Game Making: The Latest Chapter Begins With Healing the Player

Regarding the external situation, Chen Xu was not affected in any way, because he basically did not pay attention to these doubts. Whether the game is good or not will be known only after it is made.

"Warcraft" is still being produced step by step, and at the same time, Zhang Yida has also begun to conduct publicity and warm-up.

After all, after Chen Xu posted an official blog message to announce the trial date, players and the game circle are also actively discussing "Warcraft".

But there is no more exciting news. Chen Xu's own official blog has been taken care of by his assistant Lin Rou, and the official blog of Nebula Games is currently in charge of Lin Rou.

Every day, these two official blog accounts are like squeezing toothpaste, putting a conceptual original drawing on time and on time every day.

Chen Xu released dwarves, humans, night elves, undead, and races familiar to players in the Western fantasy theme.

Players' expectations are also rising.

And overseas, the target software has also begun to slowly promote the warm-up as before.

After "Dark Soul" and "Monster Hunter: World", overseas Nebula games actually already have many loyal fans.

For "Warcraft", most of these overseas players also expressed their expectations.

The thing that really makes players dissatisfied is that for the game "Warcraft", they have absolutely no idea of ​​the progress of the development and what the situation is like.

And there are still nearly two months until the trial date!

How are you doing these days!

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Online, players live like years.

The project room of Nebula Games was very lively.

"Crap! President Chen, you are too strong! It is strongly requested that you only have 50% of your HP!"

"Yes, and not even recruiting heroes!"

"Don't give a second degree of technology!"

"The population cannot exceed 60!"

"The other four of us have a team!"

In the office, Qin Yi, Ruan Ningxue, Lin Tao, and Yang Xin were all talking to each other, and Chen Xu, who was sitting in front of the computer, was speechless for a while.

"You just tell me not to build buildings." Chen Xu said angrily.

So far, the overall battle framework of "Warcraft" has basically been completed.

The rest is that the content of the campaign plot is not fully completed, and some races need to be tested.

As for the testers at this stage, they are naturally themselves.

Although the four people in front of them are having a good time, they are actually RTS rookies in Chen Xu's eyes, and "Warcraft" seems simple compared to other RTSs on the market, but it is actually much more complicated to master.

Chen Xu himself has a good understanding of the content of the game. He has played for many years in his previous life. In addition, Chen Xu's reaction is relatively fast. It may not be comparable to some professional players standing in the pyramid. Four rookies can still hang up and play.

After chatting with a few people about the game, Chen Xu looked at Ruan Ningxue and Yang Xin next to him.

The two of them obviously pay more attention to the plot, although the plot here has also passed through their hands.

But the two were still very excited to experience the plot together.

On the other hand, Qin Yi and Lin Tao over there teamed up to play 4 crazy computers.

Of course it's the case where 'greedisgood 99999' is turned on.

Regarding the current balance of "Warcraft", Chen Xu cannot say that it is completely balanced.

Because this is impossible.

But at least for now, Chen Xu believes that he has become more balanced.

In Chen Xu's actual test, and by implanting various tactics and play styles into the AI, several tests were conducted with 100 times as a round.

At present, the winning rates of the four races are basically the same, and the highest difference is only 3%.

This is already perfect.

After all, there are too many variables in Warcraft.

Different races have different tactics, and there are ways to solve them.

On the stage of the World of Warcraft event, the four races also have players who have won the championship.

At least at this stage, Chen Xu feels that there is no need to change the numerical balance.

Of course, for an RTS game, subsequent changes are inevitable.

Because for the game "Warcraft", every slight adjustment represents an earth-shaking change in the entire game's tactics.

For example, in the early orcs, the general rule was that the swordsman started, but after the major version changes after many years, the experience given by the prophet's ghost wolf after death was reduced.

The status of the Prophet has ushered in a great improvement, as is the Xiaoqiang of the undead.

Of course, there was a period of weak balance in Warcraft, that is, the early night elves were strong, but many people didn't realize it.

Until Moon almost dominated for a while with his understanding of the night elf race, and won the championship with a 13-game winning streak without a single defeat, allowing players to see the power of the night elves.

And then? The night elves were slashed with N knives.

For example, the construction time of the tree of life of the night elves is extended by 10 seconds, and the armor of the building and the attack power of the tree are reduced.

