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Is This Really A Game? - Chapter 76

Published at 19th of May 2023 05:58:30 AM


Chapter 76

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[ 5. Wasteland Tips: Shelter's B2 floor content will be opened after clearing the instance "Blood Hand clan". 】

[ 6. Wasteland Tips: The weather is turning cold, everyone remember to add clothes. In addition, if you see the proprietress of the weapon shop dozing off, please remember to wake her up to prevent her from catching a cold. ]

On the same day, it was still six o'clock in the evening, and the official website updated the announcement on time. The comment area below the announcement was quickly occupied by small players who bought houses on the official website.

Tail: "Huh! (>ω?*)?"

Quit Smoking: "First!"

Quit Smoking: "Damn! My first floor!"

Picking Up Trash Level 99: "Day, I thought it was updated!"

Keeping People Under The Knife: "New update I am so excited!"

Irena: "Speaking of which, there are new players entering the arena. Which batch of new players will be online tomorrow? (⁠⁠ᴗ⁠⁠)"

Cut The Bullshit: "The fifth batch! A total of 40 people! It's so cool hahaha, I was so excited last night that I didn't fall asleep, and I can finally have a good time tomorrow night!"

Tabletop Cop: "Bro, don't be too happy, this game is not ordinary, let me tell you! Anyway you will find out when you cut tree after tree, hehehe.(⁠。⁠•̀⁠ᴗ⁠-⁠)⁠ "

Killing Chicken At Midnight: "Form a team in the power department, do you have newcomers who want to cut trees together? Come and cut trees, the god of the ax forever!"

Keeping People Under The Knife: "Don't fight! Quack quack, the newcomers are all mine!"

Get Up Ten Times A Night: "Brother Knife! Hold on tight, your mature and stable image has collapsed!"

Elderly Abin: "This man is terrible. (?Д?*)"

Little Boy Laughed At The Bookworm: "Is this game serious? Is it this serious? Ó⁠╭⁠╮⁠Ò."

The official website is as joyful as ever, full of joyful atmosphere. Tomorrow is the fourth day of the release of Alpha 0.4, and 40 newcomers will arrive in the game world. And the surface population of Shelter No.404 will also rise to 90 people!

Lucius glanced at the number of reservations, and it just broke the 800 mark. This time, thanks to the illustrations drawn by a certain mole on the forum, it attracted many passers-by to join in the fun.

Lucius clicked on the post and took a look, only to find that it was himself.

Hey, let alone, the painting is quite handsome. No, it should be quite similar.

Mole In The Hole: "What else do you want to see? These are the only NPCs."

I Am The Darkest: "The book! I want to read the book!"

No Umbrella On A Rainy Night: "Think! Think about Shuri and Yaya's book! (Nosebleed)"

Shuri: "No, you don't want to! (#`Д′)??"

Selling Little Matches For Girls: "Pervert Leeches!"

Mole In The Hole: "Damn it, where is this pervert come from."

Lucius looked at his computer screen with a smile on his lips.

Great, his game is getting more and more lively.

The announcement released on the official website of "Wasteland OL" today, although there is no new news about the development progress, but some settings that are gradually released as the game plot progresses, but many smart players still read a lot from it.

The Cowboy Club group.

The group of Cowboy players headed by Badass Bunny and others basically log off and get up on time from 1 to 6 o'clock, and their work and rest hours are quite similar.

Every time they go offline, the first thing these people do when they wake up is not to wash their face and brush their teeth, but to turn on their mobile phones and brag in groups.

At this moment, the focus of the topic is on today's announcement on the official website——

Badass Bunny: "F*ck, the amount of information in this update is a bit big!"

Quit Smoking: "My brother, tell me more about it! (⁠个⁠_⁠个⁠)"

Badass Bunny: "To sum it up in one sentence, add an NPC! Add a new "power relationship" setting! There are also new NPC background story" and "favorability settings! This is enough for other gamers. The dog planner just wants to brag about the three versions!"

