EDF 6 / Earth Defense Force 6 Weapons Farming Guide - Inferno

In EDF 6, unless you cheat, you'll need to play all or almost all missions in the campaign up to the last one, mission 147, in hard to unlock Hardest and Inferno.

Inferno is the most fun and interesting difficulty to play and that's where you can earn and improve weapons over level 76, the last weapons level you can get on the main campaign missions on hardest, which almost overwhelmingly is where the juicy and interesting stuff is. To be crystal clear, yes, many under level 75 weapons are awesome and very viable in inferno.

And in reality, you can farm weapons up to level 95 on hardest if you have the DLCs.

EDF 5 DLC 2 M 12 Wing Diver Inferno The Last Stand 1 ( Earth Defense Force 5 )

Here are the details of this mission.

EDF 6 / Earth Defense Force 6 - Things that are good or stellar

 I do have a post about things in EDF 6 that suck, so it's only logical and correct that I have one with the opposite. Yes, there are many stellar things in 6. Pity they didn't end with these.

EDF 4.1 Breakdown of mission difficulties by classes (SOLO OFFLINE)

This is a list of my opinion of the difficulty of each Inferno mission that I think is relevant. If it's not on the list, it's a trivial mission to solve, probably with all 3.

I absolutely suck with Fencer so can't provide any hindsight or help with him. I do think he's the worst and least fun class in 4.1 anyway (again my opinion).

EDF 6 - Missions Data - Info, tips and details

Interesting or important details for some missions.

Mission 106

SA2, P1 and P2 - pylons and shield anchor inside the near most shield bearer

SA3 and P3 - pylon and shield anchor inside the right shield bearer, where the Golden Queen Ant is parading

SA5 and P4 - pylon and shield anchor inside the left shield bearer, where the Silver King is parading

Spawners data (thanks for jp wiki for info):

anchor	Normal time			When the third spawner is destroyed		When the 6th spawner is destroyed
	enemies	number	interval	enemies	number	enemies	number
SA1	black ants	Five	about 35 seconds	(none)		(none)
SA2	android	6	about 40 seconds	(none)		(none)
	Naker	8
SA3	high mobility android	2	about 85 seconds	Large android (machine gun)	2	android	40
SA4	grenadier	3	about 85 seconds	big grenadier	2	big grenadier	5
SA5	Naker	2	about 90 seconds	Large android (launcher)	2	android	40
P1	spider	3	about 85 seconds	gold ant	12	gold ant	16
P2	spider	3	about 85 seconds	silver spider	6	silver spider	8
P3	type 3 drone	2	about 110 seconds	(none)		Cyclops	1
	grenadier	2				super android	2
P4	type 3 drone	2	about 115 seconds	(none)		Cyclops	1
	Naker	3				super android	2

It's obvious the least problematic spawners are the 2 first Shielded Anchors as they don't spawn special enemies at any time. Sadly Nakers are terrible, so SA2 should be destroyed when possible.

However the 3 most important spawners to destroy first are SA3, SA5 and P1, as you avoid the crappy Large Androids and Gold Ants which are always very problematic.

Ideally, the next 3 spawners to destroy should be P3, P4 and SA4, which will avoid spawning of Cyclops, Super Androids and Big Grenadiers. You already avoided 80 Androids and Gold Ants from the destruction of the first 3 spawners.

Nakers are spawned by SA2, SA5 and P4. Nasty crappy bastards. 😋😂

Golden Queen Ant has approximately 241.5k armor.

Silver King has approximately 197k armor.

Wing Diver's level 95 Phalanx ZT has at full stars a theoretical 196.5k damage per clip under ideal distance conditions, remember it has damage falloff. But level 86 Rapier Nova has at full stars a theoretical staggering 781.5k damage per clip, with a very short range but no damage falloff, with a slightly higher energy consumption but near instant recharge.

Mission 131

On Inferno, the NPC Nyxes have an whopping 14.4k armor. The Railguns have an astonishing 19.2k. No wonder the mission is dreadful, with this kind of help... Oh boy...

