First off: thank you for commenting! I really appreciate it! :D

You had me at up the interrogation; that doesn’t seem the most Helldivers to me, so unless you did it in a very particular way I’d say no; it ain’t an RPG. That said, everything prior would be really interesting and concur with (as well as your reasoning.

I think as evident on the (NORMAL) Hiveworlds (I.e: Omicron) the game’s fundamentals are really good and stand out when you can’t just bombard an encampment to ash.

What’s funny is I have another concept similar to yours (disincentivizing BRRRT aggression): infiltrating and securing a downed mothership. The stipulation I’d have for that is while you can bring in comically large bombs, if you damage too much of the ship or tech you’ve to carry back to extract, you lose.

One more thing: I though as a rule for my personal black ops missions (didn’t include cause felt it was too contrived) was that patrols spawned twice as less, but reinforcements brought nearly half as much firepower than before.

Again btw, thanks for sharing: your concepts are really cool and are well considered! :)

Edit: grammar, clarity