Buy 5 or wait for 6?

[GnomeSlayer]

Thank you

[Nope]

5 is fun and you can enjoy Air Raider in his full glory as god of destruction, he who command death to his foes and allies
Not sure about 6 though since AR got reduced to drones, but look fun regardless

[Slayrix]

5 was a really enjoyable experience, alone and with friends, either way it's just a blast and I am pretty sure the "story" (I say it like that because the writing is pretty bad and the story is just you're fighting aliens, but there is some lore I guess) but I heard that the stuff they establish in 5 is going to carry over to 6 and it's going to be a continuation of it.

[EvilZombie]

buy 5 and wait for 6

[Zephyr]

What Evil said. 5 is a sequel of 6 so it will use the story of 5 as a base, and you may miss some elements of it going into 6 directly.

[EvilZombie]

Originally posted by Zephyr:

What Evil said. 5 is a sequel of 6 so it will use the story of 5 as a base, and you may miss some elements of it going into 6 directly.

what i was trying to say buy 5 and wait for 6 to discount hahaa which is going to be like 2 years later as far as i consider 6 is slight improvement rework of air raider to some kind of drone master

[Relf]

BUY BOTH

[ArtificialQT]

4.1 is also highly recommended, if you haven't played it yet.

4.1 is consider by many to be the highlight of the series. 5 is similarly good and has quite a number of QoL improvements for the different classes, although personally I felt like the missions in 5 didn't feel as "fresh" as 4.1.

But if you can only get one, 5 is highly recommended because it is the direct prequel to 6 in story. While I feel that 4.1's missions are slightly better, its in an alternate timeline and doesn't lead into 5 nor 6.

[yakan]

buy. play it. play 6 later. it's on sale.

[ifyucantbeatmexd]

the producer recommends you play 5 before you play 6 so yes play 5. do it now. im telling you. you've got plenty of time till spring 2024.

[GnomeSlayer]

Originally posted by ifyucantbeatmexd:

the producer recommends you play 5 before you play 6 so yes play 5. do it now. im telling you. you've got plenty of time till spring 2024.

Thank you

[ACSMAX]

In fact, I think the experiences are unique and it's worth going through all of them since Earth Defense Force 4.1

I can't recommend the 6 without recommending the 5 and 4.1

Just to mention my experience.

I played around 1600 hours of EDF 4.1 on PC
I played EDF 5 for around 700 hours, but most of the hours ended up being on PS4, as I didn't have the patience to wait for it to be released on PC. It took too long.

Looking forward to EDF 6. However, I think I'll focus on playing this one on the Playstation anyway.

[ImHelping]

I love 4.1 ad 5 enough to have bought and played them multiple times, but you can skip right to 5 as it has a lot of smoothing on the grind curve that someone new to the series would like vs "Well why didn't you replay levels on max difficulty for a better gun to clear normal?" and the fact drops apply to all classes in 5 heavily weighted to the class you are playing, instead of realizing all the classes you did not play yet have base hit points.

There is still grind involved, but they tightened up curve on what gear drops on what stages per difficulty on top of the "Every class gets stuff" makes even playing alone less awkward in 5 than 4.1.

Higher difficulties DO have better drop tables in general, but with your entry level start in stats you should probably stick it out on 'normal drops are more boring' until at least after the traditional million billion enemy drones mission before seeing how many missions you can attempt on hard out the starting gate.

Loot and health is universaly unlocked between both solo and multiplayer. the only split between solo and multiplayer is your unlocked stages (MP skips some tutorials and ads a handful of MP only stages). If I remember right, trying to solo online scales it up to 4 person party enemy values so uh... yeah. Don't try to solo online without knowing that.

With the vague shrug of a USA release date for 6 still, EDF 5 is the best jumping on point for a newcomer right now.

4.1 is still great. But 5 does honestly have less "Regrind old missions to beat the campaign on normal/hard the first time" than 4.1 , and is more encouraging to trying new classes partway through.

[cowbell]

Buy 5 and wait for 6. You can segue into 6 after finishing 5 and notice the changes that happened in the sequel.

[Shadowhawk]

I think there can be a lot of problems if you run 2 games back to back from the same franchise---especially one like this. Burnout, from playing the previous game "too much" just before playing the 'new' one, making you less likely to give the new one a fair shake. Comparisons between the two games, where maybe you like the previous system vs the new system, or just feeling like you wasted time with the previous system if the new system was just around the corner. Repeating content...these games honestly have really basic concepts to understand, and that means that they also have some really basic map designs in some sections that tend to be repeated between games-this can cause some problems, as you'll also have to "grind" some maps over and over to get better gear...and this "could" end up with you grinding 'essentially' the same types(or feels) of maps between the two games, and that can make the second game feel really ♥♥♥♥♥♥ to grind through, "if" you are willing to push through the grind.

I can understand it 'more' for shorter games that emphasize story, to play them back to back so you can see the story continue. In this case, you either end up hating the second game, or things that happen in the second game can make you hate both of them, even if you originally like the first one you played.

So, basically, my suggestion is to just wait for 6. Sure, you won't know as well what you are getting into...but on the otherhand, you won't know what you are getting into, and when you do, you'll probably like it-so why waste that moment of "excitement" on the previous version, when the new one is waiting around the corner.

[Urmanin]

6 is a direct sequel to 5, you'll get more out of 6 if you beat 5.