Chapter 471: Fight to the End
Feng Kangshun looked at several friends who were still showing online games, and their status had not changed since noon. He
finally couldn't help it.
He found a friend he usually chatted with best, then opened the chat window and sent him a message.
"Brother, is the game "Civilization" really that fun? I see you've been playing it until now."
Click send.
But after the message was sent, it was like a drop in the ocean, and there was no reply for a long time.
Until Feng Kangshun was a little impatient waiting.
The reply popped up.
"Fun."
Just one word.
And then it was over.
It looked like don't disturb him playing games...
Feng Kangshun looked at the reply, and the corners of his mouth twitched. Do you think I care about you? I want you to explain why this game is fun, so I can see if I want to buy it. You
just say it's fun?
That's right.
Feng Kangshun was indeed a little tempted.
Whenever Linmu Studio releases a new game, a lot of his friends will gather to play it, and Feng Kangshun himself is sometimes among them.
But no matter how good the new game is. No matter how
engrossed everyone is in the game, they will usually take a break.
For example, in the afternoon and early morning, many players will choose to turn off the game.
Although they can be seen playing again the next day.
But this time, no matter when Feng Kangshun went to see them, he could see them online and playing all the time, which was quite outrageous. This had never happened before.
Is it really that fun?
This thought came to mind, and then the urge to play the game came to him, which was understandable.
"What's fun about it? I remember you said you didn't like this type of game before."
Feng Kangshun thought about it and sent another message to the other party.
The other party still didn't respond.
After a long time,
he replied: "It's fun because... I don't know! I won't say it anymore, it makes me angry! Damn Gandhi! He said he advocated non-violence and non-cooperation, but he was the first to throw a nuclear bomb!"
"?"
Feng Kangshun saw his friend's message and slowly typed a question mark.
Then, he was even more excited.
Nuclear bomb?
By the way, it seems that the game trailer does say that players have to control the development of the entire civilization... Then it's normal to be able to study nuclear bombs.
Interesting.
Feng Kangshun looked at his friend's message, then looked at the Vaporwave gaming platform, closed the chat window, and turned around to find a real-life friend.
"Are you there?"
"What?"
"What are you doing?"
"Getting ready for bed. I played Bloodlust all day! It was so cool! Game player really made the right bet this time. I took a look before closing the game, and the multiplayer mode entered in seconds! There were so many players, and the Vaporwave gaming platform seemed to be in danger.
By the way, do you want to try it too? This game is really worth buying! Although it is not as long-term as Breakout, it is worth playing if you like FPS."
Feng Kangshun's real-life friend told him a lot and recommended the game.
But Feng Kangshun was not tempted.
He was very familiar with the FPS game type, and in his mind, Breakout was the best in the world! There was nothing to say about it.
He now cares more about game types he doesn't understand, such as the "Civilization" that a dozen friends have been playing for more than ten hours...
"Let's talk about FPS. I see that many people seem to be playing "Civilization" on the Vaporwave game platform, and the reviews are very good. Do you want to try it together?"
He replied quickly.
"?"
His real-life friend sent him a question mark directly: "Are you crazy? It's already early in the morning. I must be crazy to play a turn-based strategy game with you. Can't I get enough sleep and continue to play "Bloodlust" tomorrow?"
"You go to bed so early? You're just lying in bed playing Splatoon. Give it a try! Anyway, you can get a refund within two hours."
Feng Kangshun replied: "I'm really curious. Aren't you curious? Look at your friend list. Are all of them playing it?"
"...Fuck, everyone is really playing it?"
The friend on the other end paused, then replied: "I don't understand. Isn't FPS fun? Or is Linmu Studio too famous? These people are following the trend?"
Feng Kangshun bewitched: "Why do you care why? Anyway, I'm very curious. Are you curious? Do you want to give it a try? If it's not fun and you really can't accept it, you can get a refund within two hours, go to bed and continue playing your "Bloodlust" tomorrow."
