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Lin You was very busy that day, and he didn't even have time to read the updated player feedback.

After he arranged the important tasks of various departments, he ran to the "Battlefield" project development team.

According to the original plan, the first round of publicity will be released tonight, and the release of "Hunter: Call of the Wild" will be staggered tomorrow, and the preemptive version will be released the day after tomorrow.

But now, this plan has to be postponed.

The reason is: Lin You is really dissatisfied with those two teaching levels.

This can't be entirely blamed on the employees, he also has to take the blame.

The tension in time is one thing, and the misalignment of ideas is also a problem——

Let players learn how to change guns, how to use skills, how to drive vehicles, how to grab points, how to choose weapons correctly according to different distances, etc. during the battle.

The employees of the two groups have done a good job in these contents, and the completion degree is quite high.

But after Lin You experienced it completely, it was really hard to say that he was satisfied: the game felt too thin to play.

The focus of the development team is all on the "teaching" content such as game mechanics, combat offense and defense, how to win, and so on.

Correspondingly, the excavation of the core of the game's "anti-war" is completely mere formality.

How does the cruelty of the battlefield manifest itself?
The lines spoken by the NPC, the continuous sacrifices on the battlefield.

How can it be tragic?
Pile up music, pile up big scenes, under the magnificent music, the soldiers charge forward one after another, strangling the enemy together.

……

These methods are not impossible, but they are all superficial.

Without proper and well-crafted presentations, it is difficult to truly convey the cruelty and tragedy of war to players.

If you really want to subtly convey the horror of war and the spirit of anti-war to players, what you need to rely on is more details:
The environment of the battlefield, the deadly crisis everywhere, the meaningless death, the numbness and bewilderment of the soldiers...

All of these things need to be shown.

So the current degree of completion is definitely not enough!

Without the anti-war core, would Battlefield still be a good game?
Lin You subconsciously asked himself.

Players are not here for the single-player campaign, isn't it just multiplayer confrontation?
So in terms of revenue and player online rate, it will still be a good game.

Lin You got the answer in his heart.

But this game will lose the chance to become a "top" work.

Therefore, the choice Lin You had to make was very obvious—big change!Lead the team in person, a complete overhaul!

The mechanism of the game, how to win, these are not the key at all.

As long as the players are told the winning conditions, the players will naturally try to win by any means, even more detailed than the developers thought, and the tactics are more imaginative.

What they need to do is to use enough details to convey emotions and concepts to players.

and so--

Hold on tight and start doing it!

Better still make it this week!
Lin You made up his mind to participate in the whole process with Xiaomeng, and even decided to temporarily drop the riding lessons.

——Anyway, it is used to ride the horse in "Battlefield", and the demand for sensory data is completely sufficient.

As for practicing boxing and confrontation with cold weapons, there is really no way to give up, otherwise Lin You is worried that Xu Chun will come to him with a wooden knife.

Ever since this guy found out that Lin You was "worthy to be cultivated", he has persuaded Lin You more than once to devote more energy and go a few steps further on the road of martial arts.

In his words: "Go deeper, even if you just take a few more steps, you will benefit endlessly in your life! If you give up halfway, it will completely waste your talent!"

If it weren't for his so-called "walking a few more steps", which is too hard and time-consuming, Lin You might really agree.

Now, after Lin You politely refused to be invalid again and again, he had to say heartily: "I have a lot of talent, so just waste it."

Xu Chun wanted to say more, but Lin You had already blocked him directly: "Look, I do scientific research, which benefits the whole country, and will benefit all mankind in the future. I make games, which can also benefit hundreds of millions of players. This is no better than me practicing martial arts. Want to be more selfless?"

"We must have a dedicated heart that is not selfish, but dedicated to benefiting others!"

These righteous words left Xu Chun speechless.

Although he can be [-]% sure: Lin You is unwilling to continue to devote energy after the training is over, simply because he is lazy!

If you don't need to practice hard, you can strengthen your body and live a long life, how could Lin You refuse?
But he really couldn't refute the reasons Lin You gave, so he could only stare at Lin You's training more strictly...

*
Lin You and Xiaomeng, who came back from work, returned to "Battlefield" to develop maps again, and began to lead the team to improve the content of the single-player campaign.

