656. Nani? Can the new version be upgraded? Cool!
Murphy didn't stay in the Plague Valley any longer, and after discussing his next plan of action with Wolf, he set out on the road back to the Black Flame Pass with Adele and Bonnie and their men.
The Earl of White Mountain was to stay by the Wolf's side for a few more days to act as an "intermediary" between Hogg and Lady Shane to discuss further cooperation, and while Murphy was on his way home, the Blood-Dread pirates who had been spending a lot of time drinking in the Treasure Cove casino in Transencia were reluctant to say goodbye to the Saint of Pleasure.
Lord Pa Ying asked them to come to Transia not to play dice, they had to pay for victory in this war.
While Pablo and his first mate Claire had been given a specific course of action, Tracy and Murphy did not tell them the final destination of Hogg's journey, but the Blooddread Pirates felt lucky to have to cross the entire Dark Mountains to an area not far from the Vampire Coast.
If something goes wrong and the Black Plague situation repeats, they can sneak back to their territory as quickly as possible from the Broken Fang Clan's territory.
Best of all, this is still a "big business" designated by Lord Pa Ying, which means that the Blooddread Pirates can fish without any psychological burden, at least they think so!
This is also the best arrangement that Murphy has for them.
Truth be told, the Vampire Governor isn't at ease with this group of sneaky and slippery goods in everything with his players, what if the dog pirates teach their cute little players with their bad lifestyles?
At the same time, Frostfang's Claws, the only player involved in Operation Plague Valley, also completed his "mission" perfectly.
Yaya is a bad conversational character, but he still disclosed the details of the operation into a file that looks like an operation report, supplemented by various photos and screenshots, and finally uploaded it to the forum, and named "The Adventures of the Valley of the Thieves: The Birth and Conjecture of a New Dungeon".
The post quickly sparked some buzz on the forum.
Especially for players who are currently following Nephitali to relearn the canonical art of undead manipulation, they believe that the Valley of the Soul Stealers must be a new area with necromantic powers, and that they may be able to find newer, more powerful and cool undead minions there.
The layout of the place also resembles a five-person structure.
But unfortunately, the Valley of Stealing Souls is still some distance from the front line of the Black Flame Pass, and with the current combat intensity of the Black Flame Pass, it is impossible for players to conduct an expedition and exploration without a formal reason, so they can only hope that the development team will set up a portal there that can be quickly traveled.
It's a pity that with the 100% realistic progression mode of this ghost game, even if Master Murphy returns to the front line, players will have to do a game side story similar to the "Open Door Mission".
However, Yaya's post did not attract more attention, because in the past few days when Murphy has been acting alone, the most popular topic on the forums and the Transcia Bistro APP is a very special post initiated by a new player with the ID name "Ruyi Knows My Heart".
It's been hot for three days, which is a rarity in a forum with rapidly changing hot spots.
As for the reason and reason, it is probably because this post is talking about "about the loot setting bug of the Black Flame Pass", as we all know, players are always very keen to find and use various bugs, especially when this bug can also directly affect the player's loot acquisition in the game process, and there are many newcomers who are in urgent need of equipment replenishment are willing to take risks.
However, Ruyi, as a super hacker, the bug she found was not so much a bug, but a "small mistake" in the development team's numerical settings, and only guys who are particularly sensitive to numbers can catch this strange point in less than five days after the new version was opened.
The issues disclosed in Ruyi's post are critical:
"I've collected the gear rewards that 30 new players have earned from normal random missions in the Black Flame Pass, and compared them to the gains that veteran players get after fighting the Gnolls head-to-head on the battlefield.
I've found that for new entrants, directly participating in battles to earn 'Honor Points' is the fastest way to get equipment at this stage.
Based on the time it takes for an average player to pick up and complete an errand task, taking most players online for 16 hours as a sample, the number of pieces of equipment that an average player can obtain in a day is 0.7.
However, according to the current honor system of the Black Flame Pass, killing 1 Gnoll can get 2 honor points, killing a kobold minion can get 1 honor point, and obtaining a complete set of 'Position Defender' armor from the Quartermaster of Black Flame Pass requires a total of 350 honor points, counting the acquisition of melee and ranged weapons, then the overall need is about 400-450 honor points.
This means that the new ones need to hack to death hundreds of gnolls to get a set of equipment, which sounds difficult, right?
But don't worry.
I later found out that after the newcomers cooperate to kill the gnolls, all those who participate in the battle can get a certain amount of honor points after the battle.
This is considered a 'Team Assist Bonus'.
On top of that, if a new player dies after getting 5 or more assists or kills in a battle with more than 50 players, the game mechanics will grant him a 'Death Allowance' of 50 Honor Points.
This is probably the subsidy of the development team for not being able to get any income for three days off the line.
