Happy to have you join the fight Helldiver. Like others have said of course the highest difficulty and completing most of the mission objectives will give you alot of xp. If you have the time and energy play highest difficulty but theres nothing wrong with a chill and quicker lvl 5 if that's what you want to do. Every mission from 1-10 helps with the war effort. As long as your having fun and doing your part it'll happen naturally. May liberty forever shine in your favor.

Your level will increase naturally as you play... don't worry about that...

and after level 25, everyone is practically equal... you already have access to all the strategies... the difference is the warbons and the ship upgrades...

and in practice, there's no difference between a level 1 and a level 150 player... if both use the Liberator Rifle and the starting BP-01 armor... they're both exactly the same, they die exactly the same... there's no gain in HP, resistance, or anything else...

Lvling is easy Just tryna climb up the levels from trivial to superhell dive, find the difficulty where you’d considered it as chilling, then just hangout there until you feel like you need a lil bit of umf then you climb up. lvl 10 Helldiver have the highest exp payout.

I remember I used to hangout at lvl 5 then slowly to lvl7 And now finally at lvl 10.

Playing higher difficulties is the fastest way.

Don’t be in a rush. The journey is 25.6% of the fun.

TLDR: Run easy or trivial missions as fast as possible: This means running the extermination missions.

Do be aware that if you do this method and don’t complete the whole operation, it dosent count towards liberation of sectors. Not a big deal but try to do the whole operation.

this works very well a tip is place your mortars only when the first bot ship lands so the mortars last till the end

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Good luck out there soldiers and keep fighting for Super Earth!

Who wanna help a level 6 like me do this? 🫥🫥🫥🫥🫥🫥🫥🫥🫥

Can't find these missions, but if anyone figured it out and wants to team up to do some fast level ups I am down! I'm on ps and since there's that damn pc glitch I can only team with my fellow ps users until the patch.

Who wants to team up? I just got to level 9. I'd like to play later today if anyone's down. I'm a good teammate and a great follower and supporter. I got a mic and ready to eradicate some bugs!

Inbox me for my tag let's get a team of four!

Shoot me a DM when you're online (I'm GMT+1), we can swap friend codes and squad up if you like.

I want to play sooooo bad. Money has just been so tight at the moment. Been playing the hell out of Darktide to satisfy my co-op pve itch. If none of you have played it, give it a try, totally took me by surprise

The game is really hard to understand at first. I kept doing solo mission on trivial difficulty and being like “is this it?” and wondering what order I was supposed to do the missions in, because nothing is explained to you.

It’s been my favourite game since the day it released on PS5. Wellcome to the war!

Same,bought it on pc,played like 15 min when my cousin showed me how to play (he is 10 fyi) and didnt touch the game for months,and when a tried like a week ago didnt know what to do,why Helldivers is so conplicated in comparison to other online games (Destiny 2 The Division 2)

The progression is mostly unlocking new gear and stratagems. You'll get a few passive upgrades for your ship but those won't dramatically sway difficulty. You can simply choose to only use gear your friend has unlocked to make sure you're both roughly the same in terms of power scaling.

Leveling up just gives you more options. A weapon does the same damage on a level 1 player as it does in a level 50 player. The level 50 just has more weapons available.

sony keeps a stranglehold on their games, theres like a 90% chance it never comes to GFN so just play the game

It's not about your rank Cadet! It's about sticking it to the enemy and spreading FREEDOM. The fight isn't a pump and dump you need to get done with faster. It's a long journey to purifying the universe of anti-democratic scourge. Just have fun out there soldier and the more successful you are the more your rank will raise to reflect it!!

High ranking missions, idk if you’ll get as much as play with a group but if u can do solo helldive lvl missions you’ll certainly rank up fast

You're not going to get anything by yourself. Remember, you're not alone in the fight for Freedom!. Do not go alone!

People are obsessed with "leveling" as if there is some destination you have to get too. All there is at the "end game" is more of what you've been playing. So why not enjoy the journey? The gameplay IS the destination.

its also highly deceiving. Great, now you are lvl 20 without any shit unlocked and definitely no ship upgrades. I'd rather bring a naturally leveled 10er than another "booster" who has no idea how to actually play the game.

