Chapter 227
The development work of "Cultivation Fantasy" of the seven major sects is going exceptionally smoothly.
The reason for this is that, in addition to the fact that the core difficulty was solved by Chen Ba's cheating, it is also because many materials have ready-made templates for reference.
No kidding…
It is really easy to find templates and references for games with fairy-tale themes!
You can find a lot of them by searching online!
For example, Chen Ba now needs to make a "flying sword". What is the posture of flying a sword? What does the flying sword of an immortal cultivator look like? Without using your brain, you can find a lot of similar fan works or second-hand works by searching on the Internet. After stitching them together and redrawing them with AI, a new "flying sword" is ready.
This is really a hassle-free solution.
Novels, comics, animations, movies, TV series, games and other works on the theme of cultivation and immortality are extremely prevalent and can be found in large quantities.
There is one good thing about the proliferation of these works.
The advantage is that you don’t have to think of original ideas for most of the content. You can just stitch together and borrow other people’s ideas or settings to make a fairy-tale game that suits the tastes of “the vast majority of people”.
Chen Ba himself admitted that he was shameless and had "stolen" a lot of things from online novels on cultivation and fantasy.
But what to say about this thing.
It's something that's everywhere, but you have to pursue the copyright. I don't even know which ancient book or novel you should pursue it from!
After all, many of the settings and creative ideas in the field of cultivation and immortality were actually first proposed by predecessors, and many authors simply extracted materials from ancient books or myths and legends.
For example, the adjectives used to describe these states are “early stage, middle stage, late stage, and great perfection”.
Who first proposed this setting? Chen Ba searched for a long time but couldn't find which novel was the first to come up with the system of "early stage of Qi training, middle stage of Qi training... great perfection of Qi training".
Just use it.
The shameless Chen Ba adheres to the idea of using whatever is good. As long as the settings are highly recognized by players, he will try them all.
The great perfection in the early, middle and late stages is already a piece of cake!
He even used the outdated "college auction house" without considering the sense of incongruity.
"Speaking of which..."
"The world of cultivation has academies and auction houses, which can be explained, but isn't this foot bath massage too advanced?"
Yang Dong, who came to observe the progress of the game development, was stunned by the new thing that Brother Ba had created.
Be reasonable.
I've seen things like the college auction house when I read novels, so it's acceptable if they're a bit out of place. But putting foot bath and massage in the world of cultivation is a bit unexpected.
Why don't you add Kaifeng cuisine and Golden Arches? Open a KTV and a bar? When will the square dance be arranged? "Here's the thing..."
Chen Ba himself knew that this was indeed quite shocking. But he did this for a reason, and it was not just a random act.
"There are many things in the game that don't fit the ancient background, and even things that are obviously inconsistent with the style of the game."
Chen Ba explained: "These things did not appear out of thin air, but originated from the secret cave heaven."
The story of "Cultivation Fantasy" mainly takes place in the fairy world.
The fairy world is very large, and in this vast fairy world, there are many secret caves hidden.
These secret realms and caves are independent of the fairy world and can be regarded as small worlds with incomplete laws. Different secret realms and caves may have different environments and development directions.
"Don't be surprised to see technological products, because some secret caves and heavens may very well be mortal planets that have taken the technological route."
"A cultivator versus a mecha warrior?"
"If you insist on thinking this way, then I can't help it. But don't worry, the reason why it is set up like this is mainly to create dungeon bosses with different styles of painting."
Chen Ba explained: "There is a way of heaven in the fairy world, and there are gods everywhere! In this context, it is difficult to set up various villain bosses and monsters."
They can't all be monsters, right?
As for evil cultivators or demons, there doesn't seem to be much room for expansion in the fairy world, a world of cultivation under the watchful eye of "Heaven".
Therefore, in order to help players find opponents and to enrich the game ecosystem of "Cultivation Fantasy", Chen Ba introduced the secret cave system.
The secret cave is independent of the fairyland and can be considered a relatively independent small world. It makes sense that in this small world, there are creatures and cultural environments with very different styles.
