EASIEST and BEST Way To Farm XP⧸MEDALS⧸SAMPLES In Helldivers 2 (fun way)

Reloading. Hello and welcome back to a new

video. So today I'll show you the most

fun, maybe not the most efficient way of

farming XP, medals, and common samples in

Helldivers 2, but it's probably the most

unique way and the most fun way of doing

this. Okay, so basically what you're going

to need is the recoilless rifle. The

autocannon turrets and the rocket sentry

turrets. You can also get the mortar or

the EMS mortar if you have a 4th slot

available. Some of these planets recently,

they've got this effect that reduces the

amount of stratagems you can take by 1,

so maybe you can only take 3. In that

case, you definitely need— you definitely

need the autocannon and the rocket sentry

and the recoilless rifle at minimum. So

basically, the strategy and the tactic of

this is we're going to place our rockets

and autocannon sentry near an edge on the

top of the base, and they're gonna aim in

unison towards the dropships. And then

you're gonna use your recoilless rifle to

also assist them in shooting down the

dropships. Now you might be thinking,

what is the point of shooting down the

dropships? They don't count towards your

total kill score for the Automaton defense

missions. But actually, if you can get

them to drop off their payload of troops

and then explode and then crash onto the

top of the troops they dropped off, they

can actually end up killing and wiping out

the entire squad that they just dropped

off. So for example, in the beginning of

this video you saw the dropship crash and

burn, and it actually blew up about 10 of

its own troops before my turrets even

started shooting at them. So it definitely

does do damage against their own troops if

the dropship crashes and explodes on top

of them, which is pretty funny. Now

something I noticed is that most people,

when they run this mission, they don't

take any weapons. They don't take the

Recoilless Rifle. Maybe sometimes they'll

take the Railgun thinking it'll be useful,

but usually when you run this mission,

everyone's going to take 4 Sentries

because that's what they've learned is the

best. And maybe that is the best, but it's

kind of boring. It's fun to have a bit of

a mess around with the Recoilless Rifle.

And actually noticed one of my team

members also started copying me, and he

took the Recoilless Rifle as well. And

then we started shooting down dropships

together, and we were just able to shoot

down the dropships much faster. Because

sometimes, even with the autocannon and

the rocket sentry firing at the dropships,

it's not enough damage to do against them,

and the dropships get away before you can

blow them up. And you really need a

second— or maybe just one recoilless

rifle, or a second recoilless rifle will

be enough to take down the dropships so

they blow up directly on top of the troops

that they've just dropped off. So that's a

pretty funny way— look, I just killed 17

troops. Did you see that? Times 17 just

because the dropship crashed on its own

people. I have tried shooting at the tanks

as they're being dropped off, but for some

reason they don't really seem to take that

much damage when they're falling. With the

recoilless damage as well, they don't seem

to blow up midair, which I was hoping for.

So if you have a good team, you can finish

this mission in usually under 2 minutes,

sometimes as fast as 1 minute and a half,

and then you get about I forgot now, a

couple thousand XP. If you do it on

Helldive difficulty, you get about 1,000

or more requisition. You get about 8 to 10

medals. But in addition to this medals,

XP, and requisition, you can also get

samples. So if you run around the edge of

the map, there's about 10 samples that you

can find, and they always respawn in the

exact same location. So once you've

memorized where they respawn, you can

easily just run around, do a circuit

around the base, and and pick up the

samples quickly before the 2 minutes is

over and you get into the dropship. Also,

the Recoilless Rifle is great for mopping

up things like the Hulks and Automaton

tanks. They take quite a lot of damage,

so you're gonna need something like an

Expendable Anti-Tank Missile Launcher or

Recoilless Rifle or something heavy-duty

in case for some reason you didn't kill

enough Automatons before the Sentries ran

out of ammo or got destroyed, and now

you're just kind of on your own with your

team and there's still tanks and Hulks

making their way up to the base, then

having the recoilless rifle is actually

really useful because, yeah, you can blow

up the Hulks in 2 shots, and I think you

can blow up the Automaton tanks in maybe

2— no, maybe 3 or 4 shots can

blow up the tanks, maybe less if you hit

them in the back on the glowing vent, but

they really do make short work of most of

the armored enemies in this game. Okay,

so I'll quickly show you step by step how

to do this strategy. So first of all,

definitely you need the Recoilless Rifle

unlocked. I'm just assuming you have

everything unlocked by now like me because

it doesn't really take that long to unlock

everything. And then we go over to the

mission terminal. Okay, so I'll just show

you step by step how to do this tactic.

