Rebirth of the Evil Life

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World War Closed Beta

"Second World" closed beta.

On September 10, 2004, the world war conducted the world's first closed beta. At this time, there are still more than three months before the official public test of the World War on January 1, 2005. For the first internal test of the World War, the "Second World" has carried out all aspects of publicity early.

Domestically, with the full coverage of "Tencent", almost every QQ user will be able to see the news of the first closed beta of the World War when they go online. In foreign countries, Lin Feng uses his own "fsn-houston" TV station and the Houston Chronicle. A comprehensive publicity was carried out. This is also the first time in the history of games that an online game has been promoted on such a large scale on TV, and it is only the first closed beta of the game.

Earlier, players all over the world who were interested in the world war downloaded the client, waiting for the first global internal test of the world war.

"Boss, how many people do you think will participate in the closed beta this time?" Wu Zhaopu asked Lin Feng quite nervously.

Although this is only an internal test, there is no gain or loss, but Wu Zhaopu still looks nervous. After all, the number of players in the closed beta is related to the number of players in the future public beta. The more players in the closed beta, the greater the number of players in the open beta. This is directly proportional.

"Don't worry. Now the world war internal beta client has been downloaded more than 100 million times globally, I believe there must be a lot of internal beta players. Now I am not worried about whether there are enough internal beta players and whether it can meet our requirements. On the contrary, I am I'm worried that there are too many players in the closed beta, and our server can't be loaded!" Lin Feng said solemnly.

For now, the reason for this internal test is to check whether there are bugs in the world war, but more importantly, to check how many players' data traffic can be carried when the world war starts the global interconnection. This is directly related to the future of the world war.

Currently, for this internal test, the "Second World" has mobilized a total of 100 supercomputers. Among them, the Shanghai headquarters has as many as 50 supercomputers processing various data and traffic from all over the world. And there are 3 units in the Asia Japan branch, 2 units in the South Korea branch, 2 units in the Taiwan branch, 1 unit in Hong Kong, 15 units in the European branch, 20 units in the US branch, and 3 units in the Australian branch. It has just been established. The African branch has 4 units.

These 100 supercomputers will be responsible for all the data and traffic processing for this internal test of the World War. According to theoretical data, 100 supercomputers are enough to calculate the birth and destruction of the universe. But in Lin Feng's view, it may not be enough to handle the data of the world war. You know, if 100 million people really participate in this closed beta, the data will be a huge astronomical figure. Especially once the National Warfare Test System is turned on, its data traffic is huge enough to make any computer tremble. Of course, if the computer feels it.

Of course, this test, another point is quite important. That is the performance of the player's computer, whether it can withstand the game screens of the world war and the requirements of national warfare. After all, World War is a first-person shooter online game, and its fluency is the most critical. If the game is not smooth enough, there will be no fun for all players. The screen has one card and one card, who would be interested in playing!

Therefore, this closed beta is very important.

"However, boss, you have chosen a day that makes all the teachers in the country painful." Wu Zhaopu joked suddenly.

Lin Feng shrugged helplessly. September 10th is Teacher's Day. I didn't deliberately choose this day for the World War public beta. It was just a coincidence. I hope the teachers in China will not scold me! ——Lin Feng mourned silently.

Obviously, Lin Feng is definitely referring to him today. Originally, today's Teacher's Day, the teacher's holiday, should be happy. On this day, the school will give teachers various benefits, and some even hold a tour, so that teachers can have a happy holiday. And the students will also send greeting cards, saying-the teacher has worked hard.

This would have been a very beautiful thing. But today, because of the World War internal test, many students gave their teachers no longer greeting cards, but World War internal test accounts. Originally, the teacher has always opposed students playing games, after all, schoolwork is the most important thing. Games, games, playthings lose their ambitions. The so-called young and strong do not work hard, the boss is sad, can you play a game with a hundred points? Can you play Tsinghua University and Peking University?

As a result, these teachers are still teaching Chunchun, but the students directly send the internal beta account of the game. You say it is irritating and not irritating. Especially today is Friday, which belongs to the weekend. Originally, many schools planned to let the teacher only spend half a day in class, and then go to spend a short vacation together and play for two and a half days. Perhaps because of this, many students got news. As a result, at 9 o'clock in the morning, those students who don't usually like to study skipped class directly. As for those who are less courageous and are not considered bad students in the eyes of the teacher, they wrote leave notes.

