Earth Defense Force 2025: They killed the rookie! EDF! EDF!

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Casnorf: Jun 14, 2002; Never drive a car when you're a fish

Rollie the Guar posted:

But do the spiders still make bowling sounds when they die?

If it's anything like the Japanese version then you will be pleasantly surprised.

I have a hundred hours in the version I can't even read and I can't wait to buy it again. E-D-F! E-D-F!

# ¿ Feb 3, 2014 02:43

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 04:16

Casnorf: Jun 14, 2002; Never drive a car when you're a fish

Father Wendigo posted:

As a filthy ~~poor~~ plebeian who's never been able to sample the series, what's the learning curve like?

Air Raider is a ridiculously fun class in co-op, but frustrating in single player. The biggest thing to learn, and this took me longer than I'll readily admit, it that his bombardment and vehicle drops don't work underground.

Everything else is "See alien: shoot alien." This is not a complicated game.

# ¿ Feb 13, 2014 13:37

Casnorf: Jun 14, 2002; Never drive a car when you're a fish

Samurai Sanders posted:

I really do not want to need to have two versions of the game.

Yes. Yes you do. You want to buy all the EDF. All of it.

...I'm going to double-dip. I can't believe I can't wait to spend more money on a game I could be playing right now.

# ¿ Feb 16, 2014 02:55

Casnorf: Jun 14, 2002; Never drive a car when you're a fish

general chaos posted:

Accuracy in aiming is such a non-issue when your targets are larger than buildings.

Targets? What's a target? I thought you just fire the biggest gun you can find basically indiscriminately until you are the winner. EDF is awesome.

# ¿ Feb 16, 2014 18:41

Casnorf: Jun 14, 2002; Never drive a car when you're a fish

Megaman's Jockstrap posted:

Known bug.

I'm sorry, this is EDF. You mean feature.

# ¿ Feb 19, 2014 17:16

Casnorf: Jun 14, 2002; Never drive a car when you're a fish

Phil Tenderpuss posted:

Because if not, its much more productive to play offline at all times and that seems strange in a game that's so perfect for multiplayer.

You are overthinking it. Optimization be damned, Always Be Multi.

# ¿ Feb 21, 2014 22:20

Casnorf: Jun 14, 2002; Never drive a car when you're a fish

In Mission 32 the genocide gun will retreat after you kill all the drones, too. Presumably you don't really have the resources to take it out yet. I don't think I've ever killed it in that mission.

# ¿ Feb 27, 2014 04:06

Casnorf: Jun 14, 2002; Never drive a car when you're a fish

Pyroxene Stigma posted:

Put turrets on the helicopter! I don't have that .gif handy but the result is pretty hilarious.

Depending on where the enemies are it can be pretty hilarious for your teammates, too.

# ¿ Mar 2, 2014 17:24

Casnorf: Jun 14, 2002; Never drive a car when you're a fish

And you haven't even been to mission 39.

# ¿ Mar 8, 2014 16:59

Casnorf: Jun 14, 2002; Never drive a car when you're a fish

Kanos posted:

PS3 has some serious crashing problems when playing multiplayer that the 360 version seems to be without as well. My friends and I very frequently have our PS3s hardlock randomly while loading multiplayer levels.

I had just assumed that dual Javelin Catapults were so awesome that Keyboard_Vomit's PS3 just couldn't handle it and hardlocked.

# ¿ Mar 8, 2014 22:20

Casnorf: Jun 14, 2002; Never drive a car when you're a fish

Fencers are great at sustained fire. We're near the end of normal and my fencer can usually take out a dropship in one volley of heavy cannons. I can stunlock Queens and hectors with gatlings and maybe do a little urban renewal with my hammer. I've even got some cruise missiles I can mess about with when I've got an Air Raider buddy-he might have bigger nukes but I can fire mine more often. All this while flitting about the map like an ADHD insect.

Yeah, Air Raider has a couple always-good loadouts but tailor your guns to the mission and a Fencer will be your best bud.

# ¿ Mar 10, 2014 15:21

Casnorf: Jun 14, 2002; Never drive a car when you're a fish

Dr. Eldarion posted:

I'll be picking this game up to binge on with a friend in couch co-op this weekend. Has anyone been able to figure out yet whether the load times are significantly improved on the PS3 if you get the downloadable version when compared to the disc version?

