Is it BETTER than the Viper Droid? | First Order Probe Droid | Star Wars Explained
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- The First Order Probe Droid is an upgrade to the Viper Probe Droid used by the Empire, but how does it work and what is new? Which is better? This Star Wars droid breakdown will help explain how the First Order took over the Unknown Regions.
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Viper probe droid is nostalgic, but the CIS mine droid from clone Wars 2003 is cool because it had a cloaking device.
The chameleon droid?
@@hydradude3989 yeah thats it.
Yup
I loved the chameleon droid xD it was all the fun of the probe droid but more tactical
I thought you were talking about the Dwarf Spider Droid! 😂
Okay, imagine this thing opening up those legs and spinning like a sawblade? Just imagine the carnage it could wreak?
The First Order version is so cool, I love what they did to advance the probe droid
If Samsung remade the Probe Droid, it might look like this
imagine if it deployed buzz droids instead of training remotes.... or buzz droids with blasters xD...
Das how you upgrade a probe droid
Damn das true
Imagine three of those droids carpet bombing an airfield with Buzz Droids. Before anyone knew what hit them their shipped would be ripped to shreds
DEPLOY BUZZDROIDS!
@@GarackTheMad "Please repeat the communication, over"
dis man spittin straight facts
It looks like a space station honestly
Thats what i was thinking too
Deadshot 500 With star destoryers on the side
The first order has so much advance tech. Great video
What if the FO Probe Droid itself was a smaller part of a larger command unit? Like small spherical probes it carries, the FOPD could itself be one of many ferried within a larger droid mothership, perhaps around the size of a starfighter. It would stay in orbit and coordinate a search across enormous areas, then collect its probes and travel to the next star system.
Viper wins in sound and creepy factor
The new Viper wins every other category
It seems more self sufficient then the Viper, which seems more like a "fire and forget"
It practically was used as a sacrificial recon. The Spider variant can actually keep tabs on a position.
We can use these to spy on the metanerdz empire enemies
Viper probe wins in nostalgia!
If the central pod was interchangeable it would be cool, so it could be a drill, the mini drones or even a light blaster like the original
No one:
Viper Droid: *NEED OF ASSISTANCE!*
This goes crazy tbh, I hope they make it in 3.5 inch scale
The new one is ok.... but the old viper droid always reminded me of a deadly jellyfish....
It’s unnecessary, but I’m cool with it. Given how much effort the FO sink into upgraded toys, it would been a shock if they hadn’t upgraded the probe droids.
Lol true
First order droid is more directed to combat, could be used perfectly to defend and patrol bases or cities.
Yeah that's a good point
It would be really awesome if the first order used tie defenders
One of the most useful units in Empire at War!
Useful? Heros like Boba fett did just fine. Even then just sending a massive fleet can handle basicly any threat. Zann, Rebel, or even Pirate. Zann is by far the biggest threat. Taking all you money means no ships. So its best to kill him off in the short term as fast as possible!!!
Plus Zann has the giant gas clounds on his planets. Easy to spot. And rebels start with certian planets. So you can just conquest rush to get to them.
The probe in Wall E is better since it had a powerful blaster.
I quite like the design of this droid.
I think First Order tech would be cooler if the lore surrounding it wasn't so soulless and lackluster.
I agree
First Order Tech = Something originally made by the Empire, only bigger with more guns.
So its basically the same design as the World Engine in Man of Steel
Byron Box I was going to say Black Zero but since it looks like the World Engine’s big brother that works also
@@rbrearey Same thing, do the same thing lol. But yea basically
I always forget how good the animation in the Clone Wars really is.
