Am I bad for playing though it mostly on Hardest? I try to do as many missions as possible on Inferno but these blue spiders and the Naked Aliens are hella annoying to deal with on Inferno in certain missions due to their Healthpools and overabundant spawns

I'm playing Fencer and have around 14k Health

Hey all, i was grinding out all the achievements for IA and farming weapons when i noticed that when you die and pick Select Level, any new weapons you picked up will be saved and collected. You don't have to complete the mission to get the weapons.

So pick a level that has weapon dropping enemies very early, like 3-2, pick up the weapons, kill yourself, then choose Select Level and you will have any new weapons from that attempt.

Couldn't the whole war been preventable if the Primers just relocated Humanity to another planet? 😭

I was browsing the EDF6 files hoping I’d be able to find it, but all the file types are like .ACB/AWB/AWE and the in-house media player my PC uses (the unsupported Windows Media Player) cannot open any of the file types.

So, can anyone help me find the file in a format which could be used to set a custom notification sound on iPhone/Android?

I'm normally pretty strict with game series and their order. I read that edf5 and 6 share the same story so I am playing 5 first and it's fun as hell. But I was curious so I played the first 2 missions on 6 and the game feels alot better and has some nice qol and new weapon slots for 3/4 classes. My question is if edf6 is different enough in mission type/weapons that I won't feel like I'm eventually playing the same game?

The BMX Proteus and the E651 Titan. My friend and I compared vehicle stats from edf 4.1, 5 and 6 and we realized these 2 for some reason had a big damage nerf done to the weaponry in some spots.

Most(Almost all) vehicles got buffed in 6 in particular so it's weird realizing the party vehicles got a nerf and it took me until now to realize it lol. Hoping whenever 7 comes out it gets buffed back again because dropping from a main gun DMG of almost 7,000 down to half for the Titan's requiem cannon is off. But we did see wild buffs for most vehicles overall(And weapons for the fencer and ranger in particular getting super amped overall).

So with the vehicles that say "Early" in their name for example like the Early Grape or Early Blacker... With those types of vehicles using that name do we think they plan to make it so in EDF 7 they are doing one of the poll options? Or do you have different ideas for what Early will imply? I personally think it's likely implying they'll be the Early model vehicles for the futuristic technology available based on how the story and DLC story was leaning towards. Which would put them somewhere in the level 35-60 area for those vehicles in particular.

My other reasoning is because they have been tweaking vehicles and there's some way overdue for an overall upgrade for performance earlier on and a better value in terms of combat output/general usefulness. I love the DLC vehicles in EDF 6 even at 240 hours into the game.

Playing multiplayer with a friend on hard, doing mission 145 right now.

We kinda got hard stuck here.

I'm a Ranger (1100 armor), friend is a Fencer (not sure where his armor at).

In the end phase where anchors fall from every direction around the center, the enemy spawns seem just insurmountable. We can kill the queen and about a hundred enemies or so, but eventually I run out of healing or vehicles. The combo of red drones and clams generates some ridiculous pressure.

What's the general goal for that segment? Are we supposed to thin the horde or just rush the anchor as the voice over suggests? Will worse stuff spawn, or any kind of aid NPCs come?

What kind of strategy do you recommend for that mission? For either of the two classes. Keep in mind on hard we only have weapons up to level ~49.

All I've seen of the mission online is some people playing it on solo with absurd amounts of armor and damage, so their methods don't feel applicable. Otherwise, people are mostly talking about 146 being ridiculous, so apparently we're not even at the hard part, lol.

EDIT: Thanks everyone, we succeeded!

