Helldivers II

Talenvor

Molten Core Raider
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Am I missing something with HD2? Missions are fun, but when a friend and I duo something, we get like 3 medals and minimal other currency. I don’t feel like we are making any real progress. Most of the stuff to buy for the ship and upgrades we aren’t getting much progress on, and if we play a lot and stockpile 100 medals over the week we just unlock mostly cosmetics from the free warbond and it takes multiple multiple hundreds of medals to get to the next warbond level. Game is fun, but I really need some progression to feel motivated to keep playing since my game time is so limited these days. Seems like the game is a huge grind for minimal gain, unless it opens wide and progress comes quickly on a higher difficulty? We are on medium right now
 

Denamian

Night Janitor
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Am I missing something with HD2? Missions are fun, but when a friend and I duo something, we get like 3 medals and minimal other currency. I don’t feel like we are making any real progress. Most of the stuff to buy for the ship and upgrades we aren’t getting much progress on, and if we play a lot and stockpile 100 medals over the week we just unlock mostly cosmetics from the free warbond and it takes multiple multiple hundreds of medals to get to the next warbond level. Game is fun, but I really need some progression to feel motivated to keep playing since my game time is so limited these days. Seems like the game is a huge grind for minimal gain, unless it opens wide and progress comes quickly on a higher difficulty? We are on medium right now

You get more medals on harder difficulties and completing a 3 mission operation. Check for your personal order as well, which is essentially a daily quest. You also get a decent chunk of medals with the completion of a Major Order.

The free Helldivers Mobilize warbond has a total of 750 super credits in it. You can farm the remaining 250 you need (750 if you want the Halo warbond), by speed running low level missions and checking all the POIs in each mission. Democratic Detonation is the best warbond to buy first, as it is very versatile and gives you both primary and secondary explosive weapons. Great for rounding out builds and making sure you can close bug holes/fabricators/warp ships.
 
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INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS

Silver Knight of the Realm
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Am I missing something with HD2? Missions are fun, but when a friend and I duo something, we get like 3 medals and minimal other currency. I don’t feel like we are making any real progress. Most of the stuff to buy for the ship and upgrades we aren’t getting much progress on, and if we play a lot and stockpile 100 medals over the week we just unlock mostly cosmetics from the free warbond and it takes multiple multiple hundreds of medals to get to the next warbond level. Game is fun, but I really need some progression to feel motivated to keep playing since my game time is so limited these days. Seems like the game is a huge grind for minimal gain, unless it opens wide and progress comes quickly on a higher difficulty? We are on medium right now
Play on higher difficulties and you get WAY more rewards.
 

Cybsled

Naxxramas 1.0 Raider
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If you're still unlocking crap, difficulty 7 isn't that bad. You get the benefit of more rewards but it is still completely doable even if you're still unlocking all the base stuff. Recoilless rifle (the shoulder mounted RPG thing with an ammo backpack) is probably one of the most versatile anti-heavy enemies stratagem weapon in the game and you can unlock that one pretty early - a well placed hit will one shot chargers, hulks, or bile titans.
 

Denamian

Night Janitor
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Even the laser cannon that you can unlock early on is useful on higher difficulties. I'll use it pretty much as a primary against the bugs and squids, with my actual primary and secondary being for particular enemies.