4. Hive
Perhaps the most frequent faction Destiny players have had to fight against, the Hive had two expansions and a rather lengthy inclusion into the primary story. This has helped produced a rather horrific foe who is a blend of science fiction, fantasy, and horror tropes. Their entire culture is based on pain and suffering, which makes sense given this entire “race” is all undead. Not only does this make the Hive different than the other factions, but helps them offer interesting locations to fight them in.
Mechanically the Hive are hit or miss, with most of their base enemies offering up some different attack patterns and weaponry. The problem is that the Hive are a rather easy enemy to defeat unless they wheel out a few Ogres for players to fight against. Given most of their enemies (unless a modifier is active) lack shields this makes them fairly easy to dispatch. While the Hive does have a few cool bosses, too many of them are just bigger versions of Knights or Ogres with no real changes to their attack patterns. Yet, the Hive are still incredibly fun to fight and macabre designs behind their raid and strikes allow for incredibly memorable experiences.
