Tried without a laptop and was able to hack at distance, so looks like a weird mod conflict with the laptop mod, not sure why it seemed to only effect the Roboticist and not the other hacker classes, but no worries thanks for the response and hints to the problem.

yeah no problems with any other class, just this one, must be some odd mod conflict. might try them without the laptop and see if that fixes it.

most likely an issue on your end, can your other gremlin users act normally? I remember episodezero sometimes having a glitch with gremlin users with laptops equipped

Remote hacking is not working for me on the Roboticist, I'm using Mod jam + lots of extra classes. Not getting the hack at distance or even when sitting on the green hack point. The laptop option to lower hack defense doesn't work either, and I don't think I had remote hack option for drones either, but don't know if I should.