Since the release of "Dark Forest", this game has been a love-hate existence for players.
I love it because it is fun enough to satisfy my desire for survival and add excitement to ordinary life.
I hate it because it is too scary and scary, and the atmosphere is depressing. Even the side tasks make players feel desperate all the time.
The map of Chapter 1 seems to only have three areas: 'Dry Grassland', 'Silent Forest', and 'Ancient Forest'. It seems very small, but in the end the game elements are piled all over the map, and there are even some items hidden deep inside. , the players have traveled all over the map in order not to miss the hidden details.
Although the map in Chapter 2 only has one area, it is large enough, with swamps, new mutant creatures, maze-like ruined villages and even more terrifying side missions. Players are not at all confused when playing. That kind of confidence that you can ignore everything in the later stage of the game. On the contrary, you are even more cautious.
However, no matter how scary and difficult the game is, due to the huge player base and the passage of time, many people still pass it.
At this time, as long as you search for the keyword "dark forest" on the barrage website, you will be able to see a lot of live commentary and a scream-through game, etc.
As more and more people play this game, various weird ways to play it begin to appear online.
for example:
[Learn this trick and you will be a night wandering god at night! 】
[The best defensive strategy on the first night, allowing you to survive until dawn without losing any blood! 】
【Should you turn on the lights at night? NO! Control your physical strength and learn to sprint, while monsters and ghosts can only stomp in place! 】
[Three years of survival and five years of defense, an experienced driver will teach you how to be the most handsome guy at night! 】
【Guide to all monsters! Detailed explanation of various defense methods for random events at night! 】
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From this point of view, as long as players accept horror games, after getting through the initial scare, they will always be able to play the game to their full potential as they are familiar with the mechanics.
Just when everyone was immersed in the game for one week or two, "Dark Forest" was suddenly updated!
The players were stunned, what is this update?
So they all entered the store interface to read the latest announcements.
Then they froze.
"Dark Forest" EA has ended, the final chapter has been released, and the official version is online!
This news came suddenly, leaving players unprepared.
The game is finished and has become the official version! ?
In fact, it’s not that the players have little knowledge.
There are many EA games, but every early access game takes several months to develop and improve before releasing the official version.
For some foreign games, the official version was not released until one or two years after EA was released.
But how long did it take for "Dark Forest" to be released from EA's launch to the official version?
A month? Two months?
One year? Two years?
No!
Only about 3 weeks!
In less than a month, the official version of this game will be released?
Are you sure the final chapter is ready?
Are you sure it's not bugs flying around?
Many players began to feel unsure.
With the official version released so soon, it’s hard not to guarantee that the final chapter of the game will be poorly done, or may not be completed at all.
Everyone is worried that their favorite games will be unfinished and run away, especially high-quality high-quality games like "Dark Forest".
So those players who had completed the game loaded up the archives of the previous week to see what the final chapter was like and whether its quality was as rich as the first and second chapters.
Then, after players spent a few hours playing the game, they discovered...
The ending of this game... is shocking beyond their imagination...
At the end of the second chapter, there are two choices, one of which is to burn the human skin tree and enter the final chapter.
And the final chapter is to leave the forest and embark on the road home.
But the players discovered that just a few steps out of the forest, they arrived at their residential community?
Isn't this too fast?
Didn't it say there were troops outside the forest?
Why is it a residential area as soon as it comes out?
And this residential area is also very strange. Not only is it sparsely populated and eerie, even the neighbors in the past have begun to behave strangely and appear to be abnormal.
When the players returned to their building, they found that there were mushrooms in the forest and flowers growing on the tile floor?
There was also a radio in the basement. After repeated operations, the same weird noise as in the forest came from it, repeating the suggestion of 'sleep...sleep...'.
Then came the blackout, plunging the basement into darkness.
On their way out in the dark, the players also vaguely saw something twisting behind an iron gate, which looked very much like a split-headed monster encountered in the forest.
Various signs made them immediately understand that Chapter 3 might not be as simple as just going home!
