On April 16th, "Eternal War" will be suspended for maintenance from 00:00 to 08:00 tomorrow, so today has naturally become the deadline for the version to be provided.

The previous official announcement has stated that this maintenance will update the ladder system, which everyone has been waiting for for a long time.

After the server is reactivated, all players will not start matchmaking directly after clicking Find Match, but will pop up the match type selection menu, where players can select the competitive match option.

After this update, the match type selection screen will also add a new entertainment mode option, but it is not clickable, and it is purely used as a teaser and to appetize.

Several divisions of the competitive competition have been announced a long time ago, according to the player's competitive score, from 1500 bronze to 4500 of the strongest king, a total of seven ranks, in addition to the strongest king, each rank is divided into five levels, each level spans 100 points.

Tier attainment requires players to complete ten placement matches before moving up the ranks by continuing to compete in competitive matches.

The organizer of the Blue Fish Cup, Modern Torch, also issued an announcement at the same time that the registration channel will be closed on time at 0:00 on April 16, but the list of participants will not be determined.

Over the next week, players will need to try their best to improve the ranks of the entire team to determine if they are eligible to participate in the online audition of the Blue Fish Cup.

In a week's time, Modern Torch and Herring Games will screen out the top 1,024 of the 4,396 teams that have signed up through the team's overall ladder score, so that each team only needs to win six games in a row to qualify for the offline competition, as well as a prize of 20,000 yuan.

Of course, teams that fail to qualify for the competition will also receive virtual items such as exclusive skins and limited avatars as promised.

Because of the large number of updates, the maintenance time has also reached eight hours, and in order not to affect the normal game of most players, the update time was chosen in the early morning.

At this time, the development team and the operation department, as well as the "Eternal War" teams in Funan and Huangpu, all entered sleepless nights.

In Ye Shenxi's vision, the version update should be completed in advance and the process should be automated.

The development team completes the development content in advance, completes the comprehensive internal testing, and then packages and sends it to the operation, and the operation also completes a wave of testing for the updated content, and when the update comes, the new content is directly released through the GM tool.

But this is indeed an ideal situation, and it is still very difficult with the current strength of the company.

Although the number of R&D headquarters in Funan has increased to 157 people so far, the five project teams from P01 to P05 have supplemented outstanding fresh graduates through school recruitment or experienced R&D talents through social recruitment compared with the initial stage of the project.

However, the cultivation of the team is a long-term process, and of course, the work content will vary depending on the progress of the project, for example, the P01 "Immortal Dao" project team is relatively easy now.

Including this update, as players have to determine their hidden points in advance based on their previous matches, there is a large database to run in terms of the number of players in Eternal War right now.

This is also something that can't be helped, if the player's hidden score is determined in advance, after the ladder is opened, there will be a period of time when players will have a great possibility of encountering opponents who are really far behind their own strength, which are all details.

The game company is busy, and players don't know where to come out of a crooked atmosphere, and they are starting to vent the extra energy that they can't play the game again.

Even if it's twelve o'clock in the middle of the night.

In terms of the proportion of the number of players, most players have almost slept at this time, but those who remain are true love fans.

Their obsession with games has reached a level that may not be incomprehensible to others.

In the past, "Eternal War" has also undergone several maintenances, but they are mainly to fix bugs or update art resources, and the longest maintenance time is only one and a half hours, which can barely be endured.

Now there is no buffer ladder in the middle, and it is eight hours to come directly, even if it is a good thing to sleep, some people posted on the forum: "I can't sleep if I don't do it." ”

"I can't sleep even more when I wake up." Someone else replied.

Even the people behind him even posted: "If I don't do it, I won't be able to live." ”

It gradually evolved: "I can't one, I'm going to die." ”

This became a fixture of the game, and every time Eternal War was shut down for maintenance, players would run out and shout it every day.

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After the servers reopened at 8 a.m., the day turned into a crazy day of scores, even though there was no call for points at this time.

By twelve o'clock at noon, more than 10,000 players had completed their trip to the top, with the highest being Silver II with 2,392 points and the lowest being ...... 965 points, but it is still a bronze 5, and it will not fall to plastic, and this gap will slowly open up in more games in the future.

The participating teams of the herring network have also officially started training and scoring points, and they still have to talk about principles, if their own team can't get into the top 1024, then they can only blame themselves for their inferior skills.

The main lineup has been determined, which is a collection of outstanding talents from the company's south and Huangpu provinces, and represents the highest combat power of the herring network.

Jungler Ye Shenxi, Game ID: Producer;

APC Xia Herring, Game ID: Boss;

The top order is Ke Junran, a product from the product department of "Eternal War", game ID: product. This guy was recruited last autumn and is currently interning in the company, from Huangpu Jiaotong University, with a lively mind, rich game experience, and is particularly sensitive to data, and is one of the key training objects of Huangpu Branch.

The ADC is Xiao Hei from the operation and maintenance department, game ID: operation and maintenance. To put it mildly, the whole company and even Xia Qingyu are convinced, Xiao Hei is the first seed player in the entire Qingyu Network "Eternal War". After Xia Qingyu saw that she had fought a few times, she even had the idea of introducing her to Ji Qinlin's ME to team up with that Tracy, but it was just a casual divergence, what if Xiao Hei sent the company away.

The assistant is Rao Bin from the P01 "Immortal Dao" project team, game ID: planning. Ye Shenxi still remembers his performance in the pit during the first internal battle test, but he is hard and diligent. Maybe it's because I have a girlfriend, and the operation is not very obvious because of that, but after a few months, I have practiced a sense of the overall situation, and I am also a good hand at commanding on the spot, and I am also making the best use of my talents to play auxiliary positions.

For this guy, Ye Shenxi can only say that the workload is still not saturated.

In terms of the luxury configuration of the herring network, there are also two substitutes, Liu Jiehui of P01 and Doug of P02, well, it is still foreign aid.

First, it's hard to solve the emergency situation of some game in the game, and secondly, there is no rule on Ji Qinlin's side that there can't be substitutes to sign up.

And just like that, the official team began their journey.