"Thanks for playing!"
Looking at the screen, congratulations on passing the level and finishing the concluding remarks of spreading flowers, Liao Jichang on the chair let out a long sigh.
The game he's playing now is called "Falling."
It is a development game with the wasteland as the background.
Players need to play the role of the leader of survivors in the wasteland, recruit partners step by step, cultivate characters, establish their own organization and shelter base, and fight against various natural disasters in a wasteland full of mutant monsters and "turmoil" pollution , open up a pure land.
The game has a very high degree of freedom. All plots are calculated in real time based on the various decisions made by players in the game. The paintings are exquisite and the modeling is exquisite. It can be said to be perfect in all aspects.
Only...
It’s just too fucking difficult!
The extremely scarce development resources, the underworld monsters all over the wilderness, the eager scavengers... these are just the early difficulties, and they are enough to make players drink a pot.
Coupled with the extremely random nature of "The Fall", natural and man-made disasters occur at every turn, leading to the saying that there is nothing at all, and you can pass the level by following the guide step by step. Everyone's world is completely different, and copying homework is extremely difficult. .
It is said that the official statistics of the number of people passing through customs worldwide are less than 1,000.
The number of people who can achieve "perfect clearance" with all achievements, all collections, and all explorations has always been zero.
Oh, no.
The number should now read "1".
At the end of the game, a CG picture of a "family portrait" is included, which summarizes the five strongest "evil-changer" characters in each profession who were trained by themselves in the game.
Doomed One, a proper noun in "The Fall".
It specifically refers to those people who mutated in the "turbidity" pollution of the wasteland and temporarily retained their sanity. According to the abilities resulting from their mutation, they are divided into five different professions.
If players want to gain a foothold in the wasteland, recruiting and cultivating powerful doombreakers is absolutely the top priority and is also the core gameplay of this game.
As a qualified straight man, Liao Ji naturally only supports his wife and strives to have a diversified family.
Therefore, the five female "evil-changers" in the CG picture all have different styles and come from different races.
Priestly nun "Schutia"
Supernatural succubus "Rena"
Guard type dragon girl "Tang Jiuyou"
Shooting machine maid "Zero"
And finally, the female guard elf knight "Annuo" who is often yelled by Liao Ji "Mom, save me!"
Among them, there are those who are enchanting and charming, but they are smooth and smooth, and there are also those who are pure and pure but can make people dizzy with just a few shakes, there are those who are arrogant and cold, and there are also gentle and reserved...
But the one thing that remains the same is that their looks are top-notch!
but.
For Liao Ji, appearance and beauty fade away after seeing them too much. What really makes them leave an emotional imprint in his heart is the memory behind them.
I think back then, no matter which one of them it was, they all played a decisive role in their different gaming periods.
The kind that made me want to leave all the best to "her".
However.
As the environment and time in the game changed, Liao Ji's different needs for "evil-changers" caused them to become "laid off" and unemployed one after another.
Just like the "nanny" Sxiutia who helped Liao Ji come back to life countless times during the land reclamation period and rescued her from the edge.
But when he gained a foothold and reached the mid-term, when his power began to develop and expand, this pure nanny-type role eventually became less and less useful, until he was completely controlled by Liao Ji.
Instead, there are powerful physical output players who are more aggressive and can establish territory for Liao Ji - guard Tang Jiuyou, and shooter Zero.
But gradually, the two people who can still kill light-armored enemies like "Scavengers" can be transformed into "base guards" with sophisticated weapons and equipment as well as high defense and high attack as the difficulty of Liao Ji's enemies increases. when...
The two physical damage dealers who used to be able to kill everyone have become scratched.
Liao Ji had no choice but to warehouse them again, strip away all the resources, and invest them all in new characters, namely the succubus Reina and the elf Annuo.
The former's powerful ability can easily handle the enemy's heavy armor, while the latter's natural magic and shield provide Liao Ji with the most solid defense and output space to withstand the enemy's terrifying firepower.
After the last wasteland force was defeated and surrendered, Liao Ji truly realized the unification of the entire wasteland.
【Empire of Ashes】
It was from this moment that it was officially established.
By the way, "Ashes" is the ID Liao Ji gave himself in the game.
Later, after integrating the major racial forces, Liao Ji, as the "Ember Emperor", led his own army to gradually regain the territory occupied by monsters, and began to attack the source of the wasteland and the culprit of the disaster, "Zhuo E" "The Abyss" declared war.
but.
It is clear that his strength has become countless times stronger, and his resources are abundant, far beyond the difficulty of survival at the beginning, but Liao Ji is no longer as happy as he was at the beginning of the game. The interaction between him and the doomed ones he trained It also decreased drastically.
Firstly, after it became an all-out war with wasteland monsters, the role of the army became greater than personal strength. Secondly, as Liao Ji became more and more powerful and comprehensive as the "protagonist", he was no longer needed in the battle. I still rely on the "evil-changer".
Instead, it would be best to leave them behind to serve as warehouse managers and use their "infrastructure" capabilities to improve the various production efficiencies of the entire empire and city.
For example, Scutia:
[Light of Darkness (increasing with level): After placing "Sshutia" into a "church" type building, it will provide the city with +15% resistance to mental pollution, and the doomed person's runaway rate will be -10%]
[Holy Healer (increases with level): When "Sshutia" is in the rear (non-combat queue), the incidence rate of diseases and plagues in the entire camp is -30%]
So his warehouse management does not mean that he has really given up completely.
