Chapter 113 Winning is more painful than losing It

is well known.

The original meaning of the match-3 game is that three identical patterns connected together will be automatically eliminated, so it is called the "match-3" game.

Three of the same pattern/color/squares are the basis for elimination!

But in match-3 games, in addition to the most common elimination of three identical patterns, you will also encounter situations where four, five, or six patterns of the same color are eliminated.

In this case, some games do not allow multiple blocks to be eliminated. Some games will give extremely high elimination "scores", and the elimination sound effects and special effects will be more gorgeous.

"Garbage Elimination" allows multiple blocks with the same pattern to be eliminated at the same time.

When more than three blocks are eliminated at the same time, different sound effects and visual effects will be given according to the number of blocks eliminated.

At the same time, the system's underlying garbage cleaning program will also determine the "intensity" of cleaning based on the number of blocks eliminated.

This is Chen Ba’s preset plan.

When testing the game, he also took into account the situation where "multiple blocks are eliminated at the same time."

But he overlooked one point.

That is, there is a variable called "character skills" in the game. After meeting certain conditions, the character skills can be used and more than 10 blocks with the same pattern will be eliminated.

It is basically difficult to eliminate more than ten blocks with the same pattern at the same time in traditional match-3 games, even with "pay-to-win items".

But "Garbage Match" can.

Because the character skills are varied, some of them blow up some blocks, some change the position of some blocks, and some directly change the original pattern of the blocks...

This means that by using the right character skill at the right time, multiple blocks of the same color can be eliminated, which is something that is very easy to replicate.

The underlying code of the system has the logic that the more blocks are eliminated, the greater the garbage cleaning effort.

According to the test standards, eliminating nine blocks of the same pattern and color at the same time is considered to be the maximum cleaning power. After all, when testing, the game characters were not yet completed, and there was no possibility of more blocks being eliminated at the same time.

so……

“How is this done?”

Yang Dong scratched his head, puzzled and said: "How come our junk cleaning program has completely cleaned up other people's software?"

He has used many kinds of junk cleaning software. Generally speaking, the so-called "deep cleaning" of these software is just for fun and there is really not much depth to speak of.

But after eliminating ten blocks at a time in "Garbage Puzzle", the cleaning bug that appears is a real "deep cleaning".

All the software has been cleaned up, isn’t that deep enough? “I don’t know!”

Chen Ba shook his head, looking confused.

When I woke up early in the morning, I wanted to see how many real users were converted from the ads I ran yesterday.

But when I woke up, I was shocked by the feedback from various players. When more than 10 blocks are eliminated at the same time, the software represented by the block will "disappear" from the phone! In the game "Garbage Elimination", the blocks to be eliminated are all kinds of common software on the market, and the patterns are also very similar.

For example.

When you eliminate ten WeChat icons at the same time in the game, WeChat will be uninstalled from your phone and disappear.

Who can withstand this?

Players complained one after another, "I asked you to clean up WeChat trash, not to send WeChat away for pleasure! " "I tried it..."

Xiao Lu hurried over to report: "If more than 10 blocks are removed at the same time, the bug will be triggered, causing the target software to be uninstalled."

Real physical elimination! You don't have to clean up the garbage now, we will help you get rid of the garbage maker.

"There is another situation!"

Xiao Lu panted and said, "Among the patterns that players can eliminate, there are also patterns from the game Junk Elimination."

"This means that if a player eliminates ten "Garbage Elimination" patterns at the same time in the game, the game will automatically uninstall!"

Chen Ba/Yang Dong: “…”

I killed myself? It's fine if Yuyue carried away other software, but how could he carry himself away as well? It's unheard of for someone to hold a funeral for himself!

"Very...very good."

Seeing that Brother Ba looked a little unhappy, Yang Dong tried to make amends, "This shows that our game treats everyone equally and impartially. There is no rogue software that shields and favors others."

"If you say so, it's really selfless. Rogue software won't be like us. They won't even let go of themselves when they get ruthless."

Chen Ba said dimly, "But I have never seen any anti-virus software define itself as a virus. I have also never seen any garbage cleaning software that treats itself as garbage."

“…”

How do I respond to this?

Yang Dong and Xiao Lu looked at each other and saw the confusion in each other's eyes.

Didn't Brother Ba make this thing himself? Why does Brother Ba look so unhappy, as if he stepped on dog shit? ...

