NEW Best FAST Easy Way To Farm All Samples In Helldivers 2 (Pro Level Guide)

So I want to share my new way of farming

samples in Helldivers 2. It's probably the

best and easiest, fastest way to harvest

and farm lots and lots of samples that

you'll need to upgrade your ship modules.

We'll be starting off with the most basic

samples, the common samples, and actually

you'll be needing hundreds of these to

upgrade your ship. You won't be needing as

many rare samples or super samples because

you just don't really need that many to

upgrade the 2nd and 3rd tier of the ship

modules. So if you want to farm loads of

common samples, the green ones, I've

actually found a new way to farm them,

and it's using the Automaton Defense map,

which most people are using right now to

farm XP and medals. You can also use it to

farm common samples pretty well. There's

actually 10 common samples to be found

around the map, so instead of just going

AFK whilst you let your mortar sentries

destroy everything, you can first plant

your mortar sentries and then start

running around the map. To collect the

various samples that are shattered, that

are dotted around the map. It is kind of

dangerous because the bots will keep

dropping and you'll be constantly under

fire, but if you use light armor and maybe

the shield generator, then your mortars

and the sentries should keep you safe.

And if you run into any big enemies, just

maybe duck out the way or go back the

other way. The samples respawn in the

exact same place every single time, so

after you've done this a few times, you

will start to memorize where exactly they

are to make your run more efficient. It's

not a really safe way to get samples and

farm samples, but it is pretty quick

because if you think about it, this map

usually takes about 2 to 3 minutes with a

good team just spamming mortars, and you

finish this map in around 2 minutes. And

you can usually— well, I usually get about

5 to 7 samples. I haven't found out how to

get all 10 samples. I don't know where the

other 3 samples are hidden. I don't really

have the luxury to be able to explore

around the base because you just get blown

up by the tanks. As you can see, the tanks

are usually waiting at the base of the

base, and it's too dangerous to go down

there. So the other samples might be

around there, but it's too dangerous. So

usually I get about 5 to 7 samples every

run if I'm lucky enough to actually not

die and not lose my samples. Then I get 5

or 6, 7 samples maybe, and that takes

about 2 minutes. So it's about 3.5 samples

per minute. If you're doing this for 1

hour, that's 60 minutes. And if we do 60

minutes times 3.5 samples, that means

we're going to get about 200 common

samples every hour. That's pretty

efficient if you do the maths. So if you

get bored of doing it that way, because I

have to agree it is a pretty boring way to

farm common samples, there's another way

that I found is pretty good. You want to

put the difficulty down below level 4.

Anything above level 4 difficulty is just

too difficult to make it worth doing. You

get too many Chargers. As soon as there's

armored Chargers in the game, then it just

slows you right down. So you need to go

down to like level 3, and you want to look

for the missions that involve looking for

some kind of drop pod. So for some reason

I could only find the drop pod missions on

the planet Erata. I checked the other

ones. Let me see, I checked Hellmire and

Estanu and Krymsica. I couldn't find the

drop pod missions on those planets. Maybe

on Hellmire? No, I can't

find the drop pod on Hellmire. It seems to

be only on Erata Prime. So go to Erata

Prime, and it looks like a little bullet

with smoke coming out.

Upload escape pod data. This one's really

easy because you just land at the

objective, upload data, and then you can

do whatever you want. Go farming for

samples, go straight to the extraction

whenever. You got 40 minutes to explore

the map. We could do level 3, medium

difficulty, so no stupid armored chargers.

The problem is if there's armored

chargers, then you have to take certain

weaponry like the railgun to be able to

deal with them. Otherwise, they're just a

nightmare. So we don't need to bother with

a railgun because there won't be any

armored chargers. So you've got this map,

you see the red glowing bits? This is

where the bug nests are, and a lot of

samples are located around the bug nests.

But we're gonna go straight for the

primary objective. That means we can just

extract straight away. If we don't do the

primary objective, basically what it means

is we have to wait 40 minutes until the

time is up for the extraction to come,

because the extraction won't come until we

finish the objective. So this way we get

the objective done straight away. So I

recommend you take the Guard Dog Rover to

watch out for your back whilst you're

running around. And then I also recommend

you get the— you should get the 500 kg

bomb, maybe the gas strike, maybe the

laser as well. Basically, you just want

stuff that's going to enable you to

completely destroy bug nests and wipe

everything out as quickly as possible.

