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Lin You came to the small sofa dedicated to fishing, and watched the news of the battle for the first pass with Xiaomeng.

According to the timeline pulled out by Xiaomeng, it can be seen that until noon yesterday, "competing for the first pass" was still a joke-like topic in Izumo.

Few people really think that they can catch up after being two days behind.

The turning point was when someone made a post --

"The top three fastest players to clear the game in "League of Assassins" are all participating in the competition, and they didn't play "John Wick" for the first time.

It is reasonable to suspect that the few hardcore players who are best at speedrunning games are likely to be dragged down by the game and have no time to play new games.

As for domestic players, there are actually hundreds of people who entered the game as soon as "John Wick" was released, and have been pushing the main line with all their strength. Many of them play for 16 hours a day!

[Dasen] is one of them, I asked a friend, his progress is almost the same as the anchor with the fastest progress in Daxia!

So the outcome is actually hard to say!Speedrunners in Izumo have every chance to compete for the first place! "

As soon as this post came out, many Izumo players realized belatedly: Before Izumo released the console, even before Yunmeng came to Izumo to find a partner, Izumo already had virtual reality gamers!

Then almost without exception, they all get excited!
The discussion on the No. 1 clearance of "Quick Chase" suddenly increased dozens of times.

With such a large degree of discussion, the news naturally spread to foreign countries.

Only then did Daxia players notice that a competitor had appeared.

What's interesting is that when the game was first released, the players of Great Xia focused all their attention on Lin You's inappropriateness.

Even if he was temporarily distracted by an outrageous interview and an even more outrageous live broadcast, he didn't care too much about the first pass after the end.

At most, he knew that there was such a thing.

After all, the word "speed pass" defines a relatively niche circle. Compared with such hard-core content, players still prefer to watch those with gorgeous operations, interesting anchors, or even those who can simply live. Son's live broadcast.

The "speed pass" requires considerable effort, and often has to endure boring and repetition, and practice over and over again.

However, the effect of the live broadcast was so-so, and it was really not worthy of the hard work.

And only when the record is broken, will they go out of the circle for a short time and get a lot of attention.

But even so, as far as the entire game live broadcast circle is concerned, it has received very little attention.

So even on Sunday, when Izumo players had seen hope and started to get excited, Daxia players still focused on a dog.

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On Sunday afternoon, an incredible 380 million viewers gathered on different live broadcast platforms, all of whom were watching the live broadcast of the "Milkshake Fan Meeting".

While posting "The dog is so cute" in the barrage, they envied and hated the 100 selected players.

But in a sense, their "envy, jealousy and hatred" also stay on the Internet.

In fact, the number of players who clicked on the link to sign up was far less than the number of players watching the live broadcast now. There were only over 8 players in total, and most of them were players living in Xiajing.

It can be seen that although everyone is yelling "too few places" and "whom do you look down on".

But in fact, they are all busy playing new games, and they don't plan to really travel all the way to play with Milkshake...

But even 100 people is too much for a milkshake, and it is impossible to interact at the same time.

Therefore, the players who came over were divided into groups of 5 by the staff, and each group could interact with Milkshake for 10 minutes. Ye Xiaohe followed Little Milkshake the whole time, paying attention to the safety and mood of Milkshake.

Accompanied by Ye Xiaohe, Milkshake is not flustered at all, she stays peacefully by her side, does not reject strangers, and even approaches her curiously.

If you get tired after walking a few laps, you just slump on the blanket and don't bother to move.

Even if someone strokes his hair, it's just a few comfortable moans.

After being paralyzed for a long time, I gained strength, and then I got up and jumped a few times.

Of course, Yunmeng will not let the rest of the players wait. In Ye Xiaohe's department, all Maomao employees without owners have all gone to work!

Although it is still impossible for everyone to have a cat, there are fourteen cats on the scene, which is enough to make players who like small animals happy.

Of course, the 10 employees led by Fan Rui also came to the "appreciation meeting".

Because there are only 100 players, and there are still live milkshakes on the scene, those players who clamored for "hunting time" on the Internet, in reality, after all, they have restrained a lot.

The most dramatic part is that I received more than a dozen [Return my dog's life] pennants.

And when a player got the microphone, he didn't ask about the game, but said: "I am a fanatic admirer of Lin You, can you give me his address? I want to send him some souvenirs."

This remark caused laughter at the scene and in the live broadcast room.

In addition, everyone was in harmony, sitting on the thick blanket and chatting about some game-related issues.

It involves the current plot of the game, the limitations of the random mechanism, whether there are any easter eggs, and whether there will be a big event like [Freedom Day] in the future, etc.

The overall atmosphere is still great.

It's just that Fan Rui answered very conservatively about most of the "future" topics.

Only the "big event" in the future, he said with certainty, "There will definitely be, but it may be a little different from what everyone imagined."

There was also a small episode here, where a player asked: "What kind of game is that [unparalleled, unprecedented] game that Lin You mentioned? Any news is fine, just let us know a little bit!"

Fan Rui thought for a while, and thought of the [Cold Weapon Combat Technology Development Team] that Yunmeng had just established, and the [Virtual Chang'an] where they fought every day.

He is very sure that the boss must be talking about this game, whether it is the importance the boss attaches to it, or the investment he has learned so far, it proves this.

But obviously it can't be said here...

So after considering it for a while, he replied: "Okay, then I will reveal two more points."

Everyone immediately pricked up their ears, and even Splash, who was shaking hands with Little Milkshake, stopped and turned to look at Fan Rui.

