Into The Hive Equipment Guide: Where to Look and What to Choose

Open Equipment in the lobby to inspect armory items. Browse guns for a weapon you use directly, or sentries for deployed support: turrets can help cover your squad against insect swarms.

To compare options:

1. Choose an equipment category first: guns, throwables or sentries. Then compare the options within it.
2. When inspecting guns in the Weapon view, use the RIFLES, SMGS, PISTOLS and MARKSMAN tabs to browse the options within that group.

Guns or sentries: choose by the role you need

Choose the category that matches the role you need during the expedition:

For more focused information, see the guns guide or turrets guide.

Recognize the Equipment and Augment sections

The Equipment screen has three sections: GEAR, AUGMENTS and CRATES. These are separate from the rifle, SMG, pistol and marksman tabs inside the Weapon view. Keeping those two levels of navigation in mind helps you recognize whether you are browsing weapon types or a different equipment system.

Back at base, you can customize equipment with Augments before the next expedition. Both the Augments inventory and the Augment Crates interface have WEAPON, UTILITY and THROWABLE tabs. Those labels organize the Augment interfaces; the weapon-type tabs organize the gun view.

The Augments guide covers that customization topic separately.

Where throwables and armor appear

Throwables are another armory category you can inspect through Equipment. Blast Grenade is one named example: it appears under CHOOSE THROWABLE on the Install Augment screen. That label identifies it as a throwable when you encounter it during customization.

Armor has an ARMOR screen with ARMOR COLLECTION and ROLL ARMOR tabs. Use those labels to recognize the armor interface rather than looking for armor among the Weapon view’s gun-type tabs. Continue to the armor guide for the dedicated armor topic.