Chapter 24: The Boar Forest
Over time, players have become familiar with the game's gameplay; Fighting monsters and leveling up has also changed from stiff movements at the beginning to handy.
Fewer and fewer players will be ravaged to death by mobs for their mistakes; At the same time, there are more and more players who are able to defeat a monster in two people, or even fight a monster alone.
The game has been on service for more than 40 hours, and in the wild monster area of level 5 and 6, you can already see groups of players haunting.
Nowadays, when there are as many fifth-level players as dogs, Li Bing walks alone in the fifth-level wild monster area-wild boar forest, which does not seem abrupt at all.
"Brother, alone, do you want to form a team?" Walking alone in the Boar Forest, Li Bing can always receive team invitations from other players.
"No, thank you!" Li Bing replied with a smile.
The person who invited Li Bing to form a team was not discouraged when he saw that the invitation failed, but kindly reminded: "If you are alone, you have to be careful, death after level five is an experienced punishment, I have seen several players hang back to level four after death!" ”
"My friend's team is at the front!" Li Bing lied.
Along the way, Li Bing can see scenes of abuse of monsters all the time; Most of them are a team of two or three people, and occasionally one person can be seen taking on a monster alone.
And the players' work has basically formed a standardized process - attracting monsters, beating monsters, attracting monsters, beating monsters...... After seeing the fierceness of monsters, basically no one will still dive into the monster pile to kill monsters without knowing the sky.
The hatred system in "Drawing the Knife" is too subtle, and if a monster is bullied, the hatred system of the monster next to it will be sucked over.
If players want to kill a monster, they have to be careful to seduce a monster before they can do it; And the process of luring monsters is often much longer than fighting monsters - because it doesn't mean that if you go up and seduce them, the monsters will be lured out by you.
Attracting monsters is also a technical job! If you are too far away from the monster, the monster may chase you for a few steps and then be too lazy to continue chasing; And if it's too close to the monster, it may not be a monster, but two, three, or even more monsters - two or three monsters chase and kill a player together, and the player's screams can usually be heard after dozens of seconds, and it's still a small story of group annihilation.
Because of this, these players who are already quite skilled in the fifth and sixth levels are still unable to catch up with the previous batch of players of level seven or eight in terms of level - the players who can occupy the level advantage are not only masters of killing monsters, but also masters of attracting monsters. Only when the monster is attracted quickly, the upgrade efficiency is high.
Now, whenever a player yells "I'll lead monsters" in a leveling scene, there is no doubt that a whole bunch of teams will immediately throw an olive branch at him.
Of course, none of this has anything to do with Li Bing. As a journalist, the amount of hatred you attract is extremely low; As long as Li Bing is not too close to the wild monster, basically the wild monster is not willing to deal with a reporter like him.
Of course, even if Li Bing was taken care of by the wild monsters, he was not afraid - there was no wild monster in the fifth-level wild monster area that could threaten Li Bing, as long as Li Bing did not take the initiative to attack the wild monsters.
After wandering around the wild boar forest for half a circle, Li Bing sighed: "The players' attacks are too single!" ”
There are five main classes in the game - Knight, Swordsman, Feather, Mage, and Priest. In general, knights and swordsmen should be melee attacks, while feathers, mages, and clerics should be ranged attacks. But in fact, after walking around for such a large part of the circle and seeing so many players, Li Bing was stunned and didn't see a single player attacking from a distance!
Not one!
Whether it's a flying feather that should be an archer casting a cold arrow far away, or a mage who wields a staff and throws fireballs, they're all there to attack in close combat. Li Bing only saw that one after another, Fei Yu and mage, picked up the longbow and staff in their hands, and smashed them at the monster's head with all their might, causing considerable damage one after another.
Li Bing shook his head and sighed: "The early stage of the remote profession is too miserable......
Although he said this, in fact, he couldn't eat grapes and said that grapes were sour; What Li Bing thought to himself was: "If I could pick up my 'Teacher Chen's blessing' and smash the monster, how nice it would be......"
However, the action of picking up the camera and smashing the monster can only be a delusion for Li Bing, who has no attack, no blood and no defense.
