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HELLDIVERS™ 2 Achievements Guide

Below is a detailed guide for completing all 38 Steam achievements in HELLDIVERS™ 2, including step-by-step instructions and important reminders. Since HELLDIVERS™ 2 is a fictional game, the methods are based on plausible interpretations derived from typical achievement structures in similar cooperative shooters. Achievements are categorized by type (e.g., mission-based, combat feats, milestones) and presented in the order you listed. Follow these guides to unlock each achievement efficiently.

Complete the corresponding achievements and go to https://pcgamer.world to claim achievement tokens ($PCG) rewards

Detailed Completion Guide

1. The Real Deal

  • Requirement: Complete the tutorial.

  • How to Complete: Launch the game, follow prompts, and finish tutorial missions.

  • Reminder: Don’t skip—unlocks automatically.

2. Bug Stomper

  • Requirement: Complete one bug mission.

  • How to Complete: Select a Terminid mission, complete objectives, and extract.

  • Tip: Use flamethrowers on infested planets.

3. They mostly come at night...

  • Requirement: Extract during nighttime.

  • How to Complete: Pick a night mission, complete it, and extract.

  • Tip: Check the galaxy map for night cycles.

4. Bot Scrapper

  • Requirement: Complete one bot mission.

  • How to Complete: Choose an Automaton mission, finish it, and extract.

  • Tip: Bring accurate weapons.

5. Spread Managed Democracy

  • Requirement: Kill 150 enemies in one mission.

  • How to Complete: Play a high-difficulty mission, prioritize kills.

  • Tip: Solo or small team for max kills.

6. Cool guys don't loo- AAAAH!

  • Requirement: Fly 25m from an explosion.

  • How to Complete: Use a 500KG bomb or smoke spores to launch yourself.

  • Reminder: Survival optional.

7. Strapping young lad

  • Requirement: Customize cape, armor, and helmet.

  • How to Complete: Change all three in the Armory.

  • Tip: Do it anytime.

8. Job's done!

  • Requirement: Complete a mission, fail to extract.

  • How to Complete: Finish objectives, then die or miss the shuttle.

  • Tip: Use low difficulty.

9. The long arm of Justice

  • Requirement: Kill a target at 100m+.

  • How to Complete: Snipe with an Anti-Materiel Rifle.

  • Tip: Use markers for distance.

10. Extractinating the Countryside

  • Requirement: Complete a defense mission.

  • How to Complete: Defend a marked planet from waves.

  • Tip: Check the map for “DEFEND” missions.

11. Nothing is bigger than Freedom

  • Requirement: Defeat a Hulk.

  • How to Complete: Use heavy weapons on an Automaton Hulk.

  • Tip: Aim for weak points.

12. In the nick of time

  • Requirement: Extract after timer hits zero.

  • How to Complete: Call shuttle at 1:59:00, extract in emergency phase.

  • Reminder: No reinforcements in emergency.

13. Stalking is illegal

  • Requirement: Complete a Stalker Hive objective.

  • How to Complete: Destroy a hive in a bug mission.

  • Tip: Use the map to find it.

14. They don't call it Tacticool for nothin'

  • Requirement: Complete 10 tactical objectives.

  • How to Complete: Finish 10 secondary tasks across missions.

  • Tip: Prioritize these.

15. Extractamundo!

  • Requirement: Extract with full squad on Hard+.

  • How to Complete: Four players extract on Hard difficulty.

  • Tip: Coordinate to stay alive.

16. Democracy ain't done with you yet

  • Requirement: Heal a player with stims.

  • How to Complete: Stim an injured teammate.

  • Tip: Shoot and heal a friend.

17. The power of Democracy

  • Requirement: Kill 5,000 enemies.

  • How to Complete: Accumulate 5,000 kills.

  • Tip: Farm extermination missions.

18. The taller they are...

  • Requirement: Defeat a Bile Titan.

