Helldivers 2 - Best Way to Farm Samples & Walkthrough/Guide

Helldivers 2 - Best Way to Farm Samples
Retrieve Essential Personnel is the single best mission to farm samples
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[@FrankLindsey757]

Why do rare samples feel more 'common' than common samples?

[@Insandom]

Common samples show up at outposts more often than points of interest in my experience, which are harder to loot due to the nature of what they are.

[@asuraphreak]

Agreed!

[@ricardimension]

​@Insandom doesn't help that you need like 2x more common samples than rare ones for ship upgrades

[@KaozKaiser09]

Can always spam Trivial or Easy (broadcast and eliminate) and roam around map open crates for medals/super credits, get your samples and only one mission so it adds to the war effort. A Democracy Day to you.

[@Insandom]

@@ricardimension If you're effectively clearing the map with a team, you can easily net on average 20 commons a mission, rng depending. Suggest diff 6 - 7 if your primary goal is sample collection.

[@deejeh9494]

If you run out of stamina, hit the jump pack and let go of sprint you'll start recovering stamina by the time you land.

[@TravisStockton]

or stim

[@AC-hj9tv]

Do you use jump pack a lot

[@AMediumSizedKodiak]

@@TravisStockton healing shots? They mean crack cocaine

[@goreobsessed2308]

​@AC-hj9tv every mission it's great

[@Shadowhawkdark]

I saw another video explaining threat, and it was saying that if you are near allies, you "share" a single 'bucket' of threat as if you were 1 solo person, but if you are extremely far away from allies you get your own completely separate bucket of threat. So you might be doing far less for the "breaches" than you might be thinking. Still, who hates having more samples.

[@OhDough]

That person is hilariously wrong at least on this mission. Who was it out of curiously?

[@tutompop]

Since you asked. Cymonsays is the creator.

[@temtempo13]

"Breaches" are separate from "threat," though. As I understand it, each "party" gets their own patrol spawns (so splitting off doesn't help on that front, although there will be fewer patrol spawns at the objective since there are fewer players generating "threat" there). The Reddit post in question (that I assume the video is based on) doesn't talk about the mechanics of breaches, but they are unrelated to "threat," which only determines patrol spawns.

[@tutompop]

@@temtempo13TTTRRRUUUEEE

[@cerulean5032]

That's only patrols tho, threat doesn't affect breach spawns, and there are also several objectives that forcibly spawn in enemy breaches when the objective is activated.

[@aburkitt11]

Just get into a random lobby with a cheater who extracts with 999 of every sample, worked for me

[@prosketch95]

That takes away the point of the video😂

[@asuraphreak]

Can't find any cheaters. XD

[@QantusVitae]

You're supposed to put in a support request to Arrowhead to get the cheater samples off your account. Currently their anti cheat is garbage and will be going after people who were in lobbies with a cheater. There's no way for them to distinguish between the actual cheater and the rest of the squad, so all party members who extract with 1k samples have been getting banned. The good news is the anti cheat is so terrible that the bans haven't even been getting issued properly. It's a gamble at this point. I'd still recommend making the support ticket though.

[@Dgalvez420]

😂

[@mouseii88]

​@@QantusVitae I don't know how they manipulate the sample quantity, but I believe the anticheat likely just prevent people flying or teleport around the map, or auto aim. If no mission gives more than 100 sample per type, it is very weird the server recognize and record a 999 or 2997 sample for the account. It is something likely preventable from server side.

[@jamesmartin7016]

The Most Useful part of this Video was Learning that you can drop Samples encase you need to go do a risky objective and are near the extraction

[@RHKO]

found this out the other day by picking up others' samples and getting shouted at 😂

[@lucciproduced]

@@RHKOeveryone gets the samples after the game so idk why someone was yelling at you for picking theirs up lmao

[@RHKO]

@@lucciproduced cause they were leaving them at the extraction for later 😅

[@metro4noww]

Thanks for the guide, because of all the disconnections and crashing I've lost so many medals and purp samples, I have to cheese the game and get all my medals back

[@OhDough]

if you need medals and or super creds one of the best ways to farm them is lvl 1 missions and just do all the POI's and leave missions when done. just do them solo or with people who have the same goal.

