Helldivers 2 Boosting

When fighting in a shooter like Helldivers 2, besides the essential weapons, you'll also need items like boosters to provide extra attention. More importantly, boosters aren't disposable; once acquired, they can be used throughout all missions.

While each player can only equip one booster, if you enter battle as a team, the effects of each player's equipped booster apply to everyone else, unless one player quits or dies.

Different boosters focus on different functions. Some increase health, others enhance mobility, while others can combine with other players to create surprising synergies.

Boosters are primarily earned as Warbond rewards, which require unlocking Warbond progression through medals. For even rarer boosters, you'll need to buy Helldivers 2 Super Credits to unlock premium and legendary Warbonds additionally.

To save medals and Super Credits while maximizing the effectiveness of your squad's boosters, we've listed the top 10 boosters in the game, ranked from lowest to highest in value.

10. Firebomb Hellpods - Freedom's Flame Warbond

This booster allows Hellpods to create an additional explosion upon landing, dealing incidental damage to nearby enemies in a small area. While Hellpod's primary function is to transport resources, this booster grants it a suicide attack effect.

However, while gaining incidental damage, this booster also reduces the physical damage dealt by Hellpod upon landing, potentially underperforming the intended damage output. This is why Firebomb Hellpods are only ranked tenth.

9. Increased Reinforcement Budget - Helldivers Mobilize Warbond

This booster allows you to reinforce your teammates more often than usual, but only if you don't die more than 20 times, otherwise it will be useless.

Note that this booster only adds one initial reinforcement to each teammate, but it also takes up an entire reinforcement slot. So if you only want reinforcement boosters, this isn't the best option.

8. Expert Extraction Pilot - Democratic Detonation Warbond

This booster can help you get more leeway in your extraction schedule by reducing the time it takes for Pelican-1 to reach the extraction beacon.

While Expert Extraction Pilot is useful, it's important to note that its design suffers from a significant inconsistency that negates the effectiveness of the booster.

This booster can save you approximately 18 to 37 seconds on a 2-to-4-minute extraction timer. However, if your team can hold out for nearly 2 minutes, it's not impossible to extend the time in 18 seconds by yourself.

7. Flexible Reinforcement Budget - Steeled Veterans Warbond

This booster reduces the number of reinforcements you need to respawn on higher difficulties, allowing you to receive reinforcements faster - approximately 12 seconds earlier.

Honestly, this booster might be better suited for early-game use due to its short duration, but it requires a higher difficulty level to be effective. However, compared to Increased version, it performs quite well.

6. Localization Confusion - Cutting Edge Warbond

This booster essentially lengthens the time between waves of enemy attacks, giving you extra time to recover, such as allowing an Automaton Dropship to arrive later. However, it doesn't reduce the number of enemies in the next wave.

This characteristic means that the effectiveness of Localization Confusion depends on the enemy and the type of encounter. If you're facing a single enemy, it's great, but if you're facing a swarm of bugs, the extra time won't make a big difference.

5. Motivational Shocks - Polar Patriots Warbond

This booster helps you recover faster from acid attacks, earthquakes, and dense foliage by reducing the slow debuff you receive. While useful, the limited environment means it's only useful in a few situations.

In contrast, another booster, Muscle Enhancement, not only offers similar buffs but, more importantly, has wider application scopes, allowing you to more flexibly improve your mobility at any time.

Of course, Motivational Shocks are still useful if you use them in the right scenario, but they're not as universally applicable as Muscle Enhancement, and the latter is also more difficult to obtain.

4. Armed Resupply Pods - Urban Legends Warbond

Think of this booster as a replacement for the advanced sentinel. It attaches a Liberator Penetrator rifle to each of your supply pods, which automatically fires at any enemy within 30 meters, providing additional firepower for your flanks.

3. UAV Recon Booster - Helldivers Mobilize Warbond

The original mini-map only displays a very limited range and number of nearby enemies, but equipping this booster increases radar detection range by 50%, allowing you to more swiftly evade enemies and eliminate them through stealth.

Sadly, such a reliable booster isn't compatible with standard mechanics - it can't be applied to the entire squad during team fights.

Therefore, if you or your teammates possess it, we recommend enabling team chat and sharing the range and number of enemies you see in real-time to maximize UAV Recon Booster's value.

2. Muscle Enhancement - Helldivers Mobilize Warbond

We already mentioned this booster when introducing Motivational Shocks. It reduces the slowdown effect you receive in various terrain conditions. Of course, it requires more medals to unlock.

1. Experimental Infusion - Viper Commandos Warbond

This is like a legal, all-purpose stimulant in Helldivers 2. Using it grants you a massive amount of healing in a matter of seconds, while also increasing your movement speed, reducing damage taken, and even instantly restoring all your health.

It's easy to see how this booster will make you invincible in most battles, especially when you're trailing, as it offers a high chance of instantly turning the tide.

Such a powerful effect means that unlocking Experimental Infusion is a lengthy process, requiring you to accumulate sufficient medals. Therefore, it's not recommended to use it right at the start of a battle unless you're truly wealthy in boosters.

Obviously, to balance the game's combat environment, the strengths and weaknesses of most boosters all stand out. Therefore, in team fights, you can coordinate with your teammates to bring the boosters that maximize the team's benefit.