Fan Rui: "This is not only an [unparalleled, unprecedented] game, but also an [incredible, dreamlike] game."

"Alas—" There was a loud booing at the scene...

After the players continued to ask questions, Fan Rui just smiled and waved his hands, unwilling to answer.

Whether it was the players at the scene or the players in the live broadcast room, they were all tickled by him.

The barrage is all saying: All the people in Yunmeng have been brought down by Lin You!

Throughout Sunday, the most lively topic in the player circle was this appreciation meeting.

When the players came back to their senses, they finally realized that the players from Izumo were coming to compete for the first pass of the game.

And it seems, is there really hope?

Is this worth it? !
Whoever gets the first pass of the game is not important to the players in Great Xia.

But whether the first pass of the game stays in Daxia's country, this is very important to the players of Daxia!
The heat of discussion on related topics is suddenly different.

Because now it is no longer a competition between several players, but a competition between countries!

The hardcore anchors vying for the first pass immediately ushered in an unprecedented, astonishing tsunami-like traffic!

Especially for the anchors with the most advanced progress, the popularity of the live broadcast room is like a rocket, and it has increased dozens or even hundreds of times in a short period of time!
Xiaomeng stretched out her hand and put the top three live broadcast rooms to the top, and the other live broadcast rooms were listed in order of progress, and 10 more live broadcast rooms were listed.

At the bottom is also marked the number of all the anchors who tried "Speed ​​Pass": [42].

It can be seen that the number of players who challenged the "Speedrun for the First Time" is really very small. Excluding those anchors who simply create a headline to catch the heat, there may be 30 anchors left.

In private, there must be some players who challenge players by playing the first-time speedrun by themselves, but referring to the proportion of live broadcasts, there must not be many.

Lin You then understood: the circle of speedrunners in this world seems to be smaller than the original world.

And all aspects are a bit rough, even a dedicated site has not yet been built.

"Do you want to build one?"

As soon as the thought came to mind, Lin You immediately thought of the things he had piled up on his hands, and immediately shook his head to get the thought out of his mind, and refocused his attention on the live broadcast screen.

The top three progress of the current Daxia anchors:
【Zhu Gan'er】, 【Kuan Kuan】, 【Drawing snakes to add horns】.

[Zhu Gan'er] He doesn't look "bamboo pole" at all, he looks tall and big, as strong as he can hold a frightened fat pig with his bare hands!

[Wu Kuan] is not "wide" at all. Although she has a small round face, she is actually thin and small. She is a rare female player in the current niche speedrunning field.

[Superiority] is a rookie anchor, who is very ambitious just from the name.

In the previous two days, his progress was once ahead of all the anchors, and he won a lot of praise, and even got the nickname "Big Horn".

But it is a pity that after several times in the [Church] mission level, he had to increase the character strength, so the progress was slowly caught up, and now he even fell to the third place.

The players behind are also catching up with all their strength, and his top three throne is already in jeopardy.

After watching the situation of these three people, Xiaomeng on the other side has carefully synchronized the live broadcast room of the Izumo anchor in the same order.

Lin You turned his head to look over, and the most conspicuous ones were the first three live broadcast rooms:
[Nishikawa], [Omori], [Kato Tiger].

I don't know if it's because there are fewer female players playing Speedrunner, or because there are fewer female players playing games like "John Wick", these three are also male players.

Moreover, as the designer of the game, Lin You could tell at a glance that the current top three players of Daxia and Izumo, if ranked purely according to their progress, would be——

[Xi Chuan] - [Zhu Gan'er] - [Omori] - [Kato Tiger] - [Kuan Kuan] - [additional characters].

Big Xia players are obviously lagging behind!
It's no wonder that related topics are becoming more and more popular on social networks, and the players are getting louder and fiercer!

"That's not right." Lin You looked at Da Xia's side again, the live broadcast room behind the top three.

"Why are they all unfamiliar anchors? What about the speedrunning anchors of "League of Assassins" last time?"

Zhang Muyu, Lin Shun, and Cang Niao were indeed stumbled by the competition, but these three were not the only ones competing for the first pass!
What about the people behind?
"Their position is even further behind." With a wave of Xiaomeng's small hand, the live broadcasts of Izumo were shrunk and pulled aside, and eight more live broadcast rooms were brought up.

This is the progress of 10 of the top 8 players competing for speedrun last time.

Lin You looked over one by one and found that they were indeed significantly behind in progress.

"What's the situation? After changing the game, I suddenly can't play it? Is it because I played the previous game too deeply and couldn't adapt to the new combat system?" Lin You asked speculatively.

"No." Xiaomeng shook her head, "After the last speedrun, they discussed it on the forum, and felt that 'dynamic difficulty adjustment' would reduce the game's enjoyment, and they all rejected this system."

"It's not just them. In fact, on social networks, especially game forums, dynamic difficulty adjustment cannot be enabled, but there is a chain of contempt!"

While talking, Xiaomeng showed a screenshot of a forum post with the title——

"Real men don't need to reduce the difficulty! If you want to play, just play the original ecology!"

"So..." Lin You understood, "They all turned off the dynamic difficulty adjustment, and are challenging [Speedrun] with a fixed difficulty?"

"Yeah, that's right!" Xiaomeng nodded repeatedly.

"Okay." Lin You understood and understood their insistence.

After all, he gave players the option to turn it off, because he knows very well: many hardcore players dismiss low difficulty and always tend to challenge higher difficulty.

but……

Can you take a look at the situation? Hey!
"This battle for the first pass, is it really going to be lost?!"