Why so much hate for Nym? He's one of the fairest 1.0 in meta pilot, other than the 2-3 weeks of pre-nerf trajectory simulator when he was utterly broken, he has been pretty fine so far: he's an hard hitting glass cannon with a below average dial and not much repositioning ability
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4 minutes ago, Sunitsa said:Why so much hate for Nym? He's one of the fairest 1.0 in meta pilot, other than the 2-3 weeks of pre-nerf trajectory simulator when he was utterly broken, he has been pretty fine so far: he's an hard hitting glass cannon with a below average dial and not much repositioning ability
Advanced Sensor Genius Nym is still absolutely ridiculous, and probably the farthest thing from "fair" that could exist in a competitive game.
5 minutes ago, Sunitsa said:Why so much hate for Nym? He's one of the fairest 1.0 in meta pilot, other than the 2-3 weeks of pre-nerf trajectory simulator when he was utterly broken, he has been pretty fine so far: he's an hard hitting glass cannon with a below average dial and not much repositioning ability
I struggle to accept a ship with 5 shields and 5 hull as a "glass cannon". I don't care if he has one agility. The no fly zone he creates makes that health pool feel more like 15 total. His spike damage is insane between bombs + sabine + harpoon and he's doing all of that with much better information and before most other ships in the game shoot at him.
13 minutes ago, Sunitsa said:Why so much hate for Nym? He's one of the fairest 1.0 in meta pilot, other than the 2-3 weeks of pre-nerf trajectory simulator when he was utterly broken, he has been pretty fine so far: he's an hard hitting glass cannon with a below average dial and not much repositioning ability
This is sarcasm right... Right?
15 minutes ago, Sunitsa said:Why so much hate for Nym? He's one of the fairest 1.0 in meta pilot, other than the 2-3 weeks of pre-nerf trajectory simulator when he was utterly broken, he has been pretty fine so far: he's an hard hitting glass cannon with a below average dial and not much repositioning ability
... but you're wrong.
4 minutes ago, player2072913 said:This is sarcasm right... Right?
Ano... irony perhaps? I can’t tell
He's got to be trolling
1 minute ago, defkhan1 said:He's got to be trolling
Worse, he's European.
23 minutes ago, Brunas said:Advanced Sensor Genius Nym is still absolutely ridiculous, and probably the farthest thing from "fair" that could exist in a competitive game.
Prisoner's dilemma.
1 minute ago, RunnerAZ said:Prisoner's dilemma.
no... in prisoners dilemma you have a chance at being right. if your facing Genius Advanced Sensors Nym, you have the chance of believing you had a chance at being right... but at the end of the day you will realize you never really did and your choices just don't matter.
2 minutes ago, Wiredin said:no... in prisoners dilemma you have a chance at being right. if your facing Genius Advanced Sensors Nym, you have the chance of believing you had a chance at being right... but at the end of the day you will realize you never really did and your choices just don't matter.
If you're playing against AS nym the prisoners dilemma was already lost, that's what the prisoners dilemma is!
Thankfully? Ghost/Fenn cleared out most of the nyms, but I have no reason to think they won't be back and in greater numbers.
1 minute ago, Brunas said:If you're playing against AS nym the prisoners dilemma was already lost, that's what the prisoners dilemma is!
Thankfully? Ghost/Fenn cleared out most of the nyms, but I have no reason to think they won't be back and in greater numbers.
There will always be a broken combo.
I'm curious how long until after we get the app that the broken combos will be out and about. There are so many assumptions going around right now of slots, point costs, variable point costs, and all that other fun stuff that we truly don't know if the synergies people are creating right now will even be possible let alone effective.
So random thought for the day: IG-88D (crew) seems really solid. If he's 2 or less points, I would take him without an IG-2000 anywhere in my list, because 2 calculates are better than 1 focus most of the time.
1 hour ago, Brunas said:that's a LOT of room for activities:
Unnamed Squadron (73)
Imperial Trainee — TIE Striker 17
Adaptive Ailerons 0
Ship Total: 17
Imperial Trainee — TIE Striker 17
Adaptive Ailerons 0
Ship Total: 17
Imperial Trainee — TIE Striker 17
Adaptive Ailerons 0
Ship Total: 17
Scarif Base Pilot — TIE Reaper 22
Ship Total: 22
even if you take the most expensive version possible:
Unnamed Squadron (91)
"Duchess" — TIE Striker 23
Adaptive Ailerons 0
Ship Total: 23
"Pure Sabacc" — TIE Striker 22
Adaptive Ailerons 0
Ship Total: 22
"Countdown" — TIE Striker 20
Adaptive Ailerons 0
Ship Total: 20
Major Vermeil — TIE Reaper 26
Ship Total: 26
so, probably just another body? If the points are similar in the first you can just take a 4th striker and still have a 10/20 point bid.
Really in 2.0 at this stage, I'm solely looking for cards that synergize well. Besides Crack Shot, what seems good to put on a Striker?
In 1.0 I'd be bringing 3 LWf Crack BSS and an Intel+Slicer Major V.