That's all for this introduction. I hope it provides a reliable guide for your Helldivers 2 booster selection. Have fun!

Helldivers 2 has been incredibly busy lately. At the end of August, not only did it expand to new Xbox platforms, but it also launched a crossover event with Halo: ODST, attracting a large influx of new players.

Building on this momentum, Helldivers 2 will release a major update called Into the Unjust on September 2nd, adding even more gameplay content to keep this new player base engaged throughout the final quarter of 2025.

Based on the available information, we'll now introduce the key features of this update.

Into The Unjust Release Date

According to official information, the exact release date for this major update is 9:00 AM GMT on September 2nd, 2025. Time differences in other time zones may vary. The specific times are:

• 1:00 AM PDT
• 4:00 AM EDT
• 10:00 AM BST

Please note that the new Warbond, Dust Devils, corresponding to this update is scheduled to launch on September 4th. This means you'll have to consume Helldivers 2 Super Credits to unlock this Warbond and receive the new rewards after two days of experience.

Into The Unjust Update Overview

Super Earths introduce a brand new combat experience, where you'll descend upon a bug-infested Hive World after surviving a spore cloud.

Hive Worlds are essentially dry desert planets that may contain massive Terminid structures and numerous interconnected, winding, bug-filled caves.

For this reason, your new role in this update will also be played within Hive Worlds. You'll need to traverse the map's various drilling sites to escort mobile oil rigs, enter caves to destroy Hive Lungs, and perform other new tactical objectives.

New Terminids Enemy Type

One of the most noteworthy additions to this update is the new Terminids enemy, Dragonroach. It's a massive, incredibly deadly flying enemy.

In combat, it will stray around the battlefield, releasing chemical fire. While the new battlefields introduced in Into the Unjust are mostly claustrophobic tunnels, this enemy will only engage in open combat.

Dragonroach will continue to attack until you exert enough pressure to force it back, or manage to break its wings and bring it down. In these ways, it resembles a cross between an Illuminated Leviathan and a Terminid Stalker.

Based on trailers and other information, you'll need to target specific areas of the enemy's body with small arms fire and rockets to have a chance of killing it; it's unclear whether conventional weapons will be enough to deal with it.

All Dust Devils Warbond Rewards

This Warbond was introduced specifically for Into the Unjust update, and unlocking it grants you new gear, titles, emotes, and patterns.

• Title: Burier of Heads
• Emote: Raider's Cheer
• Pattern: Rattlesnake for vehicles and Hellpods

The gear offered by Dust Devils Warbond is primarily firearms, each with its own unique advantages and suited to different combat scenarios.

• AR-2 Coyote: The game's first assault rifle equipped with incendiary rounds, providing powerful firepower.
• G-7 Pineapple: A cluster grenade that instantly shatters enemies upon detonation.
• S-11 Speargun: Requires reloading after each shot, and the projectile releases a deadly gas upon impact.
• EAT-700 Expendable Napalm: A rocket launcher that releases a cluster bomb of napalm upon detonation.
• MS-11 Solo Silo: This small silo houses a powerful missile and a handheld targeting remote.
• DS-42 Federation's Blade: This armor piece is equipped with Desert Stormer passive ability, which protects you from various types of damage while also increasing your throw range.
• DS-191 Scorpion: A direct replacement for DS-42 Federation's Blade.

What Are Warbonds?

Helldivers 2 typically releases new Warbonds with major updates or special events (such as the crossover with Halo: ODST). Premium Dust Devils Warbond arrived with Into the Unjust.

Warbonds are essentially like Helldivers 2's battle pass; they never expire and come in two levels: Standard and Premium. Standard Warbonds are usually free, while Premium Warbonds require Super Credits to unlock.

To gradually unlock rewards within a Warbond, you need to redeem them with medals, requiring a certain number of medals to unlock each page.

How Do You Obtain Medals?

Obtaining medals is relatively simple, primarily through the following methods.

Completing Major Orders

This order requires you to complete it with other players over a period of one or two weeks, and you can earn approximately 50 medals.

Completing Personal Orders

These orders, designed specifically for you, are smaller and yield fewer medals. Each order provides approximately 15 medals.

Completing Missions And Operations

As the difficulty and number of missions increase, the amount of medals you earn also increases. Additionally, you can scavenge for them while completing missions.

How To Obtain Super Credits?

As rarer items, Super Credits are slightly more difficult to farm, so it's best to wait until your character is powerful enough before farming them.

Scooping While Completing Missions

While completing missions, you can earn Super Credits by looting sealed pods, locked containers, and bunkers. Super Credits are always collected in groups of 10 and are added to your account immediately upon collection.

If you're playing with a teammate, any Super Credits collected by one person will be added to the other's account.

Unlocking With Medals In Warbonds

The free Helldivers Mobilize Warbond includes almost 700 Super Credits, and most other Premium Warbonds also offer Super Credits as rewards. However, unlocking them will probably require a significant amount of medals.

Direct Redemption

The in-game Superstore offers bundles of Super Credits, so if you'd like to save time and effort, you can opt for this option directly.

That's all for this update. If you want to earn all the rewards in the latest Helldivers 2, you need to start working on it now!