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Re: Ultimate Ascent - Most Difficult Ever? Too difficult?

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Originally Posted by BBray_T1296 View Post
I hope 2014 is 2x as hard

difficulty makes it that much more fun at competition (yes, spending 72 hours cranking away in the pits does count as "fun" in my book)
The trade-off is, of course, that you make it that much more daunting for new teams, which already have a rough time of it.

The one thing I'd like to see this next year is a field containing only elements that are easily mocked up to acceptable accuracy with commonly available resources. It's not good game design when a large fraction of the teams have no way of seeing if their mechanisms really work until they get to a bona-fide practice field of some sort. 2008 was a good example of this done right, as were 2010 and 2011. 2013 was most definitely not; that pyramid was a killer.
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