TO SAVE OUR MOTHER FROM ANY ALIEN ATTACK
>>321262632
FROM VICIOUS GIANT INSECTS THAT HAVE ONCE AGAIN COME BACK
>>321264635
WE'LL SEND OUT ALL OUR FORCES, WE WON'T CUT THEM ANY SLACK
>>321264635
WE'LL UNLEASH ALL OUR FORCES WE WON'T CUT THEM ANY SLACK
>>321264739
THE EDF DEPLOY!!
>>321264739
THE EDF DEPLOYS!!
What class is the best class?
>>321264970
Fencer, because you can knock the mandibles off of ants with your big, fuck-off pilebunker fists, and zoom fucking everywhere.
>>321264970
Depends on what you want.
Ranger is all around easiest to use. Rifles and Launchers are pretty much the load out the gameis balanced around.
Wing Diver is a Ranger that flies. Health scales the lowest, but smart play should see you taking the fewest hits.
Air Raider is decent on foot, but his real power is his vehicles. So much so that they added in an underground callable vehicle.
Fencer is a walking tank with four weapon slots. He's the slowest by default, but with dash-canceling he can go extremely fast.
>>321264970
I like Wing Diver best. Scaling those tall buildings feels amazing.
>playing with my younger brother back home for the holidays
>he keep on running in front of my mortar shots and getting us fucking killed
>last time was on the very last wave of ants
I'm pretty sure he's doing it on purpose at this point.
Who /EDF2/ here?
>mfw "Pincer Attack" mission
How the fuck do I even do it?
Post yfw the EDF deploys
>>321266167
I'm playing 2 right now.
What should I expect there?
>Waiting for Europe
>every mission with hornets
>>321264970
I first liked Wing Diver, but the ridiculous vehicles you can get with Air Raider is extremely fun.
Also, FUCK Spiders. Legit creep me the fuck out and are a pain to deal with.
>>321266268
UFOs and 3 of the Walker motherfuckersWith backup after you kill those
>>321264970
Ranger is the only real answer if you're a true EDFer.
FOREVER I SHALL ROLL AROUND
>>321266182
>>321266182
>mfw they deploy,get shredded to fucking pieces and I meet the same fate shortly afterwards
Imagine a VR first person EDF
Terror incarnate, especially the new underground missions in the dark
>>321266182
>>321266410
Well fuck me, then.
Why aren't there any fucking soldiers backing me up? Why do I have to exterminate these cunts by myself?
>>321266610
>VR EDF
>With Metro style underground missions
Fencers go in first, because fuck that
>>321266182
Any reason to not start playing online on a fresh save, or should I beat it once first?
>>321266886
Single and multiplayer equipment and health are separate, so either is fine, but I'd say go single for a while so you're more familiar with things.
>>321266778
>yfw first-person VR view of getting pulled into a retiarius's gaping maw
>yfw you get stuck on its web and see it crawling over to eat your face
When is the PC versions coming out?
If I could mount a Vegaulta minigun on a Gigantus, I would have my perfect vehicle...
>>321267046
Multiplayer is all separate? Seems like a missed opportunity to just allow you to continue your data across both, or be able to help a friend on a mission they're stuck in with the gear you currently got.
>>321267113
I don't think there will be a PC version
>>321267113
Never anon. You fell for the ruse.
>>321267206
Yeah, it's pretty gay. There are limits (until you finish all missions once in multiplayer) on what level of equipment and how much health you can have depending on mission number and difficulty in multiplayer, so you can't just pubstomp as it were, but yeah they should be shared Monster Hunter style.
Man, I cannot wait to get a PS4.
That one webm of the rotor-turrets makes me want to play Air Raider but trying to grind with him in 2025 was a pain so I might stick to Wing Diver like the faggot that I am
>>321267240
>>321267270
Why not? They put one of them on PC.
>>321267468
Insect Armageddon = Godzilla '98
>>321267468
The shitty one made by western developers.
God I fucking love this game, but WEW LAD I just want to play as the air raider but I have no one to play with. All my friends say it's "dumb gay shit" and refuse to buy it, so I just play missions by myself and while I like it, I feel like I'm really missing out.
>>321267519
>>321267520
Okay? That's not really an answer.
>>321267546
Your """friends""" are the biggest faggots I've never met. Kill them all.
>>321267370
If you wanna grind with Air Raider, you need some friends so you aren't hopelessly launching mines that do fuckall to the ants.
