Helldivers 2 has three currencies and three resources for players to juggle, all of which have utility in the game one way or another. One of those currencies are Warbond Medals, which are critical for unlocking the various standard Warbonds. Medals are fairly difficult to come by, especially considering how many of them it takes to actually unlock a given Warbond. This Helldivers 2 guide is intending for farming Medals as quickly as possible without being too much of a grind.
UPDATED April 16
Helldivers 2 Medal Farming
Aside from completing your Personal Order of the day and claiming its rewards, several mission types are especially suited for farming Medals. While the post-extraction mission reward of Medals are great to have as a bonus, you’ll want to set the mission difficulty as low as you can manage easily, even Trivial if need be. Yes, the lower the better. This is because all six pickups share the same loot table, and you will want to maximize your potential for farming Medals from Places of Interest in the mission area itself. You will find between one and four per location, and as many as a dozen per mission, over and above whatever Medals you will accrue from mission completion.
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As for the type of missions, Destroy and Eradicate types are ideal as you can just quickly cut a swathe through enemies while focusing on exploration and pickup discovery. You can ignore most of the side objectives, but if you get the radar tower, finding and completing it will mark all the Places of Interest on your map with a diamond symbol indicating pickups at those locations. As you cycle through those points and clear them all, a new symbol will appear for the next set of pickups.
Without the radar tower, you can also simply zoom in on your map, and try to identify geometrical shapes amidst the natural topography. These are structures and facilities, Places of Interest where you are most likely to find caches of pickups like Medals and Super Credits.
Another tip is if you just tap the silhouette of something on the map that looks like it might be a Place of Interest, you can get instant feedback because it will be highlighted automatically. You could also spam tap randomly around the map until you hit pay dirt.
Helldivers 2 Best Stratagems For Medal Farming
In terms of best Stratagems for farming Medals, you really want something to ease map traversal as much as possible, so definitely get the Lift-850 Jump Pack. It will make crossing the vast expanses of nothingness between Places of Interest a lot faster, and mitigate boredom.
As for loadout, bring impact grenades to blow open containers, and the lightest armor possible, so as not to drain your stamina. Armor with more grenade slots would also be invaluable. The Autocannon Stratagem can come in handy for blowing things open as well, if you have it unlocked.
Helldivers 2 Co-op Medal Farming
Ideally you would run these farming missions in a team to maximize your potential while not being bored out of your gourd. Breeze through the objectives, and then fan out in different directions in search of facilities to ping for the group. Every player receives Medals and Super Credits, regardless of which player actually picked it up. It is not a shared pool that is distributed evenly between squad mates, rather each and every member receives the sum total of Medal and Super Credits pickups.
The above is true even if the mission is failed, at which point the only pickups lost are Samples, which must be extracted.
Having at least one buddy along would also help with opening the double doors of bunkers, which can often be a trove of pickups.
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That’s everything there is to know about Medal farming in Helldivers 2.
