JongleJingle
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Ranger 4 lyfe. Fuck Fencers and Wing Divers, but RESPECT Air Raiders.
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Now I feel obligated to make a @Jaimas style longpost about the classes in 5, for those curious few poking into the thread who haven't enlisted.
Quintex96
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It doesn't need to be overly detailed. Figuring out the roles is part of the fun.
Rangers-
Hold the line and form the backbone of any team. Is the most well rounded character in tems of weaponry and abilty.
Air Raiders-
Best described as 'Offensive support' all airstrikes and vehicles and what a variety to choose from. Don't get caught in melee range and you're golden. Cave missions are your kryptonite.
Fencers-
Walking tanks/artillery. Fencers are the most versatile and can be built for almost any playstyle but is by far the most difficult class to master. His arsenal contains enough Heavy weapons to make the tf2 heavy weep.
Wing Divers-
Glass cannon: the class. Has the potential for insane dps as well as the most maneuverability but anyone that has played EDF knows that if there is a wing diver on your team, 9 times out of 10 you will be reviving them a lot. On the flipside I have carried bad teams as a wingdiver so ymmv. Has a very unorthadox weapon set with most of them focusing on energy usage inplace of traditional reloading. She also has a cute butt that you will be spending most of your time staring at. Watch out for spider webs, your natural predator.
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I know it doesn't need to be, it's just more fun to unleash the Beast of Hyperbole every once in a while.
Gorby-Chan
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You forgot that by late game in 5 the fencer becomes an anime robot zipping around fisting giant frogs and using howitzers as sniper rifles
milk
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you could do this from the start in EDF4
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True, but 5 turned it from an exploit into a fully supported mechanic.
BananaSplit
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a bit late but here's the third trailer of EDF6
Game is announced to be releasing on PS4 and PS5 next year, hopefully a PC port soon enough
Ranger gameplay:
Air Raider gameplay:
Fencer gameplay:
Wing Diver gameplay:
Ranger gameplay:
Air Raider gameplay:
Fencer gameplay:
Wing Diver gameplay:
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Hmm. Looks like the movement systems is allowing some minor mantling, that'll be nice with the focus on rubble and ruins so you won't be forced to bunnyhop all over the place. Seeing your raw damage numbers when your shots land is cool, too, and it looks like everyone but Fencer is getting a dedicated slot for some kind of grenade or deployable item? Might encourage that stuff better for Ranger/Wing Diver if you're not having to dedicate one of your two weapons for it.
You can already tell it's beginning to take itself more seriously because Wing Diver finally put pants on.
JongleJingle
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Further more, look at all the destroyed shit and MASSIVE alien superstructures and ships running around; shit is seriously fucked here. I can only wonder what horrors lie in wait for us plucky little soldier men this time...
Is this the first time EDF has really gone for such post apocalyptic horror? I don't think even 5 got this bad. And that one had CHILD SOLDIERS getting sent out in the final levels.
BananaSplit
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Iron Rain did the scenario of EDF pushing back the initial alien attack but at the cost of the Earth being a wasteland barren of any former civilization
From what I've gathered so far in EDF6 (a bit of EDF5 spoilers)
-Mankind is on the verge of extinction. Only 10% of the world's population survived the Primer attack
-the Storm teams are MIA
-Giant frogs (Colonists) were abandoned by the Primers and are forced to live on Earth. They took position in the ruins of cities and are often engaged against EDF troops, still refusing to communicate with humans.
-There are also remaining teleportation anchors from the past war that still spawn giant insects
-said giant insects keep breeding everywhere with little resistance from mankind
-Combat frames no longer seem to have legs as it's explicitly stated that EDF lost the means to mass-produce those parts
-the new alien invaders are trying to modify the environment of Earth by planting gigantic metallic trees around the world
-it's stated in the official website that the new tentacle alien (codename: Evil God Kruul) makes people lose their sanity by its sheer appearance.
Past screenshots confirmed there were still "intact" city maps so not everything is in ruins (yet).
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Lore wise it's a direct sequel to 5. So it starts at where 5 started and just gets worse.
