Helldivers 2 is a third-person shooter where squads of up to four Helldivers take on missions together, and the moments a squad talks about longest are usually the ones that went wrong. The support strike a teammate called in that wiped out the whole squad, or the final minute of holding off enemies before the extraction ship doors opened, are hard to see again once the mission ends. This guide shows how to record Helldivers 2 with DOR, find only those moments, trim them, and send them to your squad as a dor.gg link. It focuses on where each kind of moment sits inside a mission and how long to make each clip.
Many missions, one video
DOR captures Helldivers 2 as a full-session recording. Everything from the moment you launch the game until you quit, including ship downtime, the drop, the mission, and extraction, ends up in one video. It is not split by mission, and kills are not turned into automatic clips. That means you locate the moments you want to share yourself and cut them with the trim tool. If you run operation after operation all evening, the video can run for hours, so it is worth reading our long gameplay recording guide before a marathon session.
Sending a Helldivers 2 moment to your squad
- 1Pick one squad member to recordNot all four players need to record. The person who calls in the most strikes, or the one who narrates the most on voice chat, usually captures both the action and the reactions. If you want a second angle, two people can record at the same time.
- 2Install DOR and drop in as usualDOR is a free Windows app that detects Helldivers 2 when it launches and starts recording automatically. Game sound and your mic are recorded together, so the squad's shouting lands in the same video.
- 3Remember which operation went sidewaysAfter several missions in a row, it is easy to forget where the accident happened. A quick note like third drop, right before extraction is enough, because you can count the ship scenes between missions to jump to the right one.
- 4Use the ship scenes to split up missionsWhen you close the game, the recording is saved as an mp4 and appears in the app library. Skip the stretches inside the ship, since those are breaks between missions, and treat everything from the drop to the return to the ship as one operation to search through.
- 5Trim each moment to its own lengthKeep friendly fire short and extractions long. A friendly fire clip runs about 10 seconds from just before the beacon is thrown to the squad's reaction, while an extraction clip keeps the final minute before the ship lands. Choose 9:16 if most of the squad will watch on phones, or 16:9 for squad members on PC.
- 6Paste the link in the squad chatWhen trimming finishes, you get a dor.gg link. Drop it into the Discord channel or group chat where your squad hangs out, and everyone can play it in a browser without downloading a file.
Clues for finding moments by mission stage
| Mission stage | What to look for in the recording | Suggested clip length |
|---|---|---|
| Right after the drop | The cut from the ship interior to the planet surface | 20 to 30 seconds from landing to the first fight |
| Stratagem strike | The beam of light coming down after a beacon is thrown | From 2 seconds before the throw to 5 seconds after the blast |
| Heavy enemy kill | Squad voices getting louder and gunfire stacking up | 30 to 60 seconds from the first shot to the takedown |
| Friendly fire | Teammates dropping at once and laughter on the mic | 10 to 15 seconds, starting 3 seconds before the accident |
| Last-second extract | The final stretch of holding out after calling the ship | Roughly the last minute before boarding |
| Mission end | The return to the ship after the mission wraps up | 5 to 10 seconds of the results |
Before you send it to the squad
- The friendly fire clip starts before the beacon is thrown, so it is clear who called the strike.
- The extraction clip ends with the squad boarding the ship.
- You checked that squad voices are not buried under the game sound.
- You left well over 20GB of free space before a multi-hour session.
- Your squad is fine with sharing a clip that includes their voices.
- You picked an aspect ratio with phone viewers in mind.
How DOR records Helldivers 2
DOR is a free Windows desktop app, and the October 2026 app update added Helldivers 2 as a full-session recording game. When you launch the game, DOR detects it and saves everything until you quit as a single mp4, using NVENC hardware encoding by default on PCs with an NVIDIA graphics card. Long sessions fill your drive quickly, and recording stops automatically when free space drops below 20GB. On days you would rather not record, you can turn off just this game in the Full Session Recording group in settings, and a confirmation prompt appears when you do. To capture squad voice chat, see how to record Discord voice with your game, and for setting precise start and end points, see how to trim game clips. A trimmed moment travels as a dor.gg address, and whoever opens it has nothing to install. If you want to collect friendly fire moments from several operations into one video, the browser-based DOR Studio needs no install and lets you merge clips, add text and background music, then download an mp4 or share a link.
