This guide is based on both offline+online which has more missions (98 to be exact) than in the single player version, you will find offline information still although mission number may be different in offline. Do note that offline 2 players is still treated as just offline so this game is at its easiest with 2 players offline.

Here is HP multipliers for Easy and Normal
Easy
2P: 1.44x
3P: 1.8x
4P: 2.16x

Normal
2P: 1.6x
3P: 2.0x
4P: 2.4x


Here are the multipliers Offline 1 or 2 players: 1x HP, 1x ATK
Online 2 players: 2.2x HP, 2.6x ATK
Online 3 players: 2.3x HP, 2.7x ATK
Online 1 or 4 players: 2.4x HP, 2.85x ATK

In online when your grabbed by following you deal only 50% of your weapon's attack this applies to healing as well, (this 50% weapon damage does not apply in offline).
- Stuck in spiders web
- Stuck in red ant's or purple ant's mouth
- Grabbed by a dragon's mouth


You need to do about which can interrupt the boss's attack or movement. Their are two stun states some enemies are immune to launcher stuns such as Ant Queen, Greater Elder Dragon, and Erginus however these bosses can be stunned with a normal flinch stun which can still be valuable from stopping there huge AoE attacks. The death queen and Spider King can suffer from both types of flinch and launcher stun which can make fighting these enemies much easier especially for ranger and air raider. Pro players are able to execute this technique very well and this guide numbers can help you figure it out. Just simply look up whatever HP the boss has and take 7% of it and that's the number of points you need to deal to achieve the stun.

You can combo even different types of weapons to achieve the launcher stun what's important is what weapons is used last to achieve the end of 7%, , this can be tough to pull off sometimes though if you are playing in a party and everyone is shooting at same boss... however your nearly guaranteed to pull off a flinch stun a whole lot as a result of most the high dps weapons being flinch although you may prefer going for launcher explosive stuns on spider kings to get them in that state of being unable to fight back indefinently.

Here's an examples of what stunning looks like on the Hardest Online dragon boss and Offline Inferno silver king. Sandlot purposely makes explosives weapons on the weaker side of things because if most of them were really strong you'd have no trouble fighting spider kings and death queens at all. So its up to you when you should appropriately combo explosive with high dps damage or burst damage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKMUhiNm1A8&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i53GrHgGVbs&feature=youtu.be


Legend

Tips: - Just my own personal information from personal experience you do not have to read this information in fact I highly encourage people to come up with there own ways to play but still tips are here in case your struggling, don't take my word as be all end all I'm sure there may be things I could of missed out on.

-- is used to indicate that this mission isn't in offline.

{?} is used to indicate the mission number in online mode.

0.xx On some missions you will find specific multiplier on certain enemy, an example can be this 0.8x what this means is the enemy will be 20% weaker than the normal formula the devs normally use as you progress through the game. The devs do this as likely for balancing reasons and to give you a more fair chance at winning the stage, especially in very crowded missions.

?x Of course though rare there may be missions where enemies are specifically made stronger, an example is 1.2x at far right would mean this enemy was specifically made 20% stronger outside of general forumula used.

The videos have finished there purposed, I only had them around to check values, I honestly looked at a lot of the videos, and I just idk considered most of them to be too impractical, hardly anyone was viewing and to top it off they were just making my guide take long to load, I am a guessing the majority of people came here for the health numbers and that's fine, I will try and make the guide quicker to read for those people. I still left some videos up but majority of them are gone now. While I did spend 6 months making those videos and removing hurts me personally I think it's for the better ultimately. While it's not a complete lost I did leave valuable information I learned from levels behind so I suppose that's one reason I was okay with removing them.

A: No I'm done, unless something needs to be correct I'm done.

A: With my guide you can get a better sense of making a strategy by looking at the numbers this helping you decide which weapons is optimal to bring or combo with.

