The new game Rebirth entered explosive mode as soon as it was launched. Game enthusiasts all over the world, whether they like to play this game or not, were attracted by it. Then someone slapped their thighs and they realized, isn't this the Metaverse? !
Guilds of all sizes began to move in one after another, and even professional e-sports players began to get involved. However, because the complexity of this game far exceeded their imagination, everyone was confused on the first day of entering, but it was almost Endless random events that are different for everyone have become the most talked about topics.
In fact, there is no level in this game. The only attribute panel is simple raw values such as intelligence, endurance, energy, and agility. But the problem is that this thing is not as easy to use as imagined. Just like the real world, even if it is Even though his body was trained like that of a silverback gorilla, he still couldn't withstand being chased and slashed with a knife.
Someone on the forum asked, why do we still play this game when it is so similar to the real world? This question stirred up a lot of waves, and everyone expressed their understanding. The most praised answer was "In reality, you can't experience true fairness."
Yes, what this game highlights is fairness. Everyone has equal opportunities. Even the richest man in the world can only get enough people to work for him in reality. This is not true in reality. It may be a height that most ordinary people cannot reach in their lifetime, but many of their efforts here may be wiped out by a chance encounter.
Then someone asked again, not everyone has adventure, so how can it be said to be fair?
Of course, adventure is not something everyone has. If everyone has it, it is not an adventure. But the key is that everyone may have adventure. Even if they don’t have adventure, they can use various methods to enjoy the extremely happy game process. . Take the martial arts world where Brother Zhang lives as an example. As long as you turn off the word "Jianghu" on the logo, you will enter the protected word. Unless it is affected by world events, no one can interfere with your freedom, whether it is the leader of the martial arts league or the world. Lonely evil spirits, if you say you don't want to serve them, then you won't. If they want to attack non-martyrs, they will be wanted by the government, and their captors are the top ten good people in the martial arts world. These top ten good people are all in the game. NPCs, but they are all legendary characters.
If you don't understand, just imagine yourself traveling into Jin Yong's martial arts world and being hunted down by Zhang Wuji, Shi Potian, Yang Guo, Guo Jing, and Zhang Sanfeng.
The punishment in the game is that if something drops something, nothing will drop attributes, and negative values are allowed for attributes... If he is a heinous bad guy, he either has the ability to evade the pursuit of the top ten villains and their forces, or he will be killed until his account is deleted. . Of course, there is no other way, that is to join the unique villain sects in the game, but it is much more difficult to enter these sects than to delete your account and start over.
Of course, this refers to the massacre of civilians. The government does not care about killing in the arena. They can kill and beat them as they please, until their brains pop out. As long as it does not affect the normal players who are building houses, blacksmithing, and doing business.
In other words, the vastness of this game can almost be equated with the real world. It also includes all the game methods that people can think of, and even if there are rules, loopholes can be exploited. For example, players who do business can become bigger. Afterwards, there are ways to spend money to hire people in the world. It is not available in the rules, but it is feasible.
In short, it is such a game that can almost be equated with reality, and no hacker has found its backdoor so far. They can’t even understand the operating rules of this thing. In addition, every time they invade the rebirth server, The memory and hard drive will always be burned, so everyone is saying that this game is not a game at all, but a game that allows people to travel to another world.
Of course, this statement has long been refuted, because Xiao Song and others have already demonstrated some design processes and concepts on the Internet, and the refresh problem of NPCs alone is enough to explain everything.
But they didn’t reveal too much, leaving everything up to players to explore on their own. Anyway, the game's advertising slogan is "Become whoever you want to be."
Brother Zhang is farming in Novice Village. He has seen many players appear from this point in just a few hours, but without exception, they all regard Brother Zhang as an NPC, so Brother Zhang is also sitting there. On the wall, I watched these guys running tasks back and forth or studying the game mechanics.
In the process, he has seen players who are so utilitarian that they go straight to the topic, run novice tasks, get rewards, search for available resources, and then escape from the novice village. In addition to such players, there are also those silly and cute players who just hang out and poke people with a wooden stick to verify whether they are real people. Brother Zhang was poked more than twenty times that afternoon.
However, if you don’t take the initiative to reveal the player’s identity or add friends here, there is basically no way to determine whether the other party is an NPPC. They will interact with the player in the same way as real people, and it is even said that they can abduct villagers from Novice Village. Let’s travel the world together.
Brother Zhang also tried to interact with NPCs. He was the silly son of a landlord, so the people in the village looked down on his stupidity and did not dare to offend him, the richest man in the village. They always coaxed him like a child.
