Helldivers 2 Crossplay: Playing With Friends Anywhere

Squadding up

Two routes, and both work regardless of platform. Friend code. The social menu generates a code you can share. The other player enters it and a friend request goes out. This is the reliable method when you cannot find each other by name, which is common because display names are not unique. In-game friends list. Once you are friends in-game, you can join a friend’s ship directly or send an invite from the squad menu. Your ship name (the SES designation) is how other players identify you in a lobby, so it is worth knowing rather than guessing when someone says they will join your destroyer.

What does not transfer

Progress, unlocks, warbonds, and currency are tied to the platform account. Switching from PlayStation to PC does not carry your account, so a player who moves platform starts again. There is no cross-progression to fall back on. That is worth knowing before buying twice. Crossplay solves playing together; it does not solve continuity.

Lobby settings

Missions can be set to public or friends-only, which decides whether random players can drop into your game mid-mission. Public lobbies fill fast and are how most players actually play; friends-only is the right setting when you want a specific squad composition or when you are learning a new difficulty and do not want a stranger’s pace. Difficulty is set by the host, so whoever launches the mission decides the threat level for everyone.

The practical setup for a mixed squad

Voice comms outside the game — the platform party system, or a third-party voice app — because in-game communication is limited to pings and emotes. A squad on two platforms without voice is a squad that will struggle with target priority, which is the one thing this game punishes hardest. Assign the four roles before dropping: anti-armour, chaff clear, support, and objective runner. The squad roles page covers what each one owes the others, and the difficulty page is the reference for what to set it to on a first session together.