Even if they can't go to the battlefield, the powerful "infrastructure" ability of the five doomed ones is enough for me to continue to feed them dog food, allowing them to always maintain the first-tier training level of the main force.
"..."
Pfft.
Liao Ji laughed when he thought of this.
It sounds so nice to say it, but in reality, it doesn’t mean that you are squeezing out the remaining value of others. You obviously don’t take others to play, but you still make them work for you one by one in the "factory" in the rear area day and night. Isn’t this just a tool person?
Shaked his head.
At this time, out of the corner of his sight, a thick stack of small notebooks next to the computer desk attracted Liao Ji's attention.
After opening it, there are pages full of densely packed small characters. These are all handwritten by him, used to calculate various development benefits, the cost-effectiveness of each copy, planning for subsequent decisions, and various rare materials and equipment. Drop locations and distribution.
It can be said that when these records are added together, it is a game experience for a super hardcore player.
Liao Ji plans to compile these and post them online after it is over. He hopes that these experiences and lessons he has accumulated over tens of thousands of hours can help newcomers avoid detours and...save the game's precarious sales. ?
However, after staring at these manuals where he recorded each stroke for a while, Liao Ji sighed.
He began to reflect.
Are you... a little too focused on intensity?
Because of his long-term "warehouse management" of them, many of them have lost a lot of favorability. In the game, strangely, the character's favorability seems to be useless, like a useless attribute, so Liao Ji has always been Didn't care.
It was only now that the CG screenshots showed that Liao Ji realized that it could be said to be a big regret after completing the level.
Of course, there are exceptions, and Scutia is one of them.
Even though he was the first to be taken under his own control and has been working silently as a tool in the rear, he was the first to strip away all his equipment and give it to other women.
But just like Scutia's gentle attributes as a priest and nun in the setting, she will never be dissatisfied with herself, and her favorability has never changed since it reached 100%.
If it were put into reality, it might be like this. Even if the husband is on a "business trip" and has not been home for a long time, he will still spread the tablecloth, set the tableware, and prepare meals for two people every day, just for One day, maybe my husband will remember this home, and when he comes back, he can say with a smile, "Go wash your hands."
call!
After a long sigh, Liao Ji shook his head. He secretly laughed at himself whether he was a little crazy, adding so many dramas to a paper man written by a program.
However, Liao Ji still decided to add a sentence to all newcomers at the beginning when posting guides in the future.
[The intensity is only temporary, but the wives you provide are for a lifetime! 】
almost...
It's time to end too.
Liao Ji's parents left him at a very early age, but fortunately they left a large inheritance, which allowed him to have no worries about food, drink and life, but it also developed Liao Ji's withdrawn character.
Perhaps the birth of "game" is to give people like Liao Ji a spiritual haven, right?
Looking at the record in the bottom corner of the CG image, I saw that my total playing time in "Falling" had unknowingly reached more than 10,000 hours.
Liao Ji felt extremely reluctant to give up, but in the end he calmly moved the mouse and pressed the OK button to end the game with a feeling of saying goodbye to an old friend.
However, what he didn't expect was.
[Congratulations, it has been detected that you have met the conditions for opening the "Second Week". Do you want to enter? 】
Liao Ji: "...!?"
The second game refers to allowing players to go through the game again. Some conscientious manufacturers usually add some additional content to the second game to supplement the world view and improve the players' gaming experience.
Of course, there are also those very powerful manufacturers that can even make players feel like they are playing a brand new game in the "second game".
Liao Ji definitely didn't expect the sales volume to plummet. It was said that the "Falling" manufacturer that had run away could achieve the latter, but even the former was enough to surprise him.
After all...Liao Jike had never heard of it, whether it was on the official website or the forum. This game still has two weeks.
After choosing "Yes" with great curiosity and expectation, the game did not start immediately. Instead, a new dialog box popped up.
[Warm reminder, the second game is extremely difficult, cannot be saved, cannot be restarted, and will inherit the five "evil transformers" you have trained in the CG to start together, please choose carefully...]
That's it?
For a stand-alone game, the difficulty of not being able to save is indeed immediately increased, and the inability to restart means that there is only one chance to enter the "second game"?
But these are nothing to the latter.
"Can I still inherit the data!? Can I bring this week's characters with me?" Liao Ji couldn't help but be surprised in front of the screen.
This is not like the operation of "The Fall", which focuses on a "persuasion" difficulty.
You must know that the five doomed ones you have trained are all at the top of the pyramid of each profession. Even the weakest Sshutia, under his control, can easily destroy a city. .
Now that he can "inherit" and follow him into his second game, doesn't it mean that after the restart, he will be directly followed by the ceiling combat power of the five worlds? This...
Isn’t this just a straight push all the way! ?
Good guy!
After the shock, Liao Ji quickly "understood" the official meaning.
Very simple.
This is clearly for "cool"!
Officials should also understand that one cannot have both power and beauty, so they guessed his regret at this moment, so he had a second episode to make up for the time he gave up spending time with his wives for the sake of intensity.
Well done!
The excited Liao Ji slapped his thigh and just wanted to give the official a big thumbs up.
In the past, he was blinded by the intensity, but this time, Liao Ji made up his mind, regardless of the environment or the development of infrastructure, he would always keep his wives with him! Fill up their favorability!
With this game concept.
Liao Ji pressed the [OK] button without hesitation.
The next moment, light flashed.
Darkness swallowed Liao Ji's entire vision.
