Your first hours: do these, in order

Basic training leaves you with a starter kit, about 1,000 Requisition and the free Helldivers Mobilize! warbond. Set up your keys, take the daily Personal Order, learn on difficulties 1 to 3, and spend each currency on its first job below. Carry anti-tank before you move up to difficulty 4.

1. Set up your keys before the next dropPut the stratagem directions where you can reach them on the move, move push-to-talk off Caps Lock, and bind the quick weapon-function keys. All three are in PC settings and controls.
2. Take the Personal Order every dayOne task, 15 Medals, a new order every 24 hours, and your squadmates' progress counts toward yours.
3. Learn on difficulties 1 to 3, in full operationsLoot is richest there: below difficulty 4 no rare samples compete for the loot spots, so Super Credits and Medal cases turn up more often. Difficulties unlock one at a time: complete an operation at your highest unlocked difficulty to open the next one.
4. Spend your first Requisition on an Eagle, then on anti-tankBuy the Eagle Airstrike (4,000 Requisition) once you can afford it, then the EAT-17 Expendable Anti-Tank at level 3 (3,000). The whole shopping list is in Levels and unlocks.
5. Spend your first Medals in Helldivers Mobilize!Its Super Credit stacks are the cheapest in the game (500 SC for 22 Medals on pages 1 to 5), and page 3 holds its first booster, Hellpod Space Optimization (15 Medals), one of four boosters in GameRant's S tier (February 5, 2026). Follow the Medal-by-Medal plan, and put your first 1,000 Super Credits into Democratic Detonation, rated S by GamesRadar's warbond list (August 13, 2026) and S+ by a u.gg-based Steam guide (August 19, 2026) community-tested. If your Super Citizen Edition came with a Premium Warbond Token (premium warbonds only), unlock Democratic Detonation with it instead and keep your Super Credits.
6. Put your first 300 common samples into four ship modulesDonation Access License, Liquid-Ventilated Cockpit, Targeting Software Upgrade and Exploding Shrapnel need no rare samples and help from the next mission on. The rest of the order is in Ship modules.
7. Carry anti-tank from difficulty 3, then move up to 4Automaton tanks join the regular enemy pool at difficulty 3; Chargers, Hulks and Stalkers join at 4, where rare samples start. Bring the EAT-17, or the GR-8 Recoilless Rifle from level 5, before you step up. The three rules explain why.
8. Level 10: weapon attachmentsPrimaries level up as you use them and take attachments you buy with Requisition. The AC-8 Autocannon, a flexible answer to medium armor, fabricators and flying enemies, unlocks at level 10.
9. Difficulty 6 and up for super samplesThe tier-3 ship modules need them, above all Expanded Weapons Bay: one more use of every Eagle strike per rearm.
10. Level 25: exosuits and the FRVThe two Requisition exosuits and the M-102 Gunner FRV unlock at level 25. Arrowhead puts the level by which every weapon, stratagem and piece of gear that matters for a loadout unlocks at about 25; only the TD-220 Bastion tank may come later, at level 30 on the community wiki unverified. The levels after that, up to 300, are prestige.
11. Squad upNothing you earn is split in a squad, and every sample the squad extracts is credited to each member in full. Quickplay, SOS calls and the unwritten rules are in the multiplayer checklist.

1.1What basic training leaves you

All of this is yours on your first visit to the ship. Basic training pays 100 XP, exactly what level 2 needs, so every stratagem the wikis place at level 1 or 2 is already open to buy.

• Weapons: the AR-23 Liberator, P-2 Peacemaker, G-12 High Explosive and MG-43 Machine Gun. The G-12 grenade closes bug holes and fabricators; the MG-43 is a support weapon you call down as a stratagem.
• Stratagems: the Orbital Precision Strike and MG-43 Machine Gun, free. Reinforce, Resupply, SOS Beacon and Eagle Rearm come as standard issue and never take one of your 4 slots.
• Armor: the B-01 Tactical set. Its Extra Padding passive raises its armor rating without slowing you down, so it moves like medium armor and takes hits like heavy armor: a sound default on every front.
• Currency and a warbond: about 1,000 Requisition, and Helldivers Mobilize!, the free warbond: 10 pages of gear, with 750 Super Credits to claim along the way.
• A cape and two emotes, all cosmetic. You can replay basic training from the game menu whenever you want a safe place to practice.

The core loop: ship, drop, objective, extraction

Every session runs the same loop: pick a planet at the war table, build a loadout, drop, complete the main objective, extract, then spend what you earned. Objectives pay XP and Requisition even if you never get out; samples count only once they are aboard the shuttle.

1. Pick a fightAt the war table on the bridge, choose a planet, a mission and one of 10 difficulties. Play the planets in the current Major Order: when the community wins it, everyone who took part gets its Medals.
2. Build your loadoutA primary, a secondary, a throwable, body armor (helmets and capes are cosmetic), 4 stratagems and one booster.
3. DropYou can steer your hellpod as it falls: land it on an enemy for a free kill, and away from your squad.
4. Do the jobComplete the main objective first, then optional objectives, outposts and points of interest while time allows. A main objective pays 500 Requisition and 100 XP, an optional one 200 Requisition and 50 XP, and destroyed outposts pay 50, 100, 150 and 200 Requisition with 5, 10, 20 and 40 XP, from light to giant. The difficulty bonus multiplies the XP and Requisition.
5. ExtractCall the shuttle at the extraction terminal and hold the zone: it arrives 120 seconds later, as long as at least one diver stays within 50 m of the beacon. When the first diver boards, the shuttle lifts off 20 seconds later and reinforcements stop, so board last.
6. SpendRequisition and samples at the Ship Management terminal (stratagems and ship modules), Medals and Super Credits at the Acquisition Center (warbonds and the Superstore). What each one should buy first is in Currencies and caps.

2.1Operations and mission timers

An operation is a chain of missions on one planet (1 at difficulties 1-2, 2 at 3-4 and 3 from 5). Finish them all for the full Medal payout: fail one and the rest of the operation fails with it. Operation modifiers, extra rules such as longer call-in times, arrive with difficulty: one from difficulty 5, two from difficulty 8.

• Timers: most missions give you 40 minutes; Evacuate High-Value Assets, Repel Invasion Fleet and Activate TCS+ Station give 20; Eradicate missions and Rapid Acquisition 15; Blitz missions 12.
• When the timer runs out, your Super Destroyer leaves orbit: no more stratagems, no more reinforcements, and an emergency shuttle comes to the extraction zone on its own.

Every mission type and each difficulty's changes are on Missions, Objectives & Difficulty; the extraction rules in full are in Extraction.

2.2What you keep when it goes wrong

• Objectives: the XP and Requisition for every objective you completed are paid whether or not you extract (a few carry objectives pay only if you extract with the item).
• Pickups: Medals, Super Credits and Requisition slips are credited the moment someone picks them up, to every diver in the mission.
• Samples: they count only once they reach the shuttle. A dead diver drops the samples they carried, so pick them up; a diver left behind loses what they hold.
• A wipe: a squad killed with no reinforcements left fails the mission and the operation, unless the main objective was already done, which counts as a success.

Three rules that keep you alive

Most early wipes come from three mistakes: letting an enemy call reinforcements, meeting armor with a gun that cannot get through it, and leaving spawners open. Stop the call, carry anti-tank, and close holes and fabricators with explosives.

3.1Rule 1: stop the call for reinforcements

Every front has enemies that summon more of their own, and one call turns a patrol into a siege. The call can be interrupted, so kill the caller first and deal with the rest after.

3.2Rule 2: bring something that gets through armor

Every attack has an armor penetration value (AP) and every part of an enemy an armor value (AV). If your AP is higher, you deal full damage; if it is equal, 65%; if it is lower, the shot bounces off and does nothing. Your starter AR-23 Liberator is AP 2 (light): fine against small enemies, useless against a Charger's head, a Hulk's armor or a tank's hull.

• Read the hit markers. A red X means full damage, a white X means 65%, and a ricochet icon means none: switch weapons or aim for a weak spot.
• Know when the armor arrives. Automaton tanks and Scout Striders join the regular enemy pool at difficulty 3; Chargers, Hulks and Stalkers at 4, where a Bile Titan or Factory Strider can already turn up in an Eliminate mission.
• The cheapest answer is the EAT-17 Expendable Anti-Tank (level 3, 3,000 Requisition): AP 6, two launchers per call, and back every 70 seconds. At level 5 the GR-8 Recoilless Rifle gives you a reusable one.
• Every diver carries one answer to armor, even in a squad with a dedicated anti-tank player. The game's tiers: AP2 Light, AP3 Medium, AP4 Heavy and AP5 to AP10 Anti-Tank.

What every weapon penetrates is on How damage works; what every enemy needs is on What Kills What.

3.3Rule 3: close spawners with explosives

Bug holes, Automaton fabricators and grounded Illuminate Warp Ships keep producing enemies until you destroy them, and bullets never do. It takes an explosive hit with a demolition force of 20 or more inside the opening, or 40 or more on a bug hole's rim.

• You already carry one. The starter G-12 High Explosive grenade (demolition 30) closes a bug hole or a fabricator: throw it into the hole or through the fabricator's vent.
• Stratagems work too. The free Orbital Precision Strike (demolition 50) and the Eagle Airstrike (40) destroy bug holes and fabricators from outside when they land on them.
• Later, free up the grenade slot. The GL-21 Grenade Launcher, EAT-17, Recoilless Rifle and Autocannon close spawners as well. Every closer is listed in Special jobs, and every structure's needs in Spawners and structures.

3.4Five habits that save lives

• Dive and go prone when something explodes. Lying down cuts the damage from the outer part of a blast by 90%, and rockets and explosions are the usual killers.
• Stims heal and restore stamina. An empty stamina bar slows your sprint and hurts your aim.
• Reload between fights. A reload throws away the rounds left in the magazine, so reload in a lull, not after every burst.
• Crouch or lie down to shoot. Accuracy runs from worst to best: moving, standing, crouching, prone.
• Stay near your squad. Reinforcements come from one shared pool (5 per diver), and only a living squadmate can call you back in. Patch 7.1.0 balanced enemy spawns across divers who split up, but a diver on their own has nobody to cover them: move in pairs.

The first four are the game's own loading-screen tips, as the community wiki transcribes them (Training Manual Tips).

Calling stratagems on PC

Hold Left Ctrl, type the arrow code, and throw the beacon where the strike or the delivery should land. Learn the codes you use every mission first (Reinforce, Resupply, your Eagle and your support weapon) until your fingers know them, and never throw a strike at your own feet.

1. Open the menuHold the stratagem key, Left Ctrl by default. The menu lists your 4 stratagems and the standard-issue ones.
2. Enter the codePress the arrows shown, using the direction keys (W A S D by default). A wrong press restarts the code; closing the menu cancels it.
3. Throw the beaconIt sticks to whatever it hits, enemies and divers included, and a hellpod follows a beacon stuck to a moving enemy.
4. Wait for the call-inA few seconds for most strikes and deliveries, while the beam marks the spot. If it is a strike, get clear.
5. Let it rechargeOrbitals return on a timer, Eagles by uses per rearm, support weapons and backpacks on a long timer.

4.1The codes you use every mission

The arrows are the direction keys, in order. Every other code is in the generated tables on the Stratagems tab.

• Reinforce (bring back a fallen squadmate): ↑ ↓ → ← ↑
• Resupply (ammunition, stims and grenades for the squad): ↓ ↓ ↑ →
• SOS Beacon (open your mission to players who answer it; host only): ↑ ↓ → ↑
• Eagle Rearm (send your Eagle home to rearm early): ↑ ↑ ← ↑ →
• Orbital Precision Strike (free): → → ↑
• MG-43 Machine Gun (free): ↓ ← ↓ ↑ →
• Eagle Airstrike: ↑ → ↓ →
• EAT-17 Expendable Anti-Tank: ↓ ↓ ← ↑ →

4.2Cooldowns, uses and your Eagle

• Orbitals come back on a cooldown with no limit on uses, except the Orbital Laser (3 per mission); the free Precision Strike is back in 80 seconds.
• Eagles share one plane with a few uses of each strike. You can call another Eagle strike 15 seconds after the last one; when every use is spent, she rearms, which takes 150 seconds. Call Eagle Rearm in a quiet moment to start that early.
• Support weapons and backpacks mostly take 480 seconds to come back, so after you are reinforced, walk back and pick yours up. The EAT-17 is one exception, back in 70 seconds: call it whenever it is ready.
• Resupply is one squad-wide cooldown of 180 seconds and drops 4 boxes: take one and leave the rest.

Ship modules shorten most of these; which ones is in Ship modules.

4.3W A S D or the arrow keys

By default the code uses the movement keys, so you stop moving while you type it. Two layouts work:

4.4Throw it safely

• Every stratagem can kill a Helldiver. Strikes, barrages and hellpods land on friends as readily as on enemies: friendly fire caused about 11.6% of all Helldiver deaths since launch (official war statistics, September 26, 2026).
• Say it before you throw it, throw it away from your squad, and when enemies are on top of you, dive away instead of calling a strike at your own feet.
• Watch the beams. A beam rising near you marks a strike or a delivery on its way; step away from it until you know which.

The squad side of friendly fire is in Samples, reinforcements and friendly fire.

4.5Practice and hellpod steering

• Stratagem Hero, the arcade cabinet on the ship, drills codes against the clock. It comes with the Super Citizen Edition, but anyone can play it on an owner's ship, and since patch 7.1.0 each Destroyer keeps its own leaderboard.
• Speed is safe: patch 1.003.004 (May 2025) fixed fast inputs being dropped.
• Steer your hellpod with the movement keys while it falls; the Power Steering ship module makes it more responsive.

PC settings and controls

Before your next dive, change three things: put the stratagem directions where you can use them on the move, move push-to-talk off Caps Lock, and bind the quick weapon-function keys. Check every key under Options, Mouse & Keyboard, Change Bindings, where each binding can be set to hold or to press.

5.1Default key bindings

Arrowhead publishes no key list. These defaults come from the community wiki and two or more independent guides; the rows that rest on a single undated guide carry the unverified tag, so check them against your own bindings screen.

5.2Settings worth changing

5.3Aiming

• Three ways to fire: from the hip (least accurate), over the shoulder while holding aim (the reticle shows where the round lands, ignoring drop), and first person through the weapon's own sight.
• Stance: crouch or lie down to cut recoil and tighten your aim; prone is the steadiest.
• Buffered inputs: a reload pressed while you cannot reload waits up to 1.2 seconds and then happens (patch 6.3.0), and stim presses are buffered the same way (patch 7.0.0).
• Hit markers tell you whether your penetration is enough: see rule 2.

5.4Install, performance and your bindings file

• Install size: about 23 GB since the slim build became the only PC build; the 135 GB on Steam's requirements list is out of date.
• If the game freezes, wait 40 seconds before restarting it, so its hang detection can record the freeze for Arrowhead.
• Gyro aiming lives under Options, Controller, with its own invert setting since patch 1.002.200.
• Back up your bindings. They are stored in input_settings.config under your Steam folder's userdata/<your Steam ID>/553850/remote, and the other settings in user_settings.config under %APPDATA%/Arrowhead/Helldivers2. Deleting the input file resets your controls if they ever get corrupted (community wiki; PCGamingWiki).

