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Chapter 168: Hurry up and serve the Star Attack! I can’t wait!

The second generation of Youxuan is basically completed, and at least there should be no other changes in the hardware before it is released.

The software and built-in functions are still being improved and expanded.

Nintendo's Astro Bot 3 wasn't up to par, but the strategy of using the game as a teaching tool is a good one.

Gu Meng also asked Brother Tongzi to optimize a free mini-game, integrating some of the memes from Gu Meng's previous games. He asked Lupa and Huanshou to do the basics, and then handed it over to Brother Tong.

They are now a jack of all trades, especially Lupa, who can do almost any job.

Moreover, they both have very long energy bars. Although Gu Meng feels it is not very humane to advise them not to work too hard, he feels that they are already capable of doing the work of a real 007.

It shouldn't be a sudden death, probably.

To outsiders, they may now look almost the same as when they first met Gu Meng, having completely surpassed ordinary people.

The networking and social aspects of the second generation of Youxuan will also be handed over to them in the future. Previously, the first generation of Youxuan basically communicated with friends through voice typing. At best, the deluxe version of the first generation of Youxuan could chat with a person's virtual image, but it was also very distorted.

In some ways, it is far less convenient than using a mobile phone outside.

Later on, everyone will have a realistic projection, and the game pods will be better, although they still won't be fully synchronized.

For example, facial expressions basically only include joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness, and it is easy to make very exaggerated expressions.

Because the body is in a sleeping state in the stealth game, the faces scanned in reality are expressionless, and it would be too much effort to use consciousness to direct the character's expression.

The reason is that the computing power is not high enough and the depth is not deep enough.

If it is deep enough, the player can use his subconscious mind to merge with the virtual image's skin, and he won't have to think about controlling it. He can use it however he wants, just like his real body.

It is not 100% simulated now, and the feeling is very different from face-to-face communication. A few words with familiar people can make you understand the difference between face-to-face and offline communication.

People who are particularly familiar with you may even experience the happy bean effect and feel a little scared.

Gu Meng asked Brother Tongzi to try his best to weaken this terrifying feedback, and not to make it too realistic or even counterproductive before it was completely simulated.

Also, don't use AI to interpret character settings and then automatically generate details and expressions, like in games like Captain China and Football Fire that rely heavily on interpretation. Don't use that.

Using that language to communicate between players is too fake. Now it’s a bit too much to just wear masks and use AI to make expressions to act like puppets.

But despite the inconvenience, the overall experience should be closer, like seeing friends from all over the world chatting right next to you.

A certain degree of interaction is also possible.

You can even eat together. Gu Meng simply set up several specific foods for the second generation's basic taste stimulation. Although they are also a bit subtle, at first taste, they have that flavor...

If I continue to develop it, I can make a food game, where people can eat as much as they want in the game, things that ordinary people can’t afford in real life.

The painting style suddenly became cyberpunk, the rich ate real food, the ordinary people ate virtual meal replacements, and everyone had a bright future——

However, that kind of speculation is basically malicious. In reality, there are many people who just rely on others to get what they want.

A meal that costs thousands or even tens of thousands of yuan per person is not affordable for ordinary people, and they cannot even afford it. If such a game can really be made, at least everyone can experience it and try something fake.

And you can lose weight without gaining weight.

The temptation of junk food is too strong nowadays. If Gu Meng can use virtual meal replacements to lose weight, it will be a great deed.

One thing is that as technology continues to develop and the degree of realism becomes higher and higher, some people will really not be able to distinguish between reality and virtuality.

Sometimes when Gu Meng is working on this, he wonders what people will do with fully realistic infiltration technology in the future. I'm really looking forward to it.

Maybe the ideas are similar to those of people who worked on AI in previous lives. The development of these technologies will definitely bring about a lot of changes, with both good and bad effects.

The Industrial Revolution and the sheep eating people and all that, but these things must always be promoted. If he doesn't do it, others will. The technology in this area in the parallel world is much stronger than in the previous life. If he doesn't develop stealth games, the United States will have developed it within ten years.

As a game developer, Gu Meng could only try his best to communicate with Guo Jia and let them think about how to deal with the impact of new technologies.

The relationship has actually always been quite close. When Gu Meng was traveling before, there were conspiracy theories in the outside world because of the incident with the Chinese captain.

In fact, Chunchun was taking the blame, and it had nothing to do with Guo Jia. Gu Meng didn't dare to go back to Youxuan because of the metaphysical thing like the star of misfortune.

During this period, they did issue any statements or announcements, "I went out voluntarily, no one banned me from playing big games, I really went out voluntarily."

