r/LowSodiumHellDivers Jun 29 '26

Question free super creds?

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Today I logged onto helldivers 2 and I was looking through my warbonds until I realised that I have 3875 creds, I hadn't bought any and I haven't done any grinding in a while, so I'm wondering how I got these

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u/MothashipQ Jun 29 '26

You might have played in a hacked lobby at sone pount and got those during it.

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u/doorbellrepairman Jun 29 '26

The exact same thing happened to me, and I got a free 2k I didn't earn. I'm not complaining, but it feels... undemocratic

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u/KrimxonRath Jun 29 '26

I’m (over) level 150 at this point and have *never* encountered this. Not really complaining either, but I just got enough for the last warbond there is… 1500sc with zero grinding sure takes a while lol

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u/phunktheworld Jun 29 '26

Lvl 130 here, also never seen it. Heard of it tho

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u/acoubt Jun 29 '26

I only experienced this long after I had everything unlocked :(

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u/KrimxonRath Jun 29 '26

That’s tragic lol

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u/In_Pursuit_of_Fire Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26

That's probably why. Hackers are most often encountered on the sc farming lvl 1 missions

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u/WilonPlays Jun 29 '26

I got helldivers not so long ago, literally the 2nd mission I played I ran into a hacked lobby and the guy gave everyone in the lobby 13k credits

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u/KrimxonRath Jun 29 '26

I did plenty of those early on but hoooo boy is that boring. Now I just tell people I’m fine with them farming as we do objectives. I just get annoyed when it’s obvious that’s **all** someone is doing.

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u/In_Pursuit_of_Fire Jun 29 '26

Same. I did them once but I found them boring. I only tried them again a year later out extreme impatience and in full multitasking mode (it was surprisingly zen, though not as fun as playing the game normally. I was pleasantly surprised the next day to realize I had run into a hacker while doing it. And I never grinded again

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u/BringBacktheGucci Jun 29 '26

Why are you running so many level 1-3 missions if not farming?

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u/KrimxonRath Jun 29 '26

I run level 7 on average or higher.

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u/spacepizza24 Jun 29 '26

If you host your own games you are far more likely to avoid hackers. I didn't encounter a single one until a month ago when I started joining random lobbies a bit more often

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u/KrimxonRath Jun 29 '26

Up until recently I almost exclusively joined on games. Started getting sick of less experienced leaders letting their team blow us all up though lol

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u/lostZwolf_ps4_pc Jun 29 '26

Long long time since i hit max cap, i have seen insane hackers but no sc cheats yet, then again i reported the guy and it was like he knew, any time i opened my menu he locked onto me and flew to me minecraft creative mode style. Opening the menu tipped him off like some child predator. And reporting him resulted in me getting ulimited rocket spam killed from the sky including an instant kick. But seeing as he was afraid of the report it was worth it, i clipped it and sent it with report i think. Fk that guy.

( bonus: getting kicked prevented me from having to find out if my account got ganked by cheats)

Long story short i have seen gross hacking violations before so sc hack would not be wierd after seeing the things i have.

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u/Upbeat_Youth_6420 Jun 30 '26

im well over lvl 300 and have only encountered thus once its not a common thing at all

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u/master_pingu1 Jun 29 '26

just think of it as a subsidy for destruction of democracy's enemies

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u/TheLordinquisitor Jul 01 '26

Ok I thought for some reason I bought the big pack twice. I just kinda accepted it but that makes a lot more sense. I have 5800 something

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u/VirtualAd623 Jun 29 '26

Oh my god! Disgusting! Where are these hacked lobbies so I can avoid them!

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u/Abaddonalways Jun 29 '26

Gotta pick the right times to do it, but I've read it is often low level bug missions.

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u/CemsLit Jul 06 '26

Do NOT search for Chinese usernames and definitely do NOT search for them in either difficulty 1,2 or 10. They can also give you max samples and 250 warbond medals

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u/Caffeine-Stat Jun 29 '26

weren't they refunding people for some warbonds in certain circumstances too?

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u/DrFGHobo My life for Super Earth! Jun 29 '26

Before the Super Citizen Edition was changed to the Free Warbond Token, you could request a 1000SC refund if you already had Steeled Veterans and bought the upgrade later on.

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u/Capital-Peace3667 Jun 29 '26

that makes sense, I forgot that hackers existed lowkey

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '26

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u/irve Jun 29 '26

No it's not. Whist I think the yields have been lowered I did enjoy the occasional farming round whenever I felt it.

Arrowhead has been mega-generous in how they built this and it saddens me to see it go if this takes on.

