Armor, armor, armor... Tell me magic mirror, how much armor do I need to handle Inferno? 😍🤣
The mirror won't answer, and neither you'll find it in a crystal ball.
Let me tell a simple story. When I tried to play EDF 2025, it was a PS Plus free game and I hated it for probably the same reason as everyone that tries these games: dreadful graphics, bugs (and I don't mean the insects), die, die, die. What's the point of the stupid Air Raider? This guy can't do anything! The Fencer? Slow as molasses? The Wing Diver is a junk character always in emergency recharge. This was the first phase.
The second, I made a effort and discovered how good the game really is. Unlike most games, the gameplay is excellent. But still I couldn't believe it was possible to finish most inferno missions with 10k armor. Or most likely 25k. Or more... The simple reason was that I did not know how to play the game. At least reasonably well.
The game has a steep learning curve. There's no way around it. It will only be easier in another iteration when you've really learned one of them because at that point the changes will be small but the core game is the same and it's easier to adapt.
If you need more than 5k to solve a mission of the main game, you're certainly doing something wrong. Weapons, strategy, tactics, use of NPCs (not really possible in most 2025 missions), use a different class. The game becomes a boring dumbness with a ton of armor. You can't play this game CoD or Battlefield style, if you do then you'll need a gazillion armor or die again and again and again. It does not work this way.
If you really learn the game you'll find out that you can solve the majority of missions with the same class, using the right weapons, which don't have to be the same for everyone, but more importantly by thinking on the right and best way to do it, by taking advantage of the map, environment and enemy behavior. At that point skill is not important. I'm no skill master and I solve all EDF 2025 and EDF 4.1 missions with reasonable armor and surely will all the ones in EDF 5. Do see some missions will take time, effort and thought to be solved. Took me years to find a easy and reliable way to solve easily Star Eaters on 2025, I would play it once in a while, and finally one day I found it (AR had the solution). Do remember some classes will struggle on a few missions. It's by design, the game clearly was made to be played in teams of different characters and taking advantage of each class.
Don't farm for armor, you'll find out game progress will provide you with more than enough. On EDF 5 is even less necessary, the big areas for crates picking for the ranger and vehicles mean that you can't cherry pick just weapon crates in many missions. And armor progresses is very fast on this game.
Air Raider will usually be the class that needs less armor for obvious. He's on vehicles most of the time, so it does shield him more than other classes. Solving missions with him is more a question of doing it or not, not how much armor you have.
Unfortunately most people seem to go for the armor way. It should be norm for anyone posting or giving information on EDF missions to clearly say how much armor they have, as what I see the majority of times is that either there's a ton of western EDF players that are absolutely stellar beyond the best japanese pros or they really have a ton of armor and then what they say or suggest is plausible.
The feeling of finally solving a mission in a easy and reliable way is what EDF is all about. At least to me. Hope you find this too.
PS
Yes DLC is a different story, but DLC 1 and particularly 2 were created to be extreme.
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