It's useless. The more I think about it, the more I feel like there's a conspiracy.

Gu Meng: You’re crazy.

Well, now I’m finally back to Youxuan, and nothing happened, just like before, there is definitely no power grab or anything like that.

When the outside world saw You Xuan's current reaction, some people finally thought that there might really be nothing wrong before, and Gu Meng really volunteered.

A big win for the tourism hypothesis.

Of course, there are still some people who think that he was released from prison and they gave him face by not saying it out loud, or that he found a new backer or something.

Players can't change this kind of conspiracy theory, so let them think about it.

Come to think of it, after that fate is completed and he comes back, it is still beneficial to have more subordinates. Many of Gu Meng's abilities can only be used after seeing them with one's own eyes.

For example, the division of labor, etc., he had not seen it in person before, and with remote control, Gu Meng could only mention it roughly, and also avoid the connection between them. Now, just a glance at what he wants to do can almost directly determine the success rate, time, direction, and how to solve possible problems.

Even for some very metaphysical jobs without specific requirements, he can tell whether the person is reliable just by seeing it with his own eyes.

Being in Youxuan is like going home. Cthulhu returned to his loyal R'lyeh, and felt a sense of ease as if everything was going smoothly for him.

Gu Meng also asked Momoka to make some funny emoticons, which were then used in communication between the second-generation players of Youxuan.

Before, he used a helmet to talk to people, and his expressions were few when he spoke face to face, so he always felt like something was missing.

Then I remembered that I was missing some emoticons. One set could make a virtual portrait appear above your head, and some default emoticons could be used as replacements for exaggerated expressions.

Now that we can’t simulate reality, we go for a comedic style, which is also quite fun.

This kind of emoticon package can also be launched online in Youxuan 1 later, to test the waters first.

In the beginning, it was difficult to play online in the first generation of Youxuan, but by the time of Darkest Dungeon 3, it could support a group of up to five people.

How can we communicate within the team without emoticons? Let’s update the version and introduce a batch of cartoon-style emoticons.

Gu Mengting rarely updates his works, and basically every time he releases one, it is a complete version.

In fact, the more popular strategy is to constantly update to maintain popularity, preferably letting players play for several years before reaching the end, so as to make more money. There is also the early access version, which many large companies have launched.

Gu Meng didn't do it, because every time the game in which the system participated was repaired, it would require continuous krypton gold recharge based on the previous participation level, and the index would be upgraded. Even if he had money, he couldn't spend it like this.

Others make money by updating frequently, but Gu Meng is asking for trouble by updating frequently.

It is also for this reason that if Gu Meng really wants to make a PC or mobile online game that requires constant version updates, he will try to reduce the system participation rate to less than 10% from the beginning.

It would be better to just let the employees do it, just like Uma Musume and Bon Bon, Gu Meng has never used the system.

The upgrades of Youxuan 2 are mainly in the aspects of realism and sensory feedback, abnormal acceptance, and worldview stability.

Because the degree of realism takes up more computing power, the degree of connectivity is estimated to require less data to form a team with more people.

For high-fidelity games that require a lot of data, a team of two or three is enough.

The gaming cabin may add more.

If we want to make a large-scale stealth online game like Earth OL in the future, we will definitely have to wait until new equipment with completely evolved technology is available. By then, we will have to use less Tongzi Ge's optimization when making games.

……

On the other hand, unlike Gu Meng, who did not place too much importance on "Darkest Dungeon 3", he just thought of it as a transitional product that could temporarily meet the expectations of players, and his mind was full of thoughts about the future.

Rennie regards Darkest Dungeon 3 as a strong enemy.

Thinking darkly, Gu Meng, who hasn't returned to Youxuan for so long, may have internal disputes that have not been resolved. Factions in large companies are all like this, with power struggles, rebellion and so on.

If it were a giant in Japan, it would be a blessing if the people below didn't rebel directly after the president disappeared and lost contact for such a long time. No matter how high his prestige was, there would be some turmoil.

Then they rushed out a new stealth game, which had only been in development for a short while. It was too rushed. They had fully felt how difficult stealth games were to make in the past three years.

too difficult.

Another thing is that the reputation of "Darkest Dungeon 2" itself is worse than that of "Darkest Dungeon 1". It stands to reason that if sequels are released frequently, and the reputation is worse than 2 to 1, then 3 should be even worse.

When the result really appeared, I felt something was wrong. Why was the degree of completion so high?

Especially the feeling of stuffing it with so much stuff, the taste is too strong.

