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Chapter 350 "Legend" Update Night

PS: Tragedy, the power outage started early in the morning yesterday, and there was no call until almost 12 o'clock in the evening, so... Delayed
PS2: Due to work adjustments, a project needs to be done. There will not be enough time to code words in the future, so the update speed will slow down. It may take two or three days to save a certain amount of words to update. Please help Forgive me, sorry!

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At 11:28 on November 19th, Shangdi West Road, Haidian District, BJ City, Dongfang Industrial Park...

The night outside the window was dark, and most of the buildings in the park had become quiet, except that the 6th floor of the office building where the creative workshop was located was still lit, and most people in the Yuebai Studio did not leave, or Sit in your own seat and listen to the music downloaded from the computer, or read classic novels on the China Literature Network (a Chinese writing website invested by Zhang Lexing, similar to the starting point), or play with hand-made "Legend", or simply come to the leisure area downstairs, keep fit, play video games, or even play a small 3vs3 basketball game with a few people.

A few hours later, the currently operating "Legend" will usher in the first major version upgrade, and a series of new content such as martial arts battles will be added. Will the players accept these new changes? Monthly charges will have an impact, and everything will be answered within days or weeks after the version update.But now, everyone in Yuebai Studio is focusing on the upcoming version update work. Although the preparations have been done, the verification has been done several times, and the necessary internal tests have been done many times, but After all, the actual replacement has not yet been carried out, and no one can guarantee that there will be no accidents by then.

Lu Yongcheng knew that today would be an important test for Yuebai Studio. If he could pass it smoothly, then Yuebai Studio would be able to adjust according to the plan. The original manpower would be divided into two, and some people would continue to The follow-up update and technical maintenance of "Legend", while others will invest in the development of new games after replenishing some manpower. After all, Yuebai Studio can't be so big forever, and the creative workshop can't just rely on "Legend". Funds to support the appearance of online games.

The above means that on the premise of maintaining the game development strength in the original field, the investment in online games will be increased. Lu Yongcheng understands that Yuebai Studio, which has come forward, will face a good opportunity for development. According to the company's tradition, unless It is the start-up stage, otherwise the online game market will definitely not be fully suppressed by one company or studio. In the future, new online game development companies will definitely be established, but Yuebai Studio, which has already started ahead of schedule, has already accumulated a certain amount of money. The advantages.Lu Yongcheng believes that as long as the team does not go wrong, the first professional online game development company within the group will be established with Yuebai Studio as the team. This is an opportunity for the studio, and it is also true for him. It's like the guy named Ren Haoqiang who joined the company relatively late, and now he has become the general manager of Guangzhou Tianyou, he thinks he can do it, but there was no good opportunity before, and now the opportunity has come.

Looking at the employees who stayed in the office for the update of "Legend", Lu Yongcheng's eyes showed a trace of fanaticism...

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Most of the offices in Fengyun Network's office building have turned off the lights, but the game customer service department and technical support department are still brightly lit. GMs patrol online as usual, answering players' questions, or answering calls occasionally. Incoming help calls, classify and deal with the problems raised.Qiao Kefan, the manager of the game customer service department, did not sit in his office, but wandered around in the brightly lit office area of ​​the customer service department. The upgrade of "Legend" tonight is very important, and it is related to the charging plan for next month. It can be implemented smoothly. In order to cooperate with the company's actions, the game customer service department has specially strengthened the intensity of the shift tonight, and must ensure the smooth transition of the system version.

Especially after the downtime maintenance starts, answering customer service calls is particularly important. After all, no one can guarantee that all players have heard about the version update. Maybe someone will log in to the game at this inappropriate time. Although the client will Appropriate reminders appeared, but it was hard to say that no one from a major client would call for help, so none of these people could leave before the successor GM arrived. Qiao Kefan had already made plans to stay up all night. At this critical time, my own department lost the chain.