"All right!"
Yang Dong nodded, agreeing with Brother Ba's words.
However, he still had a question: how should the main plot of "Xiu Zhen Fantasy" be portrayed? What story does this game tell?
"The plot of the game..."
Chen Ba rubbed his dry eyes and introduced: "The character played by the player is an orphan whose family was tragically wiped out. By chance, he was saved by an old senior who passed by and became a disciple of a sect of immortal cultivators."
You choose your own sect.
There are seven major factions in the game, representing different development directions and skill branches.
"Battle pastoral method?"
“Not quite the same!”
Chen Ba explained: "Our sect's professional system is not based on the traditional classification of combat, pastoral and magic. Instead, it is divided into auxiliary professions such as refining equipment, refining pills, spells, formations, beast control, and spiritual plants."
In the game, no matter which sect the player joins, the skills they practice and the secret techniques they use in battle are the same.
Want different skills? OK, go play dungeons and kill monsters to get the secrets! What the sect can teach you is just the basics.
The differences between different sects are mainly reflected in the auxiliary skills such as refining equipment and alchemy. Players can choose the most suitable sect according to their preferences and learn specialized auxiliary skills.
"What's the use of this?"
"It's very useful! You look down on your daily life, don't you? This is the world of cultivation, and learning a skill is very popular."
Chen Ba patiently explained the enhancements that different sub-professions bring to players, as well as their positioning and functions in the game.
Take daily dungeon brushing as an example.
In addition to various magic weapons and secret techniques, you can also obtain certain materials. The purpose of some copies is to produce rare materials.
After being processed by players, these materials can be turned into various powerful props or powerful magic equipment, earning a lot of spirit stones.
In theory, the game store will not sell some basic medicines or props, and the game does not have a fixed channel, relying entirely on players to produce them themselves.
Moreover, a player can learn at most one skill. Once he chooses refining, he cannot choose another one unless he changes his sect and joins another sect.
"These auxiliary skills not only affect life professions, but also affect the combat strength of players."
Chen Ba took animal taming as an example.
Ordinary players can bring at most one pet into battle, but players who have learned the skill of taming beasts can bring three, five or even ten pets into battle.
There are also formation players who can set up various formations in specific scenes to increase their own strength, weaken the enemy's strength, or achieve other effects...
Although it has disadvantages such as being unable to move, slow to deploy, and becoming ineffective when changing scenes, it is almost a must for formation players if you want to conquer high-difficulty dungeons.
"It sounds like this formation is pretty cool! I feel like more than half of the players will major in formations in the end, and they are very powerful whether they are playing in dungeons or PK..."
"That's about right."
Chen Ba smiled and explained, "Schools that teach beast taming, alchemy, and spells are also quite popular, mainly because the increased combat power they provide is too terrifying."
"And sects like spiritual plants and weapon refining may be relatively unpopular."
This was within Chen Ba's expectations.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
There was nothing he could do about it. No matter what MMO game it was, there were basically popular and unpopular professions.
The classic triangle of warrior, priest and mage, isn't it that the number of warriors and mages is greater than that of priests?
But having said that.
Although the number of people in different professions and sects is bound to be unbalanced, unpopular professions actually have their own advantages.
After all, there are few players, no need for coupons, and all the businesses are exclusive! There are always players who need to refine equipment, spiritual herbs and spiritual plants, so there is no worry about employment difficulties.
On the contrary, popular professions and sects have a lot of internal competition because there are too many players. Especially for alchemy, there are too many players in this industry, so the price of elixir is bound to be very low.
What? You can't make money with pills at this price, it's just a waste of time? You don't make pills, but there are many players who are willing to make pills. Do you understand the value of overcrowding in popular professions? Do you understand what it means to have five alchemists out of ten players?
If you give up something, you will gain something.
Players of popular professions will surely regret it later if they rush into the pit of alchemy and formation.
