1 minute ago, Drasnighta said:

Just like Overload Pulse.

Funny that, eh?

Would all of these crits be too powerful if their timing was different?

Just now, Warlord Zepnick said:

Would all of these crits be too powerful if their timing was different?

Essentially. It'd invalidate defense tokens to a point.

Just now, Warlord Zepnick said:

Would all of these crits be too powerful if their timing was different?

Overload Pulse resolving prior to spending defense tokens would be pretty obscene, honestly. MS-1s would be very circumstantial.

The main reason they're timed when they are is so the defending player has a chance to make the critical icon go away before critical effects kick in. If it didn't work that way, evade and scatter ships would be suffering critical effects from ships whose attacks got evaded or scattered, which would create a frustrating game experience for the defender (you can do nothing at all to stop this) as well as a bit ludicrous in terms of how exactly did that happen, then?