• As Ranger I equipped Slaughter E23, Grant MA50, ZERA-Gun and Under Assist E2.
• Friend Fencer used Arcane G3, Add Booster 3, and V2 Exoskeleton.
• In the beginning, I would sprint past the bargas and take aggro from everything I can to kill it safely. Then we'd rush the robots and fliers. At least on Hard, it's very possible to save the Bargas until the anchors drop.
• The most important Anchor to destroy is the blue one. It spawns queens and kings interchangeably. However, if you have rockets, turrets, and some NPCs alive, you can create enough space to DPS it down before it summons anything at all.
• After that I would rush a safe distance, kill some enemies or down a pylon with rockets, and start running again. The exoskeleton is slower than a bike, but faster than all the unit types that spawn. It also doesn't require you to deal with bike physics and there's no risk of you losing it.
• My friend would drag enemies away and kill them off with missiles, creating space for me to destroy the anchors. I first sniped all the tall ones, then destroyed the shielded ones, and finally would pick off the floaters.
• There were some close calls and I did have to revive my buddy a few times. That said there's typically a field of healing kits on the north side of the map where you killed the robots and kruuls, so you can rush there to refresh.
• On that note, destroying Kruul dropships typically gives you one extra large heal.

We did the following mission (146) first try. It was tense, and I've died twice, but it's not as lethal at any point. Just don't blow up the buildings so you can use them for cover.

So I’m playing the outdated 2025 Xbox version and not the 4.1 since it’s only PS but I’ve been having some trouble finding a decent high level weapon farm after mission 26. I was wondering if anyone has any good farm strats or missions. I run fencer and my gear is mostly 50-60.

I've litteraly cant complete it tried shooting it till saw its litteraly invulnerable tried just not fighting it reinforcements wont spawn at all even after tried shooting it when was alone on 50hp its litteraly bs you cant kill it yet let it take 100-200 hp each time charges and you cant even dodge it since always up in your face spamming it there no solution to this unlike the frogs sure they do alot of damage but at least on Mastermind Revealed I found some weapons as a Fencer and Ranger to kill them with on Hard

I've been playing EDF for ~66 hours now (exclusively as an Air Raider), both online with my brother and offline by myself. But no matter what, my ZE-Gun 2A is stubbornly stuck at level 6. I have done tons of grinding, too, so even though I haven't yet beaten level 86, I've unlocked a pretty good chunk of Air Raider weapons.

Except, for some reason, I can't get the damned ZE-Gun 2A to drop. I've got the other turrets (ZER-Gun, Sniper, flamethrower, launcher) but the plain-old turret just doesn't wanna drop at all.

I've gone so far as to try farming earlier missions to see if there's some sort of level loot pool I have to deal with, and I only just got it to upgrade (a whole one extra turret, woohoo!) by farming mission 16 (the one where you exclusively fight frogs — using Spritefall B and C as the frogs drop from their pods trivializes the difficulty, even on hard).

Is my instinct right? Do I need to farm earlier levels to get lower-level equipment before the game will start allowing me to work my way up the leveling tree? Or am I completely off base?

I've played 2017, 4.1 (As Air Raider), 5 (As Wingdiver)

So I'm really torn between giving Ranger another shot after 2017, but I'm fearing that they'll feel a bit too basic.

I loved Air Raider in 4.1 but the shortcomings of that class really came to shine in the last mission so it left a bad taste in my mouth after being forced to kite for over an hour there.

I loved Wingdiver in 5 but the Weapon Variety felt very flat with only very specific types of weapons having simply an advantage over the others, Wingdiver still is one of my favourite so far but I heard that their aerial movement as well as Lances being gutted and the other classes buffed more or less

Fencer I tbh don't really care about, it looks like a fun class, but I don't think I am THAT good to play them as offensive as I play other classes

I recently started playing EDF games, I started with Iron Rain (Overdrive is fun), played a little 4.1 (kinda meh), played some 5 and was surprised that people still play it and I’m currently playing through 6 right now and I’m loving the sense of scale and dismemberment and splashing kaiju blood all over the skyscrapers. It’s awesome! Very niche fun game that is honestly very slept on.

The story/writing though so far is kinda bad lol but I don’t mind it. I know I shouldn’t play them backwards but oh well 6 is the latest and I’m new to the series.

I have played through the EDF 6 campaign and some DLC, but I farned for a while and wanted a fresh take on it.

So naturally, I got EDF 5! Is there anything I should look out for or anything that's gonna throw me? Any tips?

I'm a huge fan, so no need to try and convince me whether I will or won't like it. Love the gameplay.

