I found a glitch we’re if you crouch you are hidden even though your out in the open. So basically you have to hide in the tall grass and fast travel to a station and your hidden everywhere you go
It's worth noting that harper missions (the one that costs tokens back in old villedor.) can give you volatile hives to get credit off your weekly if you can't find hives anymore on your map due to the bug.
Thank you still works after patch 1.23 honestly think that it wasn't intended for that but non the less makes my job easier you can also get the weekly challenge for volatile tyrant kills by doing this. due to Harper elite mission trail I got about 5 - 6 hives in one mission and 1 volatile tyrant at the end
A quick tip, if you open the doors on each level of the GRE Quarantine they will stay open. Saves time from running through the whole building, when you could go through the stair wel
i found a spot for a guaranteed volatile hive. the dark hollow below the fish eye canteen. which sometimes also requires you to do some specific things to make it spawn. such as: after defeating it the first time, you sleep at the resting spot in the train to the left nearby, new night cycle, guaranteed volatile hive spawn BUT... i follow a path of air vents which takes me about 300km away from the dark hollow before i turn around & keep using air vents to get back before the volatile hive spawns back again. you always get 3-4 other special infected, i use C4 to take them all out at once. sometimes the hive will die automatically, all i do if this happens is crouch back under the entrance (boarded doorway) and go back in again and it will come back to... undead! if the volatile hive doesn't spawn after using the air vent system to "circle" away & back, just drop down over the train with the resting spot & it will spawn. i found this spot as part of my path, traveling between 10 different dark hollows without touching the ground trying to find a dark hollow that might spawn one of these more often than others. it seem obvious now, random really doesnt happen often, but rather there seem to be designated spots. i have also found a spot where i can get volatile tyrants to spawn. instead of being a 1/100 chance, it seems to be a 1/10 (better actually) chance, as ive only been to the spot about 8-10 times specifically for doing a level 4 chase & one of these spawned 3 of those 8-10 times. which is also something i discovered on this path of travelling between dark hollows. i found a perfect spot where i can stay safe while killing them (the tyrants for the level 4 chase), i can spawn in 8 at a time & they only spawn back in again if i want them to. i also discovered something which im not sure anyone else has. this rooftop is also a roof grove & if i collect the crafting materials after im done with the level 4 chase, i collect large quantities with each one. instead of collecting +1, i collect between +20 - +30 for each (and +150 - +200 resin) perhaps if this can be done on a rooftop with garbage cans or another grove with poppy's, this method could be used for collecting large quantities of those as well. the rooftop im talking about if you want to test this... there is a dark hollow below the top left windmill (walnut) in the downtown district/region, the rooftop is the building just below the dark hollow on the map. there is a pulley which can bring you to the top of the building, in which there will be a windowed ramp you have to climb up to reach the pulley, there will also be a screamer to activate a chase while climbing the windowed ramp. for the chase, once reaching level 4, i stay up on the first metal step (not sure what it actually is) which you can easily jump on (which leads up to an active air vent) and i kill all the tyrants as they climb up to me. i have to run & slide under the raised vent on the other side of the building to get more to spawn in & i repeat this until ive killed enough tyrants, i collect everything & paraglide onto the central loop building & use the pulley to get up to the safe zone to sleep (because its the most convenient spot) if i dont want to continue the chase until morning.
Not guaranteed. That's where I saw a hive for the first time. But only because I check the place every day for that 30 valuables/one night bounty challenge and it spawned only once during my 150 hours gameplay.
Two things I want to add - since 1.6, the icon for the hive is the same as for the tyrant 2- if you don’t want fight your way across the street you can take the zip line/lift to the roof and paraglide over to the GRE facility
That is a good alternative. If you follow what I do in the video, then you won't have to fight anything on the way up to the top of the building either.
This was literally the biggest pain in the f****** ass cuz as soon as you get to that last one or whatever you need a lot of times they would not show up no matter how many times I got to the night time and just sat there for a few minutes wait for it to get there it would just not come
I found if I just paraglide between the two GRE quarantine centers in old villador, the hive respawn rates are high. A huge bonus is once you have done them once and open the doors going down you can just the latter to get down to the first floor fast. In and out in a minute.
@@RespawnedGent yeah I don't know if the doors are on an in-game timer or what. but as long as you don't fast travel or go to sleep, the door to the ladder inside will be open.
@@jasonbachmann1926 I thought I was the only one. I've been running around the whole map and haven't seen one yet, but I have found tyrants. Have you finished at least 1 Harper mission?
@@ketami. yes I can complete those easily I honestly don’t even need tokens at this point because I have over 50 of them😅☠️ I just want them to update their game and fix the hive problem because this is rough lol
I came here to comment this because I get the other events to spawn, but I haven’t seen a volatile hive anywhere since 1.5. I gotta hand it to Techland… they broke a great game
This has either been nerfed, or when you have an active "nightrunner challenge" for hives, they reduce the spawn % dramatically. Ive spent an hour trying to find a hive doing this an going to many different night spots while at night.
I keep heating the same thing from several people, but I keep testing it and it works for me. Not sure why I am getting it to work and no one else is able to.
@@RespawnedGent it's possible that there is a requirement for them to spawn. I have not done a Harper mission or finished the "Something Big Has Been Here" quests.
Bro this is fucking amazing. This works so well, saved me hours. Ima keep doing it more. My game crashed mid way but it actually still worked loading back in. Thanks a lot man, I'll be sharing this
If, like me, this doesn’t work for you. Try OV, northern trinity and houndfield. There’s a nightrunner hideout and a chain of four DH that worked for me. Only one of them spawned a hive, but it was always guaranteed for me. I would just run the route between the four DH, there was no need to do the mutant icons that pop up unless that’s your thing. The DH that always popped for me was the one just southwest of the hideout. No FT needed, no side encounters needed, you may have to spend a few nights at the location to complete the weekly.
