Chapter 186 Where is my mission reward?

The effect of the actual game demonstration was indeed much better than the promotional CG animation, and the popularity and attention of the game increased immediately.

For a time, the entire Internet was paying attention to the game "Global Evolution", and the volume of discussion topics soared rapidly.

“Can a video have such a good publicity effect?”

Xiao Lu was a little surprised, as if he didn't expect the publicity effect to be so outstanding.

You have to know that they simply released a real-machine demonstration video and did nothing else, let alone spend huge amounts of money to buy traffic and advertisements for promotion.

But the publicity effect finally achieved seems even more outrageous than spending 10 million to buy traffic and advertisements! “3A games have their own traffic…”

Chen Ba explained: "Games of this level are of great interest to the entire gaming industry, and players are no exception."

"Even if we don't actively promote it, there will be countless spotlights on us, always paying attention to our latest progress. This is the biggest difference between 3A games and ordinary games."

Do 3A games need to actively hype themselves up? What a joke! GTA6 hasn't even come out yet, but all kinds of gossips are flying around, and all kinds of self-media editors are frantically trying to get the most out of it. All kinds of confident revelations and insider information are dazzling.

Are all these traffic bought by Rockstar? Impossible, it must be that players want to see these contents and are more concerned about the news of GTA6. So this is to gain attention and clicks, and self-media editors and game media spontaneously hype it up.

The same is true for Global Evolution.

Just as his popularity was rising, Chen Ba was watching short videos when he saw a blogger who was trying to take advantage of his traffic and was making revelations shamelessly.

[Exclusive insider information! Global Evolution is priced at 500 yuan, and Brother Ba is aiming for the TGA Game of the Year! ]

OK, OK, OK! You are the worm in Brother Ba's stomach, right? Brother Ba doesn't even know the price, but you already know it? Brother Ba doesn't dare to open the champagne, but you open it for him? [Independent game producer talks about "Global Evolution", which is expected to create a new chapter for domestic games. Brother Ba is my idol...]

Yo! This title?

When Chen Ba saw it for the first time, he felt a little flattered. He didn't expect that he had such a high status in the eyes of people in the industry.

But when he clicked on the blogger's homepage and found that the only representative work of this so-called independent game producer was at the level of a "college student's graduation project", he fell silent.

[According to external sources, Global Evolution may have secretly contacted NVIDIA. Insiders said that the optimization is worrying, and it may be difficult to play smoothly without a high-end flagship graphics card...]

This blogger is quite capable. In order to gain popularity, he even knew to "fabricate" a so-called external network revelation to make his source of information appear more reliable.

However, this piece of news is so stupid that it would make Chen Ba laugh out loud.

When Tianba Studio was developing the game "Global Evolution", it did contact graphics card manufacturers such as NVIDIA and AMD, but how could this be considered a secret contact?

Let’s contact each other openly!

And it was not Chen Ba who took the initiative to contact Tianba Studio. Instead, after Lao Huang and Su Ma learned that "Global Evolution" was a 3A-level game, they took the initiative to contact Tianba Studio and provide certain help and technical support.

As for the rumors that the optimization is poor and non-high-end flagship graphics cards may not be able to run the game, it is even more speechless...

“It’s totally made up!”

"Except for the rather special game 'Star Emperor', our studio's games don't seem to have any games that require a lot of configuration, right?"

Xiao Lu was very indignant.

These people who spread rumors to gain popularity are so unprofessional. I don’t know if they used their brains when writing the copy. They dare to say anything.

Although "Global Evolution" is a 3A game, its configuration requirements are very low among all 3A games.

From this perspective, Tianba Studio's game optimization capabilities are absolutely world-class.

You can say that the game made by Tianba Studio is not fun, and the game is based on defense, but you can't just question the game optimization. Looking around the world, who can optimize better than them? "So, this is why we have to hold offline trials, so that players can directly experience the game face to face."

Chen Ba smiled and said, "Global Evolution has attracted too much attention. If we don't proactively disclose some information and let these self-media and netizens speculate, we don't know what will happen!"

"I understand..."

Xiao Lu nodded and said, "Then is this also the reason why you allow live broadcast?"

“That’s right!”

Offline trial activities like this are generally not allowed to be live-streamed to avoid the risk of the plot and game mechanics being leaked before the game is released.

