Description:

The Wing Diver is the light soldier class in Earth Defense Force 2025andEarth Defense Force 4.1: The Shadow of New Despair. Like their predecessor the Pale Wing, they are equipped with a jetpack, enabling rapid movement.

OVERVIEW: 


The Wing Divers are a special hand-picked EDF force formed to deal with future threats after the 2017 war. They use advanced technology derived from that used by the Ravagers in the first invasion, based around a plasma generator, something or other called the "Aurora Sphere," and a psionic link that enables weapons to be operated via the user's mind. For whatever reason, only women's minds are compatible with this technology, and so the entire Wing Diver force is female.



The plasma generator allows the use of a jetpack, as well as powerful energy weapons which would normally be impossible to reload in the field. The generator's output is represented in-game with an energy meter.



The Wing Diver is at her best at close to medium range and in tunnel levels, and is not a particularly good long-range combatant: while she can hold her own, she is certainly no match for a Ranger or Fencer. She excels at "kiting" enemies; keeping enough distance to prevent them from attacking, while wearing them down with her own attacks.



Her backpack and shoulder pads give her a slightly larger hitbox than the Ranger and Air Raider, which equates to a tendency to take somewhat more damage. She also has no ground evasion moves of any kind, and is actually the most ungainly character when on terra firma, with nothing but a basic jump.



Like the Ranger, a Wing Diver can equip two weapons. Wing Divers have the lowest starting health of any class at just 150, and the slowest armor growth at 0.23 HP per armor item picked up. In EDF 4.1, she has a slightly lower armor growth rate at 0.212 HP per armor item pickup. They also have the lowest armor limits in online play. Like the Fencer, the Wing Diver is not able to occupy the driver's position of any vehicle except Walking Fortress Balam in EDF 4.1.