Guide and Prototype

Guide

Guide noun - One that accompanies another for protection, guidance, or as a courtesy.

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Prototype and guide are semantically related in model topic. In some cases you can use "Prototype" instead a noun "Guide".

Nearby Words: guidance, guided, guideline, guiding

Prototype noun - One of a group or collection that shows what the whole is like.

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Guide and prototype are semantically related in design topic. Sometimes you can use "Guide" instead a noun "Prototype".

old	old guide	old prototype
short	short guide	short prototype
complete	complete guide	complete prototype
original	original guide	original prototype
Other adjectives: actual, real, massive, big, new, major, final, official, titular, unseen, fifth.

However, there's one mission in the second game where you have to guide an NPC transport ship carrying a prototype mecha through a literal swarm of enemies.

Source: Escort Mission
It also had an escort mission where you had to guide a prototype Tarantula mech to waiting dropships.

Source: Escort Mission
In the case of Halo Wars, Ensemble admitted that this was merely a gameplay decision and that, canonically, Red Team never actually had energy shields...until the Essential Visual Guide changed all that by saying that they were actually field-testing an early prototype.

Source: Franchise / Halo

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