"Why don't you just play it by yourself? Why are you dragging me?"
"It feels boring to play alone. Let's try connecting the microphones. Just say whether you want to come or not!"
"...Okay, let's give it a try."
On the other side,
Feng Kangshun's friend looked at the Vaporwave gaming platform, thought of the refund mechanism, and saw that many friends were playing the game, so he agreed without any psychological pressure.
However, he
agreed.
At the end, he did not forget to add: "Don't get too excited, I'll go to bed at three o'clock and play Bloodlust tomorrow."
"Okay."
Feng Kangshun agreed, and then the two logged into 'Kaihei' and bought the game together.
The game started downloading.
The two took this opportunity to chat about their recent situations.
The game download speed was quite fast.
Before they had chatted for long, the progress bar had already gone two-thirds of the way.
"I feel that the Internet speed has been much faster recently. Do you feel it?"
Feng Kangshun glanced at the download page and suddenly sighed.
"It's normal that there is a large-scale broadband speed increase recently."
The friend replied, and then said: "However, in addition to this, the network of the Vaporwave game platform is indeed faster than other software. After all, didn't Linmu Studio say that it would optimize the network some time ago? I saw people on the forum saying that they have added servers in various regions. With such a large cost, it would be strange if it is not fast.
Game player is quite poor in this regard. Tsk, it's often good and bad in China, especially stupid. It took me almost half a day to download "Bloodthirsty"... Linmu Studio is really good at this."
Feng Kangshun was slightly stunned when he heard his friend's words, and then reacted.
It seems to be true...
Although the Vaporwave gaming platform doesn't seem to have any big moves, and the players don't feel it very obviously, unlike the game player giving away games or third-party exclusives, which attract a lot of attention, Linmu Studio has indeed been optimizing the network environment and community...
Even he, who doesn't pay attention to the network speed at all, has discovered that the download speed has become faster.
Moreover, now that he thinks about it, it's quite outrageous. Why did he dare to ask his friends to play a game he hasn't bought yet at twelve o'clock in the morning?
Isn't it just that he subconsciously thinks that the games on the Vaporwave gaming platform will be downloaded quickly?
This silent move by Linmu Studio...hiss.
Feng Kangshun suddenly understood why Linmu Studio didn't care about the other party giving away games, but chose to quietly optimize the network and community.
This is to improve core competitiveness in silence.
"No more talking, I've downloaded it here, are you done?"
At this time, his friend suddenly interrupted Feng Kangshun's thoughts.
"... Almost there, go in and get familiar with it first, and see how to connect online, it will be done soon." Feng Kangshun immediately came back to his senses and replied, throwing unnecessary thoughts behind his mind. After all, he was just an ordinary player, and he thought about it, but he didn't have many feelings.
"Okay."
The friend responded, then fell silent and opened the game.
Unlike Kang Yi, he didn't click on the quick start directly, but chose a teaching mode to familiarize himself with the game operations and elements first.
However.
Probably because his friend was next to him, and he had never played a strategy game before.
He complained while playing.
"I knew that no matter how impressive the trailer was, the game would end up like this... small grids. I never understood what was so fun about this kind of game. It's not like an FPS. Although the trailer also had some exaggerations, at least the first-person perspective gave me that feeling."
"Well, cities, resources, construction, technology... so troublesome."
"But the map is quite unexpected. Each grid has different landforms and different resources. There are indeed very few games that are made like this."
"Well, after the early construction, I can't do anything else for seven or eight rounds. What's the point?"
"Boring!"
"...I've downloaded it too."
On the other side.
While listening to his friend's complaints.
Feng Kangshun also downloaded the game. Like his friend, he also entered the teaching mode.
Then he learned the basic knowledge of the game according to the game tutorial.
As for the points that his friend complained about, he had similar feelings.
However.
Unlike his friend, he had played two turn-based strategy games before, or more accurately, strategy games.
At that time, the only feeling he had when playing strategy games was that they were difficult and troublesome.
