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Updated for build 7.0.2 · verified Sep 3, 2026
HELLDIVERS 2 Field Guide
Current-patch loadouts, verified game data, known issues, and practical HELLDIVERS 2 tools.
Current priorities
Reward checks and current field guides
Use these routes for reward checks, current issues and existing field guides. Each destination keeps its own source-review date.
Official
Why the Hive Lord is not a normal boss mission
Arrowhead describes it as a rare roaming battlefield threat. The guide separates confirmed behavior, encounter decisions, and unverified damage claims.
Read the Hive Lord guide Reward checkLooking for Eagle Gas Airstrike?
Open the updated eligibility and lookup guide instead of following an old campaign preview.
Check my reward OfficialUpdates 7.1, 7.2 and 8.0 are planned
The roadmap covers September, October, and December. Exact release days and most names remain unannounced.
Open the 2026 roadmap Official issueEagle Gas Airstrike has a demolition-strength warning
Read the current notice before treating its present behavior as permanent balance.
Read the issueVerification log
Recently re-verified
These pages were checked against the latest official patch or support article. A verification date means the cited source was reviewed—not that every community claim was independently reproduced in-game.
Official support status
Known Issues
Checked Sep 12, 2026
One additional item is reflected in the refreshed status table.
See the review note Current hotfixPatch 7.0.2
Checked Sep 3, 2026
Three crash paths were addressed; the current official issue list remains separate.
Read exactly what changed New Illuminate threatCrusher
Checked Sep 3, 2026
Arrowhead confirms regeneration and the need for uninterrupted pressure.
Open the counter guide Current Legendary WarbondCastellan's Creed
Checked Sep 3, 2026
Compare the official contents and the 1,500-Super-Credit opportunity cost.
Inspect the WarbondNeed the companion threat guide? Read the Wretch counter guide, or compare the best first Warbond choices.
Choose a task
What do you need before the next drop?
Start with the player decision, not a generic category. Each route owns one concrete question.
Choose a WarbondMatch your first purchase to the role and faction you actually play.Build for IlluminateCover control, survivability, mobility, and high-priority targets.Fix a CrashSeparate fixed 7.0.2 crash paths from problems that remain acknowledged.Learn Stratagem InputsPractice checked call-in sequences with keyboard, WASD, or touch.See Current IssuesScan the official issue snapshot by category, platform, and workaround confidence.Return to the GameCatch up on the Void, level cap, Warbonds, reload changes, and known issues.
Faction loadouts
Start with the threat profile
Each faction page leads with starter, general-purpose, and high-difficulty kits plus the weakness each kit still carries.
Terminids
Terminid General-Purpose Loadout
- Starter
- Terminid Starter Loadout
- High difficulty
- Terminid High-Difficulty Loadout
- Main threat covered
- Breach and swarm control · Repeatable heavy armor · Retreat-lane protection · Bug-hole and objective utility
Automaton General-Purpose Loadout
- Starter
- Automaton Starter Loadout
- High difficulty
- Automaton High-Difficulty Loadout
- Main threat covered
- Medium and heavy armor · Ranged survival · Fortified structures · Safe reload windows
Illuminate General-Purpose Loadout
- Starter
- Illuminate Starter Loadout
- High difficulty
- Illuminate High-Difficulty Loadout
- Main threat covered
- Sustained Crusher damage · Fast Wretch tracking · Light-group control · Void movement and interactions
Practical tools
Use the two tools that already solve a real job
The builder explains capability gaps; the trainer turns checked directional inputs into repeatable practice. Neither invents a hidden power score.
Faction Loadout Builder
Check four slots against faction needs
See anti-heavy, crowd-control, survival, mobility, and objective gaps with an explanation for every result.
Stratagem Input PracticeTrain inputs without leaving the page
Use Arrow keys, WASD, or touch controls with visible steps, mistakes, accuracy, and streak feedback.
Status board
View all active issuesCurrent known issues
Official issue list checked Sep 12, 2026. Workarounds are never implied when none has been confirmed.
NewAcknowledged
Enemies may target unmanned FRVs
None confirmed
NewAcknowledged
AR-59 Suppressor short-magazine buff is not applied
Treat the attachment as using its pre-patch values until Arrowhead confirms a fix.
NewAcknowledged
New Illuminate enemies may clip through terrain in High Value Assets missions
None confirmed
NewAcknowledged
LAS-13 Trident has increased recoil compared with a previous patch
None confirmed
NewAcknowledged
Opening the map with a controller inside a vehicle may trigger a Stim
Avoid opening the map inside a vehicle when practical; this is risk reduction, not an official fix.
Source methodology
Read the full source policyKnow what kind of claim you are reading
Every current-patch fact and recommendation uses one of these labels so an official status cannot silently become community folklore.
Directly checked inputs, unlock conditions, and interface behavior with a recorded verification date.
Repeatable player testing that is useful but never presented as an Arrowhead statement.
A practical choice or risk-reduction step derived from the verified facts and labeled as judgment.
A disputed or incomplete claim that stays visible as uncertain instead of being turned into a fact.
Quick answers
About this field manual
What is this HELLDIVERS 2 site for?
It is an independent field guide with a faction loadout checker, stratagem input trainer, and verified official destinations.
Is this the official HELLDIVERS 2 website?
No. The primary official game landing page is on PlayStation and helldivers.com redirects there.
Does the loadout builder calculate damage?
No. It checks qualitative capability coverage because exact damage and breakpoints are update-sensitive.