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Are weapon unlocks earned in multi? It isn't popping up the notifications after missions for me.
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# ? Apr 21, 2019 01:59 |
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# ? May 27, 2024 11:00 |
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Are you doing missions that you already did before on the same difficulty? Weapons do unlock in multiplayer but the unlocks are tied to specific missions, aside from drone unlocks and killcount superweapons. It might also just be bugging out and not showing a unlock screen, check your weapons next time you complete a mission on a difficulty you hadn't done before. Also, one last thing, weapons don't unlock at all on easy or disaster.
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# ? Apr 21, 2019 03:38 |
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I'm starting to wonder if there was some internal dev war over giving us straight up good weapons vs "Nah man, don't you know wacky drawbacks are what EDF weapons are known for? gently caress it's poo poo up." For example, I bought a B rank laser minigun because it had practical stats and also had instant firing (Because being flinched out of even an assault rifle is a pain). After a do-over against silver ants making a fresh appearance in the middle of an ant queen spam mission ("Energy resistant adds huh? *slams 80% of remaining cash on the 'outrun your own energy balls or die gogogog' Sigma sphere limit* They'll be easy to shoot if everything ELSE is dead first!"). I started looking over my list of miniguns again. For example. the B rank Minigun EC-Rodeo II. It looks like a perfectly reasonable seeming "regular" minigun I skipped over because the drawbacks of being slow to fire and slow to aim were becoming a hinderance on spray'n'pray type weapons. Then you read the description. "This masterpiece minigun has improved rotary. The previous issues of slow rotary activation and heavy recoil have been resolved. Which also alivieates the issue of reduced aim speed. This weapon can now be wielded in any situation." Sounds like progress!... Why didn't I buy this immediately regardless of it costing all of my remaining cash? Oh, because the weapon stats still say it has a delayed trigger response and decreased aim speed while firing. Which is why I passed it over because it would cost me all of my money when I was feeling just done with spin up on anything but a railgun. (And the literal hardest mission in the game seems to be #41 "It's just a couple spiders in a tunnel! A nice breather mission-ow ow ow ow ow ow ow". Thank goodness for Swords granting super armor") Or maybe it's just a simple oversight. Like the otherwise wonderfully well rounded C rank La Marseilliase assault rifle completely obscuring it's scope aim it has with it's own muzzle flash (It's fine, I didn't need to aim at those teleporting drones better anyways). Most railguns remain a joy, which made backtracking to get drones oh so worth it. Even just E-C railguns kick rear end all through Hard, and I regularly dropped back down to a D rank Sonic Pile when I wanted to move more than obliterate dropships by looking at them funny. Section Z fucked around with this message at 08:02 on Apr 21, 2019 |
# ? Apr 21, 2019 07:40 |
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Mission 41 is real easy with the D rank flamethrower up to hard, you just walk forward and hold down fire and all the small spiders die almost instantly. There's later a B rank one that has the same ability to penetrate and high damage, though without the ability to ignite, which is fine because literally everything durable is status immune. Good design there /s. Anyways, I farmed up enough to build the curtain call missile launcher, and man is it good. 741 damage, fast reload and lock on, 6 shots, and most importantly, it completely ignores walls. Literally the only drawback is it fires a little slow, It was definitely worth the 1 million credits. Should be able to carry me to the end of hard and a good ways into hardest.
