Poll: Which upcoming products are you excited about?

By Wazat, in X-Wing

This month's poll is "Which upcoming products are you excited about?". Visit the wiki to vote! (You can try to access the poll more directly here if the wiki-embedded poll doesn't work for you, e.g. very old browser).

This poll is multi-select so choose as many options as you like.

  • Huge Ships and Epic Play
  • New Multiplayer Modes
  • New Pilots in Hotshots & Aces
  • K2-SO finally joining the game after 3 years
  • New types of Obstacles
  • New Bombs, Mines, and other Payloads
  • Environment Cards
  • Major Vonreg's TIE
  • Fireball
  • Wave 6 Ship Re-Releases (Saw's Renegades, TIE Reaper, Hound's Tooth, TIE Interceptor, TIE/D Defender, RZ-1 A-Wing)

After you vote, discuss your answers in this thread!

Multiplayer and Epic! and lots more payloads to unleash on them 😈

TY for making it multi selection. :)

Huge Ships and Epic Play (Sweet!)

New Multiplayer Modes (Sweet!)

New Pilots in Hotshots & Aces (Other than the insult that is Coaxium, Sweet!)

K2-SO finally joining the game after 3 years (Neutral, nice for U-Wing players)

New types of Obstacles (Sweet!)

New Bombs, Mines, and other Payloads (Sweet!)

Environment Cards (Sweet!)

Major Vonreg's TIE (Neutral, Nice that FO is getting another ship, and it does look fun)

Fireball (**** this Expansion... This + Coaxium in Hotshots = slap to S&V's face with a glove woven of nettle 😠 )

Wave 6 Ship Re-Releases (Saw's Renegades, TIE Reaper, Hound's Tooth, TIE Interceptor, TIE/D Defender, RZ-1 A-Wing) (Neutral, at least I'll be able to set up 5x snap RZ-1s without having to pick up a bunch of B-Wings to)

The biggest thing I’m excited for is the new pilots in the Hotshots and Aces, K-2SO being a front runner due to personal attachment to the character and actually knowing what he does.

The particulars of the pack aren’t necessary the most exciting, but the precedence this sets and the hope for future packs makes me super hyped for it.

Definitely excited most about these in this order:

Huge Ships and Epic Play

New Multiplayer Modes

New Pilots in Hotshots & Aces

Environment Cards

Being able to grab all the necessary templates, obstacles and upgrade cards without buying 1.0 and/or off-faction boxes for them.

Distant second: new pilots, upgrades

I'm kinda dreading new obstacle types, as it further dilutes obstacle-specific abilities.

Card packs with new pilots is my #1.

46 minutes ago, Hiemfire said:

K2-SO finally joining the game after 3 years (Neutral, nice for U-Wing players)

He's also coming as a crew (which I don't believe is spoiled yet), so it'll be nice for Rebels in general.

30 minutes ago, SabineKey said:

The biggest thing I’m excited for is the new pilots in the Hotshots and Aces, K-2SO being a front runner due to personal attachment to the character and actually knowing what he does.

Yea, I'm excited just because I love the character so much. ^_^ It's been bizarre to me how long it took to release such a popular character; I assume it got pushed back do to internal timeline chaos, or perhaps his first iteration had serious balancing issues that they failed to resolve.

19 minutes ago, Cerebrawl said:

I'm kinda dreading new obstacle types, as it further dilutes obstacle-specific abilities.

Same here, a bit. I'm worried about dilution, and also power creep (certain obstacles working wonderously for some fleets and not their opponents, creating force multipliers and clear winners). And if you're bringing something like vultures, then you can only park on your half of the obstacles; it's hard to plan a fleet when there's gobs of obstacle types. Though the diversity could be good overall -- we'll have to see. Also I suspect some of the obstacle types won't be so open -- you'll have to use an environment card or something. And hopefully it'll either reuse known obstacle types, or old cards will be errata'd to include the new types.

TIE/ba. An Int 6 for the FO that I like I fly. I just can’t do /sf’s.