Also I would love if the first order used security droids just like the kx security droids used by the empire
When I first saw the image a while ago I thought it was a cool superweapon that like drills to the core and dropped a payload destroying the planet and that sounds way cooler
Didn’t Dark Empire have a huge one? :U
Yes and it was the greatest probe machine I've seen to date ! Thing was fast enough to physically catch ships at combat speeds ! Like tf kinda reflex speed is that !? But then again the Automaton War Droid created by the Balmorran governor could do the same but this was just a good show of strength and how far tech had come since ANH. But anyways, the giant Hunter Killer Sentinel Viper or whatever it was called was 4x bigger than the falcon and had so much mass it could actually place multiple captured light freighter to heavy starfighters in it's holding chamber. Plus these things had several different weapons to take down or immobilize enemies, including, light to heavy turbolasers, concussion missiles, heavy repeating laser cannons, and independent command drives that allowed it to think on its own when getting a job done. It was a beast to reckon if you were newbie flying into an Imperial Fleet during Operation Shadow Hand...
I like the idea of probes being modular and able to be swapped out wuth say like a long range sayellite that the probe can watch from orbit, or maybe a railgun variant, a variant that can tow escape pods in space, a variant that can set up as a sort of survival variant, hauling survival gear for long term operations
The probe is good, but I wish we saw the First Order using droid or cybernetic units more heavily than we do. It would fit with their lore of being more technologically advanced but low on people, and it would help to distinguish them as a faction from the Empire. Imagine swarms of TIE droids instead of the allegedly shielded and not much better performance-wise TIE/fo!
Scanner to system, Sanner to system: I can see the Rebel base.
Unnecessary FO variant is very unnecessary. Just stick with the Viper probe, maybe give it a secondary blaster or increase the power of the one already on there and boost the sensor and transmission abilities
Disney variants of Empire vehicles always remind me of something I would come up with when I was 6.
"Yeah, it has super powerful engines and it can destroy planets and it is super duper good armored and it's bigger than my house and it has 50 guns on it and it can destroy anything"
Perhaps they use some sort of method to catapult the droids through hyperspace? We know that objects free of a hyperdrive can remain travelling in hyperspace until they start deceleration maneuvers.
Maybe Rey was fighting one of those first order remotes.
The FO is a lot cooler imo... but you know.... the Viper has the nostalgia factor ;)
My favorite quote from the probe droid. So profound:
SANNA THE SANTA!
Hem-hem: ABANDON THE PENTHOUSE
The first order should have like one probe droid, and 2 viper droids, in small packs, as ultimate killing parties xD
It seems to me anyway that the Viper probe's pod is supposed to be disposable as it seems to smash to pieces when it hits Hoth's surface
And would the Empire retrieve them? If the TIE fighters and pilots as well as their stormtroopers, are disposable, I would think their probe droids would be too
I agree
It always seemed like the Viper droid was nothing more than a disposable scout with just a bit of weapons to deal with possible foes like somewhat bigger wildlife
The new one is more likely to be used in situations where you know they'll have to fight and can even be used as shock support troops by being launched like artillery shell to ground forces in need
I would use the viper for scouting and this one for boarding or spec ops
I would rather equip the tiny droids with thermal detonators, imagine a swarm of these things exploding all over the place before the main storm troopers assault
Yes, clearly your suggestion Droid would be invaluable assets to the empire and to the stormtroopers as well..
Imagine an entire army of those droids
Can you do a video on the ID9 seeker droid?
Kill it before it lays eggs !
Vulture droids being fed data from a probe would be a killer combo
Notice that the style of star wars is being changed . What made old star wars great was even in the details you would see wear and tear or shapes suggesting under the hood wires and parts giving a feel you could take apart anything in star wars and explore it.
Viper is creepy, FO probe droid seems to delegate everything to subordinates.
Viper gets the job done and doesn’t need to be collected.
Probes are supposed to scout, not infiltrate, FO seems to want to be flashy with blunt instruments.
Those thrusters look like they could potentially pivot for spear mode. Still a loss due to vectoring but better than flipping in atmosphere... which isn’t a problem to do in space.
Probe droids are disposible. The viper could do its job. The FO droid is a techee geek's dream.
I love both of them
I see you bean having some fun with reststance :P
I'm so happy this thing got into Canon, its concept art is awesome.
