Minor Places of Interest

Minor Places of Interest

Minor Places of Interest (POI) are minor locations scattered around Helldivers 2 maps. They contain various items of value, depending on the difficulty level.

Not to be confused with Galaxy Places of Interest.

Locations and Icons

Minor Places of Interests can be found in multiple ways:

• Vigilant Helldivers can utilize their compass by proceeding to the direction of a question mark when they're within 75-metre radius of a POI.
• Completing the Radar Station side objective highlights all POIs on the map.
• Occasionally the marking-cursor on the mini-map can reveal some (and very rarely all) with a Minor Place of Interest text-pop-up. NOTE: This method is never functional during the first mission of a new gameplay session / "boot"; only from the second mission onwards this method of discovering mPOIs is possible.

When found, the icons of Minor Places of Interests will change on the mini-map if it was sufficiently looted:

• contains Samples
• Does not contain Samples/all Samples collected.

On Challenging and above, enemies can be present at most Minor Places of Interests. On Suicide Mission and above, enemies can occupy them, along with their appearances changing, such as adding structures like Barbed Wire or Cannon Turrets.

Amounts of Minor Places of Interest per Difficulty:

• Trivial: 0 - 13
• Easy: 4 - 13
• Medium: 4 - 13
• Challenging: 10 - 18
• Hard: ~16
• Extreme:
• Suicide Mission: ~17
• Impossible: ~17
• Helldive:
• Super Helldive:

It is worth noting Outposts / Nests / Encampments alongside Optional Objectives do also occupy available possible POI-slots. Thus it is more likely to encounter less POIs on higher difficulties especially on POI-hostile biomes.

E.G: Automaton Super Helldive (10) on Icy Glaciers with plentiful amount of slippery ice and bodies of water might not even have a singular POI, or at most no more than five (5) POIs.

Minor-POIs inside Super Earth cities / urban settlement zones are only marked as a mPOI if there is at least a Common Sample, Support Weapon, or a Special Loot container (including bunkers).

E.G. Shipping container area / customs can only contain a lootable (shipping) container if the spot has been marked as mPOI.

Special Loot

Most Minor Places of Interests feature a special loot vessel. A Pod has space for 1, a Cargo Container has space for 2, and a Bunker has space for 3 with possible additional Supplies inside.

Special Loot may be one of the following:

• a Support Weapon
• a pile of 10 or 100 Super Credits
• a slip 100 Requisition Slips
• a case of 1-3 Medals
• one (1) single 1 Rare Sample; collecting these additional "undocumented" specimens won't despawn or prevent collecting the pre-generated "wild" units. Thus one can extract with E.G. 23/20 Rare Samples; the latter number only indicates the amount of generated "floor"-units.

Pods can be opened by pressing the Interact-button and holding still for ~1-second after which the hatch will pop open; a standing Helldiver performs Casual Salute-emote.

While pods are still closed, they emit a signal beam which can be observed from 11-metres and beyond; the further away Helldiver is the higher reaching is the beam.

Bunkers require two (2) coordinated Helldivers to open bay door by simultaneously pressing the unlock button.

Containers can be breached open with anything performing demolition force of 20.

Containers can be breached open with anything performing demolition force of 20. The damage can be directed on any part of the container without need of hitting the door itself.

Current list of Weapons that can open the Container:

• Primary Weapons:
  • R-36 Eruptor
  • CB-9 Exploding Crossbow
• Secondary Weapons:
  • GP-31 Grenade Pistol
• Support Weapons:
  • AC-8 Autocannon
  • APW-1 Anti-Materiel Rifle
  • ARC-3 Arc Thrower (as of most recent edit, this appears to be bugged)
  • EAT-17 Expendable Anti-Tank
  • FAF-14 Spear (Not Recommended)
  • GL-21 Grenade Launcher
  • GR-8 Recoilless Rifle
  • LAS-98 Laser Cannon
  • LAS-99 Quasar Cannon
  • MLS-4X Commando
  • RL-77 Airburst Rocket Launcher
• Exosuit
  • EXO-45 Patriot Exosuit
    • Stomp or Rocket
  • EXO-49 Emancipator Exosuit
    • Stomp or Autocannon
• A nearby explosion, such as from an Explosive Barrel or stratagems
• Any Hellpod, however aiming the stratagem beacon to land at the door is very difficult

Types

There are various types of Minor Places of Interests.