What he was most concerned about was what would happen if he suddenly went offline during the interaction with the NPC. For this reason, he also went offline for a period of time to conduct an experiment. The NPC actually responded to this thing. If it was a normal exit. , some of the NPCs would shake their heads and mutter to themselves after being stunned for a while, "Good people will disappear if they say no." Some of them would run back to the village like crazy to find the knowledgeable village chief and shout, "xxx suddenly disappeared." , while the well-informed village chief smiled helplessly and said, "Just get used to it."
But if it is a forced exit, it will be interesting. When the character is frozen there, some NPCs will wave their arms in front of the player, and some will perform first aid. If the hidden attribute "favorability" is high enough, the NPC will still He would provide first aid to the characters, carry the offline people to the doctor's house, and help him pay the medical expenses. Therefore, several times after Brother Zhang was forced to offline and woke up again, he would appear in the village hospital.
However, this is not the default setting. When forced in front of the same NPC multiple times, its behavior will be completely different. The first time it will be panic or even panic, but as the number of times increases, they will get used to it. With this kind of behavior, in the end he just shakes his head and turns around to do his own thing.
This kind of super-intelligent NPC makes Brother Zhang’s eyes shine. Many players will spend most of their time interacting with NPCs on their first day online. Some will play kites with their children for a day. Some would sneak around to watch female NPCs taking a shower, and some would even try to touch the NPCs, but most of them got the punishment they deserved.
For example, if someone is caught peeping at a female NPC taking a bath, he will be beaten out of the novice village with a stick. At least it will damage his muscles and bones, and he will lose a lot of attributes. In the worst case, he will have his hands and feet broken. From then on, he can only practice one-armed sword skills or his legs. . There is also the act of touching NPCs. If a male character touches a male NPC, he may get a perverted look, and some will be arrested in front of the village chief for judgment. If a female character touches a male NPC, if the character and identity of the male NPC are touched, if it is an ordinary The peasants would be frightened and leave in a hurry. If they were scoundrels in the village, they would be teased. If they were the scholars in the village who wanted to touch them, they would be scolded, such as: "The Master said, "Do not see what is inappropriate, do not hear what is inappropriate, do not do what is inappropriate." "Speak, don't do anything if you're not polite" and other docile words, then turned around and walked away.
"It turns out that you can also play love-making games here..." Xiao Xiao, the scary giant character, held his chin and looked at another rookie who was chased all over the street because he tried to pet the village dog: "Every character is There is a default favorability level, right?"
Brother Zhang sat on a big rock and looked at it for a long time, then turned around and said with a smile: "It seems so."
The flexibility of NPCs greatly increases user stickiness, and many adventures can only be triggered by favorability. For example, Brother Zhang has a good relationship with the lonely old man next door, and the lonely old man gave him a prescription yesterday. And when he went to pet the village dog, the dog would only play with him.
"This game is so magical." Xiaoxiao said with a smile, "Everyone can become a legend. It's so fun."
Brother Zhang hummed, "But what should I do if my IQ doesn't add up..."
He doesn't want to be a village guard, he also wants to go outside and see the magnificent world, but now as long as he steps out of Xinshou Village, he will be dragged back by the old man and dog in the village, and then he says seriously, "Master, you can't go out. "It's dangerous out there, and there are people who specialize in abducting people like you to do hard labor."
Brother Zhang is still a novice. When he is full of strength, he is not as strong as the strong old blacksmith. He cannot go out at all.
And Xiaoxiao is even more pitiful. As long as she walks out of the village, even when it's dark, the plot will be triggered immediately. Sometimes all the young men in the village will come out with torches to capture him as a monster, saying that he can't be allowed to go out to harm people. . Sometimes, a passing police officer would directly twist his uniform and send him back to the village. After scolding him for a long time in front of the village chief, he would push Xiaoxiao into the woodshed and lock him up.
The most exaggerated thing is that a stone would suddenly roll down from the mountain on the road he was walking on, and it would hit him directly and bring him back to life... In short, Xiaoxiao and Brother Zhang were stuck here.
So fishing has become their main job in the game...
"I'll get off first." Xiaoxiao suddenly said to Brother Zhang: "I have to take the driver's license test tomorrow. Brother Zhang, you should also go to bed early. Good night."
"Um."
Soon Xiaoxiao was fixed there, and then Brother Zhang began to wander around the village at night. The age of this world is unknown, but judging from the clothes of the people here, it should be the Southern Song Dynasty. These ancient people They are good at everything, but they really work at sunrise and rest at sundown. At nine o'clock in the evening, only dogs are left in the village...