Some tips for this: 1º This is the best guide out there, don't even bother trying to find another, *the hive won't spawn most times cuz it's simply that rare* 2º You MUST clean this quarantine zone before it can spawn (it must have the check mark) 3º If it hasn't spawned in a while > kill the gold/blue encounters around it and keep exploring for some time. It may spawn 4º IT WORKS ON *FEBRUARY 2ND 2023* 5º Use the crossbow instead of boosters. Bolts are cheaper to craft. Remenber: IT WON'T SPAWN MOST TIMES! But this is a consistent way to farm it.
@@RespawnedGent this is kinda off topic but do u know why my “Municipal Services” trophy is not unlocking? Do you have to get it all to PK or what because it’s glitched for me
Absolutely love how ‘straight to the point’ your vids are. It’s way better to just watch a quick 6-7 minuet instructional than these mofos that make you watch twenty minuets of gameplay just for a quick explanation.
Their is also a dark hallow close to the fisheye I Constantly been in the are multiple times doing bounties and a volitale hive usually spawns almost all the time and you could quit your game and spawn back in and it will pop back up in you kill a couple screamers and spitters then go back to the same dark hallow closest to the fisheye
You can get to the top of the metro building and fly across to the GRE building. There is a small room with an ascend in the metro. Not sure if that would trigger those spawns or not? I'll try it in a bit when I get to my Xbox.
The metro station to the right of that metro is Waterside. There is a big circular rooftop section to the left of that metro. All of those encounters spawn over there also. I run around the rooftops in a circle until another encounter spawns
@@RespawnedGent At the bed, go up the stairs and left over by Chicken Pie. The lift takes you all the way to the roof. Saves a bunch of time climbing the GRE. I just got a hive at that GRE by flying down the the roof of the GRE :)
@@EL34XYZ I have done that a few times, but I was not able to get it to work every time like the climbing method. Although that way can get a tyrant to spawn easier on the tall building next to the metro
all this not necessary when you can have guaranteed hive 52 meters north east from oak windmill . you only have two figure out on which night they spawn . so let's say on the night you find one there after you kill it run to oak windmill sleep until next night then sleep again on second night it'll spawn again rinse repeat. just make sure you leave right outside safe zone area then wait minute or three about 50 meters between Oakland Mill and that dark hollow it'll spawn. also you can only kill one once during that night .
So the hives are on a 5 minute timer no matter where they spawn. For the one in my video I could kill it go back to the metro and just stand ther for about 5 minutes and another one will appear. I do what I do in the video so I am not just standing around. Although I will say that you did find a good spot for one to spawn though.
I almost lost my mind. I watched this video and tried it like 15 times and with no luck it didn’t work I finally realized that when I look at this area on my map it shows uncompleted and I think that is why it won’t spawn the hive. I beat the game and have completed all of them and have all inhibitors. So I’m guessing that this is a different story than the one I did. Still can’t find a hive very annoying.
I did NOT get a hive. Level 9. I just got the usual stuff. A Howler was where your Hive was. In fact, that quarantine zone doesn't even show up on my map.
@@codymyersofficial Strange. I know it still works for me because I tested this a few days ago and there have not been any updates to the game. I think the encounters may be bugged for some people, which does not surprise me since a lot of things are still not working that were supposed to be fixed.
@@RespawnedGent I do get the correct blue icon, but not at that particular GRE area, and there's never a hive...just a goon. Maybe beginning NG+ would help?
me again brother, seems that something changed as now the icon shows the volatile at night but always outside, i'm doing another Harpers bounty/mission and hours like that, i visited every dark hollow and GRE Locations as specified and they always respawn on roofs near the fire :/
@@RespawnedGent after hours and hours i discovered the best zone! maybe you already know but now they spawn easy at "The Wharf" on the GRE Experimental Research that limits with "New Dawn Park"
@@RespawnedGent you can share it if you want as i don't see new videos about this, they are on that zone and it's better if you fast travel to nearby Train Station close to Harpers and then back to the GRE. If you want i can send you a screenshot of the location and more, i tried using discord but not familiar with it, on some channels won't let me send a message. I completed mostly all with these new zone as almost everything is right there (Harpers). Cheers! Sergio
Whats weird for me is, that I never get any hive to spawn inside any Quarantine building. Even though I completed all of them. Seems to be one of the many bugs in this game and thats a shame, since the game came out 6 months ago and is still this buggy.
@@RespawnedGent I mean the hive located in one GRE center in downtown as mentioned in your video. I have cleared the volatile have there 5 time in a row without doing a single nightly encounter. I simply waited in the metro station for about 5 mins or so. Just uploaded a video of my last 3 hive encounters, doing so without any side/night activities at all.
@@ahmedhaiderQ85 oh I see, ya they are on a 5 minute timer like the legendary encounters and hag tracks. I just find it gives you more to do if you do the other encounters as well
@@RespawnedGent yea it’s a nice way to kill time but I’m always on hard mode since I started the game so always trying to ration supplies lol and by the way amazing content bro!
So you need to have gear that boosts either infected damage resistance or night time resistance and have it as close to 50%as possible, I ha e had gear at 35% and it still worked. Then you need to have a maxed out toughness booster so it makes you take 50% less damage. I talk about this in a video I made a while ago if you are interested in more information
i'm on the PS5 and just finished my 1st play through and I've been trying this method and a few others and have not seen 1 Hive since they added them in...wrf!
Hey! So i was trying to do this glitch, but i didn't quite understood how it works. Like, how do you start this bug? Do you have to skip the nights until the volatile hive is activated, than (after you farm your trophis) do a fast travel to continue the farm? Or you have to fast travel to somewhere else, and than fast travel to the vídeo's location again, and keep reapeting this process to until it activates a hive? How do you start?
It has been bugged since the 1.5 patch and hives no longer spawn for anyone anywhere. They should hopefully fix it in the update that should be coming on a few days.
Gentleman sir if u wanted to make the game easier for yourself u could.just stay in central.loop when u have to do the missing where Veronika is in an area covered by THV chemicals and just keep doing harpers challenges and yeah that's what I'm doing.
