Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch - Chapter 289
Chapter 289: Chapter 287: The Scene of the Accident
Translator: 549690339
In Yunmeng, the number of employees paying attention to the new game release was probably the lowest since the company’s establishment.
It was mainly the Operation Department who were concerned.
With the company always short on manpower, employees all had projects to work on, so Lincoln didn’t assign a special team to maintain “Paradise.” The responsibility was taken over by the Operation Department.
Of course, Lincoln and Xiaomeng had to bear any technical issues that arose.
—In more specific terms: Lincoln would give the orders, while Xiaomeng carried them out.
At this point, both of them were lying on the small sofa, sipping on beverages, and observing the situation in the game.
However, at this time, they were not watching the live broadcast screens of the streamers, but instead were focusing on the children’s tracks.
Unfortunately, there were too few players on the children’s track.
On Friday morning, the little ones were all likely in class and struggling. It would also be challenging to hide it from their parents and teachers, requesting a leave and still getting permission to play games.
—This task was just too difficult.
Since there were already so few child players, dividing them into three different groups, [10-12 years old], [12-14 years old], and [14-16 years old], made the number of players in each group even smaller.
It was basically the same few people playing. Lincoln couldn’t see any patterns without enough data to help him.
He then simply switched the screen to the standard field for players above 16 years old.
As soon as he thought about the standard field, the first person that came to Lincoln’s mind was Super Tomato.
For a player with such high intelligence, great influence, and an exceptional liking for exploiting loopholes, Lincoln felt it was necessary to give enough attention to him.
So as not to let Super Tomato discover any significant flaws, let millions of players know about it, and keep the company oblivious.
As soon as Lincoln entered Super Tomato’s live broadcast room, he saw a screen full of “666” comments.
Before Lincoln could say anything, Xiaomeng waved her hand, and the comment display area on the screen at once shrank to a quarter of its original size. The repetitive comments were also folded, making the screen much cleaner.
Lincoln then saw that Super Tomato was indeed exploiting loopholes.
This was a survival challenge where players had to stand on a narrow rectangular platform. A moving wall with gaps would appear in front of them, intending to push them off the platform.
Players had to stand in the right position in advance to avoid being pushed off the platform by the wall.
However, the size and position of the gaps were random, and running fast in those bulky capsule outfits was not possible.
As soon as one runs slowly or is blocked by other players, they might be pushed off the platform and eliminated.
At this time, the sixteen surviving players were frantically running about in a chaotic scene on the screen.
Among this chaos, Super Tomato was standing leisurely on the platform railing, watching the players run back and forth below.
He even had the time to chat with the audience in the live broadcast room, “Everyone, see, as long as you master the skill, the success rate is still quite high!”
The comments were full of astonishment:
“I’ve watched more than a dozen live broadcast rooms, and yours is the most outrageous!”
“It’s really you!”
Lincoln also logged in immediately and sent a conspicuous message—
He had indeed seen similar moves in games in his previous life, but now it was different!
Here in the virtual reality game, everyone wore those clumsy capsule outfits, with short hands and legs, making it hard to run fast. How could you jump so high?
During the small-scale closed beta, you had many acquaintances and teammates who could help you, so I could understand.
But this match is a solo queue!
These walls were raised higher after the closed beta! It’s even higher than their heads now, but you can still climb up there?
Is that even reasonable?!!?
As Lincoln made his appearance, and with that dramatic question mark, the live broadcast room audience was excited, and they started to tease him:
“It’s over, caught red-handed!”
“Streamers, you better come down now! If you keep being so arrogant, where are you going to leave the game designer’s face?”
“Truly face-slapping.”
“The game’s designed like this, with a bunch of unpatched BUGs daring to be sold! Designers like this should apologize to all players! [dog head”
Super Tomato, located in the “safe zone,” focuses entirely on the live broadcast room, so he immediately notices Lincoln’s comment.
After a brief moment of embarrassment, he immediately puts on a straight face and starts blowing rainbow farts: “Boss Lin, your new game this time is amazing. Besides the fixed level clearing mode, you also leave room for players to freely express themselves, and it’s really too powerful!”
As he speaks, he raises a fluffy thumbs up.
Lincoln isn’t so easily fooled and replies immediately: “Forget all that for now, just tell me how you got up there first?”
“Uh …” Super Tomato hesitated for a moment, “You’re not going to ask me and then do an online hotfix, are you?”
Lincoln on the small sofa blinked unnaturally, he did think that just now …
After hesitating for a moment, Lincoln replied: “That depends on how you got up there, so, how did you do it?”
Super Tomato didn’t hesitate and immediately jumped back onto the platform.
“With the help of the items on the field and the reduced gravity, it’s actually quite simple, I’ll demonstrate again.”
“Just stand by the wall, wait for the wall to come up, push someone down, then jump on them .
Super Tomato explained while looking for an opportunity to push a player wearing a blue capsule down and then jumped on him.
“Then, leap towards the wall with all your strength! As long as the angle is correct, you’ll be bounced onto the wall by the wall!”
As he spoke, he had already lunged towards the wall and, true to his words, was propelled straight by the wall…
The only problem was that the angle seemed to be slightly off – his feet never touched the ground again, and he was knocked straight out of the platform, eliminated on the spot while falling!
“Pfft-” Seeing this, Mavis couldn’t help but burst into laughter.
Lincoln was also quite speechless, unsure of what to say for a moment.
The audience was different, as they saw Super Tomato fail and laughed their heads off.
“”lt’s pretty simple'”‘
“”Let me demonstrate””
“Demonstrate dying.”
“Forget it, don’t fix this, leave it for everyone to play.” Finally, Lincoln decided, and stopped replying. He started to attend to other live broadcast rooms fairly.
However, in other live broadcast rooms, many streamers haven’t participated in the small-scale game testing, and they were playing it as a new game, adapting to the track while striving for interesting appearances.
Therefore, they mostly played the game in an orderly manner, laughing and having fun, with a lot of entertaining effects. But from a game designer’s perspective, there’s not much worth noting for the time being.
This steady situation lasted until 7 pm.
After 7 pm, a new development occurred – the number of participants in the children’s race for all age groups began to surge!
Originally, all age groups had slow matchmaking, and there were barely enough players to form four or five competition venues. Now, thousands of new players flooded in, and more than a thousand races could be held simultaneously at ease!
Lincoln guessed that this was due to parents getting off work and primary and middle school students finishing school.
Most likely, the parents first came to the standard race to experience it, then played a few rounds with their children in a custom room, and finally let the children participate in the children’s group race on their own.
— Of course, the prerequisite for all this is that there have to be two or more Mirage consoles at home.
As the number of participants in the children’s group races skyrocketed, the situation that Lincoln had been worried about before the launch finally appeared —
Size crushes skill!
Moreover, this was not an issue unique to the children’s group.
Almost at the same time that Lincoln started paying attention to this issue, Camille Victoria encountered a burly player over 1.95 meters tall in a live broadcast room with millions of viewers watching!
When the two stood together, the opponent was nearly two heads taller than her and could take two of Camille Victoria’s steps in one stride!
Camille Victoria tried her best but could only watch the tall opponent’s back growing further and further away…
The impact of the size difference was too obvious!
The impact of this issue on the fairness of the race was far greater than what Lincoln had anticipated.
A solution must be found as soon as possible!
