rare sample bottleneck

[The Wedge]

anyone else having the issue of never having enough rare samples to upgrade the ship? i have maxed req, normal, and super samples but still have three of the last tier ship upgrades to go. they should lower rare sample cost or increase the amount that spawns in missions.

[Mr. Wolfwood]

Yeah, it is annoying to get enough rares.

Also there are high level missions with only normal samples or no samples at all

[Plagen]

Rare samples seem to be the most abundant in my experience. So they're fairly easy to gather. It's just that you need a lot of them.

[The Wedge]

Originally posted by Plagen:

Rare samples seem to be the most abundant in my experience. So they're fairly easy to gather. It's just that you need a lot of them.

you need the same amount of rare samples for the upgrades as regular samples though, some you don't. but overall the amount of rare samples needed is high compared to normal or supers imo

[Vespertellino]

yup

[Pinkeh]

If you get a rescue civilian scientist mission on defend planets. Sometimes you will find 10 rares spawning at a POI. Your mileage may vary as I've only seen 10 rare sample sites on helldive. It may be less for lower difficulties.

[Mr Rabbit]

play harder difficulties.
most mission i do i get 20+ per one

[[SCZ]Celestrian]

Originally posted by The Wedge:

anyone else having the issue of never having enough rare samples to upgrade the ship? i have maxed req, normal, and super samples but still have three of the last tier ship upgrades to go. they should lower rare sample cost or increase the amount that spawns in missions.

pretty much.
atm i have all upgrades, normal samples somewhat maxed, super samples almost maxed, rare samples sit at ~75-80.
250 medals, just unlocked that airburst thing (havent played in ~1.5 weeks).

since medals are capped and everything is unlocked, i dont see a reason to play and get the rare sample cap. maybe when the new warbond is out, but that´s a big maybe atm.


if you want to fast-path rare samples play a defense planet on diff 5-7 (depending on how good your teammates are).
pick the civi evac mission (15 minutes), let 3 people do the mission aka camp buttons), while you run around the map (scout armor (mark, detect enemies - quick & easy) and collect samples.
if your teammates dont fail or dont get f__ked by RNG, they should be done at around 8-9 minutes left.
on diff 7 i evaced with 3/3 super samples and 31 /30 rare samples.

problem with soloing is that the patrol will spawn on you, which can be annoying (especially when bots (play bugs)).
going on diff 5 (i guess 23-25 rare samples solo and ignoring the mission, simply get the samples and take the emergency evac.

why is this so good?
most of the rare samples (diff 7: 30-31 rare samples: about 25 of them) are at 3 points of interest.
if you really want to dig deep into it, you should also learn how those PoIs looks like, so you can ignore the pointless ammo-stashes.

i wouldnt recommend doing it solo, bc it´s not as effective. hosting + typing something in chat is probably a good idea, so randoms dont leave confused.

[Lesurous]

You can farm samples en masses in Evacuate Essential Personnel missions. Points of interests are condensed on these maps, you can find dozens of samples at a single one. Avoid maps with to little land mass and maps with too much. You don't need to complete the mission to extract, simply wait out the timer. If you do want to complete the mission, it's recommended to have a team and to not sit on the objective (you'll concentrate enemy spawns if you do and it gets impossible).

[EggTBD]

I don't have issues getting ~15-25 rare samples at least at level 7 difficulty these days (easier to get more rare samples on bug missions though). You and your team just gotta keep moving systematically around the map to get as many as you can while doing main and side objectives. It didn't take very long for me to get to 24/24 ship upgrades when I dedicated time to help fulfill recent couple weeks of major orders while farming for samples to upgrade my ship.

Nowadays I still run around and help my teammates gather samples pretending that I need them badly even though I have been maxed since about 3 weeks ago and been sitting on 500/250/100 samples for a while now.

[The Wedge]

Originally posted by Mr Rabbit:

play harder difficulties.
most mission i do i get 20+ per one

i play difficulty 9 unless i am doing a mission, so almost all the time, thats not the issue

[[SCZ]Celestrian]

seriously play that defense escort civi mission.
15 minutes, 25-30 rare samples on dif 7.
the bottleneck is real, but since the next sample update is probably far out you easily max that stuff anyway.