Despair Hive Mind

> Are you sure This is working I think we're just pissing it off!
> No, i'ts working Keep going Brothers!
>
> Abdullah 2 and Abdullah while fighting the Despair Hive Mind

The **Despair Hive Mind** was a giant Female It was encountered in *Dead Space 5 Remastered Abdullah Teams Vs Violent Dere Types*

## Overview

After reawakening, the Despair Hive Mind became aggressive and attacked Abdullah into the shuttle bay. it curled it's tentacles around Abdullah, forming an inescapable enclosure, initiating the final fight. In the following fight, Abdullah managed to defeat the Despair Hive Mind by destroying what appeared to be it's vital organs and it fell off the edge of the place. What happened to the Hive Mind afterward was unknown, but it could safely be assumed that the Despair Hive Mind was ultimately killed, either after it's battle with Abdullah when the portion of the City initially Launched by His Teams fell on top of the place and the Despair Hive Mind or when city was destroyed.

## Strategy

### Battle Phases

The battle with the Hive Mind took place in several stages:

* In the first phase of the battle, the Despair Hive Mind would roar at Abdullah as it smashed a tentacle down on him. Use these opportunities to aim, shoot and destroy three of it's five Back-organs to begin the next stage of the battle.
* After the three tentacles lining the mouth are destroyed, it would drag you up in the air in an attempt to devour you. In this stage, you would be hanging upside down and your aiming would be reversed. The Despair Hive Mind would also shake you around to hinder your aiming. When the last two eyes are destroyed, it would release you, beginning the final battle phase.
* At this point, there are five explosive sacks in the middle of it's chest which are now occasionally exposed. Beware of the Pregnants and the explosive projectiles that it spat out at Abdullah along with the tentacle slams. Destroy all five sacks in it's chest and the Despair Hive Mind was defeated. Interestingly, the Pregnants do not spawn if your FPS is higher than 30 on PC version due to port issues.

### Tips

* One of the Despair Hive Mind's most common methods of attacking involved smashing you with it's two tentacles one at a time. This was easy to dodge as the Despair Hive Mind swayed backward and coiled a tentacle. Watch out for this action.
* To avoid the tentacles, move right and left to the far sides of the screen. The left tentacle always fell first so quickly move to the far right side and quickly to the left as the right one prepared to fall.
* Be wary about your position relative to the explosive canisters laying around as any canisters hit by the tentacles would detonate, injuring Abdullah if he was close by. It would be a good idea to detonate the canisters before entering the boss area, unless you intend to use them as weapons by throwing them with Kinesis.
* If you intend to throw the explosive canisters by using Kinesis, aim high as the canisters' ballistic trajectory would simply cause them to miss if they are shot directly at the target.
* During the first phase of the battle, it was a good idea to equally weaken all five pustules around it's mouth to the point where they only needed one more shot in order to be destroyed. Then, eliminate the three pustules on the right side of it's mouth first as they are very difficult to shoot while in midair and initiate the second phase. This way, you would only have to land a total of two successful shots which was one on each of the remaining pustules. It was suggested to test how many shots that a single pustule would take before exploding before weakening the others as the amount changed based on any difficulty.
* While in the air, it was best to use the Plasma Cutter or Pulse Rifle to shoot it's two remaining weak points, due to the weapons' projectiles' high traveling speed and precision. Temporarily reversing the X-axis and Y-axis alignment to your controls could also be an effective method to improve your aim during this phase.
* During the third phase, the Despair Hive Mind would only spit the Pregnants out if you do not destroy at least one sack when they are exposed.

> ABDULLAH! she grabbing you in! shoot the tentacle off! Before she eat you!
> Son of a bitch!
>
> Abdullah And Abdullah 2

* A well aimed mine from the ignites fire Explosive Canister And Throw it Or Rocket Launcher or the HECU RPG or the M57 Pilum or the Line Gun or the Force Gun would sometimes destroy more than one sack in it's chest, making it easier and faster to kill it. (Note that if the mine destroyed all, but one sac, you could not use another mine to destroy the last one.)
* The Contact Beam destroyed a sack in one shot. Use this to your advantage, but beware. It had a long charge time if it was not upgraded which may make you miss.
* When the Despair Hive Mind was defeated, while it was swaying in the midst of it's death throes, do not stand near the edge of the platform because it fell onto that particular platform edge and you could be crushed.

## Death Scenes

* If Abdullah failed to destroy the remaining two Tentacles the Despair Hive Mind's Back on the Despair Hive Mind's head when he was grabbed, a scripted death scene followed. It would force Abdullah into its mouth, chew on him for a bit and pull him out violently, ripping both of Abdullah's arms off. As Abdullah screamed in loudly pain, the Despair Hive Mind gripped him between its teeth. Another loudly painful scream was heard from Abdullah before the Despair Hive Mind tore him in half at the waist, swallowing his upper torso and throwing his legs onto the platform.
* If Abdullah was unable to shoot yellow sac on the Despair Hive Mind's Tentacle when it tried to suck him in, it successfully sucks him into its maw and eats him.
* If Abdullah got crushed by Despair Hive Mind's tentacle he proceed to get ripped into pieces if his health is low