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The Return of Detachable Objects?
After kickoff, I immediately decrypted the manual, and read the robot and the game sections. And re-read them. And re-read them. And I found no reference to what has been a constant rule, the "no detaching objects from the robot" rule.

Did I just miss something, after 3 complete readings and a search, or is there really no rule against this? If not, do you think it will be quickly re-inserted in the first team update, or do you think detachable objects have finally returned?

If so, how could we use them in this game? The immediate thought I had was a shallow-angle ramp, to make climbing over the bumps easier, but I'm sure if this remains allowed, teams will come up with MANY creative ways to use detachable objects.
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