As a result, there were 60 students in a class, 8 who skipped classes, 16 who had a cold and fever, 10 who were seriously ill with relatives in the family, 6 whose parents had trouble with them, and three for unknown reasons. In the end, there were only 20 students left in the huge classroom. . The empty teacher made the teacher who was going on vacation frustrated for a while. Of course, from the perspective of visual effects, there are only 20 people left and they are pretty good, because they are all girls!

"The young and strong don't work hard, and the boss is sad. You remember that your efforts today will bring you countless rewards in the future. Compared with these students who skipped classes, you will never regret staying in the classroom today. "The teacher said sternly.

Twenty girls nodded. Of course, as to whether you agree with the teacher's words, then I don't know. Because there was a girl who murmured—Lin Feng's grades were not good, and as a result, he is now the richest man in the world. Why do we learn so much. Besides, we girls learn well, it is better to marry well!

Vomit blood! ——The teacher immediately decided to take a leave, go on vacation, and let himself have a happy Teacher's Day. Otherwise, this day, he might be angry with him.

At this time, the major Internet cafes were already full of people. Everyone’s computers are the same-the blue sky and white clouds. Everyone turned on the computer and waited for the first closed beta of the World War.

"I said Brother Niu, what kind of game do you think World War will be like? Since the'Second World' announced the development of World War, I have been looking forward to it! I have been waiting for almost 3 years." A man Said with a cigarette in his mouth.

"I don't know. But I know that a game that costs 1.5 billion US dollars will definitely be a good game. I now hope that the map can be bigger and the gameplay can be free, so it would be the best." That was said. Said the person who is Niu brother.

"That's for sure." A player on the side interjected, "You know, the world war completely copied the maps of major cities around the world, almost 1:1, so the map will be the largest game map ever. This We can play with confidence this time, and never have to worry about the map being small, maybe we will worry about the map being big."

Everyone nodded for a while. However, in this game, the larger the map, the better.

According to the official information released by the "Second World", maps of more than 300 cities around the world were produced during the World War. 300 cities, what a magnificent number, even if these 300 cities are placed together, their maps will shock players. What's more, in addition to cities, there are various wilderness, deserts, mountains, lakes, and oceans in the World War. It can be said that the size of the map is absolutely unprecedented.

"You said that in this video, players can control airplanes, tanks, and ships. Will we really be able to control these things by then?" a player who watched the game's promotional video murmured.

Everyone looked at the game's promotional video, and they agreed. If this game is to say that the map is beyond the expectations of the players, the ability to control modern weapons such as airplanes, tanks, and ships is also another bright spot that the players are looking forward to. Think about it, in the sky, countless aircraft are engaged in fierce air combat, on the ground, tanks are engaged in fierce shelling, and in the water, ships are looking at each other and shooting torpedoes. What a spectacular scene.

Thinking about this scene, all players are excited.

"There is also a national war! You said, at that time, as the game said, can the country be destroyed! If it works, I will be the first to destroy Japan." A player said with a fist.

Civil war! ——All players look forward to it. This is the most anticipated world war.

Civil war! ——Can there really be a national war?

All in the world war! ——When the bell rang at 9 o'clock in the morning on September 10, all computer screens flashed out the login window of the World War internal test.

All players enter their accounts and passwords at the first time. After all, this is an internal test. Although the "Second World" says that there is no limit to the number of players in the internal test, after all, World War is a global interconnection, the first true global interconnection. There is only one large area and no second area. All players play on one game server, which is unprecedented. Although "Second World" said that 100 supercomputers have been prepared for this internal test, who knows if there will be too many players unable to log in at that time, so everyone is desperately squeezing in, trying to squeeze in the first time game.

With a burst of exciting and exciting music, players finally entered the game that has been developed for nearly 3 years and invested more than 1.5 billion US dollars.

The screen went black, and after 5 seconds, the game title animation appeared.

The world is out of my generation, and the years are reminded as soon as I enter the world. Dynasty Hegemony talks and laughs, it's a drunk in the world! Raising the sword and straddling the ghost rain, the bones are like mountains and birds start to fly. The dust is like a wave of people like water, only a few people return to the rivers and lakes! Ye Yu fights the Gucheng from all directions, and looks at the sound of the sword with sword spirit. The chivalrous bones have not been found for thousands of years, the green blood and red leaves are drunk in the autumn breeze. —— What is reflected in the eyes of all players is this magnificent but embarrassing poem.

