Helldivers 2: All Sample Types And How To Get Them

Helldivers 2 offers players weapons and Stratagems to use against Terminids and Automaton enemy types in the game. While you get Stratagems by leveling up and using Requisition Slips to purchase them, their upgrades are unlocked by investing Samples, another in-game resource or currency.

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Samples must be obtained to get new ship upgrades and get top-notch support. This becomes vital to success when you start playing on Impossible or Helldive difficulty. Ship Module upgrades are the only way to strengthen all Stratagems you carry in your loadout. This guide entails all Sample types and how to get each one of them in the game.

All Sample Types

Samples in Helldivers 2 come in three rarities: Common (Green), Rare (Orange), and Rarer (Pink). The green ones spawn in large numbers per map and they are commonly found near facility buildings, destroyed bug holes, and near egg nests.

Each Sample type plays an important role in unlocking Stratagems upgrades. This can be accessed while navigating the Ship Module section found in the Ship Management.

Common Green Samples

The Eradicate missions usually have seven Green Samples that you can collect every ten minutes. A few Eradicate missions have 15 Green Samples that you can collect in ten minutes before the mission timer ends.

The Blitz and Attack missions allow you to collect more Samples per run but these mission types come with a large map size to explore. This increases the time to collect Samples and there are high chances you can miss a few. Therefore, Eradicate missions are best at collecting Green Samples in the game.

Green Samples will start appearing in missions with difficulty levels Easy and above.

Rare Orange Samples

The Orange Samples are mostly found after clearing bug nests. Usually clearing a medium and large-sized bug nest spawns the Rare Samples for you to collect. The area near the Egg Nests is also a favorite spot to find and loot Orange Samples and for that, you do not always have to destroy eggs first for the Samples to spawn.

Rare Orange Samples will only start appearing by playing missions with difficulty level four and above.

Rarer Pink Samples

The easiest place to get the Rarer Pink Samples in Helldivers 2 is by destroying Spore Spewers. Once it is destroyed, the Rarer Pink Samples usually spawn around the damaged structure. You can carry up to three Rare Pink Samples per mission though so there is not much opportunity to get these in high quantity per run.

Rarer Pink Samples can only be collected if you play missions with difficulty level seven and above, which includes, Suicide, Impossible, and Helldive difficulties.

How To Bank Samples

Samples are not a permanent currency that stays with your diver after looting it from Terminid or Automaton planets. Instead, you need to extract while holding a certain number of these to store them permanently. This is the only way to bank Samples and these are shared in every mission between party members.

If you die, all of your Samples will be lost and you or someone else will need to collect them back before leaving the mission.

How To Use Samples

To use the collected Samples, interact with the ship computer that is found opposite the cryo chamber. Interact with it to open the Ship Management and then go to Ship Module. You will find various upgrade types that you can get by spending various Sample types.

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