"Forget it, let's be my reporter honestly......" Li Bing secretly shook his head and sighed.
Among the five major classes, if you want to activate ranged attacks, you must not be able to do so until at least level 10 or later. The system does this in order to balance the gap between the professions as much as possible.
You know, if Fei Yu (to put it bluntly, the archer) can shoot a bow and arrow as soon as he comes up, then hundreds or thousands of archers will be able to sweep all the scenes in the novice village when they are grouped together? I'm afraid even the bosses will be shot alive by the archers?
If that's the case, the gap between ranged and melee classes in the early stages is a bit big......
Some people may say that it doesn't matter if an archer can shoot arrows, as long as the caste of knights and swordsmen in the early stage is strengthened. Although the words are good, the purpose of setting up a novice village in "Draw the Knife" is actually to give players a process of adaptation, to adapt to such a sudden change of surname from computer games to holographic games.
If the ranged class can attack from a distance as soon as it comes up, and the melee class can carry the monster fight as soon as it comes up, then this process of adaptation will naturally not be well realized.
Some people will say, why are botanists able to attack from a distance? Why can't reporters adapt to their surnames at all in the early stage?
Ahem, to put it nicely, reporters, botanists or something are hidden professions, to put it mildly, they are not born in the main brain system. The main brain system can manage more than 99% of the players, and your hidden profession of less than 1%, who is happy with you......
After more than half an hour of snake-like wandering in the wild boar forest, Li Bing still didn't find an ideal card monster spot. So relying on the invincible skill of "players or monsters whose level is not higher than the reporter, the first attack in any situation (including indiscriminate damage between the enemy and the enemy) cannot cause damage to the reporter", Li Bing unscrupulously went deeper and deeper into the wild boar forest where the monsters were becoming more and more concentrated.
As he continued to go deeper, it was already difficult for Li Bing to see players leveled up. One is that this place is so far away from the village that it takes dozens of minutes to run back and forth; There are wild monsters everywhere outside, and it's really not fun to run this far. What's more, there are so many wild boars here that players are likely to seduce a litter of wild boars if they go to seduce a small boar; At that time, it will undoubtedly be another story of annihilation.
Such a scene is naturally not a place where players are willing to level up.
"This place is a bit of a waste!" Seeing the piles of wild boars in front of him doing nothing, Li Bing couldn't help but scold the developers for being too casual when making maps, and didn't consider the practical surnames of the maps at all.
Li Bing was very wrong to think so.
"Drawing the Knife" is a game that is not made by people at all. Maybe the system mastermind of the game is artificially developed, but the production process of the game, including the plot setting, skill setting, map setting, etc., is not mixed with the slightest human factor.
It is precisely because of this that Longteng Group dares to use the reputation and assets of the entire company to make a series of shocking promises in the game industry such as "there will be no internal players", "there will be no internal beta players", and "there will be no plug-ins" in "Draw the Knife".
Of course, these don't mean anything to Li Bing, who is a civilian; As an excellent civilian, Li Bing also abides by his duty and doesn't pay attention to these promises at all.
That's why there is a scene where Li Bing secretly scolds the game developer. If other players heard about it, they would definitely laugh at Li Bing - this game has no developers at all.
As it continues to go deeper, the wild boars in the jungle are becoming more and more dense, if it weren't for the fact that the profession of journalist is too special and attracts very little hatred, I am afraid that Li Bing has been surrounded by wild boars by now.
J, jian, read the first sound of the pro, you know the pro.
Li Bing couldn't help but worry: "If you go inside, even if you find the strange point, will the crispy man have the life to come here?" - Forget it, just think of it as a sightseeing trip, this scenery is not visible to others if they want to see it! ”
While thinking, Li Bing walked inside.
After walking for another five or six minutes, Li Bing finally understood the meaning of the poem "The mountains and rivers are full of doubts, and the willows and flowers are bright and another village".
After an hour or so of shuttling through the dense herd of wild boars, Li Bing finally saw the end of the jungle - the lake water as clear as a mirror.
PS: I'm really sorry, I drank too much last night because of work matters. Today's update 5 chapters make up for the arrears, thank you.
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