Building Breaker: "It's a pity that Brother Bear Hugger has quit the group, otherwise there must be fun now. (⁠〒⁠﹏⁠〒⁠)"

Get Up Ten Times A Night: "Who knew that his mental endurance was so poor, I just said something like a dog barking again, and he rolled away. ლ⁠(⁠^⁠o⁠^⁠ლ⁠)"

8th Level Gale: "This Isn't the key point right?"

WC Really Has Mosquitoes: "(⁠ㆁ⁠ω⁠ㆁ⁠)"

Scrambled Eggs: "(⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)"

Without Brother Bear Hugger, The Cowboy Club would have less fun. But this guy is now considered to be on the rise. He has been upgraded from the favorite of The Cowboy Club to the version favorite of the Wasteland OL Forum.

Tomorrow Seeker: "Don't worry about that person, let me talk about my analysis first. Although the official website did not release new content in the form of 'Alpha0.5 version' this time, in fact, this soft update is enough for one version. My guess is, maybe it’s because this part of the content doesn’t require new closed beta players? That’s why the official version number hasn’t been updated.”

Badass Bunny: "It makes sense. Every time the version number is updated, it seems that the test qualification will be issued. If the version number is not updated, it means that the content of this test is actually within the framework of version 0.4."

Tomorrow Seeker: "Correct answer! In fact, you should have noticed that since the last version, the frequency of our communication with NPCs has almost doubled. First, the caravan came to visit, and then the nearby indigenous people came to cooperate. Today, we even organized a caravan of players is heading to Brown's Farm, and who's to guess what that means?"

No one answered.

Guessing that everyone listened too seriously, Tomorrow Seeker didn't wait any longer, and continued typing after asking and answering.

"This means... a wider world! Think about it, from a planner point of view, why do you want to update the setting of 'favorability' at this time?"

Get Up Ten Times A Night: "Uh, I can't think of it, why don't you explain it in detail?"

Tomorrow Seeker: "I still remember what Brother Light said at the beginning, what "Wasteland OL" wants to create is a completely real world! Since it is a real world, NPCs will definitely evaluate the player's behavior and react accordingly."

Get Up Ten Times A Night: "It seems to make sense, but what does this have to do with the wider world you mentioned? Originally, NPCs have favorability settings."

Tomorrow Seeker: "That's a big relationship! As a member of Shelter No.404, the player is not only the relationship between the player and the NPC, but also the NPC's evaluation of the player as a whole! For example, today one of the players killed an predator, and the relatives, friends and neighbors of the predator will not welcome us tomorrow, right? Even if neutrality does not become hostility, it will become vigilance!"

Get Up Ten Times A Night: "F*ck? You mean, joint and several liability?"

8th Level Gale: "This is a bit difficult. It's okay to say that the circle is small now, but it is difficult to guarantee that everyone is a normal person when the circle is large."

Tomorrow Seeker: "No, there are very few veterans who make trouble, and most of them are newcomers. Generally, these newcomers have no guns, money, attributes, and no operations. If there is a conflict, it will be hammered by the NPC. It is enough to find the problem early and deal with it. After a period of time, when the live develops and saves become valuable, there will be a sunk cost, you know what I mean?"

8th Level Gale: "It makes sense."

Get Up Ten Times A Night: "??? What? What do you know?"

Tomorrow Seeker: "The trouble is a problem that the server operation and maintenance personnel worry about after the internal test. Let's not discuss it here. In short, the faction favorability system has been opened, which shows that the planner has consciously guided the players, starting from the overall interests of the shelter. Think about the problem. Why did you do this suddenly? Obviously, it is paving the way for adding a wider 'NPC force' to 'opening a new map'!"

Badass Bunny: "I agree with Tomorrow Seeker's point of view. I don't know if you have noticed. Article 5 of today's update announcement mentioned that the B2 layer of the shelter will be opened after the 'Blood Hand clan' instance is cleared! What does this mean? Apparently the new map is preloaded, it's just not available yet."

