Good Rare Sample Farm?

[Wartime Photographer]

I can't ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ find any ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ rare samples anywhere.

[Redeyeflight]

When a planet has a defend objective, choose the special defense mission, and don't do the objective. The rare sample density at POI's is insane. You can easily pull 40 per mission solo.

This is only for Defend planets, not liberation.

[Macdallan]

What level missions are you playing? If I recall correctly rare samples only spawn at difficultly 4+, super at 7+.

[McFuzz]

Play on like 5. The loot locations sometimes have one or more, but they are very often in and around nests.

The spore towers always have some round the base.

Higher difficulties = more spawn spots.

[Flo]

What's a special defense
All I know is eradication and escort civilians, and these missions don't even have rare samples.
Also, the maximum amount of rare samples is 25 in Helldive difficulty.

[DarkFenix]

Play on any big 45 minute mission at difficulty 4+, sweep the map for POIs. Better still if there's a radar sub-objective to switch on. Pretty much all POIs, secondary objectives, main objectives, and bug nests will be dotted with common/rare samples.

No need to be 100% thorough, I normally play on diff 7 and it's normal to come out with 15-20 commons and rares on a good sweep of the map.

[Loot]

Originally posted by Redeyeflight:

When a planet has a defend objective, choose the special defense mission, and don't do the objective. The rare sample density at POI's is insane. You can easily pull 40 per mission solo.

This is only for Defend planets, not liberation.

Oh. You legit can't get them while attacking? No wonder I haven't found any yet. -.-
Been waging war on Malevelon Creek nearly since I started.

[Flo]

Originally posted by Loot:

Oh. You legit can't get them while attacking? No wonder I haven't found any yet. -.-
Been waging war on Malevelon Creek nearly since I started.

Of course you can. Nothing in his post is claming that you can't.

[Loot]

Originally posted by Flo:

Originally posted by Loot:

Oh. You legit can't get them while attacking? No wonder I haven't found any yet. -.-
Been waging war on Malevelon Creek nearly since I started.

Of course you can. Nothing in his post is claming that you can't.

Derp. I had a brain fart. Was thinking of those pink samples, not the orange rares. Are they in difficulty 6+? I've only done it a few times, and had a rough go of it when 3 bile titans decided they wanted to make the place their stomping grounds. Lol

[Flo]

Originally posted by Loot:

Derp. I had a brain fart. Was thinking of those pink samples, not the orange rares.

The pink ones only spawn in diff 7+ and are all located at the same place, always at the foot of a tall rock formation that stands out from afar

[Kyrain]

Then your not checking out the pois or side objectives enough.
You have a Sporespewer side objective? -> Kill it and kill the bugs that are there and loot the samples that are there
Some Pois have rare samples around them or inside of them.
The One mission where you have to probe the ground always has a few rare samples around the mission perimeter.
The Excape Pod side mission mostly spawns with samples around it.

[Kyrain]

Originally posted by Flo:

Originally posted by Loot:

Derp. I had a brain fart. Was thinking of those pink samples, not the orange rares.

The pink ones only spawn in diff 7+ and are all located at the same place, always at the foot of a tall rock formation that stands out from afar

Just look after a Chickenwing that has thundermarkings all around it, it has sometimes the tendecies to spawn really far away tho so you gonna want to look out for it and there is sometimes 2 of them wich one of them is a fake one where there are no super samples around them.

[Macdallan]

Originally posted by Flo:

Originally posted by Loot:

Derp. I had a brain fart. Was thinking of those pink samples, not the orange rares.

The pink ones only spawn in diff 7+ and are all located at the same place, always at the foot of a tall rock formation that stands out from afar

Most of them look more or less like this:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3191797176

[Loot]

Originally posted by Flo:

Originally posted by Loot:

Derp. I had a brain fart. Was thinking of those pink samples, not the orange rares.

The pink ones only spawn in diff 7+ and are all located at the same place, always at the foot of a tall rock formation that stands out from afar

Thanks.