"Boss, at 7 p.m., "Swordsman Love: Loyal to the Country" will be in public beta. Wu Zhaopu walked in excitedly and said.

After more than a year of development, a large-scale domestic martial arts online game with an investment of hundreds of millions of yuan is finally about to be released for public testing.

"By the way, how many supercomputers are there in "Swordsman Love: Loyal to the Country"?" Lin Feng asked.

"Three, Bruce has assembled three, and Cohen has transplanted 'cloud computing' into it, and now after these three supercomputers are connected in parallel through 'cloud computing', their computing speed has reached 40 trillion times per second, as for whether it can perfectly operate "Swordsman Love: Loyal to the Country", it depends on the actual situation. Wu Zhaopu carried a hint of excitement and a hint of apprehension.

When Qiu Xin designed "Swordsman Love: Loyal to the Country", stimulated by the "Shijie War" developed by Min Wu and Lee, Qiu Xin also came up with the concept of all players playing on the same server. This concept is naturally beyond the capabilities of today's online game companies, but fortunately, the "second shijie" recruited Bruce Allen, a super DIY computer hardware player, to build a supercomputer for the "second shijie".

However, in order for "Swordsman Love: Loyal to the Country" to run smoothly, Wu Zhaopu conservatively set the official public beta at 7 o'clock tonight, with only one area, and it is only open to domestic players for the time being, and the maximum number of people can only log in at 7 o'clock. If it runs well, the second opening will take place at 8 o'clock, and the number of online users will be 100,000 again. If it's okay, it's open at 9 o'clock and it's been tested all the time.

Can three supercomputers withstand millions of people online at the same time? Although theoretically, a group of servers can withstand 5,000 players online, and the performance of a supercomputer is at least 200 times better than that of an ordinary server, theoretically speaking, three supercomputers can withstand up to 3 million people online at the same time. But now the question is not only whether the supercomputer of the "second shijie" can withstand it, but also whether the player's computer can withstand it.

The supercomputer of the "second shijie" must share a part of the computing of the player's computer, which poses a severe test to the three supercomputers. Time passed in minute by minute, the second game development department, led by Qiu Xin, was conducting a pre-beta inspection of Zuihou, and Bruce and Cohen were also waiting closely in the supercomputer room for the arrival of massive data.

Disturbed!

For all domestic players, they have been looking forward to the open beta of "Swordsman Love: Loyal to the Country". This is the first large-scale martial arts online game in China, and its game background is one of the saddest eras in Chinese history, the early Southern Song Dynasty, the era of national hero Yue Fei's loyalty to the country.

When it came to Yue Fei, all the players sighed, such a heroic character, but Zuihou was killed by Qin Hui's traitor and died on a "trumped-up" charge. The fact that a general cannot die on the battlefield is undoubtedly the greatest sorrow for a general. Now all players will be able to participate in this historical event, which makes all players excited and excited.

"Second Shijie" officially announced that players will be able to change the historical background development of "Swordsman Love: Loyal to the Country", and have a completely open degree of freedom, which is not available in any previous game.

In Swordsman's Love: Loyal to the Country, players can do whatever they want. For example, players can choose to assassinate Qin Hui to avoid the greatest tragedy in Chinese history, or choose to assassinate General Yue Fei's main opponent, the Jin Wushu of the Jin State, which directly solves the crisis of the Southern Song Dynasty, and even choose to assassinate the Emperor Jin Xizong of the Jin State to let the Southern Song Dynasty reorganize the rivers and mountains and unify China.

In short, the player's freedom is completely open-ended, and in Swordsman Love: Loyal to the Country, the player is not restricted in any way. The only limit is the player's own strength.

At the beginning of the design, Qiu Xin set "Swordsman Love: Loyal to the Country" as a completely open-ended plot, with a variety of endings. Every time a player triggers a plot and changes a historical script, Qiu Xin will launch a series of large-scale dungeons until the end of this historical era.

Qiu Xin has designed a total of three large-scale expansion packs for "Swordsman Romance Online", and "Swordsman Romance: Loyal to the Country" is only the first one, so Qiu Xin is not afraid of Chinese players' terrifying ability to dig into the game's plot and end the life of "Swordsman Romance Online" early.

For example, if you want to assassinate Qin Hui, it is the simplest "variant" plot, but this simplest "variant" plot also requires players to at least reach the realm of "first-class master" (capped at level 70, and the realm of "first-class master" is level 60), and at least hundreds of players of the same level must enter Qin Hui's mansion at the same time to be able to assassinate successfully.