You want the Recoilless Rifle, the Rocket

Sentry Autocannon, and also the EMS

mortar. And don't worry about the booster,

doesn't really matter. And then I'll show

you exactly where to place them. When

you've landed on the planet, it's very

important that you go to the edge of the

map and you don't place the sentries

nearby anything like a

bunker or wall, because they might

accidentally blow themselves up. The

turrets are pretty stupid, so you look for

this tower And then you go near the tower.

And first of all, call down your

Recoilless Rifle.

Ah, damn it, it's got the effect where it

scrambles your stratagems. I didn't mean

to put the Rocket Sentry there.

It's gonna call it down last, isn't it?

Oh, the autocannon went right next to the

rocket. That's the worst, the worst ever

placement. I was supposed to put it at the

edge so it could shoot down at the enemies

and up. Now it can only shoot up and down

there. So I really hate it when you land

on these planets and they got that stupid

negative effect where it scrambles your

stratagems. Okay, pick up your rocket

launcher and let's fire this one. This

one's already taken a few hits. Nah, that

one didn't kill anything. Oh, they got

that one as well. So if you get any kills,

the yellow skulls at the bottom, it's

because you blew up the dropship. Because

you don't have a mortar, I've only got the

EMS mortar. Oh, I got that one too.

They really should make it so the dropship

counts towards destroy Automatons.

Where's the tank? You can blow up the tank

as well using this. You also lie on the

ground and reload it, which is pretty

funny. Look at this, it's just

casually lying down with his rocket

launcher. I don't know if the dropship has

a weak spot. It doesn't seem to have

glowing vents. That one got away. You

should get like a wreckage of dropships at

the bottom doing this.

I don't have any mortars Oh, there's a

tank there. It does

take quite a few rockets to kill the

tanks, which is kind of annoying.

I've only got the rocket sentry left, but

it's not doing anything.

See, 2 rockets and it's still, still

going, and I ran out of rockets. Someone

called down the resupply, which is useful.

The Rail Cannon Orbital Strike is also

pretty good at taking down dropships, but

it's got like a 2-minute cooldown. There,

1 minute 30 seconds, we finished this.

It's so quick.

When you don't have the turrets, there's

no point wasting rockets on the ships

because one rocket is not going to be

enough to take down the dropship. We still

have 30 seconds to call down new ones and

then just mop up the remaining enemies.

I don't know why my hotel room is so

echoey. I don't know if you notice it.

I also didn't bring my mic stand. I had to

put my bag, my backpack, on my lap and

then rest the microphone on top of the

backpack so it's near my mouth, because I

can't use my hands because my hands are

holding the mouse and keyboard.

Okay, go into the ship,

and then we'll see how many points I got.

It literally took 2 minutes. And then

if you run around the base, you can get

the samples. Someone's already getting the

samples. Actually, I should have helped.

I forgot. You can do that if you want to.

I don't really care about common samples

anymore. I've got like 200 of them.

The game gets kind of boring after you've

maxed everything out and you don't need

currency or samples or anything to do

anything anymore. I even got— I got

everything on the war bonds menu as well,

so I don't even need medals. I got like

200 medals because I keep playing it

because I'm bored, but I've got nothing to

buy with the medals, which kind of sucks.

I wish it had more things to buy, like

customizations for the mothership,

customizations for the dropship maybe,

like, oh, the dropship has a missile

launcher or 2 Gatling guns instead,

or it arrives faster.

So we got 1,000 XP, 4,500 requisition,

probably like 8 medals. Yeah, 8 medals.

That's about it really, and a couple

samples. Pretty good for a day's work.