Agreed to make bad games, What the Hell is Titan Fall 94
by adminChapter 94: I’m Shudao Mountain!
‘This is too damn cool!’
‘What kind of crazy game is this, where’s the morality, where’s the bottom line, where’s the demo version, and where’s the full release?’
‘Your mom… she’s definitely going to live a long life!’
‘What is this ‘drainage ditch cornering’ thing?’
‘Put on the enemy’s clothes and bury yourself.’
‘Be careful next time, my forty-meter-long sword is not easy to retract.’
‘Isn’t this game just a slaughter?’
‘It’s going wild, this trailer is out, scalpers’ ancestors are going to be smoking!’
‘At first, I thought the Korean game was pretty good, but now I’m seeing… Tsk tsk…’
‘Being beaten to the ground…’
‘HAHAHAHAHAHA Just checked the foreign websites, Japanese netizens are already celebrating the downfall of the ‘Sun’s Descendants’.’
‘The little devils are really mean, they know their baseball hero has no chance of winning, so they go and irritate the neighboring Korea.’
‘I’m going to die laughing!’
‘The suspense is gone, PUBG will not win, and the Asian Competition Association will not be held.’
‘Ah, ah, ah, ah! Just thinking about it, I have to wait another week to play PUBG, my whole body feels like ants crawling all over it…’
‘…’
BOOM!
As soon as this trailer came out!
Streamers exploded, players exploded, media exploded.
Shen Miao Miao also exploded!
“What the hell is going on?!”
The next day!
Shen Miao Miao got up in the morning, just opened her phone, and was hit with a brick!
She saw!
On her phone’s notifications, densely packed, from Little Black Box to Player Bonfire, from Daily Tour Report to China Esports, even Tabtab, the platform focusing on mini-games and mobile games, all had released push notifications about *PUBG*!
Shen Miao Miao was shocked.
Sure, *PUBG* did grab everyone’s attention at the Asian Competition Association opening ceremony five months ago, attracting cheers from countless media and players on site, and also won the Most Anticipated Game Award.
Shen Miao Miao was somewhat prepared for the explosion of PUBG’s popularity.
But…
It’s too damn popular, right?!
Look!
Look at what these licking dog media are saying:
Little Black Box: *MFGA Forever Strong! PUBG – A Game That Once Again Reshapes the World’s Perception of FPS!*
Player Bonfire: *The Outcome Has Lost Suspense, Players from Other Countries Can Start Preparing for the PUBG Tournament*
Daily Tour Report: *Supernova Ignites! GoldenSam Strikes Again, PUBG Shocks Asia!*
China Esports: *”I Can’t Even Get Through a Day This Week!” – PUBG Office Interview After the Trailer Release*
Licking, licking crazily!
Blowing, blowing with their lives!
Shen Miao Miao’s scalp was numb!
What? Wasn’t there 25 game trailers released simultaneously last night? Why is it that now the other 24 games have dropped out of the competition like they are all gone?
Did Lao Gu take down all those game companies overnight?
PUBG reports are everywhere!
And not a single person said anything bad about it, they’re all madly praising it!
“He—tui!”
“Disgusting!”
“Disgusting!”
The media’s shameless praise made Shen Miao Miao beat her chest and stomp her feet!
But luckily!
The game is still just a framework, a basic structure!
After a moment of madness, Shen Miao Miao knew there was no hope of reversing the heated public opinion, so she could only sigh and comfort herself with the “poor game quality” card.
Actually, it’s not that the game quality is bad.
After all, from conception to completion, Lao Gu and his team only had five months and fifty million yuan.
The weak game quality is to be expected.
The time was tight, the task was heavy, and the budget was low.
Plus, at the beginning of the project, she had caused a ruckus in the project department, directly stripping Lao Gu of his authority and encouraging the employees’ desire to not work overtime.
With morale low, Lao Gu’s team became even harder to manage.
“Sigh…”
Shen Miao Miao sighed with guilt.
Thinking about it, she felt a little sorry for Lao Gu.
He was thinking about the company, but he got stuck with a bad-egg CEO like her, constantly dragging her company down.
Thinking of this, Shen Miao Miao clasped her hands together, as if praying, but also as if apologizing to Gu Sheng:
“Let me lose a million, let me lose a million. This is to replenish the company’s small treasury,”
“Next time, let’s make a mini-game, Lao Gu, I’ll give you the maximum authority, do whatever you want, I won’t stop you, it’s considered compensation for you,”
“Please, God, next time, next time…”
After a round of muttering!
