"the best class, better than the wingdiver, mainly because of the mobility" Me: *plays fencer, moves at slug speed, cant do shit* Yeah Im gonna need this video
You can also dash cancel with shields or off of the attack animation itself. Its not as efficient or optimal as javelin cancelling but it allows for more varied setups. Dash cancelling is not just restricted to CC and Javelin, although that is the best setup
Thanks man I’ve been playing this split screen with my friend when he comes over and these tips will help a lot. I had no idea about the dash canceling.
The quality is crappy, but the quality of the guide is amazeballs. Great tips and demos. Do a video on how you got to 26 thou on the health, if you got anything for that. But thanks again for the explanations and the how tos
You play on PS4? I think we might have actually played with you a couple of times a while back. I recognize a couple of those tricks. This was a great video. I'm about to take the Fencer through inferno and really looking forward to trying some of these out. Thanks for doing this video and look forward to seeing you around.
Alurkerdood I didn't care for fencer either when I started playing, but after learning about dashing around to fight, I really learned to love the class. It's a very unique play style and I feel it is the strongest class in most situations.
Edit: Never mind, you cover it at 19:00 I literally started playing today, but there was something you didn’t mention. The NC101 hand cannon LV 0 doesn’t actually keep you stationary, it just sets your acceleration to zero. So if you use a dash, then fire the hand cannon at your max speed halfway through the dash, you *KEEP YOUR SPEED* as you fire the hand cannon. You can alternate dashing and firing the cannon to very easily (I got the rhythm down after about 3 minutes) glide across the ground faster than the ants could catch me on hard 1st level. Only works while you have ammo, and only 12 capacity for the hand cannon I think, but it’s a very very useful trick I used to beat the first two missions on hard
What weapon types would be best for soloing missions that have dropships and aerial/ground swarms though (basically everything)? Hand cannon/blasthole spear for former, arm hound/blast twin for latter? Dropships especially are extremely boring to deal with and take forever, though I assume that's intended.
If your playing on Inferno you can almost use 78 blasthole with catapult for most everything. Blasthole nc Cannon is nice for drop ships and being mobile. Also if you find yourself getting hit too much from wasps, using spinedriver catapult is better as it attacks faster. Overall though I'd recommend blasthole and javalin catapult, and dash in between each shot.
I'm struggling a bit with all the incredibly similar close combat weapons... e.g. How a spine driver compares to a blasthole spear and what the difference even is. Seems a bit quicker?
Blasthole is just better imo, it has longer range, pierce and huge damage too, able to one shot most enemies. Spine driver is faster and easier to aim but damage is significantly lower, no pierce too, so its better for weaker enemies like bees and the basic drones. In online, blasthole is just better for most of the time because the enemies are tougher.
I have moved over to EDF 5 for the most part, but I'd be happy to help with any particular questions you may have about the classes. Let me know, I always read the comments. 😀
well as ranger i've been using for the most part one of these AF for stun/dmg, usually red ants AF ST for dmg, pretty much against most enemies MMF for burst dmg, for advanced version of enemies(red wasps, soviet drones, queens) and those pesky stun flying drones Cascade to save my wing diver ally from the top of the building HARD difficulty (with a wing diver ally) as i don't have enough armor yet to survive on harder diffs so i was wondering about his other weapons ( mostly for general use and not like the fusion guns for short missions) (i did use acid gun in the beginning as it was a great way to kill insects but it quickly became useless) as for air raider i have yet to try him and to check what equipment he has
The main Meta for ranger is -Main damage dealers are af guns or slug shot (roll constantly and shoot slug in-between rolls) or super acid gun (highest dps gun) -long range damage is 2 lysanders (shoot switch weapons shoot switch etc) or stringer if you need a primary weapon or Nova buster for burst damage rarely -burst fire cracker is amazing for crowds or stampede -volcanic napalm is great under ground or for dragons or crowd control -and healing bomb (reverse shooter x) is very valuable to push enemies away and burst heal on certain missions -his missiles are pretty underwhelming on inferno and so are his rockets -unfortunatly ranger is stuck with taking af guns and stringer or healing bomb for most missions
@@KevinEDF if I take a wing diver or fencer underground after 3 seconds of fighting the game crashes, and in certain maps if I'm a ranger even on easy(higher difficulties crash sooner) if I'm looking in certain directions the game crashes
Hey, me and a friend picked up EDF 4.1 for PC, he plays the Fencer and i play the Wing Diver. Do you have any tips for people just starting out. I've seen your other videos and would love some starter tips
That Other Dude hi, starter tips? For wing diver I would suggest using a rapier and a laser to help to keep your energy up(unless of course you need to snipe) rapier is so very strong in this game, wing diver is best close range high DPS, also avoid flying for long distances but rather fly and then glide down and repeat(I made a video called wing diver hop, helps keep from ever over heating) rapier, thunderbow, idunn, and monster is her best weapons For fencer, I highly recommend watching my dash cancel video and learning that, it makes fencer very survivable. Dashing around with a hammer is very unique to this game. I personally would recommend always having at least 1 dash cancel setup on 1 of the 2 loadouts you can have with him. Lastly, if your having trouble with.some missions, remember that alot of times you can pull just part of the enemies in a level rather than all of them. Try to attack 1 side of the map first or 1 boss at a time or 1 dropship at a time when possible, and if you stop attacking a nest or drop ship, the enemies will stop coming toward you if your far enough away. If you have any questions let me know, I have alot of tip videos as well. Hope you enjoy the game it's great!
