Blinded Pilot reads:

You cannot perform attacks.
After your next opportunity to attack (even if there was no target for an attack), flip this card facedown.

Tie/D reads:
Once per round, after you perform an attack with a Cannon secondary weapon that costs 3 or fewer squad points, you may perform a primary weapon attack.

So if a Defender with Tie/D title gets this blinded pilot crit. Can it flip the blinded pilot on the cannon shot and then still take the primary attack?

Or does not shooting the cannon negate the opportunity to then shoot with the primary weapon?

I've searched for this can't seem to find an answer (or even a discussion).

The extra shot from TIE/D is triggered by performing an attack with a cannon. Flipping Blinded Pilot instead of making an attack with a cannon does not count as making an attack with a cannon. A Blinded TIE/D makes no shots.

Interactions like this are exactly why they changed the wording of Blinded Pilot. With the old deck, you would have rolled zero dice with your cannon attack, then triggered the title and gotten to make a normal primary attack. With the new deck, you never even make a cannon attack in the first place, so the title doesn't trigger.

It is not the only reason.... you could stay stuck with Blinded Pilot for 2-3 turn, until you finally get back in range during late game and then miss the attack, and then take at least another turn...

Now during these 2-3 turn of repositionning you will have lost Blinded Pilot. The new one is way more logical and flavorfull then the old one.

How would you explain that just because you don't have a ship in front of you, you stay blinded...

It is not the only reason.... you could stay stuck with Blinded Pilot for 2-3 turn, until you finally get back in range during late game and then miss the attack, and then take at least another turn...

Now during these 2-3 turn of repositionning you will have lost Blinded Pilot. The new one is way more logical and flavorfull then the old one.

How would you explain that just because you don't have a ship in front of you, you stay blinded...

How would you explain that because you DID have a ship in front of you, you stopped being blinded, and with certain combos, could still shoot it successfully?

Thanks for the answers guys. It was the way I was leaning too, but sometimes you just need to see it bounced off a few peeps to confirm. Other times I can go on here and search. This was the first time my search found nothing and I had to ask.

Excellent reasoning and discussion. Love this community.