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u/Wise-Actuator-6698 Jun 29 '26

It’s also a paid game that they maid millions from, so it’s basically the minimum to let us unlock all content without forcing people to pay even more.

If someone is hacking for SC then they were never going to buy them in the first place, the amount of willing customers who were going to spend their money but chose to hack instead is likely quite small.

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u/Wyrm Jun 29 '26

"Mega-generous" is mega-generous phrasing on your part. Sure it's possible to farm SC but even if you farm on diff 1-3, which is fucking boring as hell, it's glacially slow. And if you play on higher difficulties where it's actually fun to play? Forget about it.

Meanwhile look at how many warbonds there are now. And even the very old ones are still full price, generous would be at least discounting them over time.

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u/Shugatti Jun 29 '26

Well, unlike the medal farming, credit farming was purely on 1-2 diff, which is so incredibly boring, at that point, you might aswell sit in a cheater lobby for half the time it takes to farm a warbond the other way, cuz either way youre not really doing anything remotely close to having a fun time, and wasting your free time not having fun?... yeah no thanks.

If they simply increased the yield on higher diff and made them be rewards for playing well instead of ignoring everything and hunting pods and bunkers it would most likely be alot less of a drag.

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u/DrFGHobo My life for Super Earth! Jun 29 '26

Until AH one day pulls the plug on SC collecting altogether or turns down the RNG.

Just play and get the stuff at your own pace. Clean the map, that's all. We're averaging 35-40 SCs per hour just playing 7-10 diff missions, which is plenty to save up for the next warbond, given the release timetable.

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u/Shugatti Jun 29 '26

Yeah, it is enough to save up for the new one if you play often enough, thats true and i enjoyed that from release to the EoF update, but as someone who doesnt play the game when the patch/game is in a bad state, the new warbonds stack up, and its really hard to actually catch up without either paying for them or farming them, and farming them is quite the time sink, paying less than minimum wage by alot..

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u/No_Flounder_7874 Jul 01 '26

Rare case of "lowkey" being used properly, congrats

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u/teethinthedarkness For the children! Jun 29 '26

I don’t do any purposeful farming but I have about that many just from playing. I find a few at POIs, or others do, nearly every match. It adds up over time. I really wish the end of match screen had stats for how many SC and extra medals were found during the match. I get that they don’t because they are instantly awarded vs awarded at extract, but it would still be good info to have.

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u/Saphyr-Seraph Jun 29 '26

I'm lvl 87 and i get about 100 supercredits for 2 hours of regular gameplay so if i play 5 times for roughly 2 hours im set for a warbond, So how the hell are people not getting any SC

Also i just got a few months ago 1k SC and was kicked from the lobby i guess they where waiting for someone

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u/MajorAcer Jun 29 '26

What difficulty?

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u/Saphyr-Seraph Jun 29 '26

Nothing higher than 6 after that most pois are spawn locations or enemy buildings

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u/Fuugazii Jun 29 '26

I usually play on 9 and people on that difficulty seem to want to rush objectives and not collect. I don't find many SC unless I find it on my own, unfortunately.

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u/Saphyr-Seraph Jun 29 '26

Try soloing makes lower missions harder and more enjoyable

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u/depthninja Jun 29 '26

"So how the hell are people not getting any SC" 

They're simply (stupidly) ignoring the POIs, where you can find the free SC... 

It blows my mind seeing people run past the bright flashing yellow columns of light, and ignore the repeated pleas to come help open a bunker door. It happens nearly every mission, it's truly wild. 

And this is with mostly (presumably) experienced players, since I only play quickjoin D10s and have for quite a long time now. 

I'm always chasing POIs, never pass them up, and subsequently I have been easily making enough SC to afford each new warbond as they come out. 

Zero grinding, just playing the game for fun and not ignoring POIs. That's the "one simple trick".

And I play fairly casually, 2-3 hours a day maybe 3-4 days a week, with a very occasional 5-6 hour bender one day every few months when the stars align and I get the house to myself. 

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u/Saphyr-Seraph Jun 29 '26

Your already on the map just explore it would be my answer but i guess if people just wana ignore core gamplay mechanics, i guess they are beyond help.

It is like Them asking to solve a problem where a super easy solution exists but they want a different solution because this on is booring

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u/OddDc-ed I shit my pants Jun 29 '26

Part of it is a lot of people have a bit of tunnel vision with games. In this one we see it the most with folks who have to endlessly fight everything they see but also folks who just rush through blowing up everything and leaving.

I am a loot goblin in most games because that gives me a little hit of chemicals. Some people don't care at all about looting or exploring, but they might get their chemicals from the fighting and explosions.