A: This is very tough question for me to answer properly because everyone's experience with the game differs, I will try to give my opinion, A couple of thousand armor is fine for most players I mean 1000-10,000, that is fine armor to play through most of inferno, some people will go past that and go for like uhh idk 20,000-100,000k. If your playing in a team with that armor rating the game will be too easy for you especially if you know what your doing. The only reason I go with such high armor sometimes is because in solo runs in online I lack offensive power to protect NPC long enough to beat the level alone so once they die I'm very likely going to be taking hits thus I do need the armor to survive. If I played with a decent team I would actually lower my armor just for a better sense of challenge. Yes its true that things like gold ants and spiders can kill you in one hit up close but close range hits can easily be avoided and prevented, what you should be enduring is what I call just little scrapes of damage which with 1000-10,000 you can get by easily for every level in the game and is what you should strive to do. Going for more armor then that is something you should only do if you lacking in decent teammates and are willing to try and carry your team.

A: Hehehe, idk tbh making a guide like this took a lot of time, there's a very good chance I won't make any type of guide like this for long time, so if your someone out there looking to make an identical guide to this one for EDF5, I'd say go for it if you really feel you can do it. I am unlikely to do anything about it myself for long time or maybe never.

I will quickly give my opinion formed from my experience and from pro players. Due note that this information means nothing to you until you completely understand how the characters work.

• The Best Class for offline. He is also one of Best classes in a 3man ranger or 4man ranger group where you gain an advantage over the games scaling in online. He ends up being one of the worst in 1 player online or 2 player online when his simplicity starts falling into a disadvantage.
  
• Has very strong and direct easy to use and understand weapons.
  
• Simplicity is his greatest strength and at other times his greatest weakness.
  
• works fantastic with NPC units due to his shared healing ability.
  
• Mobility is low, what that means is high armor gain is kinda pointless on his character, even if you have 30,000 HP, if you play stupid you are going to die to a mob of enemies just as easily as a 200HP ranger would die. Stupid plays can be like aggroing entire map instead of slowly picking enemies off. Fighting and not moving, Ranger is good class to fight and move at sametime, he may not be as fast as other classes but his movement does not impact his ability to fight.. Of course in the warzone maps where everything is already aggroed, it is vital as a ranger you do your best to support and heal the npc keeping them alive buys you more time to go on offense to the enemies.

• Does not have highest dps weapons in the game but she does have the highest consistent DPS weapons in game that can be reloaded but not without risk of going into close range and running out of energy which could put her in danger.
  
• She is 2nd best class in offline and she can be the best class in a 2 player online situation. She can be extremely top tier when paired with an Air Raider as Air Raider has exclusive plasma equipment for her and he can also serve as distraction and shield with his vehicles for her.
  
• High HP can give her a chance to solo online missions to make up for her lack of shielding and inability to heal and keep NPC alive. Its because of reason that she doesn't work too well with NPC personally that she just can't be the best character in some stages.
  
• Flying ability lets her get on top of certain locations which does lend to some interesting strategies.

• Best Class in Warzone maps where there are large number of enemies already aggroed, Strafe plan and wave attack airstrikes is absolutely top tier.
  
• Works extremely well with any class even with other air raiders.
  
• Balam can be used against extremely annoying enemies like dragons and green ants.
  
• Myth that his class is useless alone in online but this isn't true his class is always good provided you can find the time and place to strategically plan, he's only at his worst when he is caught offguard surprised at a bad situation. There exists NPC in almost every stage to cover you so air raider is nearly given prep time for nearly every mission in the game.
  
• 3man or 4man air raiders can completely demolish levels quickly with airstrikes.
  
• Most of his vehicles are useful except the bike.
  
• Tempest is utterly the most ridiculous explosive weapon in the game for quickly clearing tough mob situations.
  
• Doesn't really benefit from having high armor especially since most of time he is in his vehicles with high durability. He is at his best the minute you get all his weapons and strategically plan through missions.
  