The only reason i'm even asking this is I just Royal-guarded a Reaper and I own 3 Royal Guard Strikers- I want a squad based on AESTHETICS
Ha. That is almost identical to something I was thinking of trying: https://geordanr.github.io/xwing/?f=Galactic Empire&d=v4!s!292:18,262,266:63:31:;239:214:48:31:;243::48:31:;243::48:31:&sn=Scarif Squadron&obs=
4 minutes ago, sirjorj said:Ha. That is almost identical to something I was thinking of trying: https://geordanr.github.io/xwing/?f=Galactic Empire&d=v4!s!292:18,262,266:63:31:;239:214:48:31:;243::48:31:;243::48:31:&sn=Scarif Squadron&obs=
I considered going with PTL on Vermeil, but it just pushes him 2 points more, really limits movement/actions next turn, and that PS6 feels bad. You'll miss the PS8 if you face Dash, Miranda, Rey, Quiz, Vessery, Vermeil mirror, ect. When he starts creeping up close to 40 points he is a pretty soft target to focus on.
2 minutes ago, viedit said:I considered going with PTL on Vermeil, but it just pushes him 2 points more, really limits movement/actions next turn, and that PS6 feels bad. You'll miss the PS8 if you face Dash, Miranda, Rey, Quiz, Vessery, Vermeil mirror, ect. When he starts creeping up close to 40 points he is a pretty soft target to focus on.
You're probably right. I just wanted Evade + Jam .:)
18 minutes ago, Kieransi said:
saw 2 similar lists mirror match yesterday and they looked like both players looked like they were bum raped in prison by the end of it.
Edited by Wiredin58 minutes ago, Brunas said:Advanced Sensor Genius Nym is still absolutely ridiculous, and probably the farthest thing from "fair" that could exist in a competitive game.
Advanced sensor Nym has no sabine access (and no simulator), maybe fair was as bit too provocative, but he's far from being absolutely ridicoulous.
It's not that hard to play around it, as long as you are playing something decent, but if you aren't, then you can't really complain.
Unless of course you are just talking of weird things a ship can do, then I can agree that Nym can do lots of things other ships can only dream of, but that's not saying much. Daredevil Dauntless Oicunn can do ridicoulous stuff too for example.
I guess we didn't understand each other when talking about "fair" and "absolutely ridiculous" because I can't see a seasoned tournement player actually considering adv. sens. Nym such a strong pilot
54 minutes ago, viedit said:I struggle to accept a ship with 5 shields and 5 hull as a "glass cannon". I don't care if he has one agility. The no fly zone he creates makes that health pool feel more like 15 total. His spike damage is insane between bombs + sabine + harpoon and he's doing all of that with much better information and before most other ships in the game shoot at him.
Sabine ain't Nym thought.
A 10 hp 1 agility ship with no defensive tokens is a glass cannon. Its issue is that you need to commit to exploit that, and then you are left with Miranda alive. But again, that's not a Nym issue per se, but more of the broken things you can play with him (mostly miranda with sabine actually)
35 minutes ago, Chumbalaya said:Worse, he's European.
is 2.0 coming to save you from actually having to git gud or will the cycle of crying for broken things instead of learning to play the game just continue? 
32 minutes ago, Wiredin said:no... in prisoners dilemma you have a chance at being right. if your facing Genius Advanced Sensors Nym, you have the chance of believing you had a chance at being right... but at the end of the day you will realize you never really did and your choices just don't matter.
What's so scary about adv.sens. Nym? If he's rebel he has no simulator so far less battlefield control (and less chance to abuse genius), if he's Scum he has no sabine...
10 minutes ago, Sunitsa said:Advanced sensor Nym has no sabine access (and no simulator), maybe fair was as bit too provocative, but he's far from being absolutely ridicoulous.
It's not that hard to play around it, as long as you are playing something decent, but if you aren't, then you can't really complain.
Unless of course you are just talking of weird things a ship can do, then I can agree that Nym can do lots of things other ships can only dream of, but that's not saying much. Daredevil Dauntless Oicunn can do ridicoulous stuff too for example.
I guess we didn't understand each other when talking about "fair" and "absolutely ridiculous" because I can't see a seasoned tournement player actually considering adv. sens. Nym such a strong pilot
Sabine ain't Nym thought.
A 10 hp 1 agility ship with no defensive tokens is a glass cannon. Its issue is that you need to commit to exploit that, and then you are left with Miranda alive. But again, that's not a Nym issue per se, but more of the broken things you can play with him (mostly miranda with sabine actually)
is 2.0 coming to save you from actually having to git gud or will the cycle of crying for broken things instead of learning to play the game just continue?
What's so scary about adv.sens. Nym? If he's rebel he has no simulator so far less battlefield control (and less chance to abuse genius), if he's Scum he has no sabine...