Glossary

The abbreviations and slang you will meet in the game, in squad chat and across this manual, in alphabetical order.

Chat lingo, the comms wheel and pings are in Pings, chat and squad lingo.

Your first squad: the short version

A squad is up to 4 Helldivers on any mix of PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. Nothing you earn is split, the lives and the Resupply are shared, and friendly fire is always on. Six habits cover most of your first night; the checklist at the end of this tab turns them into a pre-flight list.

1. Get in the easy wayAt the War Table, press Quickplay on a busy planet or answer an SOS, at a difficulty you can clear alone or one step above it.
2. Take everything: nothing is splitEvery Medal case, Super Credit stack and Requisition slip goes to each diver present, and the squad's extracted samples go to every member in full. Pick up every sample you see, a fallen teammate's included.
3. Lives and ammo belong to the squadEach diver adds 5 reinforcements to one shared pool, and one Resupply pod of 4 boxes serves all of you. Take one box, and reinforce a teammate near where they fell.
4. Friendly fire is always onSay it before you throw a strike, throw it away from the squad, and never stand behind a teammate's launcher.
5. Talk without a microphonePing enemies, samples and objectives, and ping a teammate's ping to answer it. The comms wheel carries Wait, Follow Me, Thanks and Sorry.
6. Bring what the squad lacks, and board lastCarry one anti-armor answer whatever your role, bring a booster nobody else has, and do not board the shuttle until everyone who can make it is close.

1.1The squad model

How a squad works underneath: always online, co-op only, and the match runs on the host's machine.

Joining and hosting

For your first squads, press Quickplay at the War Table on a busy planet at a difficulty you can already clear, or answer an SOS. Host when you want to pick the planet, mission and difficulty yourself: set your privacy to Public, drop in, and throw the SOS Beacon early. Friend codes and crossplay have their own chapter, Friends and crossplay.

2.1The ways in

2.2Matchmaking privacy

Set it under Options, Gameplay, Matchmaking Privacy. Public lets strangers in through Quickplay, the planet map and SOS calls; Friends Only is how you play with friends and no strangers. Whatever you choose, throwing an SOS opens your lobby to the public for the rest of that mission.

2.3Quickplay

Quickplay searches open lobbies on the planet and at the difficulty you picked, prefers players near you, and retries by itself. It can put you anywhere from a ship in orbit to a squad already heading for extraction; arriving late is its choice, not yours. If it finds nothing, check that your own privacy is Public and pick a busier planet: the Major Order and campaign planets hold most divers, and the live war maps show where they are.

From the planet map: Public missions show on the War Table's planet view and can be joined directly; invite-only lobbies are hidden and blocked players cannot be joined there (1.001.201).

2.4The SOS Beacon

The SOS Beacon (↑ ↓ → ↑) is standard issue and free, and only the host can throw it. It makes your mission pulse on other divers' War Tables and keeps searching for the rest of the mission, pausing while the squad is full; it raises the odds of a join but guarantees none. Throw it early, before the fight turns, so answerers have time to arrive community-tested (TheGamer, March 2024). Arrowhead's own advice is to throw it when you play alone and get into trouble.

2.5What the host controls

The host is the diver whose lobby the squad is in, and the match runs on the host's machine. The host picks the planet, mission and difficulty (only difficulties the host has unlocked), sets the privacy, and is the only diver who can kick, throw the SOS or abandon the mission for everyone. Let the diver with the steadiest connection host, since every client syncs through that machine; this is the Field Manual's reading of the network model, not an Arrowhead statement unverified.

2.6Joining a mission in progress

You pick your loadout while the squad plays, and chat works on that screen, so say your role before you drop in by hellpod. You can join a difficulty you have not unlocked and keep its loot, but pickups made before you arrived went only to the divers who were there.

Friends, friend codes and crossplay

Leave crossplay on. Friends on your own platform appear by themselves; for a friend on another platform, trade friend codes from the Social menu. Progress does not travel between platforms (cross-progression: none), so each platform keeps its own account.

3.1Add a friend on another platform

1. Open the Social menuEsc (Options on PS5), then E (R1) to switch to the Social tab. That is Arrowhead's own path. The sources disagree on a one-key shortcut: 2025 guides give O on PC (R3 on PS5, RS on Xbox) on the ship; Arrowhead's 2024 article says Tab on PC and X on PS5 unverified. Trust the prompt on your screen.
2. Generate your friend codeUnder Your Friend Code, press Generate.
3. Have your friend search for itThey type the code into the Search bar at the top of their Social menu and send a request; you accept it.
4. Invite or joinSelect the friend: Invite brings them to your ship, Join takes you to theirs. On PS5, a Social-menu invite also sends a system invite.
5. Keep the good onesAfter a match, the Recent Players tab lists everyone you just played with, hot-joiners included. Send friend requests from there.

The friends rules, graded; the one-key shortcut and the request fixes are the thinly sourced ones.

3.2Crossplay and platforms

PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S play together and fight the same Galactic War. Crossplay is on by default; switching it off limits you to your own platform, with no finer filter. Guides put the switch under Options, Gameplay; whether Xbox has it in the game or only in the console's settings is disputed unverified.

• What online play costs: none on PC, PS Plus on PS5 and a paid online subscription on Xbox.
• Expect beginners: Helldivers 2 joined the PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium catalog on August 12, 2026, and 22.9 million players have tried it across the three platforms by Sony's latest count approx. Public lobbies are full of new divers; be patient with them.
• A UK friend on PC: Helldivers 2's Steam listing has been unavailable to new buyers in the UK since September 16, 2026; owners still play.
• Voice across platforms: players report in-game voice working between platforms with occasional failures, and many mixed squads use Discord instead unverified.

The crossplay rules and platform requirements; the Xbox switch and cross-platform voice are the open questions.

What carries over

Joining someone else's mission costs you nothing. You earn the full mission rewards, every pickup made while you are there, and the squad's whole sample haul. Joining a squad on a harder difficulty gets you its rarer samples and bigger rewards, even before you have unlocked that difficulty yourself.

What stays yours: your ship modules, stratagems and cooldowns, and your booster (though its effect covers the whole squad). You can only bring what you own, but you can pick up and use a teammate's dropped support weapon or backpack, a free way to try one before you buy it. What each currency buys is on Currencies and caps.

Difficulty unlocks stay your own: you complete an operation at your highest unlocked difficulty to open the next one. Finishing a harder operation in a friend's lobby reportedly opens only the level after your own highest unverified. Squadmates' progress counts toward your daily Personal Order (15 Medals). A Galactic War Campaign's reward, won when the community wins a majority of the campaign's Major Orders, goes to every diver who logged in during the campaign, squad or not (Rewards for taking part).

Every reward rule with its source: the mission rewards and pickups rest on the wiki's in-game record, while late joiners and early leavers rest on player reports.

Samples, reinforcements and Resupply

Treat lives and ammunition as squad property. The squad shares one reinforcement pool and one Resupply cooldown; each diver carries the samples they pick up, and the squad's extracted total is credited in full to every member. Friendly fire has its own chapter, right after this one.

5.1Samples

Pick up every sample you see, a fallen teammate's included: a dead diver's samples drop where they fell, and the squad's extracted total goes to each of you. Only samples that reach the shuttle count, and once you are aboard they are safe even if you die. On a big haul, spread the samples between divers, or drop them at the extraction zone early (you can visit it before the objective is done). To drop them on purpose: Hold X on PC (D-pad down on a controller) for the drop wheel: samples, backpack or support weapon.

5.2Reinforcements

Each diver adds 5 reinforcements to one shared pool, so a full squad has 20. Once the pool is empty, a new reinforcement arrives every 120 seconds. Any living diver can call one in (↑ ↓ → ← ↑).

Throw the beacon near where your teammate died, unless that spot is overrun, so they can recover their support weapon, backpack and samples; the diver in the pod can steer it onto a big enemy for a free kill, and it squashes teammates too. Reinforcements stop once anyone boards the shuttle and when the mission timer runs out, and jammers and ion storms block them. If the whole squad dies with reinforcements left, everyone drops back together; if it dies with none left before the main objective is done, the mission and its operation fail. Commando missions have their own budget: 12 reinforcements whatever the squad size, collected from pod sites (Operations and Commando missions).

5.3Resupply and stims

One Resupply (↓ ↓ ↑ →) serves the whole squad: a pod of 4 boxes, then a 180-second cooldown shared by everyone. Call it where everyone can reach it and take one box each unless the squad agrees otherwise community-tested. A Supply Pack carrier turns one pod box into two refills: grab the box, then top teammates up with Interact.

To stim a wounded teammate, walk up and press Interact at the Stim prompt; it uses one of your own stims. Hellpod Space Optimization, a booster on the free Helldivers Mobilize! warbond, drops every diver in, and back in after a reinforcement, fully stocked.

5.4Shared or yours

Friendly fire

Friendly fire is always on and cannot be turned off. Your bullets, strikes, hellpods and sentries hurt teammates, and a launcher's backblast knocks them down, so say it before you throw a strike, throw it away from the squad, dive flat when your own ordnance lands close, and never stand behind a teammate's launcher.

Arrowhead calls it "an integral part of the Helldivers experience", and the war keeps count: by the official war statistics, about 11.6% of all Helldiver deaths since launch were friendly fire approx. The statistics do not define whether each counted incident is a kill, so treat the share as an estimate.

Your body helps a little. A Helldiver has 125 health and takes reduced damage from explosions and fire but extra from gas, and lying prone cuts the damage from an explosion's outer radius by 90%.

6.1What hurts your squad

Every friendly-fire source the research found, with the habit that avoids it. Strikes, hellpods and sentries are the obvious ones; the surprises are launcher backblast, arc weapons that chain into divers, and the This Is Democracy emote's kick.

6.2Allies that cost you

SEAF soldiers and civilians count too. Each one you kill costs 25 Requisition before the difficulty multiplier, kills by your mines included, and after 9 such kills (mines aside) your own Super Destroyer turns its 380mm barrage on you.

6.3When it happens

Own it: say Sorry on the comms wheel and stim the diver you hit. Most hosts will not kick over a single accident, but deliberate team-killing is treated as griefing and gets divers kicked community-tested (ScreenRant, February 2024; GameRant, March 2024). The game keeps a tally of accidental kills, and the Ship Master remarks on them after a mission, but the research found no gameplay penalty for killing Helldivers unverified.

Pings, the comms wheel and chat

You do not need a microphone. Ping everything worth knowing about (enemies, samples, objectives, mines), and ping a teammate's ping to answer it; hold the same key for the comms wheel. Save voice and chat for plans, and keep push-to-talk off Caps Lock if you also type.

7.1The squad keys

The defaults on PC, with the console buttons where a guide gives them. There is no official key list: these come from dated guides (2024 to 2025) community-tested, so check or rebind them under Options, Mouse & Keyboard, Change Bindings, in the Communication section.

• Ping: Q (tap) on PC, R1 on PS5.
• Comms wheel: Hold the Mark key (Q or R1) and release on a phrase.
• Map marker: Open the map (Tab) and left-click; a marker lasts until reached or removed and follows moving objectives (1.001.100).
• Push to talk: Voice Activation (PTT/PTM) is Caps Lock on PC and unbound on PS5; move it off Caps Lock (for example to T) if you type in chat.
• Text chat: Enter opens chat; the 1.000.300 fix list made Open Text Chat rebindable, while PCGamingWiki still lists it as hard-coded.
• Stim a teammate: Walk up to a wounded ally (health in the red, about half or less) and press Interact (E) at the Stim prompt; it uses one of your stims.
• Drop samples or gear: Hold X on PC (D-pad down on a controller) for the drop wheel: samples, backpack or support weapon.
• Emote wheel: B (hold) on PC, D-pad left (hold) on a controller.
• Social menu: Esc (Options on PS5), then E (R1) to switch to the Social tab.

7.2Pings and map markers

A ping shows the target's name and distance, red for enemies and white for objects and places. An acknowledged ping lasts much longer, which is why the call and response matters; Arrowhead's own in-game short teaches it. Re-ping moving threats, since pings fade on a timer or when the enemy dies, and put a map marker on the next objective: it stays until you reach or remove it.

7.3The comms wheel

A handful of phrases carry a silent squad; Wait, Follow Me, Need Supplies, Thanks and Sorry are the everyday ones. The phrase list is TheGamer's from March 2024, the only list the research found, so check the phrases in the game; on PC, a left click selects one (since patch 1.001.201). Follow Me and Wait also command SEAF soldiers.

7.4Voice and text chat

Voice runs open, on Push to Talk or on Push to Mute, set in the audio options. Choose Push to Talk and move its key off Caps Lock if you type in chat, or your messages come out in capitals. A Bluetooth headset's microphone drags your game audio down to low quality: use a separate microphone, or apply Arrowhead's Bluetooth fix. The research found no proximity chat; voice reaches the whole squad unverified.

Text chat works in the ship menus, the loadout screen and the loading screen, so a joiner can name their role before dropping in.

7.5Emotes and hand signals

Answer a hug or a high-five: a partner emote waits for the other diver to press Interact, and since patch 7.1.0 Interact answers an emote before it stims or resupplies. The emote wheel holds 8 emotes, out of 50 emotes and victory poses in the game. Force of Law's hand signals (Signal: Hold, Signal: Silence and Signal: Group Up) organize a squad with the microphone off.

7.6Mute, block and report

Mute a player from the squad list in the pause menu. Block a griefer, and they can no longer join games you host, nor you theirs. Report from your friends list, the Recent Players tab or the squad menu.

Abbreviations you will meet in chat (AP, D1 to D10, MO, SEAF and more) are in the Getting Started glossary.

Etiquette and unwritten rules

Four habits make you a welcome squadmate: say your role and bring what the squad lacks, announce your ordnance and aim it away from people, take one box from a shared Resupply, and board the shuttle last.

These are community norms from guides written in 2024 and 2025 community-tested; the mechanics behind them (the shared Resupply, duplicated samples, the boarding rules) were checked again for patch 7.1.1. Kicking and leaving have their own chapter: Kicking, leaving and host migration.

8.1Every rule, with its source

Each norm links its source, and the Detail column names the dated guide where there is one; a norm only one source supports carries the unverified tag.

Roles and loadout coordination

Nothing in the game assigns roles, but a squad that covers anti-tank, crowd control and support beats four copies of one build. For four divers, two on anti-tank, one on crowd control and one on support who also helps with crowds (an EMS Mortar does both) is a workable split: the Field Manual's suggestion, not a game rule unverified. Whatever your role, carry one anti-armor answer.

9.1The roles

The community's working model, from dated guides (PC Gamer, October 2024; GamesRadar+, September 2025) community-tested. Against Automatons, GamesRadar+ (February 2026) says every diver should carry some anti-tank. The heavy-killers for each slot are on Heavy-killers by slot, and whole squads on Squad compositions.

9.2Coordinating in the lobby

1. Name the fightThe host says the front, the mission and the difficulty.
2. Claim a roleOut loud or in chat: anti-tank, crowd control or support.
3. Read the loadout screenIt shows every teammate's stratagems and equipment, and which diver brought which booster.
4. Check the iconsA backpack icon marks a support weapon fed from a backpack, which wants a loader; a drop icon marks one you fire and throw away.
5. Pick different boostersDuplicates add nothing, so agree who brings what.
6. Agree on the danger rulesWho throws barrages, where mines and sentries go, and where the squad extracts.

