Chapter 48
Chapter Forty-Eight
Xie Wei and Xu Ziyan were too busy to look at this yesterday, but upon hearing it now, they both picked up their phones and logged into the Resistance website.
Off-season version updates and class adjustments are common, but major changes during the mid-season break are relatively rare.
Opening the version update announcement, Xu Ziyan quickly skimmed through the long paragraphs of official platitudes and bug fixes, and went straight to the changes.
To ensure game balance and increase the diversity of competitive content and class compatibility, Resist will be updating its game. The changes are as follows.
[all]
[Due to the current version's fast pace, all characters' HP has been adjusted to 200.]
[Respawn time adjusted from 30 seconds to 15 seconds.]
[Profession]
[Assault Rifleman: In conjunction with health adjustments, weapon damage is increased by 50%. Critical hit damage is increased by 10%. The secondary weapon "Grenade" has been removed. The secondary weapon "Revolver" has been added. An armor value setting has been added; you now gain initial armor equal to 50% of your health each time you leave your spawn point.]
[Sniper: In conjunction with health adjustments, weapon damage is increased by 50%, and headshot damage is adjusted to 250. A secondary weapon, the "Heartbeat Detector," has been added.]
[Medic: The original primary weapon "Healing Gun" has been renamed "Healing Rifle," and the ammo capacity has been increased to 25 rounds. It can be used to heal yourself and teammates. A new primary weapon, "Healing Sniper Rifle," has been added. When equipped with a sniper scope, it has a ammo capacity of 15 rounds, can heal teammates but not yourself, and does not deal critical damage to enemies.]
[arms]
[Heartbeat Detector (Sniper): Can only be used twice per game. Once activated, it allows the entire team to see the enemy's location for fifteen seconds.]
[Stun Gun (Medical): Increases the number of stun gun uses. You can now use the stun gun four times per game.]
[Healing Bottle (Medical): Adds a damage effect. Now, when you use a Healing Bottle, you deal damage equal to the healing effect to enemies, while also increasing the healing received by friendly characters by 20% and the damage received by enemy characters by 20%, lasting for 5 seconds.]
After reading it carefully, Xu Ziyan subconsciously turned her head to look at Xie Wei, her eyes filled with surprise and disbelief.
Xie Wei seemed to sense something, turned her head and smiled at him: "Great, I'm looking forward to your performance."
Bai Ke shrugged: "Now Weibo is full of people tagging you, saying you're the 'chosen one' of the current version, the 'favorite child' of the game. But it's true, who would have thought that a single version could so drastically buff your two favorite niche secondary weapons?"
The original role of the medical role was to provide sustain for the entire team, but this major overhaul has changed the medical role from a sustainer to a support role in offense.
Furthermore, the selection of primary weapons has been expanded. The original healing gun, due to its limited range and the limited distance from which the armor pack could be used, forced medics to restrict their movement to the vicinity of assault personnel and made it difficult to cover the snipers within the team.
However, the addition of sniper rifles for healing and the significant enhancement of long-range healing methods such as healing bottles mean that medics have more options for positioning and can provide more resource support than before.
Previously, assault troopers would be left without healing if they were too far away from the backline; and snipers would struggle to receive medical support if they were targeted. However, with the addition of the medic sniper rifle option, these problems can be alleviated to some extent.
However... the drawbacks are also obvious.
The medic sniper rifle is designed differently from the medic gun. Normally, a medic can circle around an assault soldier while healing themselves, slowly whittling down the assault. However, the medic sniper rifle cannot heal itself unless a healing potion is used; otherwise, once targeted, it's practically a death sentence.
Moreover, the increased armor value significantly improves the survivability of assault characters. Furthermore, with the respawn time reduced to 15 seconds, the cost of targeting the backline is lowered. It's foreseeable that the number of times assault characters will be relentlessly attacked by various assault teams will only increase, not decrease.
It has both advantages and disadvantages.
However, it's ultimately a good thing.
This means that medical personnel and snipers are now a better match.
Xie Wei then said thoughtfully, "The newly added secondary weapon in the assault can be used as the primary weapon."
Although revolvers have low magazine capacity and rate of fire, they have high damage and long range. Headshots are extremely dangerous, and if you're accurate, their suppressive power can even surpass that of assault rifles.
Bai Chen said, "Yes, with a revolver, the firing line can be drawn very far, but the close combat ability is a bit lacking."
Bai Ke said, "Everyone is just targeting each other from a distance. Isn't this just a competition of who can move more stealthily, dodge better, and has a better grasp of the map?" He sighed and said worriedly, "I just joined a new team, and I already have to work hard to get back into sync. Now they've made such a big change. I might as well just kill myself."
Xu Ziyan said, "But I think the new version should be quite fun."
Bai Ke rolled her eyes at him: "Of course you, the chosen one of this version, find it fun. You're not dissatisfied with the addition of survival to the assault, but I'm a sniper! Heartbeat detection is powerful, but it just increases the competition between snipers for no reason. I can already imagine the scene where you use X-ray vision to aim at me, and I use X-ray vision to aim at you, and the two snipers are just scheming against each other."
Xu Ziyan comforted him, "It's okay, from now on, not only will snipers be aiming at you, but medical personnel will too."