All of the above sounds normal, and then the excitement comes.
According to my calculations, as long as we can get together 50 new recruits and go out collectively in battle and finally kill more than 300 gnolls, counting the assist bonus and the final death perk, then we can complete the head-to-toe arming of these 50 new recruits with only one battle plus the assist bonus and death perk!
Yes!
All it takes is a fierce battle and three days off the line, and Meng Xin can immediately get a set of armor with stats between the veteran level and the commander level.
Based on the increasing intensity of the battle, according to the mathematical model I designed, it is estimated that in a week at most, the intensity of the battle on the front line will increase to the point where it is completely impossible for the new people below the black iron to participate.
Therefore, I think this is the only way to quickly arm the new ones at the moment!
Note that I'm proposing this hypothesis for the target group that doesn't include the lucky ones who can be taken by veteran players to farm quests, we're just talking about regular players.
According to my calculations, the average player needs to be busy for at least one week to ten days if they want to get a complete set of armor and weapons that can be used in battle.
But with my method, it only takes three days.
Even if there are enough new players in the battle, we can complete all the new weapons in a single battle, as we all know, the combat power increase brought by a good set of equipment is very significant in the early stage, at least wearing this defender armor can make it easier for you to face the Black Iron Trial.
Of course, there is an unavoidable core problem in my plan, which is that the combat power of the new ones is completely unable to fight against 300 bloodthirsty gnolls even after forming a group, but we can cheat!
I asked my fellow players to gather some data, and I was able to conclude that with the newcomers drinking the Decisive Wine and using the Last Stand Charm, the power of the 50 self-detonation kills of the Corrosive Storm would add up to kill 300 gnolls in a short period of time.
The premise is that we are in a dense enough combat zone and that the other side cannot escape.
Luckily, I've found such an area.
In the underground tunnels of the triple position in front of the Black Flame Pass, the dwarves and some veteran players have been there to fight against the gnolls and kobold pioneers who are trying to infiltrate.
The density and spawn of enemies there is impressive, and now we only need 50 sacrificial sprouts to serve as victims to test the conjecture.
Personally, I think this is a numerical design mistake on the part of the development team, similar to a bug in the Okuyama Battlefield in a certain game, where a friend of mine once got a pretty good set of battlefield outfits overnight.
If this is indeed a bug, the development team may fix it soon, so we don't have much time left for these new ones. ”
Ruyi obviously played a trick, and at the end of the post, there was a wave of "anxiety offensive".
The super hacker hopes to have a new hook to confirm her assumptions when she was bored, and she doesn't expect too many people to take the bait, but she clearly underestimates the proportion of the strength party in this game.
Almost on the day of Ruyi's post, the newly registered guild "Pride of Immortality" "gathered" a group of budding newcomers who were eager to quickly obtain equipment to try according to Ruyi's conjecture.
The time was in the afternoon of the day Murphy left the Black Flame Position.
They formed a group of 55 people, and each of them brought all the decisive wine and the last battle contract, and what is ironic is that these decisive wine and contract are purchased by the guild leader Chen Long by brushing his face and borrowing a sum of money from Brother Bang.
In other words, if their attempt fails, not only will the newcomers not get the equipment they want, but the newly registered Pride will immediately be burdened with a heavy debt.
But the mentality of the newcomers involved in this operation is very good.
They saw it as an armed operation to pay homage to their predecessors, and were desperate to gain a great victory through their sacrifice in order to increase their prestige among the defenders of the Black Flame Pass.
Attacking more than 300 gnolls and kobolds with 50 people sounds majestic enough, and it can also show their courage.
Best of all, the battlefield guard they chose to guard on the day they set off was Su, the wolf of the north wind.
The wolf god gives them an enhanced status called "Bloodthirsty Fang", which gives a destructive bonus according to the degree of life loss, providing a maximum of 35% damage boost at 20% health.
This thing and the self-detonation tactic are as suitable as the sky thunderbolt.
The "Observers" of the Silvermoon Regiment and the Loyal Hymn Guild, as well as the "First Cinematographer of Translancia", the Medicare God of War Daeun, tracked the "real suicidal operation" almost the entire time.
In order to quickly make a name for themselves, the Pride Guild also had their vice-president, Hai Zhu, broadcast the battle live on the Transcaya Tavern.
These guys didn't rush forward in a reckless wave, on the contrary, they cunningly hired a few veteran players to go to various tunnels to "lure monsters", and finally chose Tunnel 17, which has only one exit, as the "final battle site".
As it turned out, the veteran players were still very reliable, and the hired Big Bird Regiment easily completed the "Gathering Monsters" work, and they brought over more than 400 mixed pioneers of jackals and kobolds in ten minutes.
And then the scene was quite "brutal".