The coverage check on the Loadouts tab tests one loadout against each front's heavies, crowds and spawners.

9.3Team weapons and assisted reload

If you carry the backpack, or stand next to a teammate firing a Recoilless Rifle, Spear, Autocannon, Airburst or W.A.S.P., help reload. Since patch 7.0.0 the assist works when either of you wears the backpack, and the ammunition comes from it. Stand beside the gunner, never behind (backblast), and press Interact at the prompt. Each EAT-17 call also drops a spare launcher: hand it to a teammate with no anti-tank.

Solo and assisted reload times: the Recoilless Rifle gains the most from a loader, the W.A.S.P. the least.

9.4Boosters in a squad

Each diver brings one booster and its effect covers the whole squad, so a full squad runs 4 different ones and a duplicate adds nothing. New squads can't go wrong with the four boosters from the free Helldivers Mobilize! warbond that GameRant put in its top tier (February 2026) community-tested:

• Hellpod Space Optimization: Divers leave every hellpod (first drop and each reinforce) with full ammo, grenades and stims, up to their armor's capacity.
• Vitality Enhancement: Minor damage reduction for all divers (about 10% per the wiki) and fewer limb injuries.
• Stamina Enhancement: More maximum stamina and faster stamina regen for all divers (wiki.gg: +22.5% and +40%; Fandom lists 30% and 23%) unverified.
• Muscle Enhancement: Less slowdown in snow, mud, water, foliage, barbed wire, blizzards, sandstorms and acid (not slopes or tremors).

Hellpod Space Optimization (page 3) and Vitality Enhancement (page 4) unlock early on the warbond; Stamina Enhancement (page 7) and Muscle Enhancement (page 9) come much later, and the purchase order ranks what to buy first.

Situational picks: Increased Reinforcement Budget for a squad that dies a lot, Surplus EAT Allocation when nobody brought anti-tank, Flexible Reinforcement Budget for a duo. Leave Firebomb Hellpods at home, since every pod landing sets fire to whatever is near, teammates included. Every booster is listed on the Armor tab; the squad rules for boosters follow.

9.5Shared tools

Some gear is built for more than one diver: vehicles seat a driver, a gunner and passengers who can shoot and call stratagems, bunker doors need two divers pressing both buttons at once, and in Mega Cities several divers can each recruit SEAF soldiers.

Squad size and difficulty

With a squad, play one step above the difficulty you can clear alone. The harder difficulties are tuned for co-op, rewards are never split, and every diver adds reinforcements and a booster. Move in pairs rather than alone.

What grows with the squad: the reinforcement pool (5 per diver), the boosters (one per diver), the extraction XP and the patrols. What stays fixed: the Resupply pod, the mission timer and the Commando reinforcements. Since patch 7.1.0, Evacuate High-Value Assets also sends more enemies when more divers are present. Which difficulty pays what is on Difficulty and rewards.

The scaling rules, graded; the 2024 community patrol timings predate patch 7.1.0 and are marked unverified.

10.1Splitting up

Since patch 7.1.0 the game balances spawns per diver: it measures the enemy pressure on each diver, favors a diver under low pressure when it has to spawn more, and despawns far-away enemies when the map is over budget. The 2024 community multipliers for split squads no longer apply. Pairs are still the sweet spot: two divers can clear a side objective and open a two-button bunker, while a diver who dies alone comes back wherever a teammate throws the beacon, far from their gear and samples (the Field Manual's call). At extraction, one diver within 50 m of the beacon keeps the shuttle coming while the rest finish up.

10.2Lifelines for solo and duo play

• The SOS Beacon. It pulls public divers into your mission (The SOS Beacon).
• Flexible Reinforcement Budget. Once the budget runs out, each new reinforcement comes 25% sooner (120 -> 90 s).
• SEAF squadmates (Heavy SEAF Presence): unavailable since September 21, 2026. No official post says when, or whether, it returns. A planet modifier since 7.0.0: Pelicans drop SEAF squads (a leader, 2 riflemen, 2 specialists and a medic) on divers facing heavy fighting, aimed at solo players and short-handed squads. Arrowhead calls them "a genuine lifeline" for short squads.
• SEAF in Mega Cities. Mega City maps still start with a SEAF squad you can recruit, up to 8 per diver; Follow Me on the comms wheel, or the Casual Salute or Lockstep emote, brings them along. SEAF medics stim wounded divers; their stims are weaker than yours and ignore Experimental Infusion.

Kicking, leaving and host migration

Kick griefers, not beginners: never for an accident, a low level or a late join. If you have to go, leave between missions or after the summary screen, never during extraction. If the host leaves, the mission carries on under a new host.

11.1Kicking

Only the host can kick, and a kick costs the kicked diver nothing: since Escalation of Freedom (2024) they carry on in a copy of the mission as its host, with the team's loot, and can still extract for full rewards, while the squad keeps its own loot and sees a chat message. The host can also mute or kick a joiner who is still in the loadout screen, and every kick, block and unfriend asks for confirmation.

11.2Leaving and host migration

When the host leaves, another diver becomes host and the mission continues; the SOS Beacon is destroyed so the new host can decide whether to throw another. Only the host's Abandon Mission With Squad ends the mission for everyone. When a client leaves, their booster's effect reportedly ends (extra reinforcements from Increased Reinforcement Budget stay), and their samples reportedly drop where they stood unverified. Quickplay or an SOS can fill the empty slot.

AFK timer. 15 minutes idle sends a diver back to the title screen (1.000.11, 2024-02-22).

Connection problems

If you can log in but cannot join anyone, suspect peer-to-peer reachability on your side (a strict or double NAT, carrier-grade NAT, a VPN) rather than Arrowhead's servers. Turn on UPnP, play wired, update your network drivers, and work down the steps below.

Why: the game talks to two places at once. Arrowhead's servers hold your profile (level, unlocks, currencies), while the match itself runs peer-to-peer with the host's machine as the server. That is also why the host's connection affects everyone in the squad (What the host controls).

12.1Try these in order

1. Rule out matchmakingSet your privacy to Public, pick a busy planet and let Quickplay retry, or host and throw an SOS.
2. Restart the networkRestart the modem and router (off for 5-7 minutes).
3. Open the pathTurn on UPnP on the router. Fix a double NAT (put a second router in access-point mode, or the ISP modem in bridge mode), or ask your ISP for a public IPv4 address if you are behind carrier-grade NAT.
4. Steady the linkPlay wired and update your network drivers: some Intel and Realtek 2.5 Gb adapters are known to drop the link.
5. Fix name lookupsFlush the DNS cache (ipconfig /flushdns) and switch to a public DNS server.
6. Drop the middlemenA VPN has to allow peer-to-peer traffic, and DPI bypass tools break the login and can trip the anti-cheat. Close them while you play.
7. Then the game itselfVerify the files, delete the Helldivers 2 folder in %APPDATA%\Arrowhead, and if nothing helps, open a ticket with Arrowhead quoting your Account ID.

12.2Symptoms and fixes

Every connection fault the research found, with its fix and source, error codes included. The Hellbomb Script row is a community tool, not Arrowhead's: read it before you run it.

More fixes: the community wiki's Network Troubleshooting page, and Known bugs on the Community tab.

First night in multiplayer: the checklist

Everything above as a pre-flight list. Work down it once and you will not be the problem diver.

13.1Before you launch

• Options, Gameplay: Matchmaking Privacy Public (or Friends Only with friends), and crossplay on.
• Audio: pick Push to Talk (or an open microphone), and move the talk key off Caps Lock if you type in chat.
• Learn the squad keys: ping, comms wheel, map marker, chat, Interact and the drop wheel (the key list).
• Bluetooth headset? Use a separate microphone, or voice will wreck your game audio.

13.2On the ship

• Friends on another platform: open the Social menu, Generate your friend code and have them search for it (the steps).
• Pick a difficulty you can clear alone, or one step above it with a squad; you can join harder missions than you have unlocked.
• Quickplay on a busy planet (the Major Order or campaign planets), or host and throw the SOS Beacon (↑ ↓ → ↑) once you land.

13.3In the loadout

• Claim a role in chat: anti-tank, crowd control or support. Read the squad's picks before you lock yours.
• Bring one anti-armor answer anyway: an EAT-17 or a Recoilless Rifle is enough (support weapons).
• Choose a booster nobody else has. Unsure? Hellpod Space Optimization or Vitality Enhancement, and later Stamina or Muscle Enhancement.

13.4On the ground

• Ping everything: enemies, samples, objectives. Answer a teammate's ping by pinging it.
• Stay within sight of the squad, in pairs at least. No microphone? Wait and Follow Me are on the comms wheel.
• Call it before you throw it: strikes, barrages, mines and sentries. Never step in front of a teammate's gun or behind a launcher.
• Resupply is shared (4 boxes every 180 seconds): take one box.
• Stim wounded teammates (Interact at the Stim prompt), and say Sorry if you hurt one.
• Pick up every sample, a fallen teammate's too: the squad's total goes to everyone.
• Reinforce (↑ ↓ → ← ↑) near where the teammate died unless it is overrun; when you are the one dropping in, steer your pod onto a big enemy.
• Help reload a teammate's Recoilless, Spear or Autocannon when you are close.

13.5At extraction

• The shuttle takes 120 seconds to arrive: one diver holds the zone (within 50 m of the beacon) while the rest defend it.
• Board last: the first diver aboard starts a 20-second departure and ends reinforcements.

13.6After the mission

• Stay for the mission summary before you leave.
• Add good squadmates from Recent Players; block or report griefers there.
• Do not kick for accidents or late joins: the kicked diver keeps the loot anyway.
• Connection trouble? Work down Connection problems.

Currencies and caps: what each one buys first

Each currency has one main job, and most of them stop at a cap, so spend as you go: Requisition on stratagems, Medals on warbond pages (Helldivers Mobilize! first), Super Credits on a premium warbond, and samples on ship modules. Whatever you earn above a cap is thrown away.

1.1Every currency at a glance

Where each one comes from and what it pays for. Pickups count for every diver in the mission the moment one of you grabs them; samples count only when the squad extracts.

1.2Requisition Slips

• Earning: a main objective pays 500 Requisition and 100 XP, an optional one 200 Requisition and 50 XP, and destroyed outposts pay 50, 100, 150 and 200 Requisition with 5, 10, 20 and 40 XP, from light to giant. The difficulty bonus lifts Requisition and XP by 0, 0, 25, 50, 75, 100, 150, 200, 250 and 300 percent at difficulties 1 to 10. Each slip you find adds 100 for every diver present, and the odd one holds 1,000.
• Spending, in the order you will meet it: the 60 stratagems that unlock by level (two are free; the rest cost 449,000 in all), weapon attachments from level 10, the tier-4 and tier-5 ship modules (20,000 to 35,000 each), and donations to the Democracy Space Station.
• The cap: the wallet stops at 50,000, so buy as you level instead of saving for everything at once. The most expensive single stratagem, the TD-220 Bastion tank, costs 35,000.
• A penalty: killing a civilian or a SEAF soldier costs you 25 Requisition each, before the difficulty multiplier.

1.3Medals

• Earning: every mission pays Medals, more for each later mission of an operation and more on harder difficulties: a whole operation pays 1, 2, 6, 8, 18, 21, 24, 29, 33 and 36 at difficulties 1 to 10. Medal cases hold 1 to 3, the daily Personal Order pays 15, and a won Major Order usually 35 to 55.
• Spending: warbond items only. A page opens once you have spent enough Medals in that warbond, so a full wallet opens nothing.
• The cap: 250. Spend down before a Major Order pays out.
• The best trade in the game: Helldivers Mobilize! sells 100 SC for 1, 2, 3, 6 and 10 Medals (pages 1-5), then 50 SC for 15, 15, 20, 25 and 50 Medals (pages 6-10). Each premium warbond holds three 100-SC stacks for 7, 12 and 32 Medals.

The Medal-by-Medal plan is on Warbonds: the short answer, and every Medal source on Earning Medals and Super Credits.

1.4Super Credits

• From warbonds: 750 in Helldivers Mobilize! and 300 in each premium warbond, 7,050 across every warbond; the legendary crossovers hold none.
• In missions: stacks of 10 (rarely 100) in pods, cargo containers and bunkers at points of interest, credited to every diver present, even if you never extract. They are densest on difficulties 1 to 3, Eradicate missions have none, and factory worlds have held them since patch 7.0.0.
• For money: the 1,000-SC pack costs US$9.99 on the PlayStation Store. Money buys Super Credits, not warbonds, with one exception: the Super Citizen Edition and its upgrade include a Premium Warbond Token that unlocks one warbond (premium warbonds only).
• Spending: a premium warbond costs 1,000 (700 once you claim the stacks inside it), a legendary one 1,500, and the Superstore sells armor, some weapons and cosmetics (Superstore and free gear).
• No wallet cap, but since July 9, 2026 an undisclosed limit on how fast Super Credits can be earned stops exploiters, and Arrowhead says normal play, even a weekend-long grind, never reaches it (Arrowhead on Steam). It plans to extend the limit to Medals, samples and Requisition; whether it has is not confirmed unverified.

1.5Samples

Three kinds, each with its own cap and its own starting difficulty. The Galactic War screen shows which kinds an operation offers before you launch.

• Keep them: samples count only when they reach the shuttle, and a diver who is not aboard loses what they carry. They are handed over as you board, so dying inside the shuttle loses nothing.
• Share them: everything the squad extracts is credited in full to every member; if the squad extracts 10, each diver gets 10.
• Pick up the dead: a fallen diver drops their samples, and anyone can pick them up.
• Grab faster: starting a sprint cancels the pickup animation community-tested.
• After the modules: once you own every module, common and rare samples have one use left, donations to the Democracy Space Station, up to 75 common samples, 50 rare samples and 50,000 Requisition in 24 hours; super samples have none.

Levels and unlocks: what to buy as you level

Levels unlock Requisition stratagems, and Requisition buys them. Buy the Eagle Airstrike first, the EAT-17 at level 3, a reusable anti-tank weapon at level 5 and the AC-8 Autocannon at level 10. Arrowhead says the gear that matters for a loadout is all unlocked by the time you reach about 25 (only the TD-220 Bastion tank may come later, at level 30 unverified); the levels after that, up to 300, are prestige.

2.1Your Requisition shopping list

This order is the Field Manual's own analysis, not a community ranking: two of its research dossiers built it separately from unlock levels, costs and the enemies each difficulty adds, and arrived at the same first purchases. How each stratagem does on each front is on Stratagems and Beginner loadouts.