>get snatched up by a red ant
>tank blasts from it's grip and I get launched to the farthest end of the map
>the rest of the EDF cleans up the stragglers while I'm hauling ass to get back for the pick-ups
>only end up grabbing one weapon crate, and it's something I already have
why
>>321267358
Shame it'll never get addressed since this wasn't the case previous EDF games to my knowledge.
>>321267592
Insect Armageddon sold like steaming shit, anon. I'm sorry. I would be glad if the newest EDF was on PC, too. But it's not happening.
>>321268247
Seems to be decent numbers for a niche series. Have they outright said there would be no PC version?
>>321267520
>>321267519
>>321268247
Different anon, but I'm curious. What was wrong with Insect Armageddon? How badly did they fuck up the EDF formula?
>>321268732
The general scope was smaller as the game forced you into smaller portions of the map to hang-out as waves of enemies came at you, where-as Sandlot EDF games gave you the whole area to work with at your discretion.
That and a lot of mission repeats with defending an aircraft.
>>321268732
They took EDF's usual campiness and charm and tried to make it a very serious game. It doesn't work. Also the loot drop system sucked dicks. For that matter so did the weapons. It just wasn't fun.
>>321268732
I think the biggest encounter in the game is 20 ants.
There was one positive change, and that was allowing you to unlock weapons with points earned through playing rather than random drops.
>Radar was a single pulse update once ever 5~ seconds. Unless you had a support along who dropped radar towers every so often. Then it reverted to the constant radar of the Sandlot games, but without the altitude indication.
>Scriped missions, small arenas.
>Airship gunner sections.
>Hectors with weakpoints you had to shoot to do damage.
>5 missions, with a blue balling ending.
>3 difficulty levels.
I sadly don't own a PS4, but I have been enjoying the hell out of this.
Ugly as sin, but at least the frames don't kill themselves every 5 seconds. Still fun.
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>>321269005
>>321269008
>>321269086
Wow. Sounds pretty fucking ass.
How the hell did these guys get involved with EDF? Did D3 just want to try to see if they could get a big Western fanbase out of this?
>>321269198
Where you at now? Did you do >>321266167
I'm using Infantry and it's pushing my shit in every time.
>>321269198
I wasn't really feeling it with EDF2 like I did 2017P or 4.1. The lack of AI troops probably being the biggest stand-out issue for me. They brought a lot of life to the game instead of only having radio chatter,
>Flying around at the speed of sound
>Dodging acid and web and other bullshit left and right
>Feel invincible
>Smack right into the side of a building during a circle strafe flight
>Half a second of panic
>Two bullets hit me and I die instantly
FUCK
>>321267603
I bet his friends are GIANT INSECTS
>>321267046
No they are not. Equipment and armour carries over from single to online and vice versa. The only thing that does not carry over is level completion.
Did you even play both game modes? I swear the NA community for this game is solely made up of children and incompetent retards.
My brother and I are usually one of only two or three groups playing inferno online. The amount of people playing on easy is disgusting. Soang casuals it hurts.
>>321269514
>playing on easy
Fucking really?
>>321267206
I don't know what that other guy is talking about but armour and weapons are carried over between multiplayer and single player, the only thing that does not carry over is mission progression.
That guy needs to play the game before spewing bullshit.
>>321269514
EDF2 is my first EDF and I'm on hard only so far.
>>321269301
Yeah, I did Pincer Attack with an Infantry, but I was on normal, just getting a feel. I just killed things and ended up winning. Will move up when I unlock more gear.
>>321269661
So it's advised to grind out some better weapons and armor before hopping online?
>>321269394
EDF2 is my first and only EDF so I have nothing to compare it to, but being completely and totally alone adds so much to the terror of the harder missions. Like, my first time doing that one tunnel mission against the first ant queen. My heart was pounding by the end of that. I can't imagine feeling the same if I had been followed by goofy soldiers the whole time.
>>321269761
The AI buddies are pretty fucking useless in general in 2017P at the least (they seem rather not-so-brainless in 4.1), they were just there to get mauled by ants and spiders while you played the hero.
EDF2 does have a good variety of enemies at the least.
>>321269585
Dude when you go online 95% of groups are playing Easy-Hard.
The only game mode worth playing online is inferno. With competent teammates and decent gear/armour any other dofficulty is just way too damn easy.
It's like people playing this game don't even want a challenge. When I first started the game I played two missions on normal before switching over to Hard permanently on my single player save file. Now I only play Inferno online because it is the only game mode with playing.
>>321269741
That's pretty much the strategy for most of the games, unless you wanna try putting up a fight with enemies that can kill you in seconds, with weaponry that's about as effective as a whiffle bat.
>>321262632
Is EDF 4.1 worth full price? I've never played an EDF before.
