Yeah I don’t think this would be a good intro to EDF. 5 I think has an easier entry ramp than this one.
Yeah, this is the thing I’m most interested in, beyond the aesthetic. It would be nice to be able to switch between classes relatively freely.
I also think this switching thing is neat, but I barely use it because I’m all about that wing diver.
my curret team is:
- a ninja. mele combat here is fun
- a soldier with homing missiles (shots like 10 at once, oneshot weak enemies)
- a air raider with fast firing homing missiles gun
- one of these heroes that move around like in Attack on titans, with the “exotic ray” gun that explode after some time.
EDF 6 is finally coming out on 25 July over here, PC and Playstation.
Oh sweet, honestly, everyone playing Helldivers 2 would probably love EDF as well!
Ready to defend the earth this week! Up for any co-op action if there’ll be other PS5 players in the force.
What makes this game so good?
Bugs!
Although recent games do also have frogs.
A slightly more serious answer is that it’s a delightful, albeit very janky, B-movie aesthetic applied to a very silly, very addictive looter shooter with absolutely bonkers numbers of enemies on screen at times.
I wouldn’t necessarily say the games are “so good” — there’s an awful lot wrong with them and the improvements with each game are very incremental — but they are very fun.
The most addictive part for me is the loot chase. Picking up all the weapon crates and seeing what I get (new weapon or upgrades). And then finding my favorite weapons to tear the aliens up!
Biggest improvement in 6 to me is that you finally clear easier difficulty levels when you do a mission on a harder level. That’s been a really stupid omission for years. The first few missions are simply terrible this time, including the waste of time tutorial. But I’m on 12 or so now and having a blast fighting the new alien types. Will crank through the missions on Normal or Hard so I can get to Inferno and start the real loot farming
Chaos. Violence. Bugs.
That was already the case in 4.1 and 5 for normal/hard (which also clear easy & normal) but not on hardest or inferno.
My favorite immediate EDF 6 change is that offline and online progress are no longer separate, so you can swap modes at will without having to restart the mission list.
PS5 user here. I’ll be around tonight!
Username on PSN: HanzGunkel
And singing!
Ah crap, guess it’s been so long I forgot.
On the other hand, the offline and online synch is huge!
Man, the Epic hate is strong with this one, isn’t it! Steam forums are up in arms because apparently the store did not initially list Epic account as a requirement.
Yep, this wasn’t on the Steam store page before launch:
Requires 3rd-Party Account: Epic Online Services (required for online play)
Seems it has PS4-PS5 crossplay, and maybe Steam-Epic, but probably not PC-console.
How Earth Defense Force 6 added crossplay by adopting Epic Online Services