Law of the Wasteland

October [-]th.

Taking advantage of the November holiday, the Athletic League thoughtfully encrypted the schedule, allowing wasteland fans to watch a round of the league happily during the long holiday.

So when the long holiday was over and the fourth round of the league came to an end, there was a small gap in the schedule.

The national war of Wasteland Corporation is scheduled to start on this day.

This morning, many people got up early and waited in front of the game consoles, as if waiting for the new district to open.

After eight o'clock, the white lights of the main cities in the game were overwhelming.

After the white light passed, the preliminary tasks had already been completed, and the players who appeared at various airport terminals boarded the airships dedicated to the competition.

These airships carried them to the launch site in Noah, and then the spaceships were launched one by one, sending them into space...

It lasted more than 5 minutes, and it was completely a cutscene. Players can only watch the show after choosing OK. Whether they are rushing to the battlefield immediately after finishing the task, or they are completely uninterested in the national war, it is unavoidable.

Dozens of huge anti-gravity spaceships were activated and formed a long queue, like a string of bright pearl necklaces, flying into space in an orderly manner. Every player in each region, as long as they are outdoors, their vision Open, you can see it as soon as you look up.

The start of the national war, this is a big event in the wasteland, it must be of such a large scale, although... because of various incidents, the players of the national server were distracted a lot of energy, and the number of participants in the end was far less than the game company expected .

The number of ordinary players has been affected, and there are not many game media.

But those who came still did their best to interview them.The broadcast was made soon.

In fact, there is no need to broadcast. According to the setting of Wasteland Company, the carrying capacity of an anti-gravity spaceship is 1 people.The total number of participating players can be roughly estimated by counting the number of huge spaceships reflecting sunlight in the sky.

The number of full-level players participating in the Chinese region is about 48, which is almost half of the game company's estimated scale of at least one million...

At this time, the Japanese and Korean regions are dominated by Japanese and Korean players, supplemented by players from Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Island countries, and eastern Russia.It had already entered the national theater an hour ago.

The final count of the number of participants in the war was 83.

In addition to technical and legal aspects, for the founding war.Time zones are also a big problem.

The inconvenience caused by jet lag must be compensated artificially through settings and other methods.

The current plan adopted by the Wasteland Company is the simplest and most direct one... Adjacent time zones are also adjacent to strongholds.

The Japan and South Korea region was the first to start the war, an hour later.Opened in China.The strongholds are adjacent; after another hour, the Southeast Asia region will open, just on the other side of the stronghold of the China region; after an hour and a half, it will be the India region, and then a little behind, then Europe and Africa, and finally Latin America and China. North America...and so on.

Some people may be surprised that such a distribution.Isn't it doomed that the countries at both ends of the head and tail have no chance of confrontation?Unless all the surrounding countries are defeated.Insert the entire map horizontally?

Not at all, in order to solve this problem, Wasteland Company has carefully created a map with no beginning and end.

The national war started too hastily, so many settings and details were not perfected.

Therefore, we can only adopt some flexible methods. These flexible methods are unique and cannot be copied, but at least they are enough for the first national war. As for the future... we will talk about it later!

The first national war map in the history of the wasteland - the city in the sky.

It is a cylindrical artificial giant city suspended in space, with a diameter of 100 kilometers and a height of 3 kilometers. If you cut it from one side and spread it flat, it will be a rectangular map of more than [-]xπ[-] square kilometers.

Equivalent to the size of several new districts.

But that's not all...

Suspended in space, the giant city is powered by nuclear power cores, cosmic rays, and energy from the sun.

The huge cylinder slowly rotates around the center of the cylinder to generate centrifugal force, simulating the effect of gravity and allowing people to walk freely on the inner surface of the cylinder.

However, the inner surface with a diameter of one hundred kilometers is only the first layer.

The entire cylinder with a diameter of [-] meters is not hollow, but almost solid.

Under the outer surface, there is a second outer surface, and under the second outer surface, there is a second outer surface...

The layer-by-layer structure is like an onion, and it looks like skyscrapers on the earth, from the outer surface to the centerline of the main axis of the sky city.

This is what the entire sky city is all about.

If all these spaces are spread out evenly, I am afraid that there will be hundreds of thousands, or even millions of square kilometers!

Players from various regions were carried by anti-gravity spaceships, flew all the way from their respective maps to this place, and then got into the damaged gap in the sky city and put them down.