Suddenly, all players realized the vigor of the battlefield, as well as the ruthlessness of the battlefield and the desolation behind it. Although the player's mood suddenly sank, but it undoubtedly planted the seeds for the excitement afterwards.

Then there was a video of artillery fire. Various fighter planes were flying in the sky. Missiles roared away in the sky. Fighters were hit in the sky and exploded violently. On the ground, tanks were tanks. It rumbling past, the earth trembled, the mountains and rivers trembled, and then the tanks roared fiercely, and then one after another tanks were blown up, and the whole land was full of smoke and thick smoke everywhere. At this time, soldiers in various costumes rushed out from behind the tank, shouting, screaming, and shouting, rushing towards the enemy's camp, a hand-to-hand encounter, which is inevitable.

On the other side, in the sea. Ships fired various torpedoes and competed with imperial ships for sea dominance. On the bottom of the sea, the submarine swims around like a ghost, looking for the best opportunity to attack. And in the depths of the ocean, aircraft carriers lined up and launched the most tragic battle in the depths of the ocean...

World War-four big characters flashed in front of all players.

Fight for justice! Fight for ideals! Fight for the mission! ——The three parallel sentences in the screen aroused the hearts of all players. At this moment, both the Internet cafe and the users' homes in the community burst out with unprecedented roars.

All players are infected by the opening animation of the World War internal beta. At this moment, they have only one idea in their minds, enter the game and participate in the world war. Go back to the war years that made all men tremble with excitement, and defend the country! Go to open up the frontiers! To make immortal work forever!

After the long animation of the game ends, the player enters the game directly. Since it is a closed beta version, there are no more complicated and cumbersome options for the public beta version. Players just need to simply select a few options. For example, choosing an assault or sniper, which weapon to specialize in, which vehicle to specialize in, is it a tank, an airplane or a ship, and so on are the simplest choices.

Afterwards, the screen went black, and the hard drive began to read frantically.

After a full minute, the screen flashed again, and the players' respective login locations appeared on the corresponding maps according to their respective nationalities.

"This...this...is it a game?" After entering the game, the players were stunned.

Players have played many 3d games. Whether it is a stand-alone or online game, players have played many, many. For game maps, they are all familiar. But at this moment, they are all stupid. Stupid just because of a game map. This is not that the players are ignorant, but the map is too shocking.

wilderness! All players are born in the wilderness. But this wilderness is not the wilderness in ordinary games, but the wilderness like the real world. Depending on where they are located, the player’s environment is different, but there is one thing that is the same-reality.

Players in the plain can see a flat green area, but the green area here is not completely flat like other games. It has ups and downs, bumps, and is just relatively plain, not the absolute plain of other games. And it's not all grassland, there are all kinds of trees, and they are all familiar trees. And there are all kinds of roads, which give people a kind of as if they are not far from one's side.

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And some are on the beach, the vast ocean in the distance, the rugged rocks, and the noisy waves of the waves, it seems that the player is on the beach.

As for the players on the mountain, it was even more shocking. The misty clouds in the distance, the big trees in the distance, and the rugged mountain roads all make players wonder whether they are playing games or reading National Geographic Travel Magazine.

Environment-full marks! ——All players sighed together. Of course, I didn't forget to add one sentence in my mind-it was only an internal test.

At this time, as all players enter the game, the entire "Second World" enters the highest state of alert, and all those who can twitch are mobilized to monitor any possible abnormalities in the world war.

"Finally closed beta, finally closed beta!" Min Wu-Lee, "the head of the fourth game development department" responsible for the development of the world war (a mistake in the previous chapter, Jade Raymond should be the "fifth game development head" , Not the "Fourth Game Development Minister") shivering nervously.

This game exhausted his game development team for nearly three years. And his game development team not only has the largest number of "Second World" game development department, but also the most used funds. If it can't succeed, then their game development department will be shameless. Therefore, although this is only an internal test, Minwu-Li is still very nervous.

"Minwu, don't be too nervous. Believe in your own strength!" Lin Feng said with a smile.

"Lin, think about it, all the players in the world are playing on one server, how could I not be nervous. Think about it, hundreds of millions of players all over the world are playing on the same game server, and a little bug will affect global players. This is not Just kidding." Minwu-Li walked around. At this moment, it has been internally tested. He has no way to change anything. He can only pray, hoping that there will be no serious problems.

Of course, perhaps we should also pray that players can best find some bugs, so that they can be perfect in the official public beta.

