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imagine not playing fencer and dashing around before slamming bugs with your extendo lance of doom.
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Evil Kit posted:imagine not playing fencer and dashing around before slamming bugs with your extendo lance of doom. gently caress you I am Gun Man I cam to fight these aliens with a Shotgun and maybe some Grenades like the Founding Fathers Intended.
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Mar 28, 2024 12:09
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raverrn posted:gently caress you I am Gun Man I cam to fight these aliens with a Shotgun and maybe some Grenades like the Founding Fathers Intended. you can do that too with Fencer, it's great. Except you aren't slow!
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Mar 28, 2024 12:37
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The fencer shotguns feel like paintball guns compared to the ranger's, but that's the tradeoff for being able to fly around at mach 20.
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Mar 28, 2024 12:49
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In return for crappy shotguns, the giant piercing cannons make you feel like a god as you dual-wield them and chew through entire formations on the other side of the map.
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Mar 28, 2024 13:25
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raverrn posted:gently caress you I am Gun Man I cam to fight these aliens with a Shotgun and maybe some Grenades like the Founding Fathers Intended.
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Mar 28, 2024 21:54
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Fencer shotgun is less about the shotgun and more about having a no-consequence weapon with jump jets. Low turn speed restriction, can fire without slowing you down, and pretty high uptime. Ideal partner for something with a dash like the spears If only the entire left side of the Fencer equipment chart was less about a sorta wide piercing attack with criminally low damage and more increasingly usable vulcan hammers
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Mar 29, 2024 20:52
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Blind Duke posted:Fencer shotgun is less about the shotgun and more about having a no-consequence weapon with jump jets. Low turn speed restriction, can fire without slowing you down, and pretty high uptime. Ideal partner for something with a dash like the spears The secret to the Fencer's autocannon line is that they have no attack animation to stop the other weapon from firing. Pair a Dexter with a Jackhammer, which also has no animation, and you can dash-jump right into a group of aliens and demolish them in seconds. Hwurmp fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Mar 29, 2024 |
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Mar 29, 2024 21:16
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but why not just take a second jackhammer?
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Mar 29, 2024 21:31
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dash-jumps
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Mar 29, 2024 21:32
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I am a huge fan of the missiles vehicle. Being able to target half he map of enemies, and send death they way from the other side of the map
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Mar 29, 2024 21:37
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Naeglings are my favorite. Proteus would be king if it wasn't such a clusterfuck and sometimes falling through the planet. I want my AI to ride with me.
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Mar 29, 2024 22:54
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Hwurmp posted:The secret to the Fencer's autocannon line is that they have no attack animation to stop the other weapon from firing. Pair a Dexter with a Jackhammer, which also has no animation, and you can dash-jump right into a group of aliens and demolish them in seconds. Plowing through a group of aliens is one of the most satisfying feelings in the game. gently caress your artillery squad.
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Mar 30, 2024 02:28
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jackhammers are for punching dicks until an alien ragdolls away. they might have other uses in theory, but that's not important.
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Mar 30, 2024 03:21
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Fencer in general has the most balanced weapon set, much less stinkers than the other classes. Also I'd play ranger for brainless shooting more often if roll and jump weren't the same button. Let me jump sideways, dammit
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Apr 7, 2024 12:55
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So if I've never played an EDF game would the 5th one on steam be the best to start? I got a ps5 is there anything better there?
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Apr 7, 2024 13:38
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5 has the best gameplay.
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Apr 7, 2024 13:47
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I'd get 5 on steam, yeah. Other benefits of being on PC aside, it's got a small mod scene with at least some worth checking out.
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by.a.teammate posted:So if I've never played an EDF game would the 5th one on steam be the best to start? 4.1 is the best to start, although 5 is better overall (and 6 is a straight improvement over 5, but with mostly the same flaws). Get what's cheapest at the time of purchase. 4.1 pros for new players: - 4.1 has less gacha (but much worse drop ranges) - 4.1 has unlocked difficulties from the start; 5 locks out the good difficulties behind clearing the last mission (which itself is locked behind either clearing all previous 100+ missions offline, or the much faster trick of finding a lobby with randos and clearing only the final mission online) - 4.1's mission 1 is typical Sandlot EDF fare, you're in the thick of it 10 seconds after the map loads; in contrast, the first mission of 5 is an unskippable tutorial so boring that if you decided to immediately uninstall and never play an EDF game again after suffering through it you'd be forgiven (and 6's is even worse in that regard)
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by.a.teammate posted:So if I've never played an EDF game would the 5th one on steam be the best to start? I got a ps5 is there anything better there? https://www.humblebundle.com/games/earth-defense-force-friends-unite It has most of the PC ports. The 5th one is the best. Your progress affects all the classes, but doesn't have the mission pack DLC that is super hard, with super fun weapons. $18 and worth it. You can buy the mission packs elsewhere, but it is balanced around people who beat the game with each class. 4.1 has everything included hence all that DLC, but I wouldn't bother at this point. Your progress doesn't affect other classes, so you will be spending dozens of hours on a class and then start all over with no armor with each other class. The loot table is dire, where you can get level 0 weapons on the highest difficulty for a couple dozen missions. Wing Diver the Shooter is a shmup and very fun to play. You get stronger over time just like the mainline games until even bosses are nicking your health. The other games tend to have netcode problems and are made to be less frantic. Iron Rain and World Brothers.
