# HELLDIVERS™ 2 Achievements Guide

By [Eric](https://paragraph.com/@eric-50) · 2025-05-21

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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](https://pcgamer.world/) to claim achievement tokens ($PCG) rewards

Detailed Completion Guide
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1\. The Real Deal
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*   **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
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*   **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...
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*   **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
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*   **Requirement**: Complete one bot mission.
    
*   **How to Complete**: Choose an Automaton mission, finish it, and extract.
    
*   **Tip**: Bring accurate weapons.
    

5\. Spread Managed Democracy
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*   **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!
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*   **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
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*   **Requirement**: Customize cape, armor, and helmet.
    
*   **How to Complete**: Change all three in the Armory.
    
*   **Tip**: Do it anytime.
    

8\. Job's done!
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*   **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
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*   **Requirement**: Kill a target at 100m+.
    
*   **How to Complete**: Snipe with an Anti-Materiel Rifle.
    
*   **Tip**: Use markers for distance.
    

10\. Extractinating the Countryside
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*   **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
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*   **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
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*   **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
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*   **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'
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*   **Requirement**: Complete 10 tactical objectives.
    
*   **How to Complete**: Finish 10 secondary tasks across missions.
    
*   **Tip**: Prioritize these.
    

15\. Extractamundo!
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*   **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
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*   **Requirement**: Heal a player with stims.
    
*   **How to Complete**: Stim an injured teammate.
    
*   **Tip**: Shoot and heal a friend.
    

17\. The power of Democracy
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*   **Requirement**: Kill 5,000 enemies.
    
*   **How to Complete**: Accumulate 5,000 kills.
    
*   **Tip**: Farm extermination missions.
    

18\. The taller they are...
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*   **Requirement**: Defeat a Bile Titan.
    
*   **How to Complete**: Kill a Titan with heavy stratagems.
    
*   **Tip**: Land the final blow.
    

19\. Eat This!
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*   **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!
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*   **Requirement**: Kill 5,000 enemies.
    
*   **How to Complete**: Same as #17—5,000 kills.
    
*   **Tip**: Unlocks with #17.
    

21\. Patriot
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*   **Requirement**: Complete 50 missions.
    
*   **How to Complete**: Finish 50 missions.
    
*   **Tip**: Use quick missions.
    

22\. Samples are a diver's best friend
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*   **Requirement**: Extract with 15 rare samples.
    
*   **How to Complete**: Collect 15 rare samples, extract.
    
*   **Tip**: Team effort on hard missions.
    

23\. Get some!
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*   **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
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*   **Requirement**: Extract with 15 common samples.
    
*   **How to Complete**: Gather 15 common samples, extract.
    
*   **Tip**: Easy on any difficulty.
    

25\. Hot Potato!
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*   **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
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*   **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!
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*   **Requirement**: Kill 100 enemies with fire in one mission.
    
*   **How to Complete**: Use Flamethrower on bugs.
    
*   **Tip**: Bugs burn easily.
    

28\. Doing your part
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*   **Requirement**: Complete 100 missions.
    
*   **How to Complete**: Finish 100 missions.
    
*   **Tip**: Farm quick ones.
    

29\. Ship it!
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*   **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...
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*   **Requirement**: Injure all limbs at once.
    
*   **How to Complete**: Use an impact grenade on yourself.
    
*   **Tip**: Equip survival armor.
    

31\. Hell Dive
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*   **Requirement**: Complete Extreme+ mission with no deaths.
    
*   **How to Complete**: Finish an Extreme mission flawlessly.
    
*   **Tip**: Short missions are safer.
    

32\. Fully operational
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*   **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
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*   **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!
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*   **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...
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*   **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!
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*   **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!
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*   **Requirement**: Complete Hard+ mission without primary/support weapons.
    
*   **How to Complete**: Use stratagems only.
    
*   **Tip**: Airstrikes and turrets.
    

38\. Gone in 360 seconds!
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*   **Requirement**: Complete Extreme Blitz in under 6 minutes.
    
*   **How to Complete**: Speed-run an Extreme Blitz.
    
*   **Tip**: Ignore side tasks.
    

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General Reminders
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*   **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.

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*Originally published on [Eric](https://paragraph.com/@eric-50/helldivers-2-achievements-guide)*
