While Chu Guang was busy counting his spoils, the official forum of Wasteland OL was very lively.
It had been silent for a whole winter.
The chaos from the north had been harassing the southern border of the River Valley Province.
And today, a hearty epic victory instantly dispelled all the dark clouds!
[Announcement for the whole server: Operation Spring Thunder was victorious]
[The battle report has been announced and sent to the player's personal mailbox and the VM in the game at the same time. ]
[Due to the large amount of supplies seized in the battle, the food supply has returned to normal. The "Wartime Regulations" ended ahead of schedule, and the restricted resource items were reopened for purchase. All players who participated in the battle, in addition to contribution points and regional reputation, will receive an additional +5 favorability of NPCs such as Guo Niu, Guo Ma, Luca, and Wrench. ]
[New facilities added to Changjiu Farm: two 100mm howitzers. ]
[Guang: Thank you for your active participation. This battle provided us with valuable data. The production of Apha 1.0 has entered the final stage and will be released together with the new expansion pack, so stay tuned! ]
Tail: "Oh!!"
Quit smoking: "Mosquito is awesome! Of course, the planner is awesome too!"
Fang Chang: "Too strong, no, it should be said that it is too cruel!"
Night Ten: "Mosquito said with tears in his eyes, eight versions, from bloody hands to chewing bones, he finally became MVP. (funny)"
WC really has mosquitoes: "Goblin Technology now launches new products! 88mm mortar! And 'Hell Breath' diesel-powered motorcycle! Consume 15 kilograms of wood per 100 kilometers, very useful!"
Irena: "There is an advertisement here, please block it. (funny)"
Yaer I want to go to the toilet: "Damn, am I not awesome? I blew up 7 vehicles! And scared one to death!"
Edge paddling: "Our team blew up a tank. (squinting smile)"
Canyon Fleeing Mole: "Our team killed the centurion!"
Midnight Killing Chicken: "I have 20 heads."
Fountain Commander: "What's the use? The kill points are not high! Do you two have more points than our team?"
Teng Teng: "Everyone is very good, don't quarrel. QAQ"
Ye Shi: "You don't understand, this is their way of bragging. (funny)"
Ya Ya: "When I save enough power armor, I will go to the front with you!"
I am the darkest: "You are more cowardly than the fountain. (Shocked)"
Fountain Commander: "How can I cowardly! (Angry)"
Not only the players are happy, but also the tens of thousands of cloud players who are queuing.
A two-minute video and twenty original paintings and game CGs.
And it is actually shot for demonstration!
Isn't this much better than the cake drawn by EA? !
Riding a donkey to go to the market: "Alas, if the actual game screen can be half of the promotional PV, I will die without regrets."
Irena: "The closed beta player tells you responsibly that the promotional PV is only half of the actual game screen. (Funny)"
Only Mo Bu Ganna can't: "Please don't test it, it's already complete, I want to play a semi-finished product, begging for a chance to be a tool man."
Silver Hand: "Is the production team short of money? Consider crowdfunding?"
Silver Sword: "Do you need venture capital?"
Professor Yang, the King of Thunder and Lightning: "Such an awesome technology is recommended to be listed directly."
A bag of rice is carried on several floors: "By the way, the actual game screen is so exciting, won't it be okay?"
Potatoes in Siberia: "That's right, what if I have a heart attack?"
Kuangfeng: "I heard that this helmet seems to use dream imaging technology, which is completely different from traditional visual imaging technology. Simply put, the pictures you see in the game are probably the same as what you dream about. There will not be too obvious sensory stimulation in places that exceed your tolerance. This stimulation includes pain and various physiological levels... Although I have not found any literature after searching for a long time, they just did it."
Ye Shi: "Shelter Technology is so terrifying. (Funny)"
Professor Yang, the King of Thunder and Lightning: "If you don't understand, just ask, can you do bad things in the game?"
Lao Bai: "Currently, the only camp that players can choose is the Lawful Camp. It can be regarded as an orthodox M-touch RPG, but the playability and freedom are still much better than the mass-produced skin-changing fast food on the assembly line. You can feel that the NPCs in it are alive. They have their own unique moral values and likes and dislikes. You can do whatever you want as long as it does not affect other people's gaming experience."
Ye Aonai Wohe: "Laughing, what's the point? I just like the Imperial City PK, cheating and crashing the server. Rubbish game, dogs don't even make reservations!"
Kuangfeng: "A hot piece of knowledge, there is no game in this world that can be liked by seven billion people, even Doudizhu. (side eye)"
Yeshi: "Touch the dog head of Brother Yeao, come back soon, the group will be half less happy without you. (funny)"
Brother Yeao didn't do a good job this time, everyone said that his fighting power was too weak, and he was soon drowned in the replies.
