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Is This Really A Game? - Chapter 94

Published at 19th of May 2023 05:57:22 AM


Chapter 94

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Just as Lucius was holding his diary for archaeology, the forum on the official website of "Wasteland OL" in another world was very lively at the moment.

The 7 players who died successively went offline one after another, and almost by coincidence, they logged onto the official website immediately, bringing the first-hand battle reports from the front line to the cloud players and fun people squatting on the forum.

This battle was much more intense than before. The total troops invested by the two sides exceeded a company, and various tactics of division and encirclement, fire suppression, surprise attack and counter-raid were interspersed, which almost made all the players who participated in the battle very addicted, saying that death is not a loss!

Especially at the end of the battle. Fifty rockets covered the battlefield, and when the whistle sounded, everyone jumped out of the trenches and charged. This exaggeration made even the cloud players of OB on the forum feel good.

"Hahaha, lighting firecrackers is too coquettish, the other party is probably confused, where did you learn the coquettish operation?"

"But the most amazing thing is that Mosquito's rockets can actually work? Didn't you say that the flamethrower this guy got last time had insufficient chamber pressure, and he didn't install a backfire valve, so he burned it back and burned himself?"

"Goblin Technology is a shame. (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)"

"The warhead of one kilogram is still too small! If you have a chance to get out the hot air balloon, it will definitely work if you directly load it with a 300-pound aerial bomb!"

"I'm afraid hot air balloons are difficult. They are living targets in the sky, but you can try to build an engine and build a propeller aircraft. Aren't the Mini-Max series aircraft made of wood? Hard work will definitely punish you!"

"Let's build a tank. Tanks are better, but I heard that the vicinity of the resurrection point is either a city or an anti-tank tree. I guess it's not enough."

"Are you guys really talking about games? I don't feel right. (⁠ ⁠´⁠◡⁠‿⁠ゝ⁠◡⁠`⁠)"

"Ahem, we're talking about plastic models, plastic models!"

Although the building has been crooked, but as new news continues to be released, the topic is quickly changed back.

It doesn't matter if you make plans or talk on paper.

Whether it is a reservation player who really believes in having this game, or a fun person who is just looking for fun, everyone is most concerned about the outcome of this war.

Although so far there have been good news and everything is under control, but what if the group of beta testers is not strong enough, or those predators still have a backup?

If it loses, it will be the end of the calf. After all, the official said that if the challenge of the "Winter's Wrath" expansion pack fails, the game server will be shut down indefinitely, and it will only go online after re-commissioning.

As for how long it will stop, it is estimated that only the planner will know. Fortunately, enthusiastic netizens didn't have to wait long.

As a "Seriously injured" small player was forced to go offline and brought the victory of the war back to the forum, the stone hanging in everyone's heart was finally removed.

Red Face Boxer: "I was made up by my teammates! But it doesn't matter, an epic victory! 56 predators, including elite monsters and bosses, were all surrounded and wiped out! Hahaha, killing was so cool! I killed at least three... No, there must be four!"

Quit Smoking: "Then why are you still dead? (ノ⁠◕⁠ヮ⁠◕⁠)⁠ノ⁠*⁠.⁠"

Yaya: "Weak chicken! Hahahahaha! (*≧▽≦)ツ"

Red Face Boxer: "Damn! You have the nerve to call me weak chicken, you didn't join the war! (҂◡̀_◡́)ᕤ"

Yaya: "Hmph, as we all know, beautiful girls don't fight, I will fight with you when I save enough money to buy power armor. (͠≖ ͜ʖ͠≖)"

Quit Smoking: "Then you still play wool!! If you don't play, give me the helmet! ಥ⁠╭⁠╮⁠ಥ"

The Thunder King: "Laugh, war is okay, even if a hundred people can't get together, it is worthy of war? Not to mention the distance, our two high schools in the corner, there is a random group fight, there were three to five thousand people, and then the county was alarmed, so there was no fight, or it must have been on the news."

Irena: "Three to five thousand people are fine. Is your school called Lilyland Boys High School? Speaking of which, there are some dishes in the cafeteria. Don't just drink pot water, eat as much as you want. (⁠◠⁠‿⁠・⁠)⁠—⁠"

Get Up Ten Times A Night: "Laughing to death, I can't do it hahahahaha."

Tabletop Cop: "Yo, Irena is also here for OB? (⁠。⁠•̀⁠ᴗ⁠-⁠)⁠"

Irena: "You two wait, I hold a grudge. (`Д′*)9"

Mole In The Hole: "Scared. (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)"

Every time the version favorite comes out, everyone has all the fun, and the whole forum is full of joy, lively like a festival.

