Chapter 165 This time it’s really cheating!
The server of Tianba Studio is not high-end stuff.
System crashes and disconnections are common, and sometimes the game may even go on strike due to hacker attacks, which is why it is often ridiculed by players.
Because of the server problem, it often happens that a game that has been successfully matched will show "Disconnected from server".
At this time, the players who luckily entered the game would find that their opponents had disappeared and they had directly won! This is something that the players of "Need for Speed" have experienced deeply.
Some players have previously revealed that they encountered a "ghost game" in "Ford".
It was an online race with 12 players, but after loading, I realized that I was the only car on the track...
That’s right!
A 12-player match suddenly turned into a single-player match.
This is so cool! There are no opponents, you can drive however you want, and you are the only one on the track anyway, so no matter how slow you drive, you are the champion.
In addition to this kind of ghost game, some players have also reported that it was clearly a 12-player game, but because of an old problem with the server, it inexplicably turned into a 20-player melee.
Players are used to it.
It's common for Brother Ba's Tudou server to have problems. If one day Brother Ba fixes the server and it no longer has problems, everyone would not be used to it.
It is precisely because he knows this that Jiang Yongqing felt excited when he saw the remaining 37 players.
Normally when he encounters this kind of situation, he would only curse Brother Ba and scold Tianba Studio for not doing their job and not knowing how to fix the broken server.
But for Jiang Yongqing, who was trying to break the record, the server crash came just in time! The crash was good, because if it hadn't caused seven more people to crash, he wouldn't have had any hope of reaching his bounty target.
What is the effect of level 30 Marble Soul? Jiang Yongqing was full of curiosity about this question. He had already upgraded Marble Soul to level 10 before the circle shrank, leaving 25 players.
It's still in time. It's definitely in time! Level 11... Level 12...
In the special mode "Soul of Marbles", the confrontation between players is mainly carried out in the form of "marble collision".
Simply put, as long as you shoot the marbles and touch the enemy players, you will be forced to enter the Marble Soul Showdown.
After entering the marble duel, both sides can awaken their own marble souls, then enhance the combat effectiveness of each other's marbles and launch marbles to collide with enemy marbles.
This process is turn-based.
For example, if Jiang Yongqing sneak attacks Zhang San and forces him into a marble duel, then Zhang San will be the defender and can place the marbles freely in the venue.
Jiang Yongqing is the challenger and needs to use the marbles in his hand to hit the marbles placed by Zhang San. If he hits them, it will trigger the battle of the marble soul and gain certain benefits.
Didn't hit it? Then switch the offense and defense, the marbles you fired will stay where they are, and the enemy will aim and attack them.
After defeating the opponent, the marble soul will devour the enemy marble soul and increase its own level...
What Jiang Yongqing needs to do is to search for the opponent as quickly as possible and upgrade the Marble Soul to level 30 before the circle shrinks to the last circle.
Because of this game, seven more people appeared out of nowhere.
In addition, Jiang Yongqing had good skills and his feel for the game was good, so the whole process went very smoothly. He soon upgraded the Soul of Marbles to level 20.
A Marble Soul of this level, if placed in a game like League of Legends, would be like an 18th-level Angel or Kassadin with six pieces of gear, and can only be described as invincible.
On the other hand, his opponent...
He was wearing only a pair of straw sandals, and didn't even have a complete set of clothes.
Isn't this a perfect game for bullying? Jiang Yongqing, who has developed to the sixth level of equipment and has a level 20 marble soul, can walk sideways on the entire island map. No one dares to provoke him.
Others don't come to him, but he goes to find others.
After all, level 20 Marble Soul wasn't his goal, level 30 was! Level 21... Level 22...
Although the sea level rose, the island map was gradually submerged by the sea, and the number of remaining surviving players was getting smaller and smaller.
"Only one left!"
When Jiang Yongqing defeated an enemy player before the last round of sea water rise, his marble soul had reached level 29.
At this time, there are 3 players left in this game.
In other words, he has completed the bounty target. After all, of the two remaining players, one will definitely survive the final round, and it will be easy for him to reach level 30.
"Try level 31!"
Jiang Yongqing breathed a sigh of relief when he finally reached level 30.