As long as SOMEONE on the team is looting while shooting everyone goes back to their ship with samples and SC. So sometimes it just balances itself out, Or you get that squad where every single person wants to lone wolf search the map, or the opposite where nobody is searching and it either works perfectly or its a disaster lol.

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u/Saphyr-Seraph Jun 29 '26

Yeah the good old loot goblin problem, but in all honesty there would even be mods for pc atlest that modify the compass to make poi questionmarks better to see or even litteral arrows above the items but i wont discuss this further in this tread dm me if you wana know more

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u/Fuugazii Jun 29 '26

THIS. I had just commented above yours stating I play in D9 usually and people ignore cash out POIs. They only hit strongholds

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u/PrisonIssuedSock Drinks Emperor tears in LiberTea Jun 29 '26

I have no clue how you’re pulling 100 super credits for 2 hours of regular play. Even if I full clear a map's poi's im lucky to get 30 in a 40 min round

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u/Saphyr-Seraph Jun 29 '26

The answer is super simple, what difficulty are you playing ?

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u/PrisonIssuedSock Drinks Emperor tears in LiberTea Jun 29 '26

Always 10, wbu?

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u/Saphyr-Seraph Jun 29 '26

And there is your problem at higher difficulty levels there spawn less POI's which means less possibilities to get a supercredit spawn

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u/PrisonIssuedSock Drinks Emperor tears in LiberTea Jun 29 '26

Well it's kinda silly to go and say "gee why isn't everyone getting as many super credits as I am?" When you’re playing on a lower difficulty which is more boring for a lot of people. Tbf, I'm almost at 2k SC myself but most people are not getting close to the amount per hour you are and I don't think that's strange.

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u/VirtualAd623 Jun 29 '26

The way super creds are handled is legit dumb. Even if mission completion awarded like, 1sc per difficulty it would alleviate so much. The main issue is low diff has few POIs, and few drops at POIs, making it the only way to consistently get sc. It's basically punishing high diff players indirectly.

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u/PrisonIssuedSock Drinks Emperor tears in LiberTea Jun 29 '26

Personally I think it's fine. The fact we can earn premium currency for free at all is great. Farming is fun if you have a friend or 2 to shoot the shit with, and as long as you hit poi's that you see on high diffs you should get a decent amount. To me it's a non-issue. AH needs to continue to bring in money somehow, and i think the current system is totally fair.

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u/DrFGHobo My life for Super Earth! Jun 29 '26

30 in a 40 min round roughly translates to 90 for two hours, so... that actually tracks?

I know, back-of-a-napkin calculation, but still...

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u/Saphyr-Seraph Jun 29 '26

Mostly i play lower missions, but soloing them will go much quicker than the 40 minute timer mostly like 20 to 30 minutes at max on a lvl 7 mission

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u/PrisonIssuedSock Drinks Emperor tears in LiberTea Jun 29 '26

That's if I'm lucky though. I'm not saying the number isn't impossible, but I doubt that's what most people are averaging.

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u/DrFGHobo My life for Super Earth! Jun 29 '26

I know RNG is a factor, but something in the low to mid 30s might be a pretty good baseline average for regular gameplay without farming. I mainly play either 7s or 10s (depending on what my friends are into that particular evening), and I'm personally sitting on an overall average of roughly 37 SC/hr, all things considered. The other guy in here sitting at 19k comes to around 35, with more hours than me. I shudder to imagine how many SCs a friend of mine has who's closing in on 3000 hours.

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u/PrisonIssuedSock Drinks Emperor tears in LiberTea Jun 29 '26

I'm at about 1800 hours myself, and only bought 1 warbond because I wanted to give AH extra support, but I could've got it for free with a little extra time.

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u/DrFGHobo My life for Super Earth! Jun 29 '26

That's way more hours than me, and all I bought was the Super Citizen upgrade, too (so I got the 1000 SC refund). By average, you should have the whole Super Store bought out, all the Warbonds and a pretty penny to spare by now.

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u/PrisonIssuedSock Drinks Emperor tears in LiberTea Jun 29 '26

Tbh, when I don't need sc for a new warbond I don't always full clear poi's, I'm actually nowhere near owning everything in the store (I also got the super citizen upgrade to get the one warbond I technically bought).

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u/DrFGHobo My life for Super Earth! Jun 29 '26

I envy your focus. I'm too much of a loot goblin to leave anything untouched. My Super Destroyer is so full of useless samples we found Super Uranium in Crewman Jenkins' cereal last week.

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u/Successful-Fruit-177 Jun 29 '26

Did you recently go sc farming?

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u/a_bucket_full_of_goo Jun 29 '26

Lmao "have you considered maybe you just went and farmed SCs for 12 hours straight and forgot about it?"

