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Re: Have You Trained Your Human Player Today?

I played with the trident on our ball return a bit before ship and it was a pretty enlightening experience, if not a bit fun. For new human players the trident is going to be a bit awkward to wield especially if you're on the smaller/shorter side. After about 10 minutes of playing with it our prospective Human Players and Myself seems to be pretty handy with it.

One thing we did notice though is that the ball return was pretty forgiving. We didn't miss getting ball in more than one or two times and as long as you place one of the posts in the center between the two rails it seems like you'll be about 99% accurate. Also, I found that the most effective way for me to use the trident was to place the ball onto the return and pull the trident out in an arcing motion (Forward arc towards the field). This gives the ball a little push down the return so that it'll go faster and it also reduces the risk of having it bounce a bit, which can happen when you pull the trident out very fast and straight down.
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