Star Wars: Unlimited Jump to Lightspeed! Interview - What To Expect From Set 4

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is the new spaceship-focused set coming to Fantasy Flight Game’s newest TCG, , and spoke with the team behind the game to learn all about it. Set 4 will release in March 2025, but spoilers have already started making appearances for the new set. It's looking to make a lot of waves in the current meta for the game, and players hoping to create epic space battles will have their time to shine.

The set from was the first set, followed by and. Together they set the tone for Year 1 and laid a foundation for the new TCG. However, as the game is headed into Year 2 and Set 4, the Design Team is now focused on more experimental cards and what the game can be now the baseline is established.

interviewed MJ Cutts, Game Designer, from the Fantasy Flight Games (FFG) team — and one of the lead designers of Set 4 — to learn more about piloting upgrades, the new Spotlight decks, and the thought process behind the development.

Screen Rant: Tell us about the overarching story behind the set.

MJ Cutts: I joined on the set early, but still partway through development. It was a lot of me and Jeremy (Zwirn) figuring out our first set beyond the first year of foundation-building and exploring the core stuff. It was kind of wild, right? Because I was a new hire at the time, along with the other newer designers.

I was still figuring out the game, and we were put together to figure out what could a set be — beyond the most stable stuff we could think of — and so getting loose into the wild like that was very exploratory. It was a lot of just like throwing things at the wall. It was a lot of iteration. There are some very, very weird versions of piloting that thankfully do not exist!

Screen Rant: Oh man. Now I want to know!

MJ Cutts: Yeah, yeah. You'd merge the cards together like it was just one card. It would give it traits and stuff too. It was, it was cool, but it was also brain melting.

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