Into The Hive Base Guide: Equipment and Preparation

Open Equipment in the lobby to review gear. Choose an equipment category, then compare the available options within it. Equipment Tokens buy new guns, throwables, and sentries there. Between expeditions, base also lets you customize equipment with Augments and prepare your next loadout.

Reviewing and buying equipment

Equipment brings browsing and purchasing into the same lobby menu. Selecting a category first gives you the relevant options to compare, whether you are looking for a gun, a throwable, or a sentry. When you decide to purchase one of those items, Equipment Tokens are the currency used there.

That makes Equipment the useful starting point when your question is what gear is available or what to buy next. For more on that currency, see the Equipment Tokens guide.

Preparing your loadout at base

Back at base, you can customize your equipment with Augments before the next expedition. Browsing new items and customizing equipment both belong to preparation: one helps you review your gear options, while the other lets you adjust equipment through Augments. The Augments guide covers that part of preparation.

Choose weapons and tools with their expedition uses in mind. A deployed turret can cover your squad during a cave expedition. Breaking through a wall can open a route through the cave’s destructible terrain. These examples give you concrete purposes to consider when planning a loadout: squad cover and opening a path through the environment.

The turret deployment and wall breaking happen during the expedition; base is where you prepare for that trip. See the turrets guide and wall-breaking guide for those individual topics.

Equipment and Shop serve different tasks

Equipment is where you review gear and make Equipment Token purchases. Shop is a separate lobby menu that handles code redemption. If you are looking for code rewards, use the Codes page for that task.