Things are so perfect right now. For every aspect of the game.

And here's how you can tell...

Each of the three factions has more than one amazing power lists that competent players can pick from and be uber competitive with.

Casual players can have fun with the zillion combinations and pilots

Epic is getting a scum ship

Sanctioned events all over creation

Videos and podcasts galore

There's so much good stuff going on that there is actually NOTHING worth complaining about.

Hallelujah X-Wing spaceship battle laser game!

PEW! PEW!! PEW!!!

Well said.

Agreed.

Nerf the glass-half-full!!!

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Thanks for the injection of rational reasoning.

Quick! This thread is too positive- submit all complaints about whatever you don't like immediately!!!!

(Honestly, though, I'm glad to see other people like the game, instead of just coming online to complain and demand nerf/fix/ban/new edition.)

I agree the game is so much fun right now.

I'm not even Mr captain upbeat guy.

I just had a moment earlier and came to a rational conclusion. Things are really good with this game.

It was the realisation that there's plenty of choice available to the competition aspect that got me thinking....Theres plenty of good stuff out there.

1 hour ago, Velvetelvis said:

There's so much good stuff going on that there is actually NOTHING worth complaining about.

Strongly agree Xwing is honestly in its best golden era atm. (Starting from wave7 and getting ever better, with that giant massively annoying 3scout and dengaroo hiccup).

However, these all CAME FROM WHINING: The large ship nerf was far too late in coming and created the dark ages of wave4 5 6. Interceptors relelvant again with autothrusters. 3Scouts nerfed TWICE.

Please people, keep whining and making xwing better.

also, the punisher and the t65 and the firespray and the khriasdnczm all still need help.

2 minutes ago, Blail Blerg said:

Please people, keep whining and making xwing better.

also, the punisher and the t65 and the firespray and the khriasdnczm all still need help.

Do you mean the Imp Firespray? Personally, had they known they were going to create Scum, I think the FS would never have been Imperial. So, I would let that one go. . .

OTOH, I want to see Jango Fett in one (oh, Prequel blasphemy!!).

Just now, Darth Meanie said:

Do you mean the Imp Firespray? Personally, had they known they were going to create Scum, I think the FS would never have been Imperial. So, I would let that one go. . .

OTOH, I want to see Jango Fett in one (oh, Prequel blasphemy!!).

The scum firespray is also still overcosted, and it was overcosted even during wave6. Anecdotally you can make it work, but statistically in tournaments and sheer efficiecny, its hurdles below almost everything in scum now, especialy the alrge ships, they are incredibly aggressively costed. IG, Jump, Lancer.

Houndtooth is really ok. Perfect. Balanced.

4 minutes ago, Blail Blerg said:

The scum firespray is also still overcosted, and it was overcosted even during wave6. Anecdotally you can make it work, but statistically in tournaments and sheer efficiecny, its hurdles below almost everything in scum now, especialy the alrge ships, they are incredibly aggressively costed. IG, Jump, Lancer.

Houndtooth is really ok. Perfect. Balanced.

You'll never get me to give up on Kath!! She's my main squeeze in Scum!!! (And really knows how to handle things from behind.)

I've only just started to play... but agree - its great.

Main problem is not enough time (or opponents) to play more games. Why cant FFG invent a time machine, or do my job for me, so I can play more. They suck! They really don't care about us gamers at all... :-(

6 minutes ago, Darth Meanie said:

You'll never get me to give up on Kath!! She's my main squeeze in Scum!!! (And really knows how to handle things from behind.)

"They came from... behind"

16 minutes ago, Darth Meanie said:

You'll never get me to give up on Kath!! She's my main squeeze in Scum!!! (And really knows how to handle things from behind.)

Kath is bae

33 minutes ago, Blail Blerg said:

Please people, keep whining and making xwing better.

also, the punisher and the t65 and the firespray and the khriasdnczm all still need help.

The T70 needs just as much help as the T65.

Honestly, if x7 was only -1 point, I think all the other jousters would be in a better place.

Oh yeah, everything is so well balanced right now.

Do you play Scum or Imperials?

1 hour ago, Rakaydos said:

The T70 needs just as much help as the T65.

Honestly, if x7 was only -1 point, I think all the other jousters would be in a better place.

Actually there's this dude who plays like no one else here who rocks t70s. He makes me think most of us do it wrong. Its a very impressive ship when he flies it. The trick is the extra use of the boost and its blocking potential, along with its movement options with the rest of its squad. It does a very good job, far past my expectations. It flies very well inline until the need to block, from there the extra mobility grants him devilishly good engagements, even without focus.

He plays all of those "crap" mid PS pilots, pre-Heroes. Like Red and Blue ace. and wins. Its nuts.

STAR WARS X-WING IS AWESOMENESS!

I think it's more a case of:

Who's the better friend, the guy who says, "Don't worry about it, that's nothing!" or the guy who says, "Uh, that looks like skin cancer. You'd better go get that checked out..."

Right now, the problems of the game are at the 'looks like skin cancer' stage, where it could be stopped and cured. Let it go on too long, though, and-

this is one of the few games where things went sh*tty south south south, but then things started to move in unexpected directions back towards what I felt the game should feel like. Rarely ever does that happen in enough time that I stick with it.

Starcraft 2 did it but slightly too late.

Xwing did it just in time. We suffered horrible things in Wave 4 5 6 (which I will still argue was because of large ships) and then wave8 3 scouts, but things have been getting better since.

Armada now, to me, is going in bad bad ways.

32 minutes ago, Blail Blerg said:

Armada now, to me, is going in bad bad ways.

Howso?

Guys, did you hear?! X-Wing is fixed and well-balanced now! Every faction has two power lists they can fly!! So Rebels can either fly DASH + MIRANDA or MIRANDA + WARDEN or a KANAN + BIGGS list to compete! Hallelujah, the game is balanced!

....just don't pay attention to the literally dozens of unplayable pilots....like the nine T65 pilots other than Biggs, or the A-Wings, or the Falcon, or the B-Wings, or the HWK, or the non-Corran E-Wings, or the eight non-Poe T70 pilots, or the Z-95, or ...


I don't see how a game can be "PERFECT" (as the OP claims) when well over three-fourths of a faction's available pilots are considered competively unplayable.

What's with all the negative waves Moriarty... have a little faith baby, have a little faith

(I know its not a Star Wars quote, but its still awesome).

No game that allows flexibility in "pieces" (ie not chess, but then who's better white or black) will ever be perfectly balanced. Doesn't stop the game being great.

Any ship can win... if controlled by a Wookie. After all Wookies are known to tear peoples arms off when they lose - so I suggest a new plan. Let the Wookie win.

10 minutes ago, Dave Grant said:

No game that allows flexibility in "pieces" (ie not chess, but then who's better white or black) will ever be perfectly balanced. Doesn't stop the game being great

Let's not invoke a Perfectionist Fallacy .* No one is asking for expecting perfect balance. But certainly it could be better than it is? I mean, in the current situation over three-fourths of Rebel ships are competitively not viable (meaning they don't appear consistently in T16 squads). This doesn't even consider that the ships which are playable typically have one playable pilot (e.g. Biggs) and a pile of dud pilots (e.g. Rookie, Red, Tarn, Hobbie, Garven, Jek, Wes, Luke, Wedge).

I mean, is having over 75% of the ships from a faction being total duds dead in the competitive game the best situation we could ever hope for? I, for one, hope not...


*Perfectionist fallacy: a fallacious bit of reasoning that goes something like this: "if we can't achieve perfection, we might as well not try at all for improvement." (perfection is impossible, so be happy with whatever crap we've got).