• Kinda sucks in tunnel missions, close quarters combat isn't really his thing.

• Worst class at teamwork, reason being his weapons has huge hitboxes he can easily friendly fire hit his teammates and he can't heal the NPC like Ranger or Air Raider can.
  
• Has to rely on Speed and Defense to get through missions, in some missions you can rely on NPC to distract and thus you can stand still and unload with weapons like gatling guns or High altitude Missiles.
  
• Now Despite me saying he is worst class at teamwork, it doesn't mean he can't do teamwork he does have missiles meant to be used with air raider which can lead to some interesting strats but there's not too many levels where you'll actually be doing that.
  
• The worst class for low HP runs, some of his mechanics is built to be played with some armor gain, but because of this his class's effectiveness can drastically and exponentially increase even when increase your armor by 1000s. By 26,000 armor I was able to clear every single difficult missions in the game with fencer online solo.
  
• Best class at being last man standing and surviving, this implies every NPC is dead and your teammates is dead but at sametime he is one of better classes at reviving players.
  
• His 4 weapons is huge advantage online sessions with less players. I found that because of 4 weapons I am able to clear some missions in online that I just can't see other classes being able to clear because they lack 4 ability to carry 4 weapons themselves, this class is just very good for solo online plays carries.
  
• His class suffers the opposite problem of ranger, with his class you want as much enemies to come after you, you can kill lots of bees by reflecting or clearing hordes of enemies with hammers very easily especially if they all come after you. He is best class at close range fighting many of his weapons, defense and quick dash maneuvers makes him good for it.
  
• Terrible for long range engagements on fast moving targets, however on slower and bigger targets his sniping is actually really good, dual battlecannons provides best consistent long range dps, while single battlecannon+ Dash weapon can do move and shooting.
  
• A lot of his weapons feel designed more for online than it does offline, I say this because they all do very good damage especially with his dual wielding nature. In offline they feel very strong in a lot of cases.
  
• He gets fantastic weapons to use earlier than all other classes and levels end at 85.

Tips: The ants on this stage are weird introduction as they function to grab your character only on this stage, the rest of the game will have them shooting acid at you however the grabbing ants make a return as red ants and dark purple ants later on in the game. Anyway be wary of the last wave it has huge number of ants which can get you killed if you stay in one spot, shoot and move is key.

Tips: This is very easy and short stage, the civilians will also take attention off your characters so the ants are extremely easy to deal with. Anyway this is an introduction stage to first ground forces Acid shooting ants. Acid Shooting ants are most basic of ants so we just call them "ants" or "black ants". This enemy type is the most balanced of all the enemies you will face there is also quite a variety of them to be faced later on. This is a good stage to farm for any difficulty for some starter weapons if you are new just to get you started and have choices.

Tips: Same as previous mission just with less civilians and more enemies to deal with making the stage just a tad bit longer.

Tips: Introduction stage to Retarius, this enemy is very easy to fight by itself its main danger is when paired up with other enemy types. Shooting it's web that it walks on to destroy it won't trigger its aggroed state, this enemy will only aim at you if it see's you on its sights. Famously known for being cheap on its web grab for clipping through objects and walls to grab the player. You only need to deal about 10%-20% of its health to escape it's grab. About the web only two classes in the game can hit through its web, air raider and fencer. Air Raider with any vehicle that uses a flamethrower and fencer with force blade weapons and his hell flame can also hit through webs to hit retarius directly, explosives and electricity does not hit through webs and neither does any of rangers flamethrowers hit through webs as it uses a special type of flamethrower.

Tips: The first real stage to show you why Retarius are a dangerous enemy, but don't worry this stage isn't that hard as long as you get rid of the ants first before dealing with Retarius all the way in back of the stage.

Tips: Introduction stage to first undergound caves and 2nd ground unit type spiders, spiders are known to be more damaging than ants and having a slower but hopping movement, these suffer a huge weakness at sametime from there way of movement, to put it simply spiders have a hard time navigating in tight spaces which is frequent in caves and around buildings in cities. Out in the open with nothing to obstruct there hop movement you will find them most dangerous.

