Can someone please explain to me how pattern analyzer works?? Surely it doesn't just let you to ignore stress tokens... What's the deal? I need an example
Pattern Analyzer!!!
The "check pilot stress" step is badly named. It should really be called the "check maneuver color" step. It's the step where you add or remove stress based on the color of your maneuver.
The normal sequence goes something like this:
- Reveal dial
- Move the ship
- "Check pilot stress" (add stress if it was a red move, remove stress if it was a green move)
- Perform action (if you're stressed, you can't do this)
With Pattern Analyzer, it looks like this:
- Reveal dial
- Move the ship
- Perform action (if you're stressed, you can't do this)
- "Check pilot stress" (add stress if it was red, remove stress if it was green)
The obvious advantage of this is that you can do a red move and still take an action before the stress is assigned. The less obvious advantage is that you can do weird combos like dial in a green maneuver, use Push The Limit to take two actions and get stress, then remove the stress.
With all the hype people are making, you'd think it adds 6 dice to your primary. Really though, it's pretty similar to adv. sensors, letting you take your action before receiving stress from a K-turn or using PTL then performing a green move.
With all the hype people are making, you'd think it adds 6 dice to your primary. Really though, it's pretty similar to adv. sensors, letting you take your action before receiving stress from a K-turn or using PTL then performing a green move.
Probably more confusion in regards to how it works than "hype".
That's good to hear. One of the guys that I know was saying that it gives you Tycho's ability. Good grief
I guess it can be pretty close to Tycho, as long as you continue to make green maneuvers.
I think pattern analyzer is somewhat better than advanced sensors for three reasons:
1) it is the same for focus or evade as it doesn't really matter when you get the token, but for repositional moves PA allows you to barrel roll or boost after doing a red maneuver
2) it costs less
3) it takes the tech slot rather than the systems slot, the systems slot has other more appealing options that you have to give up to use, while the tech slot isn't quite as competitive
I guess it can be pretty close to Tycho, as long as you continue to make green maneuvers.
Not necessarily. I've just come up with a combo involving pattern analyzer that gives a certain T-70 pilot more mobility than Tycho could ever dream of achieving, and this includes PtL/daredevil/EI Tycho. In fact I think that this ship moves more like a pre-nerf phantom than anything else. It involves Nien Nunb with Stay on Target, BB-8 and Pattern Analyzer (flavor with AT/IA and B1 title to taste). All you have to do is dial in a straight 3 every combat turn and witness the hilarity that ensues.
When you reveal your dial you may perform a barrel roll as the maneuver is green, and after doing so (or not) you can use SoT to change it to any 3-speed maneuver you like, including talon rolls. You then perform your selected maneuver (which is red) and then do your action thanks to PA. All you have to do is make sure that there's an enemy ship in arc at range 1 (boosting as your action can help here), and Nien will say goodbye to the stress that you would normally get after the action. It's even possible to arc dodge ships that have k-turned behind you as long as they're offset laterally by about a base. The main weakness is PS8+ aces, but those have mostly been displaced by defenders in my local meta so a PS7 ace is actually pretty useful.
Yeah had to break my mates heart when I explained he'd misunderstood the card and he couldn't turn multiple ships into tycho.
With all the hype people are making, you'd think it adds 6 dice to your primary. Really though, it's pretty similar to adv. sensors, letting you take your action before receiving stress from a K-turn or using PTL then performing a green move.
Very similar. Two key differences:
Advanced Sensors are 3 point, Pattern Analyzer is 2.
Advanced Sensor: take an action, PTL, take a stress, reveal a red, make a 2 straight white because oops! Pattern Analyzer: reveal a red, make a move. Take an action, PtL, take a stress, check stress, take another stress.
Also: barrel rolling/boosting before moving can put you in some different spots than those same actions after moving.
Pattern analyser is quite cool on T70 Vets with PtL and R2. Doesn't make them top tier ship, but I like full mods each turn (and no stress remaining for possible BMST around).
Can you do a green move, Rage, remove a stress due to pattern analyzer?
Can you do a green move, Rage, remove a stress due to pattern analyzer?
yep
Can you do a green move, Rage, remove a stress due to pattern analyzer?
But, it's still rage every other turn, if you're on all greens, so it's probably not worth it.
I think pattern analyzer is somewhat better than advanced sensors for three reasons:
1) it is the same for focus or evade as it doesn't really matter when you get the token, but for repositional moves PA allows you to barrel roll or boost after doing a red maneuver
Advanced Sensors allows you to take your action when you know (or think) that you are going to bump. Pattern Analyzer does nothing for you in that situation.
With all the hype people are making, you'd think it adds 6 dice to your primary. Really though, it's pretty similar to adv. sensors, letting you take your action before receiving stress from a K-turn or using PTL then performing a green move.
Very similar. Two key differences:
Advanced Sensors are 3 point, Pattern Analyzer is 2.
Advanced Sensor: take an action, PTL, take a stress, reveal a red, make a 2 straight white because oops! Pattern Analyzer: reveal a red, make a move. Take an action, PtL, take a stress, check stress, take another stress.
Also: barrel rolling/boosting before moving can put you in some different spots than those same actions after moving.
Also: ion.
AdvSens trigger before revealing a maneuver which you won't do when ioned. You do execute a maneuver however. PA will work.
Yes, but what would PA achieve with a white one forward manoeuvre??
Yes,Can you do a green move, Rage, remove a stress due to pattern analyzer?
But, it's still rage every other turn, if you're on all greens, so it's probably not worth it.