Chapter 9 Heat Fermentation
“Fuck!”
Qin Guan screamed and sat up.
I took off my helmet and wanted to smash it, but I couldn't bear to do it.
I turned to look at the computer, but couldn't bear to leave.
So I jumped out of bed, grabbed my pillow, and slammed it against the closet door...
After venting his anger about being killed by a wild boar-sized rat and being forced offline by the death penalty, the angry little brother sat back in front of the computer.
The first thing, of course, was to open an official website and send an email to criticize the producer... You can't use skills , and the whole team is wiped out after taking a mission in the novice village. Even if you are testing a game with many bugs, it shouldn't be this many! !
As soon as he opened the official website, coincidentally, there was an announcement posted on the official website of "Another World".
Online Patch Update 1.01
“1: Fixed the bug that allowed level 0 players to accept the challenge mission “Eliminate Rats” issued by zombie general Lancelot Edgar.”
“Two: Added the explanation that ‘Once a player has selected a game character, they cannot cancel their account and reselect, they cannot delete their account and start over, they can only evolve through game growth or due to new version updates.’”
“Three: Added the explanation that ‘the potential value is not fixed and will grow with the player’s game experience’.”
“The closed beta test of the “Otherworld” continent is in full swing. Players are welcome to visit this ancient land!”
"——"Another World" production team."
Qin Guan in front of the computer: "..."
The production team responded promptly and paid great attention to the player's gaming experience. They did not delay at all when they found problems and corrected them on the spot. This was a good thing for the players. But he didn't even have time to criticize the producer! Where was he going to vent his anger?
wrong!
Sure enough, my low potential is due to the problem of choosing the game character? ! Damn, you actually set up a random mode in this place to discriminate against non-Africans, what's wrong with you? !
Qin Guan found something to criticize and immediately opened the email. He ranted for hundreds of words about this unreasonable random setting... He finally felt better.
Next... no matter how much he criticized, he still had to be a good person. Qin Guan followed the screenshots and video download instructions provided by the official website, connected the USB on the helmet to the computer, activated the official website, logged into the corresponding account, and downloaded the video he had recorded for more than an hour...
“…Huh?”
The internet speed has been increased several times, and now it only takes a few minutes to download a few GB of content. After downloading the 67-minute video, Qin Guan discovered something was wrong...
"I entered the game at around 9:20, and I played for more than an hour, and the video I recorded the entire time is proof of that... So the question is, why is it not even 10 o'clock in real time now?!"
Qin Guan checked the time displayed on his computer several times in shock, and then confirmed it with his mobile phone. Fearing that there was something wrong with his electronic equipment, he used Baidu to check the time in Beijing.
"Holy crap! Is there really a time difference between inside and outside the game? The time flow rate on both sides is twice as fast?!"
Qin Guan was very confused. What kind of black technology is this? !
"A helmet with a material cost of 188 yuan can play a full-view holographic game just like the real world. The time in the game is twice that of the real world... Is it alien black technology? Damn, this is nonsense! Where did the aliens come from! Forget it, forget it. I am a gamer and I care about how others make games. What is it to me!"
Qin Guan himself was amused by the conclusion he came to. He shook his head and put these things behind him, then immediately opened the software to edit the video...
It takes half an hour of game time to get back online after a death. Several minutes have passed, so he has to cut the video quickly.
Just record two segments of commentary and voice-over, and then cut out the less interesting clips of rushing on the road, looking for NPCs, chatting, etc., and make the video look simpler. The quality of "Another World" is so solid that it can kill 99.99% of the games on the market. Even if Qin Guan put the original film on it without any cuts, the number of clicks and barrages will not be low!
Qin Guan edited the sample video with much more concentration than usual. He checked the time and found that he could log in. He quickly added a title and introduction to the edited video and uploaded it to Bilibili. Then he rushed to the toilet with his phone in his arms. While taking care of his physiological problems, he called his good friends and asked them to register on the official website to grab a helmet...
After taking care of his good friend, Qin Guan did not forget to notify the brothers in the gold farming group he had been in for several years. He sent the address of the video he had just uploaded to the gold farming group one by one, and said, "Brother, I can only help you here." Then he turned his phone to silent mode and threw it aside, put on his helmet, and lay down with a smile on his face...
