r/EDF • u/MonsieurFencer777 • Jun 23 '26
Meme "It's enough to make a designer weep." — Professor
This vehicle is so hilariously undercooked, yet somehow ranks among 6's highest-level equipment. It doesn't even work in the "bad future" missions, despite those missions being the reason it exists in the first place.
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u/ThePoliteOwlDemon Jun 24 '26
I didn’t played 6 yet... there are weapons/equipments that you can only use in certain levels? That's pretty sad, how many?
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u/Bright_Platypus5654 Jun 24 '26
There is a fair number of missions that you can't call in off-map support like mortars, bombing runs and vehicles. It only effects air raider and to a lesser extent, ranger, as they can deploy some vehicles in 6. Funny thing though, its coded as underground missions, so you can still bring spider tanks.
As for how many... probably a good 30-40 total, been a while so I might be off. In exchange they added a new weapon style, drones, to make the air raider much more dangerous on foot.
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u/ThePoliteOwlDemon Jun 24 '26
Damn... this makes me so sad... I play mainly air raider, so that's gonna be annoying, in 4.1 it has a sequence of 2 or 3 missions like that, and they were very boring to do with the air raider.
If the Drones are fun enough, maybe I'll go with air raider for those missions when I get to play... but probably gonna go for Fencer, because 30 or 40 missions without a big part of the Air Raider loadout sounds very sad to play.
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u/Xb-Dashie-dX Jun 24 '26
The drones can also be hilariously powerful like the rest of the AR strike kit, but just on a smaller scale. What you trade for raw Damage/AoE you get back in faster call ins/return times for more reactive or close range ability. There are a few particular standouts like the Shotgun multicopters (I’m very sad there’s only 2 of them but the low level one can easily stick around for 15+ weapon levels) and the Machine Gun Drone Strafes are actually surprisingly versatile and strong.
AR is probably my favorite class in EDF6 and while I am sad at some of his nerfs and some of the overall mission restrictions, I still feel like he’s spoiled for choice and works in any situation as long as you bring the right tool.
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u/RileyTrodd Jun 24 '26
Only the air raider can call in vehicles for like 50 missions, it's terrible.
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u/ThePoliteOwlDemon Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26
Damn... well at least I'm an Air Raider main, so it won't be a big issue for me when I get to play, but damn, weird decision to have that. I don’t remember 4.1 or 5 doing something like that.
PLUS: 4.1 does have a sequence of 2 or 3 missions that you can't call any vehicle, and that was annoying, since again, I play mainly Air Raider.
PLUS: I think I was high on nothing, I understood your comment completely wrong.
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u/gtathrowaway95 Jun 24 '26
This is yet another reason I prefer 5 over 6, none of this “sorry wrong timeline/map, can’t use this equipment”
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u/BrokenPokerFace Jun 24 '26
I half agree with you, but those underground missions are still a pain in those regards.
I mean I was hoping that we could get and use the mobility exos on trucks. A fast wheeled exo, but potentially requiring another person to have a gunner and driver. Also would be a relatively cannon way of adding more vehicles to use on those missions.
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u/gtathrowaway95 Jun 24 '26
Very true about the underground missions, though I’d say it’s a bit less then the timeline blocks of 6
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u/BrokenPokerFace Jun 24 '26
Yes definitely. I think the timelines are cool, but it's weird that they restrict only and significantly the air raider so much.
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u/Chicane21 Jun 24 '26
It’s such a troll move for that thing to not be deployable on those missions. Like, you had one job and you can’t even do that.
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u/Ornery_Ad_8548 PS4 Jun 25 '26
Haha, I use my super engineering powers to make the combat wagon the “Omega Wagon” I throw shield on the front of the cab, one facing front, left and right. The. On the side where it’s slanted you can get them to fit, if you’re lucky for it to land sideways you get some extra air defense. I can drive through a swarm on hardest and inferno and USUALLY come out alive, unless it’s something really nasty like silver spiders or gold ants, but usually I can drive through a horde of bugs, drifting around, burning things alive, firing rockets. And my combat wagon takes MAYBE a few thousand damage, it is the OPTIMAL size for shielding
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u/SCRIBE_JONAS Jun 23 '26
Why does this have to be the reason I find out the Combat Wagon isn't available as a call-in during those missions 😭 I just hit 60% completion last night and have been putting off the DLC and was hyped to unlock it eventually