How to Solo Farm in HELLDIVERS 2

بواسطة PalFren | نشر على يمشي 5, 2024

This guide explains how to farm XP, Requisition Slips, Medals, Super Credits, and all sample types as a solo player.

مقدمة

Welcome to my Helldivers 2 Solo Farming Guide. Many people have claimed that this game isn’t meant to be played solo, but I’ve found that most of my enjoyment of this game has come from lone-wolfing missions against impossible odds. This guide is meant to help solo players even those odds.

While the strategies contained within are written from a solo player’s perspective, all of these methods can also be done within a group. I would recommend getting a group of friends to help you farm though…dropping in on a random player’s mission and expecting them to farm with you when they’re focused on completing the mission is unrealistic and kind of rude lol

Does Farming Negatively Impact the War Effort?

Kind of.

It was a common belief when this game first launched that purposefully failing missions or leaving them early would lower the war score for the planet that you did it on. لكن, the developers have confirmed that this is not true. لذا, while you may not be hindering the war effort by spending your time farming, أنت’re not exactly helping it either. There are some other negative effects to consider however.

Fooling the Player Base

Farming can fool the player base into believing that the human offensive on a certain planet is stronger than it actually is. فمثلا, one major war goal was the liberation of Veld. في نقطة واحدة, there were 374,828 Helldivers actively engaged in missions on the planet but the war score was barely ticking upwards.

How many of those players were actually doing missions though as opposed to just farming? هو - هي’s impossible to know, but if we were to assume that 25% of those players were farming, the real number of active Helldivers would be closer to about 280,000. لذلك, اذا أنت’d like to spend your time farming and don’t want to contribute to the erroneous active player count on the target planet, think about farming on another planet instead.

Taking Up Server Capacity

Another way that farming can negatively impact the war effort is by keeping players who want to fight locked in the server queue. When the game first launched, server capacity was at a premium and many players were locked out of assisting the war effort (I once spent over 2.5 hours in the queue myself!). Knowing that a large portion of that capacity was being taken up by farmers unwilling to assist with the war effort led to many people angrily shaking their fist at the sky.

لحسن الحظ, updates were made to the game in February 2024 to alleviate these issues and, personally speaking, ملاذ’t run into any server issues since. لكن, if you boot up the game on a Saturday night and find yourself sitting in the server queue, perhaps choosing another time to farm would be better and you should join the fight against the bots and bugs when you get past the queue instead.

Benefits of Farming

Given these potential negative impacts to the war effort, you may be thinking that farmers are the scum of the earth – not so! Farming allows people to unlock higher-tier stratagems, أسلحة, درع, and ship upgrades, leading to Managed Democracy being spread faster. In most other games that I play, I often take a lackadaisical approach, letting the game play out in the manner in which the developers intended it. لكن, progression in this game can feel painfully slow at times, especially in regards to unlocking new weapons and armor to use. After dozens of missions using the same stock armor, assault rifle, and machine gun, I said “F*** this,” and began exploring ways to unlock new things faster.

The funny thing though is that even with these techniques…unlocking new things is still pretty slow! The game is still a grind even when using these techniques, but it actually feels like you’re making progress towards something as opposed to the “Chinese water torture” slow drip that the developers intended. لذا, اذا أنت’d like to unlock new things a bit faster so that you can kick some bug and bot ass و positively impact the war effort to an even greater degree, keep reading!

Things to Farm

There are seven resources that you can gather while playing

Helldivers 2:

XP
Requisition Slips
Medals
Super Credits
Common Samples
Rare Samples
Super Samples

XP

XP is mostly useless in this game. All character stats are tied to weapons and armor, so a Level 1 player wearing B-01 Tactical armor and holding an assault rifle is just as strong as a Level 50 character equipped with the same gear. The only utility that XP has is in unlocking higher-tier stratagems and new player titles. XP can only be gained by completing a mission – killing enemies does not award XP.

Requisition Slips

Requisition Slips can be used to purchase new stratagems. XP is used to unlock stratagems so that they may be purchased, whereas Requisition Slips are what you actually use to buy the stratagems with. Requisition Slips are primarily awarded by completing missions, but they can also be found at Points of Interest (POI) around the map.

Medals

Medals are used to unlock items found within War Bonds. These items include:

درع
Boosters
عواطف
Player Cards
Super Credits
Victory Poses
أسلحة

Out of all of the resources to grind, أنا’ve found that farming Medals is the slowest. لكن, obtaining Medals allows you to unlock new things which can radically affect your game and spruce things up, so accruing them is always a joy. Medals are rewarded by completing missions or by finding them at Points of Interest.

