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InHelldivers 2, you’ll face down fearsome foes and devastate the enemy forces threatening Super Earth. With elite weapons and stratagems, you’ll use top-of-the-line equipment to destroy bugs, bots, and squids. However, you can customize your gear even further to increase the specs and design a weapon better suited to your play style.
We’ll break down how to unlock weapon customization and how you can farm weapon experience to quickly level up your primary firearm. Here’s everything you need to know to improve your loadout as a Helldiver in service to Super Earth! There’s no time to waste when Democracy is at stake.
How To Unlock Weapon Customization
Before you can begin leveling and upgrading your primary weapons, you mustreach player level tenfirst. This is done by completing missions either on your own or in a squad.
To speed up this process, consider joining a squad on higher difficulties to complete more difficult missions and operations.
Once you meet this prerequisite, you cango to your armoryand examine each of your primary weapons. You can customize them withdifferent parts and color palettes, though you won’t have many options until you level up each weapon.
Best Ways To Farm Weapon XP
Togain experience with your weapons, you need tobring them in your loadout. However, that doesn’t mean you have to use them. If you bring a weapon into a mission, thendrop and swap it out for something else, you’ll get experience with it when you complete the mission.
There are plenty of weapons in the field, and you cancoordinate with your fellow Helldiversto get replacements.
The best way to get experience is to dive at higher difficulties. Whilelevel ten difficulty, Super Helldive, will grant you the most experience, it is the most challenging.
Unless you’re thoroughly prepared or have a squad that can carry you, it’sbest to complete missions on the highest difficulty you canhandle. Even then, you might want to go down one totrade experience for speed. Faster missions will allow you tofarm experience more efficiently.
Specifically,Eradication and Blitz missionswill go by in roughly 15 minutes. If you’re a top performer, they can go by even faster.
Bring whatever loadout you want as stratagems, with someheavy hitters like the Eagle 500Kg Bomb and the Orbital Laserto clear out large numbers of Terminids, Automatons, and Illuminate.
WhileStratagem Jammers will make missions more difficult, cutting you off from your best tools, but you canfind ways around thisand step outside the range of the jammer tocall in support weaponsand other supplies you may need.