Although it is indeed not a masterpiece, it is not the same as the best development imagined where Gu Meng fell from the altar.

Rennie could only do some marketing first, at least to influence the reputation in the early stage, and then hurriedly launched their masterpiece, "Starry Sky Special Attack", which was feared by the industry and the first large-scale stealth game launched by someone other than Youxuan.

At this stage, the Youxuan Forum inevitably discussed "Star Attack" which was going to compete with Gu Meng.

By the way, when Gu Meng was away, Wu Mengyou took advantage of the advantages of the game, Gu Meng, Xiaozhi, Xiao Subaru and other talented producers, and discussed all kinds of true and false information, official game information and strategies, mod resource modifiers...

Keeping up with hot topics and revelations from the uncle party from time to time, of course, the main reason is that the management team including Wu Mengyou has already been developed by Gu Meng to an extraordinary level.

As an innate SR, Wu Mengyou had long been fed the Holy Grail and turned into an acquired SSR.

The management team also has gold cards. Gu Meng just values ​​talents in making games more. In fact, the department with the most gold cards in the company is the management team headed by Wu Mengyou. All the smart people go to do this. There are quite a few innate half-step SR gold-plated cards. When there are too many gold cards, it feels like they have little value.

Moreover, the world is a huge makeshift team. Someone may be very smart, but he or she may not play a positive role in the team, and it may be difficult to compete with You Xuan's team.

In this world of bad things, Wu Mengyou, who has never made a mistake, has turned Youxuan's forum into the largest forum website in the country.

Gu Meng: Mother Wu, MVP! I won without any effort.

Wu Mengyou was grinning on the outside but secretly swearing: MVP your mother! I'm almost losing my hair, get the hell out of here!

I originally wanted to become the boss's wife and curry favor with the secretary, but in the end I became the boss!
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A player who had their interest in the game rekindled after watching the PV of the girl who played the game said: "Please bring out 'Star Wars' soon, I can't wait."

"I hope the old nun has some idea of ​​what we want to do."

"After Big Sun ascended to heaven, no one cared about the Dragon King. He's still too serious and has never made a breakthrough. Even in Liao Zhai, they were in love, but it was just a brief taste. What's the big deal? What we want is to absorb my yang energy. Do you understand?"

"The old nun should understand, otherwise such a coquettish beauty wouldn't have suddenly appeared. I hope I can... hehehe..."

"You're overthinking it. I'm also a big company, I wouldn't do that... But I really think that big companies can do it too. Don't let us doubt your Japanese XP, hurry up and bring up the 18+."

Pessimists: "It's for all ages, forget it. Also, I doubt this game has good intentions. Look, there's only one character who's been re-skinned, and the others are all amazing. And is she really the protagonist? Don't use any smoke and mirrors."

"Anything they can change is a good direction. They won't ignore the players' voices. It will get better and better in the future."

"It's hard to say. They won't turn back until they hit the wall. They won't listen to us. They only panic when they really don't make money. Now that Rennie's first generation has been released, the stock price has skyrocketed. They don't care at all. There are many examples of people who still find excuses after hitting the wall and never turn back, not to mention he hasn't hit the wall yet."

"Isn't Japan that crazy?"

"No, although this game is under the Nintendo brand, it's an authentic American game. For example, it's even more distant than the relationship between Moth Factory and Hero Tribe. Although Moth Factory is already an angel investor who doesn't really care, Nintendo's remote control is even further away."

"I see. The son controls the father, right?"

"Yes, that's what I mean. Ordinary games are one thing now, but the influence of top-tier games is growing, and it's hard not to be affected by other factors."

"Indeed, I used to have a lot of fun playing games, but I don't know when all these weird things started to appear, and the game characters are getting uglier and uglier."

"If it was the King of Understanding who was in power before, I think Star Attack would have been changed long ago, and they wouldn't have had to wait until the end to change to a poster girl."

"I still don't understand why Emperor Ha was able to take the throne. I feel really bad."

"Let the ghost soldiers count the votes, alas."

"What ghost soldiers? I think this is also a kind of freedom and confidence. When will we..."

"Identification completed, the person above is a complete idiot"

“He may not be an idiot, he may be paid.”

“I miss the internet environment when Trump was around”

"He's not a good guy, actually."

A 30-year-old Rennie fan said: "Let's talk about games. Why are you talking so much? I still have confidence. The world has been suffering from the game for a long time. The monopoly of one company has opened the door to infiltration of the game. It's true, but it's only one step ahead. Rennie will definitely be able to break the monopoly and slay the evil dragon Gu Meng!"

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(End of this chapter)