Your First Hour in MM2 of The Locust: Keys, Nest Escape, and the Beginner Route (September

If you have just opened MM2 of The Locust for the first time, this guide is for you. The experience drops you into one of Roblox's creepier survival settings, and escaping the Locust's nest is the entire point of the run. Everything you do in your first hour should serve that one goal: get out of the nest alive. The game has been sitting in the Up-and-Coming tier on the Roblox charts with roughly 10,795 players, so you are joining a lobby that is very much alive while you learn the ropes.

Keys are the main resource you need to progress, and this guide treats them as the spine of your opening hour. Community walkthroughs of the experience are already circulating, including a first-time playthrough with reactions and tips, so use this route to give your own first session a shape before you go in.

Spawn and your immediate priorities

Spawn is not the moment to explore for fun. In a survival experience built around a nest you are trying to leave, the first minutes are about orientation: where you entered, what direction reads as outward, and what the surrounding space is doing. Move with purpose rather than sprinting blindly, because the survival framing of the game means careless movement is exactly how runs end early.

Your first priority is survival, your second is understanding the Key economy, and your third is anything else. If you cannot stay alive, no amount of route knowledge helps. Keep early movement conservative, learn the feel of the space, and do not commit to deep areas of the nest until you know how quickly things can go wrong there.

Your first resource loop: Keys

Keys are the currency of progress in MM2 of The Locust, and the loop that governs your first hour is simple to describe but hard to execute: survive long enough to accumulate Keys, spend them on progress toward the escape, and repeat. The catch is that earning Keys through standard gameplay is possible but slow, and the process carries real risk given the survival nature of the game.

That risk is the reason the first hour needs a plan. Every extra minute you spend lingering in the nest for Keys is a minute where the run can end. Treat your Key count as a budget with a timer attached: gather what you can while the situation stays stable, then move toward progress instead of greedily extending the loop. A slow, safe accumulation that you actually bank is worth more than a fast, reckless one that costs you the run.

One useful piece of context for new players: community material around the experience references a batch of 100 Keys handed out for free, described as a meaningful head start for anyone who would otherwise have to survive the nest long enough to farm them naturally. A recent update also introduced something that hands out a solid chunk of Keys for free. If you have access to a bonus like that, it changes your first hour, because it lets you skip the slowest part of the early grind and start making decisions about spending sooner.

Early upgrades worth skipping

Because Keys are the resource that gates everything, the safest first-hour rule is that any early purchase is a trade against your escape budget. Before you spend, ask a single question: does this bring me closer to leaving the nest, or does it just make the nest more comfortable? Comfort purchases are the classic first-hour trap in a survival loop where the currency is scarce and slow to earn.

If an option does not obviously advance the escape, park it for later. The early game rewards patience with your spending far more than enthusiasm. Hold the Keys, confirm you understand what each option actually does for your run, and only commit when the purchase clearly shortens the path out.

The first real decision point

The genuine fork in your first hour arrives when you have a small Key reserve and must choose between two instincts: keep farming the nest for more, or start spending toward progress. Both are defensible, and the correct answer depends on how stable your current situation is.

If the run is stable and predictable, banking a little more is fine, but keep the session short. If the situation already feels fragile, spend what you have and push forward, because a Key you never get to spend is worth nothing. The players who plateau in experiences like this are usually the ones who never leave the accumulation phase.

Mistakes that cost the run

• Lingering too long. Keys come slowly, and the temptation to stay for one more cycle is exactly what turns a good run into a wasted one.
• Ignoring the survival framing. This is not a relaxed farming game. Threat is part of the design, so treat every excursion as a risk calculation.
• Spending without a plan. Burning Keys on the first option you see removes your flexibility at the exact moment you know the least.
• Treating shortcuts as a substitute for learning. Free Key bonuses give you a head start, but they do not teach you the route. You still have to survive the nest.
• Skipping community learning. Watch a first-time playthrough before or after your own attempt so you can compare your decisions against someone else's run.

How codes work in MM2 of The Locust

Codes are the other lever new players look for, and it is worth understanding the system before you count on it. Several code reports circulate for this experience, but none of them are confirmed at this time, so there are currently none to redeem. No rewards can be claimed yet for MM2 of The Locust.

The page you are reading is monitored and updates the moment codes drop, and the live list below the article refreshes automatically as entries are added or removed. When new codes are released, they will appear in the live list below. Codes for experiences like this are typically published by the developer around updates and milestones, and they tend to expire quickly once a batch is rotated out, which is why an old code you saw shared elsewhere may no longer do anything.

How to redeem codes once they appear

1. Launch MM2 of The Locust from the Roblox app or site while logged into the account you want to reward.
2. Wait for the experience to finish loading into the lobby or nest rather than trying to redeem from a loading screen.
3. Open the code entry prompt once it becomes available in the current build of the experience.
4. Type the code exactly as it appears in the live list, including capitalization, then confirm the entry.
5. Check that the reward landed before spending time farming, then return to your Key route.

FAQ

Q: What is the actual goal of my first hour in MM2 of The Locust?

The goal is to escape the Locust's nest. Keys are the main resource you need to progress toward that escape, and your first hour should be spent staying alive while learning how the Key loop behaves.

Q: Is farming Keys through regular play a good first-hour strategy?

It works, but it is slow and it carries real risk because of the survival design. Accumulate when the situation is stable, then spend toward progress rather than staying in the nest indefinitely.

Q: Are there any codes I can redeem for MM2 of The Locust right now?

There are currently none to redeem. Reports exist in the community, but nothing is confirmed, and this page is monitored so the live list updates the moment codes drop.

Next steps

You now have a first-hour route: survive spawn, understand the Key loop, skip comfort spending, make the farm-or-spend decision deliberately, and avoid the mistakes that end runs early. Take it into your next session, compare it against a community walkthrough, and check back here whenever you want a fresh look at codes, since this page is updated the moment new ones are released.