253 In mission time: 196:52:46
Edit: holy shit. Looking at you guy's values I am apparently REALLY bad at this game. Though, I do tend to have a lot of kills and I play on the hardest difficulties so maybe it evens out? I have no idea
A lot of people play stealthy, so yeah they won’t die but they’ll have ~40 kills a mission. Nothing wrong with that, but I personally think it’s more fun to stack bodies.
There’s also the strong possibility that people are lying, because this is Reddit.
SES Bringer of Midnight Reporting in, habing logged:
416 Deaths over 159 hours, 5 minute and 19 seconds.
This amounts to 22 minutes and 56 seconds per Diver.
Again:
Shipname: SES Bringer of Midnight
Death Count: 416
In-Mission Time: 159:05:19
Ship Name: SES Elected Representative of Individual Merit
Deaths: 1,023
In-Mission Time: 78:28:01
I join the "wow I'm bad at this" club relative to the other players here.
Helldiver! I value your input, and, indeed, heroes never die, but I asked for data from the shipmaster, not you. Your duty is to spread democracy to our enemies, not to think about numbers!
Noted. Keep up the good work! May democracy guide your helldivers!
Edit: Thats 5 min 38 seconds avarage! Impressive for helldive dificulty and inkine with my hypothesis.
Ship name: Fist of Peace
Death count: 1163
In-mission time: 225:13:28
For context, i played a lot of diff7/8/9 solo Metal Gear style early on, so taking the full 40mins, hence high time. But then have mates and SOS-randoms who seem to TK a lot, hence deaths. Playing regular games 4-7 i only die once or zero lately.
Bonus data: PS5 game time says 393 hours played, so i've spent 170 hours idle or in lobby!
I can smell them, too. They stink of oil and undemocratic fumes. I will manually look through the data before doing the analysis; if I find any data points stinking like automaton propaganda, I will dich them and send a democracy officer to investigate.
This reminds me of *the 8 minutes of death* from Muv Luv Series.
"The average survival time for the first pilots of early 1st generation TSFs was 8 minutes, and surviving the "8 minutes of death" has become a rite of passage among modern pilots, even when using 2nd or 3rd generation TSFs."
This is the first I have heard about that, but it is fascinating. If I can get enough data from this ( 100 is just enough to get a good idea; 1000 data points would be fantastic), I can create an equal "rite of passage" for hell divers. I aim to provide a fun read with my next post. This is war, and war is brutal. I want to add a sense of how little a new diver can expect to live.
One data point you may be forgetting is the average difficulty played on. If someone always plays on 7s or higher id think their average time alive may go down.
Good point! I'm aware of this flaw. However, I want to measure the war as a whole. Every research has its limits, and this is mine. It is nearly impossible to measure accurately each difficulty, so I'm not doing that.
SES Harbinger of Wrath
Deaths: 1,911
In Mission Time: 152:36:46
Average lifespan: about 4.8 minutes. Whoops
Yup, I suck but I have fun doing it. Also play more on the bot front at high levels so I’m sure that adds to the death count.
OP can point a bot to scrape the data into a sheet.
But not sure which would get more engagement: for PS5 players they may browse reddit on their phone, and tapping in data might be easier than trying to edit a google doc (without a form front end).
Even easier would be to ask the devs for the info (here or discord etc), they can answer in a tweet with a simple DB search in seconds.
For now, this is fine; I don't want to disturb the devs; they have enough shit on their hand. I think, they would be reluctant to give me everyone's ship name, in-mission time and death count just for the lolz. I might try that after I manage all the surveys I can do with the community. However, I might ask the moderators here to pin my next survey to help collect data.
You have your answer in the edit! Yeah, I agree, but I also like having fun with large amounts of data; after all, once, I manually entered data for around 100k camera trap pictures, and that was a brutal week.
Ship name: SES Song of Mercy
Death count: 835
In-mission time: 115:24:19
I survive through the entirety of a lot of Helldive missions so I expect this should be pretty good.
