Best Boosters in Helldivers 2

Equips Hellpods to deploy smokescreens on impact, obscuring Helldiver deployment.

Redacted Regiment

Exposes Hellpod wiring upon surface contact, stunning any units in the vicinity of the drop site.

Force of Law

The Sample scanner gives you a 15% chance to receive twice the Samples on sample pick up.

Masters of Ceremony

Large enemies now have a chance of dropping Samples on death. Capped at 10 drops per mission.

Borderline Justice

Mounts a modified AR-23 Liberator to all resupply pods, allowing them to double as automatic turrets.

Urban Legends

Allows Helldivers to keep sprinting even when they are out of stamina, draining their health instead.

Truth Enforcers

Lines all Hellpods with volatile incendiaries that detonate upon impact, igniting any units in vicinity of the drop site.

Freedom’s Flame

In addition to restoring health, Stims temporarily increase movement speed and damage reduction.

Viper Commandos

Allows all Helldivers to recover faster after being slowed by an attack, such as acid. Does not mitigate “area effects,” such as EMS strikes.

Polar Patriots

Lowers the time it takes for the extraction shuttle to reach the extraction beacon.

Democratic Detonation

Increases the time between enemy encounters.

Cutting Edge

Reduces time until new reinforcements are granted once they’ve been depleted.

Steeled Veterans

Increases the number of available reinforcements.

Helldivers Mobilize

Allows Helldivers to traverse difficult terrain with ease.

Helldivers Mobilize

Increases all Helldivers’ stamina capacity and recovery.

Helldivers Mobilize

Increases all Helldivers’ effective radar range.

Helldivers Mobilize

Provides minor damage reduction from all sources for all Helldivers

Helldivers Mobilize

Helldivers come out of the Hellpod fully stocked on Ammo, Grenades and Stims.

Helldivers Mobilize

Hellpod Space Optimization

You can drop from your Hellpod with full magazines, full Stims, and full grenades. It’s great to avoid using Resupplies or scrounging from ground supplies, but only if your team is dying quite a lot.

Vitality Enhancement

Provides a constant damage reduction modifier, ensuring that your armor can take more hits before you die. It also slows the effects of bleeding, burning, and other elements to ensure you have enough time to Stim and heal through the pain.

Muscle Enhancement

Difficult terrain can slow your movement speed, so this Booster is great for ensuring water, tall grass, snow, explosive plants, and other obstacles don’t slow you down.

Stamina Enhancement

Having an increase in stamina capacity and recovery ensures you can run towards or away from enemies without fearing a depletion of stamina that could otherwise get you killed.

Experimental Infusion

Stims can increase movement speed and provide greater damage reduction, which is great when you’re in a tight spot against enemies and need to reposition or survive. However, you only have a limited amount of stims, and too many enemies surrounding you will still get you killed.

Sample Scanner

A 15% chance to get double Samples upon pickup is great for trying to farm Samples for your ship upgrades.

Concealed Insertion

Any Hellpod that drops, whether it’s a Helldiver or Stratagem, deploys a smokescreen on impact, which allows you to get away from enemies safely while they remain confused and unable to see you through teh obscured cloud.

Dead Sprint

Helldivers can now sprint when they have no stamina, but it will drain their health. The health drain is minor, and you can’t actually die from it, but it’s still annoying to dip into your health instead of just jogging.

Armed Resupply Pods

A turret is added to the top of the Resupply Stratagem, which is quite useful for defensive missions where you want to resupply and have an extra automated gun to join your turrets for more slaughter.

Sample Extricator

The ability to randomly generate up to 10 more Common Samples is rather nice for players struggling to upgrade their ship, so it’s great for beginners and veterans still working on their upgrades.

UAV Recon Booster

Increase the radar distance by 50% to increase scanning range on the map for showing enemy patrols and POIs. It’s only semi-decent for stealth to avoid patrols, but even then, it’s not worth being glued to the map.

Expert Extraction Pilot

This reduction doesn’t help, as some teammates might be far from Extraction and need the extra time to get there before being abandoned. It’s only good for speedrunning and ensuring samples are extracted safely.

Increased Reinforcement Budget

Just +1 Reinforcement per Helldiver isn’t going to help, and if you’re running out of lives to the point where this Booster is essential, then you should just lower the difficulty.

Flexible Reinforcement Budget

This Booster lowers the Reinforcement timer to 90 seconds instead of 120 seconds, and that 30 seconds isn’t going to help when you’re already out of lives and in desperate need for more.

Motivational Shocks

This is a far weaker version of Muscle Enhancements, and it only really stops you from getting slowed from Terminid acid attacks and friendly stun attacks.

Firebomb Hellpods

When a Hellpod from a Helldiver or Stratagem drops, fire surrounds it, which not only traps the Hellpod’s goodies but also deals hardly any fire damage to enemies that aren’t going to the Hellpod anyway.

Stun Pods

All dropped Hellpods for Divers and Stratagems now have a shock effect around them, which will stun the player more than it will stun the enemies that it’s designed for.

Localization Confusion

All this Booster does is slow the rate at which enemy patrols randomly spawn. This means that enemies are still present at objectives and can come through reinforcements, thus making this booster pretty pointless.