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Another Star Wars game from Fantasy Flight

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08 Feb 2019 13:09 #291874 by DarthJoJo
Fantasy Flight just announced another Star Wars game. Looks an awful lot like Gale Force Nine's Firefly at first glance what with crew, ship upgrades, competing neutral factions, bounties and whatnot. Kind of curious about slapping Harrison Ford and Billy Dee Williams' faces on their Solo outfits. They do have the rights to use the likeness of Alden Ehrenreich at least as he's appeared in Destiny.

www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2019/...star-wars-outer-rim/
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08 Feb 2019 13:37 - 08 Feb 2019 13:42 #291878 by jpat
I may have missed it on a hasty reading, but can anyone, in fact, find something beyond the license elements that isn't a direct port from Firefly?

* Basic ships capable of being upgraded
* Unique captains who are famous license figures
* Crew members gathered from different locations
* Skill tests as a resolution mechanism
* Gaining skills
* Checking for an encounter in each space you enter
* Jobs, and doing jobs as a way to become solid (ahem, allied) with the employer
* Becoming solid with one employer affecting your reputation with another
* Bounties
* Illegal goods
* Turns (OK, I kid here.)

I get that there are tropes and all, but ...
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08 Feb 2019 13:41 #291879 by DarthJoJo
Original art instead of screenshots? Standees instead of ship minis? An arcing board?

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08 Feb 2019 13:42 #291880 by jpat
You got me!

Han seems clearly stuck in uncanny valley.
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08 Feb 2019 13:44 #291881 by Michael Barnes
Wow that does sound a whole lot like Firefly, doesn’t it. It doesn’t look like it, and it may have some different mechanisms, but there’s no way conceptually that this doesn’t echo.

Really kind of just not interested. Would have been more excited for a New Dawn expansion.
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08 Feb 2019 13:54 - 08 Feb 2019 13:55 #291886 by Frohike
Nothing screams adventure and the vast unknowns of space like a narrow arcing corridor of planets and a dashboard of text.

"The wealth and danger of the Outer Rim is laid out before you!"
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08 Feb 2019 13:54 #291887 by jpat
This may be fine, but it hardly seems worth Corey's time, which is maybe why this has the unusual "with" credit.
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08 Feb 2019 13:55 #291888 by jpat

Frohike wrote: Nothing screams adventure and the vast unknowns of space like a narrow arcing corridor of planets and a dashboard of text.


And the arcing board is maybe the coolest thing about it!

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08 Feb 2019 14:06 #291891 by Josh Look
I’m interested. That’s not sarcasm, I really do want to see what this game has to offer.
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08 Feb 2019 14:08 - 08 Feb 2019 14:09 #291892 by jpat
I'm sure the use of Williams' and Ford's likenesses was an attempt to distance themselves from what they and/or the license holder perceived as potentially damaging references to Solo. The Destiny development would've presumably predated Outer Rim's by a good while, and while that Destiny wave was in gestation I'm sure they had most reason to think Solo would perform reasonably. (I mean, not like it didn't, but not for SW.) If Last Jedi taught them anything, it's that familiar is safe.
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08 Feb 2019 14:12 - 08 Feb 2019 14:16 #291893 by Sagrilarus
Now now, Fantasy Flight would never make a space ship game by taking another game already in the market and creating a knock off of it. Simply absurd.

Of course, it has Doc Aphra, so I'm in. When does the Kickstarter campaign start?
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08 Feb 2019 14:17 - 08 Feb 2019 14:17 #291894 by charlest
I'm usually game for these licensed FFG releases, but this one is doing nothing for me. It looks a bit abstracted and odd for an adventure game.

I'm more excited for the LotR game.
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08 Feb 2019 14:31 #291896 by Sagrilarus
The skinny board looks weird, perhaps designed for expansions? It seems to me you can be one heck of a long way away from where you want to be, and there's exactly one path to get where you're going, which makes for a pretty channeled play. Why not have it more open?

Needs short cuts.
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08 Feb 2019 15:11 #291899 by Jackwraith
Hyperspace shortcuts...?
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08 Feb 2019 15:54 #291901 by Legomancer
I've been playing and enjoying Xia so keep right on moving, FFG.
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