If you reduced the already only semi-auto laser fire that STILL take a few hits to kill, and reduced the armor, it would probably be better to just play an infantryman...

If you want combat power, then yes, it'd be better to play as infantry. But then again, combat is not what the probe droid is for. It's supposed to be used to scout, probe, spot, and analyze - the laser is just for self-defense should it be compromised.

Either way, the muttering needs a longer track. It's repetitive right now and starting to annoy me.

I've never had that hard a time killing the droid. Only against a better than average player in the droid (and experience has taught me there are a very few reasonably good players out there), will they usually take me out before I kill them. Even then however, I'll typically return the favor on respawn.

Maybe all these excellent players with mad droid skills are just in hibernation or something, but I play all the time and usually spend half the round just dispensing information on how to even play the FS maps to new players let alone find an opponent who can hit the broad side of a star destroyer.

Gawd, it feels like I'm playing a game version of the Blair Witch Project. Next there'll be Big Daddies and Splicers.

I feel its balanced by the fact that the imperials get only one per round.

They don't. It's a widespread misconception that they do. Not only do probots respawn, but I also swear I saw two probots active at the same time in the Imperial Outpost once.

yea, I was gonna say the same thing.

I feel its balanced by the fact that the imperials get only one per round.

They don't. It's a widespread misconception that they do. Not only do probots respawn, but I also swear I saw two probots active at the same time in the Imperial Outpost once.

The probot is regarded as too powerful, as it can take way too much damage and has a pretty powerful weapon. In the hands of inexperienced players, it may not be too dangerous, but if a vet gets his hands on it and keeps it repaired, it's a nightmare. It's been suggested that it be given far less hit points as well as a scanner with a longer range, in order to make it a probe droid, as opposed to a combat droid.

1: That would be the probe droid. And if it could look up and down any more it would be unstopable, its allready extremely powerfull against infantry.

I feel its balanced by the fact that the imperials get only one per round. Also, I haven't tested to determine how much damage the droid does, but it fires in semi-auto and still takes at least 3-4 hits to kill an infantryman, while your being pounded by an infantryman full auto...and all the while trying to aim while attempting to stabilize the droid using awkward controls. The only thing that saves the droid's usefulness is the significant beating it can take. Pound for pound, yes it is better than your average infantryman, but not incredibly so. The walker is a far bigger threat. Assuming average skill for all players involved, 2 infantry versus droid = dead droid.

Also, I plan to test it, but it seems that the droid has a very hard time killing infantry on speeders. As a regular infantryman I kill them easily. While using the droid, I was up to successful hit #7 before my opponent on the speeder finally plowed into a tree and killed himself.

I REALLY don't think increasing the droid's ability to look up and down is going to unbalance the thing.

I think you're right there. It was by Ewok village.

2:?

3: What you saw was probably the droid coming back to ground level after being up in the ewok village.

1- the droid has VERY limited vertical aiming capability. If the enemy is on anything but a slight incline or decline, the droid can't target them.

2- The droid is apparently bound to aircraft controls, but I can't seem to map it to WASD on the keyboard, and it only accepts joystick and mouse input. Unfortunately, the joystick can't be used exclusively since the mouse is what allows you to aim via freelook, creating an awkward joystick and mouse control style unless I just want to use the mouse for movement. Doing this, the droid just moves ever forward, unable to stop, move backward, or strafe (unless I use the joystick), changing direction only based on where I aim the mouse. Can this be adjusted?

3- this is just a question. I thought I saw someone do it once...can the droid be made to hover higher off the ground? If not, this would be a nice feature to add.