[@metro4noww]

@@OhDough thx big help👍🏼

[@Dr._Nicholi_Rasmuson]

Purples(uranium) can be farmed on any map if you're patient, this type is more for the butt-load of Rare/Orange(purple crystals), the uh...drumstick rock where purples spawn usually doesn't have enemies near it, at least on diff 7. Make a stealth build and explore to find the rock and do a lot of hiding, let the ship land, then go get on it like suggested here. On this specific type of game on this planet, I only found the fake 'drumstick' that has mobs and no purple/uranium....which is frustrating. If it's a 45 minute game, you can hit up some other POI and collect some rares, or study how the AI moves about. I do it differently than Dough did here to get the Rare samples(Orange icon but purple crystals), rather than killing, I take the EMS mortar, Tesla Tower, and Gas Strike, then just lead mobs away, distract them with a turret if the Orbital Gas can't take them..then circle back to POI, loot and scoot. On lower difficulty you still get quite a lot compared to normal maps and don't have to deal with Bile Titans, and if you get the right spawn set, it's Bile spewers and not chargers. I'm happy to hit up one poi and maybe nab a few extra from broke doors so come away with 8-10 in the 15 minutes.....that's nearly as many as struggling through a normal 45 minute map on difficulty 4. Of course, my advice is for solo, not even with randoms. Dough's advice and playstyle works with a squad(or solo if you're good at aiming, my old hands don't do as well as Dough), especially if they happen to draw the aggro spawns and all the player needs is to worry about the stationary mobs. Medal farming, just do solo 4 or 5 eradicate bug missions and get on top of a rock, use turrets or mines...and the Sickle easy as pie.....or grind out lvl 1's and go looting all the POI then do the mission for the additional medal.

[@metro4noww]

@@Dr._Nicholi_Rasmuson wow thanks so much for all the advice! Gonna try my best at all the techniques available when I can't get a game or servers are wonky. I've been getting better so I guess farming won't be sk bad, especially I'm maining the jetpack and arc thrower now, I can move around crowds much better. I see dough using it now too lol

[@riisky2411]

@@Dr._Nicholi_Rasmusonsuper samples only appear in 7-9

[@Kicsivazz]

7:58: Bugs do summon breaches, usually the Scavengers but the Warriors and Spewers can too. There is a short window of counter play where if you spot the bug that looks at the sky and kill it before it spits gas, you can prevent the breach.

[@michaelbowman6684]

For Automatons, only Troopers can call in dropships. Hulks and Tanks can't call dropships, but also surprisingly Devastators can't call dropships either, despite the equivalent enemies for Terminids (Hive Guards, Brood Commanders, Spewers) being able to call in breaches. In fact, the only Terminids that can't call in breaches are Chargers and Bile Titans, which is just super frustrating from my experience. Imagine if Heavy Devastators could call in dropships, or if Scout Walkers could call in dropships.

[@AthosRac]

How can he be sample maxed if he do not know this?

[@quarreneverett4767]

Even if you kill them immediately it can atill spew and spawn them. And yes sometimes a breech can just happen. With the bots you can actually interrup ans stop it

[@Keyce0013]

You really have to be on top of killing enemies about to spawn a breach/drop, because if any of their allies are alive and also capable of spawning one, they will when the first one fails (because you killed it).

[@Lordcrusader17]

@@AthosRaccheaters bro ive seen like two vids already like this with the perfectly equal number samples and everything else. These guys just cheat

[@sajmon154]

OhDough casually chilling in a mission with DONUT OPERATOR , lol :D NICE !

[@shyuugaheero2614]

WOW the donut operator?

[@Headlock123456789]

Was that the real Donut Operator or just someone else with the name though?

[@bobdillin8388]

Yea, I caught that one too lol... like, samples are great n all but ...

