All Novel Full Chapter 1109
Chapter 1109: Chapter 1019: The Rapidly Changing Wind Direction and the Gradually Maddening Players_1 Chapter 1109: Chapter 1019: The Rapidly Changing Wind Direction and the Gradually Maddening Players_1 An hour later, under the guidance of Fred, the deception of “Easy Grinding” was inevitably exposed.
All the players were stunned.
The plan to rampage in Luoyang City hit a huge obstacle at the very first step —
They couldn’t break in…
On the [Vortex Forum], the posts were almost entirely filled with question marks.
Everyone was asking:
“Where exactly is the problem?”
In Cloud Dream’s own virtual forum, both the “Chang’an” and “Dark Soul” sections were desperately calling for experts.
They hoped for some strategy guides, tutorials, or even tips for skipping parts of the game.
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On Spiritual Rhinoceros’s social media network, the most frequently asked question was:
“Where is the difficulty option for this game?
Why can’t I find it?”
Some even went to Lincoln and the official “Chang’an” account’s comment section to leave a message:
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[@Lincoln, is the current difficulty of “Dark Soul” another April Fool’s joke?If it is, please change it back ASAP!
I can’t wait until tomorrow!]
This comment even received over 30,000 likes!
Lincoln wanted to reply with: “Accept the fact, this is the normal difficulty.”
But considering his personal safety, he wisely gave up this idea and chose to play dead.
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“Misery Everywhere”, this became the key phrase for the first hour after the release of “Dark Soul”.
Looking at this situation, only Lincoln and Xiaomeng could still laugh and joke around.
The employees of the development team were starting to panic.
— Not because of the online public opinion.
After numerous scandals caused by Lincoln, Cloud Dream’s employees have developed sufficient immunity to online public opinion.
What really agitated them was —
“Dark Soul” has created the most dramatic refund data in Cloud Dream’s history!
In the past, yes, Cloud Dream’s games did have refunds.
However, since every game and every area in the virtual world are interconnected to some degree.
Purchasing a game is not only about playing the game, but also a kind of “upgrade”, a kind of “nurturing” in the virtual world.
So the game refund rate has always been extremely low, low enough to shock all peers around the world!
But “Dark Soul” broke this record.
Randall was surprised but he could understand:
“Dark Soul” is indeed a hardcore game.
It’s normal for casual players to immediately request a refund after their impulses led to a purchase, only to have their expectations shattered.
Moreover, the Luoyang city in “Dark Soul” is obviously not a scenic spot where you can just wander around when you have nothing to do…
They could understand why, but they still felt a little upset…
The only good news was: Luoyang City would not always be like this.
After a while, when players discover that this city can become beautiful, the explorers and collectors will return.
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In the second hour after the launch, things began to change —
The first change was seen on the established forum: [Whirlpool Game Forum].
Its users were once proud to identify themselves as “elite players”.
Although they were slightly biased, it did reveal one fact: for an extended period, this forum provided the highest quality, most accurate, and the most hardcore game data and guides on the internet.
Even when Cloud Dream’s virtual forums completely crushed [Vortex Forum] in terms of user traffic, the forum’s user base and the quality of its strategies did not decrease in the slightest.
Now, the change in trend started here again —
Among the first players who entered Luoyang City, many rushed to complete the main storyline to compete for the honor of the world’s first completion.
But many others immediately stopped and began to create guides!
Shang Gao, Drawing a Snake With Horns, and Qingyan Canmeng posted their strategies almost simultaneously.
They didn’t simply release their own combat videos, but seriously analyzed the BOSS’s attack moves and behavioral logic for everyone, each providing their own best strategy for recognizing the timing of using Shield Counter.
Shang Gao judged by the shoulder, Drawing a Snake With Horns looked at the angle at which the BOSS’s elbow bent, while Qingyan Canmeng was the most unique — listening to the sound of the BOSS’s weapon cutting through the wind, as long as you can catch that subtle and unique sound, the success rate is almost 100%!
As an experienced moderator of the [Vortex Forum] and a tester for the closed beta of “Dark Soul”, Shang Gao also developed and demonstrated two drastically different techniques: [No Shield Counter Fast Kill] and [Pot Lid Slow Kill].
The former requires extremely high reflexes, distance judgment, and body control abilities.