And then as for the booster, you really

want to get the Stamina Enhancement

Booster. This just makes it so you can

sprint for longer because it increases

your stamina capacity. And then for the

gear, obviously you want light armor, but

this one is good because you get 30% less

chance to be detected. But this one's also

good because it increases your throw range

by 30%, so you can start chucking those

airstrikes from further away. I like to

get this one because it's good. Ideally,

the best way to farm samples in this game

is if you have a good team and you just do

max difficulty, like level 8, level 9

Helldive difficulty. And you can get like

40 common samples, about 20 rares, 6 super

samples, and it takes about 30 minutes.

The problem with doing it that way is it's

not guaranteed. It only works if you have

a good team. But if your team kind of

sucks and then you get to the extraction

point and then you just get swarmed and

keep wiping at the extraction point, then

people panic. They just rush onto the evac

dropship without bothering to recollect

the samples, and then you've just wasted

30 minutes on nothing. That's happened to

me because I did a whole mission for like

30 minutes, 40 minutes, and we got loads

of samples, and then at the end we just

got completely— we got completely wrecked

and we lost all the samples. So you don't

want to do that if you really care about

farming samples. If you just want to have

fun and have a challenging game, then

that's fine, then everything's fine. But

it's not the greatest way to get samples

because it is very risky. Okay, so we

dropped here on the map. I want to go

straight to— I was going to go straight to

the objective, but there's a glowing thing

here. Just get this first.

If you see these, head for them because

sometimes— oh, look, look, look, common

sample! We can get a max of 17 common

samples on this map. I'm not sure how long

it's going to take. We'll have to

calculate it at the end. We're not going

to get every single sample because it's a

pain in the backside trying to locate

every single sample. Just get like 13,

14, maybe 11 if you're not lucky,

and we head to the main objective.

On level 3 difficulty, the biggest threat

would be those big yellow bile spewers.

They can sneak up on you and they can

one-shot you, which is kind of annoying.

And because we're alone I've only got one,

one life— I mean, 5 lives. I find it

easier to do alone because if you've got a

team, then they start accidentally

striking— I mean, air striking you,

blowing you up. They pick up your samples

and they lose them again, or they pick

them up and forget to bring them onto the

evac ship if they drop them again. It's

just kind of annoying. But if you want to

do it with a group, you could do that.

You can leave your game open for people to

join. I think I've Put friends only.

Yeah, so I put friends only so we don't

get disturbed. Just do the main objective,

it's nearly done, and then we go hunting

for some samples. So a bunch of bugs over

there coming. I really don't want to fight

anything if I can help it, but you do have

to attack the nests because a lot of

samples can be found at the nests. And

these little facilities like this is where

you'll find a few samples sometimes, so

just be lazy and Chuck the orbital laser,

let that do all the work for you,

and just pick some off like that.

There might be a few here.

Just go in, have a look. Don't stand in

the fire. I think we got none. Okay,

there was none here, so we'll try head for

a bug nest. They usually have a few there.

The bug nests are annoying though because

they spawn so many damn insects, and

sometimes you don't have enough grenades

to blow up all the bug holes. Sometimes

there's like 5 or 6 bug holes and you

don't have enough. Try and use the

airstrikes. So I'm gonna try and aim that

one there. Also, with this, with this

armor, you get 30% extra throw range,

which means you can really chuck those

things. And I'd recommend you get the

Breaker shotgun because it just destroys

everything, especially these big fat ones.

A few shots in the face and they go down.

Really don't want to get spewed on by them

because they can do a lot of damage.

Go for the head, takes them down fastest.

Also, when they explode, it can destroy

the bug holes. I hate

destroying the bug holes because the hole

is so small. Oh, there's a sample.

Sometimes you miss with the grenade

because the hole is so small, so you gotta

get close to make sure it goes in the

hole. I think there was only one there,

so look for the next red patch. We

currently have 2. You see why I was saying

the previous method was much faster, much

more efficient, even though it's much more

dangerous because there's so many bots

trying to blow you up? This is much more

relaxed and calmer.

So just check out every little thing you

can, like this.

Don't think there's anything here. Oh,

there's a Salute the Thing super credits.

Get some ammo, head over to the bug

nest.