Nice! Blah blah haters gonna hate. I LOVE taking 40 minutes on a run and finding everything. But I don't LOVE playing with my buddies that play all the time and have all the cool shit while I'm still level 5. I can grind and get the cool shit and enhance my fun.

Just play the game. There is no reason to have to jam levels as fast as possible, you will eventually cap out and have it all anyway.

You will hit a wall with ‘turret defender’ when you progress beyond space cadet. Being a 1-trick pony that prefers low risk, low reward, will still gain levels, and slowly unlock stratagems at a tedious rate. The solo strat that transcends to co-op is what I call: “infiltrator”. This long range load out uses high ground and avoids protracted engagements, relying on specific strategems to clear objectives. On a fireteam, they scout and complete remote objectives, so the rest of the fireteam doesn’t have to trek all over the map. Clever use of the jump pack is their bread and butter. Mines are far better than gun turrets for low and flat terrain zones of exclusion, while the gun turrets are much better on high ground or used in pairs to defend one side of a drop zone. The mortar is a real liability for you and your fireteam if used for anything other than bombardment. Talking bug holes or fabricators inside a fortified position, where you need to hit emplacements/eggs/masses and mitigate the steady stream of spawns without good line of sight. Reckless use of stratagems that can get your fire team killed, is something you grow out of, not double down on by calling it a solo strat.

I can't get this to work. Since there are always 2 brood commanders in a mission. When i go to one red spot (where one brood commander resides) I drop my turrents but I cant get the second one to aggro. How'd you mange it?

Your approach to leveling up swiftly in solo maneuvers embodies the very essence of liberty, enabling us to spread freedom and democracy to every corner of the cosmos. This is the kind of innovation and dedication that defines a true Super Earth citizen. It’s through strategic minds and valiant hearts that we pave the way for a brighter future under the flag of Managed Democracy. Keep leading by example, and let your actions inspire fellow Helldivers to strive for greatness. Together, we’re not just fighting for survival; we’re fighting for the values that make our society worth protecting.

Carry on, Helldivers, for Super Earth!

It is. I joined my friends yesterday while they were doing something like this. I play this game to have fun not systematically unlock everything while not having fun

150 lvl here 800 h played . Just enjoy the dive. The lvl will come in no time if you will protect the Democracy

Level 127 here, you're not doing anything wrong. Just keep diving and most of all have fun in the name of democracy.

i have 130 hours played and im at level 57, it just takes a lot of time to reach those higher levels

Level 150 took me 500 hours.

Just play what difficulty you find fun and dont worry about levels too much. You'll have everything available to be unlocked by level 25.

Level 150 here. Took me hundreds upon hundreds of hours to reach this point. It does take a good long while.

Level basically doesn't matter past 25, though. Before then, certain stratagems require certain levels to use, but that's the highest level any stratagem currently in the game requires (I think it's the exosuits specifically.)

Best practice for XP while playing normally is to complete all objectives, side objectives, and clear every outpost before extracting with all four players boarding the pelican. This will earn you the most XP, requisition slips, and samples.

Technically you can earn XP faster by target-farming the shorter duration missions like Eradicates and Blitzes, but I don't think it's worth giving up the fun of the normal missions to do this.

HIgher difficulties also offer increasingly larger amounts of XP and requisition slips. It'll take you longer to reach 25 if you're only diving level 4 missions than it would if you were diving 7s, and diving 8s or 10s would go even faster -- provided you can actually reliably complete those missions in a reasonable amount of time, anways. If you fail them often enough and/or take too long to clear them, it's just faster to run a lower difficulty where you succeed more reliably and quickly.

There is currently a bug some people are experiencing in terms of XP. I don't know if it applies to 7s or just 10s, and I don't know if it applies to all missions or just Eradicate missions, but I do know that a few folks (myself included) have been getting less XP than we should on level 10 eradicates.

Pro tip: when you start to get bored, change up your loadout and use the bad stratagems and weapons. You might find that some of them are actually underrated and significantly change your playstyle. This might sound obvious, but legitimately so many people burn themselves out on this game just because they stick to a single loadout they like.

…how tf are you already rank 41 whilst only being 5 days in 😭

But yeah… Helldivers 2 is a masterpiece… saying anything else would be traitorous😉