引用自 skoll：

or more importantly how do you obtain the new longswords. I have the vibro blades but they do pitiful damage compared to dragon killer knuckle unit. I keep doing missions but dont get anything of note as a reward and skirmish is just the small amount of cash even if i kill the mechs carrying the longsword

Melee is.... not the best primary tactic in my view, but a reliable secondary once you run out of ammo. This isn't made obvious at first, but upgrading weapons and mech parts make a huge difference. If you haven't figured out how to level up the shop yet, do the story missions.

引用自 The Heretek：

引用自 skoll：

or more importantly how do you obtain the new longswords. I have the vibro blades but they do pitiful damage compared to dragon killer knuckle unit. I keep doing missions but dont get anything of note as a reward and skirmish is just the small amount of cash even if i kill the mechs carrying the longsword

Melee is.... not the best primary tactic in my view, but a reliable secondary once you run out of ammo. This isn't made obvious at first, but upgrading weapons and mech parts make a huge difference. If you haven't figured out how to level up the shop yet, do the story missions.

I've done all three available story missions store shows at lv 8 i believe ?

The pile driver on a leveled up pilot also has 3-4 attacks each having a non insignificant chance of oneshotting the torso. I keep two melee attackers and several range back up for that reason.

as you level up, you unlock more missions, henceforth more parts in the shop. Everything is level locked. If you're not seeing any growth, chances are you aren't running enough missions enough times. That's how i figured it out

Personally, I've found that its not level specific re opening up new equipment in the shop but mission specific. I just completed the wave mode on the 1st and 2nd mission and checked the shop and can now buy a bunch of new machine guns (look like assault rifles) and a nice slashy sword. All of my team were lv6 bar one and none of them had levelled up. The equipment on offer at the shop had been used against me in the wave mode battles I'd just finished.

So max level of the shop is level 8. In hindsight I think it's a combination of the missions you unlock (and your performance) and the level of your team.