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Re: GDC you have failed us.

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I think you (and many others) are over-estimating the challenge. It seems from this post by Dave Lavery (a GDC member) it isn't terribly difficult to maneuver reasonably well on the surface. At first I too, thought they had broadened the gap. Now I'm pretty sure they've leveled the field more precisely than ever before.
I don't think a lot of people are criticizing the game simply because they think the robots are hard to control. I think people are saying that complex drivetrains may still grant an advantage, along with many other issues they have.
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Re: GDC you have failed us.

To me, this is a brilliant game. The GDC, as already stated, threw EVERYONE a significant curve ball this year. My team is actually worse off than a lot of rookies right now. We are having to UN-LEARN much of how we used to do things in order to deal with these new constraints and problems.

Ha, seems like just as we're settling on how to solve a problem we remember... "ohh yea... they changed that this year... back to the drawing board..." We've taken a lot for granted the past few years. We had finally settled on a great drive train we just kept repeating, so we never had to worry about that, just threw it together in the first week, and spent the rest of our time working on arms, manipulators, code, strategy, ect.

This year though... we have to completely rethink everything all over again. The only real advantage vet teams have this year is just a sort of familiarity with having to solve some interesting problems. That, and just having resources of engineers, mentors, ect. to help them understand the problems, and the solutions.

There are always rules that don't make us happy, but they're a big part of the challenge. Engineering isn't a fairy tale; we live in a world of constraints. Some of the best engineering I've ever done happened after I got over the fact that constraints exist, and I got down to business and built something that was innovative and worked well anyways in spite of it.

Don't let the challenge discourage you. Embrace it, let it drive you. Hehe, 'we don't do these things because they are easy, we do them because they are hard'
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