1. Eagle Airstrike, first4,000 Requisition, open from your first visit to the ship. One call handles a patrol, a bug hole or a fabricator, and the Hangar ship modules make it better still.
2. EAT-17 Expendable Anti-Tank, at level 33,000 Requisition for the cheapest anti-tank weapon: two launchers per call, back every 70 seconds.
3. A cheap filler for the fourth slotThe Orbital Gatling Barrage (1,500), the A/MG-43 Machine Gun Sentry (1,500) or the Eagle Strafing Run (1,500), all open from the first visit. The Gatling Barrage is the cheapest answer to a bug breach or a bot drop.
4. Level 5: a Recoilless Rifle or a Grenade LauncherThe GR-8 Recoilless Rifle (6,000) is reusable anti-tank carried with a backpack; the GL-21 Grenade Launcher (6,000) clears crowds and closes bug holes. Add the A/G-16 Gatling Sentry (4,000, level 5) for holding objectives and extraction.
5. Level 10: AC-8 Autocannon7,000 Requisition for a flexible answer to medium armor, fabricators and flying enemies, which also closes bug holes from range. Weapon attachments unlock at level 10 too.
6. Level 15: heavy removalThe Eagle 500kg Bomb (10,000) or the Orbital Laser (10,000, level 15; 3 per mission) removes a heavy without aiming a launcher; the A/MLS-4X Rocket Sentry (7,500, level 15) goes for heavies first.
7. Level 18: LAS-99 Quasar Cannon7,500 Requisition: anti-tank with no ammunition to manage and no backpack.
8. Level 20: the single-target killers and a shieldThe Orbital Railcannon Strike (10,000), the FAF-14 Spear (9,000) and the SH-32 Shield Generator Pack (10,000).
9. Level 25: exosuits and the FRVThe EXO-45 Patriot (20,000) and EXO-49 Emancipator (20,000) exosuits and the M-102 Gunner FRV (25,000). The TD-220 Bastion tank (35,000) comes last, at level 30 unverified: the community wiki has listed it at 25, then 1, then 30, the second wiki says 25, and no patch note gives a level.

A dated outside view: DualShockers' early list (February 16, 2024) picked the Strafing Run, Airstrike, Supply Pack, EAT, Recoilless Rifle, Grenade Launcher and Guard Dog Rover first community-tested. Balance has moved a lot since (patches 4.1.0 and 6.3.0), so read it as history.

2.2Milestones

• Level 2, on arrival: basic training pays exactly the 100 XP that level 2 needs, so every stratagem the wikis place at level 1 or 2 is open on your first visit to the ship.
• Level 10 (7,100 XP in all): weapon attachments, and the rank title Sergeant.
• Level 25 (35,900 XP in all): by Arrowhead's count, the gear that matters for a loadout is unlocked around here, and everything after it is for the long haul.
• Level 300 (11,080,000 XP in all): the cap. It was 50 at launch, 150 from April 2, 2024 and 300 from August 12, 2026. Arrowhead says reaching 300 takes more than twice as long as reaching 150, and XP earned past the old cap was banked and paid out as levels.
• Rank titles: one every 5 levels up to 50 and one every 10 after that, 36 in all, from Cadet at level 1 to Skull Admiral at 50 and Rank 300 at the cap. Equip one under Armory, Character, Title.

2.3How XP is earned

Mission XP is tallied at the end, win or lose, and multiplied by the difficulty bonus (0, 0, 25, 50, 75, 100, 150, 200, 250 and 300 percent at difficulties 1 to 10).

• A main objective: 500 Requisition and 100 XP.
• An optional objective: 200 Requisition and 50 XP (Destroy High-Value Target pays 222 XP and no Requisition).
• Outposts: 50, 100, 150 and 200 Requisition with 5, 10, 20 and 40 XP, from light to giant.
• Extraction: 20 XP for each diver aboard, plus 1 XP for each percent of the mission time left.

For a sense of pace: a full squad at difficulty 5 that completes three optional objectives and a handful of outposts and extracts with half its time left earns about 760 XP. At that rate level 10 takes about 10 missions and level 25 about 47 approx; this is an illustration from the wiki's XP values, not a measurement.

2.4Weapon levels and attachments

From level 10, your primaries level up as you use them (a weapon earns XP while it is in your loadout), up to weapon level 25. Each weapon level unlocks attachments that you then buy with Requisition: open the Armory, pick a weapon and choose Customize. Only primaries take attachments, and not all of them do (Arrowhead support).

• The long Requisition sink: an attachment costs from nothing to 25,000 Requisition. Everything for the AR-23 Liberator comes to 124,000 across its 14 paid options, with the 4x Combat Scope and the Drum Magazine at 25,000 each unverified (the community wiki's figures, with no second source).
• Keep your setup: turn on the player-settings option that keeps your chosen customization after death.
• A known issue: some attachment stats do not preview until you buy and equip the attachment (Arrowhead's known-issues list).

2.5Stratagems you do not buy with Requisition

• Warbond stratagems (29 of them) cost Medals on the page of a warbond you own, and need no level.
• Campaign rewards: a won Galactic War Campaign gives its reward, sometimes a stratagem, to everyone who took part. A stratagem reward shows up in your mission loadout, not in the Ship Management list (Orders and their rewards).
• The M-103 Supply FRV, a campaign reward, becomes a Requisition purchase for everyone in October 2026; its level and price are not announced.
• Temporary permits: Major Orders and strategic opportunities sometimes lend every diver a stratagem for a set time, without taking a slot.

2.6Every Requisition unlock

All 60 stratagems that unlock by level, each with its level and Requisition cost, are in the generated tables on the Stratagems tab: orbitals, Eagles, support weapons and backpacks, sentries, emplacements and mines, and vehicles and exosuits. The paid ones come to 449,000 Requisition, so with a 50,000 wallet you buy them level by level.

Ship modules: which to buy first

Put your first 300 common samples into the four tier-1 modules that need no rare samples: Donation Access License, Liquid-Ventilated Cockpit, Targeting Software Upgrade and Exploding Shrapnel. Next comes Pit Crew Hazard Pay, then Expanded Weapons Bay as soon as you have super samples, if you call Eagles.

3.1How modules work

• Where: the Ship Management terminal, under Ship Module.
• Structure: 30 modules in six sections of five tiers, and each tier needs the one below it in the same section.
• Cost: samples for every tier, plus Requisition for tiers 4 and 5. Buying all of them costs 3,830 common, 2,920 rare and 305 super samples plus 335,000 Requisition.
• Who benefits: only the diver who bought the module, with one exception that works through objects: squadmates get full refills from your Resupply boxes if you own Superior Packing Methodology.
• Stable since 2024: no module has been added or repriced since July 2024. Arrowhead announced an overhaul with new ships on June 4, 2026, but gave no date unverified.

3.2Phase A: common samples only (difficulties 1 to 3)

300 common samples for four modules that pay off from the next mission on.

1. Donation Access LicensePatriotic Administration Center, tier 1 · 60 common. Support weapons arrive with all the spare ammunition you can carry.
2. Liquid-Ventilated CockpitHangar, tier 1 · 80 common. Halves the 15-second wait between two Eagle calls.
3. Targeting Software UpgradeBridge, tier 1 · 60 common. Orbitals land sooner, the free Precision Strike included.
4. Exploding ShrapnelOrbital Cannons, tier 1 · 100 common. Orbital blasts keep full damage over a wider core.

3.3Phase B: first rare samples (difficulties 4 and 5)

440 more common and 210 rare samples, for faster Eagles and shorter cooldowns.

1. Pit Crew Hazard PayHangar, tier 2 · 80 common, 40 rare. A faster Eagle rearm, and the way to Expanded Weapons Bay.
2. Streamlined Request ProcessPatriotic Administration Center, tier 2 · 80 common, 40 rare. Shorter support-weapon cooldowns.
3. Synthetic SupplementationEngineering Bay, tier 1 · 60 common, 10 rare. Shorter Resupply, sentry and emplacement cooldowns.
4. Dynamic TrackingRobotics Workshop, tier 1 · 60 common, 20 rare. Sentries drop in faster.
5. Nuclear RadarBridge, tier 2 · 80 common, 40 rare. Your minimap shows enemies farther out.
6. More GunsOrbital Cannons, tier 2 · 80 common, 60 rare. Barrages fire an extra salvo, and it is the way to Zero-G Breech Loading.

3.4Phase C: first super samples (difficulty 6 and up)

640 more common, 560 rare and 65 super samples; this is where Eagle users get their biggest upgrade.

1. Expanded Weapons BayHangar, tier 3 · 80 common, 80 rare, 10 super. One more use of every Eagle strike per rearm.
2. Zero-G Breech LoadingOrbital Cannons, tier 3 · 80 common, 80 rare, 10 super. Shorter orbital cooldowns.
3. Hand CartsPatriotic Administration Center, tier 3 · 80 common, 60 rare, 5 super. Shorter backpack cooldowns, and the way to Superior Packing Methodology.
4. Shock Absorption GelRobotics Workshop, tier 2 · 80 common, 40 rare, 5 super. More sentry ammunition.
5. Advanced ConstructionEngineering Bay, tier 2 · 80 common, 60 rare, 5 super. Tougher sentries.
6. High-Quality LubricantRobotics Workshop, tier 3 · 80 common, 80 rare, 10 super. Sentries turn faster, and the way to Blast Absorption.
7. Power SteeringBridge, tier 3 · 80 common, 80 rare, 10 super. Better hellpod steering, and the way to the Bridge's top tiers.
8. Rapid Launch SystemEngineering Bay, tier 3 · 80 common, 80 rare, 10 super. Emplacements drop in faster, and the way to the Engineering Bay's top tiers.

3.5Phase D: tiers 4 and 5 (Requisition too)

Each of these also costs Requisition, shown here; the sample costs are in the full table. Buy them in this order as your wallet allows.

1. XXL Weapons Bay (25,000): one more bomb from the Airstrike, Cluster Bomb, Napalm and Smoke Eagles.
2. Superior Packing Methodology (20,000): your Resupply fully refills support weapons, your squadmates' too.
3. Enhanced Combustion (25,000): stronger fire from stratagems, and the way to Morale Augmentation.
4. Morale Augmentation (35,000): every stratagem cooldown shorter, mission stratagems included.
5. Circuit Expansion (20,000): arcs jump to more enemies, and the way to Streamlined Launch Process.
6. Streamlined Launch Process (30,000): support weapons drop in faster.
7. Payroll Management System (30,000): faster support-weapon reloads.
8. Advanced Crew Training (30,000): a faster rearm when you call Eagle Rearm early.
9. Atmospheric Monitoring (25,000): tighter HE barrages.
10. High-Density Explosives (35,000): bigger orbital blasts.
11. Blast Absorption (25,000): sentries shrug off explosions.
12. Cross-Platform Compatibility (35,000): mortar sentries fire on what you mark.

3.6Variants by playstyle

• Eagle-heavy: finish the Hangar first: Liquid-Ventilated Cockpit, Pit Crew Hazard Pay, Expanded Weapons Bay, XXL Weapons Bay, Advanced Crew Training.
• Orbital-heavy: pull Zero-G Breech Loading and Atmospheric Monitoring forward.
• Sentries and emplacements: pull the Robotics Workshop (Dynamic Tracking, Shock Absorption Gel, High-Quality Lubricant, Blast Absorption, Cross-Platform Compatibility) and the Engineering Bay's Synthetic Supplementation and Advanced Construction forward; take Cross-Platform Compatibility early if you run mortars.
• Everyone ends up with all of them: the tier-4 and tier-5 modules need the weaker tier-2 and tier-3 modules below them.

3.7What the community rates highest

Two dated lists, both opinions community-tested. Both put Donation Access License, Liquid-Ventilated Cockpit and Targeting Software Upgrade near the top, as Phase A does.

• VideoGamer's tier list (updated October 11, 2024): S tier for Donation Access License, Dynamic Tracking, Expanded Weapons Bay, Liquid-Ventilated Cockpit, Synthetic Supplementation and Targeting Software Upgrade; C tier for Hand Carts, More Guns and Rapid Launch System.
• games.gg's order (June 9, 2026): Donation Access License, Targeting Software Upgrade, Liquid-Ventilated Cockpit, Pit Crew Hazard Pay, Expanded Weapons Bay, Dynamic Tracking and Shock Absorption Gel, with Rapid Launch System, Power Steering and More Guns called skippable. The same page gets two sample facts wrong (it puts super samples at difficulty 7 and up, and rare samples "reliably" at 5 to 6), so weigh it lightly.

3.8How long it takes

Estimates that assume your squad finds and extracts every sample on the map; a squad covers more ground than a solo diver, and each member receives the full count approx.

3.9Every module

All 30, grouped by section. Within a section, read the Tier column: each tier needs the one before it. Three rows are graded likely because the sources disagree: the super-sample cost of Advanced Crew Training and of Streamlined Launch Process (25 on most records, 20 on one; only 25 adds up to the published total) and the effect of Circuit Expansion (one extra enemy on most records, two on its own wiki page).

Earning fast: where each currency is densest

Farm each currency where it is densest: Super Credits and Medal cases on difficulties 1 to 3; Medals, XP and Requisition from full operations at the highest difficulty your squad clears reliably; rare samples at 5 to 7 and super samples at 8 to 10. Take the Personal Order every day, whatever you farm.

The sample counts behind this table are the community wiki's per-difficulty ranges, measured with every sample found approx.

The difficulty-10 count is the least certain: a map there holds about 40 common, 35 to 41 rare and 7 super samples on the best reading of the sources, which put the super samples anywhere from 3 to 9 unverified.

4.1Medals

• Every day: the Personal Order, 15 Medals. It resets daily; the community wiki names 09:00 UTC, but player reports disagree unverified. A mission you started before the reset still counts.
• Every Major Order you help win: usually 35 to 55 Medals in 2026, paid to everyone who played while it ran.
• Every operation: Medals per mission climb through an operation, so the last mission pays the most. Finish the whole operation.
• Before a big payout: spend down; anything above 250 is lost.

The Medal sources in detail, and GamesRadar's Super Credit farming loop, are on Earning Medals and Super Credits.

4.2Super Credits without paying

1. Claim the warbond stacks500 SC for 22 Medals on the first five pages of Helldivers Mobilize!, then three 100-SC stacks for 7, 12 and 32 Medals in each premium warbond you own.
2. Loot points of interest on difficulties 1 to 3Pods, cargo containers and bunkers hold 10 Super Credits (rarely 100), credited to every diver present at once and kept even if the mission fails.
3. Finish the main objective, then searchThe mission still pays its rewards, and the map is yours to comb.

Guide sites quote Super-Credits-per-hour rates on Trivial; none is backed by a measurement, so none is repeated here unverified.

4.3Samples

• Squads earn more per hour: four divers cover more ground, and every extracted sample is credited to each member in full.
• Pick up the dead: a fallen diver drops what they carried.
• Boosters that add samples: Sample Scanner (Masters of Ceremony): 15% chance to double the samples from a pickup (all rarities). Sample Extricator (Borderline Justice): Large enemies can drop common samples on death (capped at 10 per mission).
• Grab faster: starting a sprint cancels the pickup animation community-tested.
• Check before you launch: the Galactic War screen shows which sample types an operation offers.

4.4XP and Requisition

Both grow with difficulty, and completed objectives pay even when a mission fails, so play the highest difficulty you can finish and take the optional objectives and outposts on the way. What each one pays is in Levels and unlocks.

Orders and their rewards

Take the Personal Order every day (15 Medals), and while a Major Order runs, play on its planets: a won order pays Medals to everyone who took part, and a won Galactic War Campaign adds a free item. There is no separate daily or weekly order system beyond these.

