Mission Completions - Helldivers 2

There are currently a total of nine difficulty levels in Helldivers 2. Mission completions on different difficulties offer additional potential benefits as well as risks. The higher the difficulty, the higher the rewards, going all the way up to a 250% increase in XP and Requisition gains, as well as a higher amount of War Medals Earned per mission completion.

Higher difficulties also tend to spawn more and different samples. The most amount of samples can be spawned on Helldive difficulty missions.

Current difficulties that are available in the game are as follows:

1. Trivial
2. Easy
3. Medium
4. Challenging
5. Hard
6. Extreme
7. Suicide Mission
8. Impossible
9. Helldive

To unlock the next difficulty, you first need to clear a full operation on your current difficulty. Operations consist of missions, it can be anywhere from one mission per operation, to three missions per operation. This number once again depends on the difficulty you play on

Mission sets are aimed at completing full operations at your desired difficulty. They guarantee that all the available nodes within a single operation will be completed, potentially unlocking new difficulties for you as well as maximizing your War Medal gains.

On the other hand with regular mission completions, you are not guaranteed that the missions will be completed within the same operation. This is more aimed at farming some currency quickly, mainly XP and Requisitions.