[@oxcide2.7]

first thing i noticed when he was gearing up lol No way that donut lol

[@Walter__Clements]

Kicking you there was actually absurd. Even if you weren’t doing anything it’s not like there were 4 players in the squad, so weird

[@OhDough]

the annoying part is I was going to extract with close to 80 samples and I don't need the samples but I wanted to break my PR. they just lost out for no reason because they're silly

[@riisky2411]

They probably thought he was cheesing the samples

[@Jimov]

The same exact thing happened to me yesterday. We were doing a mission and I was collecting samples. Even had 3x super samples on me. Then they kicked me, I guess cos they thought I wasn't helping. In a way, I didn't even want to be near the main group cos they kept calling in that massive barrage all the time which kept getting us all killed. I really hate some of the randoms in this game.

[@cattysplat]

@@OhDough This is why pub groups are 100% random clownshow. People can be straight up braindead but because they're the group leader, they are the Tyrant to shout telling you what to do and kick you for literally anything, even just to troll.

[@andrzejwysocki609]

@@Jimov i got kicked like 5 seconds into a mission i have no clue wtf i did to warrant a kick, these toxic kids lol

[@jefforymitchell5697]

I was googling looking for the new nuke stratagem lmao, dude was talking about the 500kg bomb 😂

[@kaydinlear]

"If you don't know how the game works your in for a bad time." As he summons civilians into a charger standing in front of their door.

[@OhDough]

30 seconds left. I hit the button to hit the button

[@Nangong-Tianzhi]

you're :)

[@havoc.7401]

​@@OhDoughFor the blue and orange crates, you can open them with any explosive, including railguns.

[@coltbusick6644]

As long as you communicate to your team, I could see this being a clean strat. With randos that don’t know what’s going on, do this at your own peril.

[@SignorTromboncino]

Not to backseat or sound too nerdy, but if the side of a Titan (close to the head) is open (the Eagle Rockets usually do the trick), shooting its shoulders on the same side with any weapon will do damage. And since it counts as flesh damage, I find it especially handy with impact nades and Scorcher

[@Auchioane]

Really interesting strat for getting samples thanks for the video. Small correction bug breaches only happen because bugs call them, there is no limit on how many bug breaches can occur on the map. There was a long detailed reddit post on how the bugs spawn and splitting off into two groups actually spawns more patrols and thus more potential for bug breaches.

[@heyitsrj1]

Great content, thanks for showing how it really looks and proper expectations!

[@spasecofbojx]

Thanks for the info. BTW, yes, as the Automatons have Commisionars who can call for backups so can the small scavengers.

[@taoday118]

Kudos for doing it with raw footage. I learned new & more things&tacti from this video

[@alexanderkoch4830]

18:48 I think it was wise to not go for the 3 common samples with the bile titan guarding it. 😅 21:28 this works if your team is smart, most players are not smart, they will pick up the samples and then die across the map or somewhere in deep water 22:05 this mission can bug out and the personnel just stands in front of the bay doors until they get slaughtered

[@FrazierHarcrow]

I noticed, but there are options under gameplay settings, that can allow you to Permanently show your Radar/Reticle among other features that arent normally enabled on default. You can choose to Always set Radar to Visible and it will show you at top of screen if a bug breach is currently happening regardless of where on map it comes from. @8:00 or abouts then, you talk about Bug breaches and not knowing what calls them. Mainly the Very small bugs will sprout spores and call Breaches, shown by bright orange smoke comming from them( so try to focus those mobs down fast specificaly, especialy when encountering patrols). Aswell I was told (but havent personally seen) that Hunters can also call bug breaches in. Strenght of bug breach is loosely connected to how many Hives you have left undestroyed, however Destroying more hives creates even More patrols (source Reddit Post. Sorry no link but it was top voted and very detailed)

[@TheRauzKindred]

BTW you can open up the bins with the arc thrower, slugger shotgun, and other armor pen weapons! So hope that helps for later :D

[@royisabau5]

Slugger shotgun can even kill spore spewers

[@TheRauzKindred]

@@royisabau5 Neat!