Imagine having a broadside of an ISD be probe droids rather than plasma and just board the enemy ship with hundreds of mini drones
You could also compare it to the probes in Rebels, both the lil' Inquisitor probes and the secret monster droid
Fron the thumbnail it looks like the size of a space station because of the TIE Fighters
In legends there was the Hunter Killer Droid, which was pretty much exactly a Viper droid, the size of a space station
When ever I watch handmaids tale and hear the radio chatter I always think of a probe droid
It looks way cooler than any droid and is probably the best if not the only thing out of Disney's new trilogy and honestly if i was a pilot for the resistance and i found a disabled one of these i would fix it up and modify my fighter to accept this as an astromech
I see it as a bad upgrade.
The Viper was use an alarm system or advance scout.
I would have made it smaller and more stealthy, then you could deploy more units in same type of transporter the Viper used.
The would also be the added benefit that if you have a pack of 3 or more droids you would have one report the destruction of the others.
This would be useful as the destruction of on droid would indicate a threat that was worth investigating.
Maybe the FO uses disposable hyperspace rings to deploy them at distance?.....
Ah I like that idea
I think the F.O. probe is more designed for style and simple functionality. The Viper is more adaptable and, in my opinion, cooler looking because of how detailed it looks. Also, I think it's more menacing.
This is what you get when you combine the functions of both the Viper and Dark Eye probes into a single team.
Please make a video of a Maxima-A Heavy Cruisers
I think the FO Probe Droid is way better than the Imperial Probe Droid. While the Imperial version was more than likely better armed, the fact that the FO version carried smaller probe droids that are armed is a huge force multiplier. Add to it the armor and suddenly the price for a fully loaded Spider can easily outperform the Viper.
Blast it, I would dare say that it's role on the battlefield would be magnified.
In a Galaxy's edge ride there's a probe droid that looked like the empire's version
i think there is a simple machine the fires the probe and i think that the legs can walk on a surface because they seem to be connected with thin connecters
The Viper was cheaper. This thing looks as if could have fought in the Clone Wars as it looks like an elite type of droid.
I prefer the dangling arms. They seem more menacing.
I think the new one doesn’t have a starwarsy aesthetic or is it just me ? Like both designs tho
Yeah I kinda see what you mean. FO stuff looks more like a mass effect universe. Imperial somehow retained a ww2 vibe, but FO just seems so sleek and futuristic. It's funny to say that one factions space ships and super weapons don't look futuristic but I think it's what a lot of sw fans feel
MetaNerdz Lore i think because they took some inspiration from real world ww2 vehicles it adds a sort of realism to the design which ik sounds odd talking about a franchise with space wizards but hey..
Make a video about the New Republic and the Resistence
Yeah coming soon
@@MetaNerdzLore Yeaaaahhh!!!!
Thanks, love your channel : )
I don't think the First Order's version is supposed to be a replacement for the Imperial version. After all, the Empire used several kinds of probe droids, as did the Republic, and CIS. I'm sure what we saw here in Resistance is just one of several variants used by the First Order. It's an improvement, to be sure. But I think this one's meant to be a bit more "take no risks"; more expensive, yet less expendable. Something designed to defend the area they're probing, rather than - venture into possibly hostile territory.
Yeah I like that point
The FO Probe droid should be called something like the Cobra or Sidewinder.
When you think of it. It Linda looks like something simmilar to cloud city
The viper droid is a cool machine and does indeed look more primal which also makes it spread fear. However the First Order variant is not serving for the same goals either. Yes, the intel part remains the same pretty much, although the Viper droid was capable of torturing their targets which the First order variant can not. It's just too bulky and it does not have the right tools for the job.
That being said, the First Order variant does look pretty interesting. It has a new role and new toys for that role. But I still choose the Viper droid.
Now how to upgrade the viper droid itself, well think about the integrated pod and trusters, but detachable. So when on the planet it still can detach part of it's pod while keeping a part as it's armor and on top of that keeping it's thrusters. This way it can move a lot faster and proofs to be a lot more agile without loosing it's capabilities. A upgrade to it's head shouldn't be much of a problem though, it will sooner show it becomes more sleek and usable. I do however find it interesting if there were small upgrades like a limited capacity shield, a cloak to some extend. But realistically seen the droid would have to become bigger and there for need a bigger power supply on top of that to function properly which on turn will also of course enlarge all other parts and still leave little space for those upgrades.
