R2 Crew Member

Definitely a missed opportunity

Yeah BB8 is also right there on Poe's ship and is not a crew member...

Won't happen.

CG can't get you to buy R2D2 packs because he's a legendary toon. Similar for BB-8 wrt Poe's X-Wing.

Except almost all the single pilot ships show droids on them. From plo and asoka to Biggs, wedge. and the resistance xwing. Even the jedi consular ship shows a droid. Its just the artwork of the ship. Better than having a blank hole or worse changing the ship design to not show droids.

"icanectc;c-1685248" wrote:
Definitely a missed opportunity

Unless they're planning to use him for Luke's x-wing. I wouldn't be surprised if they add luke as rogue leader with biggs and wedge synergy.

Missed opportunity...
Come on CG, it's not too late to add R2 as a crew member. He deserves to be in a ship.

Fact is CG never went with any consistency on ships. These "missing droids" on many of the ships could have been easily fixed had they went with the ship hardware option, originally. Then each ship showing a droid could have gotten said droid without it being a playable toon.

Then it was dropped.

Now we have a lot of ships needing droids to make sense - but no chance of it happening. And the two droids we do have aren't attached to any (R2 could easily be part of the millennium falcon too). The 1, chopper, stands out as the only one that makes any sense, though since it's just him.... does it?

TL:DR; Ships were never implemented right, and continue to be released with any consistency.
(this has nothing to do with whether you like ship battles or not, I do, but that doesn't make stuff liek this cringeworthy)

It would have been cool that all the Rebel and Galactic Republic starfighters came with an accompanying astromech, but that would be insane farming, and put other starfighters at a disadvantage.

The problem is, if you give R2 or BB8 as a crew member, then the marquee becomes pointless. Here's 50 shards for a ship that half the people can't use because they don't have the droid needed yet.

Also, this is the first character needed for ships that requires 80 shards to unlock him to use the ship that wasn't named Thrawn, since the Almost the beginning of ships(Cassians U-Wing). That's a big deal.

I’m more mad that they didn’t name an ability “that’s a neat trick”