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I just can't say enough how cool it is that you don't need push the limit to actually do anything interesting with maneuverable ships.
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May 5, 2018 22:37
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Panzeh posted:I just can't say enough how cool it is that you don't need push the limit to actually do anything interesting with maneuverable ships. poo poo, I love that the must have cards are just plain built in.
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May 5, 2018 23:13
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TheCenturion posted:poo poo, I love that the must have cards are just plain built in. and TLTs will be rotting in hell
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May 5, 2018 23:42
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Raged posted:and TLTs will be rotting in hell I’m curious to see how bombs are handled. I’d love to see auto damage removed completely from the game.
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May 5, 2018 23:49
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I don't even know why bombs were auto-damage. Just make them roll red dice when they detonate to do damage like any other attack.
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May 6, 2018 00:04
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That kid flying the control BroBots is flying like a daemon.
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canyoneer posted:Check out that A-Wing blowing up the interceptor, something nearly impossible in 1.0 
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May 6, 2018 00:24
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Raged posted:That kid flying the control BroBots is flying like a daemon. That really was an excellent game. Has that 1 straight template been the right length, I bet the bomber would have been ionized off.
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May 6, 2018 00:31
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canyoneer posted:That really was an excellent game. Has that 1 straight template been the right length, I bet the bomber would have been ionized off. Yeah, I am really glad he won. His opponent had to know his template was too short. Pretty sure the first thing we all do when we get new templates is to compare the lengths with the old templates.
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Brobots in the final. 24 hours ago if you told me that I wouldn't have believed you.
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Trophy headed back to Europe. Krayts who?
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Panzeh posted:I just can't say enough how cool it is that you don't need push the limit to actually do anything interesting with maneuverable ships. generic interceptors, good?
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May 6, 2018 02:58
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The only other World's final without a turret was 2013 TIE swarm vs Biggs walks the dogs. Probably why it's the first interesting final for the last 5 years. (heaver v eide was alright I guess)
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That was one hell of a final and the top 4 match with the brobots was also great.
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I missed all of Worlds except for part of the last match but was it always at that weird angle?
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May 6, 2018 04:23
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All three of Simeon's games we streamed were amazing. Loved every minute of that, and watching Corran disassemble Ghost Fenn. Now to sleep before I'm back on the stream commentating Destiny all day tomorrow!
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hoiyes posted:The only other World's final without a turret was 2013 TIE swarm vs Biggs walks the dogs. Probably why it's the first interesting final for the last 5 years. (heaver v eide was alright I guess) You forget 2012. Before turrets existed.
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pbpancho posted:You forget 2012. Before turrets existed. Nope, the runner up Nick Stanton had an ion turret on a Y.
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Turrets have always been part of the game, just originally they only did 1 damage per shooting. They get in the way of the original Rebel swarm of 5x Y-Wings though
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TheCenturion posted:I’m curious to see how bombs are handled. I’d love to see auto damage removed completely from the game. (Dial) bombs are instead dropped all at the same time in the System phase, between planning and activation. Some bombs do still do autodamage, but they're a LOT easier to avoid now. Also, I can now say I've played two world champions. I even beat one of them! (Nand and Sim, for the record, and it was Sim I won against XD)
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I don't think bombs need to be random, just not being able to drop perfect info bombs is enough imo.
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hoiyes posted:Nope, the runner up Nick Stanton had an ion turret on a Y. Ah yeah, I was thinking PWTs.
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I've got this plastic toolbox that I keep my X-wing modification tools in, and I'm considering using it to carry ships instead of lugging my entire collection to each league. Has anyone bought/made custom-fit foam before? I feel it'll be much better than the ships just moving around freely.
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I just saw that Vader is 84 points. That seems like a lot for an ace. I wonder if this signals a general move away from aces and named pilots?
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Smegmalicious posted:I just saw that Vader is 84 points. That seems like a lot for an ace. I wonder if this signals a general move away from aces and named pilots? I believe standard dogfights will now be 200 points.