5.1Personal Order tasks

• Gather: extract with 10 common or 5 rare samples.
• Exterminate: kill a number of one faction's enemies or of one enemy type, or kill a number with a named weapon or stratagem (200 with the MG-43, for example, or 10 with the EAT-17).
• Extract: extract from 3 successful missions, or complete 6 optional objectives.
• What counts as a kill: a fatal hit on the main health pool. Fabricators and Spore Spewers count; bug holes and dropship thrusters do not.

5.2Major Orders and Campaigns

• Where to look: the Control Center terminal, across from the Armory, lists current and past campaigns with their orders and rewards. It shows the community's result, not whether you personally qualified.
• What they paid in 2026: the Major Orders that paid Medals from January to September offered 2,135 in all, and the community won most of them.
• Campaign rewards so far include the M-103 Supply FRV, the R-4 Hyena primary, the KDM-500 Outrider armor and helmet, the IX-Voidwalker helmet and the Eagle Gas Airstrike. Missed rewards are not granted on request (Arrowhead support); only the Supply FRV has an announced return, as a Requisition purchase in October 2026.
• Coming, without a date: Arrowhead has promised Personal Campaign Progression, a personal reward track for each campaign that replaces Personal Orders, for 2026; it is not live as of patch 7.1.1 unverified.

The live orders change daily, so this manual does not list them: the live war maps do. How the war counts your missions, and what each order asks, is on Major Orders and Campaigns.

The short answer: what to buy with what you have

Spend your first Medals in the free Helldivers Mobilize! warbond, make Democratic Detonation your first premium warbond, and never let your Medals sit at the cap. Find your row below and buy down the list.

1.1If you have N Medals right now

Start at the top and stop when your Medals run out. Each row assumes you bought the rows above it; the third column is what you will have spent in Mobilize by the end of the row, and a page opens as soon as that total reaches its gate. Already own something? Skip it and keep the order. The numbers in parentheses are Medals.

1.2If you have Super Credits right now

1.3The plan in five lines

• Free first. Helldivers Mobilize! costs nothing, its first five pages hold 500 SC for 22 Medals (the best Super Credit rate in the game), and it sells the cheapest armor passives and all four boosters Game Rant rates S.
• Then Democratic Detonation. Its G-123 Thermite puts anti-tank power in your grenade slot for 15 Medals, and its Eruptor and Grenade Pistol close bug holes and fabricators. Servants of Freedom and Dust Devils come next community-tested.
• Then buy for your front. Redacted Regiment for the Automatons; Entrenched Division for the Terminids and the Illuminate.
• Legendaries last. A legendary costs 1,500 Super Credits and gives none back; a premium costs 1,000 and returns 300.
• Spend before the cap. Medals stop at 250; everything above it is lost.

Plan your purchases

This chapter will become an interactive planner: tick the warbonds and items you own, enter your Medals, Super Credits and front, and it will name your next purchase, list the five to seven after it with running Medal totals, warn you before the 250-Medal cap and tell you how many Super Credits the next warbond still needs, saving only in your own browser. Until then, the table below is the plan it walks, top to bottom: the free Mobilize steps first, then each premium warbond in ranked order, each followed by its buy sequence or its key item, with Mobilize's later pages slotted in after Democratic Detonation and Entrenched Division. Skip any row you already own; a filler row only buys the Medals that open the next page, and the Cost column reads Medals for an item and Super Credits for a warbond. Rows that return to Mobilize wait for its page gates (0, 8, 35, 75, 150, 260, 420, 650, 850, 1200 Medals spent there, pages 1 to 10); the table does not list the items that reach them, so fill the gap with Mobilize items you want anyway.

