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Re: Canburglar Safety

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Originally Posted by Siri View Post
How fast the fastest canburglars get will be determined largely by how quickly they can release massive amounts of stored energy.

This is a dangerous challenge. The GDC designed it to be an incredibly dangerous challenge. (I ask myself again, why?) Teams that intend to go head-to-head on Einstein have exactly zero reason to stop at ~20% faster, and they certainly have no reason not to store energy. This is essentially an arms race; the public time to beat is already like 0.25s. Beyond that, it's mostly a hidden war, but I've inspected (and reffed next to) several stored energy grabbers thus far.
But at a certain point it's useless to go faster. You have to grab them and get them off the step, or block the other grabber before the opponent can latch on. Once they latch on, it's a tug-of-war/ lockdown.
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