Oh, you see those phallic-shaped rocks

overhead— over there? If you're doing

level 7 or above difficulty, this is where

the super samples will spawn. So the super

rare ones— not the rare samples, they're

called super samples, the pink ones. The

orange ones are called rare samples, but

the pink ones will spawn around this rock.

They always look like this, this kind of

black rock with white lines on it. Looks

like something else, some kind of white

fluid. I don't know what that is, but it

looks like a massive C-O-C-K, if you know

what I mean. And then there's more glowing

things down there, but because we're on

level 3, there's not going to be any super

samples. It's weird because you think

getting the super samples would be the

most challenging, but actually it's not

because you get 6 per difficult mission

and you don't really need many to upgrade

your stuff. You need like 5 here, 10

there, but you need hundreds of the damn

common samples to get all the upgrades.

I'm trying to get this upgrade right now

and it needs 100 common samples, can you

believe it? So we've got a big nest over

here, I'm just gonna spam some gas.

500 kg. What else do I have? That's it.

I don't think that killed anything. It

didn't kill anything because I didn't get

the little yellow times number thing that

appears at the bottom when you kill stuff.

Uh, I think they've called a brood bug

breach. If you're lazy, just run in,

don't bother. Oh, there's one. Got one.

Oh, you got 2. Just let the

rover do all the work and run out. I think

there was only 2. Just run. Where's the

next one? Northeast.

Use the orbital laser, that makes things a

lot easier. God, this rover is doing so

much work for me. Look at this thing.

Okay, go down. I think it's clear. Oh,

got one sample.

Maybe one more.

Check around the ridges as well sometimes.

Now usually you don't get them around the

ridges. Usually the rare samples are

around the ridges. I don't think— I think

I already checked the Found a sample in

this bug base, bug nest. We've got 6 now.

This is slow. I found

1 at the extraction point. I just ran

through 2 massive nests and there were no

samples there. I've only got how many? 7

out of 17. It's pretty bad.

Um, okay, so next trick is you look into

the distance instead of going for the bug

nests. Go for the human settlements like

that one and then that one. So we gotta

run between all the different little

locations. There's usually a lot of stuff

in these places. Let's see.

Oh, there's 2, 2 there.

So we got 9 and a

machine gun. Actually might take that.

Machine gun's pretty good for thinning out

swarms. And these guys,

these guys, why they keep following me?

There's another one there.

Let's see if there's one here.

Imagine living here in this little box in

this ugly orange-brown desert.

I don't understand why people would want

to become an astronaut and live on an

alien planet. Just stay on Earth.

Oh, there's a little thing over there. We

have— oh, a sample.

Grenades. Come on,

just one sample. So stingy.

I have 10 out of 17 now. Maybe go south.

Because we haven't explored this area.

Can't see a thing. It's best if you do it

on a map where there isn't a massive

sandstorm. Well, I think I give up. I only

found 10 out of 17 and it took me 20

minutes. And now I have to wait 2 minutes

for the stupid extraction.

So it took me like 19— 21 minutes plus

2, 23 minutes to get 10.

That means if I did it for 1 hour, I'd

only get 30 at this rate. It was way

better farming the Automaton Defense

missions because that mission is just so

OP because you can just place down a lot

of sentries, farm loads of medals, XP,

also the samples, common samples.

Why did they make one mission type that's

really OP for farming everything? And then

they made all the other missions kind of

suck. Weird game design choice from

the developers. And then people in the

comments are whining, saying, oh, please

stop telling everyone to farm that map

because it's making us lose planets. As if

I give a damn. Oh no, we're losing a

planet to fictional video game army. Oh

no. What even happens if you lose a

planet? Imagine you lose

all the planets and then Earth gets wiped

out, and then the game just closes and it

says, sorry, humanity has been wiped out,

thanks for playing. I have no

idea what happens because there's like a

group effort thing, isn't there, where

you're supposed to liberate planets and

there's like a percentage? And apparently

if you just do the defense missions and

then quit the operation to do another

defense mission, it contributes as a loss,

counts as a loss towards liberating the

planet. And because everyone's spamming

this farming method, doing the same

mission over and over again, apparently

it's making us lose planets. But it's not

really our fault, it's their fault for

poor game design. If they made the game

like that, then it's kind of like

poor game design if there's one mission

where it's really easy to farm everything.

Makes you not really want to do the other

missions then, doesn't it? Don't blame me.

