Chapter 92: Letting NPCs

hang out, the most important thing is to have enough brothers!

All the people in the entire Shen'en Continent are either my brothers or my brothers' brothers. You are just a monster, what can you use to fight against me, a brave warrior?

Believe it or not, I have a group of good brothers here, and they will spit at you to drown you.

The situation reported by Xiao Lu attracted Chen Ba's great attention. He immediately got up from the bed and went to the computer to check the situation without even washing his face.

really……

Under certain conditions, NPCs can also capture NPCs, recruit followers, and even marry and have children.

The so-called "specific conditions" may be triggered by other means besides sending gifts as mentioned by Xiao Lu.

It can be triggered as long as the favorability between two NPCs is raised from friendly or neutral to pursuit.

For example, recruit two NPC teammates and take them to kill monsters and level up together.

During this period, in addition to the increasing intimacy between the player and NPC teammates, the intimacy between the two NPC teammates will also slowly increase.

After the intimacy between two NPC teammates exceeds the limit, choosing to kick out one NPC teammate will reduce the player's favorability with this NPC, and then trying to recruit will achieve the same effect.

The logic is actually very simple.

NPCs have two sets of favorability, one for the player and one for other NPCs.

The brave man recruited NPC Zhang San as his teammate, and Zhang San followed the brave man and fought together.

However, NPC Li Si does not meet the conditions for following the hero, but meets the conditions for following Zhang San. Then when the hero clicks to recruit, the phenomenon of "Li Si is not in the team, but can fight with Zhang San" will occur.

“I didn’t expect there would be such a bug!”

Yang Dong, who had just finished a cup of milk tea, walked over and said, "Why didn't we find out during the testing phase that NPCs can recruit teammates?"

This problem is not easy to solve! Chen Ba rubbed his brows, feeling that this matter was really tricky.

This is similar to the favorability bug that Xiao Lu discovered before. The difference is that the bug that Xiao Lu discovered last time was rooted in the favorability program they wrote themselves.

So it’s fairly simple to modify.

But the main cause of this bug lies in the hidden favorability between NPCs.

This is not code they wrote, but part of the NPC generation program provided by the system.

To put it bluntly.

The favorability system developed by Tianba Studio can only cover the relationship between NPCs and players (heroes).

As for the goodwill relationship between NPCs, Tianba Studio never wrote any code for this aspect, it was all automatically generated by the program...

"Oh no, we fell into a trap!"

Chen Ba suddenly realized that the abnormal favorability bug that Xiao Lu had discovered before was just a cover.

The real trouble lies here!

But even if he found the source of the evil, Chen Ba didn't have any better solution.

After all, the playability of the game "Shennong Continent" is based on the NPC automatic generation program provided by the system. Without this program, it would be a garbage game.

To fix this bug, we have to abandon the original NPC generation plan and replace it with a wooden stake-like stupid NPC.

With this change, the problem was solved, but the game "Shenneng Land" was also ruined...

"No, we have to find another way!"

A one-size-fits-all approach will definitely not work. The NPC generation program created by the system is too awesome. Without these colorful NPCs, the playability of the game will drop several levels.

It's not okay to just let it go.

At present, this bug has caused great damage to the gaming environment.

As a brave player, you can call your friends, use the mechanism of NPCs to attack NPCs, and gather a group of younger brothers and minions to bully monsters at will.

Is this still a brave man?

Those who know him are heroes, but those who don't know him might think he is some kind of bad social organization! Your heroes are going to attack the devil, but the battle is just like attacking Ping An County?

Don't be too ridiculous! Moreover, hundreds of NPCs appeared on the screen at the same time, and some players had the game freeze.

"Illegal team formation is definitely not allowed!"

Chen Baxian characterized the incident as follows: "Immediately make an emergency patch to prohibit the number of combatants from exceeding five under any circumstances."

This modification can be done.

But when it comes to the most fundamental mechanism of NPCs being able to attack NPCs, it is difficult to modify.

But Chen Ba has already thought of a solution.

Multiplayer teams are a bug, but NPCs can attack other NPCs, so this can be defined as the “hidden mechanism” of the game!

When players ask about it later, they can just say that this is the hidden gameplay of their "Shennong Continent". Not only will the players not criticize them, they might even praise them.

"In the Land of Divine Grace, everyone is a hero!"

Chen Ba made a decision and said, "Brother Dong, please make an announcement later. Let's say that we will be carrying out a major game update and launching a new idle gameplay."

"Put it on hold?"

"right!"

Chen Ba also came to terms with it. Since the problem of NPCs being able to attack other NPCs was rooted in the generation program provided by the system, it couldn't be solved in a one-size-fits-all manner.

Then we can change our thinking and reduce the impact of this bug without changing the nature of the game. We can even make this bug a special hidden mechanism of the game that coexists with normal gameplay.

How to coexist? Let the NPC teammates go free, let them recruit partners to fight monsters, let them build equipment and collect materials...