>>321269741
I beat the game with my ranger on Hard and then started playing online. But you can jump into Online right away.
I began online by farming missions 1-3 on inferno with my brother and randoms, then farming Crimson with Balams once we got some decent gear, and now we farm missions 80-90 on inferno.
It's really easy to gear up if you farm weapons on later missions and have a team that can carry you for a couple matches.
>>321269950
It is pretty possible to boot up the game and play through every mission rolling easy to hard without facing any difficulty.
>>321270117
It's the best EDF game currently. Watch some Youtube vids or some shit to get a look at its general play. The series always starts slow when you got all the pansy weak weapons, then starts to ramp up near the end of the game's later missions.
>>321269880
Buddies are actually pretty good in 4.1, if you buff them and keep them alive as an air raider that's now actually a legitimate strategy. Sort of.
>>321270117
Yes its great
>>321270178
I'm aware of that, which begs the question - why in the fuck would you ever want to do that?
I play games for fun but this game isn't fun unless there is some challenge and intensity. And you will only find that on Inferno with a competent team.
>>321269761
EDF2's insects scare the shit out of me
>mfw the first spider mission
I noped the fuck after dying the first time.
>>321269950
>When I first started the game I played two missions on normal before switching over to Hard permanently on my single player save file.
Man, I feel fucking pathetic. I'm rolling Fencer, and I'm just grinding through normal at the moment so I have some good equipment.
Still, I'm at mission 37 in singleplayer, iirc. I think I'm more than ready to tackle hard now.
>>321270117
The answers in this thread will be biased as fuck, regardless it is the best EDF game and definitely worth full price.
>>321270408
Fencer takes some time to get used to. I first played as ranger, then WD and Air Raider, and now I'm starting my Fencer.
I had to adjust to get used to my fencer and I'm not geared enough to play on inferno yet so my brother carries me through farming 81 for gear.
If you have a reliable teammate that you can communicate with you can pretty much handle any mission thrown at you.
>>321262632
Am intrigued.
>>321270117
For me the series in general is hard to recommend, since there's a lot of jank and 'deliberate' design choices with the game that may turn off a lot of folks which make the game feel unpolished/low-budget as a result, but have become mainstays of the series.
Notably the framerate is always atrocious, with the exception of 4.1, probably because it's a port of a PS3/360 game running on vastly stronger hardware. For all we know EDF5 will go back into the sub-20fps on the regular like prior entries.
>>321270219
This. They are also incredibly useful as Ranger, because now you heal them with every medipack you pick up.
>>321270674
>If you have a reliable teammate that you can communicate with you can pretty much handle any mission thrown at you.
That sounds about right, considering my projectile equip for Fencer leave me pretty damn vulnerable in-between shots, but can easily wipe out a huge chunk of ants no problem.
>>321270408
Do the second mission on Inferno. Very easy and will give you lv ~50 weapons
>>321270219
>relying on "buddies"
>being this fucking embarrassingly bad
>>321271095
Sounds good, anon. I did manage to snag some Hardest equipment during the first mission that introduces the giant spiders on webs at one point.
One year there'll be an EDF that gives you clear credit for missions on an easier difficulty than the current one without you having to play it also (fuck you easy/most of normal), and allow you to obtain weapons for all classes while on the one.
How is that lvl 90+ weapons farming coming along?
>>321271095
This is what everyone should initially farm when playing online.
>>321271238
>implying it's reliance and not hearing their group chatter and their battle cries to get you energized for battle
>not shouting "EDF! EDF! when charging into the horde of ants
Faggot.
>>321271353
Great, I have 90+ gear on all classes except fencer which I just started.
>>321271416
>needing battle cries to fight bugs
>being this autistic
>have one ai ranger buddy left with little hp
>trudging along trying to avoid getting him killed
>he sings the first line of one of the songs that aren't in the chat options
>no one to sing the second line
>dead silence
>mfw
Post your favorite weapons from each class.Inferno mode: From each category as well.
My eyes can never read the 3d box pick-ups. So used to seeing the billboard sprites with the name labels in the earlier games.
>>321271556
>hating fun
>>321271563
You can sing along too, anon.
>>321271458
Fencer doesn't have 90+ gear.
85 is the highest "weapon" he can get.
Me and my twin brother farm inferno missions online pretty much every day. Our team always has the name "Veldman" in the title, if anyone wants a good group to farm gear with then don't be afraid to join.
>>321271736
Makes sense that I don't have 90+ gear then haha
>>321271568
Fencer:
Blasthole Spear MS and Mastershield
Works well on 90% of all mission and I just love the looks and feeling of that weapon.
