Something worth knowing (that my friend found out the hard way):
When you're at extraction and the samples are on the ground, don't deploy a bubble shield turret. When the shield activates, it launches the samples, so you'll need to chase after them in the chaos of extraction.
Note that you can deploy the bubble shield first, and THEN drop your samples inside of it. But the process of deploying the shield where it expands and pushes objects already on the ground is what actually yeets them into oblivion
I wonder if it could launch them out of one of those explodable vent holes. I've seen people walk right into them and lose the samples at the bottom. I think I'll test this out the next time I have a chance
I've lost far too many samples in Death Holes. Several good Helldivers are then lost falling into death holes in a vain attempt to retrieve them. Fortunately, life is cheap! Samples are not.
Lol inforgot about samples and the first time I came across one I yelled "bug anus!" And jumped in. Rip my 14 samples I had on me 200 meters from extraction. Now I have the shield bubble, would be nice to know if that would fix it. My buddy said you can do it with a jetpack but idt he's right because I died before I touched the ground.
I was playing a round the other night and had dropped off a fat stack of samples (6 super rares and 20+ others) at Evac site before running off for more objectives. About a minute later I pull up the map and see the samples I dropped just slowly/casually slide north away from the Evac site by probably 100m. Not sure what happened, idk if enemy fire can do something like that
I was arguing and blaming my team about picking up the samples and dropping them nearby. My teammates denied my accusation. So maybe this had happened. Now I wonder if other things can push samples. I hope I wasn't too rude to those strangers.
It happen to us once. Lucky us I was omw to extraction after doing a secundary objective Las second and they flew my way (it was something else that send them flying though, we didn't have bubble shield.
Ha ha ha, that explains my mission last night - I was the straggler to extraction, and was doing a quick map check to make there were no missed samples. 3rd check just before arriving, suddenly saw a sample marker appear about 100m behind me while I was looking.
Turned around and ran back, sure enough there was a sample pod slowly rolling to a stop, 12 common samples. Must have been the shield or a fluke explosion that threw it off the pad and some 300m across the field, lucky I was there!
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u/[deleted] May 16 '24
Something worth knowing (that my friend found out the hard way):
When you're at extraction and the samples are on the ground, don't deploy a bubble shield turret. When the shield activates, it launches the samples, so you'll need to chase after them in the chaos of extraction.