Hive Breaker Drill
The Hive Breaker Drill Stratagem is only available on the Nuke Nursery mission and is used to start the main objective, and is heavily based on the Tectonic Drill. Once called in, the Hive Breaker Drill is delivered to a fixed location at the drill site via Pelican. It initially drops in a large casing, which will unpack itself after a few seconds to reveal its terminal.
Once unpacked, the drill must be started using a 5-direction code, and defended until it can successfully burrow a nuclear device into the surface. If too heavily damaged, the process will stop and the code must be re-entered. Once the drilling has completed, a button must be pressed to start a 10 second countdown timer until the device explodes, leaving a very large crater behind, of which the bottom can not be seen.
Trivia
- Despite the resulting crater seemingly not having a bottom, and the crater walls being 90 degree angles, Terminids have little difficulty traversing through the hole, walking on the walls as if they were flat ground.
- The Hive Breaker Drill shares an icon with the Prospecting Drill.
Media
A Hive Breaker Drill
Change History
1.001.201
2024-10-29
Fixes
- Fixed a bug where the hive breaker drill would become inaccessible when called in.
- Fixed an issue where the Nuke Nursery mission could not be progressed if two players called down the hive breaker drill at the same time.
- Fixed hive breaker drills getting dropped on top of bug corpses.
- Fixed the hive breaker drill terminals sometimes not being interactable.
1.001.100
2024-09-17
Fixes
- Fixed cases where the Hive Breaker drill might become inaccessible after being called in.
1.001.002
2024-08-06
Fixes
- Hive Breaker Drill now does damage when dropped in Nuke Nursery Chamber missions.
1.000.400
2024-06-13
- Added to the game.