#	Buy	Warbond	Page	Cost	Why	Consensus (dated)	Source
1	100 Super Credits (page 1)	Helldivers Mobilize!	1	1 Medal	The best SC-per-Medal rate in the game.	arithmetic on the wiki's Mobilize costs and gates (rev. 2026-09-09)	wiki
2	SG-8 Punisher	Helldivers Mobilize!	1	4 Medals	A pump shotgun with strong stagger, a serviceable first primary.	GamesRadar 2026-08-14 (B-C); research/02 8.1	gamesradar.com
3	G-6 Frag	Helldivers Mobilize!	1	2 Medals	A frag grenade with a wide blast.	research/02 8.1 plan on Steam guide (2026-08-19) and GamesRadar (2026-08-14) ratings	wiki
4	Independence Bringer (player card)	Helldivers Mobilize!	1	1 Medal	A filler that opens page 2.	arithmetic on the wiki's Mobilize costs and gates (rev. 2026-09-09)	wiki
5	100 Super Credits (page 2)	Helldivers Mobilize!	2	2 Medals	A cheap SC stack: claim it as soon as its page opens.	arithmetic on the wiki's Mobilize costs and gates (rev. 2026-09-09)	wiki
6	FS-05 Marksman (armor)	Helldivers Mobilize!	2	6 Medals	Fortified heavy armor, cheap here and good against bots.	research/02 8.1 plan on Steam guide (2026-08-19) and GamesRadar (2026-08-14) ratings	wiki
7	P-19 Redeemer	Helldivers Mobilize!	2	5 Medals	A full-auto machine pistol.	research/02 8.1 plan on Steam guide (2026-08-19) and GamesRadar (2026-08-14) ratings	wiki
8	R-63 Diligence	Helldivers Mobilize!	2	8 Medals	A marksman rifle for the bot front.	GamesRadar 2026-08-14 (A vs bots); Steam guide 2026-08-19 (S)	gamesradar.com
9	SC-34 Infiltrator (armor)	Helldivers Mobilize!	1	3 Medals	A filler toward page 3: light armor with the Scout passive.	arithmetic on the wiki's Mobilize costs and gates (rev. 2026-09-09)	wiki
10	SC-34 Infiltrator (helmet)	Helldivers Mobilize!	1	2 Medals	A filler toward page 3.	arithmetic on the wiki's Mobilize costs and gates (rev. 2026-09-09)	wiki
11	Clapping	Helldivers Mobilize!	1	1 Medal	A filler that opens page 3.	arithmetic on the wiki's Mobilize costs and gates (rev. 2026-09-09)	wiki
12	100 Super Credits (page 3)	Helldivers Mobilize!	3	3 Medals	A cheap SC stack: claim it as soon as its page opens.	arithmetic on the wiki's Mobilize costs and gates (rev. 2026-09-09)	wiki
13	Hellpod Space Optimization	Helldivers Mobilize!	3	15 Medals	A top booster: the squad drops with full ammo, grenades and stims.	Steam guide 2026-08-19 (S+ vs bugs and bots); GamesRadar boosters 2025-08-26 (3rd)	Steam guide
14	CE-35 Trench Engineer (armor)	Helldivers Mobilize!	3	10 Medals	Engineering Kit armor: two extra grenades.	research/02 8.1 plan on Steam guide (2026-08-19) and GamesRadar (2026-08-14) ratings	wiki
15	SMG-37 Defender	Helldivers Mobilize!	3	15 Medals	A one-handed SMG whose purchase opens page 4.	research/02 8.1 plan on Steam guide (2026-08-19) and GamesRadar (2026-08-14) ratings	wiki
16	100 Super Credits (page 4)	Helldivers Mobilize!	4	6 Medals	A cheap SC stack: claim it as soon as its page opens.	arithmetic on the wiki's Mobilize costs and gates (rev. 2026-09-09)	wiki
17	Vitality Enhancement	Helldivers Mobilize!	4	20 Medals	A squad booster: less damage and fewer injuries.	Steam guide 2026-08-19 (S every front)	Steam guide
18	CM-09 Bonesnapper (armor)	Helldivers Mobilize!	4	15 Medals	Med-Kit armor: two extra stims that last longer.	research/02 8.1 plan on Steam guide (2026-08-19) and GamesRadar (2026-08-14) ratings	wiki
19	SG-225 Breaker	Helldivers Mobilize!	4	20 Medals	A shotgun upgrade: magazine-fed and fully automatic.	GamesRadar 2026-08-14 (B-C); research/02 8.1	gamesradar.com
20	FS-05 Marksman (helmet)	Helldivers Mobilize!	2	5 Medals	A filler toward page 5.	arithmetic on the wiki's Mobilize costs and gates (rev. 2026-09-09)	wiki
21	CE-35 Trench Engineer (helmet)	Helldivers Mobilize!	3	7 Medals	A filler that opens page 5.	arithmetic on the wiki's Mobilize costs and gates (rev. 2026-09-09)	wiki
22	100 Super Credits (page 5)	Helldivers Mobilize!	5	10 Medals	The fifth cheap stack completes the SC of Mobilize pages 1-5.	arithmetic on the wiki's Mobilize costs and gates (rev. 2026-09-09)	wiki
23	DP-40 Hero of the Federation (armor)	Helldivers Mobilize!	5	25 Medals	Democracy Protects armor: a chance to survive lethal damage.	research/02 8.1 plan on Steam guide (2026-08-19) and GamesRadar (2026-08-14) ratings	wiki
24	G-16 Impact	Helldivers Mobilize!	5	20 Medals	A Heavy-pen grenade that explodes on impact.	research/02 8.1 plan on Steam guide (2026-08-19) and GamesRadar (2026-08-14) ratings	wiki
25	Democratic Detonation	Democratic Detonation	--	1,000 SC	Thermite is anti-tank power on page 1, and the Eruptor and Grenade Pistol close holes and fabricators.	GamesRadar S (2026-08-13); Steam guide S+ (2026-08-19)	gamesradar.com
26	G-123 Thermite	Democratic Detonation	1	15 Medals	An anti-tank grenade on page 1: it kills armor without a support slot.	GamesRadar S (2026-08-13) and Steam guide S+ (2026-08-19) for the warbond	wiki
27	100 Super Credits (page 1)	Democratic Detonation	1	7 Medals	A cheap SC stack: claim it as soon as its page opens.	arithmetic on the wiki's costs and gates (checked 2026-09-26)	wiki
28	CE-27 Ground Breaker (armor)	Democratic Detonation	1	18 Medals	Engineering Kit armor: two extra grenades.	research/02 8.3 plan on GamesRadar (2026-08-13/14) and Steam guide (2026-08-19) ratings	wiki
29	BR-14 Adjudicator	Democratic Detonation	1	20 Medals	A hard-hitting Medium-pen rifle whose purchase opens page 2.	research/02 8.3 plan on GamesRadar (2026-08-13/14) and Steam guide (2026-08-19) ratings	wiki
30	100 Super Credits (page 2)	Democratic Detonation	2	12 Medals	A cheap SC stack: claim it as soon as its page opens.	arithmetic on the wiki's costs and gates (checked 2026-09-26)	wiki
31	R-36 Eruptor	Democratic Detonation	2	60 Medals	An explosive rifle that closes bug holes and fabricators.	GamesRadar 2026-08-14 (A/S/A); Steam guide 2026-08-19 (S+ vs bugs and bots)	gamesradar.com
32	GP-31 Grenade Pistol	Democratic Detonation	3	60 Medals	A grenade sidearm that closes nests and fabricators, freeing the grenade slot.	GamesRadar 2026-08-14 (S/S/S)	gamesradar.com
33	CB-9 Exploding Crossbow	Democratic Detonation	3	80 Medals	A one-handed explosive crossbow, strong on every front.	GamesRadar 2026-08-14 (A/A/A); Steam guide 2026-08-19 (S+ vs bugs and bots)	gamesradar.com
34	50 Super Credits (page 6)	Helldivers Mobilize!	6	15 Medals	Claim this SC stack once page 6 opens.	arithmetic on the wiki's Mobilize costs and gates (rev. 2026-09-09)	wiki
35	AR-23P Liberator Penetrator	Helldivers Mobilize!	6	40 Medals	An armor-piercing Liberator on page 6.	GamesRadar 2026-08-14 (B-C); research/02 8.1	gamesradar.com
36	Stamina Enhancement	Helldivers Mobilize!	7	75 Medals	The top booster on every front: come back to Mobilize for page 7.	Steam guide 2026-08-19 (S+ every front); GamesRadar boosters 2025-08-26 (1st)	Steam guide
37	Servants of Freedom	Servants of Freedom	--	1,000 SC	An anti-tank sidearm that also levels spawners, the Portable Hellbomb, and the cheapest S-tier warbond to complete.	GamesRadar S (2026-08-13); Steam guide S+ (2026-08-19)	gamesradar.com
38	LAS-17 Double-Edge Sickle	Servants of Freedom	1	35 Medals	An energy rifle whose penetration rises with heat; it burns you when hot.	GamesRadar 2026-08-14 (S vs bots)	gamesradar.com
39	100 Super Credits (page 1)	Servants of Freedom	1	7 Medals	A cheap SC stack: claim it as soon as its page opens.	arithmetic on the wiki's costs and gates (checked 2026-09-26)	wiki
40	IE-3 Martyr (armor)	Servants of Freedom	1	45 Medals	Integrated Explosives armor: two extra grenades, but you explode after death.	research/02 8.3 plan on GamesRadar (2026-08-13/14) and Steam guide (2026-08-19) ratings	wiki
41	Fre Liberam (cape)	Servants of Freedom	1	8 Medals	A filler that opens page 2.	arithmetic on the wiki's costs and gates (checked 2026-09-26)	wiki
42	GP-20 Ultimatum	Servants of Freedom	2	40 Medals	A one-shot anti-tank sidearm that also levels bug holes and fabricators.	GamesRadar 2026-08-14 (S/S/S)	gamesradar.com
43	100 Super Credits (page 2)	Servants of Freedom	2	12 Medals	A cheap SC stack: claim it as soon as its page opens.	arithmetic on the wiki's costs and gates (checked 2026-09-26)	wiki
44	B-100 Portable Hellbomb	Servants of Freedom	3	110 Medals	A Hellbomb you carry and set off yourself.	Steam guide 2026-08-19 (S+ vs bots)	Steam guide
45	G-50 Seeker	Servants of Freedom	3	65 Medals	A drone grenade that hunts nearby or pinged enemies.	research/02 8.3 plan on GamesRadar (2026-08-13/14) and Steam guide (2026-08-19) ratings	wiki
46	Dust Devils	Dust Devils	--	1,000 SC	A top primary against bugs and squids, plus the Speargun and Desert Stormer armor.	GamesRadar S (2026-08-13); Steam guide S+ (2026-08-19)	gamesradar.com
47	AR-2 Coyote	Dust Devils	1	35 Medals	A Medium-pen incendiary rifle, a top primary against bugs and squids.	GamesRadar 2026-08-14 (S vs bugs and squids); Steam guide 2026-08-19 (S+ vs bugs and squids)	gamesradar.com
48	100 Super Credits (page 1)	Dust Devils	1	7 Medals	A cheap SC stack: claim it as soon as its page opens.	arithmetic on the wiki's costs and gates (checked 2026-09-26)	wiki
49	DS-42 Federation's Blade (armor)	Dust Devils	1	45 Medals	Desert Stormer heavy armor: resists fire, gas, acid and arc.	research/02 8.3 plan on GamesRadar (2026-08-13/14) and Steam guide (2026-08-19) ratings	wiki
50	DS-42 Federation's Blade (helmet)	Dust Devils	1	30 Medals	A filler that opens page 2.	arithmetic on the wiki's costs and gates (checked 2026-09-26)	wiki
51	S-11 Speargun	Dust Devils	2	85 Medals	A harpoon plus gas; the EAT-700 Expendable Napalm is the alternative.	GamesRadar 2026-08-14 (S vs bugs and bots, A vs squids)	gamesradar.com
52	100 Super Credits (page 2)	Dust Devils	2	12 Medals	A cheap SC stack: claim it as soon as its page opens.	arithmetic on the wiki's costs and gates (checked 2026-09-26)	wiki
53 unverified	MS-11 Solo Silo	Dust Devils	3	110 Medals	A guided missile silo that kills the biggest targets with one body hit.	the lists split: GamesRadar 2026-08-14 (D/A/D); Steam guide 2026-08-19 (S/S/A)	wiki
54	Redacted Regiment	Redacted Regiment	--	1,000 SC	A top bot primary, Reduced Signature armor and the C4 Pack.	GamesRadar S (2026-08-13); Steam guide S (2026-08-19)	gamesradar.com
55	R-72 Censor	Redacted Regiment	1	35 Medals	A suppressed marksman rifle, a top pick against bots.	GamesRadar 2026-08-14 (S vs bots)	gamesradar.com
56	RS-89 Shadow Paragon (armor)	Redacted Regiment	1	45 Medals	Reduced Signature light armor: quieter, and enemies spot you later.	Steam guide 2026-08-19 (S+ vs bots, S vs squids)	Steam guide
57	P-35 Re-Educator	Redacted Regiment	1	20 Medals	A cheap Heavy-pen gas pistol.	research/02 8.3 plan on GamesRadar (2026-08-13/14) and Steam guide (2026-08-19) ratings	wiki
58	100 Super Credits (page 1)	Redacted Regiment	1	7 Medals	A cheap SC stack: claim it as soon as its page opens.	arithmetic on the wiki's costs and gates (checked 2026-09-26)	wiki
59	RS-89 Shadow Paragon (helmet)	Redacted Regiment	1	30 Medals	A filler toward page 2, which needs nearly all of page 1.	arithmetic on the wiki's costs and gates (checked 2026-09-26)	wiki
60	Pillar of the Abyss (cape)	Redacted Regiment	1	8 Medals	A filler that opens page 2.	arithmetic on the wiki's costs and gates (checked 2026-09-26)	wiki
61	100 Super Credits (page 2)	Redacted Regiment	2	12 Medals	A cheap SC stack: claim it as soon as its page opens.	arithmetic on the wiki's costs and gates (checked 2026-09-26)	wiki
62	RS-67 Null Cipher (armor)	Redacted Regiment	2	55 Medals	Reduced Signature medium armor.	research/02 8.3 plan on GamesRadar (2026-08-13/14) and Steam guide (2026-08-19) ratings	wiki
63	Triangulation Veil (player card)	Redacted Regiment	2	7 Medals	A filler that opens page 3.	arithmetic on the wiki's costs and gates (checked 2026-09-26)	wiki
64	B/MD C4 Pack	Redacted Regiment	3	110 Medals	Remote-detonated AT III charges, a top pick against bots.	GamesRadar 2026-08-14 (S vs bots); Steam guide 2026-08-19 (S+ vs bots)	gamesradar.com
65	Entrenched Division	Entrenched Division	--	1,000 SC	The Stoker and Cremator fire kit for bugs and squids, with Sapper armor on page 1.	GamesRadar S (2026-08-13); Steam guide A (2026-08-19)	gamesradar.com
66	SMG/FLAM-34 Stoker	Entrenched Division	1	35 Medals	An SMG with an under-barrel flamethrower, a top pick against bugs and squids.	GamesRadar 2026-08-14 (S vs bugs and squids)	gamesradar.com
67	CPG-48 Sapper (armor)	Entrenched Division	1	45 Medals	Grenadier armor: explosive resistance plus two extra grenades.	Steam guide 2026-08-19 (S+ vs bots)	Steam guide
68	100 Super Credits (page 1)	Entrenched Division	1	7 Medals	A cheap SC stack: claim it as soon as its page opens.	arithmetic on the wiki's costs and gates (checked 2026-09-26)	wiki
69	CQC-73 Entrenchment Tool	Entrenched Division	1	20 Medals	A cheap melee sidearm on the way to page 2.	research/02 8.3 plan on GamesRadar (2026-08-13/14) and Steam guide (2026-08-19) ratings	wiki
70	Heritage Olive Hellpod pattern	Entrenched Division	1	20 Medals	A filler that opens page 2.	arithmetic on the wiki's costs and gates (checked 2026-09-26)	wiki
71	G-48 Giga Grenade	Entrenched Division	2	50 Medals	A big-blast AT I grenade, two carried.	research/02 8.3 plan on GamesRadar (2026-08-13/14) and Steam guide (2026-08-19) ratings	wiki
72	A/GM-17 Gas Mortar Sentry	Entrenched Division	2	85 Medals	A gas mortar sentry on a short cooldown.	research/02 8.3 plan on GamesRadar (2026-08-13/14) and Steam guide (2026-08-19) ratings	wiki
73	100 Super Credits (page 2)	Entrenched Division	2	12 Medals	A cheap SC stack: claim it as soon as its page opens.	arithmetic on the wiki's costs and gates (checked 2026-09-26)	wiki
74	B/FLAM-80 Cremator	Entrenched Division	3	110 Medals	A backpack flamethrower, a top pick against bugs and squids.	GamesRadar 2026-08-14 (S vs bugs, A vs squids); Steam guide 2026-08-19 (S+ vs bugs and squids)	gamesradar.com
75	PLAS-1 Scorcher	Helldivers Mobilize!	10	75 Medals	The keeper of Mobilize: an explosive plasma rifle strong on every front.	GamesRadar 2026-08-14 (A/S/A); Steam guide 2026-08-19 (S every front)	gamesradar.com
76	Increased Reinforcement Budget	Helldivers Mobilize!	10	150 Medals	One more reinforcement per diver, and the priciest item in any warbond.	research/02 3.1 and 8.1; 02-verify row 59 (checked 2026-09-26)	wiki
77 unverified	Control Group	Control Group	--	1,000 SC	The Warp Pack, a top backpack on every front, though it takes practice.	GamesRadar A (2026-08-13); Steam guide S+ (2026-08-19)	gamesradar.com
78	LIFT-182 Warp Pack	Control Group	3	110 Medals	A short-range teleport backpack, a top pick on every front.	Steam guide 2026-08-19 (S+ every front); GamesRadar 2026-08-13 (a best backpack)	wiki
79 unverified	Polar Patriots	Polar Patriots	--	1,000 SC	One excellent item: the Purifier, the only primary rated S or better everywhere in both lists.	GamesRadar C (2026-08-13); Steam guide S (2026-08-19)	gamesradar.com
80	PLAS-101 Purifier	Polar Patriots	3	80 Medals	A charge-up explosive primary rated S or better on every front in both lists.	GamesRadar 2026-08-14 (S/S/S); Steam guide 2026-08-19 (S+ every front)	gamesradar.com
81	Siege Breakers	Siege Breakers	--	1,000 SC	The Leveller, an expendable anti-tank rocket that closes Bile Titan holes.	GamesRadar A (2026-08-13); Steam guide S (2026-08-19)	gamesradar.com
82	EAT-411 Leveller	Siege Breakers	2	85 Medals	An expendable anti-tank rocket that closes Bile Titan holes and destroys spawners.	GamesRadar 2026-08-14 (S vs bots); Steam guide 2026-08-19 (S+ vs bots)	wiki
83	Exo Experts	Exo Experts	--	1,000 SC	Two exosuits cheaply, plus the Missile Pistol.	GamesRadar A (2026-08-13); Steam guide S (2026-08-19)	gamesradar.com
84	EXO-51 Lumberer Exosuit	Exo Experts	2	50 Medals	An exosuit with a flamethrower and an anti-tank cannon.	GamesRadar 2026-08-13 (both exosuits great); Steam guide S (2026-08-19) for the warbond	gamesradar.com
85	Urban Legends	Urban Legends	--	1,000 SC	Siege-Ready armors and the Anti-Tank Emplacement.	GamesRadar A (2026-08-13); Steam guide A (2026-08-19)	gamesradar.com
86	SR-24 Street Scout (armor)	Urban Legends	1	40 Medals	Siege-Ready light armor: faster primary reloads and more ammo.	Steam guide 2026-08-19 (S every front); GamesRadar 2026-08-13	Steam guide
87	Freedom's Flame	Freedom's Flame	--	1,000 SC	A fire kit for bugs and squids, and the cheapest premium warbond to complete.	GamesRadar A (2026-08-13); Steam guide A (2026-08-19)	gamesradar.com
88	FLAM-66 Torcher	Freedom's Flame	2	40 Medals	A flamethrower primary, a top pick against bugs.	GamesRadar 2026-08-14 (S vs bugs, A vs squids, C vs bots); Steam guide 2026-08-19 (S+ vs squids)	gamesradar.com
89	Borderline Justice	Borderline Justice	--	1,000 SC	A top bot sidearm, the Talon, and the Hover Pack.	GamesRadar B (2026-08-13); Steam guide A (2026-08-19)	gamesradar.com
90	LAS-58 Talon	Borderline Justice	2	40 Medals	A laser revolver that uses heat instead of ammo, a top pick against bots.	GamesRadar 2026-08-14 (S vs bots, A vs squids)	gamesradar.com
91	Cutting Edge	Cutting Edge	--	1,000 SC	An easy all-rounder primary, the Sickle.	GamesRadar B (2026-08-13); Steam guide B (2026-08-19)	gamesradar.com
92	LAS-16 Sickle	Cutting Edge	1	20 Medals	A laser rifle with heat instead of reloads, an easy pick for new players.	GamesRadar 2026-08-14 (A vs bugs, B vs bots and squids)	gamesradar.com
93	Truth Enforcers	Truth Enforcers	--	1,000 SC	A top sidearm against bots and squids, the Loyalist.	GamesRadar B (2026-08-13); Steam guide B (2026-08-19)	gamesradar.com
94	PLAS-15 Loyalist	Truth Enforcers	3	45 Medals	A plasma pistol with a charged explosive shot.	GamesRadar 2026-08-14 (S vs bots and squids, A vs bugs)	gamesradar.com
95 unverified	Ironclad Democracy	Ironclad Democracy	--	1,000 SC	An AT III sidearm, the AT Seeker and free EATs, but no dated list has tested it yet.	no dated list yet: GamesRadar had not tested it (2026-09-22); Game Rant 2026-09-23	gamerant.com
96 unverified	P-34 Breacher	Ironclad Democracy	2	50 Medals	An AT III sticky incendiary missile pistol that no dated list has tested yet.	no dated list yet: GamesRadar had not tested it (2026-09-22); Game Rant 2026-09-23	wiki
97 unverified	Castellan's Creed	Castellan's Creed	--	1,500 SC	The Meltagun and True Grit armor are excellent, but this legendary costs 1,500 SC with none back.	GamesRadar B (2026-08-13); Steam guide S (2026-08-19)	gamesradar.com
98	40-K Meltagun	Castellan's Creed	3	110 Medals	A short-range AT III thermal beam.	GamesRadar 2026-08-14 (S vs bots, A vs bugs and squids); Steam guide 2026-08-19 (S+ vs bugs and bots)	gamesradar.com
99	Python Commandos	Python Commandos	--	1,000 SC	The Hot Dog drone, and the One-Two improved in 7.1.0.	GamesRadar B (2026-08-13); Steam guide B (2026-08-19)	gamesradar.com
100	AX/FLAM-75 "Guard Dog" Hot Dog	Python Commandos	1	75 Medals	A flamethrower drone backpack.	Steam guide 2026-08-19 (S+ every front)	Steam guide
101	Steeled Veterans	Steeled Veterans	--	1,000 SC	One strong sidearm, the Senator.	GamesRadar C (2026-08-13); Steam guide B (2026-08-19)	gamesradar.com
102	P-4 Senator	Steeled Veterans	1	15 Medals	A Heavy-pen revolver, a top sidearm against bots.	GamesRadar 2026-08-14 (S vs bots, A vs squids)	gamesradar.com
103	Viper Commandos	Viper Commandos	--	1,000 SC	One strong booster, Experimental Infusion.	GamesRadar C (2026-08-13); Steam guide B (2026-08-19)	gamesradar.com
104	Experimental Infusion	Viper Commandos	3	80 Medals	A booster: stims also add speed and damage resistance.	Steam guide 2026-08-19 (S+ every front); GamesRadar boosters 2025-08-26 (2nd)	Steam guide
105	Chemical Agents	Chemical Agents	--	1,000 SC	One strong grenade, the Gas grenade.	GamesRadar C (2026-08-13); Steam guide B (2026-08-19)	gamesradar.com
106	G-4 Gas	Chemical Agents	1	30 Medals	A gas grenade for strong crowd control.	GamesRadar 2026-08-13 ('fantastic')	gamesradar.com
107	Force of Law	Force of Law	--	1,000 SC	One strong support weapon for bugs and squids, the De-Escalator.	GamesRadar C (2026-08-13); Steam guide C (2026-08-19)	gamesradar.com
108	GL-52 De-Escalator	Force of Law	2	85 Medals	An arc grenade launcher that stuns groups.	GamesRadar 2026-08-14 (S vs bugs and squids, A vs bots)	gamesradar.com
109	Masters of Ceremony	Masters of Ceremony	--	1,000 SC	Little of note beyond the Amendment and the Pyrotech.	GamesRadar D (2026-08-13); Steam guide C (2026-08-19)	gamesradar.com
110	R-2 Amendment	Masters of Ceremony	1	35 Medals	A marksman rifle with a bayonet, the pick of a weak warbond.	GamesRadar 2026-08-14 (A vs bots)	gamesradar.com
111	Obedient Democracy Support Troopers	Obedient Democracy Support Troopers	--	1,500 SC	A legendary that asks 1,500 SC for middling gear and gives no SC back.	GamesRadar C (2026-08-13); Steam guide D (2026-08-19)	gamesradar.com
112	M90A Shotgun	Obedient Democracy Support Troopers	3	65 Medals	A high-damage shotgun, good but not great.	GamesRadar 2026-08-14 (B vs bugs and squids)	gamesradar.com
113	Righteous Revenants	Righteous Revenants	--	1,500 SC	Skip unless it came free: two D-tier guns for 1,500 SC.	GamesRadar D (2026-08-13); Steam guide D (2026-08-19)	gamesradar.com
114	PLAS-39 Accelerator Rifle	Righteous Revenants	2	50 Medals	A plasma sniper rifle, the one standout gun here.	GamesRadar 2026-08-14 (C vs bots)	gamesradar.com

Ranked purchase order

Buy the warbond whose best item fixes a problem you have on every front, and reach that item for the fewest Medals. For a new diver those problems are armor your gun cannot hurt, spawners your bullets cannot close, and running out of lives before extraction.

How the order is built: free items first; then gear that works on all three fronts; then how few Medals reach the key item; then value per Super Credit. Every step is checked against two dated community lists, shortened below to GR, GamesRadar's warbond tier list (updated August 13, 2026), and SG, a Steam guide that mirrors u.gg's tiers (updated August 19, 2026). Item ratings are GamesRadar's weapon lists of August 14, 2026 (primaries, secondaries, support weapons) unless another source is named. Ratings credited to u.gg come from its own per-front lists, read September 26, 2026 (the primary list is stamped for 7.1.1 and the support list for 7.0.2; the secondary and throwable lists carry no patch). The order itself is this manual's reading of those opinions community-tested, and both lists predate patch 7.1.0 (what changed since).