KevinEDF but if I want to make sure the dash is always space bar? Hahaha cos fencer controls get confusing at times and then sometimes my space bar becomes a zoom
The dash or the zoom/jump will always be the secondary effect of a weapon, so only the first 2 column weapons have a dash as their secondary, whereas the other weapon columns will give you a zoom or jump. I'm not familiar with PC but spacebar must be the secondary effect of either right or left hand, so whatever hand is linked with spacebar, you can put a weapon from 1 of the first 2 columns of weapons and you will always have a dash on spacebar. Hope that helps.
"the best class, better than the wingdiver, mainly because of the mobility"
Me: *plays fencer, moves at slug speed, cant do shit*
Yeah Im gonna need this video
Yo this might be late as shit but good video this game is free rn so it looks pretty cool
Thanks a lot! I believe this was one of my first few videos 😁
You can also dash cancel with shields or off of the attack animation itself. Its not as efficient or optimal as javelin cancelling but it allows for more varied setups. Dash cancelling is not just restricted to CC and Javelin, although that is the best setup
Besides I love to harass ants shooting acid by reflecting their crap back in their faces
Thanks man I’ve been playing this split screen with my friend when he comes over and these tips will help a lot. I had no idea about the dash canceling.
The quality is crappy, but the quality of the guide is amazeballs. Great tips and demos. Do a video on how you got to 26 thou on the health, if you got anything for that. But thanks again for the explanations and the how tos
Guide has been invaluable to me. I always wondered why people had the javelins
I appreciate this so much right now. Just got this for the kids and I to coop. This is a game changer!
My kid loves doing coop as well! He only needs to learn to correct boxes XD.
Yeah, thanks for those mobility tips. Really helps when I'm switching from EDF 5 to this.
Awesome tips! This really helped.
Fantastic guide!
Are you recording your screen in 2017...? That is...definitely unique
Plot Twist yes humble beginnings, I've come a long ways (second from the bottom now) 😀
at least he's not recording in vertical
Finally someone who understands lol
@@KevinEDF Lol I was in the same boat when i started out. I cringe at some of my early vids, but hey what do you do when your broke.
god, thanks dude here's to hoping I get good with this guide
I want to master this class, it's so unique thnx :D
4 years later this video helped me lol
i love you. just bought the game ima use the fencer. im a youtuber myself
You play on PS4? I think we might have actually played with you a couple of times a while back. I recognize a couple of those tricks. This was a great video. I'm about to take the Fencer through inferno and really looking forward to trying some of these out. Thanks for doing this video and look forward to seeing you around.
That dash cancel is a game changer.
I have the walking fortress AND I LOVE IT
Never really enjoyed playing Fencers. I'm hoping some of your tips will help me improve and enjoy playing as them.
Alurkerdood I didn't care for fencer either when I started playing, but after learning about dashing around to fight, I really learned to love the class. It's a very unique play style and I feel it is the strongest class in most situations.
After all this time I'm trying fencer :)
Edit: Never mind, you cover it at 19:00
I literally started playing today, but there was something you didn’t mention.
The NC101 hand cannon LV 0 doesn’t actually keep you stationary, it just sets your acceleration to zero.
So if you use a dash, then fire the hand cannon at your max speed halfway through the dash, you *KEEP YOUR SPEED* as you fire the hand cannon.
You can alternate dashing and firing the cannon to very easily (I got the rhythm down after about 3 minutes) glide across the ground faster than the ants could catch me on hard 1st level.
Only works while you have ammo, and only 12 capacity for the hand cannon I think, but it’s a very very useful trick I used to beat the first two missions on hard
I'm not exactly familiar with the controls, I only kno lmb rmb space and shfit and can't seem to wrap my head around which one is tiied to one another
What weapon types would be best for soloing missions that have dropships and aerial/ground swarms though (basically everything)? Hand cannon/blasthole spear for former, arm hound/blast twin for latter? Dropships especially are extremely boring to deal with and take forever, though I assume that's intended.
If your playing on Inferno you can almost use 78 blasthole with catapult for most everything. Blasthole nc Cannon is nice for drop ships and being mobile. Also if you find yourself getting hit too much from wasps, using spinedriver catapult is better as it attacks faster. Overall though I'd recommend blasthole and javalin catapult, and dash in between each shot.
best loadout?
- NC290
- Blast Twin Spears M4
- Javelin Storm ZD
- Blast Twin Spears M4
- quite alot of mechanical skill and a bit of Armour right?
I'm struggling a bit with all the incredibly similar close combat weapons... e.g. How a spine driver compares to a blasthole spear and what the difference even is. Seems a bit quicker?
