How to farm Helldivers 2 Super Credits

You need Helldivers 2 Super Credits if you want to buy Warbonds and get new armor 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 get Super Credits in Helldivers 2

Super Credits in Helldivers 2 can earned in three ways: looting them during missions, unlocking them from premium Warbonds using Medals, or buying them with real money.

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 (that means you need to find 100 piles to get the 1,000 Super Credits) and they are instantly added to your account and to the accounts of your teammates when picked up. That means only one person needs to collect them and you don’t need to fight over them. It also means you don’t have to carry or exfiltrate with them, unlike Helldivers 2 samples.

Otherwise, there are 300 Super Credits up for grabs in each premium Warbond (though they’re split into three piles of 100 credits and each cost varying amounts of Medals) or you can buy bundles of  Super Credits using real money. 1,000 SC costs $9.99/£7.99 in the in-game store, which is enough to get you one of the Warbonds or a few armor items.

Best Super Credits farming method in Helldivers 2

If you want to farm Super Credits to help you get enough for the a premium Warbond or an armor set that's currently in the Superstore, 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 when you’re on your Destroyer. 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:

• 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
• Superstore Helmets = 75 SC – 200 SC
• Superstore Body armor = 150 SC – 400 SC
• Helldivers 2 Killzone crossover items = 90 SC – 615 SC

Be aware that after buying a Warbond with Super Credits, you must unlock the items in that Warbond by spending Medals. As mentioned, Warbonds also contain Super Credits, so spending your Medals on those can help you work towards another Warbond or armor piece. The free Helldivers Mobilize Warbond that's available to all players contains 700 Super Credits in total, while the premium Warbonds hold 300 SC each.

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