Zheng Li from the School of Medicine of Yannan University is very much looking forward to this live broadcast.

He filled out the questionnaire and applied for the test, but unfortunately he was not selected to become the lucky one to enter the Kingdom of Night.

There is no other choice but to use the cloud.

However, [Morning Star] does not provide a live broadcast interface, nor can you record or take photos in the game. Everything depends entirely on the players' descriptions, which is not fun at all!

Even though these players kept saying “Wow”, “Awesome”, “Invincible” every day, Zheng Li didn’t feel anything at all.

He had played [The Conjuring] and knew the level of realism that this virtual reality device could achieve, so he knew very well how much fun the game would be in an open world of the size of the Kingdom of Night.

This feeling is like watching others pick up delicious and expensive ingredients, but you can't see or smell the cooking process or the final product. You can only listen to others describe it in pale words such as "add a little salt and boil it over high heat", which is like scratching an itch and making you hungry and thirsty.

Now at least Zheng Li can watch the live broadcast.

In fact, many people think that live streaming is not Lu Ban’s clever trick, but a helpless move.

Because it is impossible to broadcast the game live, the outside world has been criticizing the completion of "The Cage".

[The Conjuring of the Night] achieves perfect visual presentation within the confines of a mansion, but the Kingdom of Night, according to the players' descriptions, is much larger than a single house.

In this case, the amount of materials and textures is huge.

The first version of "World of Warcraft" took thousands of people five years to create. How long did it take to create this "Cage"?

In any case, it is definitely not five years, because five years ago, Lu Ban was still an unknown college student, the predecessor of Silent Games had just launched their first console, and Jiangcheng Industry had not yet entered the game industry. It was impossible for the entire industry to have the technical reserves related to virtual reality.

In the words of professionals, creativity is the least valuable in this industry.

For example, an open world, to put it simply, is to put things that people in real life can do into the game. The closer it is to reality and the more it imitates reality, the more open the game will be. Add some fantasy and science fiction operations, and it becomes the underlying gameplay logic of a game.

But to achieve this, what is needed is the reserve and accumulation of technology.

The degree of freedom in character modeling, the physics engines for climbing, jumping, fire and water flow, as well as the changes in light and shadow, and the swaying of the woods when the wind blows through the woods, all of these require a strong technical team.

In addition, the functions of the game console itself are also limited. If a supercomputer is used, many crazy codes can be implemented, but under the configuration of the players, the developers need to use up every bit of memory and squeeze the CPU to make the game come true.

Therefore, although the industry recognizes Lu Ban’s creativity and expression, has the technology really reached that level?

They were skeptical.

This live broadcast was believed by everyone to be Lu Ban's caesarean section to prove himself. Whether he actually ate that bowl of noodles or not depended on the content of the live broadcast.

Of course, some people also think that Lu Ban has something to hide by not opening the live broadcast interface and only conducting official live broadcasts.

This is also a basic operation in the gaming circle. The graphics look very impressive at the press conference, but in reality, they are drastically reduced in actual demos. Every manufacturer has used CG to deceive people to some extent.

Before the live broadcast, Lu Ban also released a short warm-up video.

Zheng Li soon saw this video on Weibo.

The content of the video is very simple, showing players walking, building, and planting in the town. It is less than a minute long and is the kind that you can watch several times while taking a subway ride.

But, this scene is too real, isn’t it?

When Zheng Li played the game himself, although he thought the graphics were very good, he also had a thought, that is, whether these pictures were the result of his imagination. The pictures he actually saw were slightly inferior, and his brain automatically corrected them to be so beautiful.

But after seeing this trailer, he was surprised.

Is this a game?

Is this really a scene from the game?

This light and shadow, this material, this action, are you sure this is not a real shot?

Zheng Li immediately scrolled down and saw that most people had the same idea as him, and he immediately felt relieved.

The last time he saw such a realistic picture was in a racing game. He once thought that the production team had found a real car and only traces of CG could be seen in some details.

But the material of metal is not the same as that of human beings. No matter how realistic the picture is, it cannot be mistaken for the real thing.

Therefore, Zheng Li felt that Lu Ban must have hired someone to shoot a promotional video, using the special effects technology he was proud of to make it look like a game.

Although some players posted on Weibo that this was a real machine and even sent photos of their own equipment as proof, most people still believed that it was a fake.

All the controversies are directed at the live broadcast. People are waiting for Lu Ban’s live broadcast, wanting to see what the quality of the game is like and whether it is really as magical as it is hyped to be.

Whether it's a mule or a horse, just take it out for a walk.

Eight o'clock in the evening, prime time.

Zheng Li opened the official live broadcast room of the Jiuri Video Network.

The live broadcast room was full of people. He switched several channels before finding one that was not too laggy. Even so, the barrage was so thick that it was impossible to see the angle of the screen without turning on some filters and shields. This level of density could probably only be compared to the national team entering the World Cup.

The countdown was counting on the screen, coupled with some concept designs of the Kingdom of Night, which gradually increased the anticipation.

At exactly eight o'clock, the screen went black and the live broadcast began.

Zheng Li directly blocked all the barrages to prevent them from blocking his vision, which caused the comment area on the right to scroll continuously, as if hundreds of people were driving unicycles at the same time.

The first thing he saw was a forest.

The dark and deep forest that seemed like a living thing immediately attracted all of Zheng Li's attention. He didn't even notice that the comments that were scrolling across the screen frantically stopped the moment the picture appeared.

Although this was just an ordinary forest, it gave off an oppressive feeling like a tsunami. Zheng Li saw that comments were being updated one after another.

[Friendly reminder, you can breathe now]

After seeing this sentence, Zheng Li realized that he had actually forgotten to breathe!

He saw the camera move and go into the forest.

In the layers of woods, a group of people were walking. These people were wearing cloth clothes, holding various weapons in their hands, trembling with fear and serious expressions.

Zheng Li soon discovered that some of them were the players who had proven themselves before.

No matter how he looked at it, these people were real people.

Is Lu Ban going to play a real-life movie in front of the whole world to fool the audience?

Zheng Li didn't understand, so he continued reading.