Because strategy games usually have a lot of settings, and even after watching the tutorial, it is difficult to figure out what the settings are, except for the intuitive ones like money.
This is also why he doesn't like strategy games and doesn't understand why a bunch of friends play "Civilization" in a marathon.
But for this "Civilization", for some reason, even without reading the introduction,
he can guess the functions of many systems...whether it is money, policy, satisfaction, or religion, population, and various units.
Moreover, he feels that the game settings are quite reasonable.
The population grows with the growth of food. After all, where would the population come from without food?
And the growth of population will give rise to religious points, which seems reasonable.
After all, there are more people.
And these settings that are closely related to reality and history, combined with the tips and tools in the game, it feels easy to understand the functions of most functions of this game.
Inexplicably, it feels easy to get started.
And what his friends said about not being able to do anything else in the first seven or eight rounds is also exaggerated. The feeling of exploring the map, finding a good place, and then meeting an expedition team from another country is actually quite great...
"Okay, I now fully understand this game. Are you ready? Let's start a battle."
At this time.
Feng Kangshun's friend spoke again: "It's almost time to go to bed after playing for a while, otherwise you will miss the refund period. If you are not familiar with the game, just enter it and slowly get familiar with it. The tutorial is quite boring. Let's see if it's fun with multiple people. If it's not fun, refund it."
"Okay."
Although Feng Kangshun has not completed the tutorial, he roughly knows how to play this game.
Build a city, then choose policies and technologies that are conducive to combat, and then blast the troops to kill the enemy.
Yeah.
That's it.
The battle will be resolved in an hour, and then it will be decided whether to refund or not.
The two of them quickly went through the tutorial, and then they started the official game directly.
The two of them chose a medium-sized map, and then added a few AI opponents. As for civilization, one of them chose Wu Zetian and the other chose Augustus Caesar.
The game officially began.
There was nothing much to say at the beginning, it was similar to the tutorial.
Determine the location of the city.
Choose a research direction.
Produce workers.
The initial soldiers go to explore the map.
"Why don't we fight now?"
Feng Kangshun's friend suddenly teased while exploring the map: "Don't let's go through one round after another like this and miss the refund time."
"Destroy the country at the beginning?"
Feng Kangshun smiled and replied.
"Well, this is exciting... After all, this game feels a bit boring in the early stage. What's the point of controlling a B soldier."
"It's okay."
Feng Kangshun thought about it, and for the first time he didn't agree with him.
Because he thought exploring the map was quite interesting.
The two continued to chat.
While chatting, they clicked the next round.
In this way, the next round, the next round...
Slowly, the two stopped talking.
And the situation... gradually became wrong.
The two of them felt the same as Kang Yi, that is, slowly, they felt that there were more system elements, and they were a little flustered, and at the same time, they had interesting ideas.
Soon, the two stopped talking.
The next round.
The next round.
The next round...
The two of them became dull in their perception of the passage of time, and Feng Kangshun's friends began to gradually shift their complaints.
"A Shun, what does this B Spain mean? Why did he explode his troops on my border?"
"I don't know."
"You... fuck! He declared war! Did you see it! He actually declared war on me!"
"See, can we beat him?"
"Hit you! The other side has a bunch of siege vehicles, help! Help! Help!"
"I only have a few groups of archers."
"Don't worry about it! Send them over first, we will form an alliance! If I can't beat them, I will destroy my country..."
"..."
Things gradually became exciting.
Then...
time flew by.
The next day.
November 16th.
The second day after "Civilization" was unlocked, ten o'clock in the morning.
"Do you have uranium mines? Trade some to me."
Feng Kangshun asked with two dark circles under his eyes.
"Mao, I only have two. If you don't give me, I'm about to enter the atomic age." His friend's voice was a little tired, but full of energy.
"Do you believe that I will drop an atomic bomb on your house?"
"Come on, the Spanish next door are about to enter the information age. Fight them, tie them up and die together!"