"Otherworld", here I come! Exile Town, here I come! My fellow undead, here I come!
The login speed is still extremely fast, faster than opening an APP. When I open and close my eyes, the blue sky, white clouds, green mountains in the distance, the ruined Exile Town, and the naked skeleton... appear before my eyes.
After identifying the age patina on the bare skeleton, Qin Guan said, "You...give me medicine? Where are your clothes?"
"Don't mention it. My clothes are missing." She said in a tearful voice while giving me medicine. "You and Miaobishenghua both died in mid-air after being knocked away. Your bodies were teleported away intact. I died after being hit against a wall. When I came up to check just now, my clothes and pants are gone!"
"How dare someone take his belongings with him after he died!" Qin Guan touched his clothes with lingering fear, "Well... there are no other players in the game except us now, why don't we go back and have a look, maybe we can pick it up?"
Give me medicine and nodded: "I thought so too, I'm waiting for you to come online."
"Wasn't Miao Bi Sheng Hua the first to die? She hasn't come on yet?" Qin Guan said.
"No...ah, it's on." He pointed behind Qin Guan while giving me medicine.
Qin Guan turned back subconsciously.
Then... he saw the soil on the birth platform wriggling, and a skeleton wearing a T-shirt and shorts rose straight up...
Qin Guan: “…”
The people who came back from the dead were buried back under their birthplace, right?
Earth, computer room.
Three first-time testers came online one after another, and Yang Qiu finally put his mind at ease...
For the Earth players who come to the magic plane in the form of souls through the mental imprint matrix, while they remain "online", he can check the whereabouts of these players through the matrix. But if the "connection" is disconnected, the souls of these players are disconnected from the matrix, and the mental "back door" is not open to him, then he will know nothing about the players.
They were wiped out after just playing for a while. Yang Qiu was really worried that they would give up the game...
Now, look at the three people who are heading back to the ruins in the south to pick up the clothes they dropped. Obviously, as long as the game is hardcore enough and the content is challenging and playable enough, players actually like to be M land...
"The most important thing is the quality of the game. As long as the quality is strong, there is no need to worry about the lack of anchor points!"
Yang Qiu punched hard, then opened the computer document and began to write the task text conscientiously...
All the early work was spent on creating game characters and better disguising the Exile Town as a novice village for the game, and not much attention was paid to the main storyline of the game.
Judging from the previous conversation between Vanilla Pudding and Miaobishenghua, it seems that not all players just pursue mindless play. There are still many people who like the main storyline that is attractive and has a sense of belonging.
Since the players have such requests, Yang Qiu will try his best to satisfy them - Exile Town has no story? Make one up! Tarantan Wasteland has no epic background? Make one up!
The zombie general can't be the only one with a name. The other zombie NPCs also need to have their names, backgrounds, and origins...
What is the humanistic feeling of the game? Spend time and effort to create a story that is thick, tragic, and bizarre, and then the feeling will come!
As for where the subject matter came from, it was not a big problem for Yang Qiu - before being hunted down by the madman from the Court of Inquisition, Yang Qiu had been training all over the continent for more than a hundred years, had traveled to many places and met many kinds of people, and he could just pick out some of them and put them on the zombie NPCs...
On this side, independent game producer Yang Qiu was diligently thinking about the background implantation. On the other side, the video uploaded by Qin Guan passed the website review and appeared on the latest upload page of the game area.
Tang Jia, a sophomore student, slept until almost half past ten on the first day of the National Day holiday.
Then... it was impossible to get up and wash. I didn't have the energy to get out of bed unless I lay on the bed and played with my phone for half an hour...
There are always many people who misunderstand that female college students only think about boyfriends and love, or they are chasing stars, watching stupid dramas, and screaming at the handsome men on the small screen.
As a typical female college student, Tang Jia has only one thing to say about this stereotype: You are too naive!
Tang Jia, now 20 years old, has no interest in real men, and of course, she is not interested in handsome paper men either. She only likes to play games, and she loves to beat up other players and make the players with red names lose their confidence in the game and curse at them...
