Published , by Sam Chandler
Published , by Sam Chandler
While your attention will be on Stratagems for the first part of your Helldivers 2 career, soon enough you’ll be eyeing off the Ship Modules. These upgrades improve the cooldown times, deployment speed, health, ammo capacity and more of your Stratagem weapons, turrets, and ordnance. These require a whole lot of samples to unlock, which means you’ll want to focus on buying the best ones first.
Below are several tables containing a list of each Ship Module, its effect, which Stratagems it affects, as well as the price. Further down you’ll find our recommendations on which ones to purchase first.
Each of the Stratagem sections in Helldivers 2 has three Ship Module upgrades to purchase. You must purchase the modules in sequential order, meaning in order to unlock More Guns you must first acquire Exploding Shrapnel. You can find these upgrades at the Ship Management terminal on the port-side of your Destroyer.
The Ship Module cost increases with each tier, with the third upgrade in each section requiring all three sample types. It will take 1,380 Common, 770 Rare, and 65 Very Rare samples to unlock all Ship Modules.
| Patriotic Administration Center | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Module | Effect | Affected Stratagems | Common | Rare | Very Rare |
| Donation Access Licence | Support Weapons deploy with the maximum number of carriable magazines. |
|
60 | - | - |
| Streamlined Request Process | Decreases Support Weapon stratagem cooldown by 10%. |
|
80 | 40 | - |
| Hand Carts | Decreases cooldown for all Backpack stratagemms by 10%. |
|
80 | 60 | 5 |
| Orbital Cannons | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Module | Effect | Affected Stratagems | Common | Rare | Very Rare |
| Exploding Shrapnel | Reduces damage fallout from the center of explosions caused by orbital stratagems. |
|
100 | - | - |
| More Guns | Barrage orbitals fire 1 additional salvo(s) per barrage. |
|
80 | 60 | - |
| Zero-G Breech Loading | Orbital stratagem cooldown time reduced by 10%. |
|
80 | 80 | 10 |
| Hangar | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Module | Effect | Affected Stratagems | Common | Rare | Very Rare |
| Liquid-Ventilated Cockpit | Eagle stratagem cooldown time reduced by 50%. |
|
80 | - | - |
| Pit Crew Hazard Pay | Reduces Eagle Rearm time by 20%. | - | 80 | 40 | - |
| Expanded Weapons Bay | Increases the number of Eagle stratagem uses per Rearm by 1. |
|
80 | 80 | 10 |
| Bridge | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Module | Effect | Affected Stratagems | Common | Rare | Very Rare |
| Targeting Software Upgrade | Reduces deployment time for Orbital stratagems by 1 second(s) |
|
60 | - | - |
| Nuclear Radar | Increases enemy ping radius on minimap by 50 meters. | - | 80 | 40 | - |
| Power Steering | Improves steering for Helldivers during Hellpod deployment. | - | 80 | 80 | 10 |
| Engineering Bay | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Module | Effect | Affected Stratagems | Common | Rare | Very Rare |
| Synthetic Supplementation | Reduces cooldown time for Sentry, Emplacement, and Resupply stratagem by 10%. |
|
60 | 10 | |
| Advanced Construction | Increases health of Sentry stratagems by 50%. |
|
80 | 60 | 5 |
| Rapid Launch System | Removes deployment time for Emplacement stratagems. |
|
80 | 80 | 10 |
| Robotics Workshop | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Module | Effect | Affected Stratagems | Common | Rare | Very Rare |
| Dynamic Tracking | Reduces deployment time for all Sentry stratagems. |
|
60 | 20 | - |
| Shock Absorption Gel | Increases ammo for all Sentry stratagems by 50%. |
|
80 | 40 | 5 |
| High-Quality Lubricant | Sentries rotate towards new targets more quickly. |
|
80 | 80 | 10 |
Credit to the Helldivers 2 Fandom for some of the above information.
After you’ve played enough missions to acquire samples, you’ll be looking at the Ship Modules and seriously considering making a purchase. Before you go buying the first thing that jumps out at you, here are the best ones to buy:
Why are these Ship Modules the best? For starters, the Donation Access Licence ensures the weapons you call down are fully loaded. This is especially useful once you have access to the Railgun, which only deploys with half of its ammo.
The last three are all related to the Hangar. These significantly improve the Eagle, allowing it to get back into the action quicker. Not only that, it increase the users per Stratagem by 1 – that means you now have access to two 500KB Bombs.
Outside of these, you should focus on Ship Modules that impact your preferred way to play. Do you love Sentries? Then focus on acquiring upgrades that improve them. If you’re all about the Orbital weapons, spend your samples on improving those.
There are more than a dozen Ship Modules to unlock in Helldivers 2. While you can read what they do in-game, the costs are hidden from you until you start buying them. To help make your transition into the harder difficulties easier, refer to the above tables and tips to ensure you can maximize your democracy-spreading potential. Check out our Helldivers 2 page for more raw information and recommendations.