People always underestimate the engineers…
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He created an AI to talk for him from inside the ball. That’s much higher level than just a regular mechanic. I think a “mad inventor” would be a better description here.
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Your intelligence doesn’t limit what you are and aren’t. And don’t you have to be “Mad” to be a “Mad inventor”?
Hammond was able to engineer an AI and working Death Mech from what was basically naught more than scraps. All while going undetected by the regulars of Junkertown.
So engineer makes sense.
That or some kind of expert thief.
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I dont think he was totally undetected i think maybe that mechanic we see in the roadhog and junkrat comic found him and kept him as a pet but then realized how smart he was and kept his secret for him.
he had to get tools from somewhere. Also how would he transport his escape pod from the outback into junker town by himself he would need a transport truck or something and i dont see him reaching the pedals. something that a local mechanic would be able to provide.
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I think he was being helped by that one mechanic shop in junkertown. I forgot the name of the owner. Also I am sure the junkers knew he was a hamster or at least a few higher ups knew like the queen. No way in heck they would let a robot that appears to be an omnic without a pilot dominate their arena and beat up people.
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Thanks for clarifying. Yeah pretty sure him and bruce are friends to an extent. Man it would be cool if they made Bruce a new junker hero and had friendly conversations with hammy and hog. I mean the problem with junker queen becoming a hero is she already has her voice being used in junkertown. It would be weird having her talk to herself. But I would be fine with bruce sorta taking her place as a new junker hero. Maybe give him the scrap mechanic torb lost.
her voice lines were removed from junkertown
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You make a good point…
JUNKERTOWN MECHANIC FOR HERO 30!
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I don’t think Hammond created the AI for his mech - he probably just bought and installed a premade one.
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Is his mech really an IA tho? It looks much more like a translator for him to interact with the humans.
Wasn’t something like this said at Blizzcon last year during the voice actor panel?
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Blizzard said it was a very simple ai, when they had to tell people it was not an omnic. Which still makes me think omnics are born from reversed engineered alien technology and is totally different from regular human made ai.
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Except Winston designed Tracer’s chronal accelerator and things that play with time and time space dilation are firmly part of the quantum physics which is the “theoretical physics” branch of science
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Junker queen had her voice “bugged” when they were about to introduce Hammond, but is fixed now.
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Yeah I thought the same thing
Hammond didn’t create the AI that’s in the mech, and the mech’s AI is really pretty simple compared to most of the other ones we’ve seen in Overwatch so far.
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I bet that there are a lot of universal rodent translators Ais in the market.
Hammond can write, so therefore he can type - his AI is just glorified text-to-speech with a little bit of Siri/Alexa/Cortana thrown in.
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He’s a hamster
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