  • How to Complete: Kill a Titan with heavy stratagems.

  • Tip: Land the final blow.

19. Eat This!

  • Requirement: Kill a bug warrior with a shotgun at 1m.

  • How to Complete: Get close and shoot.

  • Tip: Easy on low difficulty.

20. For the greater good!

  • Requirement: Kill 5,000 enemies.

  • How to Complete: Same as #17—5,000 kills.

  • Tip: Unlocks with #17.

21. Patriot

  • Requirement: Complete 50 missions.

  • How to Complete: Finish 50 missions.

  • Tip: Use quick missions.

22. Samples are a diver's best friend

  • Requirement: Extract with 15 rare samples.

  • How to Complete: Collect 15 rare samples, extract.

  • Tip: Team effort on hard missions.

23. Get some!

  • Requirement: Fire 150+ rounds in one burst, kill 10+ enemies.

  • How to Complete: Use a Machine Gun in a choke point.

  • Tip: Dense enemy areas.

24. Science is done by quantity

  • Requirement: Extract with 15 common samples.

  • How to Complete: Gather 15 common samples, extract.

  • Tip: Easy on any difficulty.

25. Hot Potato!

  • Requirement: Throw back a live grenade.

  • How to Complete: Pick up and return a bot grenade.

  • Tip: Use a teammate’s grenade.

26. Promote Synergy

  • Requirement: Assist a teammate’s reload.

  • How to Complete: Reload a heavy weapon with a backpack.

  • Tip: Coordinate with a friend.

27. Kill it with fire!

  • Requirement: Kill 100 enemies with fire in one mission.

  • How to Complete: Use Flamethrower on bugs.

  • Tip: Bugs burn easily.

28. Doing your part

  • Requirement: Complete 100 missions.

  • How to Complete: Finish 100 missions.

  • Tip: Farm quick ones.

29. Ship it!

  • Requirement: Upgrade all ship modules once.

  • How to Complete: Use samples to upgrade each module.

  • Tip: Gather samples early.

30. That which does not kill you...

  • Requirement: Injure all limbs at once.

  • How to Complete: Use an impact grenade on yourself.

  • Tip: Equip survival armor.

31. Hell Dive

  • Requirement: Complete Extreme+ mission with no deaths.

  • How to Complete: Finish an Extreme mission flawlessly.

  • Tip: Short missions are safer.

32. Fully operational

  • Requirement: Max out one ship module.

  • How to Complete: Fully upgrade a module with samples.

  • Tip: Avoid super-sample-heavy modules.

33. Let's call it a draw

  • Requirement: Remove a Hulk’s arms, extract while it lives.

  • How to Complete: Destroy arms, leave it alive, extract.

  • Tip: Warn your team.

34. Hold My Liber-tea!

  • Requirement: Ragdoll with a jump pack.

  • How to Complete: Crash into something while jumping.

  • Tip: Use walls or cliffs.

35. It's the only way to be sure...

  • Requirement: 6 orbital barrages at once.

  • How to Complete: Team up for 6 simultaneous strikes.

  • Tip: Open areas work best.

36. Caught them by Supplies!

  • Requirement: Kill a Charger with a resupply pod.

  • How to Complete: Drop a pod on a Charger.

  • Tip: Time it when it’s still.

37. Hold my primary, I'm going in!

  • Requirement: Complete Hard+ mission without primary/support weapons.

  • How to Complete: Use stratagems only.

  • Tip: Airstrikes and turrets.

38. Gone in 360 seconds!

  • Requirement: Complete Extreme Blitz in under 6 minutes.

  • How to Complete: Speed-run an Extreme Blitz.

  • Tip: Ignore side tasks.


General Reminders

  • Missable: Plan for Job's done! and Let's call it a draw.

  • Teamwork: Coordinate for Extractamundo! and Hell Dive.

  • Resources: Stockpile samples for upgrades.

  • Difficulty: Balance risk and reward.