Man love your videos! Quick question though, I have to decapitate a bomber before it explodes but before I can hit it it just blows up on me. Is this challenge bugged or is it just hard to do?
I dont understand how u do it without a chase starting .. I do every single time I leave the safe area during the night.. those howlers are like 4 on every street its crazy.. and once a chase starts you cant fast travel anymore.. so your stuck running back if you make it back
I usually use dash to run there faster. But if you want to end the chase, just go inside the quarantine zone and the chase will clear after a few seconds
I hope someone can answer this but is the first hive in the video the place I need to go to for Harper's "Darkest of Places" bounty? Because it says that I have to destroy the hive and I don't exactly know what to do... Please, someone give me some insight. Thanks.
So the hive in this video is just an example of one. Any hive will do. To complete the challenge you just need to defeat the volatile that looks like it is coming out of the ground and is just stuck there. You can also do it by killing any of the 3-4 hives in the elite mission as well
So there should be an button that appears on screen when they jump on you. For xbox you have to press x a ton of times. There is an option in the settings where you can change these to a hold action instead but for some reason I have heard from others that the hold option does not work.
Hi respawn gentlemen I have a dilemma I downloaded the update and the game doesn’t let me play it. It gives me wait a few seconds screen then it gives me an error message it’s been doing this for 3 days now is there a way to fix this
Not that I know of. You could try uninstalling and reinstalling the game to see if that helps. It wont delete your save data so you will still have everything
Use a muscle booster if you need to, but the easiest way is to go to the radio tower by the sunken city if you have not drained and kill a drowner with a quick attack (not a heavy attack) while aiming at their head.
Hey respawned gentlemen I have a question. Do you have to complete the GRE lab thingy for this to work? Or can you not have it completed and it still will work.
The hive respawned with the first blue encounter for me, so watch for it cause if you do like me and follow the video and ignore it, it screws the whole thing. EDIT: Besides that this video is extremely helpful, was having difficulty completing harpers challenge
Another option I found on stream is to do the encounter and then just wait for 5 minutes nearby and it will spawn again. I just like to be a bit more active
Does an area have to be level 9 to have Volatile Hives and Tyrants Spawn? I've been using a Better Endgame Scaling mod and can't find any hives or Tyrants even with your method
@@RespawnedGent Did some testing, I can confirm that the "Better Endgame" mod does, for reasons I don't understand, disable the spawning of Volatile Hives and Tyrants. Thankfully I've also found the base game scaling to be more palatable on Easy, so I can live without the Mod. That said I did learn that attacking a Volatile Nest in a Hospital right when it becomes day is [FUN]
@@RespawnedGent, I think it’s awesome that you take the time to reply to everyone. Your vids are well made with nice editing and you keep them short and to the point. Yes, the hive does spawn and, honestly, that’s what I was really looking for but didn’t realize it until I destroyed it a second time and received the token. I get the spawn each time, but it’s always blue. Did you ever find an “easy” way to farm Tokens? Thanks again for the help and keep up the good work!
@@davidc.8717 There are only 2 ways to farm tokens, completing the daily/weekly bounties and doing the elite mission. I have a guide for the elite mission if you are interested that should only take you about 2 minutes to get through so you could get a token ever 2-3 minutes by doing that mission.
Not 100% relevant to video but I just did this and I also take no damage from them really (at night) because of my damage resist at night, but during day I do take a lot. Anyway, it turned day when I was fighting 4 of them there lol. I lived, somehow, barely xD
Even if this did still spawn volatile hives, this is such a bad place to do this because there are far too many howlers watching every path to the building climb. Getting up there without initiating a chase is next to impossible. You almost got spotted yourself in this video.
Yes I almost get spotted, but I have never once actually started a chase in this area while doing this farm. If you have difficulty with it then you can use the lift to the top of the metro station where lawan takes you when you first get to the central loop and then just glide over to the building
I can't get this to work is there a setup requirement I may be missing? I can't get the loop to start. Occasionally I'll find the gold encounter or the blue but never a hive
I've been playing dl2 for about a year but never look online. What is a volatile hive? Does that mean the blue icon that appears at night on the screen? I'm trying to get lots of uncommon trophies to upgrade my stuff, is this a good way to do it?
I have a video on my channel that shows how to complete all the bounties if you are interested. The best way is to go to a hive DO NOT KILL THE HIVE, but do kill the volatiles. The virals will forever spawn and you can kill 30 of them them kill the hive and loot everything
It this not working 100% anymore? It works until the 2nd hive, then after that it seems pretty random what you get, though I didn’t finish the story on this save yet so I don’t have access to the orange encounters yet, is it crucial that you have those?
Not really, but they do only appear once you have completed the game. I will say that these are on a 5 minute timer so you don't even have to so the loop. You could just kill the hive go back to the metro and wait 5 minutes in real time. I do the loop so that you are not just standing around doing nothing and can get more rewards, although the orange encounters are broken right now.
@@RespawnedGent oh alright, I might just hang out the 5 minutes then cause I don’t really need anything from the other encounters, i dont really need anything from the hives either I just need to do them for the weekly bounties
I only get blue events not the gold ones, any idea? I also want to say i havent beat the game nor have i got the vnc tower unlocked yet so that could be the reasoning for gold events not spawning
No it will not reset. The stuff related to the Harper missions and bounties will be gone until you unlock him again when you reach the fish eye. Once he is unlocked you will get everything back.
Another option for you would be to find a dark hollow that has a hive. Complete the hive and then go wait on a nearby building for 5 minutes and it will spawn again.
I's sorry that it was not working for you. I would recommend going to Old Villedor during the day time and doing whatever for about 30 minutes. Then fast travel to the downtown metro station and switch it to night time and try again. That should help reset the timer for the encounters. Also avoid starting a chase as that will prevent encounters from popping up when they are supposed to. I have done this about 50+ times during testing so that is why I say it is guaranteed. I will also do it on my next livestream to show it off live with no cuts if you are curious.
