Chapter 278 Dark! Dark! Duel! Fight!
"Boss Chen, it's exploded!"
"What exploded?"
As soon as Chen Ba arrived at the Mirage Electronics headquarters, he heard someone say that the product had exploded. This made him very curious. What had exploded? "Of course, the sales volume had exploded!"
Xiong Hongping, general manager of Mirage Electronics, said excitedly: "The sales of the Galaxy suit have taken off. The existing orders alone are enough for our factory to work overtime until February next year."
"That's it?"
Chen Ba didn't take it seriously. He said as he walked, "I thought it was something else. Didn't we know yesterday that the Galaxy suit was selling well?"
“No, no, no!”
Hearing this, Xiong Hongping waved his hands and said, "Yesterday's sales growth was exaggerated, but not as outrageous as today's. Today, hundreds of thousands of consumers came and specifically asked to buy our Galaxy Set."
"How many...how many people?"
Chen Ba didn't take it too seriously at first. After all, in his eyes, Mirage Electronics' base was so small that selling tens of thousands of Galaxy peripherals was not surprising at all.
But when he heard that hundreds of thousands of people came to buy the Galaxy Set, he was shocked.
No... where do so many people come from?
After the announcement was made yesterday, the sales of the Galaxy Set increased instead of decreased, which can also be explained by the fact that players like the "Tauren".
But these hundreds of thousands of people were beyond Chen Ba's expectations. After all, the total number of active players in the game "Star Emperor 2" was not that high! "You're not seeing things, are you?"
"You're right, there really are that many, more than the total number of players of Star Emperor 2 at present!"
Guessing what Brother Ba wanted to say, Xiong Hongping took the initiative to explain before he could speak: "As you think, these customers who come to buy the Galaxy Set are not players of Star Emperor 2."
"Where did that come from?"
Chen Ba became even more confused.
The Galaxy Set is a set of motion sensing peripherals specially designed for the game "Star Emperor 2". If you don't even play the game "Star Emperor 2", why buy this thing?
I can't buy it to play other games, right? Thinking of this possibility, Chen Ba couldn't help but complain: "Although our Galaxy Set supports other games, the operation logic and adaptability are very average. Only playing "Star Emperor 2" can give you a better experience..."
Impossible, absolutely impossible! Chen Ba didn't believe that these people came to buy the Galaxy suit just to play other games. That was not worth it.
There must be another reason.
"You're right. Our Galaxy Suit is not very compatible with other games. It's not as good as general devices like controllers and keyboards when used to play other games."
Xiong Hongping couldn't help laughing and said, "But is there a possibility that these people didn't buy the Galaxy suit to play games?"
Chen Ba: “…”
What did he hear? If you don't use the Galaxy Suit to play games, what else can you use the peripherals designed for games for? "It's like this..."
Xiong Hongping quickly explained: "Doesn't our Galaxy Suit have a driver bug? This bug can cause players to abnormally interfere with other players' character operations. You also issued a notice to explain the situation."
"so what?"
"After that, we prepared a normal driver to replace the old driver and put it on the official website for everyone to download and update."
Xiong Hongping spread his hands and said, "Although most of the first batch of users who purchased the Galaxy Set chose to keep the drivers as they were and not update them, there were a few who did update them..."
This update is bad!
It is not known which link went wrong. After updating the driver, the players were shocked to find that this driver update was a lonely update.
Isn't it still the same?
Not only did they not replace the old drivers, but even after the update, their Galaxy sets had more problems.
It was fine before. I could play the game "Star Emperor 2" normally. As long as I didn't get hit by my opponent and the game crashed and I had to reconnect, it was difficult to trigger the so-called "possession" bug.
But now, as long as the computer or console is connected to the Galaxy Suit, as soon as the game "Star Emperor 2" is opened, the Galaxy Suit will start to work.
"Having a seizure?"
Hearing this adjective, Chen Ba raised his eyebrows and asked, "What is the specific method of seizure?"
"Well……"
Xiong Hongping scratched his head and explained to Chen Ba: "I don't know much about games, but I have played Star Emperor 2 and its predecessor. There is a spectator function in the game, right?"
