Chapter 277 So what is the price?
The next day, Tianba Community.
The official account representing Tianba Studio released a clarification announcement about the "blood lock" incident in the top post of the community, the homepage of the official website, and within the game.
【Investigation results on abnormal issues with the Galaxy peripheral driver program...】
As soon as the announcement was made, Yu Wenjie finally got his name cleared! He couldn't wait to log into his Tianba Community account and posted a post titled "I didn't cheat" in the digital technology section.
As soon as the post was released, it quickly attracted countless players to like and comment, and the most common reply was the three words "I'm sorry".
Yu Wenjie was really frustrated.
The entire community has been scolding him these past two days, saying that he is a cheater, and that he has a secret deal with Brother Ba, so he won’t be blocked even if he cheats.
As it turned out, he was innocent.
What kind of cheat? He was clearly a victim who was wrongly accused. The problem was not caused by him. It was another player who triggered the driver bug.
If we have to talk about cheating, it should be Zhao Yunlong. After all, he can control other players' characters through the network cable. If this is not cheating, what is it? Of course, this is a joke.
Tianba Studio has issued a statement explaining the situation. This matter has nothing to do with Yu Wenjie and Zhao Yunlong. To put it bluntly, it is a game bug caused by the driver program.
Brother Ba is guilty of a heinous crime!
The players felt guilty for wrongly accusing a good person, and were speechless towards Brother Ba.
Why is there no speech? Of course, it’s because although Brother Ba admitted that the incident was caused by the Galaxy peripheral driver, he did not admit that it was a problem within the game.
"Don't talk nonsense! The game I made is perfect, there is no problem at all! Galaxy peripherals are produced by Mirage Electronics, you can blame Mirage Electronics if you want to!"
Mirage Electronics: “…”
Mirage Electronics also expressed speechlessness about the parent company's chairman's behavior of shifting the blame.
No, they made the device, that’s true, but the driver for Galaxy peripherals was developed by Brother Ba himself.
There is no problem with the hardware, but the driver. Can you blame them for this?
Okay, okay!
Who made Mirage Electronics be acquired by Tianba Studio and now a subsidiary of Tianba Game Company? Brother Ba said so, although Mirage Electronics felt wronged, it could not refute it, so it could only bite the bullet and take the blame, admitting that it was their problem. If you want to scold them, scold them, don't scold Brother Ba.
The only thing to be thankful for is that, because the Galaxy peripheral set is priced high and its usage scenarios are relatively limited, not many players buy it.
In other words…
Although this incident caused a lot of uproar, it was ultimately just a disturbance in a small area and would not affect the actual experience of the vast majority of players.
Anyway, not many sets of the equipment were sold. They should apologize, stop selling, and refund the money if necessary!
This is what Mirage Electronics thought and did. Since there are serious defects in the driver of Galaxy peripherals, which greatly affects the normal environment of the game "Star Emperor 2", it will stop selling it and find a solution slowly.
You can't continue selling before the problem is solved, right?
Then the players have to...ah?
Chen Ba thought of many possibilities, including that after players learned the truth, they filed for refunds one after another, that Galaxy peripherals were discontinued and withdrawn from the market as soon as they were released, and that they became a complete joke.
There was no way! This was indeed due to his and Mirage Electronics' inconsideration. They had not expected this situation to happen, and there was no better remedy.
Every failure is a learning experience! Chen Ba has thought it through. If the Galaxy peripherals that have been sold can be recycled, they will be recycled as much as possible. If they cannot be recycled, new driver patches will be released on the official website for everyone to download and install.
The driver written by Tiehanhan system is no longer usable, so it is better to use the original driver! Although the compatibility will be a little worse, at least there are fewer problems.
But he never expected that after the studio issued a notice to explain the situation, not only did Galaxy peripherals not receive large-scale returns and refunds, but they also saw a surge in sales! That’s right…
The Galaxy peripherals, which had previously been advertised extensively across the entire Internet and barely sold more than 10,000 sets, received tens of thousands of orders in just a few hours after the announcement was made.
This is not the point. The point is that all the players who placed the order requested not to change the driver. They wanted to buy an original one and they would get a direct refund once the driver was changed.