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# ? Apr 21, 2019 16:24 |
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Zoig posted:Mission 41 is real easy with the D rank flamethrower up to hard, you just walk forward and hold down fire and all the small spiders die almost instantly. There's later a B rank one that has the same ability to penetrate and high damage, though without the ability to ignite, which is fine because literally everything durable is status immune. I like the other AA Missile Launcher that shoots 10 lasers that each do like 200 damage. It shreds through both single targets and groups because it fires as fast as you can pull the trigger and has a massive magazine. The only things it isn't great against are super long range targets, and silver ants. This is the only edf game since 2017 where I've regularly used missiles, they're great. I've every mission on Hard and almost everything on Hardest, this is my bread and butter weapon. For silver ants, I use the B-rank acid energy thrower, for dropships I use the B-rank Arabesque railgun. The only thing that really gives me significant problems are large groups of Sideros. I wish they'd patch them to be a little less aggressive, as right now every mission that involves them ends up with me zipping around the stage and taking tiny pot shots at them. SoR Blaze fucked around with this message at 18:57 on Apr 21, 2019 |
# ? Apr 21, 2019 18:51 |
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Maybe try the willatuk tank? It has 23000 hp and a mega maser primary, that thing seems to rip through anything I point it at, it took out a beizal with half of its ammo leftover and it cuts down anything else rather quickly. Honestly its really nice having a vehicle that is incredibly durable, but dont try any of the flyers, they are very, VERY bad. I'll see about getting that, though I'm mostly hoping for the iguazu 3 laser cannon.
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# ? Apr 21, 2019 20:21 |
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I preordered Iron Rain and my friend didn't, he got it later. So, I was over his house and played split screen, logged into my account as player two. Game said "New Content Added" and now friend had access to DLC cosmetics. Now when he loads his save, error message mentions DLC content not found, either download it or make "new" save data, which sounds bad. Anyone else have this problem or hear of it? Searched for it and got nothing.
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# ? Apr 22, 2019 20:39 |
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Is it really EDF if you're not squad wiping on accident every time you play Air Raider or Wing Diver because you either don't know what you're using or an ant gets in the way of the laser sight and you blow yourself up immediately
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# ? Apr 22, 2019 20:45 |
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"Yeah uh try to get out of the way because that was an airstrike not a vehicle drop" is my favorite part of EDF
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# ? Apr 22, 2019 20:46 |
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"Here comes Whale to save you!" heralded more of my deaths in 4.1 than anything else.
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# ? Apr 22, 2019 20:54 |
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EDF 5 kind of put a damper on "accidental" friendly fire by highlighting strike zones in giant screaming red warning indicators.
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# ? Apr 25, 2019 00:38 |
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Kanos posted:EDF 5 kind of put a damper on "accidental" friendly fire by highlighting strike zones in giant screaming red warning indicators. This has not stopped a single incident of friendly fire in my group
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# ? Apr 25, 2019 00:51 |
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RBA Starblade posted:This has not stopped a single incident of friendly fire in my group My friends all play Wing Divers and Fencers, who can basically teleport anywhere on the map in two picoseconds, so I can quite literally drop Phobos Plan 4s directly on top of them and they can still escape.
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# ? Apr 25, 2019 02:07 |
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God these drone collectables are dogshit! I usually avoid using a guide for stuff like this but even the gems are hard to pickout in this graphics engine gently caress scouring these enormous levels for an object the size of a dustbin. Ugh.
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# ? Apr 26, 2019 21:24 |
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Mr Phillby posted:God these drone collectables are dogshit! I usually avoid using a guide for stuff like this but even the gems are hard to pickout in this graphics engine gently caress scouring these enormous levels for an object the size of a dustbin. Ugh. The lower rank Sonic Pile variety railguns you get quickly from the drones are a godsend for most of Hard. While the penultimate drone unlock is an A rank minigun that has one 8k damage shot.... which also overheats your PA energy gauge to fire. Yet I thought to myself "I'd be more annoyed at this, if normal miniguns were not super awkward anyways." A rank hardest Exterminator still has the "You can't even move while shooting this" penalty. And I'm still mad over whatever Minigun it was where the text description said they solved the slow spin up and slow aiming, only for it