In short, Tang Jia, a competitive girl who doesn't like to lose in anything she does, especially to win at games, has temporarily lost interest in other chicken-eating games on the market after getting the top ace in a certain chicken-eating game. Recently, she has been searching back and forth in the game areas of various websites, looking for challenging new games.
When she opened the game section of Bilibili, she found that the shemale boss Vanilla she followed had posted a video recommending a new game. Tang Jia clicked on it without much hesitation.
The shemale boss Vanilla is not very popular on Bilibili, but he is famous among the niche players because he is not arrogant at all and often complains about his poverty without any scruples. He is well-liked by poor students like Tang Jia who never play pay-to-win games...
Of course, the most important thing is that Vanilla usually recommends games that are fun to play without spending money. The chicken-eating game that Tang Jia just "graduated" from the top ace was the one that Vanilla specifically recommended in a video four months ago.
"'Another World'? RPG? Or a VR game?" After clicking on the video and seeing this introduction, Tang Jia began to have the idea of quitting.
As a poor female college student with only 1,500 yuan of living expenses a month, VR games are really not something she can afford.
However... thinking that the poor Vanilla boss would not recommend a game with too high a threshold, Tang Jia thought about it and clicked on the video.
The first scene shows two skeletons sweeping the floor with brooms.
Tang Jia: “???”
The second scene shows a hideous zombie handing a neatly folded T-shirt to the camera.
Tang Jia: “???”
The third scene shows a zombie whose armor is tattered but still majestic. He faces the camera with an ugly zombie face that is particularly refreshing and says grimly: "Hey, compatriots. It seems that you have just woken up from eternal sleep. Would you like to help me do something?"
Tang Jia: “???”
Tang Jia quietly exited the video and squinted her eyes to carefully read the introduction below the video...
That’s right, the UP host Vanilla Pudding wrote it very clearly in his introduction that what he released was an extremely friendly and low-threshold VR game experience video, not a movie clip.
Tang Jia opened the video again with a puzzled look in her mind ...
“Hello everyone, I’m Vanilla Pudding. Not long ago, I unexpectedly got the qualification for the closed beta test of a new VR independent game “Otherworld”. Today, I will show you the first beta test experience of this game…”
"This is the character selection interface. I added this recording later, so the character selection here is very fast. If you are new to the game, don't just close your eyes and choose randomly like me, otherwise you will definitely regret it, because if you are not lucky enough and the character you choose is not good enough, then you will have to spend more time than others because the character's potential is not enough..."
After a brief opening introduction, Vanilla Pudding stopped dubbing and directly presented his experience of the game from a first-person perspective to the audience.
The background in the video is no different from the scenes in blockbuster movies, the physics engine is so powerful that even the dust you step on when walking has a super-simulated motion trajectory calculation... The more Tang Jia watched, the wider her mouth opened.
Especially the other two first test players who appeared in the camera. Their skeleton characters were so realistic, vivid without a trace of stiff movements, and the sound of teeth knocking against each other when they spoke... If Tang Jia didn't know that these two skeletons were characters controlled by players, she would have suspected that Vanilla Pudding had found two resurrected skeletons to go to the movie set to shoot a video to deceive people!
“Is this the world of RPG?! Is this the world of VR games!!”
Tang Jia, who was still lying on the bed in the dormitory, held the phone in both hands and asked soul-searching questions, which scared her roommate who was watching a TV show opposite her.
Then... Tang Jia opened the game's official website in the video introduction without hesitation and recharged her faith...
Many people are used to getting up late in the morning on holidays, and Vanilla Pudding itself is not a particularly famous UP host. So far, not many people have seen the video. When Tang Jia recharged, there were still more than 100 vacancies for the 300 closed beta numbers posted on the official website.
After filling in her own address, Tang Jia thought of her childhood friend again and resolutely paid him money...
At this time, Tang Jia could never have imagined how much trouble her decisiveness saved her and her childhood friends - after the batch of internal test qualifications open for application on the official website were sold out, it would not be so easy for Earth players to enter the magical "Alien World" continent.