As for those players who had previously purchased Galaxy peripherals, there is no way they can get a refund or return the products.
Even on the official trading platform opened by Tianba Studio, some people are speculating on second-hand "Galaxy Sets".
Second-hand is more expensive than new, didn't you expect it? "I really didn't expect that..."
Chen Ba's mouth twitched as he said, "Didn't our notice make it clear? They bought it even though they knew it had defects. Are they mentally ill?"
“It’s clearly written!”
"It is precisely because the announcement was written very clearly, even describing the process of how to trigger the driver bug, that the sales of the Galaxy Set skyrocketed."
Yang Dong didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Come on, taking over other people's characters, this is so cool!"
As for taking over the body, he would block the attack for the player whose body was taken over, and if he was not careful he would get seriously injured...this is no big deal.
What everyone mainly wants to experience is the process of "taking over" other players' bodies.
This is so interesting!
It would be even cooler if you could see the real-time image of the character after taking over the body, which would be a major feature of "leveling the account for you".
"Well……"
Upon hearing this, Chen Ba couldn't help but hesitate and asked, "Is this the so-called Minotaur?"
"Ahem, you're so perverted."
Yang Dong coughed and couldn't help explaining, "But it's indeed the reason you said, that is, showing off other people's characters, which makes the players very excited."
It doesn't matter even if you have to pay hundreds of dollars for it, or even get seriously injured and have little health.
"So... should this driver be replaced?"
Xiao Lu was speechless when he heard this. Aren't we discussing solutions? How come Brother Ba and Brother Dong are talking about Tauren? Should we change the driver? Chen Ba hesitated about this question.
If it was a few minutes ago, then he would definitely support replacing the driver. After all, the driver written by Tiehanhan System has caused such a big disturbance.
But now he felt that this driver didn't have to be replaced...
"How do you say keep the status quo?"
Chen Ba pondered: "The impact caused by this driver bug doesn't seem to be that big. It has both advantages and disadvantages!"
"But it's not fair!"
"The opponent has been possessed and has two lives, but I only have one. Isn't this unfair to other players?"
“No, no, no!”
Yang Dong pondered and said, "You only saw that the opponent had two lives after the driver bug was triggered and the opponent was possessed by another player, but you forgot that after the opponent possessed the body, he could not see the battle situation."
Being possessed by another's body means having two lives!
But after being possessed by another's body, the player controlling the character, that is, the person who initiates the possession, cannot actually see the game screen and can only play blindly.
It’s hard to say whether this is good or bad...
Two lives sounds unfair.
But if your opponent is blind and deaf, that's another story. After all, as a fighting game, "Star Emperor 2" still requires a lot of operation.
You can't see, what else can you do except defend and counterattack?
And this is actually avoidable.
To avoid this unfair competitive situation, you just need to adjust the matching strategy so that players using Galaxy peripherals can match with players using the same devices, and players using keyboard, mouse and controllers can match with keyboard, mouse and controllers.
"That's indeed possible..."
Xiao Lu thought about it and realized that if the matches were separated and Galaxy peripheral players could only be matched with Galaxy peripheral players, the so-called unfair competitive conditions would be eliminated.
In other words, everyone starts with two lives, and everyone can "invite the gods to possess them"! Then the nature of the game changes.
The original "Star Emperor 2" and its predecessor "Star Emperor" were both relatively simple one-on-one duels.
However, this driver bug inexplicably turned the original Solo match of "Star Emperor 2" into a 2V2 match.
In the first round, everyone asks gods to possess them, and it all depends on whether the gods they invite are reliable.
After the gods that both sides have invited to possess them leave, it is the crucial moment for the two players to officially confront each other.
Anyway, everyone has two lives, and they will be taken over by others. There is no such thing as two lives fighting against one.
"Hey! Wait a minute..."
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
As if he had thought of something, Chen Ba said thoughtfully: "If you ask the gods to possess you, all the injuries you suffer will be returned to the player who possesses you. Is that right?"
“That’s right!”
Yang Dong and Xiao Lu nodded in unison.
Taking over other players' bodies and controlling their characters, this kind of Minotaur behavior will inevitably be punished by God. And this divine punishment is that all the injuries incurred during the possession will be inflicted on oneself.
Otherwise, where would the two lives come from?
