
Be careful not to be too close (~500m) when it explodes. The queen doesn't fire back, so attack with whatever weapon you want until it's dead. Once the shield is down, the rest is straightforward. This is easier in a group, but there are techniques for doing it solo. The key is to inflict as much damage as possible in the shortest amount of time. These usually contain a few Assault drones, Transport drones, Guardian drones, and Overseers.įirst you will need to take down the queen's shield. Now when you enter the sector with the hive queen, you will first want to take out all of the extra bots guarding it. The sector that they warp to will contain a hive queen. You want to be within ~500m of them when they warp, so that you will be able to see what sector they warped to in your chat bar. Their typical pattern is: they warp into the zone, go to an asteroid and mine for about 5 to 10 minutes, then warp back out. Hive Queens Tracking down a Hive Queen, without a Hive Skirmish Mission įind some collector bots in any sector, and stalk them closely. You should only attack the Leviathan after defeating its supporting hive skirmishes. The Leviathan will be much stronger if you have not destroyed the supporting Queens in the Critical skirmish. Completion of this will destroy all of the hive's presence in that area for a period of time. These missions with have a Leviathan that must be destroyed to complete the mission. Defeating the supporting hive skirmishes before engaging the Queen is recommended. If there are still small, common and large skirmishes in the area the Queen's shields will be much stronger and almost impossible to beat. To complete the mission, you must destroy the Hive Queen before your Faction loses too many people. Obviously, you want to bring the Hive to 0, before your faction reaches 0. You will have two numbers on your screen, indicating how many people must be killed from either faction before the mission ends. (For example if you fire a damaging shot with a light weapon at an Artemis Collector and another entity kills the Artemis Collector you get +5 to your light weapon license).Īll hive skirmish missions where ion storms are present will give a 400% bonus to all weapons/combat XP gained throughout the mission.

the weapon last used by you that damages a hive bot will gain experience according to the individual bot when it is destroyed.

Combat experience is also awarded for each bot killed and for successful completion of the mission. It should be noted that Hive Skirmish missions pay a base of 1,500 cr per hive bot killed. It is beyond the scope of this article to detail the locations of the skirmishes and factions. What changes is the size of the skirmish, and the location. 2.1 Tracking down a Hive Queen, without a Hive Skirmish MissionĪlmost every faction has its own hive skirmishes.