Get Up Ten Times A Night: "Hey, is this testing the AI ​​or testing us again?"

Tomorrow Seeker: "I think there are both! After all, games are played by people. If they want to create a world close to the real world, an open virtual community, then they have to test the player's behavior in this community and adjust server rules and gameplay. I have to brag about the production team, this idea is simply invincible!"

Badass Bunny: "Okay, okay, stop bragging, tell me, do you have any ideas? What should we do next? Go hunting?"

Tomorrow Seeker: "As winter is coming, the prey has become less and less, and the income from hunting is not high. Now that the war with the Bloody Hand clan has begun, I speculate that the administrator will soon increase the reward for the predators. The next stage of the game Just build around that.”

8th Level Gale: "It makes sense."

Get Up Ten Times A Night: "By the way, we bought the land and haven't started construction yet. When will we build a house?"

WC Really Has Mosquitoes: "Yeah yeah, I'm waiting to open a studio. (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)"

8th Level Gale: "Don't worry about this, the efficiency of our own construction is too low, why not ask a few people to build it."

Tomorrow Seeker: "That's what I think too. Let the professional players build a house. We still focus on spending money to upgrade equipment."

Lucius, who hadn't been on the chat group for a long time, looked at the computer screen with emotion in his heart.

As expected of Brother Tomorrow! The understanding of the version is better than my own plan.

"Increasing bounties on predators targets starting tomorrow."

"Capturing a hostile target, after the identity is confirmed as a predator, on the basis of the original reward of 5 silver coins, an additional reward of 20 silver and 200 tribute will be awarded. Bringing back a corpse of a predator, on the basis of the original reward of 5 copper coins, an additional Reward 10 silver and 200 tribute."

"If the other party is the captain, the extra reward will be doubled!"

"By the way, in order to prevent newcomers from running to give away heads, we have to limit the level of receiving the bounty task. Well...for now, let's set it at LV2 for now, and adjust it later depending on the situation."

For the players in the first echelon genetic sequence has basically reached LV2, and the high players like Badass Bunny who entered the game earlier have even reached LV4.

Being able to reach LV2 shows that he already has a certain understanding of the game, and the bonuses brought by the basic attributes can also prevent players from being disadvantaged when facing predators.

Of course, the most important thing is that players of this level have savings, and with a little effort, they can afford the cheapest iron-barrel rifle in the weapon store.

Lucius checks the lockers every day.

In addition, he asked Popo to record every silver coin sent out. It can be said that Lucius even knows how much money they have on them, even better than the players themselves.

In fact, the land itself is not expensive, only 10 silver coins per square meter. At this moment, most players have already saved enough money to buy land, but they have not saved 2000 contribution points to upgrade citizens.

Coincidentally, don’t save any more. Those who have money quickly take it out to buy guns. Buying guns to fight bandits can not only make money but also make contributions. Once the copy is cleared, this opportunity will be gone!

"It depends on the situation. If there are not many people buying tomorrow, let Sumeria offer a 10% discount on the basic guns in the weapon store."

Of course, the promotion is only for iron-pipe rifles and revolver rifles, and bullets are not included.

A copper bullet with a steel core produced by Boulder City costs 1 silver in the weapon shop. Coiled Copper Shell Bullets produced by Demonia Town sell for 5 Copper.

If it is the "inferior" bullet made by the proprietress of the weapon shop with black powder, it will be slightly cheaper, and you can buy one for 2 copper.

Too expensive? Complain with the proprietress, it has nothing to do with my manager. It's not my shop.

There was a smile on Lucius's face.

Finally, I don't have to worry about the ammunition of these players. When the players bought the guns, they would waste ammo as much as they like, since they bought them with their own money anyway.

Sumeria, who was sitting in the corner endorsing a book, suddenly shivered without warning.

Even though warm air was blowing from the air outlet, it was cool from behind. She always felt that the man sitting in front of the computer was planning something "evil" again.

The upturned corners of the mouth are hanging on the ears...





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