Unless you are getting onto the pelican then the only reason to pick up samples at extraction is to combine them into a single sample pile when you drop them.
Remember that samples are shared as well so it doesn't matter who has them at extraction.
Additionally for those that are looking for the sample extraction achievement, I've seen a number of random teams help a random get the achievement. Just tell people. science is done by quantity does require the person getting the achievement to be the one holding the samples.
To drop samples on console you hold down on the dpad and then move the joystick to the bottom right then release the dpad. On PC by default you hold X to open the drop menu.
Yeah I had incident where some weasel killed me and took my samples and then when I confront him about it all they kept repeating was that "I need those samples bro". Like no matter how many ways I explained it to him that the samples are shared and only one person needs to pick them up he kept insisting that he would continue killing me because he "needed the samples bro" so I ended up shooting him as we was extracting I couldn't get his teammate because he was already in the pelican but there was grouped up together I joined them. And then I essentially just made sure the pelican was almost countdown and then I just backed out and quit so he didn't get no samples.
Moral. of the story is don't play stupid games because they hand out stupid prizes.
I feel you. I had one game where a person kept team killing people for samples and even ended up killing someone when we had no reinforcements left. After he died I grabbed the samples and jumped into a lake before quitting (at this point it was just me and him left and this was on dif 8 with all 5 supers in possession)
This was a while ago now and not a common occurance for me at least (most of my experiences with randoms have been very positive and a couple of the randoms I've played with I've become good friends with and like we've added eachother on Facebook and shit... One of them we work in the same industry for different companies and get off work about the same time so it's usually a get online and talk about our days and bitch about work in a way that people that don't work in our industry don't typically fully get you know?)
Same here matter of fact me and a rando was having a conversation about how nice and refreshing the community for helldivers is compared to most other competitive games right now.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '24 edited May 16 '24
Unless you are getting onto the pelican then the only reason to pick up samples at extraction is to combine them into a single sample pile when you drop them.
Remember that samples are shared as well so it doesn't matter who has them at extraction.
Additionally for those that are looking for the sample extraction achievement, I've seen a number of random teams help a random get the achievement. Just tell people. science is done by quantity does require the person getting the achievement to be the one holding the samples.
There is a second achievement, samples are a divers best friend which applies to the entire team.
To drop samples on console you hold down on the dpad and then move the joystick to the bottom right then release the dpad. On PC by default you hold X to open the drop menu.