to still have both those problems listed in it's stat block. (At least I got a ninja from drones.) It feels less that the DRONE unlocks are bad, again, especially because they were my salvation in the front half of the game when I was busy shaking my fist after bullshit drawbacks or unwanted "You want an assault rifle with a spin up time, right?"sidegrades on hard. It's that a vast majority of Iron Rain weapons just have defects or are extreme sidegrades, rather than the minority. Or your favorite kinds dry up and don't go above C-B "Oh boy, I LOVE this Wide type sword, it's charge attack is super practical for swarms and multiple sidos! No wacky gimmicks like a sword based sniper rifle shot that will miss a slowly flying ant! When do I get the next one?... Huh, the japanese wiki only lists up to C for this kind. That's only because they haven't finished collecting data, right.... right?" But... If you have already blown through the game and are collecting AA rank weapons? Then yeah, after the fact I can see them being super underwhelming. Rather than thanking god the Drones gave you a half decent energy thrower, shortly after you blew all your money on a homing laser rifle that can FINALLY reload... only to discover it won't home without a missile launcher style lock on. And it shoots the first salvo dumbfire while busy locking on for the next. And the homing is so poo poo that slowly flying ants will accidentally dodge it beyond practical assault rifle range anyways. Hard for me to be mad at drones unlocks specifically due to stuff like that. Also there is a nice video with timestamps guide I found that made finding drones dirt easy. As the game progresses more and more of them are closer to your starting position as well, but still real easy to walk past (especially the ones hidden in tarps or buildings oh my god). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niojTGfQmbQ Section Z fucked around with this message at 00:11 on Apr 27, 2019 |
# ? Apr 26, 2019 23:52 |
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The weapons in this game all feel like they were each made independently on a different day. Also having all these gimmicks is pretty normal, but because of the severe decrease in weapon density caused by having all of them available and the fact that you need to grind credits to make them later on, the gimmicks stand out even worse as "why would I ever take this." Iron rain is 3 steps forward, and 2 steps back in terms of progress; stuff like the resources, buyable armor, and dedicated item slots are really good and frankly it would be a shame to not have them in edf 6, but credits need to go, and airstrikes need to be a actual primary weapon again. I tried using them a few times, and they are bad not only in being single use, but also because holy gently caress why does it take 15 seconds for my bombers to arrive.
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# ? Apr 27, 2019 00:37 |
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I noticed that the latest update halved the cost of healing items at least. However the rebooter we were using now only costs 50 to use, so getting revived at full health costs a twelfth of our current healing items that only give back something like 1/5. Its encouraging that they're willing to adjust the balance for item costs, though it deffo still needs work. Another side note, why is the practice range unavailiable in splitscreen? Also does the game allow you to test out weapons before purchase? I didn't check. Mr Phillby fucked around with this message at 11:10 on Apr 27, 2019 |
# ? Apr 27, 2019 11:06 |
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It doesn't
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# ? Apr 27, 2019 12:48 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo014x3JrEA Remember that Wing Diver shmup?
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# ? Jun 25, 2019 04:19 |
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I got Iron Rain on PSN sale last week. I haven't progressed that far, but I do have some overall thought: The Good:
The Not-so-good:
The Mixed:
Overall, I think the general consensus is spot on - Iron Rain is a decent game and it is an EDF game, albeit slightly different. I'm not sure what about it is inherently more appealing about it to Western audiences other than 'good game design in terms of increasing your HP pool/eliminating randomization in weapon acquisition and player customization', but there's a lot here that a potential EDF 6 could take and run with to make the best EDF game ever. LuiCypher fucked around with this message at 16:18 on Jul 3, 2019 |
# ? Jul 3, 2019 16:07 |
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https://gematsu.com/2019/07/earth-defense-force-5-coming-to-pc-on-july-11 IT'S HAPPENIN
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# ? Jul 8, 2019 07:52 |
Light Gun Man posted:https://gematsu.com/2019/07/earth-defense-force-5-coming-to-pc-on-july-11 EDF! EDF!! EDF!!!
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# ? Jul 8, 2019 08:39 |
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it's been a long wait, but my faith has been rewarded.
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# ? Jul 8, 2019 08:48 |
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Light Gun Man posted:https://gematsu.com/2019/07/earth-defense-force-5-coming-to-pc-on-july-11 This is good news
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# ? Jul 8, 2019 09:41 |
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Light Gun Man posted:https://gematsu.com/2019/07/earth-defense-force-5-coming-to-pc-on-july-11 EDF! EEE DEE AFF!
