Ships 2.0 5/22/18 [Mega]

"Caiaphas;c-1557044" wrote:

"NicWester;c-1557011" wrote:

"Caiaphas;c-1557003" wrote:
No question that the new fleet arena is horrible. I was really looking forward to a shake-up, but immediately you find that Vader's ship + Biggs + 1 is the winning starting lineup. Every. Single. Team. Is. The. Same.

Actually, this is incorrect.

If you read the announcements they stated that they want to give ships 2.0 a more paper-rock-scissor meta instead of the paper-paper-faster paper meta 1.0 had. If you think Biggs + TIE Advance + 1 other is the be-all, end-all, then you're thinking in checkers when you should be thinking in chess. There's a lot more AoE and assists than before. That's the rock and the scissors added.

AoE > Taunts > Assists > AoE.

If you read the announcements and believe what you are reading... well ....

Anyway like I said, I know it's early, BUT I am not kidding when I say that every starting lineup in the top 50 on my fleet shard is Biggs + Vader +1. And from my battles so far today, 5 of 5 first-off-the-bench was Boba.

Let's not get in an Internet fight here, but please don't call me "incorrect" when I am stating facts based on my fleet shard, and you are basing your point on what they devs said they meant to do. What they say they will do and what the do are different things entirely.

I hope it turns out that I am wrong, and we start seeing diversity. I really REALLY hope that.

ps. Vader, Biggs and Wedge are all faster than, say, the Geos, or Ghost with its AoE. So the "chess" you are referring to, with assists and AoE, doesn't work as planned. (1) Vader target locks. (2) Biggs attacks and calls an assist. (3) Wedge torpedos. Now it's your 2 vs their 3, and its finally your turn. Biggs is taunting, and you can't call in a reinforcement. Your chess move is ... ?

Im sorry for butting in. @Caiaphas

My chess move would be running TS, stunning vader, so Biggs cant call a assist and Wedge's Torpedo is weak. I ll also run SFTP and call another assist from TS and stun Wedge. All of my ships are faster than yours. The only move you got to play was biggs and i got free hits on vader and wedge.