Also enjoying this kind of treatment is because TH000 and Tota Li Tianwang SKY's human race turned the defense tower from the original brick into soft tofu.

However, this numerical weakening and the enhancement of other races have instead promoted more new tactics and styles of play.

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There is still a long way to go before the game is open to players for a trial experience.

Although the overall framework of the game has been completed, only the campaign plot is not perfected.

In terms of picture performance, operating experience, and CG performance, the current "Warcraft" is definitely beyond the previous life.

But it's not entirely without work in other areas.

As for the map editor, Chen Xu is in no hurry to go online.

Instead, it is ready to let players feel the content of "Warcraft" itself, and then launch it.

At the same time, this "artifact" can be better polished during this time.

The remaining main work is to set the battle system for "Warcraft".

The first is the matching mechanism, which is mainly based on RANK scores.

The initial score of the player is 500, and the matching is carried out according to the score ranking and the winning percentage.

In addition, there is also a system for video recording and in-game spectating. For example, ordinary players can watch the real-time high-scoring player confrontation on the spectating interface. Of course, in order to prevent peeking at the sub-mining and the starting hero, there will be a 3-minute delay.

These are convenient for players to better observe masters, learn the experience and tactics of others, and further promote the overall level of players in the game.

There is also a more complete achievement system, as well as a friend system.

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In mid-October, during this period, the news of "Warcraft" has always been a little bit of toothpaste, which also made players grit their teeth with hatred.

After all, it used to be enough to squeeze toothpaste and draw flat cakes. At least there is a promotional video to let them know how fragrant the cakes are.

Are the trailers gone now?

Almost every day, players under Chen Xu's official blog strongly demand more information and content.

Of course, this is also an outlet.

But what surprised many players was that Chen Xu actually responded on this day, and even drew them a huge cake.

A promo they've always wanted.

After discovering it, many players couldn't wait to click on this short video of just over a minute.

Want to get a glimpse of the game "Warcraft".

After clicking on the video, a burst of passionate BGM reverberated in the earphones, like a war drum.

Then the Nebula game's LOGO flashed away in the black cutscene, and a line of subtitles appeared (the video below is the game CG).

After that, the sound of the war drums gradually weakened, and a whistling wind replaced the war drums. The first thing that appeared on the screen was a broken flag.

'We never bothered with the ancient language. ’

As the voice of the narrator fell, a human soldier was engaged in a fierce battle with an orc soldier on the cloud-covered prairie.

The sword and the axe intertwined, the flames shot out, and the clanging sound could be heard incessantly.

'Stupid clinging to old hatred'

The battle is difficult, the human soldiers are well-equipped in armor and armed with swords and shields, but the orc warriors are born with supernatural powers.

'Generations of war'

On the prairie, human soldiers faced off against orc soldiers, and suddenly there was lightning and thunder.

A meteorite burning green smoke and flames streaked through the air, attracting the attention of the two.

'Until that day, fire rained from the sky and a new enemy appeared'

Countless fireballs pierced the sky from the sky, and one of them fell near the human soldiers and orc soldiers.

The flames swept the entire grassland, and in the huge pothole, with green flames, a huge stone man climbed out of it, like a demon in hell.

At this time, the human soldiers and the orc soldiers were holding weapons, and turned to confront the huge flame stone man.

Then the camera changed, and in the puddle of the grassland, I don't know how much time has passed.

Two scarred arms appear in the shot, an orc's hand and a human's hand.

‘Now that we are on the brink of destruction, the Reign of Chaos has finally arrived. ’

The video is not long, but it makes all players feel a kind of explosion.

After seeing this video, countless players of UU Reading www.uukanshu.com were stunned.

Is this a game CG?

This is really too strong!

The quality is totally broken!

Even if you look closely, you can still see the different texture structures on the hands of the human and the orc in the picture.

The entire game CG animation of less than two minutes, it can be said that every frame of the picture can be used as a screenshot.

Are you making CG movies or making games?

Wouldn't the 700 million cost Chen Xu said before be true?

If the plot of this "Warcraft" is mostly CG of this quality.

It doesn't feel impossible!

But I'm afraid that more than half of your seven hundred million are used for CG!

Countless players, including industry designers, after watching this CG animation, they were stunned except for shock.