3.1Free first: Helldivers Mobilize!

Mobilize costs nothing and pays for your first premium: its first five pages hold 500 SC for 22 Medals. It is also the cheapest source of the passives a new diver wants: Fortified on the FS-05 Marksman (6 Medals), Engineering Kit on the CE-35 Trench Engineer (10), Med-Kit on the CM-09 Bonesnapper (15) and Democracy Protects on the DP-40 (25), where a Superstore body armor costs 150 Super Credits or more. It holds all four boosters that Game Rant rates S (February 5, 2026): Hellpod Space Optimization, Vitality Enhancement, Stamina Enhancement and Muscle Enhancement community-tested. Its keeper gun waits on the last page: the PLAS-1 Scorcher (75 Medals), rated S on all three fronts by u.gg. Work through pages 1 to 5 with the quick guide, then come back for page 7's Stamina Enhancement once your first premium is going.

3.2The paid warbonds, best first

1. Democratic Detonation · GR S · SG S+Anti-tank in your grenade slot. The G-123 Thermite (page 1, 15 Medals) sticks, burns, then explodes at penetration 7 (anti-tank III): Chargers, Hulks, tanks and turrets go down without you spending a support slot, and u.gg rates it S+ on all three fronts. The R-36 Eruptor (page 2) and GP-31 Grenade Pistol (page 3) close bug holes and fabricators with one explosive hit, and its armors carry Engineering Kit (CE-27, CE-07) and Fortified (FS-55). Buy the Thermite, the page-1 stack and the CE-27 Ground Breaker armor; the BR-14 Adjudicator's purchase then opens page 2 for the Eruptor. Every item
2. Servants of Freedom · GR S · SG S+Anti-tank in your sidearm slot. The GP-20 Ultimatum (page 2, 40 Medals) fires a single mini-nuke that levels bug holes (Bile Titan holes included) and fabricators from outside; penetration: 6 (anti-tank II) blast. The catch is one round per reload and a short, arcing range. GamesRadar rates it S on all three fronts. Buy the LAS-17 Double-Edge Sickle, the page-1 stack, the IE-3 Martyr armor and one cape, and page 2 opens for it; page 3 adds the B-100 Portable Hellbomb and the G-50 Seeker. The cheapest S-tier warbond to complete (598 Medals). Squad warning, its Integrated Explosives armor: The armor explodes 1.5 s after the wearer dies (2,000 damage, AP5, demolition 30); +2 throwables. Every item
3. Dust Devils · GR S · SG S+A top rifle for bugs and squids. The AR-2 Coyote (page 1, 35 Medals) has penetration 3 (medium) and sets what it hits on fire: GR S against the Terminids and the Illuminate, B against the Automatons, whose small bots take half damage from fire. Page 2 brings the S-11 Speargun (a harpoon plus gas; GR S against bugs and bots) or the EAT-700 Expendable Napalm, and Desert Stormer armor that resists fire, gas, acid and arc. The MS-11 Solo Silo (page 3) kills a Bile Titan, Factory Strider or Vox Engine with one body hit, but the lists split on it (SG S against bugs and bots, GR D against bugs and squids) unverified, so treat it as a bonus, not the reason to buy. Every item
4. Redacted Regiment · GR S · SG SThe pick for the bot front and for stealth. The R-72 Censor (page 1, 35 Medals) is a suppressed marksman rifle GR rates S against the Automatons; its Reduced Signature armors make you quieter and harder to spot (SG S+ against bots); the B/MD C4 Pack (page 3) is remote-detonated charges at penetration 7 (anti-tank III). GamesRadar calls the set arguably essential for Commando missions. Page 2 opens only after nearly all of page 1, so buy page 1 through before you plan page 2. Every item
5. Entrenched Division · GR S · SG AThe fire kit for bugs and squids. The SMG/FLAM-34 Stoker (page 1, 35 Medals) hangs a flamethrower under an SMG (GR S against the Terminids and the Illuminate), the B/FLAM-80 Cremator (page 3) is a backpack flamethrower (SG S+ against both), and page 1's CPG-48 Sapper armor gives 50% explosive resistance; +2 throwables (starting and carried). It is the priciest premium to complete (888 Medals): buy pages 1 and 2, then come back for the Cremator. Every item
6. Control Group · GR A · SG S+One superb backpack. The LIFT-182 Warp Pack (page 3, 110 Medals) teleports you a short hop: SG S+ on every front, one of GamesRadar's best backpacks, and its blast even opens cargo containers on a Super Credit run. It sits on page 3, so you reach it after about 430 Medals in this warbond approx. The PLAS-45 Epoch and VG-70 Variable are strong but can hurt you. The two lists are two tiers apart on the warbond, so its place here is provisional unverified. Every item
7. Polar Patriots · GR C · SG SOne excellent gun. Its PLAS-101 Purifier (page 3, 80 Medals), a charge-up explosive plasma rifle, is the only primary rated S or better on all three fronts in both dated lists. The Purifier waits on page 3, about 310 Medals in approx; the CW-22 Kodiak (Fortified) and G-13 Incendiary Impact on page 2 are worth having on the way. The rest is middling, so the lists split on the warbond and its place here is provisional unverified. Every item
8. Siege Breakers · GR A · SG SExpendable anti-tank. The EAT-411 Leveller (page 2, 85 Medals) is a throwaway rocket, penetration 6 (anti-tank II), every 140 seconds, that also destroys spawners and Bile Titan holes from outside (GR S and SG S+ against bots). Page 1 holds the CQC-20 Breaching Hammer and the LAS-13 Trident laser shotgun, whose recoil 7.1.0 cut; the GL-28 Belt-Fed Grenade Launcher underwhelms. Every item
9. Exo Experts · GR A · SG STwo exosuits for the price of guns. The EXO-51 Lumberer (page 2, 50 Medals; flamethrower plus anti-tank cannon) and EXO-55 Breakthrough (page 3, 50; flak cannon plus shield) are both great by GamesRadar's account, on a 420-second cooldown. The MGX-42 Bullet Storm (SG S+ against squids) and P-33 Missile Pistol (GR S against bots) round it out. Its gates were never recorded page by page; the wiki's all-pages figure fits this manual's estimate unverified. Every item
10. Urban Legends · GR A · SG AFaster reloads. The Siege-Ready armors (SR-24 light on page 1, 40 Medals; SR-18 heavy on page 2) carry a passive SG rates S on every front. Siege-Ready: Primary reload 30% faster; +20% ammo for all weapons (not weapon backpacks, underbarrels or the Ultimatum). The E/AT-12 Anti-Tank Emplacement (page 3) shreds big targets at range (SG S+ against bots). Its page-3 gate is uncertain unverified. Every item
11. Freedom's Flame · GR A · SG AA cheap fire kit for the bug front. The FLAM-66 Torcher (page 2, 40 Medals) and P-72 Crisper (page 3) are GR S against the Terminids, its Inflammable armor gives 75% fire damage resistance, and at 569 Medals it is the cheapest premium to complete. Weak against bots. Every item
12. Borderline Justice · GR B · SG AA top bot sidearm. The LAS-58 Talon (page 2, 40 Medals) is a laser revolver that runs on heat instead of ammo (GR S against bots). The R-6 Deadeye, TED-63 Dynamite, LIFT-860 Hover Pack and Sample Extricator booster fill it out, and its Gunslinger armor suits sidearm builds. Every item
13. Cutting Edge · GR B · SG BAn easy first rifle. GamesRadar calls the LAS-16 Sickle (page 1, 20 Medals) one of the best primaries for new players: no reloads, only heat. The SG-8P Punisher Plasma and G-23 Stun on page 2 are good; the LAS-7 Dagger is not. Every item
14. Truth Enforcers · GR B · SG BOne strong pistol: the PLAS-15 Loyalist (page 3, 45 Medals; GR S against bots and squids). More than half of this warbond's Medals buy cosmetics, the largest share of any premium approx. Every item
15. Ironclad Democracy · not rated yetReleased 2026-09-22, it holds a provisional place unverified. Its anti-armor kit answers the same need as Thermite and the Ultimatum: the P-34 Breacher (page 2, 50 Medals) is an incendiary missile pistol; penetration: 7 (anti-tank III) sticky charge. The G-60 Anti-Tank Seeker (page 3) is a homing anti-tank grenade, and Surplus EAT Allocation (page 2) is a booster that hands the squad free EAT call-ins. No dated warbond list has ranked it yet; the first item ratings are strong (How the rankings move). Every item
16. Castellan's Creed (legendary) · GR B · SG SExcellent gear at a bad price. The 40-K Meltagun (page 3, 110 Medals; GR S against bots), a short-range beam with penetration 7 (anti-tank III), and True Grit armor (SG S+ on every front) are top picks, but the warbond costs 1,500 Super Credits, returns none and cannot be unlocked with the token. The lists split on it, so its place here is provisional unverified. Every item
17. Python Commandos · GR B · SG BThe AX/FLAM-75 "Guard Dog" Hot Dog (page 1, 75 Medals), a flamethrower drone SG rates S+ on every front, and an AR/GL-21 One-Two that got more grenades in 7.1.0. The M-1000 Maxigun and CQC-9 Defoliation Tool disappoint. Every item
18. Steeled Veterans · GR C · SG BOne gun: the P-4 Senator (page 1, 15 Medals), a revolver with penetration 4 (heavy) that GR rates S against bots. Buy it late, for the Senator. Every item
19. Viper Commandos · GR C · SG BOne booster: Experimental Infusion (page 3, 80 Medals) makes your stims add speed and damage resistance for a while (SG S+ on every front; second in GamesRadar's booster ranking, August 26, 2025). Every item
20. Chemical Agents · GR C · SG BOne grenade: the G-4 Gas (page 1, 30 Medals), which GamesRadar calls fantastic crowd control. The TX-41 Sterilizer and P-11 Stim Pistol rate D. Every item
21. Force of Law · GR C · SG COne support weapon: the GL-52 De-Escalator (page 2, 85 Medals), an arc grenade launcher GR rates S against bugs and squids. The AR-32 Pacifier rates D. Every item
22. Masters of Ceremony · GR D · SG CLittle of note: the R-2 Amendment (GR A against bots), the G-142 Pyrotech and the Sample Scanner booster for ship-module farming. GamesRadar calls its CQC-1 One True Flag downright useless. Every item
23. Obedient Democracy Support Troopers (legendary) · GR C · SG D1,500 Super Credits for middling gear: the M90A Shotgun is good but not great, and the Feet First armor and suppressed M7S SMG and M6C/SOCOM Pistol suit stealth. GamesRadar calls the price hard to justify. Every item
24. Righteous Revenants (legendary) · GR D · SG DSkip it unless it came free: anyone who bought a Killzone item in the 2024 Superstore got it with those items unlocked. Only the PLAS-39 Accelerator Rifle and the Acclimated armor stand out. Every item

3.3What a Medal and a Super Credit buy

• Per Super Credit, premiums win. A premium costs 1,000 Super Credits and returns 300 through its pages, so it really costs 700; a legendary costs 1,500 and returns nothing, more than twice as much. That is why good legendary gear still ranks low.
• Per Medal, page-1 key items win. The Thermite (15), the Senator (15) and the Sickle (20) cost almost nothing, while a page-3 item waits behind most of pages 1 and 2: the Warp Pack and the Meltagun each take about 425 to 430 Medals in their warbond approx.
• Completing a premium costs 569 to 888 Medals, and cosmetics fill the gates: about a quarter of Redacted Regiment's Medals, more than half of Truth Enforcers' approx. The lower the cosmetic share, the more of your Medals buy gear.
• The cheapest Super Credits cost Medals. Mobilize sells 100 SC for 1, 2, 3, 6 and 10 Medals (pages 1-5), then 50 SC for 15, 15, 20, 25 and 50 Medals (pages 6-10); a premium's three 100-SC stacks cost 7, 12 and 32 Medals. Claim the first two as soon as their pages open.

Variants: your budget, your front, your squad

The ranked order assumes you buy Super Credits now and then and fight on every front. Change it when that is not you: here is the order for a diver who never pays, the order for each front, and what to settle with your squad.

4.1If you never buy Super Credits

Your first premium is free if you are patient. Mobilize's first five pages hold 500 SC for 22 Medals (rows 1 to 4 of the quick guide); the other 500 come from mission pickups, or from the Premium Warbond Token if you own the Super Citizen Edition. After that, claim each premium's cheap stacks as soon as their pages open, so every further premium needs only 700 new Super Credits; Mobilize's pages 6 to 10 add a little more. Keep scarce Super Credits away from legendaries and Superstore sets until the top three premiums are yours. The steps, in order:

4.2Against the Terminids

Bugs come in crowds and out of holes, with Chargers and Bile Titans on top, so buy fire or sustained fire, an explosive that closes holes, and anti-tank. First Dust Devils (Coyote, Speargun), then Entrenched Division (Stoker, Cremator), then Democratic Detonation (three hole-closers, and Thermite for Chargers); Freedom's Flame and Servants of Freedom are worth adding. The full list, with the items to buy in each warbond:

Unit by unit: the Terminid playbook.

4.3Against the Automatons

Bots shoot back from range with armor, rockets and cannons, so buy precise Medium or Heavy penetration for heads and vents, explosive resistance, and anti-tank for Hulks and tanks. Fire is weaker here: small bots take half damage from it. First Democratic Detonation (Eruptor, Thermite, the Fortified FS-55 armor), then Redacted Regiment (Censor, Reduced Signature, C4), then Siege Breakers (Leveller); Castellan's Creed, Borderline Justice, Steeled Veterans and Entrenched Division each add one bot-front standout:

Unit by unit: the Automaton playbook.

4.4Against the Illuminate

The Illuminate send hordes of Voteless, shielded walkers and fliers, so crowd fire comes first, and dedicated anti-tank launchers matter less: u.gg's support list (read September 26, 2026, stamped 7.0.2) drops the Recoilless, EAT, Quasar and Spear to C on this front. First Dust Devils (Coyote), then Entrenched Division (Stoker, Cremator), then Servants of Freedom (Ultimatum); Force of Law, Truth Enforcers, Freedom's Flame and Exo Experts each add one standout:

Unit by unit: the Illuminate playbook. The front picks are this manual's reading of GamesRadar's weapon lists (August 14, 2026) and the Steam guide's per-front tables (August 19, 2026) community-tested.

4.5Buying for a squad

• Your booster is the squad's booster. Each diver brings one and it works for everyone, but a duplicate adds nothing, so a full squad runs up to 4 different ones. The four S-rated boosters on Mobilize (Hellpod Space Optimization, Vitality Enhancement, Stamina Enhancement, Muscle Enhancement) make a complete squad set: buy them before premium boosters, and say in the lobby which one you bring community-tested.
• Gear is not shared, drops are. You bring only what you own, but anyone can pick up a support weapon or backpack a teammate drops. Friends who buy different warbonds widen what the squad can call in.
• Pickups are shared. Super Credits and Medal cases credit every diver in the mission at once, so a squad farms them together (how).
• An anti-tank booster. Ironclad Democracy's Surplus EAT Allocation: Two free EAT-17 call-ins per mission (two launchers each, one per diver in a full squad); cannot be rearmed. Worth bringing when nobody packed anti-tank.