"...Then how about this, let's destroy the Spanish civilization next door first, and then fight to the death. They have a lot of uranium mines in their territory."
"Good idea, then you pull out your main battle tanks and heavy machine guns, and I'll lead the way with my bombers, and you go up and shoot them."
"Why don't I be responsible for the bombing? You are responsible for the ground advance? The city where my bombers are stationed is closer, right?"
"Just tell me if you agree or not, if not, we'll break up!"
Feng Kangshun: "Fuck you..."
At this moment.
Feng Kangshun actually felt the intrigues and deceptions in modern warfare in the game...
He was a little amused and said, "Okay!"
Then, the two began to continue the operation.
Then.
The time came to twelve o'clock...
The two began to besiege the biggest competitor nearby, the Spanish civilization, and successfully flattened their cities one by one. Now the opponent only had the last main city left.
With the last round of bombing.
The last city of the Spanish civilization was declared to have fallen.
Feng Kangshun also breathed a sigh of relief.
Then, a fierce fatigue surged into his heart...
He finally stopped staring at the screen, but picked up the phone again and looked at the time.
Hmm.
Twelve o'clock.
... Wait. ?
? ?
Twelve o'clock?
Time went backwards?
No, it's twelve o'clock in the afternoon!
"Fuck, it's twelve o'clock, it's time to rest..."
Feng Kangshun smiled bitterly and reacted.
This game is really addictive.
The more you play, the more exciting it is!
He finally understood why his friends played the game in a marathon style, because once you get into it, it's really hard to put it down... They always want to know what surprises there will be in the next round.
What surprises will there be in the next round...
Then, it kept raining, and it turned out like this.
So tired.
He shook his head and wanted to ask his friend to take a break.
But when he looked up, before he could finish his words, he saw that as the biggest computer opponent, the Spanish civilization, fell... his friend directly turned the siege units and aimed at his heavy machine gun units.
[Idiot! Your day of judgment has come!]
[Rome declares war on you!]
"..."
Feng Kangshun was confused: "Idiot! What are you doing!?"
"Your day of judgment has come!!" his friend repeated in a very immature tone on the other end of the black software.
Feng Kangshun's mouth twitched, and he said kindly: "What the hell are you judging? It's time to rest. You've been playing for more than ten hours."
His friend immediately said: "No!! What the hell are you sleeping on! Hurry up, next round!"
Feng Kangshun was silent for a moment, and changed his direction: "...Didn't you say you were going to play Bloodthirsty today? Go to bed early."
"What the hell! Let's play Bloodthirsty later. I can't sleep if I don't kill you today!"
"Don't get carried away..."
"I'm not carried away!! I just want to kill you before I go to sleep!"
"You... OK, I'll fight you."
Feng Kangshun looked at the enemy's army approaching, and his adrenaline surged instantly.
No longer sleepy!
He began to deploy troops and prepare for a bloody battle to the end! !
...
This day.
For many players, it is special...
But for more ordinary players, it is just another ordinary day.
On the community forum.
Because there are many new games recently, the related discussions are also very diverse.
There were discussions about the game Bloodthirsty, Final Hour, and Super Mario Party.
The discussion about Civilization
was the least.
Many players did not understand the situation and found it quite strange, so they posted a thread.
[Dear players, wasn't Linmu Studio's Civilization released yesterday? Has anyone played it? Why is no one discussing it? Is it bad? How is the quality?]
This thread was posted.
Most of the replies were that they didn't know, hadn't bought it yet, and didn't know how it was...
However.
As time went on, players who had actually played the game came out and replied -
"I advise you not to play it."
This reply immediately attracted the attention of the poster, who quickly replied, "Is it bad?"
"No, I'm afraid you'll die suddenly..." The other party's reply was also very fast.
The poster saw: "???"
And when the time came to that night.
The players who stayed up all night yesterday got up...
These people were all fans of Linmu Studio. Even if the new game was a turn-based strategy, they chose to buy it as soon as possible, and then... Then there was nothing else.
