Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon
51 Achievements
11-13h
Spider Fighter
Kill 10000 Spiders Arachnocidal maniac!
4.2%
How to unlock the Spider Fighter achievement in Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon - Definitive Guide
My suggestion:
Tie this achievement as well as the 5000 ticks and getting enough cash to buy everything together with trying to farm all the weapons.
For this, you need to have beaten the game at least once (on normal, for example) and leveled one of your armours to Rank 8, thus having gotten the Pesticide weapon of that class.
Now, you start up either 3-2 or 3-5 in remix mode and inferno difficulty. There will be a ton of spiders and bombers, netting you about 8-12 weapons each time, and a couple of dozen kills in each section - and your blast will wipe them out pretty much in one go.
Each run takes about... 5-10 minutes, depending on your tactics and skill of not blasting yourself up. It is highly recommended to finish the levels for the needed money, too. You'll make about 25k in 3-2 and something in those lines in 3-5.
If you find 3-5 too hard, 3-2 is really easy to pull off and has no real tricky part if you always keep distance to everything.
Alternative Tie-in with 10,000 Survival kills + 500 Waves.
Take Marooned, the second wave has about 26 spiders in it - the third one has gun-ships and wasps.
You can also combine both. getting my necessary 7000 kills ended me up with about 4000 ants kills, 1000 spider kills and about 2000 gunships on that map, as well as about 100 rounds..
The spiders are another standard enemy. You encounter them early on in the game and deal with them throughout. Accumulate a total of 10,000 spider kills across your playthroughs and modes. You earn these kills in both the story mode and survival mode.
Grind spot:
Go to Mission 4 in Chapter 3. You'll want to play offline by yourself to maximize the amount of kills you receive. There are two major fights in this mission. The first fight pits you against ants, spiders and 3 small hectors. Defeat them and progress. When you get to the boss battle don't kill her. An infinite amount of ants, spiders and wasps will spawn. Kill as many as you want before finally finishing off the boss. When playing solo with the two AI partners be aware that they will eventually kill the boss on their own ending your kill grind.
Additionally any of the maps in survival mode offer a great way to rack up kills. See Good Start for details on where certain enemies are located and in what map/wave.
If you don't get this while going for all the other Campaign/Survival achievements, it can be worked on best during Chapter 1, Mission 4 (Ditchslap) in Remix mode. You have a 50/50 chance of getting spiders out of the three hills inside the drainage ditch.