At the same time, Jurassic Park, tourists began to fill up!
The first player to rush into Jurassic Paradise happily received a special reward - [Dinosaur Island Pioneer Identity Card].

However, the issuance of this card is not based on the order of entering the park.

All players who set foot on Dinosaur Island before the opening of the park are considered "early pioneers" and receive this commemorative reward.

This card is really not a decoration, but has actual value——

With this card, you can get some extra special treatment, such as VIP seats for some performances, skip-the-line permission for popular projects, early trial permission for new development projects, etc.

There are not many functions, but they are all very useful.

Yunmeng really has the ability to open a separate mirror image for all players, so that everyone can sit in the best viewing position.

The problem is that this approach is really too wasteful—not only wasting the computing power of the server, but also wasting such a large venue.

Not to mention that in a park as big as Jurassic Park, you can come in and play casually without paying an extra penny. Such a waste is even more exaggerated.

So here, the restrictions on individual mirror images are stricter than those on the playground itself.

Players want to get better viewing seats, either come here earlier, or wait a little longer, or have a [Trailblazer Identity Card].

But now that Jurassic Park has opened, the [Pioneer Identity Card] is out of print.

So, is there any other way?
some.

——【Jurassic Park VIP Card】!
No 998, no 98!For only 30 yuan, you can enjoy a whole month of privileges!

Except that this card is valid for one month, and the [Pioneer Identity Card] is valid for life, it is almost equivalent to enjoying all the rights of the [Pioneer Identity Card].

There is even an advantage that the [Pioneer Identity Card] does not have: it comes with family preferential measures, and the cardholder can bring a player under the age of 15 into the park and enjoy the same benefits!
And the requirements are very tolerant, it doesn't even matter if the child is yours, as long as the age meets the standard, you can directly enjoy the same benefits.

Just two words - cost-effective!
Of course, as always, without spending a penny, you can still enjoy all the services of Jurassic Park without any discount.

Even if you have to wait in line, the time will not exceed 10 minutes. In this regard, Yunmeng strictly adheres to the bottom line as always.

It's just that Lin You greatly underestimated the patience of many players for 10 minutes.

If it is in the playground and there is no other way, then everyone just waits.

But look now - oh ho!Can you not wait? !

And it's priced...

Isn't this the monthly card? !

Look up again at this huge park, the venues full of science and technology, and the huge prehistoric creations...

Looking at it this way, is 30 yuan expensive?
Of course not expensive!Not only is it not expensive, it's downright cheap!
and so--

purchase!Buy hard!
By 6 o'clock in the evening, this [Jurassic Park VIP Card] had sold more than 300 million copies!

And this is far from the end—

Players are busy all day, after class and after get off work, a larger user group begins to go online, and the real main consumer of Jurassic Park - home users also begin to appear one after another.

The sales speed of this month's card has started to surge again!
However, many players have just logged into the virtual world, and before they have time to go to Jurassic Park to see what's new, Yunmeng sent a new notification:

[The pre-sale of "Hunter: Call of the Wild" has started, and the second player referendum has officially started! ]
Tomorrow evening, "Hunter: Call of the Wild" will be officially released.

Before that, regarding the smell of feces, whether to change it, and if so, how to change it, there must be a result.

In this way, Lin You had time to complete the modification of the smell of feces before the players entered the world.

In order to ensure that the voting can truly reflect the opinions of all players, Lin You joined the "pre-sale mechanism" for the first time.

Only players who really spent money to buy the game are eligible to vote.

This can prevent those players who don't intend to play the game and just watch the excitement from voting, which will interfere with the accuracy of the voting results.

As for the blind votes of the original internal test players, they will also be greatly diluted because of the larger players' votes.

After all, no matter how large-scale the internal test is, it is still a very small proportion compared to Yunmeng's potential user base.

Lin You is almost certain: After the game is released, the number of players joining the world of "Hunter" will be at least dozens of times that of the beta players!
This is because "Hunter: Call of the Wild" is less popular than Yunmeng's previous games, and when estimating sales, it is more conservative.

"In this way, it can always represent the true opinions of the target players, right?"

Lin You nodded in satisfaction.

……

When the players saw this news, they were naturally both excited and excited.

New game releases tomorrow - great news!

You can also vote to delete the bad smell of feces - great news!
but--

"Why is there such a thing as [Double the smell of shit]?"

"Nervousness!"