Tips: Now you get to fight spiders in the city, don't worry civilans are there to take some attention off you it's kinda like mission 2 in a sense but with spiders.

Tips: Get to fight spiders again in the city except this time don't expect civilians to help out this will be first real difficult mission with spiders. Its advised you keep your distance and be wary of last wave that spawns in at the end.

Tips: First real stage to throw a variety of enemies for you to fight with, likewise don't let the retarius grab you otherwise this stage shouldn't be too hard, if you do get grabbed shoot the retarius to try and break free as soon as possible.

Tips: This stage is just here to remind you that large numbers of enemies can be dangerous to fight with, you mostly fight ants here. At the end of stage you deal with a small force of new enemy type drones which should be simple for you to deal with, I will get to explain more about drones in next mission. Some Ants are dropped by newly introduced transport ships but these ships cannot be killed in this stage so just ignore there presence.

Tips: As you may have seen in previous mission drones are new flying type enemy, these are one of the weakest enemy types in the game but at sametime one of hardest to dodge as well. To start off there attacks are much weaker than ants and spiders, however be very wary when you fight a massive group of them which is what this level attempts to go for. The faster you kill them here the better, do note at the end of the stage a friendly AI with a naegling will appear to shoot down what's left of there forces, the naegling is capable of one shotting these drones easily any difficulty. The air raider's support tools like defense guns, posts, life posts are very useful here in being able to outlast the enemy forces. It is advised the air raider gathers friendy forces at start and carefully distributes his tools among the group and you can easily outlast the enemies long enough for naegling to appear to finish what's left off.

Tips: More ships are to be seen in this stage dropping ants, again the ships cannot be killed in this stage. Do be careful you spawn very close to the enemies in this stage it can be kinda uncomfortable for an air raider so it's advise air raider takes a few steps back and calls his vehicle in a safer location. There are civilians in this stage that can take some attention so it isn't too bad.

Tips: The first real difficulty spike in the game you will feel as you are introduced to ships that can be killed, at least one person with a long range gun(Inferno Midrange guns work too) or wing diver flight is mandatory here, if none of the ships are killed quickly enough the mob of ants can be a bit overwhelming it's advise you kill at least one ship as soon as possible to make the level less difficult.
There's 3 ships they all spawn something like 0.30x weakened black ants than what's reflected on table below. Once 2 ships die the last ship will attempt to drop many ants that are the ones reflected in table below but its one time spawn. after that it spawns the 0.33 weaken ants again.
You can find recruitable NPC in every direction of map, west=wingdivers, North=Fencers, East Rangers, South where u spawn is ranger in front of you.

Tips: Introduction stage to hectors, hectors are slow and big moving enemies, in a way they are kinda of like the fencers of the enemy side as they share many similarities in being able to dual wield and use shields. Biggest weaknesses are range if you can keep your range you can dodge or completely evade most of there attacks pretty easily, if your feeling risky though you can use close range weapons to quickly kill them as the hectors do have an awkward time aiming under there feet. These enemies are known to be wonderful easy credit supplies for air raider to wreak havoc on stages when they are killed. Anyway there's 2 waves of hectors to be dealt with here, about around like 7 per wave of hectors, the drones at the start do not respawn.

Tips: This stage introduces you to tunnels, tunnels are basically ground spawners for the bugs, the bugs spawn very quickly out of these tunnels unlike when they drop from the ships so there is much easier opportunities to group kill the enemies with an AoE or piercing weapon. There is only 4 tunnels here, you fight them one by one, the next tunnel won't trigger until all enemies are dead so if you know where they spawn you can just in advance get the drop on the tunnels as soon you kill the last tunnel.

