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[AndyMoogle]

Can the full campaign be played online coop?

The online campaign is not the same as the offline campaign. The online campaign is more difficult and has more stages (around 10). Most levels are the same, but there are some levels exclusive to the online mode. This means that your online level progress won't be the same as if you play offline. Your weapons and armor will be the same across both.

 

[John Rabbit]

Wow I missed this initial announcement. This will be the fifth time I buy (a version of) this game. Just passed 90 hours on the U.S. PS4 version the other day. Can't wait to see it at a (mostly) locked framerate.

 

[meppi]

Sold.

And that's just the start. It gets much crazier than that!

 

[Dinjoralo]

I'm at mission 5, and I'm already getting some frame rate dips when things get crazy... How's everyone else doing on performance?

(btw, gtx 970 and i5 6600k, both overclocked)

 

[Sinatar]

I'm at mission 5, and I'm already getting some frame rate dips when things get crazy... How's everyone else doing on performance?

(btw, gtx 970 and i5 6600k, both overclocked)

Gotten to mission 10 and have had 0 framerate drops. i7 4770k, 32 GB RAM, Geforce 980.

 

[studyguy]

FUCK YEAH THIS GAME IS THE SHIT

EDF!

Ran through as an Air Raider all last night, unlocked walking fortress Balam.
Gives me that robot alchemic drive feel. Fuck sandlot, make another mecha game.
FPS is much smoother than my console experience.

Anyway, nothing like breaking into song after shooting your own teammate with a howitzer

 

[GhostTrick]

Sold.

Yup this sold me.on the game too.

 

[hikarutilmitt]

Welcome to the war, PC gamers! Enjoy busting some bugs!

Spoiler

Even though I own it on PS4, once it gets to a slightly more reasonable price point for double dipping I'll be doing it.

 

[cleveridea]

Wow 3 new games today - this, the assembly and I am setsuna

 

[Sinatar]

Just in case there is anyone on the fence:

 

[Jonbo298]

I'm loving it so far. Just video gaming in its purest form, I'm happy to re-experience this in HD and (mostly) stable frames. A few dips in frames at times when things get really hectic (mostly when I blow up buildings) but even then it'll go from 60 to around 47 so it's negligible for being EDF.

 

[Mivey]

Just in case there is anyone on the fence:
.

Is faux Gojira evading the attack by falling backwards? Risky move.

 

[JoeyJungle]

So how do weapon levels work? Is there a way to level them up, or are they always at whatever level you find them at?

 

[Sinatar]

So how do weapon levels work? Is there a way to level them up, or are they always at whatever level you find them at?

Weapon levels are static. You find higher level weapons in later missions and on harder difficulties.

For example if you can survive the first mission on Inferno, you'll get some guns that would let you coast through normal.

 

[Eiji]

Just in case there is anyone on the fence:

Can't wait for this fight!

 

[Lady Siara]

Any interest in a GAF EDF discord? Would be an easy way to get GAF groups going, though the voice chat would be a bit redundant.

I can't wait to get back in it. Also, I've had some drops already but I was playing 4 player coop and at 1440p. 3570k, 290 and 16GB of ram, for reference. I'm kind of glad, EDF without the drops just isn't the same.

 

[DooMAGE]

The huge flaw is that the multiplayer of this game is region locked, you can't play with friends in another countries.
So there is no one in my lobby ...

 

[cleveridea]

Wow this game is nuts, in a good way. I cant imagine what the later missions are like, I thought the first mission was epic in scale.

Is there a run button?

Also do you level up automatically? First mission I gad 200/200 health/armor then in second its 205/205. I was surprised because I didnt see any XP type numbers pop up or a level up prompt.

 

[Sinatar]

Wow this game is nuts, in a good way. I cant imagine what the later missions are like, I thought the first mission was epic in scale.

Is there a run button?

Also do you level up automatically? First mission I gad 200/200 health/armor then in second its 205/205. I was surprised because I didnt see any XP type numbers pop up or a level up prompt.

No run button sadly.

No leveling, you gain health by picking up the red Armor boxes that enemies drop. The amount of health you get varies on the character, but it's usually 2 - 3 boxes = 1 health.

 

[Mechazawa]

Sold.

Yup this sold me.on the game too.

 

[Lady Siara]

Some more fun gifs for those who don't know what the game is about.

Great ragdolls.

Building destruction.

 

[CleverGato]

Definitely getting this soon. I've been waiting a long time for this game.

 

[dragonlife]

The huge flaw is that the multiplayer of this game is region locked, you can't play with friends in another countries.
So there is no one in my lobby ...

What!? Nooooooo! This is really dumb =/

 

[OmegaFax]

No run button sadly.

No leveling, you gain health by picking up the red Armor boxes that enemies drop.

The amount of health you get varies on the character, but it's usually 2 - 3 boxes = 1 health.

If it's anything like Earth Defense Force 2 (which I picked up on Vita over the weekend) ... the standard infantry guy (or ranger class) ought to have a roll dash.

 

[Risette]

Wow this game is nuts, in a good way. I cant imagine what the later missions are like, I thought the first mission was epic in scale.

Is there a run button?

Also do you level up automatically? First mission I gad 200/200 health/armor then in second its 205/205. I was surprised because I didnt see any XP type numbers pop up or a level up prompt.

No run button, if you want higher mobility use Wing Diver.

 

[SavoryTruffle]

Hello!

!!!

Game seems to run well enough on my six year old gpu. Haven't noticed any significant issues in the first few missions, although I'm not exactly testing for anything. EDF!

 

[duckroll]

The huge flaw is that the multiplayer of this game is region locked, you can't play with friends in another countries.
So there is no one in my lobby ...

