Whether you are running solo or with a team, choosing boosters during the loadout phase can greatly impact how the mission goes in Helldivers 2. Boosters are like perks that grant unique passives to enhance your combat capabilities. Some boosters synergize well when put together, while others are merely situational.
It pays to know the best Boosters in Helldivers 2 because you typically can't afford to just pick a random Booster every time. Here is how you and your teammates can gain the most out of Boosters in the game.
Keep in mind that Boosters are applied to all players in a team. Equipping Stamina Enhancement, for example, will increase the stamina bar and regeneration for the other three players on the team as well.
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Best Booster Team Loadout Against Automatons In Helldivers 2
While part of the community might disagree, there is a meta to everything in Helldivers 2. When it comes to equipping Boosters during the loadout phase, the following are considered the best for a team when facing the Automatons in the current state of the game.
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Hellpod Space Optimization
(Helldivers Mobilize Warbond)
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Vitality Enhancement
(Helldivers Mobilize Warbond)
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Stamina Enhancement
(Helldivers Mobilize Warbond)
- Experimental Infusion (Viper Commandos Warbond)
Hellpod Space Optimization
Your survivability largely relies on the number of resources available on hand. Equipping the Hellpod Space Optimization booster ensures you always spawn with the maximum ammunition, grenades, and stims possible in Helldivers 2. This becomes fairly important when playing higher-difficulty missions because the Automatons can be pretty overwhelming due to their long-range projectiles.
You can easily run out of ammunition and stims while clearing a couple of patrols if the dropships arrive with reinforcements. 
Rocket Devastators, in particular, can snipe you from the other side of the map. The last thing you need is to spawn back into battle with half of your ammunition and resources.
Vitality Enhancement
Increasing your health by 20-25% is a massive advantage that cannot be ignored. The bonus health points are split between different body parts, which is how the Vitality Enhancement booster reduces the chance of injuries in Helldivers 2. This can also be stacked with armor passives for even greater effects, such as with Servo-Assisted to increase each limb health by 50 percent.
Stamina Enhancement
If there is one b ooster that every team loadout needs in Helldivers 2, it is Stamina Enhancement. Considering how important mobility is during combat, increasing your sprint duration by 30% and your stamina regeneration by nearly 25 percent is a massive advantage for you and your teammates. You can get even more gains by pairing Stamina Enhancement with the best light armor in Helldivers 2 for longer sprints.
Experimental Infusion
Until now, every Booster deemed meta for a team loadout was part of the default (and free) Warbond in Helldivers 2. Viper Commandos changed that by introducing Experimental Infusion, a booster that increases your movement speed and damage resistance every time you use a stim. The effects let you brute-force your way into objectives or out of sticky situations where you would normally have to stand and fight.
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Best Booster Team Loadout Against Terminids In Helldivers 2
The boosters recommended to use against the Automatons work equally well against the Terminids — except for one little difference. Hellpod Space Optimization (which many players feel should be available by default) can be replaced with a booster to adjust for the change in enemy behavior. Unlike the Automatons, the Terminids rely on primarily close-ranged attacks to maul players to death. You can always explore the map for ammunition and resources. What you do not want is to limp away from a swarm of bugs closing in on you.
- Muscle Enhancement (Helldivers Mobilize Warbond)
Muscle Enhancement
Several Terminids such as 
Hunters, 
Bile Titans, and 
Bile Spewers have devious attacks that reduce your movement speed. Muscle Enhancement mitigates that slow debuff by a considerable amount so your sprint is not interrupted. It also lets you sprint faster through difficult terrain such as snow, mud, and water, as well as up hills at full speed, all of which is extremely helpful when being chased by enemies.
The remaining Boosters in Helldivers 2 are either situational or fall quite short of delivering any value. 
Increased Reinforcement Budget and Flexible Reinforcement Budget are pretty bad in their current state. Motivational Shocks pales in comparison to 
Muscle Enhancement. The only booster worth considering for a team loadout is 
UAV Recon Booster, but only if you plan to farm Samples in Helldivers 2.
Helldivers 2
- Released
- February 8, 2024
WHERE TO PLAY
- Developer(s)
- Arrowhead Game Studios, Nixxes
- Publisher(s)
- Sony Interactive Entertainment, PlayStation Publishing
- Platform(s)
- PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, PC
- Genre(s)
- Third-Person Shooter, Extraction Shooter, Action, Science Fiction
