How to Emote in Helldivers 2

Helldivers 2 is a game where you aren’t very likely to survive solo. Due to this, communicating with your squad of fellow soldiers in the field is critical. One form of this is making gestures to bring some fun into the bug-ridden warzones. Nothing beats a nice little emote in Helldivers 2!

How to Use Helldivers 2 Emotes

In Helldivers 2 on PS5, you can emote by holding left on the D-pad when walking around the ship or during the mission. On PC, hold down the B key.

As it turns out, emotes don’t have much of a purpose in Helldivers 2. You can use them whenever you want, but the default one is pretty bland, and you might not use it often.

Emotes are rather contextual, but the game does include shouts and character communication if you don’t want to use voice chat in multiplayer. It’s unavailable on the ship, but in a mission, you can hold R1 for a radial menu of communications options such as Yes and No.

It should be noted that partner emotes like Hug don’t need both players to have them for it to work. Instead, only one player has to activate it, and a second player can join.

How to Change Helldivers 2 Emote

As this is something that involves your character, you can find your emotes in the Armory under the Character section. These are different from your Victory Pose, which you will only see when completing a mission.

How to Get New Helldivers 2 Emotes

New emotes will gained through the Warbonds in your Acquisition Center menu. The standard one will be free with the game, but any others will require the game’s microtransaction currency.

That should be everything you need to know in this guide! For more of our guides to help all the brave soldiers survive, check out our links below. We’ve got guides on the best Stratagems to use, plus how to unlock more weapons and how to heal others.