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In a browser, you can always zoom in and grab a screen capture. You lose some quality, but it still looks very good scaled down to card size. I fully expect we'll see some floating around printed and purchasable but you're absolutely right that copyright is a concern.

@@casualdadgames I tried this before posting but the quality was still too low for the website I tried. Guess I'll just do it manually at UPS or something

Hmm. Let me see what I can find/figure out!

@@casualdadgames thanks!

Thank you! Your username doesn't do you justice :D

It means all ships that can take the upgrade on multiple ships in the list, you have to. Ex. If you bring two customizable RZ-1 Rebel A-Wings and put Vectored Cannons on one, you have to put it on both. You can get around it a bit with Standard Loadout cards. Since they aren't customizable they don't have to take Standardized upgrades or force custom pilots to.

...see also "Standard" is the ships and upgrades that are currently tournament legal (as of X-wing 2.5 only ships that have been rereleased since 2.0 - and not counting conversion kits - are Standard. The rest are Extended)

...see also also "Standardized Loadouts" or SL's are big format pilot cards where the upgrades are built-in and can't be changed (Battle of Yavin Luke for example) In the video I meant standard as in tournament legal, but just answered all the possible options here XD

I never how to respond to comments like this. There is a vibrant legacy community who runs the game in a legacy fashion. XWA would be absolutely mistaken to try and poach that way from them.

@@NickelCityXwing yes, but was it not the aim of XWA to bring x wing players together? Or did I misunderstood?

They dont want to bring players together...most of them will tell u play the game amg created or go away

Oh, absolutely! On #1, yes that exactly was covered in list building, at least once - but that's what I get for making a long $#@ video ;) That said, Fangs lost Loadout (who did Joy hurt??), one went up in cost, and Beskar doubled. They didn't exactly survive unscathed, and as a player I just didn't trust them in-play even before. #2 Fearless wasn't changed, so I did somewhat pass over it. I wouldn't have thought of it for Dalan or any Starviper because they're *excellent* arc dodgers and don't usually want to be in other ships' arcs when possible.

As for #3, I get it - Guri getting the discount to 5 warranted the Loadout cut too. It's just going to take some getting used to, and she wasn't the only pilot to get that treatment of course

@@casualdadgames Again apologies for things that were mentioned later that I havent got to yet, i bookmarked my finishing point so I can pick it up later. Joy hasn't hurt anyone but Fangs are very fast, very defensive ships. I mean assuming you fly them correctly, get into range 1 everyone, they aren't r2 chassis. As your cohost said, they needed some tweaking as they were slightly above the power level, but most I think only went down 1 or 2 loadout. I don't think any were drastically changed with a corresponding points change to merit it.

Joy used to have 7 lv, which was enough for the full Mando suite: Optics, Beskar, Clan Training. Or mixed around with Fearless and/or ordinance. At 5, she's in a really rough spot - no Ordinance with Fearless, she can't take Beskar at all. You can power build Fangs, but I always saw the Mandalorian upgrades as crucial to making them at least a little bit reliable without the option to take upgrades like Hull or Shield. I don't agree that Fangs have been above the power level, because of how many downsides they have that make them wildly inconsistent. They're fast, in straight lines, without double reposition. They're tough, if you always have ideal ranges and are in the most dangerous possible positions. They hit hard, if you load them with offensive upgrades (which they largely now have to choose between them and defensive upgrades). I would even say that over-estimating Fangs has actually largely held Scum behind as a competitive faction (HOT TAKE WARNING)

@@casualdadgames But now add a fang with some IGs, add them with a hwk for support, remember everything that's happened around them. And yeah Joy can't take ALL of the Mando stuff, and in most cases that's something we have absolutely tried to do, force choices instead of getting everything. As a general philosophy.

I mean, yeah! He is! Unchanged, and the XWA version of the game doesn't have a split between "Standard" and "Extended" - so go nuts :D

Oh yeah, this was one take, and I've suffered for it today XD - there was a moment probably visible on screen where I had a full-on "Oh $#@&" realizing how long it took to even *get to* Pilot points. I could have broken it up, but then it would have taken all week and I would have lost the flow. I DO need to add chapter markers though... You're right of course, this whole video was about the exact numbers and a stream-of-conciousness about them card by card. I think I even made a comment on Fangs about their biggest counters getting nerfed, so changed or not, Fangs end up buffed. I'll be doing at least one Faction deep-dive with some list building, digging in a bit more into how the pieces fit together. On the whole I'm really pleased with the changes and the direction they're "pointing," I hope that came across. Appreciate the comment, I love your work!

...and yes, Extended often reminds me of 1.0 trauma. I stick up for the game version iteration, in part, because of way too many horrible play experiences I remember from back then. NymRanda being by a mile my most unpleasant. It was also a big stretch of time where every ship that came out was super obscure - to this day I've never seen several of those Extended ships in any other media than X-wing. All that said, I *really* miss my Lancer, the Quadjumper, Aggressors, Phantoms, G1-As. Even the kirhaxz (?) and Star Fortress. Really glad to see them back on the list!

You had to be there, man! Bombs and lasers EVERYWHERE!

I'm pretty shocked by the ETA changes. But it's not a ship I personally can fly, so surely there's just something I don't know ;)

Yer a wizard, Bobobo!

It's not just the Souls either - it's item builds. Even as a big fan of Heroes of the Storm, even I'm not a "real" MOBA veteran and I find Deadlock* has some very overwhelming aspects to it. I wonder if the high skill floor/barrier of entry will keep it from really taking off. Although, so far it seems to be doing just fine XD

@@casualdadgames Yeah, I have exact same experience, though I haven't played any MOBAs ever. It feels a bit overwhelming with whack lot of stuff happening and it's also frustrating when people get ahead of you in souls. It's just very hard to turn that around when in Overwatch your characters are always in even playfield. But I adore the aesthetics and the game feels like I could love it once I get used to it so that it doesn't feel so overwhelming anymore.

