Chapter 65: Value and Mechanics Balance

Thirty people is really a lot.

There were three full tables of people sitting together, all looking at Chen Ba, and the pressure was overwhelming.

Fortunately, when Chen Ba was in school, his teacher often arranged for him to give speeches under the national flag on Monday mornings. He had similar experiences before, so he was not stage fright.

If it were any other socially anxious producer, he would probably be so nervous that he wouldn't even be able to speak clearly when meeting so many players offline for the first time.

“Thank you for your support of our studio. I know what you all want to ask. The new version of “Living with Others Simulator” will be updated soon. Please don’t worry!”

"...We're not going to talk about this today. Anyone here should have played the early access version of Star Emperor, right?"

"have!"

Soon someone raised his hand.

Seeing that most people had played the early access version of "Star Emperor", Chen Ba nodded first, and then asked:

"Did you find any problems during your visit, or any areas that you think can be improved?"

"Speak freely. Anyone who has an idea can speak out directly. The premise is that you don't curse people and your words must be meaningful!"

The reason why Chen Ba invited players to meet offline was that on the one hand he really wanted to treat them to a meal, and on the other hand he also wanted to collect the most authentic feedback from players.

This is very important to him.

As the first multiplayer online game under Tianba Studio, "Star Emperor" definitely has some shortcomings.

If no one points it out, they may never notice it on their own, after all, not every bar owner knows how to make fried rice.

When he said that everyone could speak freely at this party, a young man wearing glasses soon stood up and shared his thoughts.

"Brother Ba, shouldn't the character values ​​be balanced? I like Emperor Chang Ye very much, but he is simply unplayable in the ranked environment..."

"Emperor of the Long Night?"

Hearing the complaint from the guy with glasses, the other players nodded.

"Star Emperor" initially has six supreme emperor characters, each with their own characteristics and positioning.

The Emperor of the Night is very special! As a glass cannon, he has high attack and low defense. In addition, he is too difficult to operate. As a result, you can't see the Emperor of the Night in the ranking environment at all. If you dare to choose him, you will die.

The blood is too thin and the resistance is too low!

When other emperors and supreme beings fight each other, they can at least rely on their special physique to withstand several skills head-on without dying. But for a defensive character like the Black Turtle Supreme, you can't even break his shield.

On the other hand, the Emperor of the Night...

Not to mention being hit by skills head-on, just being splashed by the opponent's AOE skills due to your positioning will cause your health to drop immediately.

Who can withstand this?

Many players like the character of Chang Ye Emperor who requires high skills and has a high ceiling, just like the four sisters in the top lane in LOL.

But this character is as fragile as paper, which has discouraged many players. After all, the tolerance for error is not on the same level as other characters...

On the road to becoming an immortal, the Starry Sky Emperor can make countless mistakes, but the Long Night Emperor can only make one mistake! Isn't this a bit unfair to the players who like the Long Night Emperor? "We have also noticed this." Chen Ba nodded and agreed with the player's feedback.

In fact, he has discovered that the overall winning rate of the Emperor of the Night is less than 20%, which is an extremely unhealthy statistic. This means that most players who choose the Emperor of the Night can only wait for death.

It’s time to strengthen it!

However, the "glass cannon" positioning of Emperor Changye also means that the strengthening of this character must be cautious, and the numerical values ​​cannot be increased randomly like LOL designers.

Otherwise, once the intensity exceeds the critical value, it will become "The Great Emperor of Long Night is wreaking havoc on the road to immortality."

"And the Winged Supreme!"

"The Star Emperor also needs to be strengthened..."

Seeing that Brother Ba adopted the suggestion to strengthen the Emperor of Long Night, other players could not sit still and began to speak up for their favorite characters, hoping that their numbers would be strengthened.

But this time, Chen Ba ignored them.

Emperor Changye was strengthened because he was indeed weak, with an overall winning rate of less than 20%, so he agreed.

But what about the other characters?

Is it because you are handsome and have many fans? Or does he, as a designer, need to worship a certain character like his own father?

But forget it!

Chen Ba does not have the tradition of other game designers of "recognizing characters as their fathers" and will not decide the numerical balance of the game according to his own preferences.

He only looks at the data. Whoever has a low win rate and a low appearance rate will be strengthened, and whoever has a high win rate and a high appearance rate will be weakened.

The main focus is on fairness and justice! As the protagonist of the game, Star Emperor is nicknamed "Tianba's own son" by players. With an overall win rate of 55%, he may be the first to be weakened.

The son? The one who is nerfed is the son! In addition to the numerical balance between characters, the balance of mechanisms is also an important aspect of fighting games such as "Star Emperor".

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

Some characters not only have no natural enemies, but also have a strong restraint relationship with certain other characters. This is an imbalance in the mechanism.

For example, the Winged Supreme and the newly released Crazy Shark Supreme!

These two have a perfect father-daughter relationship...

The main feature of Winged Supreme is flexibility and mobility, and its mechanism positioning is more like guerrilla warfare.

But the skills of the Mad Shark Supreme are mostly AOE range damage, and it can also mark enemy targets. Once marked, the damage will continue to increase according to the number of layers.

For Wing Supreme players, this mechanism is simply a rip-off, and they are completely restrained! During the early access stage, Chen Ba saw an extremely miserable data in the background.

The Winged Supreme vs. the new Shark Supreme has a winning rate of only 24.3%. Even a real daughter wouldn't be so filial! This mechanism needs to be balanced.

In fact, the winning rate of Shark Supreme against other characters fluctuates around 50%, and other characters also have countermeasures, which is not particularly superb. Only when fighting against Wing Supreme, he can win every time.

This is unbalanced. From now on, when a Winged Supreme player meets a Crazy Shark Supreme, he can only type on the public screen and call out "Dad", begging the opponent to give him a hand!

“Game balance is a huge project that requires long-term fine-tuning and attention to achieve the most perfect balance.”

On the way back, Chen Ba said to Yang Dong: "As long as it is a game related to parameter mechanisms, it is normal to have this kind of imbalance."

"It's like this..."

Yang Dong smiled and said, "Actually, if you think about it from another angle, Star Emperor has done a great job!"

Imbalance refers to normal ranking.

If the road to becoming an immortal is the ultimate sublimation, where is the imbalance? Graphics card supremacy is no joke! Your stats are high, your mechanics are superb...

But so what?

Your graphics card is not as good as mine, and your video memory is not big enough, so you are doomed to fail me, go to hell! "Really!"

Chen Ba had never thought about this angle, but after Yang Dong's enlightenment, he suddenly realized it.

yes!

Putting aside the numbers and mechanics, the path to becoming an immortal is simply the most balanced way to play. It doesn't matter if the character is weak, a strong graphics card is the real strength!

(End of this chapter)