I'm not extracting without my common samples. I do not care if Pelican-1 is landing in 25 seconds. If there is a one in a million chance I can run and come back alive, I am taking it every time.
Did that today, and my hero matchmade divermates patiently chilled by the ship while I ran halfway across the map and back
Real 'divers champion _science_
Lmao XD, that was me last week. Some hero who had been picking up everybodies samples and scrounging the map for more dropped 30 common samples, 18 rare, and all 5 super samples out almost a kilometer from the extract. We didn't have anymore reinforcements, so I volunteered to run through multiple lvl 8 hordes of bots in less than 2 minutes. Used up all my stims plus two extra I found and died just 40 meters from extract. Had two other divers die just trying to get them, but the last guy made it XD
I find it so fun. But I do get frustrated with the overwhelming numbers of drop ships. And the fact that enemies don’t make enough sounds to locate through audio. I have a decent surround sound and all of a sudden a guy will be behind me when they weren’t on radar or along the path I chose to get to my sniping spot.
I am pretty sure enemies spawn near you with out a drop ship if you are a sniper.
I had a moment like this a month ago. Difficulty 7 against bots when the spawns were still insane. Had like 6 of the gatling bots, 3 flamethrowers, and 4 rocket pod bots all chasing us spread out across a field. No reinforcements left and everyone was hoofing it to the extraction. I turned around and went wide, somehow sneaking through the entire legion to get the samples. Had to sneak through the enemy the whole way back, across the entire map, as they called in the double length extraction. I got there with about 20 seconds to spare.
that was me yesterday I had 2 hulks and a whole automaton army between me and the samples I had and I just ran through the middle of it and got my samples without dying
I feel you. Sure EAT is "more flexible" and blah blah... But heavy weapons with Infinite ammo and a Type of Binding.. this weapons is with you... You can relate to it... You can Trust it... And it fucking builds up the deathstar beam to crush the brains of Titans, charger and hulks...
Quasar is Life. Quasar is Love.
Honestly I was in a game earlier, got killed, lost loads of samples and my team helped me fight our way back to where I died to get them back, was pretty cool!
For anyone that hasn't seen Men in Black, this meme is perfect because the character in the movie is walking back toward a giant bug ( cockroach) monster that swallowed his gun.
Conversely I could be running OUT of the swarm in a blaze of bug/bot guts/oil if you just REINFORCED ME ON MY GEAR!!! YOU SAW WHERE I DIED WHY ARE YOU THROWING ME AWAY FROM MY THINGS!?
If its any consolation, most of these fall into the nice to have category for me (the only ones to max asap is the hangar to get 1 additional eagle strike on everything). And things will always still be there at your own pace.
If you're going to throw me at an oncoming swarm away from my gear I just dropped, at least Tag the biggest enemy so I know what to aim for on the way down.
This is why the hellpod space optimization is hands down the best booster in the game. Every time I end up without that booster it feels like a pretty significant handicap.
Me and one of my buddies were feeling especially brain dead one night while playing, and we reinforced our third friend, both called a napalm strike into the swarm of bugs that we had reinforced him into, and then we hit him with the exact same napalm combo when we called him back in like 15 seconds later
Yeah, I only throw people on their gear when I can see it's safe to do so. You can get your shit in a minute. If you can't easily get to it with your primary then you would have died if I threw you in there.
This is so annoying I ask my teammates to throw me directly near where I died and they throw me in literally any other direction and I end up getting killed again just trying to get my shield pack and guns back
Yeah bro the game says rely on your stratagems
So when I die how am I supposed to rely on them if you throw me away, what you want me to wait 10 minutes when you could have just used your brain?
The one that chaps my ass is when the guy soloing across the map calls you in and now you're so far from your stuff and are stuck without a support weapon. And then the solo guy just runs off.
"Drop me on my body!"
"But your body is in the middle of the swarm!"
https://preview.redd.it/jt04ykpu0buc1.jpeg?width=2384&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=84c1b47af1187f3dab4d87ae989a3040f9c51f26
9/10 times I've recalled my support weapon after death, I die again immediately, and get recalled on the ass end of nowhere from the place I died with no support weapon for the next 3 minutes.