But he also had a bold idea, that is, is there a level 31 in the Marble Soul? Logically speaking...
The special mode "Marble Soul" can only be played by 30 players together, which means that the maximum level of Marble Soul is 30.
But now, due to server problems, 37 people have joined a game, which breaks the upper limit on the number of players set for the game.
So here comes the question!
After the Marble Soul reaches the "theoretical" maximum level, can it continue to level up?
With a strong curiosity, Jiang Yongqing did not feel tired even though he had been in the game for seven and a half hours. Instead, he was full of fighting spirit and was determined to defeat the last two people.
Soon, he met one of the two remaining players.
"What the hell! What the hell?"
A young man far away in Zhonghai almost popped his eyes out when he saw the person on the screen being killed instantly and turned into a gray marble.
Level 29 Marble Soul? How did this guy do it? Is he cheating? This is too powerful. You will die if you touch it directly. There is no way to survive...
The word "eliminated" appeared in large letters on the black and white screen.
The young man thought about it, then quickly took out his mobile phone and took a photo of the computer screen, intending to post it on his Moments and group chat to share with everyone the "cheater" he encountered.
On the other side, Jiang Yongqing, who had no idea that he was being misunderstood as a cheater, was extremely excited as he looked at the red patterned marbles in his hand that were glittering and emitting infinite pressure.
Yay! After fighting for seven and a half hours, he thought there was no hope, but a routine server glitch allowed him to reach the full level of Marble Soul.
Level 30 Marble Soul!
This thing is no longer just a weapon that can kill anyone it sees in an instant, but a weapon of large-scale destruction that can even destroy map scenes. It's simply too incredible.
That’s not all.
As the "Soul of the Marble" was upgraded to level 30, the red marble in his hand was given several other special abilities.
The first one is scanning, which shows the positions of other marbles around like a radar map, which is equivalent to turning on the full map perspective.
The second is tracking. As long as he selects a target, the marble will fly directly out of his hand and hit wherever he points. The effect is comparable to the lock in FPS games.
Super terrifying destructive power, plus perspective + lock, who can withstand it?
This is really cheating!
With the help of full map perspective + lock, Jiang Yongqing didn't even have to look for the last player deliberately. He could kill the enemy from a distance.
"Um?!"
I thought that after killing the last player, the Marble Soul would also be upgraded to level 31.
Unexpectedly, the settlement page of this game popped up, but the Soul of Marble still did not upgrade, and there was not even any movement, as if nothing had happened.
“This doesn’t make sense!”
After leaving the island map and returning to the game lobby page, Jiang Yongqing still couldn't believe that the Marble Soul could not be upgraded to level 30.
This shouldn’t be the case…
Could it be that Brother Ba never wrote the code after level 30, and never thought that anyone would reach level 31, so there was no response? Jiang Yongqing was getting more and more puzzled, and quickly fed back the video and screenshots he had just recorded to Tianba Studio through the game's built-in feedback channel.
Who cares! If he doesn’t reach level 31, then he doesn’t have to. Anyway, his goal has been achieved. If he reaches level 30, he will get a mysterious gift prepared by Brother Ba.
He just needs to get the gift and doesn't need to worry about anything else.
…
When Chen Ba received the video and screenshots sent by the player [Brother Ba’s Little Wife], he was playing checkers with Zhong Shengwei and Xiao Lu.
Why Checkers?
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
This brings us to the story of how Chen Ba spent a huge amount of money to purchase more than 3,000 marbles in order to develop the game "Don't Leave After School: Marble Storm".
With so many marbles, besides playing with them daily, Chen Ba also found a new use for them, which is to play checkers!
Just make your own chess board.
Anyway, marbles are universal and come in all the same colors and patterns, so you can just make a chessboard and bring Xiao Lu and Zhong Shengwei along to play.
It's a pity that they are both so bad.
It’s not that Chen Ba played very well, it’s mainly because these two guys were so stupid playing checkers that they didn’t even “jump” a few times throughout the whole process.
No way? If you play checkers once and fail, then you have to go back to the old ways to play checkers.
"Brother Ba, Brother Ba!"
"Just now, a player upgraded his Marble Soul to level 30 and asked us for a mysterious gift..."
"Oh! So amazing?"
