The virtual empire starts from the game

Chapter 371 Help! Save Gudu Gudu Gudu (asking for monthly ticket)

Although the [Ocean Survival Competition] is an extension of the Easter egg in "Monster Hunter", the content of the competition is the responsibility of the [Black Flag] project team.

As the project leader, Lu Ming personally presided over the opening session of the competition.

He will also participate in the entire first day's hosting and commentary.

This is also one of the trends promoted by Xu Meng - project leaders should personally participate in activities and communicate and interact more with players.

Once players feel familiar and at ease with you, they will be more tolerant of your games.

If something does go wrong, players will be more patient and trust that you can fix the problem instead of just popping champagne and celebrating a good death.

If there are no problems with the game, this goodwill can also help you sell the game better.

It can be said that as long as there are no major problems with your values ​​and character, there will be no harm in having more contact with the player group.

Lu Ming fully understood and did the same.

The only problem is-

The [Black Flag] project team he led spent most of its time on serious content such as [Caribbean scenery], [marine climate], [Port Royal], [Nassau], [pirate ships], [naval battles], and [island decryption].

[Raft Survival] I didn’t really want to play this game.

——"We worked so hard to make so many pirate ship materials, but we just leave them unused and let players play with rafts??"

But Xu Meng said: This method can be used for large-scale publicity.

Lu Ming knew very well how important publicity and promotion were.

They quickly changed their minds and split off two more groups from the tight-knit group and did this according to Xu Meng's request.

Therefore, most people in the development team don’t actually know the details of this gameplay.

The same is true for Lu Ming.

So he was a little nervous.

In particular, the number of registered players is as high as more than 4800 million, and the starting method is no longer to be randomly teleported to the competition area, but everyone stands outside the competition area on a raft and waits for him to announce the start of the competition before paddling into the competition area.

——Of course, before Xu Meng completed the photon topology server array, there were only 10000 players in the same mirror server.

This is because the starting point is only the endless ocean, which puts less pressure on the server.

But 10000 people and 10000 rafts lined up together look visually boundless and extremely spectacular to the players!
As the person who announced the start of the competition, Lu Ming had to transform the Flying Dutchman pirate ship into a real "spaceship" so that all the participating players could be included in his field of vision.

Thanks to Dream's superb mirror usage skills, the pirate ship flying into the sky appears in all mirrors at the same time.

Lu Ming imitated Xu Meng's "airship speech" in the Sprawling City and stood on the edge of the deck, facing all the players and speaking:

"Welcome everyone to the [Ocean Survival Competition]!"

“Your mission is very simple - salvage materials, upgrade the raft, obtain supplies, fight crises, overcome all difficulties, and survive to the end!”

"The total number of participating players has exceeded 4800 million!"

"But there will only be 100 winners in the end!"

"These 100 players will be able to participate in the offline trial of DreamBuild's new equipment."

"At the same time, the [Black Flag] project team will also prepare a special gift for you!"

"Now, get ready, the game is about to begin!"

"Countdown—"

"10!"

The moment Lu Ming counted down, all 54 guns of the Flying Dutchman fired simultaneously.

Amid the violent explosion, white smoke drew a huge number in the sky[10].

All players in all mirrors can see this number as long as they look up.

"9!"

The pirate ship in the air fired again.

The number made of white smoke quickly changed from [10] to [9].

"8!"

There was a blast of artillery fire.

The players on the raft looked around at their opponents and began to get restless.

"7!"

Countless viewers in the live broadcast rooms across all platforms also began to count down together using barrage comments.

"6!"

Qihuahua stood on the raft, looking for players wearing blue T-shirts like herself.

She once formed a team and relied on the strategy of "surviving" to become the last survivor of the [Global Survival Competition of the Age of Chaos] and was awarded the title of [Survival Master].

Now that Dream Building has started to organize a survival competition again, she did not hesitate to continue with her previous ideas and put together a team again, hoping to replicate her previous success.

She did not take a penny of the 25 yuan bonus she had received, but distributed it all to her team members - except for the "feces thief" [Big Red Tomato] who destroyed the unity.

Not only did Dahong Shizi not get any money, he was also kicked out of the group.

With the precedent of dividing the money, Qihuahua’s character was guaranteed, and she easily got the team together again.

However, it might be difficult to find teammates this time on the sea, so they agreed on many assembly codes.

The blue T-shirt is one of them.

"5!"

"Brothers, don't be impatient! And don't push!"

"Don't capsize at the beginning!"

The heroic sniper shouted to the players around him, fearing that his raft would be broken apart.

