To your first sentence, yes, but it's more than that. There could be an explosion animation for death, maybe even some fighting animations. And I understand that it's more of a zone idea, but I think that the players of era would enjoy it, a new way to fight. Bigger spar areas too. And the weapons could be changeable, say you have an m4, you can put it on your bot and it would do the same dmg in the robot spar as in pk, but you wouldn't be able to use m4 in pk until you take it off of the bot.

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In fact, I kind of like the customization idea more, change your weapons, parts, paint. It just seems more creative, and I think that era lacks customization as of now, but just because most pros have already had uploads, skins, hats. And personally it would be good to see more of that customization that makes era such an amazing game.