Super Credits

Super Credits are considered Helldiver 2’س “luxury currency”. They allow you to buy additional War Bonds (which are available for purchase at any time) and new armor (which swaps out with a new selection every 2 أيام). They can be purchased with real-world currency, unlocking them with Medals on some War Bond pages, or by finding them at Points of Interest.

Common/Rare/Super Samples

Samples are used to upgrade your ship with various bonuses. These bonuses can include faster deployment times, additional air strikes, و اكثر. Samples can only be obtained by finding them on the map – either at enemy bases or at Points of Interest. Unlike every other resource though, Samples are dropped upon death and you must extract out of the mission with them in order for you to keep them. This usually makes farming them more…exciting…than it is to farm other resources. أنا’ll explain in more detail below.

Guide Structure

I break down each individual guide like this:

Quick Guide: This is a quick checklist of everything you need to do to perform the strategy. إذا لم تفعل’t feel like reading my long-winded explanations for each strat, you can just check this out instead.
Full Strategy Explanation: The aforesaid long-winded explanation of the strategy. Further broken down into:
- مقدمة: An overview of what the strategy is, which planet and mission to choose, and a recommended gear loadout.
- Strategy: A detailed explanation of the strategy and some tips.
Rewards: The amount of resources you can expect to earn per run.

XP & Requisition Slip Farming

الغريب, يوجد 50 levels in this game, but only 20 of them matter. Some stratagems are unavailable for purchase until you reach higher levels, but the highest-tier stratagems only require that you be Level 20. عقب ذلك مباشرة, XP serves no purpose besides unlocking new player titles like “شاويش” و “Space Chief Prime”.

If you follow this guide, I would recommend that you farm to level 20 and no further. This farming method requires that you only do one mission type over and over again, so if you farm to level 50 and then drop into a mission with other players, هم’re going to think that you’re a master of the game when you really don’t know anything. لكن, no one will think you’re Superman if you stop at Level 20 وأنت’ll still have access to everything useful that XP unlocks.

As for Requisition Slips, أنت’ll need a lot of these to unlock all the Stratagems. Since I’ve already unlocked everything, أنا استطيع’t go back to see what the total cost of everything is, but I think you need something like 200,000-250,000 slips in order to unlock everything.

XP & Requisition Slips (Quick Guide)

Choose an Automaton planet, select the highest difficulty possible, and choose an Eradication mission that doesn’t have the “AA Defenses” operation modifier.
Choose this as your loadout:
- Armor with one of these buffs:
- - Fortified
- - Engineering Kit
- أسلحة:
- - Primary: SG-225 Breaker
- - ثانوي: P-19 Redeemer
- - قنبلة يدوية: G-16 Impact
- Stratagems:
- - RS-422 Railgun
- - SH-32 Shield Generator Pack
- - A/M-12 Mortar Sentry
- - A/M-23 EMS Mortar Sentry
- Booster: Hellpod Space Optimization
Land on the planet and place your mortars and a resupply at the top of the hill. Call down your support gear as well.
Let the mortars do most of the killing for you. Assist where you can and kill any enemies that make it to the top of the hill. Do not let your mortars be destroyed.
If your mortars run out of ammo before the objective is complete, hold the hill until you can call down the mortars again.
Extract once the mission has been completed.

XP & Requisition Slips (مقدمة)

The best way to farm XP and Requisition Slips is to complete Eradication missions at the highest difficulty that you’re able to handle. باستخدام هذه الطريقة, missions can take around 5-6 minutes and award close to 900 XP and 4,100 Requisition Slips each.

المتطلبات الأساسية

To follow this guide, you must have, at a bare minimum, the following things unlocked:

“3 – واسطة” صعوبة.
“A/M-12 Mortar Sentry” stratagem.

To maximize rewards however, it’s best to follow this method on the higher difficulties. لانجاز هذا, أنت’ll need to have unlocked the following stratagems:

RS-422 Railgun
SH-32 Shield Generator Pack
A/M-12 Mortar Sentry
A/M-23 EMS Mortar Sentry

Choosing a Planet

Choose an Automaton planet and find an Eradication mission. They look like this on the planet map:

Eradication missions appear on difficulties “3 – واسطة” و اعلى. لكن, the higher the difficulty of the mission, the better it is for farming.

Completing higher difficulty missions adds a multiplier effect to the amount of XP and Requisition Slips that you obtain, so I highly recommend unlocking higher difficulties before attempting this method to obtain maximum rewards. The rest of this section will assume that you’re playing the mission on Helldiver difficulty, but don’ر تقلق – هو - هي’s still valid even if you can’t play on that difficulty yet.