[@zacharyevans4018]

You can also open it by throwing a grenade or using the grenade launcher.

[@luistijerina1164]

Just got the game, played with my friend and its so fun and hectic. And we where just doing it on medium both of use under lvl 10. After 2 hours i got to lvl 4, and he was almost lvl 10. He took us to Hellmire and i was like why! Haha, those tornados are no joke. Cant wait to play more. Bonus information, i got enough credits to buy the outfit that gives me more grenades just by playing the game haha. Love this game.

[@braedonmb]

If you're away from your party, friendly fire isn't a risk with sentries. I'd use an autocannon sentry over the gas strike, and consider an EM orbital or Mortar over Jump Pack. Jump pack lets you reposition using your movement, EM by stopping opponent's

[@BicBoi1984]

Kicking the most valuable player, smart.

[@KomandarmKnuckles]

They're either high level and max on samples as well, just doing the mission because they wanna have fun, and they have this moron just farming samples HE DOESN'T NEED EITHER. So yeah, most valuable my ass, he's helping no one, not even himself. The other option is, one or both of them are low level, don't know the game that well yet, and this moron is doing this without the consent of his team, leaving one, potentially two low level players to fend off for themselves in a high difficulty mission. (Edit: We can't know because of course he only leaves that clip in, I wonder what the chat looked like in the minutes leading up to that kick. Surely they didn't tell him to come back at any point right 🤡) Either way, he's absolutely NOT the most valuable player, he's a hindrance, he's literally halving the timer for enemy bug breaches because he's far away from his team. In any case, you shouldn't be fucking farming, just play the game, the only thing farming will accomplish for most people is reduce the time they'll remain interested in the game, because they won't have any more goals to look forward to. So this is doubly, hell, triply idiotic. Do this with friends, or with a consenting squad, preferably of high level players that will most likely be fine. Stop licking his balls please, what he did is trashy as fuck, and he's been doing it in many games as shown in this video.

[@-ev1l562]

Ayo is that the real donut operator?? random youtuber mashup lmfaoooo also sick. Also i thought the ending was a new outro, would be sick to have a little funny clip comp at the end

[@Dr._Nicholi_Rasmuson]

I had to wonder the same thing, used to love me some Donut, but kinda fell out of watching.

[@BlammoNation]

I love the doughnut more every day citizen

[@killerr721]

​@@Dr._Nicholi_Rasmusonsame stopped watching when he became a sellout, only making videos for the sponsorships days or weeks after a certain topic has already been covered by other youtubers. Plus the quacking noises are very fucking annoying

[@novitrix9671]

Bloopers at the end were saucy!

[@TheDboykiller]

Just a random tip. You can ping stuff through those doors that need two people to look inside is you know the angles of where stuff spawns at. Edit : I do the same thing where I was not using the jet pack. So what I did was change my setup to the same eagle and orbital but I use a nade launcher to slaughter hordes and expendable anti tank for chargers. If I'm 7+ and a debuff then I run the other launcher ( I can't think of the name sorry ).

[@Soli9111]

@OhDough 9:25 Working towards perfecting being your best self is best thing you can do. Just remember to not be harsh on yourself! Thanks for guide :)

[@mitchymc_1460]

you can shoot the crates with your railgun btw, works with a bunch of support weapons

[@wuligan]

Man…. I do not know how your channel is NOT the most popular helldivers feed for everyone. By far, you’re the best provider of insight and info on this game… and ya ain’t got any dumb ass gimmicks while you’re doing what you do. Awesome stuff.

[@OhDough]

thanks broski, I'm noticing people really hate factual content. they'd rather be lied to and strung along by the news channels.

[@claytonwu320]

I’m sure someone has already mentioned it to you, but just in case, the compass does tell you when you are close to a POI so I’m pretty sure having the compass is more useful than a cleaner HUD.

