When I write a bug it becomes the core gameplay.

Chapter 351 Editor's Problem!

Lilith felt like she was listening to a foreign language: "Memory overflow? But what does memory overflow have to do with the Sword of the Brave? Why can I bring the sword out across save files?"

Gu Fan immediately corrected her and said, "It's not about bringing the Sword of the Brave across saves, but about bringing all weapons across saves...

"Boss Li, this matter is a little complicated to explain, so I will try to explain it in a more popular way. The metaphor may not be very appropriate, but this is the general idea.

“Because the Vientiane Editor has powerful computing effects and can calculate many powerful physical states in real time, its resource consumption is also very considerable and must be controlled, otherwise many players’ low-end computers may run too slowly.

“So we took a double-edged approach when it comes to memory handling.

“On the one hand, when there are too many memory overflows, we will directly enable the game mechanism and perform a comprehensive cleanup of the game memory; on the other hand, when there are only a few memory overflows, we will use some small mechanisms to make simple corrections.

“This is to allow players to have a more consistent gaming experience, with minimal memory errors or game crashes.

“The first layer of insurance is the blood moon mechanism in the game.

“When a serious memory overflow is detected, the game will automatically trigger the ‘Blood Moon Event’, at which time the Blood Moon cutscene will be automatically loaded, and all the monsters killed by the player will be resurrected. At the same time, the system will take this opportunity to clear all caches and return the game to its original state. This can basically solve more than 99% of the problems in the game.

“The second layer of insurance is the self-correction function for minor errors.

“For example, when a player has a weapon stuck in their hand, if they throw away the currently equipped weapon, all the equipped weapons and the stuck weapons will be thrown away together. Or, when the player has more than 14 weapons stuck in their hands and exceeds the memory limit, these weapons will also be automatically dropped.

"Through this method, we optimized the game skills and ensured that players had a smooth gaming experience as much as possible, without frequent errors or even game crashes due to memory problems."

Lilith frowned subconsciously: "Why do we have to deliberately optimize this kind of thing!
"If the game keeps giving errors and crashing, won't it just collect more negative emotions?"

Gu Fan was silent for a moment: "But... President Li, we originally decided to use the elemental mechanism to collect negative emotions!
"If players can't play the game before they even get to the elemental mechanics because the game crashes, then they won't have a very good gaming experience in the early stages, and they won't have many negative emotions when they're discouraged from playing.

“This is not in line with the strategy we set out at the beginning.

"By then, if you do a simple calculation and find that the negative emotions generated by using the game crash to discourage players from playing at the beginning are not as much as the negative emotions generated by using the elemental mechanism to discourage players from playing in the middle of the game, then you will definitely blame me for not being able to even make the game run smoothly!"

The corner of Lilith's mouth twitched slightly, and it was obvious that Gu Fan had predicted her prediction.

If that kind of thing really happened, she would definitely blame Gu Fan.

However, Lilith still denied it: "How could that be! I am an open-minded and generous devil from hell! I wouldn't be so unreasonable!" Gu Fan laughed.

"Okay, okay, let's not worry about it for now. Go on and explain to me why this memory clearing mechanism caused the bug in the Brave Sword? Logically speaking, weren't you well prepared? There shouldn't be this kind of bug, right?" Lilith continued to ask.

Gu Fan explained: "Boss Li, I just found the problem of the player's operation of getting the weapon stuck in his hand while checking the code. When we were making the game before, we didn't expect this kind of operation to exist!
“We just set a value for memory overflow. When it is lower than this value, the game can run normally and will not trigger a blood moon restart. Only when it is higher than this value will the blood moon be triggered.

“But we also didn’t expect that players would take advantage of this!
“Because the Vientiane Engine needs to calculate too much data, the calculation speed will be relatively slow, which gives players the opportunity to exploit loopholes.

"They used the wall corner as a way to throw weapons from behind to lock the position, and then threw two more weapons. According to the normal game mechanism, these two weapons should not be thrown out at this time, and the interface will prompt "Cannot be taken out", and the two weapons should be returned to the backpack.

"But the player quickly pressed the menu button twice, causing the system to quickly enter the calculation state and then quickly enter the pause state. In such a short period of time, the system's calculation power was insufficient, so the front and back weapons calculated normally, but the weapon in the middle was stuck.

“It is in a superposition state of being thrown and not thrown, and remains in the overflow memory. When the player performs the gluing operation, the system determines it based on the weapon the player is currently holding, but the result of gluing is that the sword stuck in the hand is glued to the prop.

“Moreover, switching save files will not clear the memory, so when the player enters a new save file and manually releases the memory overflow state, the weapon stuck in the hand will also fall.

"So...it became what it is now."

Lilith was simply stunned. She had no idea how the players discovered such a harsh and outrageous bug.
Is this scientific?

Is this reasonable?

Then she looked at Gu Fan angrily: "The bottom line is that there is a serious bug in the game! Neither you nor the testing team discovered it!"

Gu Fan nodded sincerely: "Yes, President Li, this is indeed a serious bug. I will review it! But... this kind of outrageous bug, let alone us, even the world's top production team would probably find it difficult to avoid it.

"After all, Vientiane Editor is a new editor and it has many problems. We have worked hard to optimize the basic functions and prevent it from having more outrageous bugs, which is not easy..."

Lilith gnashed her teeth and said, "But why do you always fix the bugs that collect negative emotions accurately, but leave those bugs that make players feel positive emotions!"

Gu Fan was shocked: "Boss Li, you can't say such things!

"You make it sound like we can find every bug in the game and selectively fix them!
"If we can really achieve this level, we'll have to call ourselves 'bug masters'. Just go find a programmer and ask them if this can be done!"

(End of this chapter)