I tested ALL BOOSTERS in HELLDIVERS 2 so you don't have to

Today we're going to be talking about the

best boosters in Helldivers 2. So there's

a lot of boosters and you have to unlock

them by going into the War Bonds page,

and they look like this. So if you go on

to page 3, the first one is

on page 3. It looks like this. When I

first started playing the game, I didn't

know what this was and I didn't buy any of

them, and I was wondering how did people

get these boosters. Well, now you know.

They look like that. Or like this, or like

that. It's basically all the same. So

we've got quite a few boosters. You got

Hellpod Space Optimization, Vitality

Enhancement. What else?

UAV Recon Booster, Stamina Enhancement.

There's also a few on the Stilled Veterans

War Bonds. There's one there, Flexible

Reinforcement Budget, which is really good

actually. It reduces time until new

reinforcements are granted. And yeah, you

get one there, and then you go over to

your armory and click on booster, and

you've got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 boosters:

vitality, stamina, muscle, recon booster,

reinforcement budget, flexible

reinforcement budget, and helipod space

optimization. So we're going to test out

all the boosters today, and I'll show you

which one's the best one to have. Okay,

so first we'll test out increased

reinforcement budget. We'll choose that.

Choose a bunch of random stratagems,

doesn't really matter. So as you can see

on the top left corner, we have 24

reinforcements instead of 20. I think

usually you start off with 20, so you get

an extra 1 reinforcement per player. It's

not that amazing if you think about it.

If you're dying so many times where an

extra 4 reinforcements really makes a big

difference, then I'm sorry to say, but

you've got a noob team and I'd be

surprised if you even complete the mission

because I don't think an extra 4

reinforcements is really going to help you

out that much. So yeah, that's the

Reinforcement Booster. We also have the

Vitality Booster. I'm pretty sure someone

on my team chose Vitality Booster.

Basically what that does is it reduces the

amount of stamina that goes down when

you're sprinting, which means you're going

to be able to sprint for longer. So we're

going to test out now by just sprinting at

full stamina and see how long it lasts.

Oh, I nearly got hit by that Charger. And

then I'll load into a game without the

Vitality Booster and then see how long we

can sprint before it depletes to zero.

And then we'll do like side-by-side

comparison of the 2 videos. So I'm still

at halfway,

still going.

I'm also wearing light armor.

I got slowed down a little bit on a little

rock for some reason. Okay, we're now at

zero. So as you saw by the little test,

the stamina booster gives you maybe an

extra few seconds of sprinting. I would

say it's like 3 seconds extra of

sprinting. So if you value an extra 3

seconds of sprinting, then choose the

stamina booster. And next we have the UAV

recon booster, increases all Helldivers'

effective radar range. We'll have a look

at that, see how much radar it actually

affects. Okay, so I just landed with

the UAV Recon Booster and I'm

not really noticing anything different. I

can't even see anything on the radar when

there's obviously enemies over there.

Kind of rubbish, isn't it? Look at that.

How close do I have to get before it

actually shows up on the radar?

Unless there's fog. I don't think there's

fog. Is there fog?

Look, it's still not showing up on the

radar. UAV recon booster is

pretty rubbish. Look, I'm literally right

next to it now, behind it, and there's

nothing on the radar.

So I wouldn't recommend the UAV booster.

Oh, it says this planet has atmospheric

spores, so that might be affecting it.

Let's try a different planet then. Okay,

I'm now on a planet without visibility

effects, and yeah,

you can see the enemies from quite far

away. I'm not sure how far away it is

compared to without having the UAV recon

booster.

You can see quite a lot actually. Look at

this, I can see enemies are all the way

over there. Oh wait, it shows you the

distance from— from what?

It says 20 meters,

and then I move out and it goes up to 50

meters. Wait,

why is it 0 meters is There.

I don't understand how that works. Yeah,

it seems pretty good. Look at this, I can

see all these enemies all around me. I'm

pretty sure you can't see them from that

far away without the UAV Recon Booster.

And if you look at the little compass at

the top, there's little question marks. I

think usually you don't see those question

marks without the booster. Let me test it.

I'll go and unequip the booster by

quitting. Okay, so next we're going to

test out the reinforcement budget

extender. So it means it takes less time

to call in reinforcements once you've run

out of reinforcements. Now usually it

takes 2 minutes, and with the booster I'm

pretty sure it takes like 1 minute 47.