The lights were on in the technical support department, but there were only three or four people staying in the office area. They were specially left by the department manager Wang Tianlei to deal with technical problems, so that no one would answer when something happened in the game customer service department. As for him At this time, I was already in the underground computer room downstairs of Dongfang Netscape (a joint venture company established by Dongfang Industrial Group and the Ministry of Education four years ago, responsible for the construction and later operation and maintenance of the educational optical fiber network). There is a small area here that is divided into It is used by Fengyun Network. Currently, this is the computer room of "Legend".Wang Tianlei brought most of the staff from the technical support department and five or six people from Yuebai Studio to support him, intending to prepare for the upgrade of the "Legend" version in a few hours.

In addition, several of Wang Tianlei's capable men have come to the "Legend" extension room in Shanghai, Guangzhou and other places in advance. "Legend" server, if all goes well, after the upgrade of the server in the main computer room is completed, it will automatically remotely upgrade the relevant servers in the extension room, and multiplex the two 2.5G-level lines of DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) that are basically idle at night , The speed of remote upgrade is no less than that of operating directly in front of the server. Under normal circumstances, there is no need to go to the extension room, but Wang Tianlei sent someone to the local area with the upgrade data CD to be safe.

Wang Tianlei raised his wrist and looked at his watch. It is already 20:12, and there are still 3 hours and 46 minutes before the version upgrade of "Legend"...

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At one minute after 11:28 on November 22th, Huayuyuan Community, XC District, BJ City...

Just 1 minute ago, when Qing Muchuan was discussing with "Tang Maomao" and others who left that strange empty hut in Fanru Mountain, a line of words suddenly flew across the screen, as if someone At that time, I saw the flying characters at the bottom of the TV screen, "Please pay attention! The "Legend" game server will be shut down for maintenance at 11:29 on November 0th, and it is expected to reopen at 11:29 on November 8th. Please complete the manual as soon as possible. Find a safe place to go offline to avoid data anomalies or loss!"

One minute later, a guy named "Wang Chuan Qiu Shui", who obviously never read books or newspapers and cared about national affairs, suddenly burst out: "Why, why is it shutting down for maintenance?"

Immediately, a lot of symbols representing "dizziness" fell on the unlucky ghost, and under the "contemptuous" gazes of everyone, the unlucky "Wangchuan Qiushui" heard the answer he wanted to know.

[Silent Sorbet] "I don't even know this, you are too Out, you have already been notified on the official website, today the version of "Legend" will be updated, and the martial arts battle will start after the server opens tomorrow."

[Wangchuan Qiushui] "Well, I really don't know."

[Small bench riding on a pole] "Oh! The update will start in less than two hours. Have you downloaded all the update packages?"

[Linchuan Muyu] "I have already downloaded the update package during the day, and I will install it when I go offline later."

[Tang Maomao] "I bought the CD at the newsstand outside the door."

[One Sword Shocks Kyushu] "The Oriental Industrial Park is opposite my house. It is said that the game company that developed "Legend" is inside, hehe..."

[Karaoke is not OK] "I envy ing, my kitten is super slow and will break, and there is no newsstand at the door, dizzy..."

[Potion available] "Poor Kara, why don't you take the hard drive to my house and copy it."

[Karaoke is not OK] "Soup where is your home?"

[Decoction available] "Guangzhou Shipai"

[Karaoke is not OK] "I'm sick, I'm from BJ Hepingli"

[Wangchuan Qiushui] "Don't you all like PK very much, why are you so enthusiastic about this new version?"

[Silent Sorbet] "You are out again, the official website has already said that the new version will not only start martial arts battles, but also provide a safety map for us players who don't like to fight. Those guys are fighting in full swing, so we will You can quietly go to the safe map to take risks and decrypt them without any delay."

[Wangchuan Qiushui] "Oh, what's so interesting about the safety map?"

[Linchuan Muyu] "There are many. The safety map is about the same size as the map that is open now. It has everything you need, but you can't PK in it, and it is said that there are some special areas where you can complete hidden tasks."

[Wangchuan Qiushui] "Oh, so what is a hidden mission?"

[Linchuan Muyu] "Dizzy... Qiushui hasn't seen the official website of "Legend"?"

[Wang Chuan Qiu Shui] "My friend is out, I'll help him play for a while."

[Linchuan Muyu] "No wonder, I'll give you a network address,

[Wang Chuan Qiu Shui] "Oh, then I'll leave for a while."