But this guy is like a gopher, he leaves without a word of ridicule, does not stay for a moment, and does not give others a chance to ridicule himself.

Perhaps in his world, he should be fighting against a certain dark force. And those who "Ridicule" and "Slander" him are undoubtedly the trumpets of the moderators.

Quit Smoking: "What about Mr.. Garbage? Why didn't you see him come up to pretend?"

Irena: "Yeah yeah, where's is that lizard? ಡ⁠ ͜⁠ ⁠ʖ⁠ ⁠ಡ??"

Get Up Ten Times A Night: "Tsk, it's embarrassing to think of this guy. Manager didn't let us light a fire for nothing. This guy was lying in the trench shivering from the cold, and he was afraid of falling asleep, so he told jokes to the people next to him. The result may be The joke was too cold, no one was amused by him, and he fainted in the end. He didn’t wake him up after the whole battle, and then he was carried back on a cart as a wounded man, he is really my brother.”

Picking Up Trash Level 99: "F*ck, you think I want to do that?! I tried a few times, but the status of the character is abnormal, and I can't connect at all! When I can finally go online, everyone is lying in the training cabin!"

Get Up Ten Times A Night: "It's a shame anyway. ٩(˘◡˘)۶"

Picking Up Trash Level 99 99: "@#@%! (◣◢)┌∩┐awqq"

WC Really Has Mosquitoes: "Hahahaha, I am the MVP of the audience! Just ask who else is there? (⁠⁠ᴗ⁠⁠)"

Scrambled Eggs: "Boss 6666, Goblin Technology is invincible!"

Big Eyes in Debt: "Don't make trouble, I counted the bodies, and there are only three people killed in the bombing. I'm not sure if your rocket killed them."

Get Up Ten Times A Night: "Hahaha, the atmosphere is solid! But there is one thing to say, the power of the Mosquito's weapon is not very good, and it is still strong enough to bluff people. A rocket flying past the opposite flag will be white."

WC Really Has Mosquitoes: "Damn! You are the atmosphere group! Your whole family is the atmosphere group! (◣◢)┌∩┐"

Shuri: "Stop arguing, everyone is friends."

Badass Bunny: "This group of guys are not noisy, they have a good relationship."

Shuri: "Is it the kind of boy-to-boy relationship?"

Badass Bunny: "...Ohh, yes."

After experiencing a hearty battle just now, many players are still excited, wishing to jump out of bed and do a hundred or eighty push-ups to vent.

But in reality, the body is not as strong as in the game, and the senses of the negative state are not weakened. After a little exercise, the muscles start to fatigue, and those who forget to eat are hypoglycemic and dizzy. Sure enough, the reality here is a garbage game, right?

Tomorrow Seeker: "Speaking of Mole, did you follow Manager to the camp of the Bloody Hand clan?"

Mole In The Hole: "Go, but we wiped out the main force in the park. We didn't fight when we went there, so we followed a story, and then searched for loot in the stronghold. I'm not bragging, this game is in the details are indeed unambiguous, from the dungeon where the captives are held, to the rooms of the predators... Tsk tsk, I can only say that sending these things to the gallows is really cheap for them."

Get Up Ten Times A Night: "What's the situation, tell me in detail."

Mole In The Hole: "What's the point of this? You can go and see for yourself tomorrow. It's a hell on earth. However, if you pass this copy once, you probably won't be able to do it again. Even if there are predators nearby, they probably won't. They are self-employed. Speaking of the predators at the tire factory, the nearby map should be considered open, right? I think there are many landmarks worth exploring over there, and you should be able to find a lot of good things.”

Tomorrow Seeker: "This wave is exciting, and it should be exciting to share the spoils tomorrow."

Mole In The Hole: "A technical question, is your brick factory budget able to participate in the loot auction?"

Tomorrow Seeker: "What are you thinking? If you can participate in this, why don't you simply bid?"

5,000 silver coins do have the capital to bid. The last round of auction had not been more than three days, everyone didn't have much money in their pockets, and the settlement of the war rewards was after the auction. It is estimated that many things will be unsold this time.

Mole In The Hole: "That's right, you don't even need 5,000 silver, 3,000 silver and 50 pieces of equipment are ready, hey, you can't afford to provoke them."