Dual Blast Twin Spear for going fast. I know about the Dash-canceling with Javeline, but the Twin Spears just feel better.
FGX High Altitude Impact Missiles. Love to rain down 20 missles on enemies I can't even see
>>321272528
Question. I'm pretty early in the game, but I heard there were power fists with pilebunkers attached.
Are they any good?
>>321267113
https://steamdb.info/app/410320
announcement soon™
I was wondering why no one seemed to be talking about this game that's just purefun.Too bad most online players are hot garbage though.
>>321273143
Because it's on PS4 and you know how much of a hate boner /v/ has for the PS4
>>321272829
You mean the Jackhammers?
Excellent DPS, you can move freely while shooting them and unlike other Piercers you can fire both hands at the same time. I mostly use them dual. Get one to 15/30 and the other to 30/30 ammo. Hold the triggers and never let go.
The only downside is the range of 64 meters, which makes them useless against anything other than insects.
>>321273394
Oh hell yeah.
The blasthole spears are pretty cool, but I really want to use something that's more personal.
At what point will I be able to see Jackhammers as a possible drop?
>>321273534
The first one is only level 6. So could get that any moment, if you don't play on easy
>tfw there'll never be a weapon preview mode where you can test fire anything in your collection
>>321273713
I'm playing on normal. Guess I'll just keep on going and hope that I get to see it at some point.
Thanks, anon.
>>321273143
Just a niche game.
Personally, I don't have it, but have been considering getting it. Would like to play it with friends, and the only friend I know who really wants it happens to not have a PS4.
>>321273758
I actually want an interactive EDF facility.
>you'll never get to visit the weapons test lab
>you'll never hang out at the mess hall with all your EDF buddies
>you'll never "accidentally" stumble into the Pale Wing locker room
>>321274132
I convinced a super casual buddy to get it and he loves it so far. Otherwise I just play with the randos online.
>>321274165
>walk into the lobby with 15 buddies
>they all say "Hi Captain" in the exact same voice
>play MP solo on Hard while waiting for people to join
>apparently games scales the stats as if four players were active as to deter people playing solo online
I spent about 15 min just doing roll -> shot once -> repeat with my ranger while 100 ants tried to kill me. They should at least eliminate the damn weapon cap if I'm going solo.
>>321274326
>but slightly mistimed to each other so it's one big garble of noise ending in "-aptain"
>>321274326
I actually wouldn't mind that too much.It adds to it's charm.
Am I supposed to be farming easy missions for armor? That doesn't sound very fun but I'm getting a bit frustrated and not sure if I should be farming or I just need to get good. Ranged attacks on Hardest and Inferno cut me to ribbons. Even the damn ants.
I don't know which commands to set as shortcuts for the trackpad other than every other line of the marching chants.
>>321274692
Inferno is endgame "I've played a hundred hours of this" mode. Hard is fine for getting armour. If you want to boost it, do a local co-op, both players get armour for whatever class they are, so two rangers for example means double armour gain.
>>321274632
It's = it is
Its = possessive
>>321274796
Oh, well. I'm at about 16 hours. I won a few times on Inferno so I figured I was supposed to be there.
Does that armor thing also work on EDF2 online or is it local only? I haven't gone online yet.
>>321274692
I completed the game once offline and once online and got 2000+ armor out of it for my ranger.
You can play coop with 2 of the same class to gain double the armor but I prefer two different classes to gain different weapons. You can also AFK grind but this works bet with a wing diver and air raider.
>>321274850
I know, anon. I'm just pretty tired at the moment, it being nearly 3 in the morning and all.
>>321275060
>2000+
Oh man, I'm at 500 with my Pale Wing after a full run of normal mode. I guess that's the price I pay for flight.
Is it even possible to play air raider by yourself? I want to but all my friends are faggots and won't play with me.
>>321275158
Well WD are the slowest to gain armor. Each gains this amount of armor per crate:
Ranger 0.48
Wing Diver 0.23
Air raider 0.47
Fencer 0.58
I got lucky and had a team of 2 WD and a Fencer for most of my online run. They knew to leave one enemy alive and collect all the crates. WD flying around like greedy jews help a lot while fencers are the fastest unit if controlled correctly.
7 years hand-drawn in MSPaint.
Is loot online first-come-first-serve?
>>321275704
>Get to the mission with dozens of Balams and Erginus
>"Maybe they capture them young- Oh... OH!..."
Fuck you Ohara...The mission's actually kinda boring...
>>321275854
It's shared. If 1 player collects 10 weapons and 20 armor crates then each player gets 10 weapons and 20 armor crates.