As the commander, Chenlong was the first to rush in order to boost morale.
He wore a novice outfit and drank the decisive wine, screamed and rushed out to kill indiscriminately, and decisively triggered the last fight spell when he was beaten by the kobold and the jackal until his blood volume bottomed out, and under the reinforcement of the wolf god, the damage of this wave of corrosive storm was simply full.
Five or six kobolds were killed on the spot, causing the gnolls to scream and retreat.
But there is no way back for them.
The shield dwarf captain Crete, who was in charge of defending the underground tunnels, led the men to block the exit of the tunnels, as if the new and dangerous gnolls were locked in the same octagonal cage, and only one of them could get out alive, or both would die.
What do you say about the scene of the First World War?
Anyway, the Reserve players who watched the live stream on the Transnesia Tavern could barely think of any adjectives other than shouting "".
The fierce battle ended ten minutes later, and all 55 of the 55 new men involved in the operation were wiped out, and they emptied all the enemies before they could kill themselves.
This unique victory quickly became the focus of discussion that day at the Black Flame Pass, and the defenders once again saw the "courage" and madness of the Transnsians, and they marveled at how wild and deadly even the recruits from there were.
Today is the day of the resurrection of these newcomers in three days!
It is also the day to verify whether Ruyi's conjecture can come true, and the battlefield honor points are not displayed in real time, and the newcomers must re-get their own calculation orbs to calculate the benefits of that battle.
It's no exaggeration to say that now the whole game has more than 1600 people in the new group are waiting for the results, if Ruyi's conjecture is true, it means that this group of restless new people is likely to make a wave of the most terrible "group suicide" in the entire game so far this afternoon, or evening.
When the situation developed like this, even an "old warlord" like Qin Ye felt that it was tricky, and of course there was an unbearable excitement and expectation.
He and Happy Stick both knew very well that if the "dedication" of the newcomers was mobilized, then the current attack problem that plagued the Black Flame Pass might be alleviated to a considerable extent overnight.
The huge waves caused by this operation will also directly change the current offensive and defensive situation in the Black Flame Pass.
In "The Great Anticipation", Chenlong triumphantly walks out of the resurrection point of the Black Flame Pass with 55 new members of his guild, who are like a group of proud soldiers who have won the battle, and retrieve their orbs from Miss Pinkie "Golden Peach", who specializes in managing the loot and recovering psionic orbs and dog tags.
Chenlong coughed a few times, and in the live broadcast of the pig next to him, he raised the orb and said to the camera:
"Hi hi hi, brothers! Then it's time to unbox, the brothers who are watching the live broadcast bless me a wave, I will advertise by the way, our 'Pride of the Fall' guild is a real new paradise, I welcome the brothers who enter the game to join us, everyone has fun together."
Before this guy's words were finished, Hai Zhu hurriedly kicked him, signaling this guy who was full of running trains to stop talking nonsense, now the reserve players who are watching the live broadcast at the same time are already 3000+, and the barrage has exploded, hurry up and get down to business.
"Okay, let's unbox it right away."
Chen Long put the calculation orb on his chest, turned on the machine and then pulled to the page of battlefield honor, with the data calculation, a line of information quickly jumped out:
"The battle settlement has been completed!
Honorable kills: 23 points, honorable assists: 397 points, Death Allowance bonus: 50 points, Team Commander bonus: 30 points.
The total number of honors earned is: 490 points.
Congratulations on unlocking the 'Cadman People's Army Reserve Non-Commissioned Officer' status.
Congratulations on unlocking the hidden achievement 'This is Sparta!' ’。 ”
"it!"
Chenlong himself was taken aback.
He also used his calculator to calculate after going offline, and he came to the conclusion that this wave would probably score about 400 points.
But he didn't expect to have an extra hundred out of thin air, which means that after he gets a full set of "Positional Defender" armor and weapons, he can also choose some more powerful combat supplies for himself, and the points he accumulates are enough to change battlefield mounts!
The other newcomers also got enough solace, and even the one with the least score was 400 points.
As it turned out, the hacker Ruyi really had two brushes, and she really found the numerical design mistakes of the development team and devised the most suitable way to use them.
And when Chenlong's pride sent the news to the forum, the newcomers were immediately excited.
In the next thirty minutes, there was a steady stream of sprouts from Transencia and Wolf Castle through the portal to the Shadow Valley, the temptation of the "White Prostitute" honor suit made the bitter newcomers almost crazy, and Lao Qin and Happy Stick, who had been waiting for this moment for a long time, immediately decided to launch the plan.
"Form a Super Army!"
Qin Ye said with gusting hands:
"You don't have to choose a target, just kill the largest gnolls outside the Black Flame Pass, 1,600 'self-detonating bombs', I can bulldoze there in waves!"
(End of chapter)