Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon
51 Achievements
11-13h
Good Start
Make it through 5 Survival Mode Waves in one session Five Alive
11.0%
How to unlock the Good Start achievement in Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon - Definitive Guide
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Wave 1: Mechanical Ants
Wave 2: Mechanical Ants, Mechanical Spiders
Just hop in the tank right at the start and wipe out all of the enemies, while blasting as many buildings as possible, this will make wave 5 much easier. Keep distance, so that the tank takes minimal damage.
Wave 3: Gunships
Hop out of the tank and use the missile launcher to take them out.
Wave 4: Gunships, Mechanical Spiders
You should be able to kill most of the spiders and gunships with the missile launcher. Hop in the tank to clear out the spiders if you're losing too much life, but don't bother trying to take out the gunships with the tank.
Wave 5: Mechanical Ants, Mechanical Spiders, Small Hectors
Ants, spiders, and 1 hector, spawn right at the beginning. Once a hector is dead, another spawns in. Some people have said that there are only 2 hectors, but when I did it, I swear there were 3. Use the tank to clear the ants and spiders while keeping distance from the hector. Keeping distance from the hector should be easier since you already knocked down most of the buildings in wave 1 & 2. As long as you keep driving, his plasma blast will always miss. If you're too close to him, his machine gun will do a lot of damage to the tank. Once the ants and spiders are gone you can focus on the hector. Keep some distance and you'll almost never get hit. Kill the hectors one after another until you're done.
Irregardlessly great guide
I used the tank for all the ants & spiders then used my rockets on the Hectors
If you dodge roll as the Hector machine gun fires at you, you take very very little to no damage
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Survive to wave 5 in Survival mode. You don't have to complete wave 5, only get to it. The only available armor class for Survival mode is the Trooper. You're also given a certain set of weapons. You DO NOT earn xp in survival mode and you don't get weapon drops in survival mode. You're given a total of 3 revives. The waves get progressively harder as you go with a variety of different bugs present and more in number. As you progress through the waves you're awarded more available revives. Attempting this solo is almost impossible. Although it will say in the top left corner that you have 3 lives; you really don't. With no one there to revive you, if you go down, you lose. So having strong boosting partners to assist with this is a must. To find a boosting partner visit this thread: Boosting Thread. There are 6 available maps for Survival mode. They are below along with information regarding each wave:
1: Cornerstone
Level info: there is a turret available for use on this map
Difficulty assessment: Moderate
- Wave 1: Ants only. Easy peezy!
- Wave 2: Ants and Ticks. The ticks are the hardest part in this wave. There are so many of them and they swarm you. Utilize the turret.
- Wave 3: Spiders and Ticks. Again the ticks are the biggest pain but there aren't nearly as many of them as in Wave 2. Utilize that turret and take them all out.
- Wave 4: Ants, Spiders, Ticks and 2 Small Hectors
- Wave 5: Ticks only. You're also given an extra life at the beginning of this level.
- Wave 6: Ants, Spiders, 1 Bomber Spider, Ticks and 4 Small Hectors. You're given two extra turrets at the beginning of this level and health/armor crates.
2: Shallow Grave
Level info: No vehicles or turrets at the beginning of level.
Difficulty Assessment: Hard
- Wave 1: Ants only
- Wave 2: Spiders only
- Wave 3: Spiders and Ticks
- Wave 4: Ants, Wasps and Ticks
- Wave 5: 1 Bomber Spider, Mechanical Ants, Mechanical Spiders, Wasps, Ticks
3: Pain Garden
Level info: armor/health crates available at beginning. Pick them up right away because they disappear. No vehicles/turrets at beginning of level.
Difficulty Assessment: Moderate
- Wave 1: Mechanical Ants only
- Wave 2: Gunships only
- Wave 3: Wasps and Gunships
- Wave 4: Wasps, Gunships and Mechanical Spiders
- Wave 5: 3 Small Hectors (only spawn in after the other is defeated), Mechanical Spiders, Mechanical Ants
- Wave 6: Health/Armor crates provided at beginning of level, 1 extra life provided. Gunships, Mechanical Wasps and multiple Small Hectors present.
4: Original Sin
Level Info: You start off with a tank available.
Difficulty Assessment: Easy
- Wave 1: Mechanical Ants
- Wave 2: Mechanical Ants and Mechanical Spiders
- Wave 3: Gunships
- Wave 4: Gunships and Mechanical Spiders
- Wave 5: Mechanical Ants, Mechanical Spiders and 2 Small Hectors (spawn in one at a time)
- Wave 6: Another tanks spawns for your use. Mechanical Ants, Mechanical Spiders and 4 Small Hectors (2 spawn at once)
- Wave 7: Gunships and 1 Large Hector
5: Marooned
Level Info: A mech is available at the beginning of this map
Difficulty Assessment: Hard
- Wave 1: Mechanical Ants
- Wave 2: Mechanical Ants and Mechanical Spiders
- Wave 3: Gunships and Mechanical Wasps
- Wave 4: Mechanical Ants, Mechanical Spiders, Wasps and Gunships
- Wave 5: Mechanical Ants, Mechanical Spiders, Wasps and Small Hectors
6: Double Whammy
Level Info: A tank is available at the beginning of the map
Difficulty Assessment: Moderate
- Wave 1: Ants only
- Wave 2: Ants and Spiders only
- Wave 3: Ants, Spiders and Ticks
- Wave 4: Ticks, Gunships and Wasps
- Wave 5: Ants, Spiders, Gunships and 2 Small Hectors
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This requires that you play through five consecutive waves without backing out to the main menu. Done solo it will be rather difficult as you won't have any revives, so try to find some friends to play with. The first map (Cornerstone) is the easiest, though Map 6 (Double Whammy) is excellent with the tank to use.