First of all, we're just going to have to

land and blow ourselves up over and over

again. Okay, so look at the timer. I'm

going to blow myself up, and we have 1

minute 47 seconds left. Instead of 2

minutes. So you save 13 seconds by having

this booster. Now that is kind of useful

because sometimes you get to the

extraction point and your team members are

running around trying to survive so the

timer gets to zero and they can call in

reinforcements. And if they have to wait

13 seconds less, then that's kind of

helpful if they're trying to survive. But

I don't know, 13 seconds doesn't seem like

that long. Guess it depends how you feel

about it. Okay, so next we're going to

test out the final 2 boosters. I think

we've got Vitality Booster and, um,

Muscle Enhancement Booster. So just

gotta load in. I hate how long it takes to

load. Oh my God, I accidentally

right-clicked instead of left-clicked. I

hate all these stupid animations. Look,

why does it take so freaking long to get

into the Freaking hellpod, and then you

gotta click here. You gotta choose the

stupid stuff. Okay, so muscle enhancement

and vitality enhancement, resist injury

and traverse difficult terrain with ease.

So he's gonna choose that. Just trying to

rush this because I already recorded this

twice, but stupid Bandicam is now broken,

and when I press record, it doesn't

actually record anything. So I just wasted

3 minutes recording it. Now I've got to do

it all over again because it didn't record

anything. So I'll use different software

now, and this software doesn't have a

pause and resume record button, so I

can't pause the recording whilst it's

doing the stupid loading screens. What

happens if you land in the hole? Oh, I

nearly landed in it. Oh my God, I'm

basically screwed if I can't get out the

hole because look, If you fall in the

hole, you die. I don't know what that

hole is. I'm gonna try land in the hole

again. Oh, I missed it.

This reminds me of my first girlfriend for

some reason. Anyway, so we got the muscle

enhancement. It means we can traverse

through the bushes like that faster. So it

says slowed. You see slowed at the bottom

stamina bar? That's because we're trying

to move through a bush. Now, this isn't—

no, this is a bush too. Usually without

the muscle enhancement, you get slowed

down really by a lot. So look

how slow I move, and then we'll compare it

to without the booster. You move pretty

quickly through it. Look, see, I'm

sprinting as well.

Okay, let's exit and

choose the booster— I mean, choose a new

booster that's not Muscle Enhancement.

Okay, choose the same planet,

same drop location.

And then the final booster, we'll test

that out as well. Vitality booster,

where is

it? Vitality enhancement.

Why does it take such a long time to load?

Okay, so see how slowly I move without

the muscle enhancement? We have to find a

bush first. There's a bush. Okay, look at

this. Oh my god. There's like no

difference. What?

I'm pretty sure I chose vitality

enhancement, not muscle enhancement.

Look, it's still pretty fast when

you run through the bush.

I don't see any difference the muscle

enhancement made. Kind of weird.

Anyway, it's really easy to just not run

into a bush, isn't it? Look, why would you

run into the bush in the first place? And

then we got injury resist,

so it means we're gonna break our legs and

stuff less likely. Oops, that was a bit

too much injury. I want to do something

that would usually injure you. Oh, can you

kill his birds? I think if I go prone and

then blow myself up— I don't know if

usually that would give you an injury. We

might have to test it. I'm not getting

injured, see. Also, sometimes you get

snared if you're running away. You get

slowed down like this, but that's not an

injury. An injury is when you get the

limb— the red limb. I got a broken left

arm. It's when that broken left limb

symbol shows up on the stamina bar.

So I went prone and blew myself up and

took no injuries. I want to see if I do

the same without the vitality enhancement.

Would it do the same thing or give me an

Meridia, land here, ICBM.

This time, no vitality enhancement.

I guess we could test out Hellpod space

optimization. But it's not very

interesting. It's just gonna mean you land

fully stocked. I don't know why you'd land

not fully stocked. Like, why would you get

into the Hellpod in the first place

without maximum grenades? It's not very

good preparation, is it?

Okay, so we're gonna go prone and

blow ourselves up.

Let's see if it makes a difference.

Hmm, no,

that accidentally killed me.

I'm hoping to see it breaks my arm or

something when I'm prone getting blown up.

Without killing me.

It's not injuring me,

see, but I'm thinking if you get swarmed,

it'll be more likely to get an injury when

you don't have vitality enhancement.

But I didn't even get an injury, so I

don't know, that's rubbish as well.