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Smegmalicious posted:I just saw that Vader is 84 points. That seems like a lot for an ace. I wonder if this signals a general move away from aces and named pilots? I mean, his ability is straight up better.
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Even at 200 points that’s 42% of your list on a small ship. Edit: looks like 84 points is Vader with three upgrades.
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Vader and 4 ties 😍
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Han and 3 Z-95s, i'm gonna make it work in 2.0
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League buddy got this alt art card at Worlds:
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Smegmalicious posted:I just saw that Vader is 84 points. That seems like a lot for an ace. I wonder if this signals a general move away from aces and named pilots? They did say that aces will be more expensive, which is a welcome change.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:I've got this plastic toolbox that I keep my X-wing modification tools in, and I'm considering using it to carry ships instead of lugging my entire collection to each league. Has anyone bought/made custom-fit foam before? I feel it'll be much better than the ships just moving around freely. I and my friends use Feldherr trays and they are very good for the price. Plenty of options for X-Wing as well as lots of other games. If you are in the US they might be difficult to get hold of.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:I've got this plastic toolbox that I keep my X-wing modification tools in, and I'm considering using it to carry ships instead of lugging my entire collection to each league. Has anyone bought/made custom-fit foam before? I feel it'll be much better than the ships just moving around freely. I've got one of the ubiquitous Plano cases to transport my ships. For my large, double-sided one I use to store my entire collection I've used 2mm crafting foam to line the compartments and dividers and keep the ships loose. As for the single case I use for transporting ships, I've used the plastic dividers as a template to make cardboard dividers, cut them in half horizontally, and cut a notch in them to allow me to store my ships as so:  It won't accommodate wide/long/tall ships all too well and I end up having to keep them loose, but I feel confident they won't get damaged en route. I don't know what your toolbox looks like or if this idea would even be applicable, BUT I'm just throwing this out there in the off chance it'll help.
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Smegmalicious posted:I just saw that Vader is 84 points. That seems like a lot for an ace. I wonder if this signals a general move away from aces and named pilots? Where did you see this?
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With no pilot skill fuckery allowed and natively the highest pilot skill in the game, plus ship abilities and pilot abilities that are at worst on par and arguably better than in 1.0, and the ability to use force points as focus tokens in a pinch, Vader in 2.0 is significantly better than before. The equivalent of 42 points (upgraded) sounds about right, if not a little low.
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Upping the points to 200 allows for twice as much granularity too, which is a nice touch. Means we're not going to have the problem of upgrades that are too good to be 1 point but not good enough to be 2 points either being no brainer includes or wastes of points so much anymore.
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alg posted:They did say that aces will be more expensive, which is a welcome change. They did. They've learned apparently that high PS and lots of repositioning is worth a huge premium, especially in a world with dramatically fewer perfect-info bombs and much more dodgeable turrets. And Vader's ability is by FAR the best ace ability we've seen to date. With Afterburners, he can boost, roll, focus, and lock, all in the same round, for no stress, and still have a force left over to mod with later. It seems likely that doing even two of those, and especially two repositions or two dice mods together, will be almost vanishingly rare. Vader has the best pilot ability we've seen so far, and I'd be surprised if it's not the best in the game. It should cost. Arquinsiel posted:Upping the points to 200 allows for twice as much granularity too, which is a nice touch. Means we're not going to have the problem of upgrades that are too good to be 1 point but not good enough to be 2 points either being no brainer includes or wastes of points so much anymore. Also, charges allow for much more flexible use of upgrades, too. If a one-use upgrade is not costed right at one point or two points, but the same upgrade with infinite use can't be costed right either, then cost it at two points and make it two- or three-use.
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Found the X-Wing 2.0 Demo video with the Vader build in question. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVO3aLQ2Cis Vader has four upgrades: Sense, Afterburners, FCS, and Cluster Missiles. So 84 points seems definitely on track.
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