1st ant Tunnel - Is by starting point behind the big warehouse
2nd ant Tunnel is further down the road surrounded by normal house buildings
3rd ant Tunnel is all the way North of map surrounded by the pond of water
4th spider Tunnel is Northwest of the map in the park

Tips: This mission is scripted and timed, basically the mission will complete itself after 10-11 min. Anyway introduction mission to the Quadruped, a giant walking mechanized fortress that drops enemies and is equipped with explosive turret, and 5 very dangerous long range lasers that will be active near the end of the stage it is very much advise you stay away from Quadruped. All you need to do here is just swiftly take care of enemies it drops to stop the stage from being overcrowded with enemies so that you can survive.

Tips: You know the deal, if there's ships, someone should have at least one long range gun or a wing diver needed to deal with the ships and this stage is no exception although I suggest long range guns anyway as the ships are pretty high in this one. After those 2 beginning ships are dead, 2 more will spawn in the river and these are much closer ground level for most weapons to work with just be careful with the spiders as they drop down.

Tips: Mostly just hectors with long range plasma launchers, try not stand in one spot for too long as that's how you typically get hit, any long range high damage weapon will work very well or you can just wait for hectors to get close enough for you to fight them the choice is up to you. A 2nd wave will spawn in after the first is dead.

Tips: Introduction stage to shield bearers, Shield bearers are actually the only enemies in game to not be affected by online multipliers very drastically as they can't attack on there own, still they can annoying to kill, Fencers and Wing divers are basically designed to be able kill shield bearers very easily. Ranger and air raider can struggle at times to kill them without proper gear for it due to there mobility and forced need of shooting inside there force fields. Quick tip the Fencer Dyna Blade in melee weapon section is actually the only weapon type in the game capable of hitting through the shield however the weapon is a bit low on dps you might just prefer most of time to just get in close and kill it with other weapons, I would only suggest the dyna blade if your having trouble attacking inside the shield.

Tips: 3 shield bearers with 3 seperate ant groups, if your careful you can minimize fighting only one group at a time. Just plan your attack accordingly before going in for attacking and you'll be fine.
Red Ants Spawn after 2 tunnels are dead.

Tips: Introduction to red ants, AKA recolored mission 1 ants except these ants have more health than your typical black ant. These are really the easiest enemies to fight in game but can be dangerous for ranger and air raider if they don't have good setup to deal with them with. You don't face the red ants in this level until the very end and they appear in very large group however you can completely wreck them with any weapon that can hit AoE or pierce since the area here is very narrow.

Tips: Another underground mission, you start in a spot you must defend yourself in along with a lot of friendly EDF soldiers, you have 3 waves of enemies to deal with, the enemies come from the narrow spots from above.

Tips: The slower the hector the more HP it has, the opposite goes for fast walking hectors they end up with less HP, and then there is hector in middle that is pretty much balance on HP and speed. I believe the slow hectors are pretty much the default hectors that you see for most of the game. You can use the friendly AI units on the map as decoys and cover if you find hectors weapons to be annoying to take head on. Try to stay away from center by the time the new waves spawn in you don't want to find yourself getting surrounded by hectors.

Tips: Your first online exclusive mission, don't worry it's pretty easy, the transport ship can't be killed it just moves slowly across the level until it finishes dropping every enemies mostly into where shield bearers are.

Tips: Introduction mission where you get to face Motherships cannons, if you bought the dlc decoy launchers for ranger or air raider those can be used to shoot under the mothership and every cannon will attempt to shoot at it but be unable to hit the decoy due to the angle. This phase doesn't happen until 3 ships are dead or it's timed I'm not really sure but usually when your going after a 3rd ship they come out from above to shoot at you, Also don't try to shoot every enemy on the map, just deal with one ship's group at a time and this will be easy, also kill the drones they don't respawn.