No they are also in the regular new game, but you have to clear the gre quarantine zone first before they will start appearing. They also spawn in dark hollows as well
They are available in the regular game, but you may need to have the game completed first. Also for the quarantine zones you have to have cleared them out first before the hives will spawn
@@RespawnedGent Yep, that's my experience too, the only hives I find are extremely rare and only in dark zones during the day. Strangely, I'll also find volatiles roaming on the rooftops during the day...
**WORKING AGAIN AFTER 1.6 PATCH**
THANK YOU!
Since patch 1.6, it looks like the icon they use for the volatile hive has changed to the one they use for volatile tyrants
@@JoeTheImpaler They have always been the same
I found a glitch we’re if you crouch you are hidden even though your out in the open. So basically you have to hide in the tall grass and fast travel to a station and your hidden everywhere you go
Holy crap nice
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What is insane
Absolute madman thanks for ze tip
@@ariestorrez1565 no problem
It's worth noting that harper missions (the one that costs tokens back in old villedor.) can give you volatile hives to get credit off your weekly if you can't find hives anymore on your map due to the bug.
Thank you still works after patch 1.23 honestly think that it wasn't intended for that but non the less makes my job easier you can also get the weekly challenge for volatile tyrant kills by doing this. due to Harper elite mission trail I got about 5 - 6 hives in one mission and 1 volatile tyrant at the end
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Thanks so much man I’ve been using ur vids to help me out with these bounty’s and I’m already at rank 6!
A quick tip, if you open the doors on each level of the GRE Quarantine they will stay open. Saves time from running through the whole building, when you could go through the stair wel
thanks for the tip
Mine close when i go back. Is that a bug or sum
They've always been closed for me when the hive spawns, even if opened in previous runs.
i found a spot for a guaranteed volatile hive. the dark hollow below the fish eye canteen. which sometimes also requires you to do some specific things to make it spawn. such as: after defeating it the first time, you sleep at the resting spot in the train to the left nearby, new night cycle, guaranteed volatile hive spawn BUT... i follow a path of air vents which takes me about 300km away from the dark hollow before i turn around & keep using air vents to get back before the volatile hive spawns back again.
you always get 3-4 other special infected, i use C4 to take them all out at once. sometimes the hive will die automatically, all i do if this happens is crouch back under the entrance (boarded doorway) and go back in again and it will come back to... undead!
if the volatile hive doesn't spawn after using the air vent system to "circle" away & back, just drop down over the train with the resting spot & it will spawn.
i found this spot as part of my path, traveling between 10 different dark hollows without touching the ground trying to find a dark hollow that might spawn one of these more often than others. it seem obvious now, random really doesnt happen often, but rather there seem to be designated spots.
i have also found a spot where i can get volatile tyrants to spawn. instead of being a 1/100 chance, it seems to be a 1/10 (better actually) chance, as ive only been to the spot about 8-10 times specifically for doing a level 4 chase & one of these spawned 3 of those 8-10 times. which is also something i discovered on this path of travelling between dark hollows.
i found a perfect spot where i can stay safe while killing them (the tyrants for the level 4 chase), i can spawn in 8 at a time & they only spawn back in again if i want them to. i also discovered something which im not sure anyone else has. this rooftop is also a roof grove & if i collect the crafting materials after im done with the level 4 chase, i collect large quantities with each one. instead of collecting +1, i collect between +20 - +30 for each (and +150 - +200 resin)
perhaps if this can be done on a rooftop with garbage cans or another grove with poppy's, this method could be used for collecting large quantities of those as well.
the rooftop im talking about if you want to test this... there is a dark hollow below the top left windmill (walnut) in the downtown district/region, the rooftop is the building just below the dark hollow on the map. there is a pulley which can bring you to the top of the building, in which there will be a windowed ramp you have to climb up to reach the pulley, there will also be a screamer to activate a chase while climbing the windowed ramp.
for the chase, once reaching level 4, i stay up on the first metal step (not sure what it actually is) which you can easily jump on (which leads up to an active air vent) and i kill all the tyrants as they climb up to me. i have to run & slide under the raised vent on the other side of the building to get more to spawn in & i repeat this until ive killed enough tyrants, i collect everything & paraglide onto the central loop building & use the pulley to get up to the safe zone to sleep (because its the most convenient spot) if i dont want to continue the chase until morning.
Not guaranteed. That's where I saw a hive for the first time. But only because I check the place every day for that 30 valuables/one night bounty challenge and it spawned only once during my 150 hours gameplay.
Two things I want to add - since 1.6, the icon for the hive is the same as for the tyrant
2- if you don’t want fight your way across the street you can take the zip line/lift to the roof and paraglide over to the GRE facility
That is a good alternative. If you follow what I do in the video, then you won't have to fight anything on the way up to the top of the building either.
@@RespawnedGent does this still work my brother
@@MrQBJames yes it does
This was literally the biggest pain in the f****** ass cuz as soon as you get to that last one or whatever you need a lot of times they would not show up no matter how many times I got to the night time and just sat there for a few minutes wait for it to get there it would just not come
I found if I just paraglide between the two GRE quarantine centers in old villador, the hive respawn rates are high. A huge bonus is once you have done them once and open the doors going down you can just the latter to get down to the first floor fast. In and out in a minute.
Nice I have not done those in a while. That is crazy that you can just slide to the bottom
@@RespawnedGent yeah I don't know if the doors are on an in-game timer or what. but as long as you don't fast travel or go to sleep, the door to the ladder inside will be open.
@@powerg3824 cool thanks for the tip
Thank you so much for this clip! Been gathering mutation samples like crazy doing this fun. Thanks a ton😎
I think they patched it with the new update today the hive isn’t spawning for me
@@thompson0249 yeah I think so too tbh I’ve done this same run over and over and a hive still hasn’t spawned for me 😭
@@jasonbachmann1926 I thought I was the only one. I've been running around the whole map and haven't seen one yet, but I have found tyrants. Have you finished at least 1 Harper mission?