But it's also normal.
Even if it's a pet, it's impossible to be in good condition every day.
After counting the spoils, Chu Guang browsed the forum and found that 90% of the posts in the gossip section were discussing the two-minute PV.
From the launch of rockets to the charge under the whistle, the camera switched between the perspectives of the drone and the players, and the shocking light and shadow effects were like a real battlefield.
For the more exciting scenes, the drone controlled by Xiaoqi gave a few close-ups.
For example, the awakened power player carried a machine gun like Rambo and shot out from the billowing smoke.
Another example is the cannon bursts on the charging tracked vehicle, harvesting the marauder's armored pickup truck.
By the way.
The video was edited by Xiaoqi according to the style of Chu Guang's last promotional PV.
As for the BGM, it was also copied from the radio.
Although "The Voice of Boulder City" talks nonsense for 20 hours a day, it occasionally inserts some useful information and nice music in the nonsense.
At present, the BGM has been added to the official soundtrack, which can be listened to online or downloaded and saved. It has been well received by many netizens, who have expressed their desire to know who the composer is.
However.
What does this have to do with planning?
A Guang is just a small game planner, you should go find the music director.
...
The next day.
Before it was completely light, more than 200 prisoners of war lined up in a long line at the gate of Changjiu Farm.
They wore dirty old fur clothes, shackles on their ankles, and their faces were either depressed or terrified.
Or numbness and despair.
Two tracked trucks with machine guns welded on the roof drove beside the team.
In addition, there were 20 guards carrying arbitrator rifles and PU-9 submachine guns hanging around their waists, standing around the team.
Walking in front of the team, a guard with a beard and an old look, looked around the prisoners, and spoke in a loud voice.
"The crimes you committed in the Valley Province are enough for you to be hanged ten times."
"But the kind administrator believes that slaughtering prisoners is an unjust act, and your blood will stain this land, so you are spared."
"You will go to the labor camp, where you will be reformed by labor, reclaim the wasteland north of Linghu Lake, build irrigation canals, and anything useful to this society... until you pay for your crimes with labor."
"Fifty years in prison is a long sentence, but you can be commuted if you behave well."
"Now, let's go."
Fifty years.
Most people can't live that long.
In the wasteland, forty years old is considered longevity.
Only residents living in shelters or some wealthy survivor settlements can live longer.
But the phrase "good performance can reduce the sentence" still brings a little comfort to many desperate people, or the motivation to live.
Even if no one tells them what the criteria for reducing the sentence are and how much it can be reduced.
The team started on the road.
They need to cut enough wood before dark to build the prisoner-of-war camp.
Otherwise, they can only sleep in the snow tonight.
Vides and Kevin stood on the side of the road, looking at the team on the road with blank eyes.
The two of them who were incorporated into the team had no hope for their future life.
But unexpectedly, they were just incorporated into the team and were driven out by a guard with a gun.
Kevin asked nervously in a low voice.
"What do they want to do?"
"I don't know..." Just as Vides said this, he suddenly saw a familiar face walking towards them.
When he saw that person, Vides was stunned for a moment, and then a look of surprise appeared on his face.
"Vanus?"
Vanus's face was full of emotion.
"I didn't expect to see you here."
The two graduated from the same military academy and knew each other when they were students.
After graduation, Vanus went directly to the front line as a centurion because of his excellent grades and outstanding performance in the academy, and served as a grassroots officer, while Vides joined the Youth Corps and started his military career as a recruit.
Due to the eastward strategy of the Corps, the two joined the expeditionary force and fought against the people of the Great Rift Valley under the command of General Kras. Later, Vides's unit suffered a disastrous defeat and his whereabouts were unknown. Vanus thought that this guy was dead, but he didn't expect that he was still alive.
What he didn't expect was that their reunion was in such a dramatic form.
After listening to what Vanus had been up to in the past few months, Vides smiled bitterly.
"No wonder... you're here. It seems that Black Snake, that idiot, deserved to lose."
These people not only successfully predicted their plans strategically, but also accurately avoided their vanguards tactically, ambushed them in unexpected places and attacked their rear, creating incredible results.
Even though they lost, Vides couldn't help but admire them.
However, after seeing Vanus, he was relieved.
They all graduated from the same classroom, and were even taught by the same teacher.
He knew all the tactics that I knew, and he could basically think of everything that I could think of. This battle was indeed difficult to fight.
Vanus: "I didn't command this battle, and I didn't defeat you. I just made some suggestions on deployment. But you're right. You deserved to lose. Six hundred-man teams were sent ahead to explore the way, and the supply convoy followed the armored forces. And the battle line was stretched so long... What on earth were you thinking?"