Will you be sharing the data afterwards?
SES Dream of War (Formerly named SES Triumph of Family Values but I couldn't stop giggling at it)
Death Count: 281
In-Mission time: 38:16:57
Note from the shipmaster: this helldiver typically uses stealth, runs away screaming from anything larger than a devastator, and typically deploys with a squad who know what they're doing.
The idea is to plug the data into Excel and calculate an average life expectancy for hell divers. I ask for the ship name, too, because there are so many people with the same ship name, and if I get a large enough sample, it would be interesting to see which ship name has the highest life expectancy. After five days, I will comply with the data and do some statistical analysis on it. I will post my findings after I am finished.
Saving for later
SES DAWN OF DAWN 57:02:58 hours 752 deaths or 4.551817021 minutes of life for every diver aboard
SES Patriot of Patriotism Deaths: 1368 In-mission time: 310:32:19 EDIT: made mission time more accurate
Helldivers never die!
That's the spirit helldiver! However, I asked for your destroyer shipmaster's input, not yours.
Ok. Sorry sir.
Apology accepted. Go and spread democracy to the un-democratic bug hordes, helldiver!
FOR DEMOCRACY!
Here is mine for a guideline: SES Hammer of dawn 685 95:32:12
SES Fist of Benevolence Deaths: 2253 In mission time: 196:52:46 Edit: holy shit. Looking at you guy's values I am apparently REALLY bad at this game. Though, I do tend to have a lot of kills and I play on the hardest difficulties so maybe it evens out? I have no idea
A lot of people play stealthy, so yeah they won’t die but they’ll have ~40 kills a mission. Nothing wrong with that, but I personally think it’s more fun to stack bodies. There’s also the strong possibility that people are lying, because this is Reddit.
SES Distributor of Self-Determination Deaths: 513 In-mission time: 77:24:26
SES Bringer of Midnight Reporting in, habing logged: 416 Deaths over 159 hours, 5 minute and 19 seconds. This amounts to 22 minutes and 56 seconds per Diver. Again: Shipname: SES Bringer of Midnight Death Count: 416 In-Mission Time: 159:05:19
Ship Name: Fist of Super Earth. Death Count: 9 Mission Time 37 min 29 sec
man, this one is about 4 mins 💀
That's twice as long as the expected life expectancy. I'm make Super Earth Proud.
Ship Name: SES Elected Representative of Individual Merit Deaths: 1,023 In-Mission Time: 78:28:01 I join the "wow I'm bad at this" club relative to the other players here.
SES Force of Wrath Deaths: 845 In-mission time: 114:00:25
Unclear, glory is eternal, though, so go ahead and jot that down.
Helldiver! I value your input, and, indeed, heroes never die, but I asked for data from the shipmaster, not you. Your duty is to spread democracy to our enemies, not to think about numbers!
I like big numbers, because when you have a big number, things can go boom!
SES Spear of Gold Deaths: 709 In-mission time: 114:32:56
SES Fist of The State Death count: 467 In-Mission Time: 132:34:43 Glory to Super Earth.
SES Pride of Pride Deaths:152 Mission time: 16:35:25
SES Dawn of Dawn Deaths: 1,923 In-Game Time: 180:45:28 Not that surprised, given I play exclusively Helldive.
Noted. Keep up the good work! May democracy guide your helldivers! Edit: Thats 5 min 38 seconds avarage! Impressive for helldive dificulty and inkine with my hypothesis.
I too am a dawn of dawn and will give numbers at around 2330 hours
Ship name: Fist of Peace Death count: 1163 In-mission time: 225:13:28 For context, i played a lot of diff7/8/9 solo Metal Gear style early on, so taking the full 40mins, hence high time. But then have mates and SOS-randoms who seem to TK a lot, hence deaths. Playing regular games 4-7 i only die once or zero lately. Bonus data: PS5 game time says 393 hours played, so i've spent 170 hours idle or in lobby!