And this is indeed the case. Many anchors started live broadcasting the gameplay experience of Chapter 3 immediately after the official version was released.
Countless viewers followed the perspectives of major anchors and entered the third chapter of the exploration.
Some entertainment anchors just followed Qiami's trend because of the popularity. For example, a two-dimensional skin anchor like Xinxin was frightened and didn't have the mood to study the game, so her ending was very simple.
The protagonist returns home, eats, then goes to bed, the game is completed, and it is over.
But some anchors are different, such as Mr. Zai. After discovering all kinds of abnormal signs in residential areas, he began to carefully observe every detail.
The radio reminded him to sleep, but he refused to sleep.
Finally, by accident, he discovered that there were crawling tree roots under the floor of his house!
So he smashed all the floors of the house and found that the tree roots extended from the living room to the bedroom... under the bed!
It's the bed where I sleep!
He felt something was wrong, and when he thought that the game was repeatedly hinting at sleep, he knew that there must be something wrong under the bed.
So Mr. Zai moved the bed, moved it away, and then smashed the floor. He suddenly discovered that there was a bottomless tree hole under the bed where he slept!
At this point, he finally understood that the game had another ending!
Under the urging of the audience in the live broadcast room, he jumped resolutely.
Then, he discovered the true ending of the game that shocked him...
The protagonist of the game, Hat Man, climbed up from the ground naked and found himself inside a giant tree full of rock walls and roots.
On the criss-crossing tree roots, he found his clothes, pants and hat, but they seemed to have been worn for a long time and were too rotten to wear anymore.
Not only that, he also found many naked men and women sleeping inside the giant tree.
They seemed to be stuck in some kind of dream and couldn't wake up.
Some were humming in their sleep, some were struggling in pain, and some had happy smiles on their faces.
But more of them have cold bodies and are dead and rotting.
Mr. Zai also discovered that among the people lying on the ground and falling into dreams, there were actually NPCs he had seen in Chapters 1 and 2.
Including the doctor controlled in the prologue, he was also lying on the ground unable to wake up.
Mr. Zai vaguely guessed something. The deeper he went, the more naked people were sleeping on the ground.
Finally he came to the center and found a huge, squirming glowing organism.
Among them, you can still faintly see the twisted face of a woman hidden inside.
Through touch, he learned that the glowing creature could emit a state of comfort and narcosis.
Suddenly, Mr. Zai roughly understood what was going on.
It is very likely that the protagonist he controlled fell asleep here before the game started.
And whether it's the prologue, the first and second chapters, or the final chapter, everything happens in the protagonist's dream.
These people who sleep naked are also dreaming of their own dreams, and the people who die in their dreams are really brain-dead in reality.
They are hopeless!
So Mr. Zai found his colleague who was also an investigator on the road. He was holding a flamethrower and he could still use it.
Then they grabbed it and started burning everything.
Luminous creatures become unstable after being exposed to fire.
The people around him who were trapped in the dream also woke up, pleading and angrily cursing why the protagonist did this.
But Zai was unmoved and started burning people he met along the way. The fire soon spread out of control.
In the end, even he himself was injured and fell to the ground due to the explosion of the flamethrower.
Amidst the acrid smoke and endless wails, Zai Zong controlled the protagonist to crawl on the ground, trying to escape from the increasingly fierce flames.
But in the end, it was just submerged in red.
As the screen gradually disappears, the game reaches its final ending.
He passed the level!
But Mr. Zai did not feel relieved after clearing the level. Instead, he frowned and fell into deep thought about the ending.
The audience in the live broadcast room also said that the plot and ending of this game are really shocking. If you don't pay attention carefully, you won't be able to discover the truth at all, and you will never wake up from the dream.
Soon, due to the excellent ending of "Dark Forest" and the live broadcast effect of major anchors, the average number of people online on the day of the official version of the game reached an unprecedented figure in the history of domestic stand-alone games.
49W people!
Become the number one on the popularity list of the cyber platform!
