Chapter 728 Iron Armor and Steel Fist

"It doesn't mean that 1 versus 4 gameplay doesn't require balance."

Lin You stood in the virtual office of the "Hunter" operation team, explaining work tasks to everyone.

On weekdays, the "Hunter: Call of the Wild" operating team is very small, just a small team under Shen Ping.

But due to the launch of the new gameplay, Lin You specially mobilized 18 good players to temporarily join the team, almost doubling the number of people in the office.

The purpose, of course, is to allow these people to accumulate some important experience -

"What this asymmetrical gameplay wants to ensure is not fairness like a straight line, but a dynamic balance."

"Such a design idea will be very difficult. The gameplay we are currently introducing does not fully achieve this."

"An obvious problem is: the hunter needs to ensure that no one among the four is holding back, and that they must cooperate tacitly to ensure average strength. Once one person is holding back or taking advantage of the situation, the team's combat effectiveness will be significantly reduced."

"But the Predator doesn't have this burden. He only needs to be responsible for himself."

"Besides that, there's an obvious problem: if the player playing the Predator is a slave, he might turn the game into a hide-and-seek contest, trying to survive from the beginning of the game until the late stages, and then finally get fully armed. of crushing hunter players.”

"That can easily lead to a greatly reduced fun of the game."

"In order to prevent this from happening, we added [Xunji Incense], but the effect requires more observation."

"So the gameplay this time is at best a prototype of a game, an experimental demo, which cannot guarantee long-term operation."

"Of course, as a short-term activity, the novelty should be enough."

"What we need to do is to collect feedback from players as much as possible, and make timely adjustments to the balance of the game based on the big data of the game, and try to find the balance point as much as possible."

"And the experience you have accumulated in this process will be the most valuable thing in this event."

…

Looking at the serious expression of the boss, the employees are also very serious.

They have realized that the boss is planning a new project and letting them accumulate experience is to prepare for this new project.

Planning in advance has always been the boss's routine.

Although they don't understand where the boss's inspiration came from, it doesn't hinder their joy - because they have already reserved positions for the new project development team in advance.

Lin You encouraged them again before leaving the office.

The production process of "Pacific Rim" is somewhat similar to that of "Chang'an", which also starts from figuring out the game environment.

The agreement for [Virtual Berlin] has been reached. In January, a team from Yunmeng will go on a business trip to Germany. With the assistance of relevant German departments, the construction of [Virtual Berlin] will begin.

After [Virtual Berlin], the next task of the urban construction department is [Virtual Hong Kong].

This is the place where the most important plot of "Pacific Rim" takes place, and the construction of this city will be completely aligned with [Virtual Xia Jing].

In addition, [San Francisco], [Hawaii], [Tokyo], [Sydney], [Vladivostok] and other places will be built to match the plot, but the construction of these cities will not be based on [Virtual Xia Jing] - -In that case, the amount of work would be too large and it would be unnecessary.

Lin You's current plan is to turn these places into "dungeons". Players can only drive large and small mechas to fight in these places, but cannot leave the mechas and enter the city to explore freely at human scale.

Or only divide some very limited areas, which can be explored without leaving the mecha.

In this way, a lot of time and computing power can be saved, and the game development time can be greatly shortened.

It's also a very smart approach for gameplay.

Because in "Pacific Rim", the focus of players must be, and can only be, mechas of various colors, plus monsters at most.

As for the supermarket that was accidentally stepped on during the fight and the office building that collapsed...who would care?

As an alternative, Lin You will launch three models of [small mecha], [large mecha], and [giant mecha] in "Pacific Rim". Their heights are [within 3 meters] and [10 meters] respectively.

left and right] and [more than 70 meters], meeting all the needs of players at once.

Yes, just like Starbucks doesn’t have small cups of coffee, “Pacific Rim” doesn’t have [medium-sized mechas] either.

[Giant Mecha] is the absolute combat power in the plot, so it goes without saying that it plays a big role.

Lin You has a few immature ideas on how to insert [Large Mecha] into the game, and has not yet made a decision.

As for the [small mecha], its size determines it, and it is not used to fight monsters.

However, Lin You has not yet decided whether to develop a copy specifically for [Small Mecha].

Because in his plan, the [small mecha] is mainly used for fighting games.

Many players have made suggestions to Yunmeng before, hoping to make a game similar to Daxia [Martial Arts Championship] or America [Ultimate Fighting Competition].

But Lin You didn't like it because he was too petty, so he never did it.

Because whether it's "League of Assassins" or "John Wick", you can just pick a venue and modify it to organize a game.

Even now in Metropolis and Night City, there are similar gameplays, and there are also competitions organized by players themselves.

Why bother to develop another game specifically?

If we really want to do it, we must do something different.

for example--

【Mecha Fighting】!

Lin You even thought of a name for the gameplay, so it was called [Iron Armor Steel Fist]!

Two small mechas stepped onto the ring and started fighting with fists and fists, making clanging noises and sparks flying. When the fight reached its climax, parts flew everywhere!

It has the wildness and blood of broken limbs, but it doesn't make people feel too bloody - even if the loser is cut into pieces, it is just a piece of mechanical fragments.

The driver was under heavy protection, and even if he was injured, he would only have minor injuries. At most, he would have a bruised nose and face, which was completely harmless.

Lin You is very much looking forward to seeing the "Kung Fu Mecha" battle.

It's exciting just thinking about it.

*

The time in Los Angeles is a full 16 hours slower than that in Daxia.

Lin You has been asleep for a long time, and the morning of the 24th has just arrived here.

Alex, a former middle school boy who was once arrested by the Los Angeles police for calling on players to protest, had Lin You send money remotely, hire a lawyer, and pay bail to be bailed out, received an early Christmas gift.

That's a brand new [Mirage 2.0].

The person who sent this package was the [Free Life and Democratic Rights Foundation].

The foundation is headquartered in New York and Alex is in Los Angeles. Due to the uncertainty of logistics, this Christmas gift was delivered a day early.

Alex picked up the card on the console in confusion and looked at the content on it——

"Merry Christmas, Alex.

I originally wanted to give each of you a Game Warehouse, but you also know that all Yunmeng’s products are banned from sale and embargoed by America. The Mirage console has reached its limit, and the Game Warehouse really cannot deliver it to you.

I know that you all have Mirage consoles, so give this one to your family or friends.

I hope they can also enjoy the fun of the virtual world.

The virtual world is a gift of the new era, and no one should be excluded.

Therefore, your efforts are progressive, just, and will surely succeed.

come on!

——Lin You"

"!!!" Alec's eyes widened in surprise, "Lin You?!"
Chapter completed!