So I'm hoping we see more cross-faction ships with the new factions, and I'm hoping that we see other factions introduced in the future. I used to despise the idea of clone wars stuff, but I've warmed up to it (and I think a lot more people have).
The ARC-170 could be a Rebel/Republic ship!
Punishers, Defenders, Interceptors with the First Order.
K-wings, E-wings with Resistance.
ARC is awesome, but I'd honestly really want a true Republic-painted model if they were going to release it for that faction.
It would probably be more like:
Attack 2/rear 2
Agility 1
Hull 6
Shield 2
(Allowing for maybe 4 with mods in a squad, and also inferring that the Alliance Refit had improved cannons and shields.)
6 hours ago, Boba Rick said:So I'm hoping we see more cross-faction ships with the new factions, and I'm hoping that we see other factions introduced in the future. I used to despise the idea of clone wars stuff, but I've warmed up to it (and I think a lot more people have).
The ARC-170 could be a Rebel/Republic ship!
Agreed! It's time for the Clone Wars to join the game. I would love to see the Empire/Republic get V-Wings and ARC-170s.
Republic/Empire/Rebels could get old style Y-Wings as well.
Confederacy/Scum could both get Vulture droids and Belebub-22
Republic/Rebels could both get N1 Starfighters.
And everyone could get Hondo Ohnaka hahaha.
I think clone wars era factions are just a matter of time with 2.0 now having an action that is specific to droids. Probably they'll wait a year or so until they get the re-issues of all or most of the 1.0 ships pushed out before getting into something like that, though.
10 minutes ago, pkreynolds said:I think clone wars era factions are just a matter of time with 2.0 now having an action that is specific to droids. Probably they'll wait a year or so until they get the re-issues of all or most of the 1.0 ships pushed out before getting into something like that, though.
Either that, or they intend to bring them out quickly so that they have a series of big, new releases that they can sell in parallel with the re-releases that they have to assume veterans aren’t going to buy lots of. The game needs a steady revenue stream during the transition.
You're probably right that it will not happen for a while, but there is an argument for it to be soon.
10 hours ago, Boba Rick said:So I'm hoping we see more cross-faction ships with the new factions, and I'm hoping that we see other factions introduced in the future. I used to despise the idea of clone wars stuff, but I've warmed up to it (and I think a lot more people have).
The ARC-170 could be a Rebel/Republic ship!
Well first we need Republic (and the C.I.S.) faction before that becomes possible.
I mean there are cross faction ships, YT-1300 is Rebel Resistance. TIE Fighter is Rebel-Empire. I do hope that they make some Imperial conversion for the Bounty Hunters (Imperial Brobots).
As for warming up to the clone wars, don't think we are it is just that Disney is not giving us anything better (Episodes VII,VIII, and IX are Prequels 2.0 in my book). But just because the movies are bad doesn't mean that the game and the models can't be fun. We all played Epic Duels with Darth Maul and Count Dooku as well as Vader and Han/Chewie.
As for story well you could make you own. I already came up with a premise for making a new story line in which all 7 factions across the 3 eras co-exist in the same galaxy (albeit not too friendly with each other.)
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Scum Falcon.......
Based off existing ships we already have, I hope we could get the Calrissian Runner, a modified TIE Advanced, for Rebels:
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Calrissian_Runner
For Scum, Kybo Ren's TIE Fighter and Redkihl Rokk's Red TIE Fighter, also the Gand starfighter, a modified TIE Bomber.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Gand_Starfighter
Another for Scum, the Foxcatch, a modified Lambda-class shuttle used by the bounty hunter Jodo Kast.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Foxcatch
For other factions, hoping we'll get the Republic and CIS, however with the Republic becoming the Galactic Empire, could make these factions interchangeable with either Rebels or Empire or simply keep them as their own factions. Also if we went even further, the Old Republic and Sith Empire as new factions which would be amazing. Old Republic however would you combine it with the Prequel Era Republic, and with Sith, because each empire had different ideologies, would you separate them ie. Ragnos's Sith, Sadow's Sith, Vitiate's Sith Empire, the New Sith?
If we get the Republic and Separatists, I'd definitely want to see the ARC on the Republic, but I think that's a given. I wouldn't mind seeing the Eta-2 end up on the Republic and Empire. On the other hand, the original Y-Wing might be worth making a separate ship for, like the T-70 for the Resistance.
I'm not really sure why they removed the Firespray from the Empire considering some of the things they left. I wouldn't mind getting that back.
I'm not as fond of more iconic overlap though. Sabine's TIE drives me nuts as it is, and seems to completely defeat the purpose of keeping faction identity with things like the Firespray. The gameplay may be different, but you still took the most iconic Empire ship and gave it to the Rebels.
That said, I wouldn't mind as much if there was a unique way to play with stolen ships, like a game mode for it. Tydirium is the obvious one here, but the TIE Phantom stands out to me, since the only named pilots it had before FFG had to make some up were Rebels.
Edited by Jokubas40 minutes ago, Jokubas said:If we get the Republic and Separatists, I'd definitely want to see the ARC on the Republic, but I think that's a given. I wouldn't mind seeing the Eta-2 end up on the Republic and Empire. On the other hand, the original Y-Wing might be worth making a separate ship for, like the T-70 for the Resistance.
I'm not really sure why they removed the Firespray from the Empire considering some of the things they left. I wouldn't mind getting that back.
I'm not as fond of more iconic overlap though. Sabine's TIE drives me nuts as it is, and seems to completely defeat the purpose of keeping faction identity with things like the Firespray. The gameplay may be different, but you still took the most iconic Empire ship and gave it to the Rebels.
That said, I wouldn't mind as much if there was a unique way to play with stolen ships, like a game mode for it. Tydirium is the obvious one here, but the TIE Phantom stands out to me, since the only named pilots it had before FFG had to make some up were Rebels.
As long as the ship has some unique abilities and features, and its design differs from its standard faction version, then it doesn't bother me entirely. I can understand the opposite faction version of the ship being separate with a different paint job so not to confuse it when on the playing field and not accidentally pick up your opponent's ship ie. Sabine's TIE against a regular Imperial TIE.
There's also the possibility of having the ARC-170 for the Empire as such existed in Legends.