After hearing this, Chen Ba lost interest in playing chess and turned around to ask, "How did he do that? Did he cheat?"
"It's not cheating, it's our server that's malfunctioning, 37 people entered the game in one round."
Chen Ba: “…”
What a server crash!
It's outrageous that he could encounter such a thing. He opened the door to outrageousness. It's outrageous to the extreme.
But having said that.
Although it was a server glitch that resulted in 7 extra players entering the game, and this achievement was achieved by chance, but a man should stick to his words and keep them.
"Go to the warehouse of Xianyu Digital next door and pick out a graphics card to give to him!"
Chen Ba waved his hands and didn't take the matter to heart at all.
If he reached the level 30 Marble Soul through real ability, then he might be interested and take a look at his game records to learn from his experience.
But the achievements achieved due to this server malfunction were not very valuable, so he was not that excited.
"Come on, come on, keep going!"
He asked Xiao Lu to continue playing chess. Seeing that the employee who came to report was hesitant to speak, he asked again: "What's wrong with you? Is there anything else going on?"
"have!"
The employee named Liu Jinfu nodded and said, "This player's situation is quite complicated. He not only reached level 30, but also level 31."
"What the… what? Level 31?!"
Chen Ba was about to say something surprising, but when he heard the words "level 31", he was so frightened that he dropped the marbles in his hand and they all fell to the ground with a crackling sound.
Level 31 Marble Soul? You must be kidding! He never wrote the code after level 30, nor did he design Marble Soul after level 30, so where did the level 31 come from? "This is a video..."
Seeing Brother Ba's face full of doubt, Xiao Liu quickly used his tablet to call up the live video sent by Jiang Yongqing, dragged the progress bar to the last minute, and then played it for Brother Ba to watch.
Chen Ba held the tablet and watched carefully. After seeing Jiang Yongqing upgrade the Marble Soul to level 30, he defeated another player and was swallowed by the Marble Soul again. He was stunned.
It really is level 31! It’s just that it’s not displayed in the game because this situation was not considered at the beginning of the design, so the upgrade animation and special effects are only up to level 30.
Above that, there is no animation effect at all.
Moreover, level 31 cannot be displayed on the panel because the highest level is set to 30. Without the preset code, it will definitely not be displayed.
But this marble has definitely been upgraded!
Don’t ask how Chen Ba figured it out. He is the producer of this game, how could he not know?
There is no limit to the growth of the Marble Soul.
Although Tianba Studio artificially added a growth cap of level 30, this is only a "fake" cap and there is actually no cap.
From the devouring animation of the Marble Soul, we can see that after devouring the enemy's Marble Soul, this full-level red patterned marble has indeed become stronger.
"That's quite unexpected!"
Chen Ba thought about it and decided that this should be considered a small loophole. After all, he had never thought that someone would upgrade the Marble Soul to such a high level, so he had not made any preparations in advance.
But it’s not a big problem!
So what if he was at level 31? It was just an achievement achieved with the help of a server crash. In the next game, could he break through the level 30 limit? Thinking of this, Chen Ba felt relieved.
Although this discovery is very strange, it is really no big deal. After all, the soul of the marble will be reset after each game.
In the final analysis, whether you are level 30 or level 31, you can only show off your prowess in this game. You can be fine by starting a new game.
"Send him a 5090!"
Chen Ba thought about it and felt that this discovery was quite interesting. He decided to upgrade the reward as a reward for the player's spirit of exploration.
"Okay, I'll reply right away."
After sending Xiao Liu to contact the player to confirm the delivery address and contact information and sending him the graphics card, Chen Ba bent down and picked up the marbles.
When he was about to pull Xiao Lu over for an exciting game of checkers, Xiao Liu came running back.
"Oh no, Brother Ba!"
"This is not good! This player told me that after the game ended, he also opened the Soul of Marble in the classic mode and inherited the level..."
What the hell? After picking up all the marbles on the ground, Chen Ba looked at Xiao Liu with a puzzled look on his face.
What did he just hear? Did this player activate the Soul of Marble in Classic Mode?
Driving a Gundam into primitive society, pulling out a Fire Kirin AK in the Stone Age, it's like a god descending to earth, right? (End of this chapter)