Talk:Hive Sabotage/@comment-172.10.27.61-20160404081356

Here's a mini-guide on speedrunning hive missions:

- Get Animal Instinct and put it on your sentinel. This makes it SO much easier since the minimap will mark caches, and lets you put music on in the background so you don't have to listen for a ringing sound. When you see a loot marker way outside the map "boundaries", it's probably a cache in a secret room.

- Understand that every dead end room (that usually has loot crates and such in it) has a chance to spawn a cache.

- Each full-size room generated by the tileset has one or sometimes two hidden/secret/hard-to-find spots that a cache can spawn in. Once you memorize these locations, it then becomes a matter of coming close enough to see if your minimap shows a loot symbol at that location. If not, then move on to the next room.

- If you're lucky enough to have the Rhino Vanguard Arcane helmet, use that and a full movement speed + power strength build. If not, use Loki/Loki Prime and a max duration build. ALWAYS use a melee weapon with high reach (Orthos Prime has the longest range in the game, and that's what I use. You can also quick-melee without slowing down, which is awesome).

- The more you incorporate bullet jumps, slides, and tumbles into your movement, the faster you complete the mission. Boost yourself forward every chance you get.

- The first cache you find will draw its loot from the C pool. Thus, if you're looking for the rare rewards, just smash through the hives and pick up one of the caches along the way once you're familiar with where they are found.

- Extraction rooms frequently have caches in them.

- If you're looking for all 3 caches, it may be worthwhile to prepare all 3 hives but NOT pop them until you find the caches, so you don't have to avoid the hazards while you search for them.

By practicing and learning spawn locations, I can finish a mission in a little under 4 minutes with Loki Prime and Orthos Prime. After 8 hours or so it's so mindless that I can listen to a commentary on anything on youtube and fully absorb what the speaker is saying, all while blasting through hive missions. It may seem impossible to do these quickly, but if you focus on learning how these missions are generated and where the caches/hives/tumors spawn, you can drastically improve your completion time.

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