But this time Chen Ba allowed live broadcast.

On the one hand, it is to satisfy the curiosity of netizens and let them see more content and information about "Global Evolution".

On the other hand, Tianba’s progress in making games is too fast, so the confidentiality aspect is not so strict. After all, no matter how confidential it is, the finished product will be released in a few months.

not to mention……

The trial game only lasts for half an hour. How many bosses can a player defeat in the first play without any guidance or strategy?

With such a short experience time, there is less that can be revealed about the plot and mechanics.

There's no need to worry too much! After saying this, Chen Ba looked at the venue and machines that had just been arranged.

There are not many places for trial play, with only more than 200 people in total, 50 of whom are anchors and media representatives from major platforms, and the remaining 150 are from Tianba community who voluntarily registered and were selected by lottery.

There are 50 machines in total, which is enough! …

The next morning, Jiangning Jinma Hotel.

Banquet Hall No. 2 has been booked by Tianba Studio and turned into a trial venue, while Banquet Hall No. 1 has been prepared as a rest area and interview area, and a variety of desserts and fruit snacks have been prepared for everyone.

Guo Mo was one of the first game anchors to arrive at the venue. He was also the first to line up and get the lucky one with a trial number plate.

Those who come first have number plates within 50, which means they don’t have to wait in line and can directly activate the machine for a trial run.

Wow!

After asking the staff again and confirming that he could start the live broadcast, Guo Mo quickly took out his mobile phone, put it on the stand, pointed the camera at the computer screen, and started the outdoor live broadcast.

OBS?

We are very sorry! Although live streaming is allowed for this trial, the computer equipment is provided by Tianba Studio. They do not allow the installation of other software on the computer, nor do they allow any operations other than gaming.

Therefore, today’s live broadcast method is more retro, and we can only use our mobile phone to point at the screen to take pictures.

Guo Mo looked around and found that other people were doing the same as him. They were all using their mobile phones or cameras to point at the screen to take pictures, and the results varied.

Some camera positions are good and the light reflection is not that serious, so the screen shooting effect is okay and you can clearly see what is displayed on the screen.

However, some camera positions are very bad, with extremely severe light reflections. If the resulting photos are posted on Tieba, netizens will definitely complain, "Remember to put the door lock back after taking the photo."

"Can you see it clearly?"

After confirming with the barrage that he could see clearly, Guo Mo quickly sat down and chose the familiar keyboard and mouse between the controller and keyboard to operate.

Today's trial is not starting from scratch.

If you play from scratch, then the offline trial is just a formality. After all, there is very little content to experience when playing this game from scratch.

Therefore, the staff was very considerate and prepared a "first-order evolution" archive account for each machine.

Take the No. 29 machine played by Guo Mo as an example. He does not need to start from scratch. He enters the game with the saved file after the first evolution. If he evolves again, the next player who tries to play the No. 29 machine will play the second-order evolution saved file.

Of course, this is impossible.

The degree of evolution required for one evolution is difficult to obtain. After four rounds of trial play, it is estimated that only the last player can experience the process of evolving from level one to level two.

"Let me see!"

"WASD is for movement, the mouse is for rotation, Shift is for acceleration, Ctrl is for crouching..."

After simply adapting to the key layout, Guo Mo, knowing that time was limited, quickly accepted a task from an NPC and began a serious gaming experience.

The game's mission releases are quite interesting.

Players have a mobile smart terminal that they wear on their wrists like a digital watch.

When needed, you can call out the page, on which there is a forum for Jiangning Base City, which is full of NPC posts and discussions.

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

If you see a "Help Post"? No doubt, this is a side quest! Just reply to this post and you can contact the NPC who posted it, and he will tell you the quest details.

Guo Moling’s task was relatively simple.

An NPC named Xiaojun accidentally lost his mother's photo while going out on an adventure and fell into the territory of a group of ferocious monkeys. This was his most precious treasure, so he posted a message asking for help, hoping that someone could help him bring it back.

"Monkey-like beast?"

Guo Mo ran to the mission location, took a look, and found that this mission didn't seem as easy as he had imagined.

The mission is just to retrieve the photos, but this is the territory of a group of monkeys, not just one or two monkeys, but a group of monkeys...

