Chapter 151 Test Car in the Game
"It was you who wanted to separate, so we separated, and now you want to use true love to coax me back..."
Jiangning, Tianba Studio.
I don’t know what was wrong with Brother Ba, but he suddenly started playing an old song “Love Business” on the speakers in the studio.
You know what, it’s quite appropriate.
Xiao Lu used to think that this song was so tacky and the lyrics were so cheesy. It sounded like “You smell like her perfume”, very abstract and awkward.
But now my mood has changed and the feeling when listening to this song is completely different.
Good, good, the lyrics are well written!
No wonder Brother Ba wanted to listen to music so early in the morning, and he wanted to listen to such an old song. It turns out that this song is sung so well, making people feel relaxed and comfortable.
"Betray my love, you have a guilty conscience, no matter how much love you give, you can never buy it back~!"
Chen Ba hummed along to the melody, then turned off the speaker and said, "Hey! This song is so beautiful. I want to share it with others. What do you think?"
"I agree!"
Xiao Lu nodded repeatedly and said, "Such a beautiful song must be shared with others, especially those former partners."
Zhong Shengwei: “…”
He didn't understand, but he was shocked.
He doesn’t know whether this song is good or not, but he can tell that this song is absolutely perfect for the occasion. Didn’t you see that Brother Ba’s mouth is crooked with smile?
“Ahem!”
Yang Dong coughed and signaled everyone not to talk about the song for now, but to talk about how to respond to the questions from these car manufacturers.
"What is there to discuss?"
Chen Ba curled his lips and said, "You have all heard of "Love Business", aren't the lyrics very clear?"
They were the ones who wanted to leave in the first place.
Despite Chen Ba's desperate attempts to retain them, these car manufacturers remained indifferent and insisted on cutting all ties with "Ford".
As a result, the consumer now refuses to admit it and remembers Brother Ba’s kindness and wants to return to Brother Ba’s arms. How can such a good thing happen in the world?
"You can come back if you want!"
Chen Ba said proudly: "But the rules need to be changed. In the past, we begged them to cooperate, but now it is a different time..."
"In the future, if their new or modified cars want to be included in "Need for Speed", they must first pay a pit fee, one fee for each model."
If you don’t pay, don’t even think about getting in.
Do you think that "Fast and Furious" is your home? You can come and go as you please. What do you think of Tianba Studio?
“This is not good…”
Yang Dong hesitated and said, “Although “Ford” is very famous in the automotive industry after the axle-breaking incident, and it does affect sales, it is not irreplaceable.”
“You are wrong!”
"Our "Need for Speed" is truly an irreplaceable game for these car manufacturers."
Chen Ba smiled and said, “Do you think that the reason these car manufacturers reacted and wanted to join the “Need for Speed” family is actually to deal with consumers?”
"Isn't it?"
"Of course not!"
Chen Ba shook his head.
If you really want to appease consumers, eliminate negative impacts and increase sales, all you have to do is lower the price.
To put it bluntly, the popularity of "Fast and Furious" cannot be maintained forever.
As long as these car manufacturers play dead and survive this special period, after a while, everyone will forget about the broken axle incident and "Ford", and there will be no impact.
The reason why they changed their minds, wanted to join the "Need for Speed" family, and were even willing to pay for it, was actually the game's physics engine...
"The game's physics engine?"
"Yes! To be precise, it should be the game's real physics engine plus the special vehicle durability mechanism."
Chen Ba explained: "The combination of these two can help them save a lot of cost and time in testing new cars and simulate the most realistic test environment and results."
“Even further, during the development phase of a new car, the combination of durability mechanisms and physics engines can help them find hidden design flaws and deficiencies.”
This function is so powerful!
It is no exaggeration to say that the role of "Ford" in helping these car manufacturers develop and test new cars is no less than that of a research and development center.
How much does it cost to build a R&D center?
Moreover, once a research and development center is built, it needs experts to be there to make it work. But "Forza Motorsport" doesn't need that. All you need to do is import various data, and then test and simulate repeatedly!
