After starting the game, instead of the reading bar screen of a normal competitive game, it appears similarly to a single-player game, with a cutscene playing first. ｛

"What's going on?" Zhou Yan asked coldly.

"Because it takes too long to read, I put this every time I enter the game." Zhao Nuo explained.

What appears on the screen is an aerial view of a complex area of tropical rainforests, abandoned cities, rivers that cross cities, and desert wastelands.

In the middle of the city's border with the rainforest and the desert, a huge crater-like thing can be seen. In the center of the crater, a pitch-black cylindrical metal object stood, with some equally black fragments scattered around it.

At the same time, a female voiceover sounded:

"Three years ago, a mysterious plane known as the 'Chaos Engine' crashed into this area from outer space, bringing a shockwave that instantly killed all the inhabitants of the city, turning the bustling capital in the desert into a dead city."

"According to scientists' research, the mysterious metal that forged the engine of chaos has the potential to be transformed into the most powerful weapon in human history. In order to compete for this metal, various powers have sent their armies to fight bloody battles in this dead area. ”

The screen shows a group of soldiers armed with assault rifles, exchanging fire in the forest. Then the picture suddenly went black, and when it lit up again, the corpses of the soldiers were torn in two, and they were in a miserable state.

The woman's explanation rang out at the right time:

"But the soldiers soon discovered that it wasn't just humans who wanted to compete for the 'engine of chaos.' Only Zài is a cyborg freak in a horror movie. Beasts mutated by the Chaos Engine, as well as ethereal ghosts, also appear in the area. ”

"Under the attack of the monsters, the human forces were almost completely wiped out. Faced with an enemy beyond the norm, humanity finally stopped killing each other for a while, and sent the most elite soldiers to form a secret force and begin a fight to the death against the monsters. ”

"The killing revolves around the engine of chaos and never stops."

As soon as the sentence ended, the cutscene ended, followed by a dark green border faction selection screen.

"What a stupid plot." Zhou Yan has a lot of criticism about the story background of "Chaos Engine".

"It's a competitive game, after all. Everybody's here to fight, not to read stories. Zhao Nuo said with a smile. Then the conversation changed: "Are you playing the human camp or the monster camp?" ”

"Monsters." Zhou Yan's answer did not hesitate.

"Okay, I'll choose humans, I haven't played in a long time, I have to get familiar with it."

While speaking. Zhao Nuo clicked on the human camp. Looking at the five characters inside.

Since this game is not a single-player game. Zhao Nuo had only played it two or three times when it first came out, and now he also needs to refamiliarize himself with it.

Remember when this game first came out, there were only three heroes in each faction. Now it's five, and presumably two were added in a later update.

The first option was a big man in a green camouflage suit and a beret, with a fleshy face smeared with black and green oil paint.

The man held a large saber half a meter long, and the serrations on the blade flashed with a sharp cold light. He was covered in bullet belts and carried a light machine gun on his back.

Just by looking at the appearance, you know that this guy must be an expert in jungle warfare, and the character introduction below the model fully proves this:

"Codename: Lion. Terrain bonus: Rainforest. Special Ability: Survival in the Wild - Gain an extra 10% movement speed and health recovery speed in the rainforest. Can sneak in the forest. ”

The second option below the "lion" is a mysterious guy dressed in black, wearing a thermal imager, and not showing an inch of skin on his body. But judging from the body type, this person should be a thin man.

The man was armed with a shotgun and carried a number of explosives. As for what kind of combat such a guy is suited for, it goes without saying that it is already clear.

"Codename: Hermit. Terrain bonus: City. Special Ability: Scouting - In the city, you can detect the location of nearby enemies every minute and display the location of all items on the map. It is possible to sneak around the city. ”

The third option below the hermit is a young man wearing a wide-brimmed hat, a jacket and jeans, and a scruffy beard. With two revolvers in his hands, he doesn't look like an elite soldier at all, but more like a western cowboy.

However, since you can be selected into this elite unit, you naturally have something special:

"Codename: Cowboy. Terrain bonus: Desert. Special Ability: Butcher of the Desert - Instantly restores 50% of maximum health for every enemy killed in the desert. It is possible to sneak in the desert. ”

The above three characters are the three characters from the human camp in the original version of the game, and the following two characters are new characters that were added later: a man in military uniform with an assault rifle in his hand, and a tall beautiful woman wearing a navy camouflage uniform and carrying a sniper rifle.