Roles and loadout coordination: Multiplayer & Squads; how boosters stack: Boosters in a squad.

Variants by playstyle

Know the job you want in the squad? Buy for it. Each list gives the warbonds in order and the items that earn them their place; the ratings behind them are the same dated lists as the main order community-tested.

5.1Anti-tank without a backpack

Anti-tank power in the grenade and sidearm slots or an expendable launcher, so your backpack stays free for a shield or a supply pack: Thermite, the Ultimatum, the Leveller, then Ironclad Democracy's untested kit.

5.2Anti-tank specialist

The squad's heavy-killer, on top of the Recoilless Rifle or Quasar Cannon you buy with Requisition (support weapons): the Leveller, the Meltagun, the Solo Silo and the Anti-Tank Emplacement.

5.3Horde clearing and fire

Fire and gas for the Terminid and Illuminate fronts (fire is weaker against bots): Entrenched Division, Freedom's Flame, the Hot Dog drone and the Gas grenade.

5.4Stealth and Commando missions

Quiet guns, armor that keeps you unseen and smoke on landing: Redacted Regiment first, the ODST legendary only if you want its look.

5.5Marksman

Head-shooters, strongest on the bot front: the Censor, the Deadeye and the Hot-Shot, plus the Diligence you already get in Mobilize.

5.6Sidearm-first

Builds around the pistol: Gunslinger armor and the Talon, the Senator, the Loyalist.

5.7Mobility and scouting

Getting around the map: the Warp Pack, the Hover Pack and Oxygenator armor.

5.8Support and survival

Keeping yourself and the squad alive: Experimental Infusion, Adreno-Defibrillator armor (a one-time revive) and Mobilize's Med-Kit armor.

5.9Exosuits and vehicles

Exo Experts' two exosuits; Ironclad Democracy's tank patterns are cosmetic only.

5.10Melee

Rock Solid armor, the Breaching Hammer and Peak Physique armor. Patch 6.0.1 cut the melee passives by more than half, which is why melee warbonds rank low overall.

The skip list

Until the top three premiums are yours, skip the legendaries and the warbonds with a single standout, unless that one item is exactly what you want. Never spend Medals on a D-rated item except to open a page.

Warbonds first, then single items, each with the exception that would make it worth buying:

How warbonds work

Super Credits unlock a warbond; Medals buy what is inside it, page by page. A page opens once you have spent enough Medals in that warbond, and your wallet stops at 250 Medals, so plan the spending, not the saving.

7.1Three kinds of warbond

• There are 25 warbonds in all. None expires, and you can fill several at once, in any order.
• You cannot buy a single item without owning its warbond, and money buys Super Credits, not warbonds.
• The Super Citizen Edition and its upgrade include one Premium Warbond Token, good for premium warbonds only; it is not sold on its own. Spend it on your first premium pick.
• Anyone who bought a Killzone item in the 2024 Superstore got Righteous Revenants free, with those items already unlocked.

7.2Pages open as you spend in that warbond

The game counts the Medals you have spent in one warbond, cumulatively; Medals spent in another do not count, and a locked page shows how many more it needs. So you never save up for a page: you spend your way to it, filling the gap with the cheapest items you would buy anyway.

• Mobilize opens pages 1 to 10 at these totals of Medals spent inside it: 0, 8, 35, 75, 150, 260, 420, 650, 850, 1200 (graded likely; the Fandom wiki reads 430 for page 7).
• Premium and legendary warbonds open page 2 after roughly three quarters of page 1's value, and page 3 after roughly three quarters of pages 1 and 2 approx; the first 2024 premiums open page 2 at a flat, lower gate. Each warbond's gates are on its card in the catalog.
• Page 3 is uncertain for most warbonds since Dust Devils (September 2025): the recorded figure is either a total or "this many more after page 2". This manual plans with the higher reading, so if the lower one is right, page 3 simply opens early unverified.

7.3The Medal cap

You can hold 250 Medals; anything you earn above that is thrown away. Spend down before a big Major Order pays out, and keep a warbond with open pages on hand as a place to put Medals (Mobilize is one until you have spent all 2,015 Medals in it).

7.4What your Medals buy

• Body armor carries the passive. Helmets and capes are cosmetic, so a helmet is a filler, never a need (passives by job).
• Boosters: all 20 come from warbonds, six of them from Mobilize (every booster).
• Stratagems: 29 come from warbonds, cost Medals and need no player level; most of the rest are bought with Requisition as you level (how stratagems work).
• Cosmetics: capes, player cards, emotes, victory poses, titles and vehicle patterns change nothing in a fight; Ironclad Democracy's patterns fit only the Bastion and Maelstrom tanks.

Earning Medals and Super Credits

Medals: play the hardest difficulty your squad finishes reliably, take the daily Personal Order and join the Major Order. Super Credits: claim the cheap warbond stacks, then loot the points of interest on easy missions.

8.1Medals

Where Medals come from, biggest steady source first. The operation totals climb steeply with difficulty, and so do the Medals per mission:

What a premium costs in play: 569 to 888 Medals to finish, roughly 24 to 37 operations at difficulty 7 before any orders approx; daily and Major Orders shorten that. Near the cap, spend before an order pays out.

8.2Super Credits

• Claim the stacks first. Mobilize sells 100 SC for 1, 2, 3, 6 and 10 Medals (pages 1-5), then 50 SC for 15, 15, 20, 25 and 50 Medals (pages 6-10), and every premium holds three 100-SC stacks for 7, 12 and 32 Medals. Across all warbonds that is 7,050 Super Credits.
• Then pick them up. Sealed pods, locked cargo containers and bunkers at minor points of interest hold 10 Super Credits (rarely 100). A pickup credits every diver in the mission at once and stays yours even if the squad never extracts. Minor points of interest are densest on difficulties 1 to 3; Eradicate missions have none; factory worlds have had them since 7.0.0.
• Squads farm faster. A bunker's two control panels need two divers at once (or one diver with a Warp Pack), and everyone present is credited.
• Super Credit cap: none. Since July 9, 2026 an undisclosed anti-exploit limit flags only earning rates far above the best players ever recorded; normal farming never meets it (Arrowhead).

GamesRadar's farming loop (August 27, 2025) community-tested:

1. Pick TrivialMinor points of interest spawn most densely there, and nothing threatens the run.
2. Finish the main objectiveThe mission still pays its rewards, and the map is yours to search.
3. Loot every point of interestBunkers first (two panels, three loot slots), then cargo containers (two slots) and pods (one).
4. Extract and repeatYour Super Credits counted the moment you picked them up; the extraction brings home the samples.

No reliable Super-Credits-per-hour figure exists, and guide sites' claims were not used here unverified.

Buying them. The 1,000-SC pack, enough for one premium warbond, costs 9.99 US dollars on the PlayStation Store (Steam's price was not checked); bigger packs give more per dollar, up to about 30% more with the 13,000-SC pack approx. Warbonds themselves cannot be bought with money.

Every currency and its cap: Progression & Currencies; points of interest: Missions; what you keep in someone else's mission: Multiplayer & Squads.

Superstore and free gear

The Superstore sells armor sets and a few weapons for Super Credits only. Shop there after your core premiums, and check first whether the passive you want is not already cheap in Mobilize. Some gear is free: the starter kit and the rewards of Galactic War Campaigns.

9.1The Superstore

• Everything stays on sale. Rotating pages: none since April 28, 2026; every set is now permanently for sale. Arrowhead announced the change on the official Discord, and no patch note records it.
• 26 sets are for sale, 20,245 Super Credits for everything, and each is exclusive: no warbond sells its pieces. Most are armor; body armor alone costs 150 Super Credits or more, so take Fortified or Engineering Kit from Mobilize for a handful of Medals instead.
• Weapons worth Super Credits once the core premiums are yours:
  • SG-97 Sweeper · Superstore, 400 SC. A fast pump shotgun, penetration 3 (medium); GR A on all three fronts, u.gg S against bugs and squids (September 26, 2026).
  • DBS-2 Double Freedom · Superstore, 400 SC. A two-shell burst for heavy weak spots up close; GR A on all three fronts.
  • LAS-12 Sai · Superstore (Ironclad Democracy page), 400 SC. A laser, penetration 3 (medium), that never needs an ammo pickup; u.gg S on all three fronts (September 26, 2026), too new for GamesRadar.
• Skip the melee weapons (Machete, Combat Hatchet, Stun Baton): GR C to D.

9.2Free gear outside the warbonds

Every diver starts with the AR-23 Liberator, P-2 Peacemaker, G-12 High Explosive and MG-43 Machine Gun; most other stratagems are bought with Requisition as you level (Stratagems). Galactic War Campaigns reward everyone who logged in during a campaign, when the community wins a majority of the campaign's Major Orders. So far that has meant the M-103 Supply FRV, the R-4 Hyena marksman rifle, KDM-500 Outrider armor, the IX-Voidwalker helmet, the Eagle Gas Airstrike and the Message of Morale cape; the TD-110 Maelstrom tank is the prize of the Armored Eagle campaign, which began September 22, 2026. Missed the Supply FRV? It becomes a Requisition purchase for everyone in October 2026. How campaigns work: Rewards for taking part.

Every warbond, page by page

Every warbond in release order: its price, pages, the Medals it takes to buy everything, its page gates, and every item on every page with its Medal cost. Choose with the ranked order; plan your Medals with this.

The overview in release order; the legendaries are the three at 1,500 Super Credits:

How to read each warbond below: the card gives its price, its page gates and the community tiers (GR and SG, defined with the ranked order; opinions, community-tested); the table lists every item page by page. Rows typed "super credits" are the Super Credit stacks; helmets, capes, player cards, emotes, victory poses, titles and patterns are cosmetic.

10.1Helldivers Mobilize!

Buy first: the Super Credit stacks on pages 1 to 5, Hellpod Space Optimization (page 3) and the cheap armor passives. Keep going for Stamina Enhancement (page 7) and the PLAS-1 Scorcher (page 10); the LAS-5 Scythe and Breaker Spray&Pray are fillers at best. Increased Reinforcement Budget on page 10 is the priciest item in any warbond.

10.2Steeled Veterans

Buy it for the P-4 Senator (page 1). The SG-225IE Breaker Incendiary and JAR-5 Dominator are solid; the AR-23C Liberator Concussive is a filler.

10.3Cutting Edge

Buy it for the LAS-16 Sickle (page 1); the SG-8P Punisher Plasma and G-23 Stun are page 2's picks. The ARC-12 Blitzer is a bug-front gun; skip the LAS-7 Dagger.

10.4Democratic Detonation

Buy the G-123 Thermite first (page 1), then the R-36 Eruptor (page 2); the GP-31 Grenade Pistol and CB-9 Exploding Crossbow wait on page 3.

10.5Polar Patriots

Buy it for the PLAS-101 Purifier (page 3); the CW-22 Kodiak (Fortified heavy armor) and G-13 Incendiary Impact on page 2 are the other keepers. Skip the SMG-72 Pummeler.

10.6Viper Commandos

Buy it for Experimental Infusion (page 3). The SG-22 Bushwhacker and AR-23A Liberator Carbine are adequate, and Peak Physique armor is for melee builds.

10.7Freedom's Flame

Buy it for the FLAM-66 Torcher (page 2) and P-72 Crisper (page 3); Inflammable armor resists fire. The cheapest premium to complete, and weak against bots.

10.8Chemical Agents

Buy it for the G-4 Gas grenade (page 1). The TX-41 Sterilizer and P-11 Stim Pistol rate D; the Dog Breath drone and Advanced Filtration armor are for gas builds.

10.9Truth Enforcers

Buy it for the PLAS-15 Loyalist (page 3); the Unflinching armors resist flinching and add radar scans, and the SMG-32 Reprimand is a fair SMG against bots and squids (GR B).

10.10Urban Legends

Buy it for the Siege-Ready armors (pages 1 and 2) and the E/AT-12 Anti-Tank Emplacement (page 3); the A/FLAM-40 Flame Sentry suits bugs and squids.

10.11Servants of Freedom

Buy it for the GP-20 Ultimatum (page 2) and the B-100 Portable Hellbomb (page 3). Its Integrated Explosives armor explodes after you die, so mind your squad.

10.12Borderline Justice

Buy it for the LAS-58 Talon (page 2); the R-6 Deadeye, TED-63 Dynamite and LIFT-860 Hover Pack round it out.

10.13Masters of Ceremony

Little to buy for combat: the R-2 Amendment and G-142 Pyrotech, and the Sample Scanner if you are still farming samples for ship modules. Skip the CQC-1 One True Flag.

10.14Force of Law

Buy it for the GL-52 De-Escalator (page 2) if you fight bugs or squids; skip the AR-32 Pacifier.

10.15Control Group

Buy it for the LIFT-182 Warp Pack (page 3); the PLAS-45 Epoch and VG-70 Variable are strong but can hurt you, and Adreno-Defibrillator armor gives a one-time revive.

10.16Obedient Democracy Support Troopers

Buy it only for the Halo look or a quiet set: Feet First armor, the M7S SMG and the M6C/SOCOM Pistol.

10.17Dust Devils

Buy the AR-2 Coyote first (page 1), then the S-11 Speargun or EAT-700 Expendable Napalm (page 2); the MS-11 Solo Silo waits on page 3.

10.18Python Commandos

Buy it for the AX/FLAM-75 Hot Dog drone (page 1); the AR/GL-21 One-Two got more grenades in 7.1.0. The M-1000 Maxigun and CQC-9 Defoliation Tool disappoint.

10.19Righteous Revenants

Skip it unless it came free with a 2024 Killzone Superstore item; the PLAS-39 Accelerator Rifle and Acclimated armor are its only standouts.

10.20Redacted Regiment

Buy the R-72 Censor and RS-89 Shadow Paragon armor first (page 1): page 2 needs nearly all of page 1. The B/MD C4 Pack and Concealed Insertion wait on page 3.

10.21Siege Breakers

Buy it for the EAT-411 Leveller (page 2); the CQC-20 Breaching Hammer and LAS-13 Trident sit on page 1. The GL-28 Belt-Fed Grenade Launcher underwhelms.

10.22Entrenched Division

Buy the SMG/FLAM-34 Stoker and CPG-48 Sapper armor first (page 1), then the A/GM-17 Gas Mortar Sentry and G-48 Giga Grenade (page 2); the B/FLAM-80 Cremator waits on page 3.

10.23Exo Experts

Buy it for the two exosuits (pages 2 and 3) and the MGX-42 Bullet Storm (page 1); the P-33 Missile Pistol is a strong bot-front sidearm.

10.24Castellan's Creed

The 40-K Meltagun (page 3) and True Grit armor are excellent, but you pay the full legendary price with nothing back.

10.25Ironclad Democracy

The P-34 Breacher and Surplus EAT Allocation sit on page 2, the G-60 Anti-Tank Seeker and GL-15 Evictor on page 3. Too new for a dated warbond ranking; its three vehicle patterns fit only the tanks.