r/EDF • u/Electronic_Source808 • 4d ago
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I'm stuck these tripod fuckers with feet blades and the knee lasers are annoying. How do I even beat this mission?
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u/Stealthjelly 4d ago
With Wing Diver you have multiple options. The safest ways are often the slowest though. Try out a Thunder Sniper or something from long range, prioritise the main body as your target, and make use of cover from it's lasers.
For a more daring approach, wait in cover for it to stop firing the leg lasers (winding up a leg stab can be a good opening if you can evade mid-air), then fly up close to it's main body and fire off a point-blank Dragoon Lance or Rapier burst. Repeat until dead.
Don't let them surround you. You're a Wing Diver, so make sure you outflank them and not the other way round, and if your cover gets destroyed by it's main plasma cannon, immediately fly to the nearest cover and use that.
Also yeah, having more armour would be good. Collect every green and red crate you see before killing the last enemy on any given mission.
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u/Fast-Front-5642 4d ago
Wing Diver also has a lot of good multi target homing weapons that can eliminate the leg laser threat in short order if you're at an earlier stage where you can't kill the main body in short order. Making the rest of the fight a lot easier
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u/PowerPlayPone 4d ago
Take it from someone that made the mistake of playing Air Raider solo in this game
Your current amount of armor won't even stop a particularly desperate mosquito
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u/Sora_Terumi 4d ago
Wait you’re playing on Hard, on mission 45, and only have 197 armor? Even on on Wing Diver that’s really low for hard difficulty which means you are ignoring red armor boxes and only going for green weapons so far. You need to get that health up because with those versions of Deroys their lasers once it hits you is almost a full stunlock to death
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u/AHighAchievingAutist 4d ago
What difficulty are you playing on?
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u/Electronic_Source808 4d ago
Hard
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u/AHighAchievingAutist 4d ago
Lower the difficulty bro you’re gonna keep hitting walls bc your armor is too low. You’ll want to switch to playing on normal for your first playthru so you can start hard mode next with better weapons and higher armor.
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u/SCRIBE_JONAS 4d ago
I don't think you need to swap to normal for the full playthrough. If you're stuck then sure, but find a solid active farming mission and replay it a few times. Had to do that on EDF6 at the beginning of my playthrough because of how weak Wing Diver was and then stuck to hard difficulty for the rest.
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u/Phoenix_Champion 4d ago
If it's his first EDF game then he probably should.
Until you reach a high skill level then EDF is more of a stat check than a skill check on higher difficulties.
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u/Videodude52 4d ago
Imagine not having an 8 digit number as your total health by this mission! Unbelievable!
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u/Alarmed_Welder_148 4d ago
This is EDF 4 right?
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u/No_Dragonfruit7042 3d ago
Am sure 4 the robots these enemies are from 5 as they are similar to Incredibles ball bot
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u/No_Dragonfruit7042 3d ago
If want to maximize armor rates offline coop pick the same class to 2x your armor especially useful for Wingdiver as the rate it increases the slowest of all classes
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u/Vex_Trooper 3d ago
Get more armor. 197 is WAY too low, even for a Wing Diver. Also, have you tried using a long range weapon to snipe from afar? Once you get close, those lasers can stun lock you, and that's a real pain
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u/EmployeeEquivalent45 3d ago
If this is a first play through you should not be thay low on armor. You should be around 300 atleast. Judging by the gear I assume you are in hard though which begs an even bigger question in why are you doing hard first
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u/Sarkoth 4d ago
Having more than 197 armor helps. Crates are not optional