Into The Hive enemies and basic swarm responses

Into The Hive pits you against insect swarms, with spiders specifically identified as hostile threats in a nest-destruction scenario. When a swarm closes in, your basic options are:

• Deploy a turret to cover your squad. This gives you an equipment-based response to the encounter.
• Break through a wall to open a route. Destructible terrain lets you create a passage through the cave.
• Hold your ground. Standing and fighting is another response the game explicitly offers when the swarm closes in.

These are separate options, rather than steps you must perform in order. Keep an eye on the ceiling while exploring, too.

Swarms, spiders, and the mission objective

Cave expeditions support 1–4 players and take place in randomly generated caves. Fighting through insect swarms is part of a larger task: complete your mission, then make the return journey to extraction. Clearing an encounter and finishing the expedition are therefore different milestones.

Spiders are a named hostile threat associated with destroying a nest. That gives you a concrete enemy and objective pairing: the nest is the destruction target, while spiders threaten the player during that task. For the broader objective and return journey, see the missions guide and extraction guide.

Squad cover and opening a route

Turret deployment and wall-breaking serve different purposes. A turret covers your squad; breaking a wall changes the available route through the cave. Holding your ground is the remaining basic option when you stay to fight the approaching swarm.

For more detail on those individual systems, use the turret guide or wall-breaking guide.

Prepare equipment before the expedition

Choose your weapons and tools before entering the caves. Between expeditions, return to base to customize equipment with Augments and prepare for the next run. Weapon and tool selection belongs to your preparation before departure, while base visits provide the opportunity to adjust equipment between runs.

The equipment guide and Augments guide cover those preparation systems.

Phoenix Armor’s once-per-mission recovery

Phoenix Armor has a listed effect that triggers when you go down, once per mission: you rise again, and every nearby bug is thrown back. Its relevance to a swarm encounter is the combination of recovery and nearby enemy knockback.

Keep the trigger and limit together when considering this armor: the recovery happens upon going down, and the listed effect is available once during a mission. See the Phoenix Armor guide for the dedicated equipment page.