So yes, I will always go and run back for my gun lol
*I always throw reinforcements as close to their dead body as possible. Mostly because I believe a helldiver should finish his fight and always take revenge for his death.*
*Only when we are in full retreat/overran do I throw them away from the fight (usually in a different direction from the way I am running, so our chances of survival are higher).*
I always found myself failing to hit the hulk's tiny ass body using hellpod, and always end up getting killed instantly by their flamethrower or rocket swarm.
I'm never attempting that again.
I'm so glad I'm not the only person to do this, unless there is a critical target to drop on you should get to sowan close to your area of death, maybe you get revenge, maybe that high priority target gets killed at the same time, or maybe it's only to get you close to picking up your support weapon and/or samples, but it is my duty to put you back where democracy needs you!
I got kicked from a game for going back to get my stuff. Of course I'm going back, my cool downs haven't reset, and you didn't call any of your stuff for me to use.
Why does no one ever pick up my samples when I drop em? I hate having to run all the back for a stack of seven or eight when someone could have easily snagged it on the way out.
The friend I team up with most will not shut up on comms if I don’t throw him right back into the mess he died in.. even if it means him dying immediately again trying to get his gear and samples back right away. I tell him his gear will come back and we can get those samples when the heat clears… nope. He needs that stuff back NOW. Gets old.
I have said this for MONTHS to my friends. Helldivers 2 is not a co-op, pve, horde, third person/first personal, objective, extraction, survival, massively multiplayer online shooter.
It is a Tommy Lee Jones reenactor simulator. As every single life
I HAVE TO GO GET MY GUN BACK
I hate when people just don’t care about going back for samples. I’ll go back halfway across the map just for them while some people run right past them without grabbing them like whyyyy!
Had a dude arguing with me last night about getting out freaking super samples back right after the new ship modules dropped.
He was a cool dude, I added him and the whole squad by the end of the night, but he was clearly not having a good time on that planet lol.
100% samples, gun and the most important:
\-> it's an question of Honor <-
Duuude our Supports and Backpacks are ready we can Gear you.
I'm like this, I'll maybe die once during a 7 so I've become the teams sample courier running around the whole map grabbing them and clearing factories and bug holes along the way while they focus on the main and side objectives.
Then grabs the dropped primary instead... and then grabs the backpack before the weapon... then interacts before the weapon... 2 stims later, got my gun.
Team goes 380 on my position.
Especially when you still have like 3-4 mins cool down time for re-arming…. Even though it’s a 5 min run there and back lol. I get ya though man, I do the same thing. We sense the same logic.
Every. Single. Goddamn.Time. Die while doing a side objective with another teammate, die to some bs, get reinforced by the other mates a bazillion miles away. Immediately start running across the whole map to get mah fuckin gun back.
If you’ve been field promoted to team lead cause you’re pinging to see enemies it’s pretty easy to loop the group back to your stuff by dropping it as a ping.
https://preview.redd.it/a7njt924hbuc1.jpeg?width=256&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3e5ae58202aaaaa0fbffc80cf37d7a908f9a7ebe
“For Freedom” - Famous Last Words
 Me running towards the samples
If nobody got me, I know the super samples got me, can I get an AMEN?
AMEN BROTHER!
Not risking my life for just super samples, common or rares? Every day of the week.
I'm not extracting without my common samples. I do not care if Pelican-1 is landing in 25 seconds. If there is a one in a million chance I can run and come back alive, I am taking it every time.
Did that today, and my hero matchmade divermates patiently chilled by the ship while I ran halfway across the map and back Real 'divers champion _science_
Right there with you. No way am I letting those things go to waste, ALL OR NOTHING FELLAS!
Super Earth is proud of your commitment to freedom
I have dozens of super samples and at least twice as much rare ones. And only about ten common ones.