Lin Feng smiled. But Minwu-Lee's nervousness also makes sense. For the world war, for the whole company, who would not be nervous. If a game with an investment of more than 1.5 billion US dollars is replaced by another company, it is enough to develop at least 10 super masterpieces, but the "Second World" is used to develop a game, which will make anyone nervous. Even Lin Feng, who is accustomed to billions of dollars, is just as nervous.

However, what Lin Feng is nervous about is not money, but whether the game can provide all players with a sufficiently realistic world war battlefield.

"Mr. Wu, how many closed beta players are there now in the game?" Lin Feng asked.

Wu Zhaopu entered a set of numbers on the keyboard. After a few seconds, Wu Zhaopu was completely stunned. His eyes were almost as big as Zhao Wei. After a long time, he was relieved. Then he quietly told Lin Feng-the boss, now the world war internal test player. More than 130 million worldwide.

Boom! Just now, Lin Feng was still laughing at how Wu Zhaopu reacted so much to the number of online players, and there was some joke that he made a fuss. At this moment, Lin Feng knew why Wu Zhaopu made a fuss. 130 million players are online, which has surpassed the online number of any game in the "Second World". Even the casual entertainment game Crazy Farm is far from being compared with the World War.

130 million people, my dear, what a terrifying number. You know, this is only a closed beta! A closed beta that can't save records and can't experience the game perfectly. It can attract 130 million players for internal testing. Obviously, as long as the world war is not heavy and the balance is good enough, then the world war will undoubtedly become the most popular game in history. Remember, it's a game, not an online game, it's a game. It is the most popular game among online games and stand-alone games. As far as the number of players in the internal beta is concerned, it is only a little less than the number of casual games in the history of the game, such as Tetris and Minesweeper.

130 million! Lin Feng exclaimed. Secretly fortunate that I told Wu Zhaopu not to display the number of players in the closed beta of the World War on the company's online number bulletin board. This is definitely a very wise choice. Otherwise, when everyone knows that there are 130 million closed beta players in the World War, I am afraid they will be even more nervous.

Originally, the "Second World" is now full of people, especially the "Fourth Game Development Department" and the gm of the World War and Cohen of the "Cloud Computing". The strings are all broken tight, for fear of a little mistake. If such a horrible figure is released again, their string will be broken.

"Confidentiality! This must be kept secret!" Lin Feng hurriedly ordered.

Wu Zhaopu nodded his head. But there was a burst of joy in his eyes.

"Boss, I am afraid that this number will be even higher when the official public beta next year! Haha, you said, there will be hundreds of millions of people playing our games. If more than 500 million people play our games, my God, every day our company Both can make tens of millions of dollars." Wu Zhaopu thought of the bright future, and his eyes were shining.

Lin Feng smiled. Yes, if there are really 500 million people playing games, what a grand world war will be. But what is more important now is the next step. Now many players are just in the wilderness, and all players are divided by a huge wilderness map. After all players enter the city, that's the key.

Compared with the real wilderness, huge cities are undoubtedly more real, but this is a 1:1 imitation of the current city. The absolutely real city is one of the killers of the world war.

run! Keep running! All players ran towards a light spot displayed on the radar. According to the display, this light spot is the gathering place of internal beta players-the city. Of course, players in different countries and regions have different cities.

For example, Chinese players mainly hit Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Xi'an, Wuhan and other cities; American players are in Washington, New York, Los Angeles and other cities; Japanese players are in Osaka, Tokyo and other cities...

As they ran, the players began to see other players. And as you run, there are more and more players in the game's field of vision. At first, only a few players could be seen running together, and then hundreds of players were running in one direction together in the field of vision.

Spectacular! ——Just running in the wilderness is spectacular enough. But just when the player harassed, the game screen instantly-stuck.

Bruce Allen, who monitors supercomputers and game data, reported the bad news to Lin Feng.

Lin Feng frowned. Unexpectedly, there were only hundreds of people on the screen at this moment, and the player's screen began to get stuck. But it’s no wonder that although the world’s most advanced 3D dynamic engine (developed with the previous "Blizzard") was used in the World War, it is not as good as the Unreal 2 engine on the screen, but the smoothness of the screen and the demand for hardware It is undoubtedly the best engine in the world.

But the world war is too "world". The entire wilderness is enough to accommodate a large-scale local war. Wouldn't you say that such a large venue does not require high computer hardware? Therefore, as soon as hundreds of players appear in the player's field of vision, the player's computer is no longer able to load, and the phenomenon of stuck occurs.