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Apr 7, 2024 22:40
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If you don't play 4.1 you miss out on the best character in the entire series, O'Hara, so I consider that unacceptable.
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Infinity Gaia posted:If you don't play 4.1 you miss out on the best character in the entire series, O'Hara, so I consider that unacceptable. Weird way to spell 5 and Spritefall Lady, but I’ll allow it.
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Bussamove posted:Weird way to spell 5 and Spritefall Lady, but I’ll allow it. Extremely controversial: I liked Spritefall/Nothung lady in 4.1 more. The way she starts the game worried about someone overriding the controls and ends the game in full kill em all mode felt better to me. Character development for a character that only exists for a single weapon type of a single character class!
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Apr 7, 2024 23:43
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But, it is not a problem 
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Infinity Gaia posted:Extremely controversial: I liked Spritefall/Nothung lady in 4.1 more. The way she starts the game worried about someone overriding the controls and ends the game in full kill em all mode felt better to me. Character development for a character that only exists for a single weapon type of a single character class! Same. 4.1's satellite laser lady's progression from "what the gently caress somebody is starting up that insanely unstable laser? oh no that's dangerous  " at the beginning to "KEEP FIRING UNTIL THE ENTIRE THING EXPLODES, HAHAHAHAHA" by the end is an even funnier arc than 5's Spritefall lady deciding to confide in you that she's always been a megalomaniac.
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I like using Air Raider during the early EDF5 missions. The call-ins are basically like, "some civilian air traffic controller just hacked our secure line and requested bombers and satellite lasers. Seems odd, but it's probably an emergency. FIRE!"
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I forgot how loving slow ranger shotgun reloads are until you get to monsoon. time to spend 5-6 seconds straight reloading this gun with ants right next to my face
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Kanos posted:Same. 4.1's satellite laser lady's progression from "what the gently caress somebody is starting up that insanely unstable laser? oh no that's dangerous Is she the same VA as the Comms Officer in EDF5? It sounded the same to my ears, and wasn't helped by her going through the same arc except it's 'I'm looking for god  / we found god!  / KILL HIIIIM! 
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Shine posted:I like using Air Raider during the early EDF5 missions. The call-ins are basically like, "some civilian air traffic controller just hacked our secure line and requested bombers and satellite lasers. Seems odd, but it's probably an emergency. FIRE!" All of the call-in flavor-text is amazing. 4.1 and 5 both.
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Paingod556 posted:Is she the same VA as the Comms Officer in EDF5? It sounded the same to my ears, and wasn't helped by her going through the same arc except it's 'I'm looking for god The comms officer in 5 spends the last 20 missions going through some kind of religious experience and becoming completely terrified of the alien god, not being excited about it.
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If you're being very literal, you could call that "excited". Much like how something terrifying and awe-inspiring could be described as "awesome".
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Amazing thanks for the all the replies! That humble bundle seems an easy win
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Kanos posted:The comms officer in 5 spends the last 20 missions going through some kind of religious experience and becoming completely terrified of the alien god, not being excited about it. Okay but she definitely still says we need to kill him though And she's right
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I found God, and recorded the grid coordinates.
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You do miss out on Professor Science in 4.1, but 5 has the Wing Divers participate in singing.
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I like the 5's ensemble cast, and it generally conveys the hopeless situation better. Also IA's marriage proposal is nice.
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by.a.teammate posted:Amazing thanks for the all the replies! That humble bundle seems an easy win to toss my 2 cents in: pick either 4.1 or 5 from the bundle to start with. Whichever one you pick, if you end up really clicking with it you're gonna be playing every single EDF from the bundle anyway (maybe excluding World Brothers) EDF games are kinda just like that. Once you play one, you're gonna play the rest.
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Does 5 have more activity these days? I’d honestly pick based on whatever has the most active online users
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Scalding Coffee posted:You do miss out on Professor Science in 4.1 If I don't manage to get a quote from Ohara into a paper one day with a proper reference I've failed at life. I'm particularly fond of "Progress faster than science is impossible!"
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Scalding Coffee posted:You do miss out on Professor Science in 4.1, but 5 has the Wing Divers participate in singing. I miss the 4.1 Wing Divers chanting "E D F!" like perky cheerleaders
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