[@BigBoiBalu]

Great Tip. Trying this tonight :)

[@turbo111777]

thank you dough looking forward to see you cover more games too

[@sebax7maslo]

You can blast cargo doors with various weapons or barrels. Lately im running arc lighting support weapon and it works

[@Nick-ld6nz]

Grenades as well, when you don't have stun or such.

[@orionis5321]

32/30 rare samples, this is insane.

[@gangstersnow]

The 40 minute version is incredibly easy on higher difficulties IF you have teammates, if all 3 teammates are away from the objective, nothing will spawn on you at the objective because of how spawning works. Did it multiple times yesterday

[@thegrunch6448]

20:48 I love that bug, happens everytime you get ragdolled while scoped in. You just have to hope something is nearby to kill you whenever it happens :)

[@aidennicholson2109]

If you swap from third person to first person repeatedly, it can fix it.

[@thegrunch6448]

@@aidennicholson2109 Oh feally I gotta try that next time

[@KOS762]

too many players just don't get this game. It is frustrating, and sometimes I can only play solo, so I get a good game. But atm I lack the skill to play the levels your at... but watching you play, helps me learn the tactics I need to use to maybe finish one.

[@MrGilleez]

Love your vids man, have been watching for a while but must admit I only subscribed since the HD2 content. Have you heard anything from the devs on the bug with playing crossplay with ps5 players? Seems pretty massive for them to not even have taken notice, especially with all the evidence now.

[@OhDough]

Thanks broski I've heard nothing nothing on the ps5 bug so far whick kinda sucks since it still takes me 4x the effort to kill bile titans without a ps5 player im the lobby

[@toddestabrook4869]

@OhDough, what is your opinion on the weapons that do medium armor pen - such as Liberator Pen and Dominator?

[@novitrix9671]

Dont sweat ur gameplay Im impressed already 😎

[@philosofrenzy]

You don't need to drop and pick up your samples to see how many you have. You can bring up the map and they will show up. Or, you can go into your options and set them to be always visible.

[@MelodramaticOne]

I wonder is that was the real "Doughnut Operator". Great vid BTW!

[@TheRyderShotgunn]

i think the railgun can open those containers. i know the anti material rifle and the arc thrower can, kinda on accident out of exasperation when i realized i didnt have anything else, not even orbitals or exploding barrels

[@user-be2zu7ld9e]

Grenades?

[@jjhh320]

Anti material rifle is perfect for bots at lower levels, idk how it holds up against bugs but its a solid build. Autocannon does better, but its scope is worse so I'd go with the antimat rifle if I had to provide long range support. Bugs will rush you, so sniper support is less practical against them.

[@Rick_Sanchez_Jr.]

Is that THEE Donut Operator?

[@OhDough]

perhaps, I didn't ask tho

[@benmiles00]

I have to try this. I need those samples!

[@roiledred]

I think I might be sleeping on the gas strike to hard, especially to pair with my buddy who loves to arc throw and cluster bomb hordes.

[@BackwardsPancake]

Yeah - The thing about gas strike is that it's a pretty unimpressive stratagem in terms of effect and area, but the cooldown is so short that it's actually reliable. It does what it does well and often, and it can actually do some serious work if you manage to drop it on a chokepoint. It's a great orbital for dealing with trash, if you have a 500kg for dealing with heavies on your eagle and you don't want to put clusters on the same cooldown. The shell impact can destroy outposts too, but it's really finicky and inconsistent.

[@godoftsukuyomi7480]

Me and my friends did this for the robots. I honestly wish they would do this for all of the missions and change how extractions work to encourage people to do this for every mission.