Everyone made a unanimous goodbye, sent away the curious baby "Wangchuan Qiushui", and continued to discuss together. The topic was related to games at first, but gradually began to deviate from the direction, and some people even made serious comments Watched the newly launched "International Times" column of CCTV.

Qing Muchuan chatted for a while, saw that it was getting late, said goodbye to everyone, and went offline.She is not the kind of person who plays games day and night, that is, when she occasionally plays a new game, she will be addicted to it for two or three days, because she feels that staying up late will hurt her skin.

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At 10 minutes past 28:23 on October 5th, in Madian Community, Haidian District, BJ City...

Ge Minghui looked at the computer screen energetically. Five minutes ago, he had seen the logout prompt issued by the "Legend" system for the third time, but the task in hand had reached the final stage. It was done, so he didn't stop.

Ge Minghui hasn't touched "Dark Light" recommended by his friends for two days, and he doesn't even know where he threw the game's installation CD, because the game is too simple.Ge Minghui had seen "Flame Dragon Knights" before, and he knew how to combine and exert the power in his hands. With the help of his friends, he recruited a group of mercenaries, formed his own team, and after a few days of training , by the way, he figured out the terrain around the village, and soon he broke through the few caves in the game and the levels starting from the palace, and then he actually saw the customs clearance animation. If he didn’t see the external ISDN cat at that moment The lights on the computer were still flashing, and he even wondered if he was playing a stand-alone game.

What made Ge Minghui a little crazy was that after the texts and pictures in the customs clearance animation were gone, the warrior "Yihui" he controlled reappeared in the center of the village. The place was still the same, and the map was the same. It was as if nothing had happened before.Ge Minghui originally thought that there would be some changes after clearing the game. Unexpectedly, the expected new content did not appear. Except for his character level and other things, the others were the same as when he first logged in to the game. It's exactly the same as when he was playing, which means that if he wants to continue playing, he has to continue wandering in places he is already familiar with.

"Light of Darkness" gave Ge Minghui even worse feeling than when he was flying, at least it would be more difficult to pass the level by flying, but "Light of Darkness" has not changed at all, wandering around in the same place, Playing the same level and repelling the same enemies, besides trying to cooperate with different arms, he really couldn't find any other fun in the game.

So Ge Minghui defected from "Dark Light" to "Legend", and soon discovered the fun in it, at least the map of "Legend" is not comparable to the palm-sized piece of "Dark Light", and After midnight tonight, the version of the game will be upgraded, and it is said that a lot of new content will be added. In contrast, the appearance of "Dark Light" has remained unchanged for thousands of years, and it can't even be called a "lightweight game" .

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The time was beating by one minute and one second, and it slowly came to 23:59. Wang Tianlei came to the monitoring computer and looked at it. The number of tens of thousands of online users on weekdays had dropped to close to zero, and only the last 23 accounts are not offline yet.He turned his head and shouted at the staff who were about to stop the game service and restart the server: "Wait another 2 minutes, if these accounts are still not offline, you will kick them offline forcibly, and then do it again."

More than a dozen staff members nodded, each found a chair to sit down, and continued to wait.Wang Tianlei pulled out his chair and sat in front of the monitoring computer. The number of online users on the screen continued to decline, but when it reached single digits, it stopped moving.Wang Tianlei waited until one minute past zero, and seeing that the number of people online was still in single digits, he decisively made a gesture to the waiting staff, and the staff who were ready to go immediately rushed to their targets, Unlocked the server and began to follow the process.They need to stop the game service on the server first, then restart the server and update the "Legend" server-side program, and finally use the dedicated update program to upgrade the game database. Under normal circumstances, it takes about two hours to complete the server upgrade in the host room , It takes about an hour and a half to upgrade the server in the extension room through the network, and the test after the upgrade takes half an hour to an hour, and the remaining time is used for buffering to avoid any unexpected situations during the upgrade process.

After everyone was bustling around, the server display screen in the main computer room showed a prompt that the upgrade was in progress. The upgrade progress bar was slowly growing from 0% to 100%. The upgrade of "Legend" version 1.02 officially started up...

(End of this chapter)