Wait what? How is that possible? Doesn't it use Steamworks?

 

[AlanOC91]

Getting messed up text in 4k. Anyone else having this issue? All lower half of text is cut off.

Some pic from steam forum:

EDIT: ugh apparently the only solution is to set widows scaling back to 100%. That's god damn annoying.

 

[Xbudz]

Getting messed up text in 4k. Anyone else having this issue? All lower half of text is cut off.

Some pic from steam forum:

EDIT: ugh apparently the only solution is to set widows scaling back to 100%. That's god damn annoying.

Yup, I had that issue- posted a screen of it on an earlier page. Using 100% scaling in windows is a real pain to my eyes, makes fonts much too small. Not sure why this game is linked to windows font size. They need to fix it. I even checked in the properties for the .exe file, and the "disable text scaling on high resolutions" was already checked.

 

[DooMAGE]

Wait what? How is that possible? Doesn't it use Steamworks?

I hope they fix this :/

http://steamcommunity.com/app/410320/discussions/0/359543951703989111/

 

[John Rabbit]

Just in case there is anyone on the fence:

These missions suck though. This one in particular is good for early Inferno weapon farming though.

 

[epmode]

Does this actually run at 1440p? I know someone was having trouble but was that just due to a bug or something else?

 

[KDR_11k]

So how do weapon levels work? Is there a way to level them up, or are they always at whatever level you find them at?

Weapon levels are only used for multiplayer to make people use roughly mission appropriate gear instead of taking something that just obliterates the whole mission in one shot.

These missions suck though. This one in particular is good for early Inferno weapon farming though.

It only sucks for people who stick with the walking fortress instead of dropping a Proteus. That thing has enough firepower to kill the kaijus (and obliterate any ants with its 30x homing missiles). Though it tends to get knocked around by the walking forts since it's only knee high for them.

 

[Sinatar]

Does this actually run at 1440p? I know someone was having trouble but was that just due to a bug or something else?

It won't go past your desktop resolution, but beyond that it seems like it'll run at pretty much anything.

 

[Lettuce]

Seem to be capped at 60hz sadly...i want 160hz!!

How dso you level up your weapons?, done 5 missions now and there still on Level 0. Also was the audio mixing this bad on the PS4 version

 

[epmode]

It won't go past your desktop resolution, but beyond that it seems like it'll run at pretty much anything.

NICE.

I've been meaning to play this series for a decade or so. Might as well start now.

 

[duckroll]

I hope they fix this :/

http://steamcommunity.com/app/410320/discussions/0/359543951703989111/

What the fuck? I was going to buy this to play co-op with friends. They can fuck off with region shit.

 

[Sinatar]

Seem to be capped at 60hz sadly...i want 160hz!!

How dso you level up your weapons?, done 5 missions now and there still on Level 0. Also was the audio mixing this bad on the PS4 version

Weapons don't level, the level is just a quality indicator.

 

[Relaxed Muscle]

Why would you put multiplayer region lock on a niche game like this?

Not buying.

 

[Stitch]

I think their weird Anti-Aliasing solution seems to only work in the menu.

 

[Theonik]

Why would you put multiplayer region lock on a niche game like this?

Not buying.

Decrease lag.

 

[Alo81]

DOUBLE FALSE ALARM THIS AIN'T NATIVE 4K WHO YOU TRYNA FOOL SANDLOT:





Seems to run fine, at least the first level. But the game is supposed to get ridiculous later on/on harder levels so who knows about that.

i7 4770k, 32 GB RAM, Geforce 980



That's very clearly not running at 4k, it's upscaled from 1080p, hence the jaggies/blurriness.

Internal Resolution is locked to 1080p.

Nah. The first screenshot is native 4K. The second isn't. That's the weird part.

This has very clearly unscaled aliasing on it

This has very clearly scaled aliasing

Compare them both downsampled and see the first one has aliasing cleaned out. The second doesn't.

Edit: Looks like the rest of the thread already figured this out. Glad to see it has downsampling!

 

[Ferrio]

Why can't Wing Divers sing the stupid EDF song

 

[Llyranor]

Is there LAN coop? (to bypass the region-lock, not buying if I can't)

 

[Relaxed Muscle]

Decrease lag.

Does lag really matters on a co-op game? I mean, as long is playable.

I can play PvP on DSIII with fellow gaffers with decent lag, I can't see why I can't do the same on this game which requires not as low ping to be playable.

And I can feel most people would accept their 300 ping co-op experience than rather not being able to play with anyone....

 

[Big_Al]

Is there LAN coop? (to bypass the region-lock, not buying if I can't)

Well according to some folks they've been able to create rooms and be able to play with friends from other countries so I'm not sure if there actually is any region locking tbh. I could be wrong though. No LAN option anyway.

 

[bede-x]

PC local split screen footage, HD resolutions still uploading. Looks like you have either 2 controllers, or one person on mouse/keyboard and one person on controller should you desire that

https://youtu.be/lR9G2sT8lM8

It looks so smooth and no tearing even while the building collapses. Hot damn I love PC gaming

 

[John Rabbit]

It only sucks for people who stick with the walking fortress instead of dropping a Proteus. That thing has enough firepower to kill the kaijus (and obliterate any ants with its 30x homing missiles). Though it tends to get knocked around by the walking forts since it's only knee high for them.

Wing Diver 4 Life.

 

[MillionStabs]

Any AMD users having problems? I'm seeing a lot of stuff in the discussions about AMD CPUs and GPUs being wacked (Thanks Japan)

Can anyone confirm? I have FX 8320 and R9 380

 

[me0wish]

I was having problems with the online, you can easily change your region by modifying the region in steam settings download section. If you are trying to play with your friends, you can invite them over using the arrow keys.