@@ketami. yes I can complete those easily
I honestly don’t even need tokens at this point because I have over 50 of them😅☠️ I just want them to update their game and fix the hive problem because this is rough lol
****THIS IS CURRENTLY BUGGED AND NO HIVES APPEAR ANYWHERE IN THE GAME FOR ANYONE AFTER THE 1.5 PATCH. HOPEFULLY THIS WIL BE FIXED SOON****
I came here to comment this because I get the other events to spawn, but I haven’t seen a volatile hive anywhere since 1.5. I gotta hand it to Techland… they broke a great game
@@JoeTheImpaler Ya it really sucks that this is bugged right now. I really hope they fix it soon
Thank you i searched for hours yesterday not knowing it was bugged
@@josephhunt8904 I hadn’t seen a volatile hive the entire time 1.5 was active 😑
Wow that sucks
This has either been nerfed, or when you have an active "nightrunner challenge" for hives, they reduce the spawn % dramatically. Ive spent an hour trying to find a hive doing this an going to many different night spots while at night.
I keep heating the same thing from several people, but I keep testing it and it works for me. Not sure why I am getting it to work and no one else is able to.
@@RespawnedGent it's possible that there is a requirement for them to spawn. I have not done a Harper mission or finished the "Something Big Has Been Here" quests.
@@ketami. neither have and they used to spawn still. i only get volatily tyrants with the blue volatile head logo spawning.
@@Jeptheplay The only spot Ive seen hives were in the Legendary harper mission. there should be 3.
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Bro this is fucking amazing. This works so well, saved me hours. Ima keep doing it more. My game crashed mid way but it actually still worked loading back in. Thanks a lot man, I'll be sharing this
If, like me, this doesn’t work for you. Try OV, northern trinity and houndfield. There’s a nightrunner hideout and a chain of four DH that worked for me. Only one of them spawned a hive, but it was always guaranteed for me. I would just run the route between the four DH, there was no need to do the mutant icons that pop up unless that’s your thing. The DH that always popped for me was the one just southwest of the hideout. No FT needed, no side encounters needed, you may have to spend a few nights at the location to complete the weekly.
Some tips for this:
1º This is the best guide out there, don't even bother trying to find another, *the hive won't spawn most times cuz it's simply that rare*
2º You MUST clean this quarantine zone before it can spawn (it must have the check mark)
3º If it hasn't spawned in a while > kill the gold/blue encounters around it and keep exploring for some time. It may spawn
4º IT WORKS ON *FEBRUARY 2ND 2023*
5º Use the crossbow instead of boosters. Bolts are cheaper to craft.
Remenber: IT WON'T SPAWN MOST TIMES! But this is a consistent way to farm it.
You look great, bro! Thank you for the content you make for us ❤️
I’m Rank 11 now, your vid’s are super helpful!
Nice, glad I could help
How the hell you 11😂
@@connorbronco03 I been grinding way to long. Now I’m rank 12
@@Kiing_g any tips? Been grinding all day and only got to 5
@@connorbronco03 If you complete the challenges for everyday so far you should be at level 11 at least.
Man you are the best 🔥🔥🔥 you are the only person that teach us all of this
another way to get gold ecounter is to walk 21 meters in any direction, from anywhere and you'll get a guaranteed encounter
Just what I needed! Thanx RG
Sometimes even when I'm not even doing the glitch if I fast travel to much it'll black screen
I have heard a few people having that issue. I am not sure of a work around, but they will probably fix it soon
I legit have to do it at the same time as you with the video playing haha, it spawns every time
Thanks, this works, although I've not gotten a golden spawn yet, only blue so far.
Hive locations after latest update seem to have broken hive spawns at least in my game 1.5.0c on ps5
Yep, I have seen the same and had several other people mention the same to me
There’s also another glitch where if you use the brawler set and use a maxed out toughness booster you will take no dmg from most infected
The only infected you will take dmg on are the demolisher and goon
It is not a glitch, I have a video about it on my channel showing how and why it works.
@@goofyahbaby8977 They don't ctually damage you, they can throw you backwards but you will still take no damage.
@@RespawnedGent this is kinda off topic but do u know why my “Municipal Services” trophy is not unlocking? Do you have to get it all to PK or what because it’s glitched for me
@@goofyahbaby8977 I think it is just bugged unfortunately. Hopefully they fix it soon
Absolutely love how ‘straight to the point’ your vids are. It’s way better to just watch a quick 6-7 minuet instructional than these mofos that make you watch twenty minuets of gameplay just for a quick explanation.
Their is also a dark hallow close to the fisheye I Constantly been in the are multiple times doing bounties and a volitale hive usually spawns almost all the time and you could quit your game and spawn back in and it will pop back up in you kill a couple screamers and spitters then go back to the same dark hallow closest to the fisheye
That is a good find
@@RespawnedGent anythingcto help
You can get to the top of the metro building and fly across to the GRE building. There is a small room with an ascend in the metro. Not sure if that would trigger those spawns or not? I'll try it in a bit when I get to my Xbox.
The metro station to the right of that metro is Waterside. There is a big circular rooftop section to the left of that metro. All of those encounters spawn over there also. I run around the rooftops in a circle until another encounter spawns
Nice
@@RespawnedGent At the bed, go up the stairs and left over by Chicken Pie. The lift takes you all the way to the roof. Saves a bunch of time climbing the GRE. I just got a hive at that GRE by flying down the the roof of the GRE :)
@@EL34XYZ I have done that a few times, but I was not able to get it to work every time like the climbing method. Although that way can get a tyrant to spawn easier on the tall building next to the metro
Does this still work for anyone? since the latest update I haven't been able to find any hives
i just tried the whole cycle twice and no luck, so I guess they did something in the new update sadly
Great content as always, RG
all this not necessary when you can have guaranteed hive 52 meters north east from oak windmill . you only have two figure out on which night they spawn . so let's say on the night you find one there after you kill it run to oak windmill sleep until next night then sleep again on second night it'll spawn again rinse repeat. just make sure you leave right outside safe zone area then wait minute or three about 50 meters between Oakland Mill and that dark hollow it'll spawn. also you can only kill one once during that night .
