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>I need a hive lord killer loadout. I also heard that damage to the hive lord carries over to other missions in the operation, is this true? Alsi, does killing a hivelord in one mission stop it from spawning in the next?
The only part of your build that you should compromise for anti-hivelord duty is freeing up one slot to bring Eagle Strafing run. The other highly impactful stratagem is the AC mech, but you should have been bringing that to caves anyway. Everything else that is really good vs the hive lord is some mix of either being shit dealing with cave stuff and/or is vulnerable to being wasted if the hive lord decides to just body slam you first moments after you spawn it. The AC mech is vulnerable to being wasted by being body slammed, but it's worth it since it's actually really fucking useful for the rest of the mission.
Priority #1 is to break one of its armored plates. If you're on foot then you should throw as many strafing runs at the hivelord as you can while spending the rest of your time focusing on keeping the rest of the smaller bugs under control. If you are in the AC mech, you want to concentrate all of your AC fire on a single armor plate. If someone is already spamming AC fire into a plate then concentrate your own fire on the same plate.
Once a plate has been destroyed, then keep throwing strafing runs at it and concentrate fire on the squishy exposed bits. I think technically things like the auto-cannon in flak mode or the HMG have the highest DPS vs the exposed flesh, but it's not worthy compromising your build to bring those for the hive lord. If the flesh is exposed then just keep doing what you were doing and you're close to winning.
> I also heard that damage to the hive lord carries over to other missions in the operation
reddit lies
>Alsi, does killing a hivelord in one mission stop it from spawning in the next?
more reddit lies.
>tl;dr
repeatedly apply AC mech and strafing run to the hive lord.