Base Building Tips For Starship Troopers: Extermination

In Starship Troopers: Extermination, missions are typically divided into two stages: assault and defense. Once you’ve secured the mission area, you’ll have to construct a base in a designated location and defend it against a horde of bugs. Building is a little intimidating at first. You and your fellow players are only given a few minutes to come together and construct a base capable of withstanding an onslaught of hundreds of enemies! Luckily, you don’t have to worry. With a little coordination and some classic rule of thumb, building can become second nature. Here are some basic base building tips for Starship Troopers: Extermination to help you survive long enough to complete your mission.

Turrets are Your Friends

Once on defense, the bug horde will crawl out of every crevasse to assault the base. Even with 15 other players to cover your flanks, you’re going to be swarmed quickly. It helps to have bigger guns. The Turret MG Emplacement and Sentry MG are essential components of any properly fortified base. With 300 rounds each, these turrets are capable of squashing bugs from farther away in fewer shots. What’s more, using turrets saves your personal cache of ammo for proper emergencies- like when the bugs breach the walls of your base. The Turret MG is manually-operated, but the Sentry MG is automated, helping your team cover their blind spots. Paying attention to where your Sentry MG is pointing is also a good way to keep track of where the bugs are coming from. Just make sure to keep ammo stockpiles for those turrets nearby.

Don’t hog the Ammo

Many players tend to quickly place down ammo supplies in one concentrated spot inside the base. However, this makes it harder for groups protecting areas farther away from reliably resupplying when ammo runs low. With five squads per mission, large base sizes, and only four ammo supplies allowed out at once, it’s important to keep your fellow soldiers in mind. Ideally, you want to place ammo crates on the various sides of the base everyone will be defending. Have someone in your squad place one down, and let other players set their own stockpiles elsewhere. Having ammo crates easily accessible by everyone ensures areas aren’t left unprotected for too long. It keeps groups of soldiers consolidated at their defensive positions, and improves overall coordination.

Build Inner Walls

Building the perimeter of the base is important, but bugs will break those walls down eventually- especially on harder difficulties. To add extra protection to what you’re defending, use your leftover building materials to surround the core of the base with its own set of walls as well. If and when the bugs penetrate the outer barrier, the inner walls will buy you enough time to get rid of them without impeding mission progress. Just be careful with your placement; don’t trap your fellow soldiers inside! Bugs tend to move towards the center of the base, so use this to your advantage when you’re shaping the base. It’s possible to funnel bugs into an easily defendable position by creating a U-shape with your walls. Have your group set up on each of the three sides (left, right, and center), and mow the enemy down!

Bunkers Are Useful

If you’re feeling confident about your group’s ability to push the bugs back, bunkers serve as great defensive options. When implementing the U-shape design, they’re a solid replacement for the bottom wall. Bunkers allow you to attack the bugs at ground level. Attacking from above can create weird angles that obstruct your line of sight. If your walls come tumbling down, having bunkers to retreat into will keep your squad safe from getting overrun by the enemy. In the confusion of battle, bunkers are easy to see landmarks your group can use to orient themselves. They’re defendable from all sides, and have enough space inside to keep an ammo stockpile easy to find. Try not to overdo it though; bunkers work best when used as bottlenecks or emergency shelters. Place down one or two, and save your building budget for the rest of the base’s defenses.

Follow these tips and you’re sure to have an easier time building a functional base. Naturally, your mileage here is going to be based on how coordinated your team is. Some of these might not be possible depending on who you’re playing with. Rather than try for all of them, take a look at what everyone else is doing and try to accomplish one or two before the building phase ends. This will at least give you something to do before the bugs attack, and it might inspire another player to try the same tactic in a future mission! Building structures can help you collect more experience points. If you’re interested in learning more, check out how to level up fast in Starship Troopers: Extermination.

Starship Troopers: Extermination is available on PC, Xbox Series X/S, and PS5.