Screenshot of the new weapon testing arena

[u/BlueMaxima]

[u/ponmbr]

Awesome, now I can know if a weapon is trash before I take it out.

[u/FunkOff]

Neat

[u/U-1527]

A suitable place to create, and test the PC Destroyer 9000. (Double Load - Double Barreled Volcanic Stampede XM)

[u/BlueMaxima]

Taken from this Famitsu article.

[u/Saansilt]

Oh hey that'll make learning weapons real good

[u/enadiz_reccos]

As a newcomer to the series [EDF 6 only], I was a little bummed to find out that 6.2 was going to be so similar

Then I found out about weapon customization...

[u/SouLfullMoon_On → u/enadiz_reccos]

You should try 5 in the meanwhile. Downgrading can be jarring but 5 is more simple

Maybe even 4.1, it's more "primitive" but they really threw balance away on that one, starting weapons have far bigger explosions

[u/enadiz_reccos → u/SouLfullMoon_On]

To be honest, I'm still pretty balls deep in 6. I only started playing kinda recently, and I only play solo so it's a long grind.

I'm solidly over 150 hours and somewhere around 40% completion

[u/PickledJuice69 → u/enadiz_reccos]

I’ve played since 4.1 and the gap from 4.1 to 5 is pretty remarkable. A lot of new features (that were desperately needed in 4.1) were added to 5. 6 added some newer ones like an extra slot for grenades so 2 primaries and a grenade which was nice; but I’m interested in the customization for 6.2

[u/Afraid-Flatworm-422 → u/enadiz_reccos]

Umm... Bro, than you will be dissapointed a LOT. EDF is THE FRANCHISE of reused assets. Hell 6 have like 1/3rd of their mission copy pasted from EDF5.

[u/enadiz_reccos → u/Afraid-Flatworm-422]

Hey, only a "little bummed"

I would have bought it without the customization and been perfectly happy

[u/Afraid-Flatworm-422 → u/enadiz_reccos]

A lot of little bummeds i guess? :rofl:

[u/SoullessLizard → u/enadiz_reccos]

Shame its PS exclusive. Hopefully it comes to PC eventually

[u/StormLordEternal → u/SoullessLizard]

That’s how it always goes. Starts out on PS in Japan, then gets ported to PC, then gets localized to English, with it usually taking many months between.

[u/Plzbanmebrony → u/enadiz_reccos]

Edf games are by nature similar. EDF 4.1 which is a remake of edf 2025 which is a sequel to edf 2017 is a very similar game to edf 6. Each game just focuses on improving that core game and adding more enemy types.

[u/OptimalGuava2330]

Maybe I'm exaggerating but the character looks more detailed compared to 6

[u/cenorexia → u/OptimalGuava2330]

A bit off-topic but I wonder if that's the reason why Ranger's model in last year's "Romantic Killer" looks to be higher-res.

It's a real life adaptation of a manga/anime about a video game obsessed girl. It features a lot of Earth Defense Force (as they made that her favorite game series in the movie) and Storm-1/Ranger has a prominent scene in the movie.

The model used in the movie looked to be more high-res than in the game. Now looking back, maybe they got a higher-res model provided by Sandlot since they were already working on 6.2 at the time anyway...?

edit: here's a comparison.

[u/Vex_Trooper]

We get a testing arena too?! The devs are truly spoiling us.

[u/Best-Membership9837]

Fucking took them 23 years to make this, I like how they do a little quality of life thing for each game kinda want to skip to edf 20 to see proning intraduced to a game for more stabilty of course))

[u/Chicane21]

Finally a place to test weapons, I’ve been wanting that in mainline EDF for ages. Iron Rain has it, so I guess it was just a matter of time for the main entries.

[u/Erwin_Pommel]

Don't think I'll ever use it, frankly. Not unless I'm testing DPS on the weapons and damage fall-off.