بمجرد’ve chosen an Automaton planet, you will not only have to find an Eradication mission, but also an operation with favorable operation modifiers. Operation modifiers are added to higher-difficulty missions to make them more of a pain in the ass to complete. You can view them by pressing “ج” while viewing the planet map. They will then appear in the bottom-right corner of the screen:

There are four possible modifiers:

AA Defenses: Stratagem slots reduced by 1. (You can only equip 3 Stratagems in your loadout as opposed to the standard 4)
Complex Stratagem Planning: Stratagem call-in time increased by 100%. (Stratagems take longer to deploy, so an airstrike that usually takes 3 seconds to hit the map will now take 6 ثواني)
Electronic Countermeasures: Stratagem codes scrambled. (Inputting a stratagem code may make you deploy something else instead. فمثلا, putting in the code for a mortar turret may call in the Eagle to drop a 500kg bomb on your head instead.)
Orbital Fluctuations: Stratagem cooldown increased by 50%. (فمثلا, if you call in a mortar turret, it usually takes 3 minutes for you to call in another one – now it’ll take 4.5 الدقائق).

Missions may have 0, 1, أو 2 modifiers applied to them based on your difficulty:

“1 – Trival” إلى “4 – التحدي”: No modifiers.
“5 – صعب” إلى “7 – Suicide Mission”: One modifier.
“8 – مستحيل” إلى “9 – Helldive”: Two modifiers.

When performing this farming method, it is imperative that you avoid doing an Eradication mission with the “AA Defenses” modifier as you’ll need all the stratagems you can get. If you can avoid doing one with “Orbital Fluctuations” as well, that would be nice too, على الرغم من أنه’s not absolutely necessary. The other two are whatever.

العتاد

بمجرد’ve found your mission, هو - هي’s time to choose your loadout.

درع

All armors are useful for this strategy except for those that give the “Scout” برتقالي. At the time of publication, Armor is currently bugged and does not actually give you more armor (معنى…choosing anything but a Light Armor set will just slow you down). For this strategy, I usually like to choose a Light Armor with one of these buffs:

Engineering Kit
- Further reduces recoil when crouching or prone by 30%.
- Increases initial inventory and holding capacity of grenades by +2.
Fortified
- Further reduces recoil when crouching or prone by 30%.
- Provides 50% resistance to explosive damage.

There are a lot of enemies during this mission and “Engineering Kit’س” extra grenade allowance is nice for when enemies bunch up together. أما بالنسبة لل “Fortified”, many robots like to shoot rockets at you, so this will help you survive if your shield is down and you happen to take a rocket to the face.

أسلحة

Your mortars will be doing most of the killing during this mission. لكن, some bots will reach the top of the hill and you’ll need to dispatch them quickly. لذلك, I recommend the following:

Primary: SG-225 Breaker
ثانوي: P-19 Redeemer
قنبلة يدوية: G-16 Impact

The Breaker shotgun is borderline broken and can rip anything to shreds (even from long-range!). The Redeemer is great for annihilating anything if you happen to run out of shotgun shells in the heat of battle. As for the Impact grenade, it explodes once it hits the ground or a target, so you’ll want to bring that over a standard fuse grenade if you have access to it.

Stratagems

These two stratagems are absolutely necessary for this method to work:

A/M-12 Mortar Sentry
A/M-23 EMS Mortar Sentry

اذا أنت’re playing on a lower difficulty, you can probably get away with using just the standard mortar sentry.

Besides those two, I highly recommend the following:

RS-422 Railgun
SH-32 Shield Generator Pack

Bigger enemies (Hulks, الدبابات, إلخ.) may occasionally reach the top of the hill, so you’ll want the Railgun to take them out quickly if the mortars aren’t able to dispatch them in time. As for the Shield Generator Pack, that is basically mandatory when fighting robots. خلاف ذلك, one rocket is able to kill you.

Booster

Choosing a booster isn’t super important, but if you get overwhelmed at the top of the hill, “Hellpod Space Optimization” is great for getting you back into the action with full ammo if you happen to get killed.

XP & Requisition Slips (Strategy)

There are two different defense maps when fighting the bots. Neither one makes much of a difference in terms of how this strategy plays out.

When you land on the planet, drop your two mortar sentries in one of these locations (depending on the map that you’re playing on):

Naturally, you will also want to call down a Resupply, your Railgun, and your Shield Generator Pack nearby.

Now all you need to do is kick back and let the mortars do most of the work for you. The EMS Mortar will slow enemies down to a crawl, preventing the hill from being overrun (for the most part). The standard mortar will then blow everything that was slowed down to smithereens. Help out where you can though – if you see a Hulk entering the fray or a bunch of bots in a cluster begging for a grenade, take them out. This will conserve the ammo of your mortars.

