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Chapter 1061: Chapter 978: The Employees’ Morale has been Shattered…_1 Chapter 1061: Chapter 978: The Employees’ Morale has been Shattered…_1 [Dark Soul].

Of course, this wasn’t the original subtitle for the third chapter of “Chang’an”.

The original subtitle was called [Battleflame].

But during the development, because Lincoln added so many personal touches, the development process was fraught with setbacks, and the game had completely transformed into a different look.

What was originally envisioned as “large-scale legion combat in the outside world, player assassination inside”, had now completely tipped towards the player’s perspective.

Lincoln boldly deleted the large-scale warfare content, planning to throw out this part of the gameplay, and make a game like [Three Kingdoms Unparalleled] when he’s free or just like “Zelda Unparalleled”, make something like “Chang’an Unparalleled”.

——Otherwise, the development of this chapter would have been completed a long time ago, why would it wait until now?

As a result, the third chapter is still a pure action game, the only difference is that, with Lincoln’s interference, the gameplay has been “soulified”.

During the development process, many developers, hearing Lincoln’s requirements, began to look at him askance.

Stripping players of their attributes at the start of the game is one thing, but why cut off one of the player’s arms?

They can understand being hacked to death by a BOSS in two or three hits, but why are the minions also two or three hits?

And also, players killing the BOSS with great difficulty just to have the BOSS respawn immediately, what kind of trick is this?

Previously, even though Lincoln was unsympathetic, at least when the BOSS transformed into another stage, it was based on the health bar.

When a certain proportion of health was lost, the BOSS would transition into another stage, players had become accustomed to this setting, almost considering it as “common sense”.

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Now suddenly it has turned into respawning on the spot, who knows what they were thinking…

In the face of these issues, Lincoln was defiant: “It’s not only the BOSS that respawns on the spot, but also players!”

As for having an arm cut off…

This is the “broken arm trope”!

No matter whether it’s domestic or overseas films, comics, future sci-fi or classical martial arts, there are experts with broken arms everywhere!

If a player breaks an arm, this is called paying tribute to classics!

Not to mention, Cloud Dream will also give players a new multifunctional arm, isn’t that a surefire profit?

If it wasn’t for the fact that [Only Die Twice] as a subtitle was simply out of place, Lincoln would have wanted to name this chapter “Chang’an: Only Die Twice”.

But [Dark Soul] is close enough — after all, it’s all about the “soul”.

Close enough, close enough.

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After sending Jerome off, Lincoln walked into the company with Xiaomeng.

Cheryl, as always, brought a bunch of cats and dogs rushing over.

According to her, this was called “fulfilling the exercise quota in advance”.

She now considered herself halfway a Cloud Dream developer and had to spend some time in the virtual world every day.

But she was also used to frolicking with these cats and dogs.

If she went directly into the virtual world, the cats and dogs would rush up and bury her.

So releasing some of their energy in advance and making them pant with exhaustion, only wanting to lie down and rest, had become something Cheryl had to do every day.

As for forcibly leaving them outside, Cheryl, as the supervisor of the pet department, wouldn’t do such a thing that could hurt their feelings!

As she ran past with the cats and dogs, Cheryl didn’t forget to greet Lincoln and Xiaomeng:

“Good morning Boss!

Good morning Xiaomeng!”

“Morning,” Lincoln nodded.

“You too, have a good morning!” Xiaomeng energetically waved back.

Before entering the office, Lincoln saw Vincent and Fred standing together, not sure what they were talking about.

He shook his head and entered the office, sent a message about the meeting time, and then buried his head to continue writing the [Universal Humanoid Robot Control Algorithm].

The efficiency of writing at home was simply too low, it’s better to write in the office after all.

Xiaomeng whirled around in front of Lincoln a couple of times then ran to the resting room to do something, and then back again to hover in front of Lincoln.

Lincoln stopped, speechless, “Xiaomeng, why don’t you go outside and play with Cheryl?”

