Secondary Objectives in Helldivers 2 explained
Mar. 8, 2024Secondary objectives in Helldivers 2 are sometimes called optional objectives, shown as blue icons
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Helldivers 2 secondary objectives are optional missions and quests that players can do while engaged in larger missions, marked by little blue icons on your map. Secondary Objectives aren’t just ways to hurt the enemy factions a little extra, but they also grant further rewards of experience and requisition slips when the mission is completed, and can even by tied to the occasional personal order to complete six secondary objectives in a single 24 hour period.
These optional missions can include blowing up hives, setting up radar, or loading up missiles - and whatever they are, we’ll help you below. Here’s everything you need to know about secondary objectives in Helldivers 2.
How to complete Secondary Objectives in Helldivers 2
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Helldivers 2 secondary objectives are all the optional side activities in missions that get marked on the map in blue.Secondary objectives appear from the Easy Difficulty onwards, and have two broad variants: Allied Tactical Objectives, which aid your team or Super Earth generally when completed, and Enemy Tactical Objectives, which support foes in some way until you beat them. Slightly confusingly, they’re also all referred to as Optional Objectives in the end-of-mission debrief.
When you start a mission, an objective might be marked on the map from the beginning before you even drop, but that isn’t necessarily all of them.Some secondary objectives have to be found by players while exploring the map,and you’ll have them tagged when you get close.If you can find and trigger a Radar Tower,itself a secondary objective, it will reveal the whole mission map, including the rest of the optional mission elements.
Once you’ve found a Secondary Objective, the steps needed to complete it will be shown on the right side of the screen, usually involving a terminal of some sort. It’s worthwatching the horizon for anomalous buildings or structures- anything that stands out from the landscape, like a tower or artillery, is worth investigating.
At time of writing there are 12 Secondary Objectives that players can encounter in Helldivers 2.
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