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Chapter 172: Mixed reviews!

Lilith's smile froze on her face, her hand holding the potato chips trembled slightly, and after a moment she shouted: "Gu Fan!!"

At this time, Gu Fan, who was halfway through brushing his teeth, walked out of the bathroom inexplicably: "What's wrong, Mr. Li?"

"What is going on!!" Lilith asked, pointing to the picture on the TV.

At this time, Emperor Gan was already continuing to advance the plot of the game. He decided to follow the prompts in the plot and go to the Shingon Temple to obtain the relic sword.

After coming out of Jiangdu, Emperor Gan encountered some elite monsters along the way, including mysterious swordsmen and fierce generals. However, these monsters did not cause much trouble to Emperor Gan at all, and they often died two or three times to figure it out. After the routine, I passed it directly!
Obviously, after defeating the general, Emperor Gan has become enlightened. The mechanism he has figured out to deal with these elite monsters can be called a dimensionality reduction attack.

It’s no longer like before, when you meet a cat or a dog on the roadside and you’re tortured to death.

Gu Fan looked confused: "Mr. Li, what do you mean by 'what's the situation'? What do you mean specifically?"

Lilith said angrily: "Are you still pretending to be confused? I mean, why does the battle system of this game have a hidden mechanism! Are you really trying to lower the difficulty for the players on purpose?"

Gu Fan was confused: "There is no hidden mechanism."

Lilith was stunned for a moment: "But...but after the players discovered this, the difficulty of the game dropped!"

But the problem with this is that individual talented players may find patterns or become accustomed to the rhythm, which will cause the difficulty of subsequent games to plummet.

Lilith was shocked: "Then why do you have to design a mechanism that says 'after a perfect parry, you will definitely counterattack'?"

The advantage of this is that it allows players to stay longer, such as extending from two hours to eight, ten or even twenty hours. During this period, negative emotions will continue to arise.

Gu Fan was shocked: "Ah? Mr. Li, what are you thinking about? Do you still hope that this combat system can trap players for a lifetime? With so many players, there are always a few smart people. It's not normal to find patterns and adapt to the rhythm. Something?"

"It will be a matter of time for players to adapt to this combat system, but Mr. Li, please think carefully about these two questions:
"First, even if you know this combat mechanism, how many players can practice it? For example, Mr. Li, can you do it?

“Second, even after mastering this mechanism, the game’s combat difficulty has been reduced, but the game still has more than a hundred bugs, and there is also a mechanism for switching between two worlds. This game still generates a lot of negative emotions!

Lilith continued to quibble: "Why not? Wouldn't it be enough if the monster's actions were all faster than the player's reaction speed, and all actions were completely random and unpredictable?"

This was originally Lilith's consistent idea. Although it was possible to collect negative emotion points, it was obviously not as large as Gu Fan's method.

Gu Fan sighed: "Mr. Li, if it is really designed like that, then this game will persuade all players to quit in half an hour at most. How can it continue to generate negative emotions during these seven or eight hours?"

"Then didn't you take some precautions in advance against this situation?" Lilith changed the subject.

Gu Fan said confidently: "I made this mechanism to increase the difficulty for the players!

Lilith was speechless for a moment, it seemed like this was really the case!
If the game is designed to be too difficult and players are beaten by mobs in a fancy way and the players have no means of countermeasures, then everyone will soon be persuaded to quit.

"Mr. Li, think about it, if it weren't for this mechanism, how could the previous players be suddenly stabbed in the process of mindlessly slashing? How could we collect so many negative emotions? Isn't this the case? Is it due to the combat system?

Lilith said with a dark face: "You talk back! Emperor Gan said that after a perfect parry, there must be a very fast counterattack. Isn't this a hidden mechanism?"

Gu Fan spread his hands: "What is this hidden mechanism? How is it 'hidden'? Isn't this a game mechanism that is on the surface?"

Gu Fan nodded: "Don't panic, Mr. Li, of course I weighed the pros and cons when designing the game.

"Isn't this still worth more negative emotions than simply trying to persuade players to quit at the beginning?"

"When you think about it when you play by yourself, is it like this?"

