Back 4 Blood Ridden Hives Tips

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In the Back 4 Blood Ridden Hives DLC, you'll encounter new threats in new levels all while reaping the game's best rewards to date, but only if you can make it out of the titular warrens of woe alive. For that, you can use our Ridden Hive tips, because venturing into a hive only to wind up dead won't net you much of anything in terms of tangible progress. Here are some crucial tips for finding, clearing, and surviving Ridden Hives in Back 4 Blood.

To start the Back 4 Blood DLC, you'll need to find randomly-spawning Ridden Hives all around the game's world, but the nature of them means you may walk right past one without knowing it was nearby. To fix this problem, make sure someone in your group is playing as Heng, one of two new Cleaners who comes with the DLC. His passive skill allows him to automatically detect Ridden Hives when they're nearby, guaranteeing that you'll never miss one in your vicinity.

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Once you've entered a Ridden Hive, the objective is to collect and escape with Skull Totems. These will be left around the junction-like hives in groups of three per level, and, if you're a horde shooter OG, you'll see they act a bit like the Gnome Chompski figure back from the Left 4 Dead 2 days. Whoever carries the Skull Totem can't swap to another weapon or item without also dropping the totem. That would be a real mess, except in this case, Skull Totems are also great bludgeoning weapons.

Even better, when you find other totems