How to earn Helldivers 2 Super Credits and the best way to farm them

Helldivers 2 Super Credits are essential for buying Warbonds and exclusive gear from the Superstore, but you can collect them in missions or buy them with real money. Looting Super Credits during missions can be quite slow going and relies a lot on luck, but there is a good farming strategy if you’re willing to put in the time and have a friend or three to help.

This method prevents you from having to spend a penny in Helldivers 2, but the in-game store option is there if you want to fast-track your way to some Super Credits for a price. Here’s everything you need to know about finding Super Credits in Helldivers 2, including a farming method that should help you get a good amount quickly.

How to earn Super Credits in Helldivers 2

You can earn Super Credits in the following three ways:

• Looting them during missions: When you’re in a mission, you have a chance of finding Super Credits whenever you loot sealed pods, locked containers, and bunkers at Minor Points of Interest. They always come in piles of 10 and they are instantly added to your account and to the accounts of your teammates when any player collects them. That means only one person needs to collect them and, unlike samples, you can’t lose them.
• Unlocking them from Warbonds using Medals: The free Helldivers Mobilize Warbond that's available to all players contains 700 Super Credits in total. You can also get 300 Super Credits in most premium Warbonds, but Legendary Warbonds, such as the Halo crossover Warbond, are the exception to this, featuring no unlockable Super Credits at all. You'll need lots of Helldivers 2 Medals to unlock everything, including Super Credits within a given Warbond.
• Buying them with real money from the Superstore: Finally, you can buy bundles of Super Credits using real money. 1,000 SC costs $9.99/£7.99, which is enough to get you one or a few store-exclusive items.

Best Super Credits farming method in Helldivers 2

If you want to farm Super Credits to help you get enough for a premium Warbond or some Superstore gear, here’s the best method:

1. Go to any planet.
2. Start a mission on Trivial difficulty, the lowest Helldivers 2 difficulty level.
3. Complete the objective as quickly as possible to unlock the extraction site.
4. Explore the map and loot as many Minor Points of Interest as you can in the hopes of looting some Super Credits. The maps are very small on Trivial, so looting shouldn’t take you too long.
5. Extract to end the mission.
6. Repeat steps 2-5 until you have sufficient Super Credits.

Importantly, this Super Credit farm becomes much more efficient if you have at least one squadmate with you. Not only will it help you cover more ground in the same time, but it’ll mean you can open the bunkers with two control panels, and these are some of the best places to look for Super Credits because they have three loot slots, giving them a relatively high chance of containing credits – locked containers have two slots and sealed pods only have one.

As you explore, you’ll also loot Medals, Requisition Slips, and Common Samples, but be aware that you’ll be getting barely any XP for completing these missions – if you’re trying to level up fast in Helldivers 2, this credit farming method is not ideal.

There used to be an exploit where you could shut down the game mid-mission and then begin the exact same mission again and loot the same credits over and over, but this was since been patched.

What can you spend Super Credits on in Helldivers 2?

Now that you've hopefully got some Super Credits, you can spend them on Warbonds and exclusive Superstore armor via the Acquisition Center menu aboard a Destroyer (press Square on PS5 or X on Xbox).

Below, I've listed out everything you can spend your Super Credits on, but if you want to direct your funds at a particular Warbond, we've also got a list of the best Helldivers 2 Warbonds you should buy first too:

• Superstore exclusive items: The Superstore has a weekly rotation and permanent pages, so not all items are available all the time.
  • Superstore Helmets = 75 SC – 250 SC
  • Superstore Body armor = 150 SC – 400 SC
  • Superstore Capes = 100 SC – 250 SC
  • Superstore Player Cards = 35 SC – 75 SC
  • Superstore Emotes = 250 SC
  • Stun Baton = 200 SC
  • Combat Hatchet = 250 SC
  • Warrant Pistol = 300 SC
• Warbonds:
  • Helldivers 2 Steeled Veterans Warbond = 1,000 SC
  • Helldivers 2 Cutting Edge Warbond = 1,000 SC
  • Helldivers 2 Democratic Detonation Warbond = 1,000 SC
  • Helldivers 2 Polar Patriots Warbond = 1,000 SC
  • Helldivers 2 Viper Commandos Warbond = 1,000 SC
  • Helldivers 2 Freedom’s Flame Warbond = 1,000 SC
  • Helldivers 2 Chemical Agents Warbond = 1,000 SC
  • Helldivers 2 Truth Enforcers Warbond = 1,000 SC
  • Helldivers 2 Urban Legends Warbond = 1,000 SC
  • Helldivers 2 Servants of Freedom Warbond = 1,000 SC
  • Helldivers 2 Borderline Justice Warbond = 1,000 SC
  • Helldivers 2 Masters of Ceremony Warbond = 1,000 SC
  • Helldivers 2 Force of Law Warbond = 1,000 SC
  • Helldivers 2 Control Group Warbond = 1,000 SC
  • Helldivers 2 Halo ODST Legendary Warbond = 1,500 SC

Make sure you also know how to farm samples in Helldivers 2, which you can then put towards substantial upgrades in the form of Helldivers 2 Ship Modules.

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