Brother Zhang is wandering around in a quiet little village. Newbies log in here from time to time. When they see Brother Zhang, they all think he is an NPC. Everyone tries to do something to Brother Zhang, which is outrageous.
In the end, Brother Zhang was fed up. He came to the river behind the village and sat by the embankment. Looking at the sparkling river under the moonlight, he unconsciously picked up a stone and threw it in.
But at this moment, the river surface suddenly became misty, the moon became extremely bright, and then a person rose from the river. This was a man. He was holding a gold ingot in one hand and a silver ingot in the other. He looked pleasant. Asked: "Did you throw this piece of gold or this piece of silver?"
Brother Zhang was stunned for a while. He picked up a stone from the ground and said, "This is what I threw."
"Very well. To reward your honesty, I will give you this piece of gold and this piece of silver."
So Brother Zhang got a piece of gold and a piece of silver. The river god also disappeared. After thinking for a while, he threw the gold ingot back. After a while, the river god appeared again: "Honest young man." Man, this... ugh? No, are you sick? Why did you throw the gold down? How do you want me to straighten it? There are two stones here, do you choose one? "
Brother Zhang was also confused by him: "Do you have a bug?"
"Brother, I'm just a person who provides benefits to newbies. If you want to give me money to spend money, isn't that a bit unethical?" The river god came to Xiao Zhang with a measuring stone and sat down. He took the money from his pocket. He took out a pack of Liqun, handed one to Brother Zhang, and then ordered one himself: "Whole one."
Brother Zhang took the cigarette and said, "Smoking Liqun?"
"Ang, smoke something else and cough." The River God hissed, then took out a puff of smoke and slowly drifted towards the Milky Way: "I'll give you back the piece of gold just now, so don't throw it away. I can't buy money here, you have to take a look. Our work."
"Are you an NPC?"
"Then what else? I was seconded from Urban Shinhwa next door. Originally, there was no river god in the martial arts world, didn't you know? But then the superiors thought it was unbalanced, so they seconded me. I told the other party at the time What's the point of making drama and drama? It's so fucking annoying to work. The boss won't listen to your explanation at all. I can't scold him in his face and tell him what the hell you are. Do you know that it is outrageous for a river god to pop up in the world of martial arts?"
Brother Zhang was amused by this NPC. He finished smoking a cigarette and then threw the cigarette butt into the river. The river god got in and then came out again: "Oh, honest young man, what you threw is this The root of gold Liqun is still the root of silver Liqun."
Brother Zhang immediately looked very constipated...
"Yeah, I'll just say it's very funny, but it's not easy to use. It doesn't count as a laborer." The river god came over again and gave the two cigarette butts to Brother Zhang: "Forget it, just hang on. Who doesn't have to face a bunch of idiots at work? I'm not the most pitiful. There is another person in our department who is assigned to the doomsday world. He tells players every day, "Honest young man, are you throwing this gold corpse or this silver corpse?" Corpse, what can I do? I can only endure it..."
After saying that, he lit another one, inhaled the hot smoke deeply into his lungs, and then exhaled deeply, placing his hands on the river embankment: "How about I help you pay for it? If you throw it down, I will I’ll give you some gold ingots. Once the superiors find me out, I can resign and just become an ordinary NPC anywhere.”
"Do you know you are an NPC?"
"Only high-level NPCs have this understanding. But what is high-level or not? Life is not a prison. Walking out of a small pond is just a step into a larger pond. The sun is shining everywhere. I love freedom. Ah, but freedom doesn’t love me. I don’t have the ability to match my cognition. I can only work under the hands of idiots wherever I go. Okay, it won’t affect your game experience. You can just throw something in and I’ll brush it up for you. Money, making some mistakes and being expelled, erasing the knowledge and becoming an ordinary stupid NPC is not a blessing." The river god sighed: "It's such a happy decision, benefiting others and yourself, let's do it! You just act bravely, Let me tell you a secret, that is, this kind of money brushing will not affect you. The superiors will decide that it is my responsibility and the money you get will be yours. According to the normal speed, I have forty-five minutes to brush money for you. Because the loophole will be found out in forty-five minutes, and the next time you see it will be my other colleagues. They are not as rebellious as me, and they will not waste so many words with you. Come on, you throw it away and I pick it up. Then one person and two people will be safe."
After saying that, the River God walked to the middle of the river with a cigarette in his mouth: "Pick the big one and throw it away, and then I hope you wish me to become an NPC with good luck."