Oh cool a new design that doesn't just recolor its predecessor
I’d say they wouldnt put a hyperspace drive in a vulnerable target because it could be easy pirated and salvaged but who knows maybe they believe in their fear and power enough to respond to small incursions like stealing the hyperspace hardware from a probe squad of lasers
It doesn't seem like an upgrade. I prefer the viper. Especially since the viper can carry defensive weapons.
I guess Probe Droids get bigger with each era
My question is... why!? Defeats the purpose of IG-88s’ story and in effect, the Droid Revolution.
what?
it would depend on its mission. it looks cool.
I need to catch up on this show and season 3 of rebels
While the Viper looks more like jellyfish, the new Viper looks like a squid or a drillhead
I liked that they improve things but they forgot star wars is westrn/ ww2 fantasy scifi....Jedi can only cope so much....
Do the Neimoidians and Pantorans
I feel like if it could carry multiple probe driod type driods like a shrunken down probe driod with a cloaking device then this could wreck havoc as it lands on the planet and realeses a swarm of drones that get intel and then come back to the main probe and then take off back to a first order ship.
Can you do a video about cybernetics in the starwars universe
Honestly I prefer the Concept art version over when is seen in that show but that is just me.
3:25 different variants, the one from the series and the concept art have massive differences in size
Yeah I guess I mean that they could have one the same size as the TV show one but with a drill to punch into ships, like a kind of different buzz droid system
@@MetaNerdzLore More realistically if there was a large one it was to deploy alot of the spheres( unknown name for their type of droid) to take out the crew or cause breaches in the ship and vital areas.
How about the probe droid seen in Rebels (Secret Cargo episode)..it looks more humanoid, with multiple eyes bit like sentinels from the Matrix!! 😉😋. The pod it was in was more like a small ship..with controls and mini cockpit..
I love it actually
Im so early I'm still in the battle of the corrusant!
Lol that one is original
@@MetaNerdzLore its not funny
Is it only me who hears it say " heres theirs defences" and also "failure of the sith"?
to be honest...... it seems less usefull with those thrusters not being used to theyr fullest potential the small probes being not as powerfull and rather weak Not to mention once those are gone the main probe seems to be an easy target having a seemingly bigger stature and having no means of efficiant self defence mecanism when it comes to it. The reconeccens and patrol function wich would be its main function would be seriously restrained by its bulky form and those small probes unable, due to theyr function and stature I presume, to efficiantly bypass any locking mechanism that stands in the way of them and theyr target.
I know it is more advanced technology but to not make those thrusters rotary and the previously mentioned points make me think it could have been probably upgreated better.
Yeah I like all your points
What interesting droids
Aint nobody goin back for no Pod!
That made me lol
The sequels too had lore, but not shown much on screen
I think these had probs had class 4 hyperdrive I don’t see them having a class 1 or something.
No ray shields tho?
Yeah idk why no shields, but maybe overkill
MetaNerdz Lore overkill is the first orders mantra lol
Love the new probe droid
very cool
I still hoped it would have had those creepy arms
Yeah idk that is just so iconic and creepy that without it it's hard
The only improvement I see are the built in hyperdrive (where?) And the small probe pods. The original design is much better imo.
If the new version still had all the manipulators visibly dangling, I think I'd like it more.
It looks like a cross between a viper and a vulture droid
Ughghghggh. I hate how the First Order tech is so much more advanced than anything the Empire had, despite being vastly smaller. How did they research, develop and fund all this stuff? God forbid Disney make the stakes of the ST lower than the OT. Can’t have that. Gotta make everything BIGGER, LOUDER AND MORE BOOM BOOM!
I always asked myself why the droid is speaking loudly to himself. There are only disadvantiges like giving away your position (!!!!) and wasting energy. And since they are mostly on solo missions, there is absolutely no reason to communicate out loud.