Xie Mingzhe, who had never played a holographic game before, was shocked by the scene in front of him as soon as he entered the game.
The vast starry sky, the dazzling Milky Way, and while sailing on a spaceship, you can also see meteor showers passing by the window. Countless meteors drag silver-white trails of light dot the sky, just like gorgeous fireworks set off in the cosmic sky.
Xie Mingzhe excitedly leaned against the window to look at the scenery, feeling like "Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden" - a country bumpkin opening the door to a new world.
After a period of space travel, I finally heard a "ding" sound in my ear, and the crisp system sound rang again: "Welcome to Gemini. Your assigned residence here is: Gemini G District-7498 Apartment. Please enter your personal space."
His feet finally touched the ground. Xie Mingzhe took a deep breath to steady his racing heartbeat, and turned his head to look at the so-called "personal space".
The layout of three bedrooms and one living room is just like a living room in the real world. There is a sofa, a coffee table and a very large LCD TV in the living room. This TV is probably showing a world channel, and there are a lot of text messages constantly flashing on it, which makes Xie Mingzhe dizzy.
After leaving the living room, Xie Mingzhe followed the arrow under his feet to the bedroom, and the system sounded again: "When you get tired in the game world, you can go back to the bedroom to rest. Of course, the decoration style and furniture of the bedroom can be changed, and you can also invite friends to visit."
This game also incorporates the gameplay of "home". Every player can be assigned his or her own "apartment" in the game, which can be decorated and designed according to personal preferences to create a virtual space for making friends.
Xie Mingzhe nodded in his heart, came out of the bedroom, and followed the instructions to the study.
Three walls in the study are lined with display cabinets. The light blue metal display cabinets are divided into neat rows of small grids. Each grid is a 20×20cm square. This design should be similar to the backpack in online games. The cards and materials obtained in the game can be placed in the display cabinet.
In the middle of the study was a silver-white metal table. As Xie Mingzhe approached, the system voice prompted: "This is the [Card Operation Table]. All card production, decomposition, upgrades, and evolutions are carried out here. Please read the card operation instructions in detail."
New gamers must read the instructions carefully. This is the experience that Xie Mingzhe has summarized after playing so many games in the past.
With a flick of the finger, a detailed explanation of the animated version appeared in front of me.
Star Card Storm, of course, takes cards as the core of the game.
To improve the ability of cards, they must first upgrade and then evolve.
The initial cards are all level 1, one-star green cards. When they reach level 20, they can evolve into two-star blue cards, level 30 into three-star purple cards, level 40 into four-star orange cards, level 50 into five-star silver cards, level 60 into six-star gold cards, and the highest level is 70, which can evolve into seven-star powerful black cards.
Each time a card is upgraded, its skills will be increased by a percentage. Each time it evolves, its basic attributes will be doubled. However, the prerequisite for evolution is that the card must be upgraded to the corresponding level and then devour three cards of the same star level, or devour 100 high-star level fragments.
For example, if a "six-star card" wants to evolve into a "seven-star card", it must first upgrade the card to "level 70" for evolution, and then swallow three "six-star cards" or eat 100 "seven-star fragments", so that it can evolve into a seven-star card with doubled strength.
Upgrading is easy to understand, it is to increase the level by gaining experience. Xie Mingzhe regards card evolution as "level breakthrough" in online games. Each evolution consumes a lot of resources, but the high-star cards obtained in the end will also reward players with doubled strength.
In the later stages of the game, whether in dungeons or arenas, full-level seven-star cards will definitely dominate. A level 70 seven-star card is very expensive to cultivate, requiring a lot of experience and materials, so how players cultivate the card is also a science.
Xie Mingzhe roughly understood the rules of the game.
After reading the beginner's tips, the system voice immediately rang in my ears: "Now that you understand the rules of card upgrades and evolutions, let's get into actual combat! There are countless wonderful illusions in the Star Card World. Challenging illusions can gain rich experience and material rewards. There are some alien creatures in the illusions. Use the cards given to you to defeat them!"
A "ding dong" notification sound rang in my ears - I obtained the cards [Ice Snake]×1, [Thunderbird]×1.
The left side of the display case lit up, and two green cards appeared. The first-level, one-star green card was the original card in the game.
