Chapter 11: It's Really Just an Accident
I searched casually, and sure enough, many game forums have been swiped by "Dark Sand"!
Although the number of beta players is not large, the people who come to post awake during this time period are basically beta players.
Because the other players are basically still asleep at 6 o'clock in the morning.
After experiencing the game, this group of people obviously had a strong desire to discuss, and immediately swiped the screen.
Many forums related to "Dark Sand" in the special area, the day before it was still a state of melon eating people eating melon seeds and chatting, now it has immediately become a high-intensity discussion of the game content.
"This game is truly amazing! I didn't expect the official website to be true, it is indeed 100% authentic! I was completely shocked when I went in! ”
"yes, it's so real, I almost thought I had crossed over. It turns out that the protagonist in the online novel crosses this feeling! ”
"The NPCs in this game are also only real play, I thought the guards standing on both sides were decorations, but I went up and kicked it, and it was immediately taken down......"
"Upstairs, you're too tiger, these NPCs all look like real people, how can you get off your feet."
"I think these NPCs have no problem passing the Turing test properly, this game has too much freedom! Even a subtle expression may cause different reactions from NPCs, so it's no wonder that the recruitment announcement for closed beta players says that there are requirements for players' acting skills! ”
"Yes, I suffered a loss that I couldn't act, and I was recognized as soon as I went to the hall......"
A large part of the posts are shocked by the realism of the game.
Some players are wondering why this game is so realistic, and it is like a product of two eras compared to other VR games.
Obviously, they are all using the same virtual reality equipment.
Some people who have studied virtual reality technology have also made some speculations, saying that the current neural connection technology is actually very theoretically high, but the software level does not dare to be too radical, for fear of slight damage to the human brain, so other game companies' virtual reality games are more restrained.
And this game is likely to raise the current ceiling of virtual reality technology by a lot through some powerful technical means.
Just like the same console before, some games can only use six or seven percent of the functions, while some games can be optimized by God, not only making perfect use of all the functions, but also achieving 120% of the game effect.
Either way, it's just speculation.
After all, this is a mysterious giant company that can advertise on the world's top news and social networking sites, and the 100% realistic virtual reality technology and NPCs that can pass the Turing test are nothing more than two unknown mysteries for it.
The players were curious, but they didn't get too hung up, because they felt that sooner or later there would be an explanation for this kind of thing.
Relatively speaking, they still care more about the content in the game at the moment.
The topic of how to clear the dungeon is the mainstream.
"So, has anyone cleared the customs? I don't even remember what I went through that night, I just remember that I kept dying! ”
"There are four copies in total, I first experienced the assassin dungeon, and I was killed by Emperor Yan Ling, so I didn't dare to enter the warrior and ranger dungeon, so I went to experience the scribe dungeon. When I went in, I found that I was locked up in a dungeon, unable to do anything, tired and hungry, and wounded, and after a while someone came to interrogate, and I didn't know how to answer, and then I was dragged out and beheaded......"
"I think the most nightmare should be the pawn copy, the war scene is too real! I didn't want to play anymore after I was killed twice, and I could only sigh and be glad that we lived in an era of peace! ”
"So no one cleared the level? None of the four dungeons have cleared the level? ”
"No, I've seen all four copies anyway, and I don't have a clue."
"The goal of the assassin dungeon is still relatively clear, but I don't know how to complete the assassination, and I feel that I need good acting skills; It is not clear what the specific conditions for clearing the scribe dungeon are, but it seems that they are trying to find a way to survive in the dungeon; The pawn dungeon should defend the city; The Ranger dungeon seems to kill a bully, but that bully is too strong, vigilant and has a bunch of juniors. Anyway, I died one of the four copies, and I couldn't get through any of them. ”
"The difficulty of this game is too outrageous, is it for people to play?"
"Is there any official feedback channel? Slightly lower the difficulty, right? ”
"Yes, this game is the most difficult game I've ever seen, there is no one, it's even a bit anti-human, it's blind to such good technical power!"
Zhao Haiping simply flipped through these discussions and found that most players' first impression of the game was similar to his own.
The technology of this game is really awesome, it's just like crossing over, but the shortcomings are also obvious, it's just too difficult!