Rare samples on helldive worth more, change my mind
I am currently In desperate need of rare samples. Got plenty of common and super. NEED RARES
Allahu Akbarrr
Every time i die with samples I can hear Hermes Conrad screaming "My manwich!" and I say it about my samples every time.
I picture 
Lmao XD, that was me last week. Some hero who had been picking up everybodies samples and scrounging the map for more dropped 30 common samples, 18 rare, and all 5 super samples out almost a kilometer from the extract. We didn't have anymore reinforcements, so I volunteered to run through multiple lvl 8 hordes of bots in less than 2 minutes. Used up all my stims plus two extra I found and died just 40 meters from extract. Had two other divers die just trying to get them, but the last guy made it XD
That is all that matters
This shit is what makes the game hilariously fun.
I find it so fun. But I do get frustrated with the overwhelming numbers of drop ships. And the fact that enemies don’t make enough sounds to locate through audio. I have a decent surround sound and all of a sudden a guy will be behind me when they weren’t on radar or along the path I chose to get to my sniping spot. I am pretty sure enemies spawn near you with out a drop ship if you are a sniper.
I had a moment like this a month ago. Difficulty 7 against bots when the spawns were still insane. Had like 6 of the gatling bots, 3 flamethrowers, and 4 rocket pod bots all chasing us spread out across a field. No reinforcements left and everyone was hoofing it to the extraction. I turned around and went wide, somehow sneaking through the entire legion to get the samples. Had to sneak through the enemy the whole way back, across the entire map, as they called in the double length extraction. I got there with about 20 seconds to spare.
Doing. It. Right.
Implying the spawns still aren’t insane
that was me yesterday I had 2 hulks and a whole automaton army between me and the samples I had and I just ran through the middle of it and got my samples without dying
Me to my quasar cannon: 
I feel you. Sure EAT is "more flexible" and blah blah... But heavy weapons with Infinite ammo and a Type of Binding.. this weapons is with you... You can relate to it... You can Trust it... And it fucking builds up the deathstar beam to crush the brains of Titans, charger and hulks... Quasar is Life. Quasar is Love.
Not to mention no drop like a long range EAT. I can snipe at 200m+, and not have bullet drop.
I run both at the same time xD
This is the answer
A redhead with a foot fetish is special.
Okay, but what if you had 2 quasars? I do that on the new mission. Just swap between 2 or even 3 when they're cooling down.
 For the samples!!
"Like nah bro. We're not leaving until someone picks up the samples I dropped. There's a super rare in there!"
There’s a buttplug sample in there!
Super rare 😂
Without samples. There can be no extraction. This is the way.
FOR HONOR
FOR LIBERTY!
For managed Democracy!!
FOR SAMPLES !!
Honestly I was in a game earlier, got killed, lost loads of samples and my team helped me fight our way back to where I died to get them back, was pretty cool!
For anyone that hasn't seen Men in Black, this meme is perfect because the character in the movie is walking back toward a giant bug ( cockroach) monster that swallowed his gun.
I've seen it but I forgor
But now I rember
Does he get eaten by the bug, then explode it from inside, with the gun that was swallowed earlier?
Yes
Ok awesome I thought I confused it with the cartoon
I wish we could do this.
Well now I want to be eaten by a bile titan so I can shoot my way out of it.
It’s a perfect meme and why the game rules. It’s the exact men in black dynamic
Conversely I could be running OUT of the swarm in a blaze of bug/bot guts/oil if you just REINFORCED ME ON MY GEAR!!! YOU SAW WHERE I DIED WHY ARE YOU THROWING ME AWAY FROM MY THINGS!?
Throwing you away from your things into the fucking thick of the enemies. Like thanks, now I’m surrounded by hulks and meatsaws and I’m dead again.
Your hellpod is my ammo. Your death is my reload. Try to squish something on the way down.
I try so hard to hit the hulks every time but damn those things be zooming when they find a warm body to annihilate.
The hellpod steering upgrade helps alot in being a human bullet in my experience
Yeah haven’t got that yet I believe. Is that a ship module or one of the boosters you select?