"4!" "Brother, help me! Let's rush into the competition area together!"

"In order to not let everyone's hard work go to waste, once you enter the competition area, you guys report your card number and each person will get 300 yuan! The money will be transferred on the spot!"

Huanyue also realized the danger of the beginning and tried to spend money on the spot.

"3!"

Zhan Xiangwen, a member of the "Lord of War" project team, mingled in the player group. He was infected by the enthusiasm of the players around him and counted down loudly with everyone.

[Dream Machine] has been deployed in the company by Xu Meng. In the past few days, everyone in the company has been distracted from work and is crazy about the Dream Machine.

Not only was Xu Meng not angry, she also strongly encouraged everyone to give it a try.

As a result, quite a lot of employees who were not busy at work participated in this competition.

——Of course, like honorary players, they will not take up the 100 offline event spots.

"2!"

All players in the mirror image held their oars tightly and counted down in unison.

"1!"

The red transparent fence blocking the raft army disappeared.

A light blue band of light rose at the edge of the competition area.

The white smoke turned into colorful smoke, writing four big words "Game Start" in the sky.

Lu Ming also sent his blessings to the players:

"Game start!"

"Set sail, my friends!"

"The goddess of the sea will be with you!"
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The players who had been ready for a long time started instantly, waving their oars wildly and rushing towards the light blue light band.

But a raft is not like a car.

In the game, to drive a car you just need to determine the direction, and then step on the accelerator or brake as needed.

Even if your driving skills are not good, at least you can drive it without any problems.

But it’s different for water vehicles like rafts and boats. There is no button to accurately control the direction of travel.

While paddling, the raft not only moves forward, but also shifts to the other side.

In reality, if a person who doesn’t know how to row suddenly gets a paddle, he can easily spin in the water and collide with other boats.

The development team simplified some of the difficulty in the game, but the physical characteristics were still retained.

The result was not surprising: a group of novice rafts had not moved far before they collided with each other and were squeezed into a ball.

Exclamations came one after another:
"Give way! Give way!"

"Watch the road! We're about to get rear-ended!"

"Go away! If you come any closer I'll attack you!"

"Stop ramming! My durability has dropped by one third! If you ram again, the ship will sink!"

"Haha, I knew the tactile gloves were worth buying. The paddle can also be used as a weapon."

"I'm sorry! I didn't mean to hit you. The raft didn't obey me!"

"Someone fell into the water! Help him!"

"Save Gudugudugudu..."

……

Near the blue band of light, a large number of rafts collided with each other, quickly causing a serious marine traffic jam.

The unfortunate guy who accidentally fell into the water had just his head floated above the water and just as he shouted "Help" he was hit in the face by the raft behind him and was pushed back into the water.

Want to push away the other person's raft and regain your freedom?

too difficult!
While this large group of boats were squeezed together, new rafts kept crashing into them from behind, pushing the large group of rafts to move and collide continuously.

The durability of the rafts kept decreasing. For the worst-off people, the durability of their rafts dropped to zero before they even entered the competition area, and they broke with a crisp "crackling" sound.

If you are lucky, you can even jump onto someone else's raft.

Those with bad luck fell directly into the water and sacrificed themselves to the goddess of the sea.

After a while, as more and more rafts were squeezed together, a new problem arose -

When the raft at the back hit the rafts at the front that were crowded together, it no longer just hit them, but directly rushed onto the rafts!
This has to be said about the "little cleverness" of the [Black Flag] project team——

They anticipated that many players would not be able to row.

In order to reduce the difficulty of rowing, they modified the collision volume algorithm of the raft so that when the raft collides, the collision box is 5% smaller than it looks visually.

According to this algorithm, the area about a palm's width at the edge of the raft feels real when touched and is safe to step on.

But if they collide with each other, this area will become blurred.

It's just a visual effect, no real collision will occur.

It will only be solidified again after leaving the "model overlap" area.

They expect this to significantly reduce the probability of raft collisions.

But this "little clever idea" has now caused serious consequences -

After the raft behind hit it, due to the effect of shrinking the collision box, no collision occurred immediately, but a "penetration" phenomenon occurred first.

Then, when the collision occurred, the edge of the raft was forced to solidify, and the raft behind was lifted up.

Under the action of inertia, the raft at the back rushed towards the raft in front!
The rafts further back continued to repeat this process, stacking up layer by layer.

Even if it collapses occasionally due to a change in center of gravity, this large raft will continue to be stacked bigger and higher under the push of the continuous successors behind it!
It’s almost piled up into a temporary “island”!
(End of this chapter)