Giant Robots, Tiny Rockets

On 12/01/2015 at 12:55 AM by KnightDriver

I started today thinking I would start EDF: Insect Armageddon and probably give up on it pretty quickly, but I played the campaign on Hard online and managed to find a few players who made it really fun. Mind

I just left the game open to the public and one person jumped in for a while who was clearly a few Ranks ahead and made the later levels just managable enough to beat them in one or two tries. Unfortuneately the first person who joined dropped out near the end. So I started the campaign over again and got Mark to play a while. Then another person dropped in and we had three live people in there for a good long time. Mark dropped out half way through the final chapter and the random dropped out after the third to last level. I played the penultimate level with two AI bots, but those AI don't cut it, and i couldn't finish the game on Hard.

I did pick up a few more achievements for kill numbers along the way. I also played through the six survival levels online just to see if anyone was there. No one was, but I made some headway on the several achievements for waves and kills in that mode. I didn't care that I was mindlessly zapping bugs. It was fun.

I think next week, I'll start that second to last campaign level online and see who pops in to help me finish the game on Hard difficulty. If no one does, I'll try with the bots, and if no success, I'll leave it until the next week and try again. Mark may level his character during the week, and that may help, but we'll see. He's not as enthusiastic about the game as I am. I'm still thinking it may be possible to get 100% completion.

Well, that's about it for today.

FAF101

12/01/2015 at 10:02 AM

If I owned the game I would help ya!

I wish you luck though on completing it!

I do something similar when I can't beat something although it sometimes turns into months or years before I go back and try lol gamer add

KnightDriver

12/01/2015 at 04:37 PM

I thought at first the guy I was playing with dropped out because I had grabbed his weapon drop on a robot he killed, but the game shares weapon drops with all players I found out. Maybe it was something else, 'cause he/her left only after the level ended. I tried to help him/her out as much as possible to keep him/her in the game. There seems to be very few people still playing EDF IA at this point, which is not unsurprising really.

goaztecs

12/01/2015 at 11:02 AM

That's a nifty feature that some games have where you can jump in and out of games. I haven't tried enough of my copy of this game (or the previous one) to jump into other people's games to help out.

12/01/2015 at 04:40 PM

You can jump in any campaign game in mid progress, but not survival matches. You can only drop in during the setup screen. Every time I did quick match, it didn't find a game and so it created one with me hosting playing with two AI bots. Then, after a while, a rando would show up and stay in for an hour or two. I can't wait to jump in again next weekend.

Matt Snee Staff Writer

12/01/2015 at 07:17 PM

Must. Kill. More. Insects!

12/02/2015 at 04:24 PM

The game retains the same wacky comments by the troops as you play like the other EDF games. There's also this funny dialog between your mission director and the head of intelligence. Intel is consistently incompetent.

12/02/2015 at 04:58 PM

ha ha, as it always is!

PixlBit