How to complete the “Retrieve Essential Personnel” mission in Helldivers 2

Helldivers 2 has a slew of incredibly difficult missions that you will come across, with the “Retrieve Essential Personnel” being one of them. The mission is a part of the Major Order that tasks you to complete eight campaigns where you fend off invading Automatons.

In “Retrieve the Essential Personnel,” you will need to save 60 Facility Staff who are stuck on the Draupnir Planet. You will face never-ending waves of botas, Tanks, and Hulks, which is why the mission is recommended for a party and not solo players. To make matters worse, while the mission description shows a 40-minute mission time, the feature is bugged, and the actual time is 15.

This further makes “Retrieve Essential Personnel” incredibly difficult, but the efforts are worth the prize because, for completing all the Major Orders, you will be rewarded with 12,500 Requisitions.

When you are booting up the “Retrieve Essential Personnel” mission in Helldivers 2 with your squad, here are some things you can do to have an easier time completing it:

The “Retrieve Essential Personnel” mission is a part of the current Major Order mission list in Helldiver 2. Completing all the Major Order missions will get you 12,500 Requisitions, making them some of the most important missions to complete.

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