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Re: Game Hint #2

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Originally Posted by ExarKun666 View Post
Anyone know if autonomous will be hybrid again, anything announced about it? Of not announced, do the hints point to it being hybrid again?

If it is hybrid, might give some ideas to the game, perhaps.
While we don't know yet, consider that we do have a new control system that has the capability to transmit video back to the driver station. I suspect a fair bit of R&D went in to the camera capabilities, and I would be surprised if it wasn't used in some way.

The reasoning behind the switch from autonomous to hybrid was that hybrid better simulated several types of robotic mission, particularly in space exploration where there is limited bandwidth and a significant time delay between signal transmission and reception. Likewise there are many robotic missions that need to be controlled using video.

Perhaps we will see curtains over the driver station, blocking the view of the field during "autonomous".... or perhaps the robots will start in full telop mode and the curtains will fall at the end of the match, requiring drivers to use the on-board cameras to complete one final task.

So no, we don't know... and honestly, after six years of reading these clues, I have to say that even if we DO figure out what the clues mean we won't know we've figured it out until the game is announced... but we do know that we have a new control system, and I'm willing to bet that the GDC is planning to use it to do something exciting that we could not do with the old one.


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