Hold My Primary, I'm Going In! - Simple Guide

Complete a full Hard difficulty mission or higher without anyone firing their primary or support weapon.

The Guideline

What You Are "Not" Allow to Shoot With Or Uses

• Your Primary Weapon[helldivers.fandom.com] (aka: Your 1st weapon on your weapon load-out)
  
• Your Support Weapon[helldivers.fandom.com] (I consider any weapons you call down where you can pick up, aim, and fire personally

What's Allow To Be Uses (Confirmed)

*The confirmation are based on personal experiences and several confirm YouTube videos.

• Secondary Weapon[helldivers.fandom.com]
  
• Grenade[helldivers.fandom.com]
  
• Any "Orbital" Stratagems[helldivers.fandom.com]
  
• Any "Eagle" Stratagems
  
• Any "Defensive[helldivers.fandom.com]" Stratagems (Sentry, Minefield, Tesla Tower, Shield Generator Relay, and Etc...)
  
• Any "Backpack" Stratagems (Rover, Supply, Shield, and Etc...)

What's Allow To Be Uses (Unconfirmed)

**Unconfirmed due to no confirm YouTube videos that I can find, but many users have stated that it does work with positives result.

• Vehicles[helldivers.fandom.com]

The Option

To do this Achievement, You as the player or players must purposely restricted what you can not do and what you allow to do. So any player or players must be on the same page when everyone or someone is doing this Achievement.
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The Number of Player

Solo

:Pro:
**You have a Purpose/Know What you Doing
Con:
**Limited Reinforcement & Stratagems

2-Men Team

Pro:
**More Reinforcement & Stratagems
**Depend on Mission Type and Foes: More Option for Tactical Strategy (Ex: Self-Sacrifice, Distraction, etc)
Con:
**Mistake by any player to fail the achievement (ex: firing your primary by mistake)
**Everyone need to be on the Same page or fail

3 Men Team or Full 4 Men Team

Pro:
**Even More Reinforcement & Stratagems
**Even More Option for Tactical Strategy (Full Offense, Full Defense, Etc)

Con:
**Mistake by any players to fail the achievement (ex: firing your primary by mistake)
**Everyone need to be on the Same page or fail
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The Mission Type, The Foes, and The Planet

That all depend on the Player or Players and what they prefer and who they prefer to fight to get this achievement. This also depend on how many Player you have and what kind of stratagem those player have.

Other Player's Guide and Recommended Mission Type

The mission type most Player Mention when doing this achievement are "Eradicate" and "Blitz". Other Mission types are less mentioned but were still mentioned because those player's playstyle or preference of enemies for those player.

Honorary Mention:
Purge Hatcheries

Pleases Note that all these mention mission type are based on fast pace, aggressive, and quick game. I barely see anyone mention of stealth but someone did mention it so it doable but take longer. Not all player are stealth player.
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Personal Comments/Rants:
If you wish to get this achievement, I too recommend this mission type (Eradicate Mission). You can even do this solo. However before you attempt this solo (if you are), make sure you have a wide selection of stratagems to test out before you do so. Then select a planet of your choice and attempt it. Attempting it will let you scout the overall map and how it look. Keep attempting it and keep dying until you find a high location on that map where you can be safe to deliver democracy.

My Slow & Steady Pace (Stealth) Style

Recommend Number of Players

• Solo (For skilled player)
  
• 2 Or more (highly recommend)

Recommend Faction for this Style to Face (In My Opinion)

• Terminids (bug)

Recommend Planet

• Any planet that may contain the recommend mission type and/or contain an environment that support your stealth.

Recommend Armor Traits

• Scout

Recommend Mission for Stealth (Even If Solo)

• Enable E-710 Extraction
  
• Retrieve Valuable Data
  
• Launch ICBM

**Any mission that are objective bases that does not require killing or defending as the main mission. The less objective, the better. You can be less stealthy if you have more player as that will give you more option to play with.

Biggest threat during the mission doing this Achievement

• Charger [helldivers.fandom.com]
  
• The player accidentally fire their primary weapon

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Example Mission and My Stealth Strategy

**This an Example Mission and My Stealth Strategy based on my 2-men team experiences. Please Note that this strategy are for player who has the time and/or like to take it real slow.

Step 1: Choosing a Mission with a good objective placement on the Map

**Using "Retrieve Valuable Data" as an example.
If I have to chose among these six map; which one is the best for me, I would chose #3, #4, and maybe #6. Remember, all the reddish area are a guarantee concentrated group of enemies which I am trying to avoid.