"So if Player A takes over Player B's body, defeats his opponent for him, and ranks high, will Player A get any reward?"
Chen Ba frowned and said, "Also, can this mechanism be used in official competitions?"
Take the GAL League as an example.
A team often has multiple professional players, and it is impossible for all of them to appear in one game.
But under this special mechanism, it seems that the format of the game can be changed, allowing multiple players of a team to take over the same character in turn, and then start a round-robin battle with other teams.
In this way, there is a possibility of one against five, and one person defeating an entire team...
"Multiple people taking over the body?"
Xiao Lu was surprised and asked, "Is this possible?"
"sure!"
When reproducing the bug, Chen Ba discovered that this body possession bug caused by the driver program theoretically has no upper limit on the number of people who can be infected...
Of course, theory is theory.
In reality, it is very difficult to achieve this. After all, to trigger the bug, you must beat the opponent until the game crashes.
However, in professional competitions, one can directly call upon relevant data and fabricate a character who is "possessed by five people at the same time."
A family must be in order!
Fathers and sons fight together in the battlefield, brothers fight together to kill tigers. At this moment, XXX is not fighting alone, he also has the will of four teammates!
I wipe it, it's on fire...
"It needs to be modified so that the game screen can be seen when taking over the body."
Yang Dong explained: "Otherwise, we will just be playing blindly and the game will probably not be very exciting."
"Can!"
"Not only can we see the picture, I think we can also do something with the feedback of the impact."
Chen Ba suddenly had an idea and said, "For example, if I punch you hard in the chest, then the other people who take over your body will also be hit."
Who says it takes two hands to clap?
joke!
My buddy can slap four or five people at the same time with one slap. I just want to ask you, is that powerful?
"Well……"
Yang Dong didn't say anything, but Xiao Lu next to him had already thought of a scene that made people laugh.
Intel Team VS Nvidia Team, the hot "Double England Derby" is about to begin! OK!
Zhang San, a player from the NVIDIA team, used a thunder punch to call out Li Si, a player from the Intel team.
Oh my god! This punch hit the bull's eye, and contestant Li Si was "fatally hit" and lost his ability to move...
The camera turned and the five players of the Intel team all covered their crotches. The feedback of the injuries was conveyed to them almost at the same time, without missing any one.
Unfortunately, the parts included in the Galaxy Set do not include the vitals.
However, Xiao Lu felt that if the changes were really made as Brother Ba said, there might really be a fatal blow, leading to an outrageous scene where five people were injured.
"But then again..."
Yang Dong scratched his head and said, "If I remember correctly, this kind of possession seems to require a lot of hardware performance?"
"right!"
It would have been better if Yang Dong didn't say anything. As soon as he mentioned it, Chen Ba remembered it.
The body possession bug caused by this driver has a hidden side effect, which is that it consumes a lot of computer performance.
The CPU and GPU will be very fully occupied, especially the CPU. If it is a little worse, it will be really useless.
This is the case of one person taking over another's body. If multiple people take over another's body at the same time, it will undoubtedly be an epic disaster for the players who initiate the possession and the ones who are possessed.
Maybe while they were typing, smoke started coming out of several people's computers at the same time.
“Is this true or false?”
"The optimization of "Star Emperor 2" is not that bad, right? Besides, the performance of current PC hardware is so outstanding, it won't be so easy to stall, right?" Xiao Lu asked with some doubt.
"What does a well-optimized game have to do with a computer being unable to handle it?"
Chen Ba asked back: "What do you understand by taking over someone else's body? Is it just a simple manipulation of other people's roles?"
It's not that simple! This driver bug caused the possession, which seemed like two players were controlling the same character, and the way it was displayed was the same.
But in reality...
The characters controlled by the two players are not the same. Instead, in the original 1V1 match, an invisible character is added that overlaps the XYZ axis and enters the game.
In other words, this is not a case of possession, but just a "replacement" of the character controlled by player A and the character controlled by player B at that moment.
Therefore, when five people take over a character at the same time, it may seem like a 1V1 duel, but there is no third character in the game.
But in fact, there are a total of six characters in the game, and the game screen is calculated in real time based on six people. Of course, ordinary home computers cannot handle it.
(End of this chapter)