Chapter 65: Numerical and Mechanical Balance

Thirty is a lot.

The three tables were full of people, sitting together, looking at Chen Ba, and the pressure was directly bored.

Thanks to Chen Ba's study, he was often arranged by the teacher to give a speech under the national flag on Monday morning, and he had a similar experience, so he didn't have stage fright.

But if you change the social fear producer, it is the first time that there are so many players offline, and I am afraid that I am so nervous that I can't even understand the words.

"Thank you for your support of our studio, I know what you all want to ask, the new version of "Sending People Under the Fence Simulator" will be coming soon, please don't worry!"

“…… Let's not talk about this today, for those of you here, someone should have played the early access version of "Star Emperor", right? ”

"Yes!"

Soon someone raised their hand.

Seeing that most people had played the early access version of "Star Emperor", Chen Ba nodded first, and then asked:

"In the process of playing, did you find any problems, or did you think there were things that could be improved?"

"Speak freely, whoever has an idea can say it directly, provided that you don't scold people, and there is something to say!"

The reason why Chen Ba invited players to meet offline was that on the one hand, he really wanted to invite them to a meal, and on the other hand, he also wanted to collect the most real feedback from players.

It's important to him.

As the first multiplayer online game under Tianba Studios, "Star Emperor" must not be good enough.

If no one points it out, they may never notice it on their own, after all, not every bar owner makes fried rice.

When he said that the party could be talked about freely, a little guy wearing glasses soon stood up and shared his feelings.

"Brother Ba, shouldn't the character values be balanced? I'm a big fan of the Night, but he can't play in a ranked environment......"

"The Emperor of the Long Night?"

Hearing the glasses guy's complaint, the other players also nodded.

The first six Supreme Characters of the Great Emperor in "The Starry Sky Emperor", each with their own characteristics and positioning.

The Emperor of the Long Night is special!

As a glass cannon, the role of high attack and low defense, coupled with the high difficulty of operation, leads to the fact that the Long Night Emperor cannot be seen in the ranked environment at all, and if you dare to choose, you will be sent to death.

The blood is too thin, the resistance is too low!

The other Emperor Supremes beat each other, so they can rely on their special physique to eat a few skills head-on to not die, such as the defensive role of the Xuangui Supreme, you can't even break his shield.

On the other hand, the Emperor of the Long Night......

Not to mention the frontal eating skill, it's just that the position is accidentally splashed by the opposite AOE skill, and the blood volume immediately falls down.

Who can withstand this?

The Long Night Emperor is a character with a high upper limit, just like the four sisters in LOL, which many players like.

But this body is as brittle as paper, which invisibly dissuades many players, after all, the error tolerance rate is not the same level as other characters......

On the road to becoming an immortal, the Starry Sky Emperor can make countless mistakes, but the Long Night Emperor can only make one mistake!

Isn't this a bit unfair to players who like the Emperor of the Long Night?

"We've also paid attention to that." Chen Ba nodded, agreeing with the player's feedback.

In fact, he had already discovered that the Long Night Emperor's overall win rate was less than 20%, which was an extremely unhealthy statistic. It shows that most players choose the Emperor of the Long Night, and they can basically only wait for death.

It's time for a boost!

But the positioning of the "glass cannon" of the Emperor of the Long Night also leads to the fact that the strengthening of this role must be cautious, and the values cannot be added randomly like LOL designers.

Otherwise, once the reinforcement exceeds the critical value, it will become "The Great Night Emperor is raging into the Immortal Road".

"And Winged Supreme!"

"The Starry Sky Emperor also needs to strengthen ......"

Seeing that Brother Ba adopted the strengthening opinions about the Emperor of the Long Night, the other players suddenly couldn't sit still, and they all complained about their favorite characters, hoping to get numerical enhancements.

But this time, Chen Ba ignored them.

The Long Night Emperor was strengthened, and that was because he was really weak, and the overall win rate was less than 20%, so he would agree.

But why are the other characters?

Because you are handsome, because you have many fans? Or does he, as a designer, need to treat a character like his own father?

Pull it down!

Chen Ba doesn't have the tradition of other game designers "recognizing the character as a father", and he doesn't decide the balance of the game's values according to his own preferences.

He only looks at the data, whoever has a low winning rate and a low appearance rate will strengthen whoever will strengthen him, and whoever has a high winning rate and a high appearance rate will weaken whom.

Focus on fairness and justice!

As the protagonist of the game, the Star Emperor is nicknamed "the son of the Heavenly Tyrant" by players, and due to the high overall win rate of 55%, he may become the first target to be weakened.

Pro-son?

The one who cuts is the son!

In addition to the numerical balance between characters, the mechanical balance is also a major focus in fighting games like Starry Sky.

Some characters, not only do they have no natural enemies, but also have a strong restraint relationship with specific characters, which is a mechanical imbalance.

For example, Winged Supreme and the new Shark Supreme!

These two have a proper father-daughter relationship......

Wing Supreme focuses on a flexible and mobile one, and the mechanics are positioned in favor of the guerrilla type.

However, most of Shark Supreme's skills are AOE area damage, and you can also mark enemy targets, as long as they are marked, the damage will continue to increase according to the number of layers.

For Winged Supreme players, this mechanic is simply skinny and restrained!

In the early access stage, Chen Ba saw an extremely miserable data in the background.

Wing Supreme vs. the new Shark Supreme, the win rate is only 24.3%, and the real daughter is not so filial!

This mechanic has to be balanced.

In fact, the winning rate of Shark Supreme against other characters fluctuates around 50%, and other characters also have countermeasures, and they are not particularly supermodels.

This is unbalanced, and in the future, when the Winged Supreme player encounters the Shark Supreme, he can only type and shout Dad on the public screen, begging the other side to give him a hand!

"Game balancing is a big undertaking that requires a lot of fine-tuning and attention to come up with the perfect balance."

On the way back, Chen Ba said to Yang Dong: "As long as it is a game related to parameter mechanics, it is normal for this imbalance to occur. ”

"That's ......"

Yang Dong said with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "Actually, if you think about it from another angle, "The Emperor of the Starry Sky" has done a good job! ”

Imbalance refers to normal ranking.

If it is the path to becoming an immortal, where is the imbalance? Graphics supremacy is no joke!

You've got a lot of stats, and you're a supermodel......

But so what?

Your graphics card is not as good as mine, and your video memory is not big enough, so you are destined not to take this trick, go!

"Really!"

Chen Ba had never thought of this angle, but after Yang Dong's awakening, he suddenly realized.

That's right!

Stats and mechanics aside, Chengxian Road is simply the most balanced way to play. It doesn't matter if the character is weak, a strong graphics card is really strong!