Unlikely. Think of it as time to practice your "Battle Hymn of the Republic."

# ¿ Mar 10, 2014 21:37

Casnorf: Jun 14, 2002; Never drive a car when you're a fish

EthanSteele posted:

How do you use the Javelin Launcher properly? I want to be a bee so I have 2 equipped, but it seems most effective if you just point your face at the floor and go from there.

Yep, you got it.

# ¿ Mar 22, 2014 19:13

Casnorf: Jun 14, 2002; Never drive a car when you're a fish

Is it wrong that I am seriously considering triple dipping on this (EDF4 and 2025) and quadruple dipping if it gets localized?

# ¿ Apr 2, 2015 19:55

Casnorf: Jun 14, 2002; Never drive a car when you're a fish

My favorite EDF moment was getting to the end of mission 38 with only pile bunkers and shotguns. I had to boost jump and fire the shotguns at the weak point at the top of the jump to be in range.

It took forever and we almost died laughing the whole time when we figured out that it would work, but by god the EDF never gives up.

# ¿ Dec 7, 2015 16:52

Casnorf: Jun 14, 2002; Never drive a car when you're a fish

keyboard vomit posted:

Don't worry, we got this

I might mention that keyboard here was my coop buddy for this one, being useful with his helicopter that couldn't hit the weak point at all and, I dunno, something else worthless like a true air raider would.

# ¿ Dec 7, 2015 16:56

Casnorf: Jun 14, 2002; Never drive a car when you're a fish

Retro42 posted:

The EDF-approved approach is level everything you can (minus the invariably indestructible ones in retarius levels) before you even start.

You can level buildings that don't have a net on them. Those are load-bearing!

If you destroy it, you can resume urban renewal and job creation at an EDF-approved pace.

# ¿ Dec 11, 2015 04:07

Casnorf: Jun 14, 2002; Never drive a car when you're a fish

Effective is secondary to awesome.

This is why I Ranger with air tortoise/air tortoise.

# ¿ Dec 11, 2015 20:46

Casnorf: Jun 14, 2002; Never drive a car when you're a fish

Light Gun Man posted:

Play Fencer if you want something more complex and tricky to keep you busy. Hope you can master not-really-documented basic skills!

Play fencer if you like the idea of getting a hammer that will one shot a lot of bosses and most of a city block, too.

Play air raider if you wanna do that but have it take, like, I dunno, ten years to happen.

Play Ranger if you wanna do that and roll forever and ever and just get beat out to the health by a fencer who was boosting all over the field like a lunatic.

Play wing diver if you are a anime.

# ¿ Dec 16, 2015 16:31

Casnorf: Jun 14, 2002; Never drive a car when you're a fish

girth brooks part 2 posted:

The easiest way to do 96 is to take it slow. First take out the drones, then the robots, then the hills, then each of the hives in turn. The hives won't usually spawn anything usually unless you attack them.

Or bring a giant wall of hitpoints and a fencer who can stay out of trouble.

# ¿ Dec 30, 2015 04:24

Casnorf: Jun 14, 2002; Never drive a car when you're a fish

Except the urban renewal hammer... Uh, I mean the Vulcan Hammer. Its full charge can level buildings and bosses alike but only has a 6 meter range that can miss at point blank from wonky hit boxes.

# ¿ Dec 30, 2015 22:27

Casnorf: Jun 14, 2002; Never drive a car when you're a fish

Infinity Gaia posted:

Best Fencer is weapon is fist-on-a-piston and no one can deny this fact.

Spine Driver merits a mention for how ridiculous it looks.

# ¿ Dec 31, 2015 15:54

Casnorf: Jun 14, 2002; Never drive a car when you're a fish

Didn't do poo poo, sir!

# ¿ Dec 31, 2015 21:29

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 04:16

Casnorf: Jun 14, 2002; Never drive a car when you're a fish

Jackhammer, jackhammer, jackhammer, jackhammer.

Actually I run Deflection shield, jackhammer, Gallic, Gallic, but I'm probably the worthlessest fencer.

# ¿ Feb 18, 2016 00:07

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