Best way to farm rare samples?

[DR. JOHN DEJAVU 1984]

I have enough super samples. How do you farm rare samples? I only need 3 more ship modules before I'm maxed out and the hardest samples to get are rare because the ship modules demand like over 600 of them just to get "targeting for mortars".

I guess over time, I'll eventually get there but if any of you know a good method that can rack these things up big time that I'd probably finish the rest of these modules in no time, let me know, otherwise I'll keep doing the usual strategy.

[Anticitizen 1]

Just the usual pointers:

- Avoid Eradications and Asset Evacs.
- Play on the highest difficulty you are comfortable achieving full clears on.
- Always do Radar side mission if it spawns.
- Play on biomes with good visibility in daytime.

[ZergSquad]

just play the game. u will lose more time trying to search them on a map

[DR. JOHN DEJAVU 1984]

Originally posted by Anticitizen 1:

Just the usual pointers:

- Avoid Eradications and Asset Evacs.
- Play on the highest difficulty you are comfortable achieving full clears on.
- Always do Radar side mission if it spawns.
- Play on biomes with good visibility in daytime.

Thanks, perfect answer

[Lord451]

Originally posted by ZergSquad:

just play the game. u will lose more time trying to search them on a map

This. If you minimize the time you spend running between points, like, by completing the map and moving on to the next one, you maximize the amount of points you hit.

[Nani Sore]

I do the bug hole clearing missions on diff 5. The match is over in around 10 minutes and you end up with around 8 to 13 rare samples if you hit enough objectives. For me that is faster than what I get in a 40 minute mission in terms of samples over time.

I still think it is kind of hard to clear it without running out of time and also getting decent samples but it is working for me.

[Svartkladd]

Originally posted by Anticitizen 1:

Just the usual pointers:

- Avoid Eradications and Asset Evacs.
- Play on the highest difficulty you are comfortable achieving full clears on.
- Always do Radar side mission if it spawns.
- Play on biomes with good visibility in daytime.

+get together a proper team that will actually pick up samples and make sure they reach extractions instead of lollygagging and shooting every enemy they can till there are no reinforcements left - this actually provided me more samples than anything else.
P.S. I'd also say that diff 5 is ok for rares, 6 if you need a bit of supers; higher diffs are worth it only with proper team, otherwise it's too much effort per time spent.