To each their own, of course - and congrats on having a play group for Epic! Personally I've mostly just kept playing whatever the "current/officially supported" version is, but in some important fundamental ways I think 2.5 really added to X-wing as a game

What's that? This is the Internet, I'll look it up 😂

@@casualdadgames it’s like X-Wing mixed with Lego’s. The creator of Heroes of Aturi Cluster is the head dev of it, it’s a great game!

Geez, I wouldn't even know where to start with that. I've honestly only played it even on my PC all of twice, I usually do TTS on my computer (which runs great on Mac) and FlyCasual on my phone. Have you reached out on the feedback page?

@@casualdadgames no, it’s not a big complaint though, I was able to play on windows and Linux without issue :)

Tons of players quit when 2.0 was released because they felt it wasn’t worth $200+ to move to 2.0

That's a good point, so you may have to have wingmates that are able to pass over Locks. Since these are SLs they can't take an upgrade I found that allows them to hold multiple target locks. So you would shoot a target you *don't* have Locked, Bonus attack one you do, recover one Energy - I/we are just missing whatever would allow you to use the other Bonus Attacks

Nice, thank you for that! I did poke around for this video, but had a really hard time finding clear information

You're right, should I call it a "revision" like they did?

Oh. Do iiiiiit. I want to play a large-scale board game (Rebellion... ?) where planetary battles are settled by Armada games, and every Starfighter skirmish is settled by X-wing matches, and any land battle is settled by Legion matches. ...this is definitely a Midwest winter kind of "game," and only if I find the most dedicated players of all time XD

Glad you enjoyed it! You'll get him next time ;)

I get it - so the formula for ALL of these campaigns is there's a cap on the number of bodyguards and a points target you have to hit. So while I had a lot of fun curating this, there were some things I HAD to do. I'll be doing a video tonight running through these with only cards in the current card pool!

Yeah no, i lost all interest when i encountered a COMPLETE TITAN build in round 4...i just stopped playing, didnt even used up my strikes. I thought a 5th anniversary would be fun and newbie friendly. This is a cruel joke, no matter how lore friendly.

@@casualdadgames they’re just not fun. Classic thinking of more and maxxed is what makes a campaign fun. Same awful reasoning behind those weather anomaly campaigns. Oh look, acheran deck where where they gets smashed to bits annnnd not die, but fire back at maxxed level …joy of joys. Oh look, creed decks that have maxxed precision shot and get to re do it 3 times at, yep, you guessed it, maxxed. There’s no thought whatsoever in creating these decks. Oh look, morven vahl and her fear shield decks, how original.

Aww YEAH! It's an amazing starter set :D

Sure! And holler if there's anything you'd like to see!

Your Lion and Vahl decks were some of the toughest, not seeing either of them *should* make it a little smoother to get through - but I am concerned about that Trajann

I had a lot of fun with this :D Especially that it was THIS lore moment - goodness, what a treat!

I'm looking forward to playing your campaign!

I guess I've got today to get up to speed on this game

I mean. It's a 5x Rewards WEEK, if you're going to pick it up there's no better time XD

Yes... But then you lose all Red cards, which is a third of the deck XD Clara is awesome, but nothing gives you Black AND Red.

@@casualdadgames Oh dang, that does sound undesirable

There's enough Cascade and such you could try just letting it roll, but yikes if you get both Black cards stuck in your hand :/

Does it? I wasn't aware of that. I wonder if any shops would be willing to get a larger batch to distribute in the UK?

That's great to hear :D And there's plenty more to come!

@casualdadgames really looking forward to Epic play and Huge ships coming back, and excited for you to get the chance to possibly try them out, they were a TON of fun!

Oh hey! Welcome aboard! You're spot-on on the upgrade bloat. In 1.0 and 2.0, I was often frustrated that almost no upgrades were "worth" the points over more bodies, so you only saw the same handful of upgrades (sometimes spammed). In the new system, I see a much wider variety of cards and slots being used than ever before, and that's been refreshing for me personally as a long-time player. Buuuut, yeah, that's a whole new kind of problem. 2.5's bloat could be solved by slashing Loadout across the board, but that could skew balance and we're back to upgrade scarcity and little variety. 1.0/2.0's problem could be solved by adding some form of LV system. Or, we could get really weird and add a 40k-style Force Organization Chart or Faction limitation system that would add some different kind of lever to give granularity, customization, AND variety. Personally I really like what 312 has been doing by pipping Generics so even if they're cheaper, they're less spammable (although you can still do it with multiple chasses). We'll just have to see what happens :D

My understanding is that sales-wise, X-wing never recovered from the transition to 2.0. AMG took some smart business steps to address that (some less so, especially on the community engagement side) ...but they were tasked with rebooting a production of a physical production in the middle of a catastrophic failure of global manufacturing and shipping, one that still hasn't recovered. Lay blame, sure. But it's dishonest to claim the entire state of the game is AMG's fault. Especially since 2.0 was a redesign to fix FFG's issues in the first edition in the first place.

@@casualdadgames you're calling me dishonest after making that video? Wow.

Dishonest isn't the word I meant to use, you're obviously entitled to your opinions, and I'm sure you're a person of integrity (seriously). BUT, the statement that X-wing was "highly successful" at the end of 2020 is outright false. So is the quote. And the statement that the state of the game is "wholly" AMG's fault immediately after saying it was Asmodee who chose to give it to them contradicts itself.

​@casualdadgames you start off interactions with insults. I have no reason to take you seriously.

Thank you! I also recorded a breakdown of the campaign, coming on the 9th :D

Thank you! I'm super excited 😊