In the third and last phase when the 4 shielded anchors are on the ground, you'll get special spawns once you destroy one of them. Destroying the first will yield 3 special enemies, the second 2 and the third one. Destroying anchors before they reach the ground will not add them, so if you destroy 3 before they fall there will be no special spawns (nasty, precision job). Which enemies are spawned depends on which shielded anchor is destroyed. Considering viewing from the start position you'll have:

- leftmost anchor: Imperial Drone Type 2

- second from the left: High-grade Drone Type 3

- second from right: High-grade red naker

- rightmost anchor: Red Drone Type 1

It will depend on your perspective, but red Nakers are always troublesome, so the last shielded anchor to destroy should be the second from right to avoid that they spawn.

Imperial Drones are usually the easiest to avoid and destroy, Red Type 1s are a PITA to kill with most loadouts. The new laser Type 3 Drones can do massive damage if they hit you or NPCs.

Mission 135

On Inferno, the NPC Titan has 129.7.k  armor, the small Varia tank 49.2k, and the 2 awesomely helpful pink blasts Proteus a reasonable 421.4k armor. Thank you Sandlot.

Mission 144

On Inferno, the Blue Barga has an awesomely mind boggling 3.3 million armor. No wonder this mission is nirvana for lengthy weapons farming. Just compare these numbers with other missions NPC vehicles.

Air Raider's DLC 2 level 110 Armamento Barga stops at 1.3 million armor.

Mission 145

On Inferno, the 2 Armamento Bargas have an eye watering 556.7k armor... Still lower than the Air Raider level 87 WarBarga which has 625k. No wonder the Amazing Bargas are creamed in a snap...

Thank you Sandlot, sometimes you really nail it to make the game so fun...

DLC 1, Mission 17

I'm pretty sure the King Spider numbers on the JP wiki is wrong. If you don't destroy any small hives, on the last wave when you're destroying the huge hive, besides a large number of blue spiders, 12 kings will spawn, 2 for each remaining small hive (100% sure, I've tested it slowly with WD on hardest). I do think the first biggest possible wave of kings is 8, 1 from each small hive and 2 from the huge hive (99.99% sure on this).

It is not unusual that one of the Brown Kings spawns inside a building, and it's hell to finish him.

Between the 2nd and the 3rd major spawn, an intermediary attack from the smaller hives can happen, with the brown spiders and blue spiders that are around them aggroing at you. Air Raider can sometimes make this skip if you're Bulge Z on the main hive, Wing Diver will surely do it if using Heaven's Gate D10 pretty low after the 2nd spawn is finished, because Heaven's Gate can do more damage and for longer than Bulge to the hive.

Interestingly, at least to me, if you force spawns 1 and 2 and don't kill blue and kings from them, you can't make spawn 3 happen until you significantly drop down blues and kings numbers.

Buildings are your friends here, so except for Wing Diver and her farming run, you should avoid destroying most inner buildings while there are Kings and Blue spiders to spawn.

So Ranger, which needs buildings cleared for efficient use of turrets, and Air Raider, which can take down several blocks with Phobos attacks, should try to focus these attacks and leveling on the outside rim of the map, which is always 2 buildings on city maps. Beyond the 2 building lines, the remaining ones are indestructible and some enemies on some missions can get stuck on those.

Blacker E and Varius shells can destroy buildings too obviously.

DLC 2, Mission 20

I can bet that this will be a fans favorite, but to me, this is a deplorably stupid and pointless mission.

Anyway, each Archelus has offline roughly 1.050.000 health.

There are 3 Archelus spawns with 2, 3 and 6 enemies. Each Archelus spawn is connected to the overall damage that Siren gets. It is possible to trigger all Archelus spawns in sequence if you do enough damage to Siren, but dealing with 11 Archelus is impossible except for AR with heli, and even then unreliable.

Obviously, once the 3rd Archelus spawn has happened, Siren should be the first enemy to go. NPCs can trigger Archelus spawns as they will hit Siren too.

Archelus has one attack that does roughly 30k damage at once. I have a video snippet somewhere of DLC 2-11 from EDF 5 on which a Nyx with roughly 70k armor is trashed by these consecutive attacks and I get killed too. With the Nyx and watching in slow motion, it's possible to see how much each attack is doing in damage to it since the Nyx armor is always displayed.

Which attack it is I don't know, but it's a close range movement one.

On this mission, Archelus can shoot multiple explosive boulders attacks sequentially, even the ones that stay on the ground and explode later and the immediately exploding ones mixed. 😐😑🙄