"I see……"
Yang Dong suddenly realized, "I was wondering why these car manufacturers changed their attitude so quickly, and their attitude was so mild. It turns out there is another reason."
He actually thought that these car manufacturers were hit hard by consumers, so they wanted to return to "Ford".
I never expected that these car manufacturers were planning to develop and test new cars in "Ford".
"I'll tell you a secret."
“Hua Zi and Di Zi both plan to form a dedicated technical team for Need for Speed, using our powerful physics engine and durability system to test their new cars.”
Chen Ba couldn't help but complain when he said this: "Dizi is okay, at least it's not that abstract, but Huazi is outrageous. He actually wants to test their intelligent driving solution in "Fast and Furious"."
"ah?"
Everyone opened their mouths wide.
What kind of weird idea is this? Testing the intelligent driving solution in the game, is Huazi crazy?
“Although it’s very abstract, but…”
Chen Ba said proudly: "Our physics engine is too powerful. After technical verification, it is completely feasible to modify this system."
A powerful physics engine can restore the operating details of the vehicle, so it is also feasible to add an intelligent driving module and a few lidars to sense the road conditions in the game and respond in real time.
Of course, this is a rather general statement.
How to test and apply it specifically depends on Huazi's own ideas. But generally speaking, there is no problem in using "Need for Speed" to develop and test new cars.
After all, this system, including the physics engine, is so powerful.
A new car needs to be tested and verified repeatedly during the research and development process, and can only be mass-produced and commercialized after it is confirmed to be correct.
But in the game "Need for Speed", you only need to import various data and make adjustments to the parts. "Concept cars" and "test cars" can also be mass-produced in advance, and then find out the problems and make modifications and adjustments.
This is so useful!
…
"Fast and Furious" has been updated again.
This is the second major update to the game in recent times, after the last major update removed many car models.
Guo Mo took a look.
There are a lot of updates. First of all, the car models that were removed in the previous version have been added back, and the number of car models in "Need for Speed" has finally returned to normal.
Then, a few new cars were added.
These cars were recently released and have not yet been put on the market for sale. The game data is also the new cars that have just been entered.
besides.
In the online mode, many new 4S stores have been added, including many familiar car brands.
Tianba officials said that these 4S stores are managed by car manufacturers, and most of the cars sold there are test cars or experimental cars that have not yet been launched on the market.
"ha?"
Guo Mo's eyes lit up.
He had originally planned to buy a car next year, but he hadn't decided which brand to buy.
As for going to a 4S store for a test drive? Forget it! What they sell now are old models. He will buy a car next year, not tomorrow. Going to a 4S store for a test drive now will not help him make a purchase decision at all.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
I didn’t expect that in “Ford” I could actually test drive a test car that hasn’t been released yet.
If he goes for a test drive now to experience the new models that various brands will launch next year, then he won't have to hesitate or test drive the cars repeatedly. He can just swipe his card and buy them.
This is great! Thinking of this, Guo Mo quickly rushed to the nearest Baochi 4S store, clicked on "I want to buy a car" with his mouse, and soon multiple options popped up.
In addition to the vehicles on sale, players can also buy test cars or new cars that are not available on the market in the game "Need for Speed".
certainly!
Officials also stated that the test vehicles and trial vehicles may not be perfect and may have some problems or failures. They are for reference and testing only.
Guo Mo also expressed his understanding of this.
After all, these cars have not yet been released for production in real life, so being able to drive one in the game is already great, how can it be perfect? First, the new C-Class from Baochi.
To test drive a test car, you need to fill in your phone number and name, and register before you can make an appointment. After Guo Mo filled in the information, he soon experienced the new C-Class model of next year.
The interior has changed a lot.
But apart from the interior, the power and other configurations are no different from the old model. In terms of appearance, although some adjustments have been made, it is still the same.
Guo Mo was very disappointed.
In recent years, Baochi has been relying on the fact that it is a traditional luxury brand to collect IQ tax. The new models are simply lacking in sincerity.