Chen Ba's face looked indeed ugly.

But Zhang Jianhua's face was even uglier than his, because he recommended "Crap Candy Crush Saga" to his office colleagues, and the whole office started playing this game.

The game has a PK mechanism.

In addition to randomly matching opponents, you can also build your own house and invite your friends to PK together.

Zhang Jianhua called his colleague Lao Wang and took advantage of the lunch break to play an exciting game of Candy Crush Saga.

Old Wang paid! I don't know where he got this character from, he looks like a vixen, wearing revealing clothes and moving in a seductive way, very vulgar.

The fact that the character is vulgar isn't a big problem, but the problem is that this character actually has a skill that allows him to reorder the blocks in a certain area.

This skill can be used not only on yourself, but also on enemy targets.

Then Zhang Jianhua was in trouble.

During the PK, Lao Wang would use his skills on him whenever he saw an opportunity. Zhang Jianhua, who did not pay attention to the news online, saw Lao Wang helping him to rearrange the blocks so that they were easier to eliminate, and he laughed at him for not knowing how to play the game.

“Ding ding ding!”

A pleasant elimination sound effect sounded, and Zhang Jianhua got a 10-hit combo. A full ten blocks were eliminated at the same time, and his score skyrocketed.

Just with this one move, he cleaned up nearly 10G of junk files.

"Old Wang, you can't do this!"

Zhang Jianhua, who had already prepared his victory speech, was unaware of the problem and kept mocking, "Are you trying to give me warmth? What's the point of always using your skills on me?"

"Isn't this helping you?"

Old Wang was not angry at being ridiculed, and said happily: "My character is amazing, right? I can eliminate more than a dozen blocks at once by re-arranging them."

"It's really impressive, but I was the one who eliminated the blocks. Why are you so happy about this?"

Zhang Jianhua shook his head and said, "You are not getting senile, are you? The PK is almost over, and you are still giving me points?"

There is no reason not to take the points that are delivered to your door. Another re-arrangement, Zhang Jianhua, with the help of Lao Wang, once again eliminated a large area of ​​squares with the same color pattern.

"PK wins!"

With the end of the countdown, the Candy Crush Saga battle also ended.

Zhang Jianhua won the final victory, cleaning up a total of 24.7G of junk files. Lao Wang unfortunately lost the PK because of his blind play.

"You're still laughing. What's so funny?" Zhang Jianhua was very surprised.

He was the winner, so why was Old Wang laughing happier than him? Did he make a mistake? He was the loser!

Forget it, ignore him.

Too lazy to think about what Old Wang was up to, Zhang Jianhua glanced at his watch and decisively quit the game.

The lunch break is almost over.

He wanted to go to the bathroom and ask a fishing friend he just met two days ago if he wanted to go fishing after work. But when he quit the game and stood up to go to the bathroom, he was stunned to see the short video software and WeChat disappeared from the main page.

"Hahaha!"

Old Wang, who had been paying attention to Zhang Jianhua, laughed out loud when he saw his dazed expression.

"You did this?"

Zhang Jianhua was very angry and turned to question Old Wang: "How old are you? Why are you still playing such childish tricks?"

"You kept your phone in your pocket the whole time, how could it be me?"

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Old Wang denied it: "Think about it carefully, what did you do just now? How much garbage did you clean up?"

How much garbage has been cleaned up? Upon hearing this, Zhang Jianhua suddenly remembered.

He really didn't pay attention during the PK just now. Now that he thinks about it, he cleaned up 24.7G of garbage in one go. This is a bit strange!

How could his phone still have so many junk files after so many rounds of cleaning? Where did the 24.7G of junk come from? Thinking of the disappearance of DouX short videos and WeChat on his phone, Zhang Jianhua suddenly showed a surprised expression and asked: "Are you saying that this game uninstalled WeChat and DouX?"

"What else?"

Old Wang couldn't help laughing and said, "I told you that my character is very powerful, but you still didn't believe me. Now you know why I spent money on it, right?"

Zhang Jianhua: “…”

Oh no, we’ve fallen into a trap!

No wonder Lao Zhang kept showing off his new character, no wonder he was happier when he lost the PK than when he won, it turned out that he had planned it all in advance.

How could this happen?