So the hives are on a 5 minute timer no matter where they spawn. For the one in my video I could kill it go back to the metro and just stand ther for about 5 minutes and another one will appear. I do what I do in the video so I am not just standing around. Although I will say that you did find a good spot for one to spawn though.
I almost lost my mind. I watched this video and tried it like 15 times and with no luck it didn’t work I finally realized that when I look at this area on my map it shows uncompleted and I think that is why it won’t spawn the hive. I beat the game and have completed all of them and have all inhibitors. So I’m guessing that this is a different story than the one I did. Still can’t find a hive very annoying.
They are bugged right now and do not show up for anyone unfortunately. Hopefully they fix it soon
I did NOT get a hive. Level 9. I just got the usual stuff. A Howler was where your Hive was.
In fact, that quarantine zone doesn't even show up on my map.
Have you completed the quarantine zone for the first time? If not then the hive will not appear.
@@RespawnedGent I completed every zone months ago and reran the one in question before posting my comment
@@codymyersofficial Strange. I know it still works for me because I tested this a few days ago and there have not been any updates to the game. I think the encounters may be bugged for some people, which does not surprise me since a lot of things are still not working that were supposed to be fixed.
@@RespawnedGent I do get the correct blue icon, but not at that particular GRE area, and there's never a hive...just a goon. Maybe beginning NG+ would help?
@@codymyersofficial It might help, but it shouldn't be necessary, although I would recommend going through NG+ so you can max out health and stamina
me again brother, seems that something changed as now the icon shows the volatile at night but always outside, i'm doing another Harpers bounty/mission and hours like that, i visited every dark hollow and GRE Locations as specified and they always respawn on roofs near the fire :/
If they are on the roof, then that is a tyrant. It is possible that they changed the spawn rates
@@RespawnedGent after hours and hours i discovered the best zone! maybe you already know but now they spawn easy at "The Wharf" on the GRE Experimental Research that limits with "New Dawn Park"
@@UruguayOC Nice find
@@RespawnedGent you can share it if you want as i don't see new videos about this, they are on that zone and it's better if you fast travel to nearby Train Station close to Harpers and then back to the GRE. If you want i can send you a screenshot of the location and more, i tried using discord but not familiar with it, on some channels won't let me send a message. I completed mostly all with these new zone as almost everything is right there (Harpers). Cheers! Sergio
Definitely subscribing AWSOME video helping a lot😁😁
The electric mines are op but the electricity resistance booster. Its needs a buff or the booster would help against the electric mines
I have tried them a few times and they are pretty crazy
Whats weird for me is, that I never get any hive to spawn inside any Quarantine building. Even though I completed all of them. Seems to be one of the many bugs in this game and thats a shame, since the game came out 6 months ago and is still this buggy.
I think that is a bug because I know that it still works. A few people have been saying the same thing as well. Hopefully they fix it soon.
It’s dope that I get a mission to kill 3 hives and now they won’t spawn anywhere 😢
Try making sure that you have completed the GRE Quarantine Zones t get them to spawn there.
Thanks for making them patch it to where I been playing a full night with no spawns anywhere after the update.
Extremely interesting, another valuable video with valuable information.... again thank you and great work
I really needed this
U just got a new subscriber my friend
Thank you I appreciate that
Do harper Elite mission, 3 hives spawn during the mission. Takes 2 runs to do the weekly =D
Guys anyone have any information if they fix Municipal Services trophy please comment
By the way you do NOT have to do the nightly encounters now. I just uploaded a video demonstrating that.
for the hives, or are you referring to something else? I know that there are about 4 hives in the Harper Elite mission.
@@RespawnedGent I mean the hive located in one GRE center in downtown as mentioned in your video. I have cleared the volatile have there 5 time in a row without doing a single nightly encounter. I simply waited in the metro station for about 5 mins or so. Just uploaded a video of my last 3 hive encounters, doing so without any side/night activities at all.
@@ahmedhaiderQ85 oh I see, ya they are on a 5 minute timer like the legendary encounters and hag tracks. I just find it gives you more to do if you do the other encounters as well
@@RespawnedGent yea it’s a nice way to kill time but I’m always on hard mode since I started the game so always trying to ration supplies lol and by the way amazing content bro!
Hey Respawned Gentleman do you know what the best mods are for weapons in dl2?
Spark is really good for crowd killing
I personally think that slit venom and empowerment are the best
I use spark, frost & empowerment. Fling is really good too but I like frost especially with the volatile bcuz it's freezes them for a bit.
@@dodsonk2 That sounds like a pretty good combo. I have not really used freeze all that much to see how effective it is
@@RespawnedGent correction it's frost I use. Imo it slows them down a lil more.
Thanks bro appreciate it heaps for some reason my game was still bugged with them not spawning and now after I did that they appeared 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Against the Volatiles I would recommend freezing or electricity, toxicity doesn't make them suffer that much :)
Ya much later after I did this video, I found out how much frost staggers them and have switched to using that
@@RespawnedGent Ah right, it's from over 1year ago, didn't notice that mate :)
I used a toughness booster and i still got killed almost instantly. Idk if i did anything wrong or what
So you need to have gear that boosts either infected damage resistance or night time resistance and have it as close to 50%as possible, I ha e had gear at 35% and it still worked. Then you need to have a maxed out toughness booster so it makes you take 50% less damage. I talk about this in a video I made a while ago if you are interested in more information
they give us perfume for the hive, but really what do we use that to craft? they could give us something else
Perfume is a valuable
@@RespawnedGent what do we use it for in the game
@@jaybajan you use it to sell to a vendor but it doesn't have any uses except to sell to any vendor In Villedor
@@jaybajan selling and nothing else. It goe to your valuables section that is only used for selling to vendors
i'm on the PS5 and just finished my 1st play through and I've been trying this method and a few others and have not seen 1 Hive since they added them in...wrf!
