There is no ENDGAME

[BuzzBots]

For reasons only the GDC knows, there is no end game this year.

Robots do get STAGE protection and also lose podium protection at 20 seconds left. At this time, the human player is also allowed to throw the HIGH NOTES onto the MICROPHONE. Yet there is no cue, nor is this “endgame”, as there is no mention of endgame in this years manual.

I guess we’ll need to rely on strategies from 2017 and have the audience shout “ropes”?

[rainyskies]

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Now there is a Final-20-Second sound for Crescendo

I find it odd and worrying that not only is there any defined ENDGAME for Crescendo, but there are seemingly no audio or visual cues for any of the activities that change during the last 20 seconds of the game, such as human players being able to introduce HIGH NOTES [G430] and there being a protected zone around the STAGE [G424]. 2023 had a fully defined ENDGAME period, including a whistle sound effect playing at the start of the period, and the light strips that were in the driver stations sh…

[Tyler_Olds]

See No Final-20-Second sound for Crescendo