Lilith was stunned, and then she withered at a speed visible to the naked eye, and her previous arrogance was gone.

Gu Fan's idea is that although the early battles are difficult, they will not completely kill the players, leaving them with some hope of resistance.

"It does seem to make sense, then it's okay..."

Gu Fan coughed twice: "Mr. Li, I think a cunning and powerful hell demon like you should increase his strategic focus and not always panic when he sees a little problem. What is there to panic about? Negative Aren’t emotions still being recorded?”

Lilith was silent for a moment, but she really couldn't find a reason to refute, so she could only say weakly: "Oh."

Gu Fan yawned, continued brushing his teeth and went to sleep.

Lilith, on the other hand, put aside her worries for the time being and braced herself again to watch the Gan Emperor's live broadcast all night long.

…………

11am the next day.

Gu Fan woke up.

After getting up and washing up, I ordered a takeaway. When I returned to the living room, I saw that the live broadcast of the Liver Emperor had ended, and Lilith was naturally gone.

Gu Fan could roughly guess that Lilith should be generally satisfied when she returned to hell at 6 o'clock this morning.

Because the sofa and coffee table in the living room were still intact, except for some extra potato chip bags and finished Coke cans, and Gu Fan was not picked up in the middle of the night.

Gu Fan sat on the sofa, took out his mobile phone, and briefly browsed the comments of players on the forum about "Ascension".

So far, the evaluation of "Ascension" is "mostly positive", and the score is about 6.7 points.

As for the bad reviews from players, of course they are mainly concentrated on those three points.

The battle is too difficult!

Lots of bugs!
The switch between the two worlds is completely unpredictable, and hallucinations will occur from time to time. It’s so torture!

In fact, last night besides Gan Emperor, many other players discovered the combat mechanism of this game and immediately released videos to share with players.

This has indeed brought some players out of their misery, but a large number of players are still suffering.

Because even if you know this mechanism, the combat system of the game "Ascension" is still difficult.

It's like doing a math problem. Knowing the formula to solve the problem in advance can indeed save you some detours, but the necessary calculation process still cannot be skipped.

Even if players know the rhythm of "kill three and one", defeating the BOSS still requires a lot of practice.

But Gu Fan doesn't have to worry, because the fun part of this game has just begun!
……

6 pm.

Lilith once again refreshed in Gu Fan's villa living room on time, choosing the lucky winner on the live broadcast platform.

At this time, neither Lecturer Ding nor Emperor Gan has started broadcasting.

Lecturer Ding and Li Wenhao should wait until 8 o'clock in the evening, but Emperor Gan stayed up all night yesterday and didn't go to bed until this morning. He didn't know when he would wake up.

So after a brief screening, Lilith locked the live broadcast room of a new anchor.

This anchor is called Wang Dawei, and his English name is David. He is also called "David" or "With Viagra" by fans.

But what is more interesting is that he is not the UP master of the game area, but an UP master of the learning area.

Wang Dawei was admitted to the Mathematics Department of Imperial University through the Olympiad in high school, where he studied until he graduated with a Ph.D. At the same time, he also participated in some world-class memory competitions and won many championships.

In addition, Wang Dawei's level of Go and Xiangqi is also very high. Although he is not ranked among the top players nationwide, he is generally at a professional level.

In terms of IQ and memory, he is definitely at the top level among humans.

At this time, his videos and live broadcasts were mainly about cracking down on fake IQ and memory-related TV programs, and also started teaching difficult Olympiad questions.

Of course, when I have nothing to do, I will also play games, play chess, or chat with Danmu.

Yesterday, I don’t know which of the good friends in the barrage recommended him a game called "Ascension", and then... he has been tortured to this day.

After Wang Dawei played for a few hours last night, he continued to play this afternoon, and now he has just passed the general.

It's just that he is different from the Great General and the Gan Emperor. He was taken to lie down purely.

Maybe it's because God is fair and gave him a high IQ and memory, but also made him handicapped when playing games.

He tried "Ascension" on his own and found that it was completely unplayable, so he had to find other anchors to support him.

(End of this chapter)