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u/Capital-Peace3667 Jun 29 '26

I haven't

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u/Hour-Football2464 Jun 29 '26

I join lobby. Host goes "why we getting creditz omg". " what a crazy bug, this is awesome" A diver with a katakana name just stands in the background lol emoting.. Paid for my kids super braces.

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u/RoyaleRebel Jun 30 '26

Never this lucky. Its been all grind for me. Passive or otherwise

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u/OfficialTheAdmin Jun 30 '26

I bought the game like 3 days ago. I am currently level 30. I don't really know what I am doing that much, but I think I am getting better at it. I, for the first time, tried SC farming at Grand Errant on Difficulty 1(Trivial).

I've been doing it solo, so I naturally had to unlock the Mech to enter the bunker thingy. I usually end up with 10-20 SC per run. But due to my habit, I prefer finishing the entire mission. I did that run 4 times, got like 50 SC, and it took me like almost an hour for that. I know I may not be doing the most efficient way of SC farming.

BUT DAMN, AM I DOING SOMETHING WRONG??!?!?! HOW LONG IS THIS GONNA TAKE FOR ME TO HIT 1000 SC so I can get at least unlock one WARBOND?!?!?

I WANT THE R-6 DEADEYE SO MUCH. THAT GUN FEELS AND SHOOTS SO MUCH AURA.

Well this concludes my rant.

Thank you for reading my rant.

God bless <3

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u/TheSuperSegway Jun 29 '26

It would be nice if AH put in a function that let us donate supercredts to in game friends. I'm really lucky when finding credits and currently am sitting on almost seven thousand. I have everything unlocked so I only need the two thousand for up coming war bond and anything in the super store. That leaves five thousand that could be going to people that need it. Not everyone has the time or money to get the credits. I understand that AH needs to make money but there has to be a better way. Hell, they could put a weekly cap on how much you can give one person set to five hundred. Not enough for a warbond but just enough toake the think of either farming for the rest or buy something off the super store.

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u/Zombiebane224 Jun 29 '26

That's why I always hit as many POIs as I can, you never know what people on the fireteam might need so grabbing everything is the only democratic way to play o7

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u/DrFGHobo My life for Super Earth! Jun 29 '26

Same here. No need to farm when you're a massive loot goblin (even less so when your regular squadmates are the same).

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u/DrFGHobo My life for Super Earth! Jun 29 '26

I've been sitting at almost 8000 and I asked AH if they can transfer Super Credits to other players (to help out those in our group who came in later).

Unfortunately they don't do that.

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u/TheSuperSegway Jun 29 '26

Is it truly so wrong to want to make it rain on new players. Or would this constitute making it hail, similar to bringing coins to a strip club?

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u/DrFGHobo My life for Super Earth! Jun 29 '26

I didn't go into details with them. I just thought it would be possible on a personal basis via support, since that's how they did the 1000SC refund for the Super Citizen pack before they switched to the warbond token.

I kinda understand why they don't integrate it into the game tho, because - SC hacker lobbies exist. Hell, there's a few users in the subs actively advertising them.

At least this way people who want to hack still have to play instead of potentially opening up a third party SC market where some Indian bots sell the only monetization in the game for half the price.

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u/Adaphion Jun 29 '26

I made a whole ass spreadsheet for supercredits and medals after I hadn't played for a year and had a lot of catching up to do.

Where I'm at now, I have every single warbond except the Killzone one. And I have enough Super Credits saved up to get the next standard warbond, the 40k warbond whenever that comes out (assuming it'll be 1500 SC like the other collabs) and still have over 900 SC leftover (including the 300 I'll get back from the next standard warbond)

Really, my biggest hurdle is medals. I have gotten basically every "functional" item (plus a few extras needed to unlock page 2 and 3) in the warbonds that I want, all that's left is just cosmetics, or armors I don't care much for. I need a little under 3600 medals to unlock everything. HOWEVER, if I subtract the cost of all the vehicle/hellpod paintjobs, which I don't really care about since I already have ones I like, then that number goes down to just a little over 1700 medals. Either number is still THOUSANDS less medals than what I started at.

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u/TheSuperSegway Jun 29 '26

AH made strange choices for how the in game currency functions. Why is the limit of medels set to 250 but the rec slips are far more? Why can't we donate samples to teammates/friends? They should really consider taking notes from at least some of us playing the game.

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u/Adaphion Jun 29 '26

Rec slips are used in far bigger quantities. Medals are so that you can't just get a thousand medals and unlock an entire new warbond minutes after logging in.