Minor Places of Interest

Type	Image	Variation	Special Loot Container	Supplies	Lore Interactables	Notes
Damaged Hellbomb		Charger (Terminid planets only)	No	* 0-1 Support Weapon	Words Scribbled on Bomb	May detonate Hellbomb with any damage. Detonates immediately when hit with strong enough weapon.
Damaged Hellbomb		Helldiver	No	* 0-1 Support Weapon	Words Scribbled on Bomb
Graves		N/A	No	* 0-1 Ammo Boxes * 0-3 Common Sample	Communications Device
Ground Stash		Empty	No	Nothing	Hastily Written Note
Ground Stash		Empty + Corpse	No	Nothing	Hastily Written Note
Ground Stash		Stim + Grenades + Weapon	No	* 2 Stim Crates * 1 Grenade Case * 1 Support Weapon
Ground Stash		Ammo + Weapon	No	* 4 Ammo Boxes * 1 Support Weapon
Ground Stash		Ammo	No	* 4 Ammo Boxes
Uranium Rock		Standalone	No	* 0-7 Super Samples
Uranium Rock		Connected Pit	No	* 0-7 Super Samples * 0-2 Ammo Boxes * 0-1 Stim Crates * 0-1 Grenade Case	Communications Device
House		Back Attached	Sometimes	* 0-3 Rare Samples (When no cargo) * 0-2 Common Samples		There are also 2 explosive barrels that catch fire when shot in the back dugout.
Elevated House		Elevated	Yes	* 0-3 Ammo Boxes * 0-2 Stim Crates * 0-1 Grenade Case * 0-2 Common Samples * Break Action Shotgun	Vending Machine
Destroyed House		Separated	Yes	* 4-5 Ammo Boxes * 3 Stim Crates * 0-3 Common samples * 1-3 Grenade Case
House		Yard	Yes	* 1-3 Ammo Boxes * 0-1 Stim Crates * 0-1 Grenade Case * 0-2 Common Samples	Communications Device
Destroyed House		Destroyed Mini Base	Yes	* 5-9 Ammo Boxes * 0-1 Stim Crates * 0-3 Common Samples	Communications Device	In higher difficulties the pod is sometimes replaced with a broken hellbomb.
Farm
Greenhouse			Sometimes	* 2-3 Ammo Boxes * 1 Stim Crates * 0-1 Grenade Cases * 0-2 Common Samples		There is either rare samples or a cargo crate when not flooded
Corn Farm			Yes	Nothing
Crashed Ship			Yes	* 0-2 Ammo Boxes * 0-2 Stim Crates * 0-2 Grenade Cases * 0-2 Common Samples	Communications Device	In higher difficulties the pod is sometimes replaced by 1 or more Rare Samples.
Junkyard			No	* 4 Ammo Boxes * 1 Grenade Cases * 0-3 Common Samples * 0-1 Rare Samples	Beer Case or Captain Log
Bunker		Small Ditch	Yes	* 0-1 Ammo Boxes * 0-2 Stim Crates * 0-1 Grenade Cases * 0-2 Common Samples	Bloodied Library Card
Bunker		Medium Ditch	Yes	*0-2 Ammo Boxes *0-1 Stim Crates *0-2 Common Samples	Communications Device
Bunker		Large Ditch with House	Yes	* 0-1 Grenade Cases * 0-2 Common Samples
Bunker		Elevated	Yes		Tool Rack
Underground Cache			Yes	* 4-7 Ammo Boxes * 1-2 Stim Crates * 1-2 Grenade Cases * 0-3 Common Samples	Handwritten Note	Rarely the cargo container isn't there.
Entrenchment			Sometimes	* 4-6 Ammo Boxes * 2 Stim Crates * 2-3 Grenade Cases * 0-3 Common Samples	Communications Device	When there isn't a cargo container, there may be 1 or more Rare Samples.
Checkpoint
Valley
Vehicle Repair Shop				* 3 Ammo Boxes * 2 Stim Crates * 1 Grenade Case * 0-2 Common Samples * 0-3 Rare Samples		Rare samples are always in the rubble that has the fire.

Gallery

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  Sweeping for POIs with the minimap marker cursor.

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  Spotting a POI with the compass and minimap marking cursor from 75-metres distance.

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  Ditto with the map zoomed in.

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  Map before Radar Station has been activated

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  Map after Radar Station is completed.

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  Sevetal faraway Special Loot pods signaling their beam.

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  Observe special loot pod beam further away being higher reaching than the one closer to the Helldiver.

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  Minor Place Of Interest variant of the shipping container platform. Notice the red coloured special loot container left side behind the stairs.

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  Ditto but next to the special loot container.

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  The location of the common samples of the shipping container platform. Majority of times when this area is marked at mPOI a special loo container also is placed on this point.