After that, these spaceships did not go back, but stayed, assembled in situ and joined together to form a city base.

When the base is completed and the city defense appears, the entire cutscene is considered to be over.

The whole process is somewhat similar to the mission of returning to the ground at the first turn of level [-]. The difference is that there are no supply points in the field here, and there is not even a basic rough map.

Although from the outside, the Sky City looks well-rounded and seems to be easily recognizable, when you get into the interior, it starts to rotate with the Fortified City, watching the towering ancient trees on the ground emitting fluorescence, listening to the dark In the forest, the howling of beasts and birds...

The environment here is not much different from that on the ground, and it is even impossible to judge the north, south, east, and west, let alone find the enemy's camp and start the war.

The national war is not a war, but a protracted battle.

The national war zone is actually a brand-new large map, but the rules of this map are a bit special. Players from all over the world are put together to compete, and there are no too powerful npc forces.

Players have to fight here for a long time, build bases, strengthen city defenses, weaken enemies, and enrich themselves by completing daily routines until they finally win the battle.

As the hundreds of thousands of players gradually settled down, they began to walk around the main base, check various npcs, and receive daily routines.

A lot of unpublished information has also been gradually summarized by everyone—=

First of all, the national war map has the fog of war similar to the classic real-time strategy games in the past.

The player explores the map, draws a map of the terrain of the explored area, and sends it to every player participating in the battle to know that this is a skill for players with surveying and mapping skills.

However, even if the map is opened, it only shows the topography, and will not directly mark the enemy on the map, unless there are people nearby.

Terrain angle, viewing distance, detection skill level, whether it can break through invisibility... All of these will cause great differences in the intelligence within the detection range of different players.

Second, although there are all kinds of daily tasks in the main city, from building roads and bridges to felling trees, to skinning leather, mining and forging, there are all kinds of tasks, but the most profitable daily tasks... are killing people, killing people Enemy, this is a national war after all!

Thirdly, why the entire map has no border at all when entering the Sky City, and it doesn't even show where the east, west, and north are coming from.

The player didn't know it at first, but as the exploration continued, they gradually understood.

After all, this is a national war, not a classic real-time strategy game. Although there is fog of war and the map needs to be explored, the information displayed on the map is open to both sides.

Because it is ordinary people who are participating in the battle here, not the NPC of the program.

Even if everyone's patriotism is very strong, there is not a single traitor among the tens of thousands of people, and there are live broadcasts, as well as aerial photography and live broadcasts by reporters from various angles and methods...

Information can't be hidden at all, the enemy's is one's own, and one's own is the enemy's.

In this case, as long as there are east, west, north and south, and the boundaries of the map can be distinguished, it is easy to judge the enemy's position.

The national war that Wasteland Corporation wants is not a rampant and unreasonable battle between the two armies, but a real war with strategies, offensive and defensive, and worth seeing. Of course, we must try our best to avoid this from happening.

Fourth, in order to ensure the fairness of the game, the difficulty factor in the field is quite high.

Of course it is not as perverted as the third-level ban, but it is definitely stronger than the first-level ban like the master field, which is basically the level of the second-level ban.

Although there are many people participating in the battle, the unpredictable climate, super strong wild monsters, complex and changeable terrain, and the wild environment lacking supplies. Once you die, you can only resurrect these characteristics from the main base. Quite difficult to explore.

So the first thing for players is to build, build the main base, gradually crack the control system of Sky City through daily tasks, and suppress the monsters in the wild.

In other words, as the level of construction increases, the strength of wild monsters will gradually decrease.

Of course, during this process, the player's equipment strength and play skills will also gradually improve through the sharpening of wild monsters.

When the ebb and flow reaches a certain critical point, the contestants will be able to go out of the city freely. After that, the various forces will have the possibility of large-scale encounters in the wild. Before that, they can basically only develop independently.

Otherwise, it would be too embarrassing for the large group of people to rush out of the city to the local camp, and be wiped out by wild monsters halfway before reaching the destination...

And this kind of construction is the same progress of the players in the world!

Because everyone cracked the defense system of the same layer of Sky City, it is necessary to be able to offset the injustice caused by the difference in time of entry and exit.

So the first day of the national war was spent in the construction of everyone in full swing, and the siege of the city outside the city in full swing, until... (to be continued...)