"Boost Skipping" with Tie Defender
I've recently discovered the concept of "boost skipping" (may have some other names within the community), which is basically engaging boost, then drift, and then boost again about 1/2 second later, ...
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@Varkas I am liking how the Defender has had it's boost activation cost increased!
Personally, I never thought the Defender was the worst offender... I have seen X-wings pinballing around almost as much while smashing flagship components easily. I think the best possible solution would be to add a boost activation cost increase to all ships across the entire board. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z9fyEQRrVA&ab_channel=Meaty_Yogurt
7 min 30 seconds in is an example of this.
Personally, I never thought the Defender was the worst offender... I have seen X-wings pinballing around almost as much while smashing flagship components easily. I think the best possible solution would be to add a boost activation cost increase to all ships across the entire board. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z9fyEQRrVA&ab_channel=Meaty_Yogurt
7 min 30 seconds in is an example of this.
Yeah, I think the defender is much closer to where it needs to be now. I find that I have to bring APS to have a similar degree of survivability that I had before.
I get the impression that boost skipping is intended and here to stay though.
The "top" pilots in this game fly bouncing...... When you play a match with several "top pilots", the game looks like a ping pong game, lose all the magic of star wars fight dogfight universe.... ☹️
They could organize personalized matchs to play ping pong with each other pros, and so the rest of us could continue playing Squadrons
