Minor Place of Interest
Minor Place of Interest (also known as POI) are minor locations scattered around Helldivers 2 maps. They can contain various items for players to collect, with the amount that can scavenged varying with difficulty.
Locations and Icons
Minor Place of Interests can be found in multiple ways:
- When looking in the direction and being within a certain distance of one, a question mark icon appears on the compass. The exact distance depends on the size of the map:
- Trivial size: 75m
- Medium size: 250m
- On the mini-map, hovering over places with the cursor. This method can be unreliable.
- Completing the Radar Station side objective highlights all POIs on the map.
When found, the icons of Minor Place of Interests will change on the mini-map if it was sufficiently looted:
On Challenging and above, enemies can be present at most Minor Place 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 Place of Interest per Difficulty:
- Trivial: 0 - 13
- Easy: 4 - 13
- Medium: 4 - 13
- Challenging:
- Hard: ~16
- Extreme:
- Suicide Mission: ~17
- Impossible: ~17
- Helldive:
Special Loot
Most Minor Place 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 case of 10 or 100 Super Credits
- 100 Requisition
- a case of 1-3 Medals
- 1 Rare Samples
An undocumented Rare Sample is a sample that doesn't count towards the sample limit counter located on the top right corner during a mission.
Pods can be opened by saluting it, Containers can be shot with primaries or support weapons with a demolition force of 20, and the Bunker requires 2 Helldivers to open: Current list of Weapons that can open the Container:
- Primary Weapons:
- Secondary Weapons:
- Support Weapons:
- Exosuit
- EXO-45 Patriot Exosuit
- Stomp or Rocket
- EXO-49 Emancipator Exosuit
- Stomp or Autocannon
- EXO-45 Patriot Exosuit
- 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 Place of Interests.
Type | Image | Variation | Special Loot Container | Supplies | Looted when | Lore Interactables | Notes |
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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 * 0-1 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 |
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Ground Stash | Ammo + Weapon | No | * 4 Ammo Boxes * 1 Support Weapon |
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Ground Stash | Ammo | No | * 4 Ammo Boxes | ||||
Uranium Rock | *0-7 Super Samples | ||||||
House | |||||||
Elevated House | |||||||
Destroyed House | |||||||
Farm | |||||||
Greenhouse | |||||||
Corn Farm | |||||||
Crashed Ship | |||||||
Junkyard | |||||||
Bunker | |||||||
Underground Cache | |||||||
Entrenchment | |||||||
Checkpoint | |||||||
Valley | |||||||
Two Houses |