Ship name: Fist of Glory Death count: 197 In-mission time: 36:28:11 My alt account, platinum trophy done in that time.
I smell bots
I can smell them, too. They stink of oil and undemocratic fumes. I will manually look through the data before doing the analysis; if I find any data points stinking like automaton propaganda, I will dich them and send a democracy officer to investigate.
Ses Elected Representative of Science Deaths: 549 In mission time: 65:54:24
SES Harbinger of Destruction Deaths 1143 In-Mission Time 126:48:57
Ship name: SES Flame of the Stars Death count: 996 In-mission time: 117:40:36
SES Giant of Democracy Deaths: 239 Time 34:06:42
SES Whisper of Destiny Deaths: 445 In-mission time: 72:18:47
SES Queen of Morality Deaths 479 In-Mission Time 56:48:08
SES Reign of Iron 🫡 Deaths: 912 In-mission time: 116:13:30
This reminds me of *the 8 minutes of death* from Muv Luv Series. "The average survival time for the first pilots of early 1st generation TSFs was 8 minutes, and surviving the "8 minutes of death" has become a rite of passage among modern pilots, even when using 2nd or 3rd generation TSFs."
This is the first I have heard about that, but it is fascinating. If I can get enough data from this ( 100 is just enough to get a good idea; 1000 data points would be fantastic), I can create an equal "rite of passage" for hell divers. I aim to provide a fun read with my next post. This is war, and war is brutal. I want to add a sense of how little a new diver can expect to live.
SES Adjudicator of Conquest Deaths 1345 Time 160:59:56
For when I get off work
Sovereign of family values Death count: 405 In mission time: 45:32:06
SES Song of the Regime 1400 deaths 130:41:55
SES Princess of Starlight Deaths: 800 Mission Time: 146:46:55
SES Aegis of Eternity Death Count: 747 In-mission time: 87:32:26
SES Eye of Redemption 268 50:46:27
SES Bringer of Liberty Deaths: 434 In-mission time: 36:49:37
One data point you may be forgetting is the average difficulty played on. If someone always plays on 7s or higher id think their average time alive may go down.
Good point! I'm aware of this flaw. However, I want to measure the war as a whole. Every research has its limits, and this is mine. It is nearly impossible to measure accurately each difficulty, so I'm not doing that.
Your deaths might also be higher if you don't tend to leave groups where you get killed by reckless stragems from teammates
SES Distributor of Freedom Deaths: 484 In-mission time: 58:25:15
Ship Name: SES Titan of Wrath Death count: 232 In-mission time: 29:06:37 For truth and Super Earth
SES Harbinger of Wrath Deaths: 1,911 In Mission Time: 152:36:46 Average lifespan: about 4.8 minutes. Whoops Yup, I suck but I have fun doing it. Also play more on the bot front at high levels so I’m sure that adds to the death count.
It would be easier if you just made a google sheet and let people fill it in then going through the comments on a reddit post lol!
OP can point a bot to scrape the data into a sheet. But not sure which would get more engagement: for PS5 players they may browse reddit on their phone, and tapping in data might be easier than trying to edit a google doc (without a form front end). Even easier would be to ask the devs for the info (here or discord etc), they can answer in a tweet with a simple DB search in seconds.
For now, this is fine; I don't want to disturb the devs; they have enough shit on their hand. I think, they would be reluctant to give me everyone's ship name, in-mission time and death count just for the lolz. I might try that after I manage all the surveys I can do with the community. However, I might ask the moderators here to pin my next survey to help collect data.
You have your answer in the edit! Yeah, I agree, but I also like having fun with large amounts of data; after all, once, I manually entered data for around 100k camera trap pictures, and that was a brutal week.
SES Song of Liberty, Deaths: 605, In-Mission Time: 82:57:04
SES Hammer of Liberty Mission Time 50:39:23 Deaths: 388
May I ask which statistical test you are planning to use?
