Summary
Super samples are an extremely scarce resource inHelldivers 2and are only found in missions where one of the three hardest difficulties has been selected. Difficulty options scale well inHelldivers 2and there are many of them, so deciding how much XP and currencies or what pool of resources players hope to receive from a mission is mainly what this choice boils down to. There’ll be far more arduous challenges and more intimidating threats on higher difficulties, but players can weigh that against the available rewards.
Ship modules are what players spend hard-earned samples onand, while a hand cart decreasing backpack cooldowns by 10% may not be as flashy or immediately paramount as any stratagem permit, they are an unsung feature players would be wrong to overlook. Super samples are needed for advanced modules and even if seeking them out is endlessly demanding it wouldn’t be as satisfying or advantageous to the longevity ofHelldivers 2if they were as easy to scrounge as common or rare samples.
Helldivers 2’s Super Samples Can Often Be a Lost Cause
Helldivers 2’s pink super samplesare tremendously toilsome to acquire and hang onto through to a successful extraction unless players are all on the same wavelength and adamant about procuring them as a priority. Otherwise, because super samples can appear in batches of up to six individual pickups, the onus is usually on the player who’s come across them to perilously clutch them for dear life while desperately awaiting extraction.
If super samples are discovered at the beginning of a mission that’s even more stressful since on difficulties higher than Extreme it’s almost guaranteed that players will be cut down by bots or bugs, and yetSuicide Mission, Impossible, or Helldiveneed to be played to loot super samples in the first place.
In a worst-case scenario, nobody but one person in a squad drops intending to scavenge super samples and nobody else cares to loot that player’s corpse for their precious sample container in the event of their death. This is another instance ofwhy reinforcing can be tragic inHelldivers 2as players potentially respawn on the other end of the map with little hope of retrieving what they lost.
Helldivers 2 Wouldn’t Have the Shelf Life It Has without Samples
However,Helldivers 2wouldn’t have much long-term progression beyond Warbondsif super samples weren’t so tough to collect. Medals are fairly easy to come by thanks to daily personal orders awarding players 15 of them and major orders netting them ~50, and major orders don’t even require each and every player to have contributed to their completion for everyone to reap their rewards, meaning Warbonds are relatively quick to progress through on top of completing ordinary missions.
Common and rare samples are found while aimlessly roaming around and searching for mission objectives, and they’re so great in number that dropping a bunch on a corpse usually isn’t detrimental to the overall haul players will walk away with, though ship modules cost a ton of these commonplace samples and make looking out for them worthwhile anyhow.
Rather, ship modules that require super samples are balanced to not cost an exorbitant amount, which is brilliant because only six can be looted from any given mission where they’re available. Therefore, if players managed consecutive god-tier runs they could clean house in the ship module tree—but that is far easier said than done.
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