Tips: This mission is stupid easy on any difficulty provided you have a weapon that can kill the tunnel listed here very quickly as soon as you start. You have at least 10 secs to kill the tunnel in front of you before a massive horde of spiders get a chance to jump out of it, after that is dealt with you can take care of retarius above, if your weapon is too short to hit it you can always just allow the retarius to grab you and pull you up to hit it.
Example of weapon I like to use, on inferno as ranger I just bring one nova buster ZD, it's single shot laser sniper with one use that deals 80,000 which is enough to kill the 1 tunnel 69382 even on max stats on 4 player inferno and other weapon is just cleanup for what's left on the map. Alternatively if you can use a high dps weapon or launcher that can one shot spiders spawning in the situation can still end up pretty easy.

Tips: 3 waves of red ants,
1st Wave comes from the north
2nd wave comes from south
3rd wave (Purple+Reds in on hardest&Inferno) otherwise just reds on lower difficulty from east over the mountains.
Some Ranger NPC and Fencer NPC along with few gigantus tanks npc here to serve as distraction from huge wave of enemies but beware once they are grabbed majority of ants will focus on tanks or you and can lead to bad situation.

Tips: There are transport missions here but they are pretty close to the ground any weapons that can hit past 100m can easily hit the ships for being so close to ground level so don't worry too much about needing to bring a sniper here. Introduced to Erginus here unfortunately I don't have data on erginus here due to being unable to kill it here, all I can say is just keep hitting it until it runs away. Bring a high dps weapon to make this mission go faster.

Tips: Introduced to Red Drones on this mission, Red Drones are some of the most annoying enemies in the game basically, they retain annoying speed and flight to being able to hit you pretty often paired with a much higher attack damage, the only cons to them is they are rare and you face only few or single at a time. Anyway if you want an easy time fighting these I suggest getting out in open with clear view and try your best to pick one off at a time. Don't attempt to kill all at once that's not a very good idea.

Tips: 2nd online exclusive mission, this mission has 3 tunnels at start, after a few seconds red ants will spawn from it. The mission is very easy and short.

Tips: It is advised you take care of shield bearers first before killing too many of the hectors during the beginning part. Obviously some hectors have to die first trigger the shield bearers but when shield bearers do show up those need to be top priority otherwise if they are not killed the incoming waves will prove to be difficult. This actually could be a good map to use fencer dyna blade on the blade will go through the shields, the blade can also hit multiple hectors and ants at a time. If you don't have a fencer that can do that then you need to wait on ally forces and hectors to square off until you go to mess with shield bearers otherwise if you go too early a lot of hectors will be after you for getting too close.

There are 5 waves
Wave 1- Hectors
Wave 2- More Hectors and 3 Shield Bearers
Wave 3- Black Ants and Red Ants coming from back of the map after a majority of wave 2 is dead. Wave 4- Starts in the middle of wave 3 and includes a large group of drones, the drones are actually timed to spawned in so faster you kill ants the better off you'll be for this drone wave. Be aware that you get another group of friendly forces spawning in where you first started in the map so it's not a bad idea to retreat to where you started during this wave.
Wave 5- Is another group of hectors that come from west and the east along with another smaller wave of black and red ants. During this wave ally air force will send in planes to drop bombs once all hectors spawned in. Hectors and ants will focus on planes for about a minute afterwards they will focus on you.
As soon as wave 4 begins air raider loses air support, and get's it back in middle of wave 5 after dialogue expires.

Tips: Beware of the large wave of enemies at the end of level, Take utter most caution when someone goes to alert the enemy and very quickly retreat backwards to narrow tunnel to compactly deal with the enemies. Keeping ranger AI alive for end can help you out with big wave at end so it's not bad idea to try and keep them alive.

Tips: At the start your ambushed from 3 different angles, this is actually bad as being surrounded is not very good thing to deal with, if you can hold all 3 angles you can fight in the spot you spawn in otherwise if you can't then it highly suggested you have the whole group push through a direction so that an enemy can't hit you from behind.