The last patch broke them. You can only find them in Harper's missions right now
@@RespawnedGent i'm trying to do Harper's Mission and they still not showing up!!! 😡
I just did it after anniversary update and yeah it still works
Thanks nice video well made and easy to follow
Hey! So i was trying to do this glitch, but i didn't quite understood how it works. Like, how do you start this bug? Do you have to skip the nights until the volatile hive is activated, than (after you farm your trophis) do a fast travel to continue the farm? Or you have to fast travel to somewhere else, and than fast travel to the vídeo's location again, and keep reapeting this process to until it activates a hive? How do you start?
It has been bugged since the 1.5 patch and hives no longer spawn for anyone anywhere. They should hopefully fix it in the update that should be coming on a few days.
@@RespawnedGent Thanks for the help
Gentleman sir if u wanted to make the game easier for yourself u could.just stay in central.loop when u have to do the missing where Veronika is in an area covered by THV chemicals and just keep doing harpers challenges and yeah that's what I'm doing.
Man love your videos! Quick question though, I have to decapitate a bomber before it explodes but before I can hit it it just blows up on me. Is this challenge bugged or is it just hard to do?
Aim for head it works.
No it is not bugged. You just need to be going full speed or use dash to get to it first. If you try to walk up to it, it will explode.
@@RespawnedGent it would be nice if you do a video how to farm easily money or just tell me a good tip about it :)
@@ricardoazofeifa5784 I have a video I am working on. It is a bit tedious but it is easy money.
I had a similar problem, sneak up on them, take a dps booster, stand up and hit the head with a light attack
well at this date right now on september. hives are NOT spawning.
They are currently bugged. Hopefully they will be fixed in the next patch
I dont understand how u do it without a chase starting .. I do every single time I leave the safe area during the night.. those howlers are like 4 on every street its crazy.. and once a chase starts you cant fast travel anymore.. so your stuck running back if you make it back
I usually use dash to run there faster. But if you want to end the chase, just go inside the quarantine zone and the chase will clear after a few seconds
I hope someone can answer this but is the first hive in the video the place I need to go to for Harper's "Darkest of Places" bounty? Because it says that I have to destroy the hive and I don't exactly know what to do... Please, someone give me some insight.
Thanks.
Oh! AND I noticed that you where able to kick the volatile off of you... How are you able to do that?
So the hive in this video is just an example of one. Any hive will do. To complete the challenge you just need to defeat the volatile that looks like it is coming out of the ground and is just stuck there. You can also do it by killing any of the 3-4 hives in the elite mission as well
So there should be an button that appears on screen when they jump on you. For xbox you have to press x a ton of times. There is an option in the settings where you can change these to a hold action instead but for some reason I have heard from others that the hold option does not work.
Hi respawn gentlemen I have a dilemma I downloaded the update and the game doesn’t let me play it. It gives me wait a few seconds screen then it gives me an error message it’s been doing this for 3 days now is there a way to fix this
Not that I know of. You could try uninstalling and reinstalling the game to see if that helps. It wont delete your save data so you will still have everything
Thank you
Never mind same problem
@@LGL_lnc Not sure then. I know that has been a problem for people and it will randomly fix itself so I am not sure how to resolve that.
life saver my guy!
Any advice for the challenge on decapitating a suicider without it exploding?
Use a muscle booster if you need to, but the easiest way is to go to the radio tower by the sunken city if you have not drained and kill a drowner with a quick attack (not a heavy attack) while aiming at their head.
Hey respawned gentlemen I have a question. Do you have to complete the GRE lab thingy for this to work? Or can you not have it completed and it still will work.
Yes you have to have the quarantine zones cometed before the hives will spawn
@@RespawnedGent ok thank you so much!
Not working for me. I haven't seen a single volatile hive spawn in since the most recent patch.
Ya they have been broken and don't show up at all for anyone
The hive respawned with the first blue encounter for me, so watch for it cause if you do like me and follow the video and ignore it, it screws the whole thing. EDIT: Besides that this video is extremely helpful, was having difficulty completing harpers challenge
Another option I found on stream is to do the encounter and then just wait for 5 minutes nearby and it will spawn again. I just like to be a bit more active
@@RespawnedGent thanks for the tip. Can use that free time occasionally.
Idk if I’m missing a step or just the most unlucky guy ever but I’ve tried this and dark hollows for three hours and not a single spawn
It is bugged since the 1.5 patch. No one is getting hives anywhere
Hey I have a question, I haven’t seem to have gotten any gold encounters is it because I’m still playing the story?
@savage_wassbi_21 you need to fully beat the story and then golden encounters should spawn for you
It’s not their for me on the map anyone els having this problem
Thanks brother ✊🏼
Does an area have to be level 9 to have Volatile Hives and Tyrants Spawn? I've been using a Better Endgame Scaling mod and can't find any hives or Tyrants even with your method
The mod may be affecting it. Are you in ng+ or just end game of first playthrough?
@@RespawnedGent Did some testing, I can confirm that the "Better Endgame" mod does, for reasons I don't understand, disable the spawning of Volatile Hives and Tyrants.
Thankfully I've also found the base game scaling to be more palatable on Easy, so I can live without the Mod.
That said I did learn that attacking a Volatile Nest in a Hospital right when it becomes day is [FUN]
@@brokenmirror3911 that does sound kinda fun
Was this patched, or is it dependent on having finished the main story? It did spawn the hive, but after that it only spawned blue encounters. No Gold
This was working for me. But after the last update It's no longer working.
They are broken right now
Gone through this multiple times and can’t get the damn golden encounter
Strange, does the hive appear as well? It may also have changed after the 1.4.2 patch, I would have to fest and see.
@@RespawnedGent, I think it’s awesome that you take the time to reply to everyone. Your vids are well made with nice editing and you keep them short and to the point. Yes, the hive does spawn and, honestly, that’s what I was really looking for but didn’t realize it until I destroyed it a second time and received the token. I get the spawn each time, but it’s always blue. Did you ever find an “easy” way to farm Tokens? Thanks again for the help and keep up the good work!