21 minutes ago, Wazat said:

Yea, I'm excited just because I love the character so much. ^_^ It's been bizarre to me how long it took to release such a popular character; I assume it got pushed back do to internal timeline chaos, or perhaps his first iteration had serious balancing issues that they failed to resolve.

Yeah, It’s been weird how long it’s taken for K-2 to make it into the game. But he’s coming, and I’m satisfied with that. His pilot incarnation has a pretty nice ability that has me excited to play with him and I have hopes that his crew card will also be useful.

1 hour ago, Wazat said:
  • Huge Ships and Epic Play
  • New Multiplayer Modes
  • K2-SO finally joining the game after 3 years
  • Environment Cards

After you vote, discuss your answers in this thread!

I mean, I get excited about anything new, because it adds OPTIONS. And K2-SO is the best droid character in the SW universe. Even looking forward to Phoenix repaint A-wings.

But I like Big Battles and I can not lie.

Edited by Darth Meanie

Really curious about that new Jumpmaster pilot.

I'm looking forwards to the TIE/ba. Opens up the door for triple-ace FO play, and adds something new to a faction which currently is very limited in ship choice.

Kind of had to vote for most of them! The new Resistance/FO ships look very cool but I don't play those factions. Pretty much everything else though, but I cheated with the Hotshots and Aces Pack - I'm at least as excited to see the B_Wing S-Foils Config as any of the pilots after K2SO (who had his own vote), but I figure that counts! :D

I picked a handful. If I had to quantify them:

Highest: Huge ships/epic and the environment cards. I feel like they bring the most meaningful variety to the game. Epic because of the new objective based play sounds awesome and what epic should have been all along. The environment cards sound like the best idea since 2.0 to refresh the ā€œstandardā€ game of xwing. Lots of ways to use the mines, bombs, obstacles etc now!

Below that, but still pretty exciting, are the new pilots in Hotshots and Aces because there were characters missing and I’m eager to get them out on the table. New ways to use old plastic is always cool, and I hope that ffg gets a strong enough positive reception they do it again. I’m also looking forward to the FO Interceptor, because they’ve not had a single new ship since 2.0 conversion was completed (on top of them being much smaller in terms of ship count, unlike Rebels and Empire). Resistance got 3 before the FO got one. Never watched it’s tv show inspiration; no desire to do so either. But from a gameplay perspective it’s awesome. Also, I6 for the FO? Yes please.

Honestly, the fireball just doesn’t interest me in the slightest. No attachment to the source material and it doesn’t even look great on paper. Feels like a thematic ship expansion more than a ā€œpracticalā€ build. Which is great for the casual side of the game and something I would be all over - it’s just not MY theme. I’ll happily buy other thematic builds from other materials. (Still waiting on my Scum interceptors with the Hawk-Bat pilots.... and yes I know they’ll never happen)

Personally Vonregs TIE is the most exciting release. First order needs more variety and this will hopefully deliver.

New aces and hotshots is next along with devices. New pilots will hopefully help some struggling ships and make the game interesting.

Epic multiplayer and huge ships is great for the game. Xwing needs more casual formats.

I'm not as excited about the fireball. It's a very flavorful ship for a small faction.

Rereleases aren't exciting but are necessary

21 hours ago, Wazat said:
  • New Pilots in Hotshots & Aces
  • New types of Obstacles
  • New Bombs, Mines, and other Payloads
  • Environment Cards

This stuff with a bit of idle curiosity about the new Huge ships and Epic stuff.

Any new stuff is good stuff. Keeps the game interesting and alive.

Also gives us ammo for hours of kinda pointless arguments on here. :P

Epic & Hotshots are pretty popular! ^_^

Hotsthots and Vonreg.

Hotshots and Aces for the new pilots and cards I don't have.

Huge ships because they look amazing.

Huge ships just arrived for me!

Last few days of the poll, so vote if you haven't gotten a chance! And thanks everyone who has voted!

If it's a Rebel Alliance ship, I am excited. I'm mildly interested in the Galactic Empire ships too, but that's mostly because I'm keeping a fleet for someone else to fly too.

New pilots and the Fireball for me