Helldivers 2: How to Get New Weapons

Helldivers 2, developed by Arrowhead Game Studios, is an intense, cooperative shooter game that offers a wide array of weapons to help players combat the various alien threats. Expanding your weapon arsenal will greatly improve your gaming experience by keeping it fresh and enabling you to complete more challenging missions. In this guide, we will show you every weapon in the game and how to unlock them.

How to Unlock New Weapons in Helldivers 2

To acquire new weapons in Helldivers 2, you will need to purchase them with your hard-earned Medals at Warbonds in the Acquisitions Center. You can earn Medals or Warbonds by completing missions and by finding them scattered in hidden locations throughout the planets.

To purchase weapons, you need to be on your ship and open the Acquisitions Center by pressing the button at the top of your screen - R, X, or Square, depending on your platform. This opens a battle pass-like menu where you can browse through different pages. There are three different types of weapons you can buy.

Helldivers 2 Warbond Helldivers Mobilize Weapons

This is the first category you will encounter upon opening the Acquisitions Center. There are 10 pages of various items and weapons available for purchase. Here is a list of all the weapons and their prices: 

Save your medals and spend them wisely.

Helldivers 2 Steeled Veterans Weapons

This is the second category in the Acquisitions Center. In order to purchase different items here you still need Medals at Warbonds, but you will also need Super Credits to unlock it. You can purchase those credits for real money, or find them hidden through the different Planet missions. Here is a list of all the weapons and their prices in this category:

Save your medals and spend them wisely.

How to Unlock Support Weapons

These are the heavy weapons that you can call in with your Stratagems during missions. The first one you unlock during training is the MG-43 Machine Gun. To explore more options, you will need to navigate to Ship Management and then to the Stratagems section.

Here, you can spend your Requisition currency (the yellow R), earned by completing missions, to purchase different weapons and upgrades for your orbital cannons. Here are all the weapons you can acquire:

• MG-43 Machine Gun
• APW-1 Anti-Material Rifle
• M-105 Stalwart
• EAT-17 Expendable Anti-Tank
• GR-8 Recoilless Rifle
• FLAM-40 Flamethrower
• AC-8 Autocannon
• RS-422 Railgun
• FAF-14 Spear Missile Launcher
• LAS-98 Laser Cannon
• ARC-3 Arc Thrower

And that concludes our guide on how to get new weapons in Helldivers 2. Don't be discouraged by your initial small kit at the beginning of the game. There are tons of new weapons and gadgets you can experiment with once you complete a few missions and delve deeper into the game. For more Helldivers 2 guides, check the rest of our website.