Here's video in duo and thanks to my assistant Zeddy I can use 2x Thunderorbs, thunderorbs works a lot like ranger's napalm however it covers huge distance and slower steady damage, while this is normally an armor strat meaning you need some armor to use it alone with air raider you can have him use 1-3 life vendors to help you survive thunderorb and let it works it magic. Thunderorbs is able to deal pretty decent amount of damage to silvers even in tight spaces. This weapon however has very glaring weakness and that is anything the ball touches including you will make it disappear, (you'll be happy to know this was fixed in EDF5 to where it's no longer a problem and can be touched)

Of course lets talk about fencer here, if you for whatever reason haven't learned to use his CC strikers yet you are going to struggle here if fencer is counted on to carry here for that reason I will show using CC strikers such as Force Axe, blades or hammers work here although I have to admit it's a bit rough and luck dependent as you can easily die from one wrong ant close acid you. My advice is try to use dead bodies as cover and dash through deady bodies to get health when you need it.

Tips: The level is easy as long as you have way to get uptop quickly to deal with 2 tunnels spawning ants. Ranger is only one who might have an awkward time getting up you can always just let the retarius from high above grab ranger and let it pull you up, if you do this I would suggest one dps weapon and one of rangers reversers to keep you alive as your getting pulled up.

or you can hold out from bottom and wipe all retarius then advance upwards

Tips: Introduction stage to 2x Queen Ant, the queen ant is actually opposite of smaller ants its thrives off of closed spaces and climbing on sideways walls this is a big no factor you want to avoid when facing it as its flamethrower like acid attack is very dangerous and awkward to dodge in moments like this, weapons that can bounce like wing diver electrical weapons or rangers explosive weapons are good here. Any fencer shield is really good here as you can direct the ant queen's attack back for huge damage. If you can find a good moment for a few seconds to attack it in then a rapier or fusion blaster can take care of ant queen in mere seconds, these high dps weapons are readily available across all difficulties.

Tips: Getting close to the enemies all the way in back of the map triggers the mothership to shoot lasers at you and sends drones to come eliminate you. Eventually the mothership and lasers leave. Again if somone has a decoy launcher gun you can just shoot it at the genocide gun and and lasers won't be able to hit it and won't target you at all.

Tips: Lots of spiders, shooting the web that the retarius sits on does not aggro anything, you break there web to rescue the friendly wing diver AI trapped and help serve as decoys for your assault on the 3 tunnels.

Tips: Don't shoot at too many different ships on this map it's bad idea to aggro the entire map. Also watch out for cannon hectors they will be shooting across the map with plasma launchers. Also feel free to take out the drones first as they don't respawn on this map.

Tips: 3 Waves
1st wave is hectors, black ants, red ants and drones
2nd wave happens when some of above dies which causes more black ants and drones to spawn in from the back.
3rd Wave is 2 Transport Ships that both spawn around 10 ants each, 4 Queen Ants, and 4 Red Drones

You spawn in with 2 Squads of Rangers up front with close range weapons, 1 fencer Squad behind with long range handcannons, and most importantly 2 naeglings on your left and right. The naeglings can completely full wipe drone wave for you if you can keep them alive, beware they can easily die by one black ant going up to them so its suggested you move out in front with some npc and slowly move back and kill any ant that tries to go past you.

Allied Railguns & Wing Divers will spawn in during Ant Queen wave after some time passes to assist if you can manage to survive for a few minutes, these railguns can distract and deal adequate damage to whatever is left in that wave.

If you have an air raider, this is one of the first real stages in game to showcase how powerful the air raiders strafe is, I did this online with 1/4 multiplier solo on inferno.

The reason why strafe is effective is because of its low cost, large amount of enemies to kill, and no shield bearers. It hits very hard for a strike of its cost and you can multi-task use your vehicle at sametime when using strafe so it's just very good. The planes from it also serve as decoy so enemies will chase after it for small amount of time however multiple strikes can lead to them chasing after it for a solid minute or 2. There is another airstrike very effective at sky decoy and its "Wave Attack (Bomber Charon) however it costs a lot and the airstrike is weak and much better used with a team as team can shoot enemies chasing it.

