Questions tagged [helldivers-2]
A 2024 third-person shooter game developed by Arrowhead and published by Sony, available on PC and PlayStation 5.
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What's the cultural significance of the 500kg bomb in the Helldivers 2 community?
I don't play Helldivers 2. What is the significance of the 500kg bomb in Helldivers 2? Does it have any meaning inside of the culture of Helldivers 2 and with the game players? Is it merely just an ...
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How much XP do weapons need per level?
Each weapon requires XP to level up. I know levelling up gets much harder in later levels (early on, you can level up weapons multiple times after a single mission; later, it takes a very long time).
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What are these diamonds that show up on weapons at the armoury?
I was looking at my weapons in the armoury when I noticed that one of my guns (the only one I'd leveled up so far) had a yellow diamond symbol over it next to the level number.
What does the diamond ...
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What does the ergonomics stat affect?
With the new weapon customisation system, there are new stats you can see (and manipulate).
One of these stats is called ergonomics.
What does ergonomics affect?
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How can you easily identify/gather Super Samples?
The Helldivers Wiki has a page covering the Super Sample rock, but this page seems far from comprehensive (it only features one example of what the rock looks like on the minimap, for instance, but I ...
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What are the best ways to deal with factory striders?
Factory striders are somewhat hard to deal with for me, especially on higher difficulties. Especially when they spawn more automatons to swarm you.
What are the most efficient ways to deal with them? ...
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How do armour stats actually play into Helldivers 2?
Every armour set in Helldivers 2 has three stats - armour rating, speed, and stamina regen.
How does each stat play into the game? That is, how does armour rating affect damage taken, speed affect how ...
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Are the stratagems the ships fire stratagems players have actually called in?
In Helldivers 2, when orbiting a planet, you can see other ships orbiting the planet, and they occasionally fire stratagems.
For example, in the photo above, you can see a lot of ships, one firing ...
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Is there a reason to use unsafe mode with the railgun?
Helldivers 2 has a feature where you can change the firing mode for most guns (all?).
The railgun has two firing modes - a safe one, and an unsafe one.
The safe one will stop you from dying, no matter ...
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How do I deal with sandstorms in Helldivers 2?
In Helldivers 2, sometimes on desert planets, there’ll be sandstorms that greatly restrict vision and sound. You can barely see anything in front of you, and you mostly just hear the wind.
If you come ...
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How do you change your firing mode in Helldivers 2?
I’ve heard that you can change your firing mode for most guns, but I can’t figure out how to.
I’m not talking about ADSing, I know how to do that.
How can I change firing mode?
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Does mission difficulty increase with more players?
Sometimes games have a difficulty scaling mechanic, where there'll be more enemies that are harder to kill/deal more damage than when there’s less players.
Does Helldivers 2 have a similar system? If ...
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What’s a bug breach in Helldivers 2?
Sometimes when playing bug missions in Helldivers 2, there’ll be a pop-up on the HUD that says there’s been a bug breach.
What does this mean exactly?
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Is there a mission type that offers more rewards than the others?
There are multiple different kinds of missions.
For example, recovering intelligence from a downed SEAF plane, rescuing civilians, and eradicating enemies, just off the top of my head (those aren't ...
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What are the differences for each difficulty level?
Helldivers 2 has ten different difficulties:
Trivial
Easy
Medium
Challenging
Hard
Extreme
Suicide Mission
Impossible
Helldive
Super Helldive
You're not told much about how each difficulty changes ...