Armor Passives

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Armor Passives are special bonuses or effects that are unique to specific armor sets in Helldivers 2.

Overview

Armor passives provide additional benefits to the Helldiver when wearing the corresponding armor, altering their gameplay experience. Some passives offer improved combat capabilities, such as increased resistance to certain types of damage or recoil reduction, while others provide utility enhancements, like increased inventory capacity or improved stealth proficiency.

Standard Issue

Standard Issue equipment provides ‘No additional bonuses.’ according to the Armory description. This equipment has no benefits or drawbacks. All helmets and capes in the game are Standard Issue.

Armor Passives

Armor Passives can impact survival and combat effectiveness. When selecting an Armor Passive, Helldivers may consider not only personal preferences and playstyle but also the mission objectives, enemy types, and team composition to maximize the benefits of the chosen passive. Armor Passives can influence the difficulty or strategies deployed, as each passive offers unique advantages that cater to different situations. By selecting passives that complement each other, a well-coordinated team can create a complimentary loadout that enhances their overall performance.

Advanced Filtration

Icon Name Armory Description
Advanced Filtration Armor Passive Icon.png Advanced Filtration Provides 80% resistance to gas damage and effects.

Advanced Filtration reduces damage taken from gas by 80%. Gas damage may come from the TX-41 Sterilizer, AX/TX-13 "Guard Dog" Dog Breath, and Orbital Gas Strike stratagems.


Democracy Protects

Icon Name Armory Description
Democracy Protects Armor Passive Icon.png Democracy Protects 50% chance to not die when taking lethal damage.
Prevents all damage from bleeding if chest hemorrhages.

Democracy Protects grants a 50% chance for the Helldiver to survive fatal damage. This empowers the wearer to survive attacks that would otherwise be lethal, such as head shots from Cannon Turrets.

The passive also prevents internal bleeding if the chest is injured.


Electrical Conduit

Icon Name Armory Description
Electrical Conduit Armor Passive Icon.png Electrical Conduit Provides 95% resistance to arc damage.

Electrical Conduit reduces damage taken from arc attacks by 95%, allowing the wearer to survive multiple strikes. This is useful in missions against the Illuminate, where it can help resist close range arc attacks of Watchers and Harvesters, as well as the static Illuminate Tesla Towers. It will also protect against fellow Helldiver weaponry, making it much safer to remain in the line of Arc fire.


Engineering Kit

Icon Name Armory Description
Engineering Kit Armor Passive Icon.png Engineering Kit Further reduces recoil when crouching or prone by 30%.
Increases initial inventory and holding capacity of grenades by +2.

Engineering Kit increases the wearer's grenade capacity by two (+2). So the Helldiver deploys with 5/6 instead of 3/4 grenades. And with Hellpod Space Optimization (booster), 6/6 grenades.

This passive (and Fortified) also reduces firearms' vertical recoil, but not the horizontal or the Helldiver's sway. Even while standing, the recoil is reduced as much as crouching without the passive; contrary to what the description states.[1]


Extra Padding

Icon Name Armory Description
Extra Padding Armor Passive Icon.png Extra Padding Provides a higher armor rating.

Extra Padding adds 50 points to the Helldiver's armor rating. Improving defense without impacting speed or stamina regeneration. If the total body armor rating exceeds 100 points, the Helldiver takes less head damage.


Fortified

Icon Name Armory Description
Fortified Armor Passive Icon.png Fortified Further reduces recoil when crouching or prone by 30%.
Provides 50% resistance to explosive damage.

Fortified increases survivability against explosion damage, e.g, spit attacks from Bile or Nursing Spewers.

This passive (and Engineering Kit) also reduces firearms' vertical recoil, but not the horizontal or the Helldiver's sway. Even while standing, the recoil is reduced as much as crouching without the passive; contrary to what the description states.[1]


Inflammable

Icon Name Armory Description
Inflammable Armor Passive Icon.png Inflammable Provides 75% damage resistance to fire, allowing bearer to rest assured in their inflammability.

Inflammable reduces damage taken from fire by 75%. This can be useful on planets ravaged by fire tornados, when facing Hulk Scorchers on medium difficulty or higher, even alongside pyromaniac Helldivers.


Med-Kit

Icon Name Armory Description
Med-Kit Armor Passive Icon.png Med-Kit Increases initial inventory and holding capacity of stims by +2.
Increases stim effect duration by 2.0s.

