Scum and Villainy Podcast Interview Series with X-wing Designers Alex Davey and Frank Brooks

By Kelvan, in X-Wing

The interview

Join Scum & Villainy as we talk to Frank and Alex about all things X-wing; their thoughts on the X-wing ship competitively, what they each most love to fly, the challenges of designing the game, and much more. We ask all the hard hitting questions *cough* that we are so known for, and for once Sable doesn’t ask what our guests would do to fix the TIE Advanced; although once again in interview, Frank and Alex verify that ship is definitely going to get attention. Get to know the guys who make X-wing better!

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Davy... Davy... Davy!... I'm a monster... I'm not trying this a third time. WHY CAN'T YOU EDIT SUBJECTS YOU MONSTERS!?!?

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Darth Froggies Force chokes Kelvan for his mistakes!

Really looking forward to this one!!!!!

Nice job guys!

Darth Froggies Force chokes Kelvan for his mistakes!

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Where is Greg? I really enjoyed his commentary. Just now realized he's been gone.

Where is Greg? I really enjoyed his commentary. Just now realized he's been gone.

Greg has been sent to Hoth to hand craft 3 ice cubes from the purist glacier for the Emperors drink. Once he's done with that assignment he will be back with the cast.

I'm finding the rest of the guys are doing nicely in grief giving department regarding me while Greg is gone.

Jeff and Mark have been great additions to the show!

Great job and lots of interesting info.

Nice hearing they are thinking of doing something to help the X-Wing and HWK. Also nice to hear that a ISD is completely out of the question, but a nice hard limit on how big epic ships will be.

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I loved the talk about helping out ships like the HWK-290 and that the X-Wing is in need of some love. It really makes you wonder what is coming for those ships!

So who's putting in on my KickStarter for a to scale Executor?

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I am waiting with the credit card! Because hell, who doesn't want to see that?

I'm finding the rest of the guys are doing nicely in grief giving department regarding me while Greg is gone.

Greg has some large shoes to fill, so I'm going to do my part.

They seemed rather shy to talk about Epic, hrmmmm...

That intro music, is there going to be a SnV compilation CD released? :)

Very much enjoying these interviews, I was happy to see that you didn't cover the same ground as other podcasts and made them different.

But please, for the love of Leia, please stop with the typing in the background.

Unless it's the steampunk cogs in theorists brain?

Davy... Davy... Davy!... I'm a monster... I'm not trying this a third time. WHY CAN'T YOU EDIT SUBJECTS YOU MONSTERS!?!?

It's like a tattoo.... No regrats

Very much enjoying these interviews, I was happy to see that you didn't cover the same ground as other podcasts and made them different.

But please, for the love of Leia, please stop with the typing in the background.

Unless it's the steampunk cogs in theorists brain?

If it's no typing then it's us talking all over each other (more).

I have been trying to mute when I do that though.

I am always impressed by the general philosophy of game design and game balance that they have.

The only thing that I wish they could do differently is go back and change some cards (Horton needs an EPT!), but as they said, this isn't a PC game where you can continually make changes. Personally, I am hoping that eventually they will do a 2.0 "patch", where they rebalance all of the old pilots, by selling card packs with updated values. But that isn't FFG's business policy, so more likely we will see a continual set of patches and band-aids until we get to the point that most of the old pilots are at least semi-playable competitively.

I think they made it pretty clear that epic will get Scum and imperial ships. He all but told us which two the empire is getting.

I think they made it pretty clear that epic will get Scum and imperial ships. He all but told us which two the empire is getting.

Yes they did didn't they.

I think they made it pretty clear that epic will get Scum and imperial ships. He all but told us which two the empire is getting.

Yes they did didn't they.

The worst part is I have no idea what you're talking about.

No questions about how to improve the Advanced though which has been one of podcasts hot topics. An Advanced with new cards coming with an Imp epic ship? Ala XWing coming with the Transport?

They probably didn't ask because they already had the answer: "No comment".

They probably didn't ask because they already had the answer: "No comment".

SableGryffon brought up the fact that the question "How would you fix the Tie Advanced" for the guys who have basically said the advanced needs fixing and have the capability was probably not going to get answered.

That's his favorite question too.