Into The Hive co-op: squad size and how to help
Bring up to three friends on an expedition. Learn how turrets, destructible walls, swarm defense and equipment preparation support your squad.
Into The Hive expeditions support one to four players total: you can go alone or bring up to three friends. During a run, you can support the squad by deploying a turret for cover, breaking destructible walls to open routes, and holding your ground when an insect swarm closes in.
The expedition’s objective comes before the return journey: complete the mission, then make the run back to extraction. Choose your weapons and tools before heading out, and customize equipment with Augments back at base before the next expedition.
Ways to support your squad
Your equipment and the cave terrain give you several ways to contribute during exploration and combat:
| Squad need | Support action |
|---|---|
| Cover during the expedition | Deploy a turret to cover your teammates. Consider it alongside the weapons and tools you bring; see the turret guide for more on that equipment. |
| Access while exploring | Break through destructible walls to carve a path through the cave and open a route your squad can use. |
| Defense when a swarm closes in | Hold your ground and fight the approaching insects to address the immediate combat encounter. |
These actions serve different needs—squad cover, movement through terrain and swarm defense—so supporting the team involves both fighting and working with the cave around you.
Keep the mission and extraction in view
Expeditions take place in randomly generated caves filled with insect swarms. Exploration and combat are part of reaching the mission’s goal, followed by the return run to extraction. Completing the mission is therefore an intermediate objective in the expedition’s overall sequence; the journey back still follows it.
For a closer look at that return phase, use the extraction guide.
Prepare equipment between expeditions
Choose weapons and tools for the expedition, then use your time back at base to customize equipment with Augments before the next run. That preparation connects your loadout choices with the actions available during cave exploration and combat.
The equipment guide and Augments guide cover those preparation topics in more detail.
Related Guides
Turret Support and Augments
Consider sentries for squad defense against insect swarms and learn how turret-related Augments fit equipment preparation between expeditions.
Fighting and Defense Options
Match turret cover, holding ground and opening cave routes to expedition situations, then review defensive equipment preparation at base.
Weapons, Support and Augments
Organize equipment preparation at base, consider squad support, and follow a Blast Grenade Augment example with its stated prerequisites.