Get Up Ten Times A Night: "Unfortunate, if only there was a bank, I'll just buy a set of power armor in installments, and a fully equipped +14 automatic rifle."

Tomorrow Seeker: "You are still good at dreaming."

In fact, no matter how the points are divided, this battle will definitely not lose anything. The last time they faced a small team led by a captain, the average income distributed to each person was more than 10 silver coins.

This time the regiment wiped out 5 teams, and even the opponent's stronghold was wiped out. Wouldn't it make sense not to give fifty or sixty silver coins and one hundred and eighty contributions?

At least fifty silver coins, no less!

Mole In The Hole: "Is no one curious? The B2 floor is going to open soon? What do you think will be there?"

Get Up Ten Times A Night: "I have a hunch that there will be a major update, which should be Alpha 0.5."

Tomorrow Seeker: "Listening to what you have to say."

Badass Bunny: "As long as this hunch is useful, it's not necessarily useless."

Get Up Ten Times A Night "Hey! Then you should analyze it!"

Tomorrow Seeker: "Let me just say the conclusion. It is expected that the next phase of the update will focus on two directions. One is the system of the game itself, and the other is the content of the game."

Mole In The Hole: "What did Mr. Tomorrow say?"

Tomorrow, who yelled loudly, was very satisfied. Currently, the two most popular technical players in the forum are himself and the other is Mole.

Being flattered like this made him even type faster.

"Let's talk about the game system itself first. There has been a lot of calls on the forums to develop an easier attribute interface. But in fact, you newcomers may not know that this game didn't even mention the attribute interface at the beginning, and even the level setting there must be none, it’s so real that all the elements can be explored by yourself!”

"But soon, we discovered that the initial attributes of each player are different. Some are obviously more powerful, some are obviously more accurate intuition, and some are faster. After asking the planner, we learned that the player has the attribute of existence. And the two concepts of level!"

"It is for the sake of reality, but it is a burden if it is too real. Under our strong suggestion, the planning team held a meeting for several days, and finally integrated the setting of attributes and levels into the game in the form of data. Now you can see the attribute panels that I got were actually made later, and there were none before.”

"Then there is currency. In the beginning, there was no concept of currency at all. The rewards for cutting down trees were all settled with contribution points. It was probably in the alpha 0.3 version that the task system and economic system were greatly changed, and only then did we have the one we use silver coins, and later the notions of citizenship classes and private estates."

"In fact, players who have been playing can feel that the rules of Wasteland OL are being perfected little by little. The planning is also exploring, balancing the lever between reality and gameplay."

"Currently the currency system has been fully developed. I guess the next development team should find a way to improve the player's operation interface in the game, such as making the 'Accumulation of gene sequence development progress more intuitive'? It is best to give 'Skill proficiency' 'Also add a progress bar, so that the liver will have a more sense of accomplishment, won't it?"

"Let's talk about the content of the game! This part is also what I am most looking forward to!"

"Many people should have noticed that this time we captured the stronghold of the Bloody Hnad clan, not only took over the equipment of these predators, but also liberated a large number of prisoners held by the predators!"

"Most of these people are survivors who were persecuted by the predators. They are not just pale names. They have different identities. Some may come from shelters, and some may come from other survivor strongholds... just like us I’ve been to Brown’s Farm, and even Beit Street, Boulder City, etc. in the setting.”

"In their hometown, they may have their own social relations, and they may even have their own relatives somewhere in this wasteland."

"The identities of these NPCs may become clues to unlock more side plots for us, and how to properly arrange them and establish relationships with these NPCs will also be a new test for our 'Virtual community'!"

"So I boldly speculate that with the arrival of winter, the next expansion piece may revolve around this proposition!"

Tomorrow's point of view has been recognized by many people. Including the technical stream players such as Mole.

At this stage of the game, the number of players has far exceeded that of NPCs. If the number of players doubles, it will be difficult to complete all the interactions by relying only on Manager and his assistants.

If the ambition of Wasteland OL is to create a game world that is close to the real world and build a human-computer friendly virtual community in the virtual field, then the next expansion will definitely revolve around the relationship between NPCs and players.

And these poor people who were rescued are undoubtedly a good opportunity.

There are also those nearby survivor strongholds that have escaped the predatory power and harassment. Presumably they will also be grateful to their righteous army.

Tomorrow felt that he had completely figured out the idea of ​​the plan. Thinking of this, as he sat in front of the computer with sleepy eyes, the corners of his mouth could not help but curl up in joy.

As expected of me! I am just too awesome!

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