Explanation of Difficulty Levels in Helldivers 2 Game

Increasing the difficulty level of Helldivers 2 is a great way to get bigger rewards. However, this will result in the addition of new mechanisms, enemy types, and more things to worry about during missions. 

Helldivers 2 can be very difficult, even on low difficulty levels, and becomes increasingly difficult as you rank up. 

With so many difficulty options to choose from, it's hard to know how much difference there is and how beneficial it will be for you and your team. 

Helldivers 2 itself features nine unlockable difficulty levels, each one a higher level of challenge than the previous with a greater number of enemies, objectives and rewards, but also more XP, Requisition Slips, Medals and Samples awaiting .

And in this article we will explain everything you need to know about the difficulty of each of the nine difficulty levels in Helldivers 2. Come on, check out the explanation below!

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Helldivers 2 Trivial Difficulty

This difficulty level aims to learn the important basics in Helldivers 2 and consists of one mission.

• Objective: The main objective of the map icon is orange
• Enemy presence: Small enemy patrols
• Rewards and loot: 1 Medal per successful mission. Green General Sample available.
• Modifiers: None

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Helldivers 2 Difficulty Easy

A small step up from Trivial that introduces extra core mechanics.

• Objectives: Primary Objectives, Allied Tactical Objectives (optional objectives with blue map icons that provide extra support to the team or relate directly to Super Earth. Including Radar Towers, Marine Artillery, Illegal Broadcast Towers, Rogue Research Labs, and Escape Pods)
• Enemy presence: Small enemy patrols, Light Outposts (Terminid Nests and Automaton Assemblers)
• Rewards and loot: 2 Medals per successful mission. General Samples Available.
• Modifiers: None

Helldivers 2 Medium Difficulty

This is the final beginner difficulty level and is quite a big step up. 

Here we will introduce a tougher type of enemy with heavy armor. 

Operations now consist of two missions and one of them can be a shorter Blitz mission.

• Objectives: Primary Objective, Allied Tactical Objective, Secondary Objective (One optional Tactical Objective is permanently marked on the map with a blue icon)
• Enemy presence: Small enemy patrols, heavily armored enemies, Light Outposts, Medium Outposts
• Rewards and loot: 2 Medals for the first mission, 4 Medals for the second mission. General Samples Available.
• Modifiers: None

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Helldivers 2 Challenging Difficulty

Challenging is where Helldivers 2 really starts to ramp up the difficulty, representing the first moderate difficulty level. 

From here on, playing Helldivers 2 solo becomes much more difficult.

• Objectives: Primary Objectives, Secondary Objectives, Allied Tactical Objectives, Enemy Tactical Objectives (optional objectives, also marked with a blue icon, which revolve around destroying enemy assets. Includes things like Terminid Stalker Nests and Spore Sprayers, as well as Automated Detector Towers and Deployments A A)
• Enemy presence: Enemy patrols, heavily armored enemies, Light Outposts, Medium Outposts, Heavy Outposts
• Rewards and loot: 3 Medals for the first mission, 5 Medals for the second mission. Common Samples are available in green and Rare Samples in orange.
• Modifiers: None

Helldivers 2 Hard Difficulty

Hard introduces the biggest enemy in Helldivers 2 and Operation Modifier. Operations now consist of three missions, with one or two missions being Blitz missions.

• Objectives: Primary Objectives, Secondary Objectives, Allied and Enemy Tactical Objectives
• Enemy presence: Enemy patrols, heavily armored enemies, massive enemies, Light Outposts, Medium Outposts, Heavy Outposts
• Rewards and loot: 4 Medals for the first mission, 6 Medals for the second mission, 8 Medals for the third mission. Common Samples and Rare Samples Available.
• Modifiers: 1 Operation Modifier (Operation Modifiers add team-wide penalties or gameplay quirks to all missions in an Operation, such as increased Stratagem cooldown times or obscured maps).

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Helldivers 2 Extreme Difficulty

There aren't many changes in Extreme compared to Hard, aside from the extra Tactical Objectives.

Which means each mission has more things to do at the same time and will start to test your efficiency.

• Objectives: Primary Objectives, Secondary Objectives, even more Allied and Enemy Tactical Objectives
• Enemy presence: Enemy patrols, heavily armored enemies, massive enemies, Light Outposts, Medium Outposts, Heavy Outposts
• Rewards and loot: 5 Medals for the first mission, 7 Medals for the second mission, 9 Medals for the third mission. Common Samples and Rare Samples Available.
• Modifier: 1 Operation Modifier

Helldivers 2 Suicide Mission Difficulty

This is the point where Helldivers 2 starts to get really difficult. Enemies are abundant and unrelenting.

A stealth approach can be useful for avoiding large-scale fights. This is also the lowest difficulty level for which Super Samples are available.

• Objectives: Primary Objectives, Secondary Objectives, enhancement of Allied and Enemy Tactical Objectives
• Enemy presence: Large enemy patrols, heavily armored enemies, massive enemies, Light Outposts, Medium Outposts, Heavy Outposts
• Rewards and loot: 6 Medals for the first mission, 8 Medals for the second mission, 10 Medals for the third mission. Super Common, Rare, and Pink Uranium Samples Available.
• Modifier: 1 Operation Modifier

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Helldivers 2 Impossible Difficulty

Only coordinated and experienced players with the best Helldivers 2 build can get through this stage.

• Objectives: Primary Objectives, Secondary Objectives, enhancement of Allied and Enemy Tactical Objectives
• Enemy presence: Increased overall number of enemies, large enemy patrols, heavily armored enemies, massive enemies, Light Outposts, Medium Outposts, Heavy Outposts
• Rewards and loot: 7 Medals for the first mission, 10 Medals for the second mission, 12 Medals for the third mission. Common, Rare and Super Samples Available.
• Modifiers: 2 Operation Modifiers

Helldivers 2 Helldive Difficulty

The fight for Super Earth is the hardest. There's nothing mechanically new compared to Impossible, but enemies are nearly everywhere, and heavily armored and massive foes are common. 

• Objectives: Primary Objectives, Secondary Objectives, enhancement of Allied and Enemy Tactical Objectives
• Enemy presence: Increased overall number of enemies, large enemy patrols, heavily armored enemies, massive enemies, Light Outposts, Medium Outposts, Heavy Outposts.
• Rewards and loot: 8 Medals for the first mission, 11 Medals for the second mission, 14 Medals for the third mission. Common, Rare and Super Samples Available.
• Modifiers: 2 Operation Modifiers

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So, that's an explanation of the difficulty level in Helldivers 2. Hopefully the information above is useful.

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