Pulse check on the current points

We're in the middle of tournament/event season with the latest batch of points, I'm curious how everyone is feeling about the state of the game right now?

Anything you love?

Anything you want to see unleashed?

Anything you want to rant about?

Heyo :)

I am going to admit that I was nearly out of XWing until this most recent points update. XWA has definitely brought some life back to the game for me in the same way that Starviper Mk.II did for me at the end of XWing 1.0.
Good Job, dev team :)

Some opinions I have after playing around with Scum for a few weeks:

• Fennic Shand crew is Very Good... maybe Too Good. Free Lock, Free Strain after both movement and movement actions whilst still generally allowing you to have your action step is Very Strong.
• Targeting Matrix is Pretty Good. It is worth more on Multi-Attack platforms. I think I would still take it at 5.
• Thweek is So Much Fun :) Very versatile with that delicious balance of risk vs reward. Looking forward to keep playing around with different builds here.
• Retrofitted Autothrusters are interesting. They are a challenge to make work on platforms that can not do 3 Turns, though Starvipers can really make use of them. This is a fun upgrade to experiment with.
• I'm not sold on Blindspot Targeter. It's worth being careful about pricing, and I need to experiment more with it, but might be a touch expensive.
• I'm a little concerned that Parting Gift might be too cheap. You can manually set it off by running over a rock or Electronic Baffle... that seems like an easy way to dump an enormous area denial/mass damage, especially if you have something like Deadman's equipped. Admittedly, I have not tried it properly (devices tend not to be my style)... but it seems oddly cheap.
• The new Turret seems to be doing its job well enough without being overbearing in my area.

This has rejuvenated me on the game :)

Lol, points changes right now.

Xisor... I was a fan of him before, I put him as neck-and-neck with Thweek as the best Viper... But now, in my mind, there is no question. Xisor is the best Viper. That Loadout buff is Great.

Targeting Matrix nerf is probably right, as is Burst Lasers.

I like that Vessery got some points Loadout, as well as some of the Interceptors.

...what did Han do to get pumped by 2 points? Nobody flies him around here, so I don't know.

I haven't played with the new points but I'm glad that Burst Laser Turret ate a nerf so it doesn't go on 7-point Y-Wings anymore. Last tournament had those and it was oppressive. Not just spam lists, but the amount of value that 2 or 3 BLT Y's added to a mixed list for 14 or 21 points was too much. Although I'm a little sad that the LV reduction to 4 means that you can't have a Dorsal Turret and an R4 droid like you used to - any kind of weapon upgrade available (turret, missile or bomb) costs at least 3.

Swapping out Vult Skerris for Countess Ryad as the other 15-point named TIE Defender (besides Dobbs) is probably a good choice. I played triple Defenders before the points change and Skerris felt a little too good as a 15-point i5 Defender, even though the LV was held back enough to prevent Juke or Prockets. Now we have Ryad instead, who does have enough LV for either one. I kind of want to team her up with Dobbs for double Juke.

Speaking of Defenders, Targeting Matrix going up to 6 stopped the 15-point generic build I was using (Advanced Optics + Targeting Matrix). Again, probably a fair nerf, that did feel nasty to use.

@Travis, both of those messages were a delight to read. Glad you're enjoying the game again and finding cool stuff to play with!

@Richard McColm - agreed, there's a TON to unpack. I finally went through all of the changes and talked through them live tonight. There weren't all that many actual changes in total, but every one of them definitely touched some part of the game right now.

I did some recent tournament review from events before the latest change too, and these are a major meta shakeup in a lot of places. Looking forward to the XTC and the event season as it rolls on!