Seeing Vanus looking at him strangely, Vides said angrily.
"Do you think I want this?"
"I risked being thrown into the frying pan and reminded that idiot more than once that winter march was a wrong decision, but no one listened to me."
Kevin, who was standing aside, also nodded and said with a constipated expression.
"It's not just this that's outrageous. We learned about the arrangement to march into Qingquan City in the early morning of the 1st, and before we asked what the plan was, the vanguard had already set off. During this period, we didn't hold a combat meeting. The black snake seemed to pat his head and decided to all in. Even the route to take was decided after the supplies were packed."
The main force left at noon on the 1st, the war ended in the evening of the 2nd, and the construction of the prisoner-of-war camp began on the 3rd. A shed should be built before tonight.
Kevin has never fought such a frustrating battle.
He would rather die on the northern front.
At least losing to a powerful opponent would make his death more decent.
After listening to the deeds of the two, Vanus couldn't help but show a trace of sympathy on his face.
He tried to put himself in the position of the two and found that this battle was indeed impossible to fight.
With such a stupid commander, even if he were to be a staff officer, the final result would probably be the same.
"I have a rough idea of the situation... but did you two run into the plunderer's tribe?"
Vides and Kevin looked at each other and shook their heads.
"I don't know. We met the plunderers when we were retreating south. Our leader decided to join them, so we joined them."
Kevin continued.
"I heard... they seem to be planning to establish a plunderer's kingdom in the River Valley Province, but I don't know about other things."
Plunderer's kingdom?
What is that?
A huge tribe?
Vanus couldn't imagine what a strange picture that was, let alone how they were going to achieve it. This plan sounded outrageous enough.
"What about you?" Vides looked at Vanus and continued to ask, "Are you their staff officer now? Or?"
Vanus was stunned and said.
"Me? I am also their captive, but they allow me to train new soldiers for them instead of paying the ransom."
Vides looked at him eagerly.
"Ransom? How much?"
Vanus said with an ambiguous expression.
"One million dinars, and that was the price last year. I don't know how much it is now. I advise you to give up."
The two of them took a breath.
One million!
Even if they sold all their property, they couldn't raise so much money!
"... Is the job of training new soldiers still recruiting?"
"Brother, help us."
Facing two pairs of pleading eyes, Vanus said embarrassedly.
"I'll ask for you... but I can't guarantee it. I can only say I'll try my best."
Vides said excitedly.
"Thank you!"
Vanus said in a tone of advice.
"Those blue coats didn't send you to the labor camp. They must have something to ask you. You should cooperate well and tell them everything you know. Don't hide it or make up stories. They won't make it too difficult for you."
The two said immediately.
"Don't worry!"
"We will tell you everything we know!"
Vanus nodded with relief.
"That's good."
Cooperate well, have a positive attitude, and repent sincerely. Even if you still have to accept labor reform in the end, the place you go will be better.
After all, the probability of survival is completely different between playing in the mud in the brick factory and digging potatoes in the snow.
If you do the former well, you will have a chance to eat meat.
The latter is a life-threatening job...
...
The next morning.
At the entrance of the weapon store.
A circle of players surrounded it in a black mass.
Looking at the empty shelves, everyone sighed and howled.
"Oh my god, I'm just one step late!"
"Fuck! It's sold out!"
In the battle yesterday, not only 32 players were upgraded to LV10, but 57 players finally accumulated more than 10,000 contribution points and gloriously upgraded to intermediate citizens.
And the average income per person was more than 400 silver coins, and the highest was even 600 silver coins!
For them, whose average daily income was only 10 silver coins a few months ago, this is simply a huge sum of money!
The conditions for purchasing the Miner I Exoskeleton are LV10 and intermediate citizens, and the price has not changed. It is very conscientious to always be 2,000 silver coins.
However, there are only 8 sets of equipment on the shelf.
Almost at the moment when the battle reward settlement was completed, these 8 sets of exoskeletons were instantly snapped up.
At this moment, everyone finally realized that giving too much task reward may not be all good.
It is foreseeable that the price of ramen tonight will definitely increase...
Looking at the angry people, the battlefield atmosphere group smiled and put on this orange-painted exoskeleton, clenched their fists, and moved their limbs.
"Is this the power of technology? Really good."
When he listened to everyone's discussion yesterday, he guessed that this situation might happen now.
So, he went online before dawn in the game, and people were already queuing at the door before the weapon shop opened.
The campaign rewards had just been settled, and with the reward of nearly 600 silver coins, his deposit just exceeded 2,000 silver coins, so he decisively bought the "Miner Type I" exoskeleton.
It turned out that this was an extremely wise decision.
