EDF Weapons Farming Basics

Since I get a few times the same questions I hope this will answer them.

EDF 5 - Mission 108 Despair - Online Only mission - Air Raider - Inferno

I tried a few times to do this online-only mission, but was never successful and was getting annoyed with it. Doing online solo missions is mostly a PITA as not only finding what weapons work, but finding a strategy that works is VERY time-consuming. To make it better I don't have PS Plus right now, so at least I did manage to do this in a online play free weekend.

EDF 6 - Air Raider - When drones SUCK what is at least usable

The biggest change in EDF 6 was the moving towards total brain deadness of the Air Raider. If the new drones are interesting to joke around and have fun with while playing up to hard, beyond that they simply don't work. Using drones is time-consuming and stupid and you simply don't have enough time to do that on harder difficulties. And you need a ton of armor too. The overall result was that the AR turned into a stupid version of the Ranger, without its speed-walking enhancements. Whatever it was Sandlot's idea it's mostly a flop. How they did not figure out this I can't grasp, or they did only when it was too late (hopefully). On Inferno, Haze, High Mobility Androids, Red Androids and Krulls will shred you to pieces long before you can even aim drones at them. And it's even worse against most new DLC enemies.

It's perfectly impossible that Sandlot did not see that drones are not usable on Inferno in missions with aggroed enemies, and even beyond that on hectic ones, because you simply die just while trying to aim them. 

The alternative is too inconceivable to be true, is that they're too incompetent as players and testers to have reached that conclusion.