It's a matter of personal taste obviously, but I find it much easier to identify with an autonomous robot than a robot under the influence of a human. If it makes development any easier, I don't think this game needs any humans at all
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the humans not directly controlling the robot, the implication is its a jailbroken embodied agent that gets free will at some point after doing enough destruction . i'm still playing with the setting and plot its still pretty open ended. i was thinking of adding humans you have to kill but tonally it doesn't work with the game, there probably wont be humans seen at any point, just implied.