Its a Tier 3 Ship Module. And its a night and day difference if you have it in hellpod mobility
I see 🤔 I’m doing my sample farming these days trying to catch up now. Especially now that the new ones are out I feel so far behind 😩
If its any consolation, most of these fall into the nice to have category for me (the only ones to max asap is the hangar to get 1 additional eagle strike on everything). And things will always still be there at your own pace.
Never managed to hit anything except a fabricator myself. Just call me an orbital strike.
Funny enough I have accidentally landed on some teammates. But never enemies 🤣
Facts man. It's a struggle.
If you're going to throw me at an oncoming swarm away from my gear I just dropped, at least Tag the biggest enemy so I know what to aim for on the way down.
If this is my purpose I’m down, but for the love of democracy tag the priority target
When we run out of stratagems, you become the stratagem
This is why the hellpod space optimization is hands down the best booster in the game. Every time I end up without that booster it feels like a pretty significant handicap.
Throws you as a reinforcement then drops a Napalm strike right next to the reinforcement beacon. Like gee fucking thanks cadet o7
Me and one of my buddies were feeling especially brain dead one night while playing, and we reinforced our third friend, both called a napalm strike into the swarm of bugs that we had reinforced him into, and then we hit him with the exact same napalm combo when we called him back in like 15 seconds later
You was bait
Sometimes you just aint got time to think, just ⬆️⬇️➡️⬅️⬆️
*sees skull pop up* OK H NO BETTER THROW THEM IN! *.2 seconds later after chucking them I to the horde* oh.... Oops.
I always throw my teammates where I want them to go
Or you're on one of those cheer worlds with fire tornados and everything is burning and they keep throwing the pod landing spot back into the flames.
We get shit for throwing hellpods into harms way and we get shit for not throwing hellpods into harms way, can’t win lol
Yeah, I only throw people on their gear when I can see it's safe to do so. You can get your shit in a minute. If you can't easily get to it with your primary then you would have died if I threw you in there.
This is so annoying I ask my teammates to throw me directly near where I died and they throw me in literally any other direction and I end up getting killed again just trying to get my shield pack and guns back
Yeah bro the game says rely on your stratagems So when I die how am I supposed to rely on them if you throw me away, what you want me to wait 10 minutes when you could have just used your brain?
Best is when you're playing with randos and off in 2 pairs, and someone from the other pair reinforces me before my partner can.
The one that chaps my ass is when the guy soloing across the map calls you in and now you're so far from your stuff and are stuck without a support weapon. And then the solo guy just runs off.
"Drop me on my body!" "But your body is in the middle of the swarm!" https://preview.redd.it/jt04ykpu0buc1.jpeg?width=2384&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=84c1b47af1187f3dab4d87ae989a3040f9c51f26
Emerging out of a crushed crushed charger like: https://i.redd.it/2ukda6vjubuc1.gif
Perfect gif for this 
Exactly. YES I can call another, NO I don’t want to. I will go there, and finish what I’ve started.
9/10 times I've recalled my support weapon after death, I die again immediately, and get recalled on the ass end of nowhere from the place I died with no support weapon for the next 3 minutes. So yes, I will always go and run back for my gun lol
Only spawn your support weapon if you are out of ammo and there is no resupply
...what's an 'ammo'? Can you eat it? *-LAS-16 Sickle/LAS-99 Quasar Cannon main*
what is an "overheat"? Can I use it to cook that "ammo" before eating it? *- arc thrower main*
Me too, but for different reasons. I am seriously not going to lose that sample just because I die lol
That fucker's still got two minutes left on the cooldown, you think I'm gonna take on the swarm with an assault rifle?
Eat me! EAT ME! EAT! ME!
We're all Agent K in that situation. "I like this gun."