Step 2: Planning Your Route

**Using Map #3 as an example.
Step 1: Chose your landing Zone and head toward your first objective. Avoid the enemies if you can.

Step 2: Clear the first objective area of enemies or Avoid them. Do the objective.
Step 3: Head toward your next and final objective while avoiding the enemies.

Step 4: Clear the final objective area of enemies or Avoid them if you can. Do the objective.
Step 5: Once you finish the main objective. Either head toward the extraction point to be extracted or kill yourself to end the mission quicker.

Step 3: The Strategy

**Avoid the enemies as much as you can and focus on the objective.
***You either crawling or crouch walking the whole time, only sprint run if you clear the area of enemies or you know there no enemies in the area.
**There always enemies around your objective, so prepare to fight them or distract them. Death may happen to you.
***If you playing with an Allies, depending on how many (allies); you guys either stand your ground and fight or one of you guys lure the enemies away from the player who is activating/doing the objective.
**When you finish the main objective and it time to extract; you may head toward to the extraction point to be extracted or kill yourself to end the mission. You will still get the Achievement regardless if you extracted or not as long as you finish the main objective.

Links & References for Stratagems Confirmation

Eagle, Orbital, and Sentry: Helldivers 2 - Complete Mission Without Primary Weapon - Hold My Primary Trophy Guide (PS5)
Sentry, Eagle, Backpack (Supply), and Orbital : Helldivers 2 Hold My primary I'm going in! Trophy guide (No Squad Required)
Sentry, Backpack (Rover), and Orbital : Helldivers 2 - Hold my primary, I'm going in!
Sentry, Backpack, and Orbital : HELLDIVERS 2 - Hold My Primary, Im Going in! (Done EASY)
Sentry, Backpack, and Orbital : Helldivers 2 - Hold my primary, I'm going in! Trophy Guide
Sentry, Backpack, and Orbital : Helldivers 2 Achievement Guide: Hold my Primary, I'm going In! - Loadout and stratagems
Sentry and Orbital : Hold My Primary, I'm Going In! #Helldivers2 Achievement (No Commentary)
Sentry, Backpack, and Eagle: Helldivers 2 Achievement Solo Guide (Hold my primary, I'm going in!)

How I Got My Achievement

Mission: Eradicate
Difficulty: Hard
Planet: Oshaune
Foe: Terminids (bug)

Number of Player: Solo
Armor Traits: Engineering Kit
Stratagems: "Guard Dog" Rover[helldivers.fandom.com], Orbital Precision Strike[helldivers.fandom.com], Orbital Laser[helldivers.fandom.com], and Eagle Napalm Strike[helldivers.fandom.com]
Ship module upgrades: All Level 1 upgrade


So far I seen 2 type of Eradicate map; one open flat platform surrounded by shipping container (like the walkthrough by SlaynDay) or a hole-like platform surrounded by jagged rock. If you end up like the one I have (the jagged rock one).
Go found this one area and stand there, no bug can attack you expect scavenger[helldivers.fandom.com] and Warrior[helldivers.fandom.com] which they come from underground where you stand. You just need to melee them off your safe spot. The spot where I'm standing on is on the 2nd level behind a shipping container. The drawback of this spot is that I cannot call down anything on it, I can only stand on it. (Edited - UPDATED, This spot may or may not be safe depending on new update & patch in the future; Your other option is to die once and try to land on an even higher location)
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[The Gamer Supreme]

i just did a low level blitz. go towards camp throw an orbital laser, barrage or a 500kg bomb then run away. repeat until success

[Des'V'Embers]

or you could find a blitz mission and play it on extreme whilst completing the 6 minute achievement

[Akuoka]

I made this way too difficult for myself. did the achievement with a stun baton, having an army of iluminates chasing and shooting me at extract and a jammer preventing me from calling in stratagems.

[xChristiano]

Just an FYI you do need to extract. Might be a change after this post was updated.

[BalgaBear]

Something to note, to avoid negligent discharge, I brought the purifier as it has a charge-up needed to be shot. Even charging a weapon I believe the game considers "firing" so beware!
I did not get the achievement after only using the Senator, Rover, Orbital Barrage/Precision/Gas, because yet again I clicked wrong.
Absolutely the hardest part of this is not ACCIDENTALLY shooting your primary.