Let’s go look somewhere else!
Opening the game map, Guo Mo quickly saw the Di Zi 4S store not far away and navigated there.
At Dizi's place, Guo Mo test-drove a new pure electric SUV that has not yet been released. It felt very good and he liked it very much.
After that, he went to look at other brands and found that Di Zi's car was more to his liking, so he decided to buy one when the car was released next year.
As for now...
If he couldn't drive a real car, he could buy a virtual car in the game! He didn't lack game coins anyway, so this little money was nothing to him.
However, in the game, the process of purchasing a car that has not yet been launched is quite complicated, mainly because the manufacturers are worried about too many leaks, so they require confidentiality.
These cars cannot be disassembled and can only be towed to the manufacturer's 4S shop for repair if they break down. At the same time, any problems encountered during driving can be fed back to the manufacturer immediately.
"Free tester?"
Guo Mo smiled. He didn't expect that just by playing a game, he would become a free test driver for the manufacturer and work for them for free.
But after all, this was his own choice, so it was free testing! Didn't the Dizi employees say that the testing in "Need for Speed" was to make the car better? Strange things happen every year, but this year there are more! Guo Mo probably never dreamed that he could actually get in touch with the R&D engineers of a car manufacturer in a game.
Hey, hey, hey! Isn't this a racing game? How come the car R&D engineers are here while we're playing? What Guo Mo didn't expect was that
Di Zi then officially announced that it would form a "Need for Speed" R&D and testing team of more than 200 people to focus on simulation testing of new models.
Oh shit!
Can this game still be played like this? First, Dizi, then Huazi, and then a series of domestic and joint venture car companies, successively announced that they would carry out in-depth cooperation with Tianba Studio.
The famous Automotive Safety Technology Research Institute also announced that it will include "Ford" as one of its automotive safety assessment standards.
To put it simply.
In the future, in addition to basic collision tests and performance tests, new cars will also have a "speed racing" test session.
No one would question whether this test is rigorous and reliable.
After all, "Ford" has proved the reliability of this game through the broken axle and oil leakage incidents. Any car with design flaws will be exposed in this game.
If this is unreliable, then who can be trusted? What's even more interesting is this.
I don't know what the Tianba Studio's motivation was, but they created a ranking list in the game to fan the flames.
The rankings are divided into several categories.
One of them is the collision list. After a vehicle collides at a speed of no less than 60km/h, the lower the damage to the vehicle, the higher the ranking.
There is also a breakdown list. The more repairs that are not caused by accidents, the higher the ranking...
The Fault List is also known as the List of Gods.
The models that rank at the top of this list are basically the objects of ridicule and jokes among players and netizens.
After all, these "non-accident" failures exclude special situations such as collisions and rollovers, and only count failures during normal driving. The higher the ranking, the less reliable it is.
certainly!
In addition to these weird rankings, "Ford" as a serious racing game also has more serious racing rankings.
The list includes statistics on the players with the highest points, the shortest time records, etc. in various competitions at the highest difficulty S level.
But then again…
Among these lists, the most surprising one Guo Mo found was the "Insurance Blacklist".
This list contains statistics of players who have been blacklisted by Tianba Insurance and refused to accept insurance.
The player ranked first has had a total of 2,476 accidents. It can be said that he is either repairing his car or on his way to the repair shop.
This is outrageous!
Everyone else was driving cars, so he was driving a bumper car, right? How could so many accidents happen? The most important thing is...
He was blacklisted by Tianba Insurance Company. How did he repair the car? More than 2,000 times. He must have gone bankrupt from repairing cars.
Buddy!
We are saying, do you have to drive this car? Is there a possibility that you will achieve greater success by playing other games?
Fortunately it’s a game!
If someone dared to drive so recklessly in real life, even a hundred lives would not be enough, and even the King of Hell would shake his head when he saw it.
There is one thing worth pondering about this kind of person! How did he pass the driver's license test in "Fast and Furious"? It can't be that he bought the driver's license through the back door, right?
(End of this chapter)