Helldivers 1:Hive Lord

The Bug Hive Lord is an enemy capable of creating new tunnels for the Bug hives and will, if left alone, perforate the entire crust of a planet with tunnels. As they are mostly underground, they are exceptionally hard to attack and get rid of. Therefore, any opportunity to assault a Hive Lord should not be squandered, and as they are extremely dangerous, bring the best you have when assaulting them.

	Role	Danger	Weapons	Resilience	Armor
	Master	Extreme	Poison	Extreme	Medium

Health		Constitution		Armor
Base	Decay	Base	Decay	Location	Min	Max
250000	0	0	3	default	30	175
				back	300	400

Attacks	Projectile Power	Crit	Explosion Type	Explosion Radius	Explosion Damage	Ignore Armor?	Ignore Shields?	AP?	Effects
Claw	n/a	n/a	Direct	2.0	2000	yes	yes	no	none
			Anti-Personnel	2.0	100
Unburrow	n/a	n/a	Direct	2.0	4000	yes	yes	no	none
			Anti-Personnel	2.0	100
Charge	n/a	n/a	Direct	2.0	600	no	no	no	none
			Anti-Personnel	2.0	600
Poison Booger	n/a	n/a	Direct	3.0	35 (tic)	no	no	no	Slow Poison
			Anti-Personnel	3.0	35 (tic)
Poison Circle	n/a	n/a	Direct	10	0	no	no	n/a	Heavy Slow Medium Poison
			Anti-Personnel	10	0

Tactics

• The Hive Lord is found on special, outlying planets which players can only access after accumulating 50 points of influence against the Bug faction. The mission terrain can be any of the four normal environments (desert, forest, snow or volcanic) on a large square map, however, only missions on snow retain their environmental hazard. If players choose a dropzone suitably far from the enemy then they will have all the time necessary to call down any Stratagems, with the Hive Lord only spawning once Helldivers are nearby.
• Unlike Siege Mechs and Great Eyes, Hive Lords do not visibly move around on the battlefield, but emerge from the ground near Helldivers to perform a variety of attacks before burrowing into the ground. This makes leading them into Airdropped Anti-Tank Mines or targeting them with offensive stratagems difficult; use the window of opportunity presented when they emerge to attack them, but be careful of its attacks:
  • Claw: the Hive Lord emerges and quickly pounces before burrowing.
  • Charge: the Hive Lord emerges and begins charging at a Helldiver. Its turn radius while charging is fairly high, allowing a player to sidestep and dodge it.
  • Poison Booger: the Hive Lord emerges and flings three globs of poison, each creating a small poison field upon impact.
  • Poison Circle: the Hive Lord emerges and creates a large field of poison around itself.

• Hive Lords are initially supported by several Elites which continually spawn from the edge of the battlefield. As the Hive Lord's health is depleted some Elites are replaced by Stalkers, then Brood Commanders and finally Impalers - with the climax of the battle featuring just the latter two enemy types supporting the Hive Lord.
  • Helldivers may wish to bring along a TOX-13 and/or a Railgun (upgraded with stun rounds) to deal with Brood Commanders and Impalers while others focus on damaging the Hive Lord.

Notes

Each enemy Master is randomly named by combining a name and a title.

Name		Title
Neptunea	Venericardia	the Burrower
Viviparus	Calyptraphorus	the Poisonous
Inoceramus	Tropites	the Monstrous
Monotis	Pecten	the Tunneler
Palmatolepsis	Perisphinctes	the Grub
Tetragraptus	Dictyoclostus	the Old One Eye
Paradoxides	Mucrospirifer