Well aside from the new flappy tech, it looks like T-70s have the ship ability:

Weapon Hardpoint - You can equip 1 Cannon, Torpedo, or Missile upgrade.

I guess that will help them be a bit more flexible than their T-65 counterpart.

As for stats we know they are 3/2/4/? I'm guessing they will likely get a 2 for shields, though I could see them bumping it to 3 like in 1.0.

They look to have 3 actions, Focus, Target Lock, and ?. Based off the configuration's art from the Conversion pack image from Gencon it looks like when their S-foils are closed they get a White Barrel Roll so I'm guessing that they have the inverse of the T-65's S-foils card and thus the T-70 instead of having a normal white barrel roll it instead has a white boost for its last general action.

As for Poe, looks like his ability is:

After you perform an action, you may spend 1 charge to perform a white action treating it as red.

So looks like Poe loses some of his durability and free attack mod in 2.0 but can PTL and always guarantee having two mods when attacking.

Is there a pic? thx

38 minutes ago, Daniel1172 said:

Is there a pic? thx

I feel confident that ability is just a placeholder.

3 hours ago, PhantomFO said:

I feel confident that ability is just a placeholder.

o_0

It wouldn't bet on that.

Edit: Presuming you mean Poe's ability rather than the ship one. The ship one does seem kinda strange.

Yeah, given that they're aiming to have two more waves out by Christmas I'd be surprised if it's a placeholder, though I kind of hope it is given that it's not terribly thematic.

I wonder how much of a dial buff it's getting. Given that Poe's getting essentially PTL, I wonder if it'll get a green turn...

Well there'll be a news article out today, so we should know soon enough.

4 minutes ago, thespaceinvader said:

Yeah, given that they're aiming to have two more waves out by Christmas I'd be surprised if it's a placeholder, though I kind of hope it is given that it's not terribly thematic.

I wonder how much of a dial buff it's getting. Given that Poe's getting essentially PTL, I wonder if it'll get a green turn...

I would doubt its dial needs too much of a boost. It's already got speed 3 green straights and talon rolls, after all - and giving it a native green turn kind of makes the R4 astromech redundant.

The ship ability is....weird. I get torpedoes, but cannons or missiles? I know the resistance doesn't currently have a cannon-carrier, but it doesn't seem right the T-70 having them. I'd have thought the B-wing MkII (or the resistance dropship) would have been the more sensible place for them.

10 minutes ago, Magnus Grendel said:

I would doubt its dial needs too much of a boost. It's already got speed 3 green straights and talon rolls, after all - and giving it a native green turn kind of makes the R4 astromech redundant.

The ship ability is....weird. I get torpedoes, but cannons or missiles? I know the resistance doesn't currently have a cannon-carrier, but it doesn't seem right the T-70 having them. I'd have thought the B-wing MkII (or the resistance dropship) would have been the more sensible place for them.

The reason I suspect it gets a dial boost is because the T65 got a boost to the point that it's almost the same. Only the 3 straight being different is very little. I'd expect it to be getting more blues and/or more reds.

I'd also agree that the hardpoint thing is weird and I'd not be surprised if it's a placeholder.

I feel like it could use something to represent the weird extras Poe's one has had twice - maybe an illicit slot.

29 minutes ago, thespaceinvader said:

The reason I suspect it gets a dial boost is because the T65 got a boost to the point that it's almost the same. Only the 3 straight being different is very little. I'd expect it to be getting more blues and/or more reds.

Perhaps, but

1. I'd rather it not get an improvement at a cost of making one of its upgrade options (R4 Astromech) redundant.
2. It doesn't have to be dramatically different to the T-65's dial because the two ships are not competing with one another in the same faction anymore.

I could see giving it a white straight 5, for example, and maybe a speed 1 red turn (which R4 would make white).

Black One adding an illicit slot would make sort of sense - although sadly hotshot blaster and burnout slam (the two obvious ones) have been dropped from the game for the moment, and I'm not sure we want to see Poe cloaking!

33 minutes ago, thespaceinvader said:

I feel like it could use something to represent the weird extras Poe's one has had twice - maybe an illicit slot.

We know there's still Tech in the game as the Quadjumper has it, so I presume that should still cover the fancy stuff.

7 hours ago, Animewarsdude said:

Weapon Hardpoint - You can equip 1 Cannon, Torpedo   , or Missile  upgrade   .       

3 hours ago, __underscore__ said:

The       ship one does seem kinda strange. 

I thought it was weird too, so I checked...

And it's true. Kinda cool actually. It reminds me of when Rogue Squadron used ion cannons instead of torpedo launchers for a mission in Legends. T-70's can do it easier though.

T-70 X-wing Armament (from Wookieepedia )

Well I never.

8 hours ago, Animewarsdude said:

As for stats we know they are 3/2/4/? I'm guessing they will likely get a 2 for shields, though I could see them bumping it to 3 like in 1.0.

I'd guess 3 shields personally. T-65 went from 3/2/3/2 with Integrated Astromech to 3/2/4/2. T-70 had 3/2/3/3 with IA, so I'd guess 3/2/4/3. It could be the other way, but T-70s having a hit point over the T-65 kind of makes sense to me, in order for the ships and factions to feel different, and I think devs have said something about wanting the T-70 to be a heavier, more expensive ship than the classic X-Wing.

Another way they could accomplish them feeling different is to give the T-70 a native boost, but a barrel roll when S-Foils are closed. I have no real reason to think they'd do that, but it'd make the ship feel kinda different.

25 minutes ago, __underscore__ said:

Well I never.

Indeed. The ability to get T-70s with heavy laser cannons is a bit snazzy, if the cheaper generic is 46 points or less.