Out of courtesy, Xiaomeng tilted her head in hesitation for a second, then immediately nodded, joyously went through the door and ran out to play.

Lincoln returned to his coding once again.

By the time he saw Mavis again, it was in the virtual world, at the morning meeting of Cloud Dream.

He pulled Mavis to sit beside him, looked around at the employees present, and started, “So, the meeting begins.”

Everyone became quiet, looking at the table in the center of the meeting.

“First off, the ‘Pacific Rim’ team, you guys have done an outstanding job.”

Under his lead, everyone gave this team a warm round of applause.

When the applause died down, Lincoln continued: “Bonuses, vacations, all will be granted as usual, none will be short-changed.”

“After the celebration, however, I hope you invest some energy to optimize the ‘Multidimensional Time-space Tunnel’ world generation algorithm for player pairing, making these worlds more rational.”

“In addition, given the appearance of the ‘Crap-spewing Colossal Dragon’, we need to exercise caution towards the creative power of players.

If necessary, we need to react promptly to counter any negative implications.”

Lincoln’s thought process was simple.

If an individual player is causing trouble, then that’s okay, try not to interfere.

However, if certain outrageous behavior spreads widely – like if someone is inspired by the ‘Crap-spewing Colossal Dragon’, using evolution points to create a giant maggot that specializes in ‘shitting’, and then revealing the blueprint to inspire a massive player imitation …

In that case, for the sake of the game’s ecosystem and lifespan, the development team must step in to counter this trend.

Otherwise, this game probably won’t last very long …

“Lastly, Samuel, get ready on your end, assemble a competition group and coordinate with the ‘Pacific Rim’ development team.”

“In ‘Pacific Rim’s ‘Forgotten Cemetery’, I also added an easter egg – a ‘Mobile Ball Game’.

This gameplay hasn’t yet been discovered by players, but I estimate it can’t be hidden for long.

When the time comes, I plan to host a global competition event, so get ready for it and begin promotional work.”

“Specific details of the competition, I’ll send them to you later.”

“Okay.” Samuel nodded.

“Wait!” Jason interrupted, “Please make sure to send us a copy too …”

As developers of the game, they were utterly clueless about what’s going on in the game.

How could they tell that to anyone?!

“Oh, okay.” Lincoln turned and glanced at Mavis.

Mavis nodded, and began writing on a piece of paper.

Even though she didn’t really need it, the moment Lincoln finished speaking, she could’ve sent the information out.

But Mavis was playing the role of the president’s assistant, she needed to make it look authentic!

It was only when Lincoln saw Mavis writing [also send a copy to Jason] in childish handwriting that he turned his attention to the ‘Chang’an’ development team.

“Next, we have the ‘Chang’an’ Chapter Three closed-beta, did you encounter any problems?”

Randall and Fred exchanged glances.

In the end, it was Randall who said: “Boss, this chapter, the difference from the previous ones is simply too big, should we reduce the difficulty a bit?”

“Reduce?

Why?” Lincoln asked in confusion.

“During our internal testing, several employees from our other departments had their spirits crushed by the first BOSS…”, Fred added, “If we maintain this level of difficulty for the closed-beta, players might have major issues …”

Fred sounded heartfelt.

But Lincoln “cruelly” shook his head: “They are simply restrained by their past experience and are not used to the sudden change.”

“Don’t worry, practice makes perfect.

Let’s stick with this difficulty!

Start drawing the closed-beta invites.”

Seeing the hesitant expression on both of them, Lincoln yielded a step: “Alright, let’s see the effect of the closed-beta.

If the players’ reaction is too strong, we will make targeted adjustments then, okay?”

Phew—

Both of them sighed in relief at the same time.

“No problem, we will wrap up today, and the invitation for the closed-beta will be sent out the day after tomorrow at the latest”, Randall nodded.

Even if it’s a bit unfair to the closed-beta players, they at least avoided tormenting tens of millions of players after the public test.

At this moment, Randall felt like he had accrued immeasurable merits!