Shen Miao Miao finally found some psychological comfort, but she still wasn’t completely at ease.
So she went to the company to see how much the finished product quality differed from the trailer.
She also watched the *PUBG* trailer, and had to admit, it did have a powerful effect on players.
After all, who could resist the temptation to be one in a hundred, to stand on a mountain of corpses, and to be crowned king?
But!
Shen Miao Miao also knew that a game’s trailer is usually unreliable.
Sometimes, the quality of the trailer and the actual game content quality are inversely proportional.
Because those games need the trailer to create anticipation for players, they need a cool trailer to attract sales.
Lao Gu was such a cunning person, Shen Miao Miao didn’t doubt for a second that he would do this.
Although this might lead to the game being criticized by players in the short term because the product doesn’t match the hype.
But as she said before, *PUBG* isn’t a one-time deal, they will definitely update it later.
After a week, when she got her commission and the company had money to pay overtime, they could have the project department fix it, and they would be able to recover their reputation.
Based on this consideration!
Shen Miao Miao felt that Lao Gu’s trailer was most likely a “big cake.”
“Let’s see how much filling is in this big cake…”
Thinking this, Shen Miao Miao arrived at the company, pushed open the door to her office, drank some water, and couldn’t wait to push her own sensory pod out of her office.
Yes, she had her own sensory pod.
And because she was one of the company’s top executives (duh), her sensory pod equipment included the official version of *PUBG*.
Of course, to prevent sneak peeks, only she and Gu Sheng had this official version in their sensory pods in the entire company.
Try it!
Starting the sensory pod, Shen Miao Miao lay down inside.
Cht—
As the sensory pod door closed, brainwave synchronization technology was activated, and Shen Miao Miao entered the game.
First up, a simple face-making system. Shen Miao Miao chose the initial female character, then selected “Start Game” in the top left corner of the preparation interface.
After all, she came to experience the game, so face-making was just casual.
The next second, everything went black.
The roar of the engine, accompanied by the whistling wind, rang in her ears.
Then, a strong gust of air rushed towards her, Shen Miao Miao felt like she was thrown onto a windy cliff, the rapid airflow almost made her feel like she was suffocating!
Wait?!
Shen Miao Miao’s heart skipped a beat!
Why do I have this bad feeling?
She could feel the airflow, which means that this game has introduced the “full sense system,” which was regrettably absent in their previous work, *Survival Road*. Originally, there was no problem with this.
*Survival Road* had a ten million yuan investment, *PUBG* had a fifty million yuan investment, although they both had “Survival” in their names, the total investment was five times the difference, so it was normal for the new game to introduce a full sense system.
But what wasn’t normal was—
How did they calibrate the full sense system to be so realistic?
You see!
The full sense system is easy to introduce, money is all that matters.
But calibration is a big project!
It’s like playdough, it’s easy to buy a box of playdough, but it’s not something you can just do in a few minutes to mold it into a Venus de Milo with a broken arm!
This requires a lot of human resources and time resources!
Although!
Five months is more than enough time to calibrate airflow full sense effects.
But don’t forget, this is just one of the most insignificant details in the overall experience of the game!
It’s like ordering a steak, theoretically, half an hour is enough time for the chef to sear the steak to perfection.
But when the steak comes out, you see a marigold sculpted from a yellow carrot in the plating!
It’s just a plating decoration!
The chef even had time to carve it.
Then, is the quality of the steak definitely not bad?
Or is it putting the cart before the horse?
The main course steak is left aside, half an hour was spent just carving the flower?
Shen Miao Miao didn’t believe that Gu Sheng, as a supernova game designer, could make such a brain-dead move.
Which means…
The next second, Shen Miao Miao opened her eyes, facing the gust of wind!
She saw!
Right now!
She was standing at the door of the cargo hold of a transport plane!
Before her were clouds flowing like water, and beneath the clouds was a dizzying height!
The roar of the plane rang in her ears, the strong airflow hit her face, almost making her unable to open her eyes.
She glanced around, and saw men and women wearing tank tops and shorts, just like her, standing at the cargo hold door, peering down.
And as the plane continued to move, there were occasional prisoners who jumped out of the plane and unfolded their parachutes in the air.
For a moment, under the plane’s air flow, white parachutes bloomed one after another, a thrilling battle royale had begun!
Me!!!
Ah???
Shen Miao Miao’s pupils shook.
This delicate picture, this perfect calibration of the full sense system, these AI players who act as if they are alive…
You call this “an unrefined basic framework”?!
That’s not right!
Twenty-five out of ten is wrong!
