In the Back 4 Blood Ridden Hives DLC, you’ll encounter new threats in new levels while reaping the best rewards in the game yet, but only if you can make it out alive. You can use our Ridden Hive cheats for this, as venturing into a hive only to end up dead won’t net you much in terms of tangible progress. Here are some crucial tips for finding, clearing, and surviving Ridden Hives in Back 4 Blood.
Bring Heng on all your missions
To start the Back 4 Blood DLC, you’ll need to find Ridden Hives that appear randomly around the game world, but their nature means you can walk past one without knowing it was nearby. To fix this, make sure someone in your party is playing as Heng, one of the two new cleaners that come with the DLC. His passive skill allows him to automatically detect mounted hives when they’re nearby, ensuring you’ll never miss one in your vicinity.
Combine Skull Totems for easier transport
Once you enter a Mounted Hive, the objective is to collect and escape with Skull Totems. These will be left around junction-like hives in groups of three per level, and, if you’re an OG horde shooter, you’ll find that they act much like the returning Gnome Chompski figure from Left 4 Dead 2 days. Whoever wields the Skull Totem cannot switch to another weapon or item without also dropping the totem. That would be a real waste, except in this case Skull Totems are also excellent blunt weapons.
Even better, when you find other totems around the hives, you can combine them, which makes carrying all three even easier, as it means only one person has to wield a totem. It also improves the totem as a weapon, giving you a killer win-win scenario to escape with the maximum number of totem skulls.
When you get lost, look for straps
Mounted hives are designed to be dizzying. With tunnels made of flesh and guts, things can start to look the same after a few minutes in a hive. But the best way to leave breadcrumbs – figuratively speaking, you don’t want to eat on this floor – is to search for entrances blocked by straps.
Clearing the webs often reveals new paths, or at least new rooms hiding more loot. If you’ve ever turned around, the webs are your friends, though the Riddens behind them surely aren’t.
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Know when to cut and run
As you explore each hive, you will encounter early exits. It’s probably best not to take them right away, but try to remember their location and how to get back to them, as there may come a time when you need to escape sooner than a hive’s true end.
Surviving a hive is a battle of attrition, and if your team is shrinking in size and in poor condition, sometimes it’s best to leave a hive early and bank whatever skull totems you have, even if they aren’t. all. The risk-reward element here is supposed to be pretty enticing, but don’t let stupid overconfidence stop you from unlocking new Hive-exclusive cosmetics with your Skull Totems. Sometimes less is more.
Open warped chests at your own risk
Within each Hive you will find numerous warped chests – locked white boxes containing some of the best possible loot in the game. However, opening them will cause massive traumatic damage to each member of your team. Trauma damage is an HP drain that cannot be recovered using health kits, meaning even one or two open deformed chests can leave your team very susceptible to being overrun and killed.
Therefore, communicate with your party and note how your team is doing before mindlessly opening a warped chest. While these chests are your ticket to equipping the game’s new legendary weapons and attachments, a really nice weapon might not be as valuable as your health bar, so choose carefully.
Share the wealth
If you open a warped chest, you will find that it is filled with goodies. But that doesn’t mean there’s enough for everyone. Inside any warped chest, you’ll find a few legendary weapons and attachments alongside less common and more common items.
Since you probably won’t want to open every warped chest you find, it’s important to share the contents of the few you do open. If only one or two players have the best loot, your team will be unbalanced, which can lead to less well-equipped clearers dragging the party down – or worse, your better-equipped players dying and no one is left. living with anything extraordinary. fight with. Back 4 Blood is all about teamwork, and that’s even more true inside an oppressive hive.
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