: Highly effective in scenarios that punish summons, such as those featuring Shrike Fiends .
: The Hive can inhabit different summons, essentially "becoming" that unit. This grants the Hive the stats and abilities of the specific machine.
: Players often recommend taking the Immunity to Wound perk early. This allows you to use your "Sword" summon effectively, as it often wounds both itself and its target; immunity lets you merge with it and remove the status effect.
: Enhance Launch Pod with Poison to weaken enemies before your summons attack. The "Code Geminate" (Summon-less) Build :
: This unconventional approach relies less on having multiple summons on the board and more on the Hive's high-impact individual actions.