If it was just one or two ferocious beasts, you could just use your invincible power to charge in and the situation would be solved, but there are so many ferocious beasts here, charging in head-on would be tantamount to suicide, so you have to use your wits.

Just as Guo Mo was wondering whether this mission had to be completed in stealth mode, the scene suddenly changed. A muscular NPC driving a pickup truck and holding a machine gun rushed in directly.

The tough guy is so tough!

He quickly dealt with dozens of monkeys, and before Guo Mo could come to his senses, a "Mission Failed" prompt appeared on his task bar.

"Ah? Can I still grab the mission?"

Guo Mo's thinking is still stuck in the traditional belief that as long as the player accepts the task, the NPC will wait patiently no matter how long it takes to complete it.

Unexpectedly, this way of thinking was broken in "Global Evolution". If the task cannot be completed for a long time, the NPC will actually entrust it to other people?

"Hahaha!"

"Who told you to dawdle like that? Now the NPC has snatched your mission away from you!"

"I'm curious, if it's a time-limited task, shouldn't there be a deadline reminder? For example, how long does it take to complete it?"

yes!

It was clearly a time-limited task, so why wasn't there a time limit for completion? Guo Mo always felt something was wrong.

But he didn't think much about it and guessed that the test version was not perfect enough, so there was no countdown added to the limited-time task.

It was not until he accepted another quest and finally completed it with all his efforts, and was about to claim the reward with the quest item, that he was suddenly robbed by an NPC, and the quest item was taken away. The message "Mission Failed" was displayed again, that he realized what was going on.

Oh no!

The NPCs in this game don’t seem to have any moral principles?

A cooked duck can also fly? He completed the task, but collapsed on the way to collect the reward. His task items can still be stolen?

Such an explosive scene made Guo Mo completely silent.

He had never experienced a situation where he accepted a mission in the game, worked hard to complete it, and finally had the reward snatched away by other NPCs.

What is this? I accepted the mission, I killed the beast with all my might, but the reward has nothing to do with me? "Fuck! Brothers, I have a big discovery. This game allows you to cheat and rob others!"

Just as Guo Mo was immersed in the depression of having his mission reward snatched away and not knowing whether he should take the next mission, the exclamation of a game anchor next to him caught his attention.

What's going on? Guo Mo turned his head and saw the player easily kill an NPC, then searched him and obtained the quest item. The quest that the NPC had received was also transferred to him.

"Fuck!"

Guo Mo also exclaimed in surprise, he never expected such a magical operation to happen.

Where is morality? Where is the bottom line? He thought that being robbed of his quest reward by an NPC was already a big deal. Unexpectedly, there was an even bigger scene, where players could actually rob the NPC of their chances and even quests.

Doing tasks? It's just a trivial task!

Keep an eye on the forum and pay attention to those who respond to help posts. When you see the opportunity, just take advantage of them.

What morals and bottom line? Please!

You can get the task rewards without killing monsters, this is really interesting! Faced with such temptation, no one will really follow the rules to complete the task? "The black eats the black..."

"Shit! It's really a doomsday survival!"

"Dark Forest, huh? Do you have to be on guard against sneak attacks from villains when completing a mission?"

"In order to become stronger, they will do anything. So the question is, after eating the people who complete the tasks, can they also eat the people who issued the tasks?"

Guo Mo: “…”

When he saw the last comment, he admitted that his heart skipped a beat.

Shouldn't it?

People can't, or at least shouldn't be so shameless. It's already abstract enough to get the task reward by cheating other people. If you can have the best of both worlds, wouldn't that be worse than animals?

A Tianba employee happened to be patrolling nearby, so Guo Mo waved and asked him if he could really do this in the game. "Yes!"

The Tianba employee affirmed: "We don't teach players how to play games. The moral bottom line is set by the players themselves."

"But there is a mysterious organization in the game that is responsible for establishing and maintaining order in each base city. If the player's moral level is too low, he may be hunted down..."

It's all the player's choice.

He used all means to gain power, went astray and wantonly killed his own people, and finally died at the hands of a strong human. He could not blame anyone else.

If he really has that ability and does all kinds of bad things, and in the end even the strong humans can't do anything to him, that can also be considered a game ending.

(End of this chapter)