I really don't mean to be disrespectful in asking this, but did you play competitive xwing when AS Nym was around? I only preface this with that, because this argument is the one I would make if I were trying to get a rise out of oldschool "ace" players. He singlehandedly destroyed firing arcs as a strategy in the game - we've been strictly turretwing ever since, because it's impossible to compete with him. I have the maps for him lying around somewhere, but until I get home I can't show proof that the area denial for AS nym is an order of magnitude larger than trajectory simulator. The reason traj sim sees play, is because it's the more competitively viable ship, as arced ships are effectively extinct.
Yes, if AS Nym is moving after your ship, either you will not shoot nym, or you will eat a bomb. Before the genius nerf it was actually both some horrifically high % of the time, though now you can sometimes put him in situations where he can't just always dial a 3 bank and figure it out later.
edit: just to be extra clear, this nym is the one I'm talking about:
Captain Nym (Scum) — Scurrg H-6 Bomber 30
Veteran Instincts 1
Twin Laser Turret 6
Extra Munitions 2
Proton Bombs 5
Proton Bombs 5
Advanced Sensors 3
"Genius" 0
Engine Upgrade 4
Havoc 0
Ship Total: 56
5 minutes ago, Sunitsa said:Advanced sensor Nym has no sabine access (and no simulator), maybe fair was as bit too provocative, but he's far from being absolutely ridicoulous.
It's not that hard to play around it, as long as you are playing something decent, but if you aren't, then you can't really complain.
Unless of course you are just talking of weird things a ship can do, then I can agree that Nym can do lots of things other ships can only dream of, but that's not saying much. Daredevil Dauntless Oicunn can do ridicoulous stuff too for example.
I guess we didn't understand each other when talking about "fair" and "absolutely ridiculous" because I can't see a seasoned tournement player actually considering adv. sens. Nym such a strong pilot
Sabine ain't Nym thought.
A 10 hp 1 agility ship with no defensive tokens is a glass cannon. Its issue is that you need to commit to exploit that, and then you are left with Miranda alive. But again, that's not a Nym issue per se, but more of the broken things you can play with him (mostly miranda with sabine actually)
is 2.0 coming to save you from actually having to git gud or will the cycle of crying for broken things instead of learning to play the game just continue?
What's so scary about adv.sens. Nym? If he's rebel he has no simulator so far less battlefield control (and less chance to abuse genius), if he's Scum he has no sabine...
Advanced sensors nym can bomb an incredible radius, he's toned down a bit since the genius nerf but he's still insanely oppressive to anything with an arc. Half of the reason for the dominance of miranda and ghosts in the meta is that nym struggles with those two.
One time the Eides invited me over to drink all the beer in thier house before it went bad. I was ranting to Nathan about how i couldn't beat nym, he didn't believe me, so we switched sides. While drunk i completely obliterated nathan, it wasn't close.
6 minutes ago, Brunas said:I really don't mean to be disrespectful in asking this, but did you play competitive xwing when AS Nym was around? I only preface this with that, because this argument is the one I would make if I were trying to get a rise out of oldschool "ace" players. He singlehandedly destroyed firing arcs as a strategy in the game - we've been strictly turretwing ever since, because it's impossible to compete with him. I have the maps for him lying around somewhere, but until I get home I can't show proof that the area denial for AS nym is an order of magnitude larger than trajectory simulator. The reason traj sim sees play, is because it's the more competitively viable ship, as arced ships are effectively extinct.
Yes, if AS Nym is moving after your ship, either you will not shoot nym, or you will eat a bomb. Before the genius nerf it was actually both some horrifically high % of the time, though now you can sometimes put him in situations where he can't just always dial a 3 bank and figure it out later.
edit: just to be extra clear, this nym is the one I'm talking about:
Captain Nym (Scum) — Scurrg H-6 Bomber 30
Veteran Instincts 1
Twin Laser Turret 6
Extra Munitions 2
Proton Bombs 5
Proton Bombs 5
Advanced Sensors 3
"Genius" 0
Engine Upgrade 4
Havoc 0
Ship Total: 56
You didnt even need protons before the genius nerf, and even post thermals were more than scary enough.
18 minutes ago, Sunitsa said:A 10 hp 1 agility ship with no defensive tokens is a glass cannon.
That's 2 more hitpoints and the same exact agility and action bar as a B-Wing, which was considered incredibly beefy and the opposite of a glass cannon on release. It's only three less hitpoints than a Millenium Falcon.
I refuse to call that a "glass cannon" especially when it has almost as good of a dial as an X-Wing, moves at PS10, and can boost or barrel roll before or after moving.
Edited by Kieransi46 minutes ago, Kieransi said:
44 minutes ago, sirjorj said:Ha. That is almost identical to something I was thinking of trying: https://geordanr.github.io/xwing/?f=Galactic Empire&d=v4!s!292:18,262,266:63:31:;239:214:48:31:;243::48:31:;243::48:31:&sn=Scarif Squadron&obs=
This was my AESTHETIC 1.0 squad.
But the 1.0 squad is IRRELEVANT.
I want to know what 2.0 cards support that.
3 BSS with Crack and Captain Fair with Sloane and Creepio?