EDF Easy Levelling

Easy levelling - for those having trouble early on and want to boost their suit or looking for an easy way to earn money and experience for those more grindy achievements.

Basics

If you're a fan of the console EDF titles, you'll know how this works. Some of the achievements in this game can be pretty daunting, hopefully this will help take a bit of sting out of a few of them.

Normal difficulty isn't too bad, Hard and Inferno can be quite tricky - especially solo, not to mention reaching top level and purchasing all guns for all suits. Here's a little trick you can leave running while you have dinner, go to school, work, have sex, tell the missus she only looks a little bit fat in those pants.

What you need is a missile launcher with decent damage, preferably a large blast radius, but most importantly automatic locking. Fire up a stage that has infinite enemy spawn points, run to the opposite end of the map and put a rubber band on your mouse/controller to consistently fire. Walk away, come back 1 hour. Thats it. Make sure your current level/weapon can comfortably kill the enemies that are spawning because if you die you'll have lost all your points. The maximum amount of points you can earn per level is 65,500 so when you get close, take off the band and finish the stage. For this reason, you'll want to do this on a stage that is relatively easy to complete once you've reached the score limit.



A good starting stage for this is, well, the starting stage. Chapter 1, Mission 1. Play through as normal until you reach the second ant hill, run to the opposite end of the map then band it. Once you reach around 64,000 points, blow the ant hill and take out the Hector to finish the map.

You'll want to make sure you can comfortably kill the enemies, you should be able to tackle Ch1M1 on Hard at about Level 3 or 4, once you reach Level 6 or 7, try out Inferno. This of course depends on what homing missile launchers you have access to. Inferno gives you points a lot quicker, so long as you survive. The best stage, if you can handle it, is Chapter 3, Mission 3. Running this stage on Inferno will drop some of the best weapons too.

Turning on AI is risky. On one hand, they can be helpful to take out enemies that get close by if your missiles don't take them out..... but on the other hand, they have a tendency to wander into your line of fire and mess up your aim or worse, kill you losing all your points.

If you reach 65,500 points on a stage, that gives you 65,500 monies and 65,500 experience towards your current armour. In order to reach Level 8, you need 793,500 exp. Expect to do this trick quite a bit if you want Level 8 for all armours. Whats worse, if you want to buy all weapons, you'll need more than 7,000,000 monies - but once you reach Level 8 and have access to the Pesticide weapons, there are faster strategies than this (making good use of Remix mode), this is to help you get started if you have more important things in life than 30 hours of grinding.

[ArkaiL]

any advices with the heavy class? i have it lvl 2 and his weapons SUCKS

[ArkaiL]

its takes so much time :_ the numbers are not right. i tried doing 1-4 with only one ant-hill and it took 1 hours to make 40k how the f that dude khalil made 20k in 10 min? not even him knows lmao

[Hakurei Reimu]

ty for this

[khalil]

it took just 10 min to have 20k

[Lway Sleez]

took me around 4 hours on normal to get 35k so I would say around 8.

[JonnyBanana]

how long do you stand there to get 65k points????

[MushaConvoy]

Firing at the sky will only work with a missile launcher with an A class turn rate, aiming in the general direction with a C class is perfectly sufficient.

The AI can't revive you if they walk into your line of fire and die. If both of them die and your shot kills you in the process, then yes - you do lose any points earned in the mission.

As stated in the article, this is not the fastest way to level, an easy way while AFK. I don't know about you, but I find going back to a Tier1 soldier after running around on Inferno is pretty awful. This way the other soldiers can level up overnight.

[Laraso]

Also, even if the AI kills you, you don't lose your points. In a place as tame as level 1, the AI will have absolutely no problems reviving you. If you're using a missile launcher, you can simply fire into the sky to avoid the problem completely.

[Laraso]

This is not an optimal way to level up. This is way slower than just playing levels normally.

Honestly, simply playing level 2 (Firebase Clyde) over and over is the most hassle-free way of getting XP and credits. Even then, there are far better ways to level up, but you can just sort of autopilot through Firebase Clyde because it's so easy, which is why I like to use that level.

The only way ant-hill scumming on level 1 is effective is when you rubberband/paper-weight the fire key/trigger and then AFK while your character automatically fires at it, allowing you to do more productive things with your time.