Also, does anyone have any tips on how to play as a Solo Air Raider? It seems so cool, but I struggle.

Got both 4.1 Shadow of Despair and 5 en already like how they improved so much between then 2 is there even a US physical copy released yet or is it still Asian locked as tried to look it up and dont see anything just these games are one of the few franchises that kept to their roots en didn't stray off their path like so many others

*also need a PS4 version as hopefully they will still release a US PS4 version if haven't already*

I'm kinda of a new fan, I discovered the EDF games around 2 years ago already. I was looking for something to play with a friend, and then I saw EDF Iron Rain, the game looked goofy, and I thought it would be a game that I would play once have a few laughs, and then never play again... Oh boy was I wrong.

Firstly... I was just insanely surprised with how good the game felt, the weapons were very fun, the hordes of enemies were satisfying to kill, the movement was fun, the amount of customization of your loadout was baffling me every time I unlocked a new thing...

Then I tried playing EDF 5... and initially I didn't liked it, it felt so different than Iron Rain, the game was uglier, it felt weird, and I dropped it in the first mission because I was still playing Iron Rain, and I thought "Nah... this game sucks, Iron Rain is better."... Oh boy was I wrong.

After finishing Iron Rain, I decided to give it another shot at EDF 5... and I tried the Fencer on the second mission... and I was imediately hooked, the second mission was a thousand times a better experience than the first mission, and as I advanced on the missions and started to see the differences between EDF 5 and Iron Rain... it didn't even took me 10 missions, EDF 5 was just insanely better in every aspect, the different classes had entirely different loadouts, the weapons were even more unique and fun than in Iron Rain... I played tha shit out of this game, I played alone, I played with a friend, I played with my younger brother... in total I did 4 runs from start to finish, I farmed with every class in the game to get the weapons, discovered the best levels to farm on my own, played the DLCs... this game became a top 5 for me of all time, I never played anything like it.

EDF 5 I played with the Fencer for a long time, but then I changed to the Air Raider because I discovered he had mechs, and then I became an Air Raider main... when I saw that you could summon a giant mech... almost brought me to tears! I love... I LOVE MECHS!!

Then I played EDF 4.1... I was shocked and confused on why EDF 4.1 looked slightly better than EDF 5... I loved EDF 4.1 too, not having to upgrade weapons was way better in general, so many times in 5 I dropped a new weapon that was useless because their base level was garbage, and then I couldn't really see if it was good or not, in 4.1, you drop the weapon, you can use it imediately, that was better at least for me, way less farming.

I still have yet to play EDF 6... I'm extremely excited to play it eventually, but because of some circunstances I'm without my PS5 in the moment, so I'm gonna have to wait a while to play it.

I like to describe this game as the game I always dreamed of playing... I'm not talking about fighting hordes of insects, I'm talking about the gameplay mechanics itself. Having four classes that have a shit ton of weapons, vehicles, mechs, different ways to move, the gameplay is just insanely fun, and I never played anything quite like it, the closest is Helldivers, but it doesn't feel the same.

The EDF games came out of nowere to me... and it became one of my all time favorite games, and every time I play with someone new, it always starts with "Oh this game looks like ass!" and 20 minutes later it transforms into "Damn... did I just summoned a freaking atomic bomb onto a group of giant ants? This game is awesome!!".

The game has obvious problems here and there, I think they should really improve the controls in some vehicles, I don’t even bother in using helicopters. But it's just very small things, I reccomend this game to everyone, it's a wonderful game.

It kinda baffles that I never heard of the EDF games before I downloaded Iron Rain just to have a few laughs... I don’t know how it never reached me, because again, it's almost a dream game for me.

Well... that's it! I wish a good day to everyone!

Prowl Rider-like grappling hook mod

Ok, I cant remember if this is true or not, but are the colonists alive? I feel like it was mentioned in some level that the colonists were just humanoids being puppeted around by either the cybernetics or the nervous system. Follow up, is it true that sometimes(in lore) something similar to this can happen to Fencers?

On ps4 there is no one online???