Spectator function?
Chen Ba thought about it carefully and it seemed that this was really the case.
In "Star Emperor 2" and its predecessor, when players have nothing to do, they can go to the "Plaza" to watch other players' games and learn from the operations of the masters.
This is a functional module built into many games. All competitive games, and even many casual games, have this spectator function.
So what is the connection between the two? "It's a big connection!"
Xiong Hongping smiled bitterly and said, "After the two new and old drivers were replaced and updated, I don't know what went wrong. Players can use this spectator function to force a battle with other players."
"Ah? Forced battle?"
Chen Ba's eyes widened, his face full of disbelief as he asked, "Is this the forced battle you mentioned the same as the forced one I understand?"
"Yes, that's the forced one!"
"And this battle didn't take place in the game Star Emperor 2, but... how should I put it? You'll know after watching this video."
Probably because he didn't know how to describe it to Chen Ba, Xiong Hongping, who was at a loss for words, simply took out a popular Pili Pili video that was just uploaded last night and has been viewed more than 5 million times today.
Chen Ba took a glance.
The video is very popular. It has been uploaded for less than 12 hours and the number of views has reached 5.71 million! In addition to the huge number of views, the video also has a high number of likes and coins, and the comment section has accumulated more than 100,000 messages.
《Dark! Duel! Duel!》
The video uses the common title template for abstract videos, which means that an emoji expression is added after each word.
Chen Ba's interest was piqued and he clicked play. As the video started playing, a familiar BGM sounded suddenly.
Fierce Duelist! This is an instrumental song. Whether you are born in the 90s or 00s, you will exclaim "Wow!" when you hear it.
Of course, that's not the point.
The key point is that as this BGM sounded, a scene appeared in the video that made Chen Ba dumbfounded.
The UP host originally just wanted to observe the operation of the expert. After entering the viewing page and selecting the viewing target, the computer screen went black.
Did the game crash? No, no, no! Chen Ba quickly overturned this speculation, because he saw that after this short black screen, "Star Emperor 2" did not crash.
The only difference is that the screen has changed from a watching perspective to a "battle" perspective.
in other words……
The player on the opposite side was originally playing against another player, and the game was going well when suddenly a third person appeared in the game.
The most amazing thing is that his previous opponent was inexplicably possessed by another person. Although the character was still the same, the person operating this character actually became the UP host who was "watching the game".
"Can we still play like this?"
Chen Ba was shocked. He didn't expect that the possession bug could be triggered even under the spectator function, and this possession happened in front of the "victim".
The most tauren episode, made me cry when I was a kid!
Chen Ba thought that this was everything the video wanted to express, which was what Xiong Hongping called a seizure.
But he never expected that things were not over yet, and the real showdown had just begun! Return to the video.
The UP host who accidentally triggered the body possession bug was in a very difficult situation, but he had no way to quit, so he could only bite the bullet and fight for the victim.
The battle is about to begin! The body possession bug is triggered in the spectator function. The player who possesses the body, that is, the UP host, can see the real-time game screen.
In other words, as long as you are familiar with the skill mechanism and casting action instructions of the character he possesses, it is still fun to play after taking over.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
But unfortunately...
The UP host has never played this character, not even once! He doesn't even know what the skill mechanism is, let alone the casting actions and commands.
"Don't fight, don't fight, let me see the skill introduction!"
The UP host is very anxious, he doesn't want to take over someone else's body, but now that he has already taken over, he can only bite the bullet and take over.
The problem is that he has never played this character before, and he doesn't know what skills this character has or what the specific mechanism is, so he is very panicked...
Everyone knows.
When people are in a panic, if they cannot calm down in time, they will be anxious to death like a headless fly.
The other side didn't know that the opponent had changed and thought it was the same opponent. He attacked quickly and fiercely without mercy, and beat the UP host so hard that he ran away in panic.
During the beating, the UP host inevitably got some injuries. After all, how can you not get hurt if you are beaten? Do you look down on the opponent? But it's okay to get hurt. Why does the game screen freeze abnormally every time the opponent hits you? Finally, the UP host was beaten.