"Use virtual screen technology!" Lin Feng ordered.

Virtual screen technology, this is the "Second World" developed based on the previous "virtual restoration" technology. It is possible to blur the scene as much as possible while keeping the effect of the player's field of vision unchanged, reduce the number of polygons in the screen, and reduce the demand for the player's computer hardware. The technique is divided into three stages. However, for now, opening a segment will not affect the player’s field of vision at all; opening the second segment will cause fogging in the distant scene, which will affect the player’s vision; once the third segment is enabled, the player can only see the scene within 50 meters of the career. Farther away, it will be gray and gray, which will seriously affect the player's vision. Of course, there is also a "red vision". Once the player is turned on, he will only be able to see the scene within ten meters, and will not be able to see anything in the rest. However, the performance of the computer is extremely low, which allows the player to achieve the smoothest Speed ​​to play the game.

This is a typical sacrifice of image quality in exchange for speed!

After Bruce Allen pressed the button and entered a set of numbers, the "virtual screen technology" was activated. When all the players were just about to scold their mother, the screen became smooth again. All players cheered. You know, just entering the world war for such a short while, all players have been shocked by the screen. Although it is only an internal test screen, all players have already recognized it and are very satisfied. But if the picture becomes stuck or stopped, then these 10 points will immediately become 6 points. For a first-person shooter online game, fluency is always the first.

At this moment, a line of words-virtual screen technology appeared on the screen, and the player can freely choose the level. The default is 1 level, a total of 3 levels plus a red level.

Seeing this line of words, the player immediately turned on the system options and set the screen. Most players still remain at level 1, only a few players choose level 2 due to the poor computer. As for level three, there is no player choice yet. The red level is even more extravagant at present.

Seeing the report of data feedback, everyone in the "Second World" breathed a sigh of relief.

"Minwu, not bad!" Lin Feng gave a thumbs up.

Such an excellent game engine is something to be proud of.

Minwu-Li also breathed a sigh of relief. But for him, this was just the first pass.

The second level is-action! World War is not just a shooting online game, because it is also set to drive tanks, airplanes, ships, assassinations, sneak attacks and other elements, all the actions of the characters are extremely strict. Therefore, the "ergonomic physics system" developed by Jade Raymond was added to the World War, and it was widely used in the World War.

Although this "ergonomic physics system" brings a completely different experience to the world war and makes the world war more colorful, it also has higher requirements for player control and computer performance.

"Turn on the'ergonomic physics system'!" After receiving Lin Feng's signal, Bruce Lee continued to open the second test item of the closed beta-action on the supercomputer terminal.

With the opening of the "ergonomic physics system" by Bruce Lee, a line of words-ergonomic physics system appears on all players’ computers. Players will be free to make any movements within the scope of ergonomics, including climbing and running. Jump, roll, etc. Detailed operation commands are detailed inside.

All players were taken aback for a moment, then immediately called out the relevant commands, and immediately saw the commands for rolling, running, jumping, and climbing.

"Haha, did you see it? I climbed the tree!" a player exclaimed excitedly.

You know, whether it is in online games or in stand-alone games, most of the trees, grass, etc. in the wilderness are decorations and are of no use. This is to reduce the difficulty of development. But some players tried it and they climbed up. This is a good place to ambush. Watching the players running by one by one, if you have a gun in your hand at this time, you can completely ambush them.

"Hey, I will roll over!" another player yelled.

"What's this, I will roll over!" The man next to him said with disdain.

Stare! ——The player who was bragging just now was immediately silly. He had seen this movement command just now, but it was too complicated, so he ignored it directly and chose a slightly simpler one. As a result, the great man next to him actually played it directly, which was too awesome.

However, players who admire the world war developers more. It's actually possible to develop such an awesome system, let alone first-person shooter games, even many simple action games can't achieve such an effect.

However, after turning on the "ergonomic physics system", the price paid is that the player's "virtual screen" settings have all dropped by one level. No way, the number of players on the screen at this moment is more, and nearly a thousand people are doing all kinds of weird actions at the same time, the performance requirements of the computer are even higher. Fortunately, for now, the servers and 100 supercomputers are still very idle.

It seems that only four or five projects can be tested today! ——Minwu-Li is neither satisfied nor disappointed with the current results. In short, for now, the performance of the player's computer is still the key.

Now wait for the player to finally enter the city for the third test.