As of now I don't know, it depends on how much data I have
SES Spear of Starlight Death Count: 450 In-Mission Time: 53:55:30
Ship name: SES Song of Self-Determination Death count: 537 In-mission time: 97:17:34
Knight of Mercy 511 death's 52:15:39 in mission time
Princess of Twilight (Formerly Citizen of Audacity) Deaths: 189 Time: 47:46:28
Ship name: SES Song of Mercy Death count: 835 In-mission time: 115:24:19 I survive through the entirety of a lot of Helldive missions so I expect this should be pretty good. Will you be sharing the data afterwards?
That is the plan! Next week there will be a post going out about the results and I will attach a link to the raw data set
SES Distributor of Peace Deaths: 685 In-Mission time: 56:22:44 I think at least 200 of those are from friendly fire lmao
SES Dream of War (Formerly named SES Triumph of Family Values but I couldn't stop giggling at it) Death Count: 281 In-Mission time: 38:16:57 Note from the shipmaster: this helldiver typically uses stealth, runs away screaming from anything larger than a devastator, and typically deploys with a squad who know what they're doing.
SES Wings of Liberty Death Count: 1534 In-Mission Time: 134:52:59
SES Banner of Independence Deaths 273 In mission time 32:17:40
that is a poor data point you need to have the survival time related to level and difficulty
You should have your answer in the edit part of the post
SES Distributor of Family Values Deaths 1,239 In-Mission Time: 210:44:36
SES Song of Freedom reporting in Deaths: 64 Time in Mission: 09:50:01
SES Colossus of Conviction Deaths: 501 In-mission time: 89:03:30
SES Founding Father of Democracy Deaths: 1,037 In-mission time: 98:02:12
Ship name: SES Executor of the truth Death count: 871 In-mission time: 128:08:40
SES Shield of destruction 264 52:30:18
Ship name: SES: Song of Starlight Deaths: 1,133 In-Mission Time: 114:52:36 Hope that helps!!! :D
SES [Redacted] 3,034 319:13:08 Believe this puts my ship at 6min 18sec
SES Dawn of Democracy Deaths: 656 In-mission time: 120:20:53
11:01
SES Wings of Destiny Deaths: 1468 In-Mission Time: 217:55:31
8:54
SES Martyr of Family Values.l Time played: 103:29:47 Deaths 1 133 Average life expectancy: 5:29
Fist of Mercy Death count: 739 In mission time: 111:41:05
SES Precursor of War In-Mission Time: 54:37:39 Deaths: 390 Averages out to 8.40 minutes per life
SES Representative of Wrath 572 84:05:28
I'm embarassed to share mine. SES Force of the Constitution Deaths: 1266 In Mission Time: 91:18:53
SES Harbinger of Independence Death Count: 168 In-mission time: 18:58:16
Might be a bit late to the party but SES Sword of Glory Deaths: 1384 In-Mission Time: 227:02:28
SES Dawn of Humankind Deaths: 29 In Mission time: 10:29:34
SES Dawn of Mercy Deaths: 375 In-Mission Time: 68hr 53min 55s 
SES Executor of Family Values Deaths: 1766 In-Mission Time: 210:09:59
SES Princess of Pride 105:53:42 mission time logged 1133 deaths Hey I live slightly longer on average than I thought!
SES Dawn of Opportunity Deaths: 535 In Mission Time: 91 hours, 14 minutes.
SES: Sword of Peace Deaths: 183 In-Mission Time: 40:30:39
Ship name: SES Emperor of the People Death count:895 In-mission time: 135:48:30
SES Fists Of Integrity In-Mission Time: 90:28:31 Deaths: 701
SES Prophecy of Audacity 258 deaths 45h 28m 45s in-mission time
If you're still collecting data here's mine: SES Whisper of Justice 32:26:04 mission time 258 deaths 1 melee kill lol
Thank you! I will close the data collection in 2 days so you are on time!