None of the players were able to clear any of the newbie dungeons throughout the night, which is unprecedented in difficulty, and it is unlikely that there will be anyone in the future.
After all, the vast majority of game companies make games, and they still have to think about pleasing players. Even if it's a suffering game, at least you should set the difficulty curve, and make a few bosses with a little bit of food in the early stage, trick the player into it and then kill.
But what about this game? Not only is it difficult, there is no guide, and the game itself does not have any entrance for feedback, the game does not cost a penny, the internal test qualification is drawn, and even the game time is limited, and it can only be played at night.
Possible...... This is the rich capricious?
……
Zhao Haiping got up to wash up and went to work as usual.
If it weren't for the fact that the game was only open at 10 p.m., he might have taken an annual leave to open up the wasteland at home.
Just sitting at the workstation, I habitually took out my mobile phone, began to paddle and fish, and continued to flip through the forum.
No way, the addiction is up.
He was a little abused last night and couldn't stand it, in fact, even if the game time didn't come, he almost wanted to quit the game and rest. After all, there is still some mental pressure to fight and die continuously.
But after a pause, Zhao Haiping felt that he could do it again.
Maybe you can kill everyone after entering the game again?
It's a pity that the game is being maintained.
Zhao Haiping flipped through the forum again and found that there was more discussion about "Dark Sand". Obviously, after the discussion of the first batch of closed beta players, more netizens who woke up joined the discussion.
Some people wonder if these beta players are bragging, after all, this 100% real virtual reality game sounds too much like Zenith Technology, and wonder if this is a large-scale scam, and some local tyrants have expressed their desire to acquire the beta test qualification at a high price, go in and experience it for yourself.
It's just that there is still no big breakthrough in the puzzle-solving aspect of the game content.
At first, Zhao Haiping was a little puzzled, so many players, they didn't even come up with a reason?
Later, I realized that maybe this was because the number of closed beta players was even smaller than I thought.
If there are hundreds of thousands, millions of players entering, maybe someone will figure it out on the first day, but what if the number is small? The probability of clearing the level will definitely be greatly reduced.
Just when Zhao Haiping thought he could only grope on his own, a post caught his attention.
"I suffered all night in this game yesterday, but I also had some ideas, and this morning I got up and checked some information, and I have some guesses about how to clear this game, and I will share it with you! I hope you can work together and clear the customs as soon as possible!
"First of all, I'm only a history buff, but I usually play a lot of puzzle games, and there must be a lot of big guys who have more knowledge of history than me. There may be some omissions in my conjecture, and I should throw a brick and a brick.
"At the moment, I can almost be sure that all four trials are real events in history.
"Needless to say, the 'Assassin King Killing' of the Assassin Trial, it is the drama of Nie Rang's assassination of Emperor Yan Ling, which anyone with a little basic knowledge of history should be able to guess.
"The 'asking for the people' in the trial of the scribes should be a matter of the Great Wei Dynasty, when Yang Yan, an ordinary official of the Great Wei Dynasty, wrote a letter, and the emperor at that time was furious and threw him into the torture of the big guy to find out the so-called 'backstage', which caused a great political turmoil. The goal of this copy should be to refute all the officials who came to interrogate them in a reasoned and measured manner, as in history, and to find a way to survive the torture until the emperor dies and a new monarch succeeds to the throne.
"The 'one general success' of the martial arts trial should be a matter in the middle and late stages of Great Chu. At that time, the civil strife in Great Chu, the invasion of Beidi, the famous general Geng Zhong guarded the southwest border for more than 40 years, until all the soldiers were gray-haired, and only 74 people insisted on waiting for reinforcements and finally survived.
"As for the Ranger Trial, it should be a matter of the Liang Dynasty, but firstly, I explored this copy very little at that time, and secondly, I didn't find any iconic names, place names and specific times, so I can't accurately locate what the event is for the time being.
"In fact, after locating the historical prototypes of these copies, you can roughly guess their clearance conditions.
"Moreover, combined with these four different identities and dungeon trials, I also have some conjectures about the deep mechanics and themes of this game, but after all, no one has cleared the level yet, and I can't accurately grasp the whole picture of this game, so I won't talk about these conjectures for a while, you can also explore it on your own and put forward other ideas."