After all, in the game "Xiuzhen Fantasy", earning spirit stones is a relatively important thing, and money, friends, methods and land are all indispensable.
"As time goes by and players spontaneously compete with each other, the gap in the number of people between the various sects will not become particularly exaggerated, and it will be balanced overall."
Chen Ba said that among the various sects in "Cultivation Fantasy", there are no particularly perverted or super-model sects.
Some sects, such as Lingzhi, may indeed appear weak and useless in the early stages, but they will become powerful and enviable in the later stages of the game.
As for the formation, which is obviously abnormal at first glance, it will only be arrogant for a period of time. When the damage of players overflows and the formation is no longer needed to fight dungeons, the formation players will be unemployed.
Each has its own strengths! This is how Chen Ba positions and differentiates the various professions in "Cultivation Fantasy".
Different professions have their own strengths and weaknesses, and there is no obvious distinction between strong and weak, there are only different ways of playing and positioning.
If there is a sect that is particularly weak or unpopular in the game, Chen Ba will not just sit there and watch, but will also secretly strengthen it.
certainly!
At present, it is still unclear what the strengths and weaknesses of each sect are, as well as the relationship between them. After all, the game has not yet started testing!
The first phase of internal testing will begin soon.
Because it is an internal closed test, no relevant information has been disclosed to the public, and players don’t even know that "Cultivation Fantasy" is undergoing the first test.
This test lasted a total of three days.
There are 32 participants, including core employees from various departments of Tianba Studio. After each person completes the test, they must submit a test report.
The test report is simple.
The main thing is to write down what you think are the shortcomings of "Xiuzhen Fantasy", the areas that need to be improved and corrected, whether there are bugs in the game, what are your thoughts during the testing process, etc.
Chen Ba carefully read the test reports written by everyone, mainly to see how everyone complained about the game.
Don't worry about bugs.
Although several bugs were found during the first test, the problems were not serious and Xiao Lu solved them quickly.
However, it was everyone's complaints and grumbles about the game that made Chen Ba particularly concerned.
One of the employees mentioned that when he was playing "Xiu Zhen Fantasy", he felt that there were big problems with the game optimization, especially when passing levels, it was very stuck.
Chen Ba felt deeply about this.
The overall optimization plan of "Xiuzhen Fantasy" is relatively reasonable, but when switching between different maps, the game will suddenly freeze and the frame rate will plummet.
This problem exists in many MMO games and even stand-alone games.
The game is smooth, but it freezes when loading graphics! It is not a problem of graphics loading speed. If it is the problem of graphics loading speed, then changing to a better solid state drive, or directly using an M.2 solid state drive can solve most of the problems.
The main problem is that after completing a level, the screen will freeze for a moment when entering a new map, and then it will automatically recover after a while.
In response to this, Chen Ba specially carried out debugging and optimization, and even tried it on a computer with a mechanical hard drive.
It turns out that the problem has been initially solved. Now the game will not freeze suddenly, but frame drops are normal...
There is no other way! If you want to play without dropping frames, you don't know what level of computer you need. Anyway, Chen Ba believes that with the current hardware configuration, it should not be possible to play without dropping frames.
Frame drops are acceptable.
Anyway, in daily play of "Xiu Zhen Fantasy", the frame rate is generally above 240. When passing levels, this frame rate suddenly drops below 200, which ordinary people cannot notice.
What? The computer screen has a refresh rate of 144hz and can sense this change. Why don't you go up to the sky?
That’s enough!
More than 200 frames is very smooth for daily play. Even if the frame drops a little, it is not noticeable, and the game will not suddenly become stuck.
unless……
Your computer configuration is far below the recommended configuration of "Xiu Zhen Fantasy". It will be like a slide show when playing the game, and it will be very laggy.
However, this situation is no longer a problem that can be solved by game optimization. Chen Ba will not do any special optimization for these old machines.
Don’t want it to be spicy?
It's good enough that it can be played, and it's also optimized. What if the old machine suddenly stops working and starts smoking? (End of this chapter)