@@davidc.8717 There are only 2 ways to farm tokens, completing the daily/weekly bounties and doing the elite mission. I have a guide for the elite mission if you are interested that should only take you about 2 minutes to get through so you could get a token ever 2-3 minutes by doing that mission.
Not 100% relevant to video but I just did this and I also take no damage from them really (at night) because of my damage resist at night, but during day I do take a lot. Anyway, it turned day when I was fighting 4 of them there lol. I lived, somehow, barely xD
yea make sure ur gears have damage resistance against infected and not damage resistance at night and voila. gd luck mate
Night resistance is good until day time hits. Try to find gear that also has day time and you will be unstoppable
Even if this did still spawn volatile hives, this is such a bad place to do this because there are far too many howlers watching every path to the building climb. Getting up there without initiating a chase is next to impossible. You almost got spotted yourself in this video.
Yes I almost get spotted, but I have never once actually started a chase in this area while doing this farm. If you have difficulty with it then you can use the lift to the top of the metro station where lawan takes you when you first get to the central loop and then just glide over to the building
Worked for me in ps4, thanks
This still working guys...????
it completed itself when i ran back to it…
I can't get this to work is there a setup requirement I may be missing? I can't get the loop to start. Occasionally I'll find the gold encounter or the blue but never a hive
They are bugged right now because of the last patch. No one can find any anymore
@@RespawnedGent Thanks for being a solid and engaged content creator. Wasn't aware there was a bug, but thanks to this I only wasted a few hours. =)
I've been playing dl2 for about a year but never look online. What is a volatile hive? Does that mean the blue icon that appears at night on the screen? I'm trying to get lots of uncommon trophies to upgrade my stuff, is this a good way to do it?
Yes the blue icon with a volatile face will either lead you to a hive or a tyrant
This would not work for me, but then I do not see it spawn anywhere at all
Are you in ng+ or the end game of your first play through?
How much scraps does it take to make saw blades I just wonder?
I believe it is 369 scrap for about 33 of them
@@RespawnedGent oh
Hi I need to colect 30 valuebles over night can u give tips ? And also have to do lvl 4 chase for 60 sec
I have a video on my channel that shows how to complete all the bounties if you are interested. The best way is to go to a hive DO NOT KILL THE HIVE, but do kill the volatiles. The virals will forever spawn and you can kill 30 of them them kill the hive and loot everything
sad, looks like this doesnt work any longer, or because I'm not far enough in the story or something yet, even though I'm level 23/25
So this only works if you have completed the quarantine zone already.
It this not working 100% anymore? It works until the 2nd hive, then after that it seems pretty random what you get, though I didn’t finish the story on this save yet so I don’t have access to the orange encounters yet, is it crucial that you have those?
Not really, but they do only appear once you have completed the game. I will say that these are on a 5 minute timer so you don't even have to so the loop. You could just kill the hive go back to the metro and wait 5 minutes in real time. I do the loop so that you are not just standing around doing nothing and can get more rewards, although the orange encounters are broken right now.
@@RespawnedGent oh alright, I might just hang out the 5 minutes then cause I don’t really need anything from the other encounters, i dont really need anything from the hives either I just need to do them for the weekly bounties
I only get blue events not the gold ones, any idea? I also want to say i havent beat the game nor have i got the vnc tower unlocked yet so that could be the reasoning for gold events not spawning
That is the reason. The gold encounters are an end game activity
Question not related to this, if I start a new game plus will my rank for the nightrunner quests reset?
No it will not reset. The stuff related to the Harper missions and bounties will be gone until you unlock him again when you reach the fish eye. Once he is unlocked you will get everything back.
Does this still work after update 1.11
Answered my own question lol
Yes it still works after lastest patch
it only worked once for me then it never worked again. ive been trying to do it for the past 20 mins and i have completed the zone :/
Strange, another thing you can try is when you complete one then just wait nearby for about 5 minutes and it should spawn again
What weapon mods are you using?
Slit/venom/empowerment
I can't do this bc my fast travel is bugged it won't let me fast travel bummer
Another option for you would be to find a dark hollow that has a hive. Complete the hive and then go wait on a nearby building for 5 minutes and it will spawn again.
Dudes this does not don't listen to this guy I don't know why he's saying this when it clearly doesn't work but I just ignore going forward.
I's sorry that it was not working for you. I would recommend going to Old Villedor during the day time and doing whatever for about 30 minutes. Then fast travel to the downtown metro station and switch it to night time and try again. That should help reset the timer for the encounters. Also avoid starting a chase as that will prevent encounters from popping up when they are supposed to. I have done this about 50+ times during testing so that is why I say it is guaranteed. I will also do it on my next livestream to show it off live with no cuts if you are curious.
Do the Volatile hives only appear in New Game Plus…?…because I don’t see any in the area you show 😞
No they are also in the regular new game, but you have to clear the gre quarantine zone first before they will start appearing. They also spawn in dark hollows as well
There's no drop from legendary night encounters
That got broken in the patch. Hopefully they fix it soon
Thank you bro!
Has the hive stuff been fixed? I have well over 100 hours and never seen one of these
I don't think you need to finish the game but for the ones on the gre hospitals you need to clear them first before they will appear
Are hives NG+ exclusive or they are available in a normal game?
They are available in the regular game, but you may need to have the game completed first. Also for the quarantine zones you have to have cleared them out first before the hives will spawn
I've gone to so many dark hallows and gre facilities but can't find any,is the game bugged or something
It is bugged right now
on my game, this building is just empty, its not an gre building on my map -.-
This may have been broken with the new update. I cannot get hives to spawn anywhere.
@@RespawnedGent Yep, that's my experience too, the only hives I find are extremely rare and only in dark zones during the day. Strangely, I'll also find volatiles roaming on the rooftops during the day...
@@RespawnedGent yea same, i tried it like 3 days but didnt get a single hive