Xie Mingzhe picked up the card and looked at it.
Ice Snake (Water)
Card Level: Level 1
Evolution Star Level:★
Available times: 1/1
Basic attributes: HP 100, DEF 100, ATT 20, AGI 10, Critical Hit Rate 1%,
Additional Skill: Freeze (Freezes the designated target for 2 seconds and causes 20% water damage to the target)
Thunderbird (Gold)
Card Level: Level 1
Evolution Star Level:★
Available times: 1/1
Basic attributes: HP 100, DEF 50, ATT 100, AGI 30, CRITICAL RATE 5%,
Additional Skill: Lightning Chain (circles in the air, causing 80% lightning attribute splash damage to all targets within the range)
A control card and a group attack card.
The official gives two cards to novices, which should be enough to cope with the copies in the novice stage.
Xie Mingzhe took the two cards and entered the first copy, and the scene in front of him changed.
This is an empty square with a stone pillar in the middle. As soon as Xie Mingzhe entered the scene, he heard a woman's eerie voice: "Haha, is there fresh food delivered to your door again?"
Xie Mingzhe looked up and saw a creature with the upper body of a beauty and the lower body of a snake twisting around next to a stone pillar. There were several small snakes following her. These were obviously the BOSS and monsters that needed to be defeated in the dungeon.
System voice: "Please pay attention to your own mental power points. Your current character level is level 1, with a total of 10 mental power points. It takes 5 mental power points to summon a one-star card. The mental power will automatically recover every second."
For Xie Mingzhe, who had played the game before, it was not difficult to understand - mental power, just like the blue bar in online games, must be consumed to summon cards. This is obviously to limit the number of summoned cards. Otherwise, if players summon hundreds of cards in a row at once, the game will definitely be chaotic.
10 points of mental power, one card consumes 5 points, and a maximum of two cards can be summoned. The official only gave him two, no more, no less.
Xie Mingzhe summoned the Ice Snake and Thunderbird together.
The ice snake is a pure white snake about one meter long, with its body wrapped in ice and snow, emitting a chill, and it looks cute crawling on the ground. The Thunderbird's appearance is not so good, it looks like a black crow, and it is full of electricity - it is really a furry Killer Matt bird.
The Ice Snake's skill "Freeze" can freeze a designated target. Xie Mingzhe tried to use it to freeze the big snake monster. The Thunderbird's skill "Lightning Chain" is a ranged group attack. Xie Mingzhe tried it out and it really caused damage to the big snake monster and the small snakes around it.
He was a science student in his previous life and was quite sensitive to data, so he took a special look at the damage values. The group attack damage caused by Thunderbird was about 80 points. Judging from the card values, its basic attack power was 100 points, and the skill description was 80% damage, which just met the 100×80% algorithm.
In other words, the damage a card ultimately causes depends on its basic attack power and skill coefficient bonus.
With Xie Mingzhe's many years of gaming experience, he quickly determined that this card's stats were average and it was not worth wasting resources to raise it to seven stars. No wonder, the cards given to the novice stage would definitely not be top-quality cards. In the later stages, there might be good cards with skill coefficient bonuses of 200% or 300% and higher basic attack.
Good cards must be collected slowly, but Xie Mingzhe is not in a hurry and will first familiarize himself with the rules of the game.
The simple novice dungeon was not difficult for Xie Mingzhe. He calculated the data while completing the dungeon and soon cleared all the monsters and reduced the giant snake monster's health to 1%.
At this moment, the giant snake demon suddenly exploded, killing the ice snake and thunder bird instantly.
——Congratulations on clearing the illusion!
——Ice Snake and Thunder Bird levels are upgraded to Level 3, with additional rewards of Green Star Stones × 10 and Green Repair Stones × 2.
Xie Mingzhe was just wondering when the considerate system began to explain: "[Star Stones] are rich in experience. You can feed Star Stones to your favorite cards to upgrade them. [Repair Stones] can repair cards. Each card in the Star Card World has a limited number of uses. When a Star Card dies, the number of uses will decrease. When it drops to 0, the card is damaged and must be repaired with a repair stone of the same level."
"Your Ice Snake and Thunderbird are damaged. Use the Repair Stone to repair them!"