As for the subsequent rescue of Yue Fei and the assassination of the gold lord Wan Yan Yan, it was extremely difficult, without tens of thousands of players acting at the same time and cooperating skillfully, they would only die in vain. Although "Swordsman Love: Loyal to the Country" has no experience to lose, it will lose some martial arts proficiency, and the proficiency must be re-cultivated.

In particular, Qiu Xin also designed a new "rebellion" system, if the player wants to change the historical background and take the risk of assassinating the court officials of the Jin Kingdom or the Southern Song Dynasty, if the identity is revealed during the assassination (the player can buy a "camouflage" mask before the assassination, but there is a certain chance of falling off in the battle), the court to which the assassin belongs will be fully wanted by the player, and the soldiers of all the towns in the country will hunt down the player. Players can only stay safe by returning to the sect. Of course, if an Emperor-level NPC is assassinated, the player will no longer be spared except to flee to the hostile country.

This "rebellion" penalty is not removed with the player's death, but has a mandatory time limit. Therefore, it is not so easy for players to change the plot.

Although it is difficult to change the plot, and the price paid is extremely painful, it is still extremely fascinating for all enthusiastic players, and they are ready to wait for the launch of "Swordsman Love: Loyal to the Country". went to unify with General Yue Fei of the nation and experienced those iron-blooded and helpless years.

Of course, the gimmick of millions of players playing on the same server is also a big reason why all players are excited to dance with their hands.

According to incomplete statistics, on May 23, 2002, there were more than 2 million players waiting for the launch of "Swordsman Love: Loyal to the Country", but the official launch of the service at 19 o'clock in the evening was only 100,000 places, and the competition was fierce. Therefore, starting at 18 o'clock in the evening, a large number of players clicked on the client that had already been placed, waiting for the launch of the server of "Swordsman Love: Loyal to the Country". Prepare to click on the game for the first time to experience this online game that can only exist in "legends".

As the opponent of "Second Shijie", 12 domestic online game companies are also paying close attention to the launch of "Swordsman Love: Loyal to the Country". Although we have previously established a domestic online game alliance in the "First Internet Addiction War" - New Era, competition is everywhere. In particular, many people in the "New Era" alliance wish that there would be fewer of the 13 companies in this alliance, so that each company could have more points when sharing money (the charge for minors' weekly game time to the limited telephone notification).

Among them, the most nervous is undoubtedly the company that operates 3D online games in China, and now the only domestic 3D online games are popular in "Nine Cities" "Miracle", as well as "Perfect Time and Space" has just represented "Smiling Proud Jianghu Online", and Shanghai Ubisoft Computer Software Company is preparing to introduce the European and American masterpiece "Endless Mission".

The three companies are one of the members of the "new era", and they are also the pioneers of the current 3D online games in China.

"Second shijie" now spans multiple genres, and it has made money that makes everyone red, but it also extends its tentacles to the field of 3D online games, which makes many companies want to cry without tears. Could it be that the "second shijie" wants to drive them all out? But these company CEOs are helpless. Who let the "second shijie" master so many resources.

The "valve" game development team, the "3DO" development team, the "cloud computing", and the "supercomputer" are all enough to make other companies covet, but they are all in the hands of the "second shijie" company.

Jealousy, the naked jealousy of the CEOs of 12 game companies. Even Tencent, the overlord of the communication market with QQ, an instant messaging software, is jealous of the "second shijie".

Chen Xiaowei, president of "Nine Cities", also waited in front of the computer early, waiting for the launch of "Swordsman Love: Loyal to the Country" through the traffic detection software developed by industry insiders.

Chen Xiaowei doesn't believe that "Swordsman Love: Loyal to the Country" will be able to run on the same server as the official promotion of "Second Shijie", although "Second Shijie" has a supercomputer that makes all online game companies in the industry jealous, but it does not mean that "Swordsman Love: Loyal to the Country" can carry millions of players online at the same time, especially the Asian version will be launched, so that Asian players can enjoy the fun of large-scale role-playing games in one server.

A player's computer will never be able to withstand millions of people online at the same time—— Chen Xiaowei said firmly. Especially when millions of people are online at the same time, the area of the game map involved is probably more than 100 times larger than the "Miracle" map under the "Nine Cities" company, so she doesn't believe that the "Second Shijie" will develop such a large map. And how to level up, how to fight monsters, no matter how powerful the NPC is, but there are more ants that can bite the elephant to death, especially the official announcement of the "second shijie" that the player can change the background of the game, which is even more of a joke.

Think about it, millions of players rush into the Jinguo Palace, what can NPCs use to resist? Especially the data of millions of players, even supercomputers may not be able to handle it.

Chen Xiaowei took a sip of tea lightly, waiting to see the broken cowhide advocated by "Second Shijie".

Most of the members of the "New Era" hold such thoughts and watch the show quietly.