Bai Ke: "...Then I really thank you."
Although the announcement was released so early, the actual implementation won't happen until after the new year. Right now, we can only speculate. We'll have to wait until it's implemented to really figure out the strategies and weapon combinations.
Bai Chen looked around and asked, "Aren't your uncle and aunt here?"
Xie Wei pressed the lock screen, casually put the phone aside, and said, "Yeah, I went to the company early this morning."
Bai Chen said "Oh" and took out his laptop from his laptop bag.
Xie Wei: What are you going to do?
Bai Chen raised an eyebrow, his expression unchanged, and said quite naturally, "Make up for the lost live stream time."
Xie Wei said speechlessly, "This month has only just begun."
Bai Chen said, "There won't be any time after that."
Xu Ziyan was startled by his reminder.
By the way, Xie Wei mentioned before that he would take me to a hot spring resort after the Lunar New Year, at which point I would definitely not be able to focus on any live streaming.
These days, he's had a hard time finding opportunities to do live streams at the Xie family's house. He wanted to increase his viewership this month, and today was a really good opportunity.
There happened to be someone leading the way, so Xu Ziyan quickly said, "Then I also want to make up for the time."
Bai Ke also pulled out her laptop: "Then I'll do it too."
Xie Wei looked at the Bai brothers, who had already connected the power cord and Wi-Fi in the blink of an eye, and said helplessly, "Xu Ziyan, go to the study and use my computer. The password is still the same as last time."
Xu Ziyan didn't rush to get up. After hesitating for a moment, she looked at Xie Wei and said, "Captain, aren't you coming? Or maybe..."
Xie Wei said, "I also have a laptop."
Bai Ke said, "Wow, that's great! The four of us can line up together, and I can even mooch off Xie Shen and Bai Shen's traffic."
Bai Chen said, "The positions conflict."
Xie Wei and Bai Ke are both snipers, and they are both in high-ranking matches, so it wouldn't be appropriate to have either of them fill in.
Bai Ke said nonchalantly, "What's the big deal, Ice? Do you have a smurf account? The kind from a low-ranked fish pond, around 3,000 points."
Three thousand points may not seem impressive on the leaderboard, but it's considered above average among normal players. However, in Bai Ke's words, it's practically a "fish pond" (a term used to describe a low-level player in a competitive market).
Xu Ziyan knew what he was going to do and said, "Fry fish? The four of us?"
It's true that many streamers like to play against lower-skilled players in lower ranks to increase the entertainment value of their streams, since it's easier to make impressive plays in these lower-ranked matches.
But... Xu Ziyan looked at the three people in front of him.
Xie Wei, the number one player in the entire server, and a world champion sniper.
Bai Chen, ranked sixth in the entire server, second on the assault leaderboard, and a world champion assault player.
Bai Ke: 23rd in the entire server, 4th in the sniper rankings, with countless trophies in secondary leagues and various solo events.
A group of people like this went to a fishpond to use explosives to catch fish?
This isn't just bombing a fishpond; it's like bombing it with an atomic bomb.
Seeing through his thoughts, Bai Ke smiled slyly: "Yes, it's the four of us. However, we need to make a small change in the positions. You and I will be the assault team, my brother will be the sniper, and as for Captain Xie, he'll have to make do and play the medic."
With three of the four members of TWG streaming simultaneously, along with Bai Ke, who recently announced her transfer to YNG along with Qu Qingyue, the entire streaming platform instantly became incredibly popular.
[Holy crap, what's going on? Is it Chinese New Year yet?]
[Mom, I think I'm hallucinating. Otherwise, why would I see Xie Shen's live stream showing as live?]
Wow, TWG only has Xiaoshen missing, right? And there's KK? Isn't that Clear's new teammate, the sniper? Wow, how did these guys get together?
[Fun fact: KK is the younger brother of the god Bai Shen.]
[Wait, why are all four of these people using smurf accounts? 3000 MMR? What does it mean for pro players to be at 3000 MMR?]
Ranking up is already so difficult, please, pro players, give us a break!
[Wait a minute, something's not right. Why did Xie Shen choose a healer profession?! Xie Shen plays a healer?!]
[Oh my god!!! Did God really hear my prayers? TAT I've been wanting to see Thanksgiving play a healing role for so long!]
Xie Wei found an empty seat at the table next to him and was adjusting the settings when he glanced at the live chat and laughed, "Yes, today I'm playing the medical role."
【Ahhh, who's the sniper? KK?】
“No,” Xie Wei said, “KK and Ice are the raiders.”
[So White God is a sniper? Holy crap, I'm celebrating early, this is too much fun.]
[Huh? I vaguely heard KK's voice. I didn't switch to another stream.]
Xie Wei said, "Chen and KK are both at my house, of course you can hear us."
【Wow! This is amazing!】
Unlike Xie Wei's harmonious atmosphere, Xu Ziyan's live stream didn't have any more swearing after she started broadcasting, but...
[The version's chosen one has started streaming.]
[Let's try our luck!]
[May the anchor bless me so I can successfully pass the exam this year.]
[Please bless me so I can pass the exam +1]
[I retweeted every single one of your Weibo posts, TAT Good luck, look at me!]
Xu Ziyan: ...
Are you guys really that serious?
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