Blasthole is just better imo, it has longer range, pierce and huge damage too, able to one shot most enemies.
Spine driver is faster and easier to aim but damage is significantly lower, no pierce too, so its better for weaker enemies like bees and the basic drones.
In online, blasthole is just better for most of the time because the enemies are tougher.
Check out my armor farm video under quick tips
hey kev my ps4 is being moded at the game store (a shopp in england)
do you plan on making a similar guide for air rider and ranger?
specifically going though the weapons part
I have moved over to EDF 5 for the most part, but I'd be happy to help with any particular questions you may have about the classes. Let me know, I always read the comments. 😀
well as ranger i've been using for the most part one of these
AF for stun/dmg, usually red ants
AF ST for dmg, pretty much against most enemies
MMF for burst dmg, for advanced version of enemies(red wasps, soviet drones, queens) and those pesky stun flying drones
Cascade to save my wing diver ally from the top of the building
HARD difficulty (with a wing diver ally) as i don't have enough armor yet to survive on harder diffs
so i was wondering about his other weapons ( mostly for general use and not like the fusion guns for short missions)
(i did use acid gun in the beginning as it was a great way to kill insects but it quickly became useless)
as for air raider i have yet to try him and to check what equipment he has
The main Meta for ranger is
-Main damage dealers are af guns or slug shot (roll constantly and shoot slug in-between rolls) or super acid gun (highest dps gun)
-long range damage is 2 lysanders (shoot switch weapons shoot switch etc) or stringer if you need a primary weapon or Nova buster for burst damage rarely
-burst fire cracker is amazing for crowds or stampede
-volcanic napalm is great under ground or for dragons or crowd control
-and healing bomb (reverse shooter x) is very valuable to push enemies away and burst heal on certain missions
-his missiles are pretty underwhelming on inferno and so are his rockets
-unfortunatly ranger is stuck with taking af guns and stringer or healing bomb for most missions
Let me know when you want some info on air Raider, you can ask in any video comment section, I should see it
thanks for the info
i cant shoot i use right hand and use right hand and i cant shoot gautling only rocket
fencer i got the game how do u unlock fencer class or is it dlc
I just got the game on the ps4 and i have a question. How do i revive teammates? Lol
Your health can't be red, and the default is circle to revive 😀
miniguns op
Hey, you can take a class other than ranger underground and not have the game freeze? What did you do to achieve this?
Freeze? What do you mean by this? I don't have this problem..
@@KevinEDF if I take a wing diver or fencer underground after 3 seconds of fighting the game crashes, and in certain maps if I'm a ranger even on easy(higher difficulties crash sooner) if I'm looking in certain directions the game crashes
@@Thrawnmulus are you on PC? I have never heard of this issue..
For overblood
For pipo
Hey, me and a friend picked up EDF 4.1 for PC, he plays the Fencer and i play the Wing Diver. Do you have any tips for people just starting out. I've seen your other videos and would love some starter tips
That Other Dude hi, starter tips? For wing diver I would suggest using a rapier and a laser to help to keep your energy up(unless of course you need to snipe) rapier is so very strong in this game, wing diver is best close range high DPS, also avoid flying for long distances but rather fly and then glide down and repeat(I made a video called wing diver hop, helps keep from ever over heating) rapier, thunderbow, idunn, and monster is her best weapons
For fencer, I highly recommend watching my dash cancel video and learning that, it makes fencer very survivable. Dashing around with a hammer is very unique to this game. I personally would recommend always having at least 1 dash cancel setup on 1 of the 2 loadouts you can have with him.
Lastly, if your having trouble with.some missions, remember that alot of times you can pull just part of the enemies in a level rather than all of them. Try to attack 1 side of the map first or 1 boss at a time or 1 dropship at a time when possible, and if you stop attacking a nest or drop ship, the enemies will stop coming toward you if your far enough away.
If you have any questions let me know, I have alot of tip videos as well. Hope you enjoy the game it's great!
Dexter shotguns are fuckin busted at close range
Hey I kno I'm late but on which hand strictly must the melee items be on only right?
Lt Mmuffin which ever you prefer, it doesn't matter
KevinEDF but if I want to make sure the dash is always space bar? Hahaha cos fencer controls get confusing at times and then sometimes my space bar becomes a zoom
The dash or the zoom/jump will always be the secondary effect of a weapon, so only the first 2 column weapons have a dash as their secondary, whereas the other weapon columns will give you a zoom or jump. I'm not familiar with PC but spacebar must be the secondary effect of either right or left hand, so whatever hand is linked with spacebar, you can put a weapon from 1 of the first 2 columns of weapons and you will always have a dash on spacebar. Hope that helps.
Link?
I can't get over the fact that the graphics looks outdated by almost 20 years... seriously, it looks exactly like Armored Core from 1998.
Yeah never been the strength of this series but still so fun
That is the appeal of the series, in my opinion. I like how it looks like an old Dreamcast game.
I think its good enough, if they somehow make it better, you will need a pretty damn powerful device with all those vsx, explosions and enemies.
fence is fucking hard to use jesus christ