>>321275704
Don't blame me for the ants not staying still long enough for them to get blown the fuck up by my mortar shells.Nice one, anon.
>>321276054
I take it that it's 10 randomly picked weapons based on your class then for the given difficulty/mission?
Sounds fair enough then.I sure as fuck am not going to grab scattered drops as Ranger though
Reminder that Fencers don't know what the word accuracy means, and if you see a Fencer by themselves, help them find their assigned Air Raider buddy.
>reversible cover on both physical EDF2 & 4.1
>full color manual for 4.1
You're an ok publisher XSEED when you're not injecting memes into something.
Has anybody found a use for Fencers Flame Revolver? Seems pretty pointless to me.
>>321274692Rubberband
>>321276154
Yes, I was a ranger and I let the Wing Divers fly all over the field collecting the loot while I fumigated. I only got rangers weapons as expected.
>>321276396
You're supposed to use Wing Dives as rocket launcher target practice when you leave one ant alive to nab things.
>>321276284
If memes are the price for an XSEED localization...
well, Nintendo's giving us censorship AND memes...
Square's giving XIV memes and censorship...
>>321275581
Yes of course, with the right equipment. I found the channel of some jap guy who soloed every inferno mission with Air Raider
>>321266310
>Region free
Only fools wait.
>>321276859
Import prices are a bitch.
Though come to think of it, Oneechanbara got released for $100 on the PSN, so with Marvelous EU being fucking retards 4.1 will probably be just as expensive.
>>321276859
Speaking of which, is multiplayer compatible between JP/NA for 4.1? I know it isn't for EDF2.
>>321276950
It is 60 Canadian Dollar on Videogamesplus, which is basically nothing.
I just had to pay 35 extra for premium shipping(2 days), because I couldn't fucking wait. It was worth it.
>>321262632
>Buy this on release day for PS3
>Runs like dogshit
>Hear soon after that they're making the better version for PS4
>Don't own a PS4
>Don't want to buy it again to play on my future roommate's PS4
I hate it.
>>321277210
Maybe you'll get lucky and that PC release does happen. Shit should be on Xbone also, EDF shouldn't be locked to one machineand handheld.
>>321276950
Can't you get it from the NA PSN?
Why import?
>>321277368
I'm still salty that the only EDF game on PC is Insect Armageddon.
>>321277370
Because managing different PSN region accounts is a pain in the arse, especially for the Vita. It's also expensive because you have to buy cards at inflated prices.
>>321277586
I don't know about your country but as a Britbong it works out cheaper to pay for overpriced NA Sonymoney cards than it does to buy games on my own store and pay British sales tax. High pound exchange rate helps I guess.
The Vita thing is annoying though, I thought you might have a PS4 instead in which case there's absolutely no problem.
>>321277713
There's two games, man. I want both 4.1 and V2.
As an Ausfag right now the exchange rate is so bad that if I got 4.1 for $60 USD and paid $15 shipping on it it'd already be more expensive than $100 AUD off our own PSN once it does come out.
>>321277846
Shit I'm sorry for your predicament then. I know there is not much you can do with those Aussiebucks.
>tfw no physical release of NA EDF2017P
Never got around to playing the earlier titles unfortunately.
If I understand it right, 2017 is a remake of the original, EDF2 V2 is a remake of EDF2, EDF2025/4.1 is EDF4, and we have no version of EDF3 currently? Unless that's what Insect Armageddon was supposed to be.
>>321278105
EDF3 = 2017
>>321278105
2017 is the third.
It's also the start of a new timeline, with 2025 being a direct sequel, but 1&2 apparently taking place in a different timeline.
>>321278437
Deepest lore.
>>321278603
EDF EDF EDF
Gonna wait 1 more month for a PC announcement. If it doesn't happen then I will get PS4 version. I just hate paying for online.
>>321279198
I don't mind so much cause I get free shit for all my Sony stuff with PSN. I mean, I already had the free Vita game this time around, but whatever.
>that implication at the endthat the ranger is Storm 1
>thatknowing verbal "nod" from the commander
It makes me a faggot, but I'd be a faggot AND a liar if I said I didn't feel a bit of a feel from that
Would you play an EDF RTS?
>>321279626
Absolutely. I'd want it to work a bit like Men of War in that every unit on the field should be individually handled and 'physical' rather than representative like Starcraft and the like, though. Doesn't have to have an inventory system, for obvious reasons. I reckon you could make a pretty good RTS out of it, would have a real Starship Troopers vibe.
>>321279742
>AI pathfinding for Wind Divers is shit and they get caught in spider webs