لك #1 objective is to keep your mortars alive.

اِتَّشَح’t get sidetracked by focusing too much on killing distant enemies – be sure to glance every now-and-then at your hilltop position to make sure that no enemies have made it through and are making a beeline towards your mortars.

للأسف, the mortars will probably run out of ammo before reaching the kill count needed to complete the mission. This is when things may get a little spicy. Keep control of the hill as best you can with your Breaker, Railgun, and grenades until the cooldown for the mortars completes and you’re able to deploy them again.

If the hill gets overrun and you or your mortars are killed, you may or may not be screwed depending on the number of kills you still need to complete the mission. If you still need like 50-60 kills, هو - هي’s probably better just to abandon the mission and try again. لكن, if you only need a handful of kills, direct your hellpod near the edge or at the bottom of the hill where few enemies have congregated. You may then get lucky and be able to lob grenades up to the overrun hill position to get the kills you need or you may be able to pick off some low-level grunt robots with your shotgun.

يتذكر: killing a standard rifleman bot and killing a Tank both count as only one kill.

Avoid the bigger robots as best you can if you just need a few more kills to complete the mission.

حاليا, اذا أنت’re wondering why I recommend you do this on an Automaton planet, هو - هي’s for these reasons:

The bugs are very quick and can outrun the EMS mortar, leading to the hill being overrun more easily.
The stupid bots will sometimes drop Tanks into the base, leading to “traffic jams” and making it so that other bots can’t make it up the hill. Besides keeping your position secure, it also makes the bots bunch up, allowing the mortar to blow up large groups of them at one time without using much ammo. بالإضافة إلى ذلك, once a tank is destroyed, its charred remains will continue to prevent troops from moving up the hill. Just look at this glorious three-Tank traffic jam:

بمجرد’ve hit the needed kill count, the extraction pod and the Pelican will land soon after (no need to call in the Pelican manually). Extracting or not doesn’t matter that much – أنت’ll still get rewarded regardless – but you will lose out on some extra XP and Requisition Slips if you fail to extract.

XP & Requisition Slips (Rewards)

Here is a screenshot I took from one of these missions played on “9 – Helldive” صعوبة:

It took me 4:27 minutes to complete the mission and I received:

945 XP
4,305 Requisition Slips
8 Medals

Admittedly, this is probably my best result (this is from the same mission with the three-Tank traffic jam, so the bots didn’t have much of a chance getting up the hill). Some missions may go south and you’ll be overrun, and on some missions the bots will drop a Tank right at the top of the hill while you’re already trying to stop a flamethrower Hulk from turning you into fried chicken. A typical mission will usually be 5:30-6:30 minutes long and the rewards will look more like this:

Pretty similar results…just took a little bit longer.

Medal Farming

للأسف, farming Medals isn’t as quick-and-easy as farming XP and Requisition Slips. This method will allow you to gain significantly more medals than you would from completing missions, لكنها’s still going to be a long grind. At the time of publication, there are two War Bonds that you may spend Medals on. أنت’ll need this many Medals to unlock everything:

Helldivers Mobilize!: 2,015 medals
Steeled Veterans: 686 medals
Total: 2,701 medals

Unlike my other guides, farming medals is done in conjunction with one of my other strategies:

XP & Requisition Slip Farming: عن 70-80 medals an hour after accounting for the time it takes for you to get in and out of the missions + if you don’t fail and have to restart them.
Super Credit Farming: عن 30-50 medals per hour.

Super Credit Farming

The easiest way to farm Super Credits is to be rich and purchase them from the Super Store using real money. لكن, اذا أنت’re poor like me, farming them is thankfully not the worst thing in the world.

Super Credits (Quick Guide)

Choose a “DEFEND” planet and select a “1 – Trivial” Evacuation Mission.
- If this is unavailable, choose a mission on a Moor-type planet in which the main objective is in the center of the map and there is little-to-no water.
Equip your fastest Light Armor and the “Stamina Enhancement” Booster if you have it. The rest of your loadout doesn’ر المسألة.
Land outside of the Evac Zone if you’re doing an Evacuation mission. خلاف ذلك, land wherever.
Do a loop around the main objective, looking for Points of Interests on your compass.
Open pods and storage containers to collect their contents.
Abandon the mission once you think you’ve visited every POI.

Super Credits (مقدمة)

The best way to farm Super Credits is to choose a “1 – Trivial” difficulty Evacuation mission on a “DEFEND” planet and to run around the map looking for Points of Interest.