Tips: After someone takes out the genocide cannon the mothership is exposed. With ranger 2 50% powered nova buster shots on inferno can kill the mothership quickly, or with wing diver 1 50% powered gungnir can also kill the mothership quickly, of course in order to get power you need air raider's help to shoot one on you. You basically win this mission as soon as the mothership is eliminated. If you lack above options then you'll have to do the mission the slow way and normal way which involves going through the motherships 3 different phases. If it comes to that then I suggest taking out transport ships and and hectors so that they can't pester your group.

Tips: Tunnels here are very weak, most weapons can kill them very easily. The trick to winning though is being able to kill right tunnels that pose the most threat to your class or... if your air raider you can wipe them all out easily with his airstrikes. Having an explosive weapon can prove to be handy to wipe the buildings early before you trigger wave 2.


There are two waves,
wave 1 - is ants and red ants and tunnels they come from
wave 2 - happens when all of tunnels from wave one is dead and also has ants and spiders but more tunnels now, http://leafierlemon.com/edf4.1/misshuu.html?lang=en

Tips: There's 3 tunnels here, 2 on left and 1 to the right with 3 hectors in center
2 tunnels in back are spiders and one on left front is an ant tunnel.
You spawn with some friendly AI and tanks to take attention off you.

Level isn't too hard as long as you know what your doing also air raider can make this really short.
In here I can use Wave Attack to decoy effect the enemies to chase the planes to buy me time for tempest and to get my proteus out. Also it helps align the hector a little better for the tempest to hit all 3 hectors and all 3 tunnels.

Tips:3 waves
1st is ants
2nd is bees
3rd is even larger force of bees
If your having tough time against bees you can attempt to hide between buildings or an underpass as cover the bees struggle to hit in tight spaces.

Tips: To start off the level, the enemies will already be on high alert so there is no stealth tactics but you do have a group of npc at the front who can take off attention for a few minutes but don't depend on them for too long they will very likely die sometime in middle of the mission and especially in online mode.

You only have 4 tunnels that can be eliminated before tougher mutants spawn in, there is one group that always needs to be killed in this mission and that is the bees, to put it simply there counterparts the red bees that spawn in mutant wave are toughest enemies in the game with a haunting 500% boost in there stats hp and damage and there is no way anyone would want to deal with that, these enemies would be the prefered type to kill anyway even without the stat boost as they are very hard to dodge in the first place. However red bees are only added to hardest and inferno on waterside bugs, there is no fear to had of them in easy, normal, and hard. Yes stats are listed for them on those difficulties but this is all just hypothetical what if stats that follows the formula of the game.

One Red Ant tunnel can be ignored these are joke enemies of the game along with there counterparts.

If you have speed characters fencer or wingdiver you should eliminate both black Ant tunnels as spiders and silver spiders are very slow and easy for these characters to deal with.

If you have Ranger or Air Raider, then its recommended to eliminate both spider tunnels as spiders are too tanky for these classes to deal with right away. Gold Ants can be still be dangerous though so you should still try to keep your distance from them with these classes.

Tips: This stage introduces you to large transport ships and first appearance of earth eaters, these ships spawn in the middle of the mission and cannot be killed so don't bother shooting at them. If you have an air raider on team it could be worth shooting down the Giant mining lasers for free credits on air raider if he needs it. While the first two ships respawn ants, the rest of level doesn't respawn anything.

You face quite a variety of enemy types but rather in small clusters of groups, the rangers AR can deal with this mission nicely enough combined with Reverse Shooter defensive play to keep you and NPC alive.

Tip: Hectors will keep dropping from the large transport ships until ships are dead, after that's taken care of your introduced to a new variation of hector that uses shields that spawn in back of the stage.