[@arczer2519]

if you enable compass to be visible then POI's will be visible on compass as ? marks when you're fair distance away from them, it makes easier to spot them when they're less visible ones or bugs/bots defending them are dead/went elsewhere

[@Xerox0073]

Hey cool videos. I really like that you show whole mission that way I can learn how to escape hordes or like this video just run through the map collecting like 60 samples. So I want to ask you something with the game getting weekly updates all the guides become outdated really fast. And I've been struggling with Bile Titans recently. I just don't understand what I'm supposed to do to that thing - I use all my stratagems, pop its bottom sacks and it's still chasing me with like 40 hunters stunlocking me constantly. I've even stopped enjoying the game since I've leveld up to like 30-35 and play level 7-9 mission. I need some reliable (not 1-use like Patriot or Spear) method to kill Bile Titans like the Railgun for example. *So can you please make another (to-date) guide for Bile Titans especially uisng Railgun.*

[@stblueberry6992]

i am sure you might need a good team comp for this, a squad dividing 2 into 2, 2 main objective, 2 farming, so that the main objective can be done as fast as possible, so that eventually the full team can be getting the samples

[@soul2310]

sorry but how do you people get the sample indicators to pop up so good like in 10:57? i dont see it like that. i see them barely be indicated except im really really close to them....

[@OhDough]

Could be settings

[@butternutswag]

Not sure if someone answered this in the comments… but the big headed armored bugs do summon bug breeches for sure. And I believe the hunters can also do the same.

[@norayr5193]

Is there some way to highlight the samples, when at a point of interest? to make looting smoother

[@thepope2412]

the anti material rifle is actually a really good against bugs except against the ones you want to use it against.

[@shady4life29inc.8]

Use the railgun to open the crate, faster and you don’t have to wait for the gas

[@ywsx6489]

i'll try this on 4 5 or 6 difficulty. already have more than enough super uranium (only need 65 in total). Common (need about 1380 ish) and rare (total 770 ish) ones holding me back from spending the super uranium.

[@MasikisRillemont]

I knew your name looked familiar I used to watch your dauntless videos, cool to see you on helldivers too!

[@Red-iu6wu]

whats the 2nd best map? im almost at max for common and i got lots of super but i kinda really need rare samples and this mission isn't up right now

[@Okil_Atlas]

If you do this with randoms. I find completing the mission super fast, then getting samples works better.

[@Prockski]

Donut Operator was in that mission? Nice.

[@martinrobertus531]

if you have your compass up you can see the "?" on the compass as you run around. these indicate Small POI's.

[@arvy7765]

21:42 Glad they didn't get any of those samples

[@MusicalBoarder]

Was just in a random lobby. I'm maxed and was just helping lower levels. Found 6 rares in a difficulty 4 in one spot like this and was thinking I was lucky haha. Makes sense if its like this on those types of missions.

[@jb03hf]

You are still helping the mission as you are helping teams with those who cannot easily get samples.

[@olorinistar9903]

One bit of misinformation that was repeated a lot in this video was regarding the idea of taking heat off of your teammates. Unless this particular mission type behaves differently from others, being more than 75 meters away from your teammates actually increases the number of bugs the map spawns. The game tracks players by groups and spawns bugs based on how many groups there are, but does not track which group it is spawning the bugs on. So if you have three people doing the objective and you are off on your own, bug behavior ranges from you getting double the normal amount of bugs called on you and your team getting nothing, all the way to you getting nothing and your team getting double the normal bugs, but there will always be double the bugs getting spawned on the map. Other than that though, great info! I will definitely be using this method, just be aware that you are increasing the number of bugs on the map by doing so. EDIT: Just watched your newest video, and I see that this mission IS different from the other missions. Glad I put that caveat in my initial comment lol. I will leave this here in case someone sees it and reads for confirmation so they will see that this is an exception. Link to video that explains this being an exception: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hpfNm6udaaZ5Z7c

[@SirAwesome5auce]

Holy shit I did not know gas strike was that effective for chaff enemies

[@goaten]

How do you find these missions? There's only one planet vs Terminids available today for me

[@jaywerner8415]

I got to ask, does the gas strike ACTUALLY KILL ANYTHING for you? Cus i swear every time iv used it, it kills NOTHING.

[@OhDough]

Yup, it habdles most of the small things and lingers long enough to be useful for me

[@carlosflores4179]

Gas is really good. Fast and deadly

[@Jimov]

It's good against bug breaches to stem the flow of smaller bugs which can overwhelm you leaving you to concentrate on bigger foes. I also like to use it to destroy bug holes.