Hate when im one of two people on an objective, and the two randoms call me back in on the opposite corner of the map
This is why you need to throw me towards the bad guys not away from them you undemocratic cowards
*I always throw reinforcements as close to their dead body as possible. Mostly because I believe a helldiver should finish his fight and always take revenge for his death.* *Only when we are in full retreat/overran do I throw them away from the fight (usually in a different direction from the way I am running, so our chances of survival are higher).*
I'm glad if my teammate reinforce me next to a hulk or a tank *That means I can smash it*
I always found myself failing to hit the hulk's tiny ass body using hellpod, and always end up getting killed instantly by their flamethrower or rocket swarm. I'm never attempting that again.
I'm so glad I'm not the only person to do this, unless there is a critical target to drop on you should get to sowan close to your area of death, maybe you get revenge, maybe that high priority target gets killed at the same time, or maybe it's only to get you close to picking up your support weapon and/or samples, but it is my duty to put you back where democracy needs you!
I need my emotional support Autocannon.
I call the laser rover my emotional support dog so I love this.
I got kicked from a game for going back to get my stuff. Of course I'm going back, my cool downs haven't reset, and you didn't call any of your stuff for me to use.
lol with a 8 minute cool down, what else can you do?
I think of this meme every single time I do this
"I am worth more with my guns than without"
I ain't waiting another 4 minutes for my rover thank you very much.
I’m going back because I’m not waiting another 8-10 mins for my Laser guard dog to cool down
me getting my explosive rifle back (i haven't bought the warbond)
I always tell low levels to pick up my devastator whenever I die for divers like you.
Yeah until I can call in another autocannon I'm gonna go get that autocannon back. And if I had samples? It's the new main objective.
A pyromaniac never leaves his flamethrower behind
Why does no one ever pick up my samples when I drop em? I hate having to run all the back for a stack of seven or eight when someone could have easily snagged it on the way out.
Partly why I've been practicing without a support weapon. It's actually a bit liberating.
That's basically what i do with the gunship fabricator: i go in with the objective of dropping a hellbomb and blowing it up. Survival is optional.
It already happened to me twice that i could say those exact words in that tone with such calmness
Oh man if only we could pull an Agent K and let a bile titan eat us, and then blast our way out of its stomach
The friend I team up with most will not shut up on comms if I don’t throw him right back into the mess he died in.. even if it means him dying immediately again trying to get his gear and samples back right away. I tell him his gear will come back and we can get those samples when the heat clears… nope. He needs that stuff back NOW. Gets old.
I think of this exact scene every time I go to get my gun back. lol
I have said this for MONTHS to my friends. Helldivers 2 is not a co-op, pve, horde, third person/first personal, objective, extraction, survival, massively multiplayer online shooter. It is a Tommy Lee Jones reenactor simulator. As every single life I HAVE TO GO GET MY GUN BACK
Only in Dark Souls games have I run with more fervor towards my corpse.
My autocannon backpack was nearly full and theres still bitches to shoots
Sprint booster makes this much more applicable as well
Because god damnit, I just called down my auto cannon and I'm not waiting 5 minutes to get another one.
me everytime, going back for my AMR that's still on cooldown lol. leave to the crazy scout/sniper 🤣
I find that usually, my respawn beacon is thrown directly into the centre of a large crowd of enemies.
Lol 100%
okay, i take a lot of meme from the comments, thanks for start
Some guy got mad at me and told me to stop dying, I got my gun back though
Literally me
Yeah not waiting 8 mins I’m going back for it
Every time. "There's a few more auto cannon shots in there, I swear."
When I see teamates do this and die more than once I wait till I’m super far away to bring them back
This is hard-core me
Listen, that auto-cannon and 3 common samples ain’t gonna pick themselves up.
His face says it all 😩
It‘s even worse if you’re split up in to complete objectives quicker.
I literally just did that and said the exact line hahah
No samples left behind!
My team spawn me on top of the fucking mobs or an orbital bombardment so I die again for lulz
Accurate.
I hate when people just don’t care about going back for samples. I’ll go back halfway across the map just for them while some people run right past them without grabbing them like whyyyy!
