Hello friends of the Internet,

I got to play with Poe and some A-wings, it was amazing plus I broke an 8 game losing Streak!!

This weeks question is what has surprised you about 2.0?

Happy Friday!

As a die-hard fan of the HWK from 1.0 (Usually flying 1, if not 2 at any given time... I may own 6...), I'm always a little surprised when I go to events and see it in a list beyond my own, as was the case for the longest time in my area.

In 1.0, my goto squad for Scum was Guri/Kavil/Palob. And now in 2.0, I think it is even better!

Lack of B-wing and RZ-1 A-wing pilots. Cmon ffg, I really want Tycho back. Or Nera, or Keyan (new ability), or Shara bey, etc.

Happy Friday CB! Hope all is well for the new year.

How many ships can "push", but without Push the Limit, their linking is all unique. Each ship feels very different, and that is before we discuss the "gimmick" ships like strikers and phantoms designed in 1st edition to be a sharp break. It's some amazing nuance.

21 minutes ago, player3010587 said:

How many ships can "push", but without Push the Limit, their linking is all unique. Each ship feels very different, and that is before we discuss the "gimmick" ships like strikers and phantoms designed in 1st edition to be a sharp break. It's some amazing nuance.

Agreed! Two ships with pretty much identical statlines and dials can feel completely different depending on their linked actions. Even the order of the linked actions has a real impact! It's a wonderfully slick bit of design. 🙂

How bad I am at it!

Although that may have less to do with 2.0 and more to do with the fact that my local meta is blowing up competitively.

Happy Friday @Cubanboy

There's been several surprises.

• Implementation of a force ability that's distinct (neat!)
• My fun list (Quad Phantoms) went from being a meme list that I bombed tournaments with for fun to a powerhouse list
• I'm off to a winning streak in 2.0 - seriously, what the heck...

I was surprised FFG managed to release all those ships and cards simultaneously and yet at the end of the day, things still felt kind of the same in terms of a meta eventually panning out. I know a lot of people get frustrated by this, but this is actually one of my favorite parts of the game - how it changes with a release and a new meta emerges over several weeks and then it changes again. I like flying different things and trying different combos and I'm always surprised by what people come up with.

I'm also surprised by how much I like the app. I was terrified of what it might mean for the game (and I'm still worried they're going to charge for it), but I now wonder how I even functioned flipping through cards and laying things out. I used 1.0 squad builders a bit, but nothing like now in 2.0 where every squad I build is in the official builder. There are some big bugs, don't get me wrong (like the overwriting of lists in the app), but I think it works and I'm used to it now.

I was surprised by the ultimate lack of support for extended beyond the initial conversion kit drop.

I am hoping more local events start to pick up extended again and just fly casually instead of keeping up with the Hyperspace Hotness.

I really, really enjoy the game still. I just am on the fence about things like formatting because I’m one of those nut cases that keeps a tracker of which ship models have been used in a year with a goal of flying everything in that year (with how often I play, that’s a stretch in its own right!) Hard to meet that goal when most of what I have can’t be brought to events.