Med-Kit increases the wearer's stim capacity by two (+2). So the Helldiver deploys with 4/6 instead of 2/4 stims, and with Hellpod Space Optimization (booster), 6/6 stims.

It also increases stim effect duration by two seconds, allowing the wearer to outlast damage-over-time attacks such as fire or Orbital Gas Strikes. Stims from your P-11 are affected as well.


Peak Physique

Icon Name Armory Description
Peak Physique Armor Passive Icon.png Peak Physique Increases melee damage by 100%.
Improves weapons handling with less drag on weapon movement.

Peak Physique increases melee damage done by 100%.

Additionally, weapon handling is increased by a value of 30. This causes weapons to have less drag when following the crosshair, essentially allowing the players to snap between different targets much quicker. Especially noticeable for slow-handling weapons such as the Dominator, Eruptor or most of the Support Weapons.

  • Note: Currently it applies to all weapons including things HMG Emplacement turret. This bonus applies even after the wearer drops or leaves the weapon/emplacement. This bonus also stacks up if multiple wearers pick up/enter the same weapon/emplacement. In the case of the HMG Emplacement, it only applies to the turning of the gun itself, not the turret base. This is very likely a bug

Scout

Icon Name Armory Description
Scout Armor Passive Icon.png Scout Markers placed on the map will generate radar scans every 2.0s.
Reduces range at which enemies can detect the wearer by 30%.

The Scout passive decreases the Helldiver's overall detection range from enemies. It can be used to clear objectives and gather loot with less enemy disruption.

Markers placed on the map will generate enemy radar scans every other second. This technique can be used to locate patrols and find or avoid enemies, but not to discover POIs.


Servo-Assisted

Icon Name Armory Description
Servo-Assisted Armor Passive Icon.png Servo-Assisted Increases throwing range by 30%.
Provides +50% limb health.

Servo-Assisted increases the throwing range of stratagems and grenades by 30%.

It also improves limb health by 50%, the head and torso remain unaffected.


Unflinching

Icon Name Armory Description
Unflinching Armor Passive Icon.png Unflinching Helps Prevent Helldivers from flinching when hit.

Unflinching reduces the amount of recoil flinch by a factor of 95%, reduces camera shake and decreases the timer before your Helldiver manically laughs when prolonged firing by 1 second.[2]


Siege-Ready

Icon Name Armory Description
Siege-Ready Armor Passive Icon.png Siege-Ready Increases reload speed of primary weapons by 30%.

Increases ammo capacity of primary weapons by 20%.

Siege-Ready increases reload speed of primary weapons by 30% and Increases total ammo capacity of primary weapons by 20%.

  • Weapons with 5 or less total magazines receive 1 extra magazine
  • Weapons with 6 or more total magazines receive 2 extra magazines
  • "Punisher" Style shotguns receive 12 extra rounds, 72 Total
  • The R-2124 Constitution receives 20 extra rounds, 119 Total
  • The P-4 Senator receives 8 extra rounds, for a total of 48.
  • Contrary to its description, this perk currently grants bonus reserve magazines to Secondary and Backpack-less Support weapons, but doesn't increase their reload speed. This was originally unintended, but Arrowhead have opted not to fix the issue until they have had time to complete an investigation to see whether or not it is causing any unforeseen bugs.

Acclimated

Icon Name Armory Decription
Inflammable Armor Passive Icon.png Acclimated Grants a 50% resistance to fire, gas, acid and electricial damage

Acclimated provides 50% resistance to fire, gas, acid, and electrical damage.

Change History

Patch
Description

1.002.101
2025-02-4

Armor Passives

  • After hearing player feedback, we have decided not to fix a bug with the Siege Ready Armor Passive which gives more ammo to all magazine-based weapons, instead of just primary weapons as described. We will eventually update the Armory description to reflect this but for now we’re evaluating if it's causing any other additional unforeseen bugs

1.000.403
2024-06-25

Fixes

  • Fixed Peak Physique armor passive not properly affecting weapon ergonomics.

1.002.003
2024-12-18

Fixes

  • Fix Siege Ready armor passive not affecting ammo pools on initial dives when joining an ongoing mission.

References


  1. 1.0 1.1 cashcrop_ (2024). I tested ALL ARMOR TYPES and PASSIVES in HELLDIVERS 2 so you don't have to if you don't want to (https://youtu.be/_xoBOfAgBmw&t=184). YouTube.
  2. Email from Arrowhead Support (https://imgur.com/a/0Ge3I0r)