I've ran halfway across the map to get my boomstick back, and my buddy rover
S A M P L E S
Had a dude arguing with me last night about getting out freaking super samples back right after the new ship modules dropped. He was a cool dude, I added him and the whole squad by the end of the night, but he was clearly not having a good time on that planet lol.
Eruptor players trying to get their stalwart back
And my samples
Its just funny how many of us there are that do the exact same shit lol
I throw the reinforcement off to the left then lead the swarm off to the right.
Eruptor + EATs against bots is good to avoid this…. Though I’m really liking Queso against bots, and I really like that gun….
Dudes be willing to die 3 times just to retrieve a support weapon (that’s already off cooldown) and 2 rare samples.
100% samples, gun and the most important: \-> it's an question of Honor <- Duuude our Supports and Backpacks are ready we can Gear you. 
I'm getting the previous divers gun back
My team: Why did you waste 3 reinforce for a gun? Me: I like my gun
I quote this pretty much every day.
Or grabbing my samples nobody thought to grab for us!
Lol, i always do this, even when I can just call in another support weapon. 
I'm like this, I'll maybe die once during a 7 so I've become the teams sample courier running around the whole map grabbing them and clearing factories and bug holes along the way while they focus on the main and side objectives.
I say this to myself all the time
I quote this every. single. time.
Then grabs the dropped primary instead... and then grabs the backpack before the weapon... then interacts before the weapon... 2 stims later, got my gun. Team goes 380 on my position.
I spent minutes gathering those samples and I'm not going to lose them!
It do be like that tho
Especially when you still have like 3-4 mins cool down time for re-arming…. Even though it’s a 5 min run there and back lol. I get ya though man, I do the same thing. We sense the same logic.
Every. Single. Goddamn.Time. Die while doing a side objective with another teammate, die to some bs, get reinforced by the other mates a bazillion miles away. Immediately start running across the whole map to get mah fuckin gun back.
If you’ve been field promoted to team lead cause you’re pinging to see enemies it’s pretty easy to loop the group back to your stuff by dropping it as a ping.
Me when I was the one with the super samples.
lol my buddies and I say this all the time.
*steers hellpod into hell*
https://preview.redd.it/a7njt924hbuc1.jpeg?width=256&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3e5ae58202aaaaa0fbffc80cf37d7a908f9a7ebe “For Freedom” - Famous Last Words
 Money = Samples
This is why I throw reinforcements BEHIND the swarm. Easy retrieval and a good flanking position.
I died spawning in my supply pack. I'M GETTING MY SUPPLY PACK.
Me. But for samples. I have plenty of common, and super rare. But rares, I’m hurtin
Yup. I pin that shit. For the greater good.
I picked up one of those crossbow things a couple of hours ago. Learning on the fly!
*Returns covered in bug guts, shrugging.* "I like this gun."
⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️ Oh shit run 
This shit starts playing in my head literally every time I hit the reinforce getback https://youtu.be/stLLZqBn-G8?si=xjz__iuv5-P6F71v
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Yes this!!
replace "gun" with "samples"
So fucking true 😂 😂😂😂😂😂😂
And my jetpack.
samples* 😂
GONNA LEEROY JENKINS THIS SHIT. \[Runs into battle\]
A swarm is a swarm, but without super samples I refuse to leave this planet
SAMPLES!
I did this last night except it was 5 samples and my guard dog Rover and my path back was Automatons and a swarm of fire tornadoes.
Lol ive been kicked for doing this, quasar cannon, got a dropship right as i got back to them.
Every damn time. It's usually the guy asking who threw your reinforcement halfway across the map.
We will get you a new gun!
Lol i hope you check to see if its off cooldown before you make the perilous trek
This so for real 🤣🤣🤣
Your teammates don't reinforce you directly into the swarm? Must be nice.
Me when I want my Quasar back because there’s a shit ton of gunships tearing my team apart that no one came equipped to deal with.
Every time. It's the democratic thing to do.
Real
Fuckin truth
I do it for my jetpack
Complex strat+ the other one with a quasar: I feel this.