Looking at those little players who regretted not coming earlier, he finally experienced the feeling of the fountain man.
This feeling is really great!
Edge glanced at him.
"Tsk, I don't need this thing."
The battlefield atmosphere group laughed.
"Brother, if you envy me, just say it directly, no need to beat around the bush. Want to play? I'll wear it for you for a while."
Edge: "What envy? Wearing this thing will directly increase the cost of resurrection to 2,000. If your equipment explodes once, you will be back to the pre-liberation era."
Even if you wear an exoskeleton, even if you install a steel plate, you can only withstand a few more rounds of bullets.
Why bother?
Isn't it better not to get shot?
Wearing this thing will make you more likely to become the target of concentrated fire. Even if the steel plate is thick, it is impossible to withstand a bullet with a penetration depth of hundreds of times like a power armor.
Cheap and easy-to-use equipment is good equipment, so he is too lazy to get this fancy stuff.
Of course, part of the reason is that he didn't buy it.
"Fuck..."
After listening to what Edge said, the battlefield atmosphere group was stunned.
Looking at the equipment on his body, he instantly felt that it was not so attractive.
How can you charge with this thing?
Don't be sad to death if you die once!
Although many people regret buying it, for those players who didn't buy it, those brothers who were quick to buy it are still very enviable.
It's a pity that the equipment is bound and can't be bought from other players.
But then again, even if it can be traded, no one will sell it.
Those who can afford it have almost the same amount of silver coins in their pockets. Except for a few local tycoons, it is impossible to offer too outrageous prices.
As for using RMB over-the-counter transactions...
Not to mention that the official has clearly stated that the security of the transaction is not guaranteed, and the consequences of being cheated are at your own risk. Even if there is a third-party guarantee, this thing cannot be priced.
How should the equipment in the closed beta stage be priced?
100,000?
1 million?
Maybe when the public beta is launched, the god equipment will become a blank in a second, and it will be directly broken on the spot.
Why is the closed beta called a closed beta? Isn't it because the game rules are not perfect yet?
No fees and no deletion of files. Compared to those games that charge money but still make fools of players, this game is already very conscientious!
However, this does not prevent players who did not buy equipment from being angry.
"MMP, can the planner fix the bug that the NPC store doesn't restock? When will this bug be fixed?"
"When will the caravan come again? The blizzard has stopped!"
"I secretly asked the planner, and the planner told me to get out, and told me that I could fight on my own if I wanted the equipment."
"I testify that this is definitely not what Brother Guang said. With Brother Guang's high emotional intelligence, he will definitely not let you get out. At most, he will play dumb with you and pass the ball to the art or R&D department."
"I feel the pain of having money but nowhere to spend it."
"By the way, there seems to be an exoskeleton there!"
"Type 5 'Light Cavalry' exoskeleton, damn, it looks so cool!"
"The price... 20,000?! Let's go."
"Fuck! I still need senior citizens! 50,000 contribution points!? I just reached the intermediate level!"
"It is estimated that the power armor needs 100,000 contribution points to upgrade to 'Knight'. This is reasonable, manual funny."
There is no level requirement for equipment in Wasteland OL. As long as the attributes can be controlled, it can be used. If it cannot be controlled, it can be used by force.
However, some rare equipment that is replenished at random requires contribution points to purchase.
In terms of the game setting, these are important assets of the shelter. They cannot be obtained stably and are scarce. They can only be supplied to residents who have made outstanding contributions to the collective.
In front of the counter.
Xia Yan, with her arms folded, looked at the group of dejected players expressionlessly, and patiently repeated her lines over and over again.
"Sold out, sold out, don't ask anymore."
"Wait for the next caravan to come."
The only thing that made the players feel relieved was that Boss Xia's Mandarin became more and more standard.
At this moment, Heya, with long silver hair, came from the direction of the sanatorium holding a wooden frame.
Putting the wooden frame on the counter of the weapon shop, Heya said something to Boss Xia.
Boss Xia nodded, not quite understanding, then took out a pen from the table, found a wooden board, wrote a line of words, and hung it on the shelf.
[Torch Psychic Interference Device]
Then, Boss Xia picked out a headset-like thing from the wooden frame and put it on the shelf.
At the same time.
The encyclopedia page of the player VM also updated the description of the item.
[Effect: Through simple surgery, low-minded aliens can obey orders. Applicable to death claws, mutant brown bears, etc., not for mindless life forms (such as slime mold aliens)]
[Requirements: Contribution level reaches citizen, intelligence attribute greater than 10. ]
[Price: 2,000 silver coins (excluding surgery fee)]
After reading the description.
The atmosphere around the weapon store instantly boiled-