…

Thanks to the recommendations from Huazi App Store and advertising, the download volume of "Garbage Match 3" is not low.

But the reputation of this software is mixed.

When it was first revealed that the game would uninstall the target software by eliminating 10 blocks of the same color, few people took it seriously.

After all, it is difficult to eliminate ten blocks at a time in this kind of match-3 game. And everyone knows this, so they will naturally be on guard and will not use character skills easily.

But when a player accidentally discovers that the character's skills can not only be used on himself, but also on PK enemies, this becomes a means of cheating.

Many players who don't know the inside story, when seeing the enemy using skills on them, think they are taking advantage and eliminate the blocks without thinking too much.

This elimination is bad.

Although I won the PK, my phone became empty. Is this really worth it?

And one more thing...

You know that the opponent is deliberately setting a trap for you by using a skill, but you can't resist clicking the connected blocks if you just click on them. You can't resist it at all! It's like a Yasuo player who sees five dotted lines at the same time. You know that you will die if you use the ultimate skill, but it's really hard to control your hand.

The software can be uninstalled and re-downloaded, but the temptation of removing ten blocks of the same color at a time is so great that you won’t be able to sleep well at night unless you click on one of them.

Because of this, the psychology of players of "Garbage Match 3" is very strange.

The blocks were removed by themselves, and after Tianba officially released the announcement, they also knew what the consequences of removing the blocks would be...

But I just can't help wanting to click it! I regretted it after clicking it, and when I regretted it, I ran to scold Tianba Studio and said that "Garbage Elimination" is a veritable "garbage" game.

Eliminate blocks?

Wrong! This is not to remove the blocks, it is clearly to format the phone with one click!

In order to win this PK, the price the player needs to pay may be that after the game is over, only the "Garbage Elimination" game is left on the mobile phone, with nothing else.

Oh no…

If you are unlucky, "Garbage Elimination" may be gone along with other software.

“It can’t be fixed.”

Chen Ba has become accustomed to bugs in games.

It's not that he hadn't thought about using other methods to reduce the damage this bug caused to the game environment, such as weakening the skills of certain characters, preventing character skills from being used against enemies, etc.

But Xiao Lu's words made him change his mind.

"Since this bug appeared, the number of people who spent money on the game has increased several times. It's really strange..."

Eh? After learning that this bug had caused some characters to become very popular and players were spending a lot of money to draw cards, Chen Ba was stunned.

So, will this character's skills be weakened or not?

If the character skills are weakened, there won't be so many "ten eliminations", and the impact of this game bug will be minimized.

But if this is the case, will there still be so many players spending money to draw characters?

After much thought, Chen Ba felt that the key to the problem lies in whether the players can accept the special bug in "Junk Match" that will uninstall some software after ten consecutive eliminations.

If you can accept it, then don't worry about it. There may even be some more perverted characters released in the future, making the ten-game elimination appear more frequently.

If it is unacceptable, then for the sake of long-term interests, it must be stopped, character skills must be weakened, and the probability must be adjusted to not allow multiple blocks to be eliminated at the same time.

Chen Ba went to take a look at the backstage.

The result was quite surprising. This match-3 game was originally designed for middle-aged and elderly people, but it turned out that young people accounted for a very high proportion of the player group.

Most of these players downloaded the game to try it out after hearing about the interesting fact that "Junk Elimination" can uninstall software.

In other words.

After this bug appeared, the number of players of "Garbage Match 3" not only did not decrease, but increased instead.

All of them are fun people! The PK with the formatted phone at stake sounds very interesting. Everyone wants to experience the feeling of plotting against others in the PK.

Use skills to eliminate a large area of ​​blocks with one click, and win the PK victory, but the price is that the software represented by this block will be uninstalled...

If it were you, would you click it? Because even if the software is uninstalled, it can be downloaded again, many people will click to remove it without hesitation when faced with this choice.

Of course, the score also depends on the situation.

If the connected blocks are unimportant and seldom used software, just delete them. At worst you can just download and reinstall them.

But if it is WeChat QQ, pink risk software, unhealthy video software...

That depends on determination! Some people would rather lose the PK than lose these software, and they don’t want their opponents’ conspiracy to succeed.

Some people wiped their tears, suppressed their heartache and clicked the elimination button. Although they won the PK, their expressions were uglier than those who lost.

(End of this chapter)