Okay, so that's the common samples. Next,

I'll show you how to get the rare samples

and super samples in the best, most

efficient, easiest way. So you need to at

least level 7 difficulty to even have

access to the super samples, the pink

ones. I don't really see any reason Zoo 9

over 7 if your goal is to easily farm

samples. So to easily farm samples, maybe

do Locate and Destroy because there's lots

of samples around the Bug Nest, but

they're pretty hard. I always seem to keep

wiping on these Search and Destroy

Terminid Destruction missions. I also feel

like it's really hard to do alone, so I'd

put it back to public to try and get a

team to do this. And I find the best way

want to do probably the ICBM missions.

Where are they?

I can't find any. I don't think there's

ICBM on Umata. No,

Erata Prime. Why are there only 3 planets?

I hate Hellmire, constant sandstorm.

Uh, Estano and Krymsica, they're only good

ones. Where are the ICBM missions?

Why are there no— oh, there's one there.

2 out of 4. Now this is kind of sneaky,

but I found this other way to easily farm

samples is if you just join someone else's

game where they've already finished half

the mission. Or in the best-case scenario

is they just finished the mission and

they're about to get onto— or they're

waiting for the dropship, and then you

join the game and then you leave. You get

all the samples. You just didn't— you just

joined and you didn't really contribute

much. That's the greatest time. But it's

kind of hard to join a game. I keep

getting these connection errors like that,

and then sometimes you join, you get

kicked straight away. So this one, Launch

ICBM. Can I actually join someone's game?

Sometimes I get this weird bug where

matchmaking stops working and I gotta

restart the whole game. See, it keeps

saying game session no longer available.

Very weird. Okay, I joined the game.

They might be in the mission already. Oh

no. Oh wait, if it instantly takes

you to the drop pod— oh, they, they're

just about to start a mission. Hopefully

they don't kick me. I'm getting kicked

straight away quite a lot of times. I

don't know why. Maybe I'm becoming

infamous. This guy looks like me.

So for this kind of difficult mission,

definitely recommend getting the railgun.

Some airstrikes, laser,

maybe the airburst, maybe the rover as

well, but I can't be bothered. Give them

the increased reinforcement boost.

This is the best map ever. Look how pretty

it is. I love the red ground, the red

grass contrasted with the white sky and

the rocks. Such a cool-looking map. Why

Why do they have to put these stupid sand

dune desert maps? They're so ugly. Why

can't all the maps look pretty and lush,

tropical, alien? So the great thing about

joining other people's matches is you can

just stand here and do nothing whilst they

do all the work, and hopefully they don't

kick you. Try not to look like you're

going AFK. You could just wander off. Oh,

someone already found a rare sample.

Also, because there's 4 people. That means

everyone's going to be trying to get

samples, so you don't have to do all the

hard work. If you really want to be lazy,

then just start your own game and let

people join it, and then let them do all

the work. And if they get upset, what are

they going to do about it? They can't kick

you because you're the host, so they'll

just either leave or not even notice

you're AFK or try to complain about it.

So I found a rare sample here.

Rare sample. There's no real trick to it,

you just find outposts that look like

human— either human outposts or bug nests.

That's where the sample is gonna be. Or

like a crashed wreck sometimes has samples

around it. Usually you don't find samples

just lying around in the middle of

nowhere, they're usually always at some

kind of point of interest. Whoa, that is a

massive bug hole! There's like 7 Oh

crap, should get back to my team.

I found samples! I found a rare sample,

but there's 2 char— oh, common sample. I

really wish I had the jetpack or the

shield. I feel a lot safer.

So I've got some samples there. Oh, we've

got loads of samples here. 1, a 2,

a rare sample.

Going pretty good so far. The problem is,

even if you're going good and your team

seems good and you're getting loads of

samples, when you get to the end of the

game and you're extracting, sometimes you

get completely swamped and swarmed and you

get wrecked at the extraction point and

everyone's desperately trying to get onto

the dropship, and then you forget to pick

up the samples because you keep dropping,

dying, dropping and dying, keep dropping

everything, and then you just wasted 30 to

40 minutes doing all this for nothing.

Usually around the back of the bug holes

you can find a few rares. It's funny, the

rare samples are found at the back of the

bug holes, but the common ones are usually

in the middle. Of the bug holes.

I guess that's not really funny. I guess I

meant interesting. That's not really

interesting either. Also, if you find

these wreckages, these crashed