Commonly known as idle cultivation!

Since NPCs are so smart, let's give them power. As brave players, you only need to take care of yourself.

"Will this work?"

Xiao Lu was a little hesitant. It wasn't that he didn't believe Brother Ba, but he thought that NPCs weren't that smart. Wouldn't it be the same as letting them go? "It's okay. Trust me!"

In fact, Chen Ba was not sure about it. After all, he had never seen an NPC in any game that was so smart that it could support its own family under the premise of being left to its own devices by the brave man.

But "Divine Grace" is different.

The NPC automatic generation program created by the Tiehanhan system really gave him a lot of surprises.

These NPCs are so smart! Just because NPCs in other games can't do something, it doesn't mean that NPCs in Shen'en Continent can't do it.

After all, before this...

There have been outrageous incidents such as NPCs robbing players and NPCs defrauding marriages and dowries.

It’s hard to say what this game will be like if these NPCs are completely untied and allowed to play freely.

…

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

Two days later.

Sharp-eyed players saw the update announcement for "Divine Grace Continent" on the Tianba community and the game homepage.

The update announcement is long.

In the announcement, Tianba Studio stated that the abnormal number of team members was a game bug and that an emergency patch had been released to fix it. The situation where a team would have hundreds or even thousands of people would no longer appear.

However, the situation where an NPC follows another NPC is not a game bug, but a hidden mechanism unique to "Shennong Continent"...

Tianba Studio has worked hard on this hidden mechanism and has now released the latest version of the game, bringing a super cool new way of playing to the players.

NPCs can now be left alone! In the new version, players can recruit NPC teammates into the team in two ways.

The first one is still the same. The brave man always keeps his teammate by his side, helps him upgrade, collects materials for him to build equipment, and trains him like a son.

The second is free action. In this mode, the hero's NPC teammates will not follow the hero all the time, but will run around everywhere.

As for what these NPCs will do in the free action mode, no one knows...

The only benefit of being a hero is that you can call back the NPC teammate when needed, so that when you attack the plot boss or powerful monsters, the team will not be short of people.

"Let the NPCs run free?"

After reading the update announcement, Qian Xin entered the game and saw that a "free action" mode switching option had indeed been added to the menu bar of the four NPC teammates.

What is this used for?

After taking a quick look at the attributes, levels and equipment of the four teammates, Qian Xin enabled free action for Clark with the idea of ​​giving it a try.

Clark is the team's weak link.

Qian Xin did not invest too many resources in training him, and did not even give him any extra equipment.

Although he is already level 41, Clark is still using the most basic level 10-15 ordinary equipment.

This kind of teammates are just there to make up the numbers.

He changed Clark's job to a light mage, and would add status or buffs to other teammates when he had nothing to do. He didn't expect him to deal damage or resist damage, so it didn't matter if he just left him alone.

After turning on the free movement mode, Clark really changed.

Even if Qian Xin took the remaining three teammates to the wild to kill monsters, he would not follow them, but ran to the town alone, and no one knew where he went.

Qian Xin ignored him.

Tianba Studio has officially stated that after the NPC enters free action mode, its behavior logic is unpredictable and cannot be affected by the player.

Do whatever you want, just don't go wandering around in the wild alone and die...

After half an hour of searching for materials, Qian Xin crafted an epic gauntlet for the Fire Mage. Unexpectedly, he was lucky this time, as the gauntlet came with a +16% fire element damage bonus.

This is a little gem!

The Fire Mage is the most popular profession now because of its high group damage. It is very useful for clearing out small soldiers and monsters, as well as for daily materials and gold coins.

Therefore, equipment with the fire damage attribute are basically in short supply, and the release of one will make countless people envious.

"Okay, Fire Mage has graduated."

Looking at the epic equipment of the Fire Mage, Qian Xin nodded with satisfaction. He could start raising the nurse in a few days.

Once the nurse is raised, you can almost complete the main storyline of the Orc Empire, and then level up quickly to prepare for the conquest of the Demon King.

By the way, where is Clark? Qian Xin, who hadn't seen Clark for half an hour, was a little curious about what this guy was doing, so he used the team call to call him back.

As a result, when Clark came back and glanced at his equipment bar, Qian Xin was stunned.

Oh shit!

Wasn't this guy wearing a blank outfit half an hour ago? Where did the legendary ring come from? I tried to remove the equipment, but the system prompted "Free Action NPC equipment cannot be replaced."

"What's going on?"

Qian Xin was wondering if he could not dismantle Clark's equipment for the fire mage to use. Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he saw Clark, his NPC teammate who he had let loose, holding the hand of another NPC young woman.

Above the NPC young woman's head, there was a line of words:

"Hera - Countess"

Qian Xin: “…”

What do you mean? In half an hour, you hooked up with the Countess and gave her a legendary ring? He is a brave man, why didn't he encounter such a good thing?

(End of this chapter)