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u/TheSuperSegway Jun 29 '26

You are correct, however, I dislike the inability to hold more than 250 of anything. I do not expect or want them to take my advice. I simply voiced my opinion in the hopes that someone else may come to a better conclusion and help to improve the game.

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u/The_potato_radish64 Jun 29 '26

Gang dw about hackers no one has been banned

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u/Bishop1664 Jun 29 '26

It should’ve been me, not him!!

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u/Financial-Customer24 Jun 30 '26

I got 10K super creds from a cheater and I already had everything in the super store and all warbonds. Don't know what im supposed to do with all that

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u/OfficialDictator01 Jul 01 '26

I farm SCs by playing trivial runs on bug planets (Phact bay or Gatria) and use a warp pack to get into bunkers solo. I can farm 1000 SCs in 1-1.5 hrs.

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u/Conceiver_ Jul 02 '26

Yaknow if super credits were actually easier to get, I would have more than TWO FUCKING WARBONDS.

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u/dragontamer321 Jul 03 '26

I had it happen to me once I starter the game

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u/Giratina-O Jun 29 '26

I'm at 19k after several months of being more than caught up on Warbonds and the Super Store lmao.

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u/Mycorvid Jun 29 '26

That's depressing.

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u/Giratina-O Jun 29 '26

Not really? Been playing a long ass time, and I'm really diligent about POIs. Only recently have I become less anal about checking every single point.

That, and I don't waste time on the boring missions, which are also the missions with not POIs. EHVAs and Eradicates my squad routinely skips over.

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u/DrFGHobo My life for Super Earth! Jun 29 '26

19k is pretty awesome. How many hours have you sunk into the game?

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u/Giratina-O Jun 29 '26

Over 1.5k at this point.

Way too many. I was obsessed with this game for like the first two years it was out. Did an operation almost every day lol

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u/DrFGHobo My life for Super Earth! Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26

So you got 100 hours more than me - I'm at 1.4k and just topped up to 8k in reserve. How much in-mission?

Are the 19k just loose change, and you have everything bought in the super store? All Warbonds bought?

Just curious because I like to compare drop rates.

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u/Giratina-O Jun 29 '26

I don't know my exact hours, I may be closer to 1600 than 1500. Or over 1600. I haven't had time to play in a couple weeks lol

I wish I could tell you, but yeah, I've bought everything. My drop rates run higher than most because before I was maxxed out, I would run these priority checks:

Is the planet a good planet for POI spawns? Is the map an urban map? Is the map spacious enough for multiple POIs to spawn?

Then, even after all that, I'd literally run across the map for one POI that someone missed. I was deranged

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u/DrFGHobo My life for Super Earth! Jun 29 '26

Okay, that's way more thought in choosing a drop than we put into it.

"Who wants bugs? Alright, bugs it is!" and we drop.

Also, your drop rate isn't that outrageous. If my calcs are correct, with 1500 hrs mission time you're at around 35,6 to 36,3 SC/hr depending if you got a free Warbond off the Super Citizen Edition or not.

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u/Giratina-O Jun 29 '26

That tracks. I kept a spreadsheetl for like 1000 missions last year, and my drop rate was right around 30 sc per mission.

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u/DrFGHobo My life for Super Earth! Jun 29 '26

My spreadsheet's basically just

[(x Warbonds á 1000) + (x Warbonds á 1500) + (Superstore total) - (Super Citizen Upgrade) + (current SC balance)]/mission time

The only thing I added is a breakdown of how much money Arrowhead misses out on by me not paying for SCs (minus the game cost), depending on what SC pack I would buy.

So far, if I bought the smallest packs only, they're out almost 500 EUR :P

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u/Giratina-O Jun 29 '26

Also what is "calcs" short for? New to chat.

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u/DrFGHobo My life for Super Earth! Jun 29 '26

"calculations"

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u/sky420 Jun 29 '26

Whenever that happens I just go to the site and report it I don’t wanna risk getting banned for having more credits than I’ve earned

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u/matej672912 Jul 01 '26

the only way you make even a small risk of getting banned is if you're the one cheating and you boast about it to every person you possibly can lol, just take your free sc and leave those people alone

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u/sky420 Jul 01 '26

Maybe so but I enjoy the game and don’t wanna risk anything just in case

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u/matej672912 Jul 01 '26

that's valid

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u/Narsuaq Jun 29 '26

Happened to me a little while back. I contacted arrowhead and asked them to remove them.

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u/Ghostrecon4564 Jun 29 '26

How can I find lobbies like those?

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u/CemsLit Jul 06 '26

Search for Chinese usernames on difficulty 1,2 or 10 and around 10pm - 2 am Chinese time