As long as the original devs make it and not whoever made Insect Armageddon, I'll be happy.

2017 was wayyyyyyy better than Insect Armageddon but even if its the same developer as long as it remains a budget title it will be worth a purchase.

Indeed, Insect Armageddon just wasn't fun.

I want a bigger, better Global Defence Force.

EDF 2017 was great, but GDF was so much better. Twice as many levels, two classes (Pale Wing - Jetpack gal with energy weapons), twice as many guns and much nicer design overall (More B-movie, with flying saucers and War of the Worlds-esque Tripods and Quadropods).

Credit to EDF 2017 though, it did add the deployable turret weapons (Which were awesome) and the Mech (Which was cool, if a bit useless).

From EDF IA, I'd like them to take the armor colours (Perfect to use special variants for unlockables) and reloading (But not the active reload for all the guns, but I could see some weapons with complicated mechanics using that).

And EDF IA did have some sweet player character animations, with the rolling back from explosions and dashing with the Jet armor.

I don't know, Insect Armageddon was my first EDF game, so I can't comment on how it compared to others, but I had a very good time playing it in co-op. Sure, it could've been better, but it was still a lot of fun.