No wonder the snake monster explodes in the end and kills two cards instantly, it is just to let players learn the card repair function.
Xie Mingzhe repaired the two cards and followed the system prompts to continue going to the dungeon to gain experience.
***
Outside the door, as Brother Chen walked out, a tall girl said to him, "Brother Chen, we got a big order."
Brother Chen's eyes lit up: "What order?"
The girl said, "Someone posted a bounty mission on the trading platform. It required 100 seven-star wood-attribute fragments in total. The reward was 20,000 gold coins. The task had to be completed within three days. I snatched it."
There were cheers all around: "Ah Qing is amazing!" "One hundred fragments, we'll be busy now!"
Brother Chen waved his hand decisively: "Everyone, get ready and go to Jupiter to collect materials."
The girl reminded him, "The entry standard for the Jupiter dungeon is a five-person team. The four of us can't get in, so we have to find another one."
Brother Chen thought of the new recruit he had just hired today, so he walked back to the next room and said to Xie Mingzhe, "Xiao Xie, the studio is short of staff. Are you familiar with the game? Come and play a dungeon with us."
Xie Mingzhe, who had found a place to put his talents to use, immediately ran over actively, greeted several "colleagues" with a smile, and sat next to them.
Everyone was playing the game, so they didn't pay any attention to him greeting them - they were wearing helmets and didn't see him at all.
Brother Chen commanded: "Jupiter, gather at the entrance of the Misty Forest dungeon."
Xie Mingzhe shamelessly asked: "Brother Chen, where is the Misty Forest?"
Brother Chen patiently replied, "There is a room in my apartment with a large world map. If you want to go anywhere, just click and you will be transported there."
Xie Mingzhe had just been following the system prompts to brush the dungeon, and when he walked to the study, he had not yet completed the task. He put down the task at hand and went to the next door to take a look. As expected, he found that there was a world map in the last room of the three-bedroom and one-living room - a vast map of the universe and stars, and each twinkling little star was labeled with text.
Is the galaxy map in front of me the Star Card World? This is too spectacular...
Xie Mingzhe was stunned for two seconds, and soon found the "Jupiter" that Brother Chen mentioned among the densely packed stars.
The game has planets in the solar system, such as Venus, Jupiter, Mercury, Saturn, and Mars, but the Earth is nowhere to be seen. Xie Mingzhe carefully discovered that the cards also have water and gold attribute symbols. Are Jupiter and Mars also related to the attributes of the cards?
Xie Mingzhe was transported to Jupiter with doubts, and found the entrance to the "Misty Forest" dungeon. Brother Chen invited him to join the team. As soon as Xie Mingzhe entered the team, he heard a cold female voice: "New here, right? Tell me what cards you have in your hand, so that I can assign tasks for the dungeon later."
Xie Mingzhe summoned two cards: "I only have Ice Snake and Thunderbird."
The girl looked at the cute little white snake crawling under his feet and the flying bird with electric hair above his head, and almost couldn't breathe: "You brought this level 1 card to play the seven-star copy? Are you sure?"
The man wearing glasses next to him tried to hold back his laughter and said, "Your Thunderbird's attack power is only 100 points, and the health of the BOSS in the seven-star dungeon is 1 million."
A flock of crows flew overhead...
Xie Mingzhe in the game has an innocent expression: Didn’t you guys ask me to come here?
The culprit, Brother Chen, touched his nose awkwardly and said, "Forget it, forget it. He is a newbie and it's his first day playing this game."
The air suddenly became quiet...
After five seconds of silence, Brother Chen rubbed his temples with a headache and said, "Forget it, Xiao Xie, just join in the fun!"
Xie Mingzhe rubbed his hands excitedly and quickly sat up straight like a good student who was listening attentively: "Okay, Brother Chen, I will join in the fun and definitely not cause any trouble for everyone!"
The author has something to say: In the early stages, the world view is laid, and there will be slightly more game descriptions. The game settings are more novel than the keyboard online games I have written before, so the rules must be clearly written.
You can think of cards as [summoned objects], and the summoned cards have different skills. This is an open card world, and all players can create their own decks. Every player in the article will also have his or her own special deck.