How to play Helldivers 2: A Complete Guide

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However you want, and nobody can tell you otherwise cause it's a game and meant to be fun.

- Take whatever weapons you want.
- Take whatever strategems you want.
- Fight against whichever faction you want.
- Use whatever tactics you want (Brasch Tactics are the best though, obviously).
- Do however many or few of the secondary objectives and POIs that you want to.
- Ask questions if you don't understand something.
- Answer questions for people that don't know and are asking.
- Enjoy the game.

Now, things to consider when playing with a group, especially random players and matchmaking.

- Dying/friendly fire will happen, it's a designed part of the game to promote teamwork and dumb/hilarious deaths. Don't get salty and don't rage over accidental friendly fire or poorly placed strategems, and the game sometimes screws people over really well in all the chaos.
- Other people don't have to play the way you want, and you shouldn't expect them to.
- If you're joining someone else's game, respect that they're the host, don't try to 'take charge' unless they're asking for the help.
- If you're hosting, don't be an ass and demand people play a certain way. Your loadout isn't for everyone. - By all means you can ask or suggest things if you want to run a mission a specific way. But you're hosting a matchmade game. You don't get to choose someone's personal play preferences.
- Don't be that guy that calls in the resupply away from the group for yourself or constantly takes all of them when your teammates need it too.
- Collected materials (samples, medals, super credits, requisition) count for the entire squad, not just the person thay picks them up.
- Killing squad members over stuff like samples and extracting only decreases your mission rewards.
If people are asking for help or thoughts on stuff, feel free to share but it doesn't mean they have to follow your advice.

This game is about fun, frustration, silly ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, and laughing/crying as you make what seemed like impossible extractions or being overrun during them because "WHY ARE THERE 4 TANKS, 6 HULKS, AND 10 DEVASTATORS?!" as your squad gets mulched in the 4 minutes before the dropship arrives due to the mission modifier.

Edits: spelling/autocorrect errors and a final addition + some formatting for easier reading.

[Amaranth]

Thank you. I saw the title and I was going to come in here guns blazing, but then I saw the first sentence :)