Feng Kangshun's case is not an isolated one.
Most of the players who bought Civilization stayed up late. Some
even fought all night.
Now they got up and had time to share their feelings.
And their feelings about the game... their opinions were surprisingly consistent.
"Don't play! This is like an addiction! Really don't play it!!"
"I bought the game at 12 o'clock yesterday, and went to bed at 12 o'clock today... I checked the time countless times during this period and made up my mind to go to bed, but I was like a demon, and I subconsciously clicked the next round. I just dreamed about the next round."
"What a psycho! This game is really addictive!"
"I can't take it anymore! I feel like my body is hollowed out. I can't play it tonight, but I really want to play (crying)"
"Don't buy it! This thing is a time black hole! Don't touch it!"
On the forum,
related posts popped up like mushrooms after rain.
But ordinary players don't understand.
You say recommend it, but these people are like seeing a ghost, and they all say don't play it.
But you said you don't recommend it... These people are like seeing a ghost, first they said don't play it, and then all they praised was...
It's outrageous.
This made most players interested in the game.
The forum was in chaos for a while.
Finally, some players started to review it seriously...
[Civilization is a good game, there is no doubt about that, but there is one shortcoming... It makes people unable to stop playing.
Seriously!
Yes, you can't stop playing a strategy game, you heard it right, this is why so many players are crying (including me).
Because this game is really addictive... You haven't played it, so you may not be able to empathize, let's just say this.
This game shows what the name of the game shows, which is the development history of "civilization"!
City development, military strategy, siege warfare, resource plundering, greed of big countries...
Although it is just a game, this game directly breaks down the evolution of the entire civilization into visible and clear pieces, and then completely gives the decision-making power to shape the world to the players, allowing players to advance history like a god...
This feeling is really great... Every round, players have new surprises, and the most anticipated is always the next round.
I really can't stop playing!
At first, I felt a little bored, then slowly, I became addicted, and then, it was out of control.
This is how I feel when playing games.
Simple gameplay and complex content, plus the theme of "civilization" that everyone has experienced, really makes all players who are not resistant to strategy games addicted.
And this is probably the charm of strategy games.
(Also, don't play this game with your friends, this is Lin Yao's conspiracy! It's a shitty party game! This is a marathon! An electronic marathon!)】As
soon as this review came out.
The players who were just confused understood instantly... This is a good game. It's
just.
It seems easy to get addicted.
But is it really?
Many players don't believe it.
Then, thanks to the refund mechanism of the Vaporwave game platform, many players who were not interested in it at first, with the idea of ​​a refund, also tried it... and
then... there was no more.
...
November 17th.
Gibbs Company.
Frank came to the company early in the morning, then looked at the data report and froze in his place.
"Why??? Why did the number of online players of Bloodlust suddenly drop so much?"
He looked up, looked at the secretary with a confused look, and asked.
That's not right. Didn't Bloodlust have more than 300,000 online players yesterday?
How come there are only 100,000 left all of a sudden?
Where are all my players?
The secretary shook her head, with a look of "I don't know either".
Frank was silent: "..."
This abnormal data suddenly made him feel a little uneasy.
It shouldn't be.
Linmu Studio?
No way.
They are making strategy games, how can they compete with FPS for players? Are you dreaming?
Then...
why?
The more Frank thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. He hesitated for a moment, and immediately turned on the computer to search for any major moves in the gaming circle recently.
And this search actually found it.
On the third day of the release of Civilization, the media's early evaluation of this game... came out.
[Civilization, 9.7 points.
Just when everyone felt that the times had moved on, the market had changed, and strategy games had been swept into the history pile.
Linmu Studio stood up again.
They took a step back again.
Then, it brought another surprise to the players.
To be honest, "Civilization" is the best turn-based strategy game I have ever seen and played! No other!
All players should try it. 】
"..."
Frank looked at the review content and opened his mouth slightly.
Huh?
(End of this chapter)
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