BananaSplit
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Christmas EDF stream broadcast revealed a bunch of things for the next game (starting at 47:30)
-The gigantic ring appears to be able to open a wormhole that allows the Androids and Kruuls to get on Earth. The ring itself seems to be of Primer origin, but it's unknown yet what is the relationship between the Primers and Kruuls.
-The evolved giant spiders named "Beta Plus" have webs start out as normal then electrifies. While electrified it deals damage over time and can staggers you just like the EDF4.1's Flying Vehicle.
-The new teleporation anchors can defend themselves with continuous laser shots from their tentacles
-Unlike the Transportation Ships that harbored giant frogs and ayys in 5, you can destroy Kruul Capsules.
Edit: You can have your own giant insect invasion at home thanks to papercraft. PDFs are in the attached files
BananaSplit
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EDF broadcast from this Friday. Gameplay sections are located at 32:00 (for PS4/PS5 comparison), 44:30 (Grenadiers/Cannonball enemies), 50:40 (Dark demons) and 55:15 (Fisherman)
-There is a variant of the Androids (codename "Grenadier" for the small android and "Cannonball" for the large one) that is equipped with bomb balls and act like the Headless Kamikazes from Serious Sam. The bombs will still explode if they were left mostly intact before the android's death
-Flying octopuses (codename "Dark Demon") attack with their elastic and piercing tentacles, they can also blind the player with their black mist acting like a smokescreen
>Kaiju "Fishman" is smaller than the two previously encountered kaijiu but can be spawned in greater numbers. It can slide on the ground, barf blue vomit and release a pink nerve gas from its body
There is another set of papercraft available on the official website of EDF6 (pdf and manuals are directly embedded here). This time featuring Wing Diver, Red Ant and a few decals
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Them exclusively talking about Ps4/Ps5 makes me afraid that the PC port is going to take a year or more to come out after the console version. We haven't heard a peep about the English version either which also scares me and makes me think its a while off after release as well. According to Wikipedia it took almost exactly a year for an English version of EDF 5 and another 8 months after that for the PC port. I hope 5 did well enough for them to see the market for both of those and speeds it up this time.
BananaSplit
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Official date release is set for August 25th in Japan. No word for PC release or western release yet.
Storm 2 team (Sergeant) might be still alive after the events of EDF5 as teased at the end of the new official trailer (about "changing this hopeless future")
also today's stream has shown DLC vtuber decoy guns (said decoy gun no longer take a slot among your two main weapons)
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4 and 5 sold pretty well over here on PC, didn't they? Hopefully that will be convincing enough to get them translated and ported.
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I'm all for the darker/apoc tone. Reminds me of some of the cheesy but still surprisingly dark Showa era Godzilla.
If the Ranger and Wing Diver's are getting a slot for a deployable, here's to hoping it's actually USEFUL to them for a change. Zipping around on bikes with my Ranger was fun, but I can't even recall once getting an advantage from any vehicle outside of Air Raider'ing.
Any info yet on the PC specs it'll require? I was able to keep 5 at a pretty smooth framerate 99% of the time and being a FPS whore, that'll be the deciding factor of buying.
If the Ranger and Wing Diver's are getting a slot for a deployable, here's to hoping it's actually USEFUL to them for a change. Zipping around on bikes with my Ranger was fun, but I can't even recall once getting an advantage from any vehicle outside of Air Raider'ing.
Any info yet on the PC specs it'll require? I was able to keep 5 at a pretty smooth framerate 99% of the time and being a FPS whore, that'll be the deciding factor of buying.
BananaSplit
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It's less a question of "if" and more a matter of "when". EDF5 took nearly 2 years to come out on PC/Steam after the initial PS4 release launch in Japan, but the World Brothers spinoff came out worldwide with a simultaneous PC version 6 months after the japanese console release. Let's hope it won't take too much time for EDF6.
No but I'm assuming the sequel is running on the same engine as EDF5. So if your PC was able to run that one no problem (real stress tests are the few last base missions such as the erginus/archelus showdown on the vast plain. Bonus points if Air Raiders are present), you should be fine.