It is a relatively advanced technique, but it is very entertaining to watch.
The latter, like its name, is a kind of imperfect [Shield Counter].
Although it can also block damage, it constantly reduces the durability of the Pot Lid Shield, after this fight, the shield would basically be scrapped.
But this technique also has a huge advantage: it’s very simple!
It is at least twice as simple as the perfect Shield Counter that does not consume durability!
Just a step behind these three guides, various BOSS fight videos began to spring up like mushrooms after a rain on the forum.
— The experts are showing off their skills!
The more the player circle moans that this game is too difficult, the more excited these veterans get!
They not only want to win, but they want to win in style!
Show off!
However, the most widely spread were those three guide videos – less than 10 minutes after they were released, they were everywhere on the internet.
When Daxia players saw that there were guides, they stopped complaining and started studying the guides, playing again.
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Compared to the closed beta when Super Tomato took three and a half hours to defeat Fred, the current players are way faster!
But this is not because Super Tomato is bad or that Cloud Dream modified the difficulty.
The reason for this difference is simple –
Players can communicate with each other.
Any discoveries, any tricks, can be quickly circulated, popularised, and optimised.
Especially as closed beta players disclose their secrets, quickly pushing through the BOSS to demonstrate to everyone, some even directly started creating guides as soon as the game launched.
Compared to a single person doing everything themselves, the efficiency is simply of another order!
However, this rapid transformation is only temporary and has only occurred in Daxia.
And guides are not omnipotent.
On Victoria’s side, the counter has already refreshed to – “[Dead] *48”.
And Victoria’s progress is only just at the second phase.
Now in the live broadcast room, she is no longer called Victoria, but “Noob Yi”…
On the live broadcast screen, Noob Yi who has been continuously tortured for over an hour also begins to lose control, her eyes flaming with fury at the BOSS!
Fighting while shouting.
Before every Shield Counter, she yells once – “Shield Counter!”.
Every time she jabs the BOSS with a sword, she also yells once – “Die!”.
So, her combat process is like fighting while commentating –
“Shield Counter!”
“Die Die Die!”
“Shield Counter!”
“Die Die Die!”
…
The result?
Victoria is somewhat on the verge of breaking down, but her viewers are more and more excited, the more they watch, the happier they are.
The atmosphere in the live broadcast room is explosive.
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And over an hour after the release, American players who realise things a little late finally start flooding into “Dark Soul”, starting their lesson.
However, they might well be the players who suffer the most.
Their delay issue has not been completely resolved yet.
Peak War has not been able to achieve too good results, “Chang’an” is also hard to apply high agility, fast-attack growth routines, it’s because they need to use an intermediary to hop to the Mexican server, to enter the virtual world.
Even if the Foundation has improved a lot of their gaming experience by standardising the optimisation of the proxy network, it cannot fundamentally solve the gaps caused by hardware deficiencies.
But the Foundation is not doing charity this time, the revenue earned from the network proxy more than covers the operating costs of the Foundation, and it continues to distribute resources.
Lincoln no longer has to reach into his own pocket to subsidise this [Fondation of Liberty and Democracy].
Not only that, he even makes something on the side.
This makes him somewhat admire Erman-Naturally a mature capitalist, his vision and skill are both first-rate!
Getting back on topic, the delay of the American players is higher than most countries.
The problem that this delay brings is, when the BOSS’s attack speed is relatively fast, the timing of the Shield Counter will be harder to grasp, it may even go against your intuition-the more you think it’s a sure hit, the more it could lead to errors.
Of course, at the first stage of the BOSS fight, the problems caused by this delay are still within tolerable limits.
However, after transforming into the second phase, the already extremely difficult Shield Counter operation will linearly skyrocket in difficulty!
This is obviously not a pleasant experience…
Eika, once taken away by the FBI, is becoming more and more violent as he plays.
Realising that the 18th Shield Counter, which he thought was certain, failed and was killed by the BOSS’s slower axe, he became infuriated.
Looking at the huge letters in front of him saying, “Died”, he completely loses it-
After resurrecting, he firmly grasps his sword and cyclically stabs the floor while shouting in imperfect Chinese:
“shi!
shi!
shi!…”
“Fuck!
shi!!!”
“Fu~~~~~~ck!!”