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These optional missions can include blowing up hives, setting up radar, or loading up missiles - and whatever they are, we’ll help you below. Here’s everything you need to know about secondary objectives in Helldivers 2.
How to complete Secondary Objectives in Helldivers 2
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Helldivers 2 secondary objectives are all the optional side activities in missions that get marked on the map in blue.Secondary objectives appear from the Easy Difficulty onwards, and have two broad variants: Allied Tactical Objectives, which aid your team or Super Earth generally when completed, and Enemy Tactical Objectives, which support foes in some way until you beat them. Slightly confusingly, they’re also all referred to as Optional Objectives in the end-of-mission debrief.
Once you’ve found a Secondary Objective, the steps needed to complete it will be shown on the right side of the screen, usually involving a terminal of some sort. It’s worthwatching the horizon for anomalous buildings or structures- anything that stands out from the landscape, like a tower or artillery, is worth investigating.
All Secondary Objectives in Helldivers 2
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At time of writing there are 12 Secondary Objectives that players can encounter in Helldivers 2.
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