Shen Miao Miao gulped down a mouthful of nervous saliva!
A numb feeling on her scalp made Shen Miao Miao tremble involuntarily.
She thought to herself: Steady! Steady, Shen Miao Miao! This is just the beginning! Lao Gu is an experienced designer, he must have put most of his energy into the opening jump scene! Because only in this way can he bring the players a shocking first experience, thereby hiding the shortcomings of the actual game process!
Thinking this!
Shen Miao Miao took a deep breath!
“It must be—”
She took two steps back, then sprinted forward and jumped off the plane towards the dizzying height:
“This is—!”
“How did they make this so realistic?”
“Damn it! How do I open my parachute?”
The moment she jumped out of the plane!
Shen Miao Miao felt the full sense system calibration, which was so detailed that it reached the core of her being!
The sensation of weightlessness, accompanied by the whistling wind in her ears, almost instantly boosted her adrenaline!
The intense stimulation made her legs feel weak.
The anxiety and trembling in Shen Miao Miao’s heart intensified!
Because!
Objectively speaking, the whole game, never mind anything else, just the parachute experience alone, seemed to be worth the 98 yuan ticket!
God bless, this game is terrible!
Shen Miao Miao silently prayed in her heart, then found the opening ring of the parachute, pulled it with both hands!
Whoosh!
She finally managed to open her parachute before she turned into a pancake…
“Whew…”
Shen Miao Miao took a deep breath and landed softly on the ground.
And with a soft “Shooosh,” the parachute that spread out behind her was automatically retracted.
After all, this is a game, it’s normal to have some superpowers.
Doing a roll to break the fall, Shen Miao Miao landed at the entrance of a factory, she could hear footsteps coming from behind, so she turned her head.
“Damn!”
With a cry, she saw that three or four AIs had also landed with her and were now running towards the factory!
Shen Miao Miao looked at the AI, who looked like wolves and tigers, and then looked at the pistol on the cargo box at the entrance of the factory, then turned and ran towards the factory!
“My—”
With a roar, Shen Miao Miao dashed out, with a thud, she bumped into the box, grabbed the pistol and started fumbling to load it!
Meanwhile, the AI in the front had already reached her, jumped up, and swung his fist towards her!
The fist, the size of a sandbag, with its heavy pressure, was reflected in Shen Miao Miao’s frightened big eyes.
In a flash!
Bang!!!
The trigger was pulled!
The bullet flew out of the barrel with a tail of smoke, a jet of blood spurted out of the AI’s chest!
But the pistol damage was limited, even without the protection of armor, Shen Miao Miao’s P92 shot to the chest only dealt 37.4 damage.
So, the punch still landed on her face!
Thud!
Shen Miao Miao instinctively felt a numb sensation on her cheek, and her whole body staggered back half a step!
With the full sense system, the punch didn’t hurt much, but it was extremely humiliating!
The next second!
A roar echoed from the sensory pod!
“My hot-blooded bastard! Even my old man dares not slap me! You die for me—!!!”
Bang bang!
Bang bang bang bang bang—!!!
The semi-automatic pistol roared like exploding beans, one after another!
In no time!
Blood splattered in the factory, three corpses lay across the floor!
Shen Miao Miao stepped on the male corpse who had punched her, threw out the magazine, and pressed a new magazine full of bullets into the chamber!
Click!
Bang bang bang bang!
The gun was pointed at the corpse, emptying the magazine!
Looking at the two AIs at the factory entrance, they were completely stunned!
Shooosh—
Kicking the mangled corpse away, Shen Miao Miao, with her bold and fierce attitude, took a step forward and roared at the two AIs outside the door:
“Look at your mother selling sesame cakes! Get lost!”
“I’m Shudao Mountain—!!!”
Whoosh whoosh!
Before the little bald bully could start counting.
The next second, the two AIs disappeared as if they had heard human speech, running faster than a rabbit!
Seeing this!
Shen Miao Miao laughed with her arms akimbo!
“WAHAHAHAHA—!爽—!!!”
Too good!
This kind of passionate and exciting fight is indeed thrilling!
Especially when she got the gun and fought back, it was instantly refreshing, the feeling of pleasure shot straight to the top of her head!
Laughing, Shen Miao Miao tucked the pistol into her waistband:
“Haha, I didn’t expect, this game is actually so fun…”
But only half-way through the sentence!
The next second!
The smile froze on her face!
What?
Wait!
卧槽!
How come I’m still grinning like an idiot and giggling like this?!
This game—
Something’s not right!!!
(End of Chapter)
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