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# ? Jul 8, 2019 09:53 |
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Light Gun Man posted:https://gematsu.com/2019/07/earth-defense-force-5-coming-to-pc-on-july-11 Holy poo poo I love how they just drop their games on PC with barely any announcement. Can't wait for this
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# ? Jul 8, 2019 10:48 |
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What's that, you say? A perfect excuse to replay the entirety of EDF 5? Don't mind if I do!
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# ? Jul 8, 2019 10:52 |
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There is a Steam page but no price or option to buy. How odd for it being... 3 days away.
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# ? Jul 8, 2019 12:50 |
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Goddamnit that is right before I'm traveling for 2 weeks with a lovely laptop that can't play it. I will have to wait until I get home.
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# ? Jul 8, 2019 13:17 |
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time to double dip on pc and go through all the grinding again
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# ? Jul 8, 2019 13:47 |
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I haven't read the thread but will be getting 5 on steam. Is it better than 4.1? Will there be a 5.1? How's the dlc for it?
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# ? Jul 8, 2019 13:58 |
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Lol I was just about to get started on an EDF 4 LP. Not anymore!
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# ? Jul 8, 2019 13:58 |
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Terminally Bored posted:I haven't read the thread but will be getting 5 on steam. Is it better than 4.1? Will there be a 5.1? How's the dlc for it? DLC If you want to physically see the DLC, I can only find it under the JP website. https://www.d3p.co.jp/edf5/dlc/ Check the DLC section • Pure Decoy Launcher 16 variations set – A special decoy which will dance and sing in the battlefield. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv9dDHG_YfI • Volcanic Cracker – You can get the Wing Diver weapon and start using it from the beginning and you may only receive this weapon by pre-ordering the game. • Powered Exoskeleton Nix: Gold Coat – A commander machine shining with gold which boarding is admitted only by an early recruit. The standard edition costs $59.99. The deluxe edition costs $89.99 and comes with the following extras: • Deluxe Edition Bonus Content 1: EDF5 Theme • Deluxe Edition Bonus Content 2: Decoy Launcher [Pale Wing] • Deluxe Edition Bonus Content 3: Star Burst • 12 variations of additional weapons and support items • Additional mission 1: EXTRA Challenge ~Dozen super hard missions with weapon level 100 drops • Additional mission 2: SUPER Challenge ~Dozen super hard missions with weapon level 100 drops Light Gun Man posted:https://gematsu.com/2019/07/earth-defense-force-5-coming-to-pc-on-july-11 Scalding Coffee fucked around with this message at 14:59 on Jul 8, 2019 |
# ? Jul 8, 2019 14:34 |
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Day one, if they remember to add Australian regional pricing. Is there a steam goon group?
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# ? Jul 8, 2019 15:55 |
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https://steamcommunity.com/groups/GoonDefenseForce Release date confirmed to be July 31, according to SteamDB. https://steamdb.info/app/1007040/history/ Scalding Coffee fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Jul 8, 2019 |
# ? Jul 8, 2019 16:37 |
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Scalding Coffee posted:https://steamcommunity.com/groups/GoonDefenseForce PC Gamer is saying July 11th, so lets hope its soon rather then later.
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# ? Jul 8, 2019 17:25 |
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Terminally Bored posted:I haven't read the thread but will be getting 5 on steam. Is it better than 4.1? Will there be a 5.1? How's the dlc for it? EDF 4.1 is an enhanced port of EDF 2025 from PS3 -> PS4, hence the .1. Odds are we won't get a 5.1 unless they really, really want a PS5 release. Gyoru posted:time to double dip on pc and go through all the grinding again I triple dipped for 2025, (PS3, PS4, PC) so boy am I glad I waited for this.
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# ? Jul 8, 2019 18:00 |
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Official twitter account says this week.
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# ? Jul 8, 2019 18:17 |
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So I did finally beat Iron Rain on Normal and yeah I definitely have some new takeaways:
LuiCypher fucked around with this message at 18:57 on Jul 8, 2019 |
# ? Jul 8, 2019 18:55 |
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# ? May 27, 2024 11:00 |
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GrandmaParty posted:Official twitter account says this week.
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# ? Jul 8, 2019 22:50 |