[@jaywerner8415]

@@Jimov I have dropped the Gas on Bug breaches SO MANY TIMES and not gotten a SINGLE KILL! I sit their and WATCH for Mutikill SKULL to pop up to indicate it killed something and IT DOES JACKSHIT!

[@jaywerner8415]

@@carlosflores4179 Not from my experience its not.

[@smokey0502]

Here's a tip. If you have your compass up you can see the question marks for POI.

[@jimberlee6257]

Thanks for the guide, super helpful! Question: at 11:33 your sample count shows at 31/30, how did that happen?

[@OhDough]

no idea tbh, it's happened a couple times before

[@jimberlee6257]

I dropped with some randoms earlier and one of the super credit pickups was 100 and not 10. First time I’ve seen that, you run into it happening?

[@ThatOliveMrT]

30 samples on the map +1 from a cargo crate that could've been super credits or whatever is on rotation. So the crate loot is generated after samples are put on the map

[@elliottreed5283]

Great tips on samples. I'm not sure if you're aware of this or not though but there's been extensive testing done recently on the enemy spawn system and we now know for certain how it works. You should look into it as you still seem to not be aware of what/what doesn't actually effects enemy spawn rates and intensity.

[@aynes8099]

There is no videos on your channel. Where can I see the info about spawn rates?

[@OhDough]

it's a vid saying some nonsense apparently. they're saying the opposite of what I'm saying.

[@JM.MEL_]

@@OhDough Dude, atleast test it yourself before calling it nonsense. Vid hes mentioning tested and confirmed a reddit post with 20k+ upvotes. While its possible that it could all be wrong, I think its more likely than not that it's mostly accurate. When multiple people do the same thing and get the same results its usually quite telling. Apparently enemy reinforcements and patrols increase if players are split up. There's no set number of patrols that spawn that you are luring away, rather, you are creating a separate spawn location and effectively are doubling the ads. This is all according to the reddit post, but like I said, it could be wrong. Its worth checking out.

[@tutompop]

@@aynes8099cymonsays made the vid. Based on some work posted in Reddit.

[@tutompop]

It’s not nonsense. It is however being misunderstood by op. Its patrols spawns, not breaches and not drops. AND it wasn’t tested on some mission types, of interest is the personnel evacuation missions. So that info may not even apply to this strat. That’s why reading is important and you shouldn’t just watch videos.

[@jdrs1910]

This is a pro dayum.

[@jeffbloomquist7925]

If you can't move your hellpod when falling, it is because you pressed the movement button too quickly... Release the button and do it again you will move!

[@btbarr16]

I fell victim to joing up with a random hacker to where we finished a match and had way more samples than it was possible to collect. I thought maybe it was a server issue until I saw in a video saying that it may be hackers doing it. At first I thought I would still need to grind for super samples since I haven't played above extreme difficulty and that was only once or twice. I figured I'd still need to grind since I only got 90 super samples. Then after I saw the video about a hacker doing this I looked at the level three ship upgrades and realized they only require 10 super samples each. Fortunately, I still have plenty of rare samples to grind for. I truly don't understand why anyone would hack a PvE game. The progression is a large part of the fun and none of the ship upgrades are so earth shattering that the game is unfun without them. I mean, maybe it was a glitch or server error, but I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't. I used to be horrible about looking for samples, but now if I join up with randoms on easier difficulties, it's become my own personal mission to make sure the common samples get extracted. I don't need common samples anymore, but I'm damn sure going to make sure the other people get them.

[@cattysplat]

So much for kernal level anti cheat in a PvE game.

[@diabolicaldoodle]

I hope that was the real Donut Operator

[@KOS762]

Can we find those amount of samples on say a lower level like 4? or is it just the upper levels? I know super rare are not available at low levels.

[@OhDough]

On this mission there's a chance

[@KOS762]

@@OhDough Thanks for the info

[@chaosgilleon6433]

"Perfection is a dead end" -squad 12 Captain

[@Kronosbattlemaps]

what i took from this video - The gas orbital strke actually does work.

