Do you still use heroes? A few years back I decided to stop, mostly because the guy I played with most often was getting a little peeved with my skills with a hero. I've found the game to be more difficult, but also quite a bit more fun.

Well, except for the odd time where I can play has Han or Leia without him noticing that I'm a hero for a while. ;D

quote Ace Flyer

I get more kills with the regular blast rifle trooper than with the hero..

Gotta say that this has become true for me too. I charge out and can easily get more shots and kills out with a normal trooper or sniper than what I can get with any heroes, especially the lightsaber using heroes. In fact, whenever I use them, there is a serious reduction in my kills -- not only do they tend to take a bit of time to kill a unit, but you tend to have to be close to them and you can only attack so many times in a few minutes, whereas with a trooper you can easily get off four or five shots in under ten seconds at different targets, and kill at five.

Indeed.

While I think the concept of being able to use heroes are cool, I definitely think that it was one of many balancing issues inherent with the game. No matter on whatever setting you were on, you could easily kill an extra 20 or 30 units with a hero in short order and all but win the game if you manage to take the bases fast enough while you are doing it.

Speaking of Kit Fisto, how is he on the Xbox? I'm generally inclined not to use Maul because he makes the game ridiculously easy, is Kit Fisto along those lines? Only seem some gameplay and since I actually have more access to Xbox's lately than I thought I would I was wondering if the download kit was worth it.

Random damage doing force orb, then? Or does it have other properties? I've gotta be honest that the only thing I've ever seen about Hadouken is something about KOing the other guy. =P