"Codename: Tempest. Time bonus: Daytime. Special Ability: Assault Fighter - During the day, you can use the Assault Rifle to launch fast and accurate aiming, which increases the chance of critical hits by 20%, and can move quickly when firing. ”

"Codename: Silver Fox. Time bonus: Night. Special Skill: Assassination Sniper - You can launch an assassination sniper at night, increasing the range by 100%, increasing the damage by 50%, and will not reveal your position after the first attack. ”

“……”

Looking at the five characters with their own skill attributes, Zhao Nuo recalled the novice map "Grand Canyon" he chose. If memory serves, the map is supposed to be in the desert terrain southwest of the Chaos Engine.

Therefore, there is no suspense at all about which character to choose now.

Five seconds later, the cowboy character with two revolvers in his hand has appeared in his base.

The so-called camp is actually a shabby-looking tent built on top of a cliff, and there are several merchants with camels wrapped in turbans, selling all kinds of equipment and props.

This map is a standard competitive map, and is actually divided into three paths, with two desert roads on either side of the map and a hollow rift in the center.

The black shards in the middle of the canyon and stuck in the ground are the shards of the "Chaos Engine".

Unlike normal competitive games, this game has a second way to win in addition to destroying enemy camps:

- Bringing fragments of the Chaos Engine to your own base can also win the match.

While it may sound simple, players with engine shards will have a 50% reduction in movement speed, a noticeable decrease in defense and attack, and the inability to sneak.

Even in a three-on-three match, it is not easy to bring engine fragments to the base. And in a one-on-one match, it is almost impossible to capture the engine fragments.

Because of this, in 1v1 battles, most players simply abandon the search for death by grabbing engine fragments and concentrate on destroying enemy camps.

The camps of the two factions seem to be rudimentary, but once someone from the enemy camp approaches, a large number of defenders will suddenly be spawned. Therefore, it is almost impossible to destroy the enemy camp in the early stage. And......

Zhao Nuo is very clear: this game seems to have few characters, but the complexity and playability are not lost to those competitive games with hundreds of characters.

As for the reason, it actually lies in the character's growth system.

"Why are there so many skills? Which one is better? The pale girl sitting next to her asked, her chosen character being a white-haired werewolf.

"Choose for yourself, and don't forget that we are enemies now." Zhao Nuo looked at his skill bar.

Heroes in the game can only be upgraded up to level ten, and each level gets one skill point. However, there are a full thirty skills that can be upgraded for each character.

These thirty skills include ten passive skills and twenty active skills, with each level unlocking a portion of the puzzle, and reaching level 10 unlocking the last four special moves.

Even if you reach the full level, you can only have ten skills. There are twenty skills that cannot be used,

For patients with difficulty in choosing, the choice skills alone are enough to make them think about it for a long time.

At this time, Zhao Nuo was also studying what skills should be upgraded first:

Most of the skills unlocked at level 1 are passive skills such as "increased movement speed" and "increased attack speed", and there are only three active skills:

"High-Speed Charge: A one-minute cooldown that causes you to sprint at one hundred and fifty percent for five seconds."

"Hand of Kill: Cooldown of two minutes, instantly resets your ammo status and restores 20% of your health."

"God of War Descends: Cooldown of two minutes, after use, can allow you to use non-combat skills such as returning to the city and healing in battle, and can have a buff effect after leaving the battle, which lasts for fifteen seconds."

――It looks like they're all good...... What should I do?

After thinking for a moment, he didn't choose the two skills that looked better in the back, but decisively chose the first skill: high-speed charge.

After choosing the skills, I used the initial 500 yuan to buy a speed-up shoe and two return scrolls from the merchant. The cowboy controlled by Zhao Nuo officially set off.

"You don't buy healing potions? It's stupid. Zhou Yan next to her complained coldly, at this time, her white-haired werewolf inventory was already full of healing props called "ribs".

"It's shameless to peek at an opponent's screen in the middle of a fight." Zhao Nuo said with a smile.

The two who were supposed to fight to the death in the Grand Canyon map, one had a tacit understanding to the left and the other to the right, staggering each other's positions. And then......

They started to jungle. (To be continued......) R527