[@Thesavagesouls]

Played on 7, was having a hard time with a team of randos but nvm we made steady progress toward the main objective. Felt very rewarding. Had even secured 6 legendary drops. Got swiped at the extract. Like swiped by a wave of mid tier robots. Failed extract. A good 30-40min for nothing. Great game.

[@cattysplat]

Sometimes you get it, sometimes you get got.

[@Thesavagesouls]

True I definitively got got.

[@mspotato138]

This video made me like the orbital gas strike

[@riverstudd]

I play ps4 and exclusively run helldive pubs. It seems to me that a majority of my squad mates are usually on pc. When I ask the answers reflect that. I SUCK. But I will hold down objectives and stick with the team as we chew through the map. I have noticed when one player goes off and does what your doing here it makes the whole thing much better and we come out rich. If someone doesn't the whole team just runs a slog fest of hell and depending on everyone's teamwork is the only way you can make it through with brute force. So I never talk crao and leave the solo diver to his work as we snag the objectives and he does the loot.

[@brosquito7483]

Can I just use the lowest difficulty to just farm samples or the spawn rate is lower on lower difficulties?

[@Valuelesscoma]

@OhDough I know that the arc thrower can destroy the vault doors, but can the railgun destroy it fully charged so you don't have to use an orbital?

[@OhDough]

will check

[@Blah81150]

Slugger and laser cannon take care of them.

[@meestur6210]

nope

[@Auraknight]

Pretty sure that guy was 'Morals are elastic'

[@linkinbreak]

I thought the gas stratagem was dumb because it didn't go boom. I have seen the error of my ways. One of them you got like 35 kills. Same with the EMP nades. That's clutch when you nade them to pause them, then gas them all while running towards the next sample cache.

[@omegacrash4933]

Does the gas strike obscure vision as well? It would be a shame if it didn't.

[@theblackout6661]

The bugs call breaches almost all bugs can call one more bugs in an area more breaches after one is done.

[@Target_Helldivers2]

You're awesome bro, thnaks

[@raskolnikovsghost2701]

BRB gonna go try this before they fix it

[@madthane_]

7:47 I've seen the small bugs, the shielded one(not charger) and the one that loses its head and charges straight at you, those call bug breaches when they spray shit up in the air.

[@OhDough]

I meant to say they aren't doing that in this mission and instead it's just random breaches

[@thedoomslayer5863]

searched every single planet on 7-9 and could not find the evacuate personnel mission, beginning to believe they shadow nerfed this by removing it.

[@RoanRahl]

Having the same issue.

[@benwithers2266]

Didnt realize how cracked the gas strike just watched a tier list guy put it in f tier lmao

[@sonryse9782]

I wish I knew this before i maxed out my ship modules 😂

[@twilltheinfamous2375]

How do you get the sample icons to show like this?

[@roeskillama2361]

you can just explode the blue and orange POI doors with the explosive barrels that are near them

[@adlez47]

You don't need air strikes for those containers. Regular grenades work fine.

[@OhDough]

I had stun grenades which don't break them

[@connertomaterhater6691]

How do you get the sample count to show? I turn show samples to visible but it doesn't show. Also, the slugger to open container doors would be useful.

[@lswbrickmaster]

He opens the map, thats how you see how many samples you got

[@awildgrendel7148]

How’s there so many samples all in once spot? I’ve played so many games and have never once seen samples all in one area.

[@imahaloguy]

You run the gas orbital? I didn’t think that one was any good. Did you make any videos explaining why it’s a good pic?

[@HypnoticChronic1]

Well it negates armor for one and for two it lingers for a bit so enemies will still take some damage after the initial impact, if not still outright kill them and for three it has a very short cooldown by comparison to the other orbitals. It works great for the bugs since they typically cluster tho I've found it to be not so great for the bots since they tend to spread out and attack from range, thus making it more difficult to predict their pathing for a good cluster kill.