The opponent used a finishing move that was so gorgeous that the screen turned into a PPT in an instant, and the UP host was happily sent away. In the meantime, the game screen also turned black.
"I was disconnected, and not only that..."
The camera turned and showed the UP host a picture that should have been recorded with a mobile phone. The UP host was seen with a sad face, reaching out to open the cover of his computer case.
A puff of white smoke quickly rose up! "As you can see, his punch blew up all the capacitors on my motherboard! Ahhhh... beast!"
The video ended abruptly with the UP host’s wailing, but the shock this video caused to Chen Ba had just begun.
What the hell? What did he see? Wasn't it a normal game? How come smoke came out of the UP host's computer during the game? The configuration was not low, how could this happen? Chen Ba didn't understand.
He didn't even know what happened or why it turned out like this. What he couldn't understand even more was why the spectator function would also trigger the possession bug?
And judging from the situation, the damage caused by triggering the bug through the spectator function is many times more terrifying than the normal trigger! "Is it caused by the driver?"
Thinking of Xiong Hongping's previous remarks, Chen Ba calmed down and asked, "After the driver was updated, the old driver of the Galaxy Suit was not uninstalled successfully?"
"Yes."
Since Xiong Hongping showed Chen Ba this video, he must have conducted a special investigation and verification for this purpose, so he also had some information.
"The old driver, which is the version you provided, could not be successfully replaced by the new driver..."
"There was a conflict between the old and new versions of the driver, combined with an unknown bug in the game, which led to this situation."
Xiong Hongping explained: "I also verified the situation in the video, and it is indeed true!"
"When forcibly pulling another player into the game through the spectator function, both players will experience hardware scheduling issues due to injury feedback..."
Xiong Hongping analyzed in an easy-to-understand manner why the conflict between the new and old versions of the driver would cause such serious consequences.
The reason for this is the "injury feedback" mechanism that is linked between "Star Emperor 2" and the Galaxy Set.
When playing "Star Emperor 2" wearing the Galaxy Suit, when the player is injured or attacked, the Galaxy Suit will perform a series of "hit" feedback.
This is the situation!
However, the conflict between the old and new versions of the driver caused a problem that when the player was attacked or injured, the injury feedback that should have been passed to the "Galaxy Suit" for processing was not processed, and was even transferred...
"Transfer?"
"Yes! It's transfer!"
Xiong Hongping gave a very vivid example, that is, a couple quarreled, and the child was hungry, so they left the child to the "third party force" such as grandparents to deal with.
Under normal circumstances, when a child is hungry and wants to eat, parents must cook for him.
But the parents were arguing and had no time to take care of the child, so naturally other people in the family had to come forward to look after the child.
"The injury feedback mechanism needs the Galaxy Suit to receive and process it, but because of the conflict caused by the drive, the Galaxy Suit can't handle it, so it was thrown to other family members!"
Who are the other family members? Of course, they are the other computer hardware that live under the same roof and run on the same system.
"But……"
After roughly understanding it, Chen Ba frowned and asked again: "Transferring the treatment is useless! This injury feedback mechanism is bound to the Galaxy Suit, and the corresponding effect can only be achieved on the Galaxy Suit."
There's no point in transferring it to other hardware!
What about CPU, GPU, keyboard, mouse or controller? Can they handle this task? I'm afraid they can't even read the task information, so how can they handle this task?
"That's right, it can't be handled!"
Xiong Hongping raised his eyebrows and said, "Only the Galaxy Suit can handle this injury feedback task. Other hardware is completely incapable of doing so."
"But it's precisely because it can't handle it that this overload and overclocking phenomenon occurs!"
Hardware is not a person and does not know what rejection means. It insists on trying to solve a problem even when it knows it is impossible. This is rigid mechanical programming thinking.
This is just like using a crappy graphics card to render a top 3A game. Your graphics card knows it is not capable of this, but will it refuse to perform the task?
Won't!
It will just go ahead and do it, even if it can't render or gets stuck in a slide show, it will still render according to your instructions.
And that’s exactly the problem…
(End of this chapter)