OBS Chapter 135
Chapter 135
This event features a lot of new content, especially the brand-new Beast Fighting gameplay.
Although players had previously developed many new gameplay ideas for beast fighting, the official Qingfengyi team had not yet finalized anything, which was quite disappointing for beast fighting players.
I was so excited to see the official beast fighting gameplay that I didn't even have time to look at it closely before rushing to the guild arena to start fighting.
"Haha, the designer understands me. From now on, there will be a special arena for beast fighting."
Previously, players would engage in animal fights, especially bird fights, on the plains in Zhilan Mountain that Lin Shuying designed for bird walking.
Bird fighting can involve fighting, beauty contests, pet contests, or intelligence contests.
Birds can be trained to do many things, especially mynas and parrots, who can sing, talk, and mimic sounds—each one is more amazing than the last.
The holographic intelligent program includes personality and biological background designation. The more detailed the biological characteristics are, the more lifelike the bird will be.
Lin Shuying's bird designs are based on birds found on Earth, giving players a huge amount of room for creativity.
Each bird has its own unique personality, intelligence, hobbies, and so on, making training them incredibly fun for players.
Many players embarked on the path of bird keeping from then on, never to return.
As the saying goes, fishing will impoverish you for three years, playing with birds will ruin your life, and once you learn to chase rabbits with a dog, you're on a path of no return.
Lin Shuying tidied everything up.
Fishing, bird-walking, and hunting have been known since ancient times as the three strange paths of "indulging in playthings and losing one's ambition," once entered, it is impossible to escape.
StarCraft players are captivated the moment they see the bird.
Everyone brought their most powerful pets and placed them on the fighting arena.
The system popped up a prompt: Pets cannot participate in beast battles. Do you want to change the pet's attributes?
When the player clicks "Yes," the system pops up again: "This pet is too rare. Please choose carefully, or your battle pet will die!"
The hint is in red font, just in case some players don't pay attention and regret it later.
Players were startled when they saw that their pets could die, and rushed to check the announcement for details on how the death would occur.
The above is a very detailed explanation: death means disappearance.
The player with fast reflexes but slow brain reaction time had trembling hands; his beloved, rare panda had become his battle pet!
"Aaaaaah, what on earth is the designer doing?! My panda!"
"Aaaaah, your panda is nothing, mine is a snowy owl! Aaaaah, I only have three!"
There happened to be another player nearby who was just as clueless as him, and the two of them cried out in despair.
Pandas are introduced in later events, and their appearance is quite generous and easy to spot. Almost every player has around two, and pet enthusiasts, especially panda lovers, may have several hundred.
Snowy owls are different. There were fewer people at that event to begin with, and since snowy owls are rare, there were even fewer.
This player was heartbroken!
At the time, I was thinking that his snowy owl was usually trained very hard, so I quickly clicked "yes" before I even thought about it!
One player shouted, "Stop howling! As long as we don't send it into battle, it'll be fine. Besides, winning increases our maximum health. With a thick health bar, why are we afraid it'll die?"
The announcement didn't mention that battle pets have a maximum health limit. Winning a battle increases their health, making it entirely possible to develop them into tanks.
After careful consideration, the two players calmed down.
Makes sense!
If you raise it diligently, it will be invincible and unafraid of death.
One player asked, "What if I can't beat them?"
The player who made the suggestion said, "Of course, we should find rare battle pets to use as stepping stones and build them up."
These words were a revelation to the players who overheard them.
Great idea!
So everyone set off to catch battle pets. Those who liked big battle pets went to catch horses, cows, and sheep, while those who liked small pets went to catch grasshoppers and beetles.
In the main city, crickets chirp incessantly on spring, summer, and autumn evenings.
The sounds rose and fell, each with its own unique charm.
Some crickets chirp very loudly, while others remain completely silent.
The player searched the alleyways by moonlight, making light footsteps so as not to startle them.
Occasionally, it sits on a red embroidered ball and flies close to the ground.
At this point, the red embroidered ball is much more useful than a mount, as it makes no noise.
The downside is that 100 mana only lasts for ten minutes, after which you have to wait an hour.
Players who come to capture pets carry at least a hundred cages to keep their battle pets.
The lower quality ones are especially easy to catch; you can catch four or five in ten minutes.
At this moment, an extremely loud voice rang out, which could be heard for a radius of two miles.
The player's heart skipped a beat; the hunter's keen senses kicked in, and without a word, he summoned the black tiger and galloped away.
Those without a black tiger should ride a horse.
They arrived at a patch of grass, surrounded by other players!
Take a closer look at more than a dozen.
Two hundred meters from the bushes, they put away their mounts, changed into the red embroidered ball, and quietly approached.
Everyone gathered around in the middle, silently keeping quiet, while the cricket continued to chirp.
A player messaged in the chat: "Let's team up! Let's team up!"
People around us tacitly added each other as friends, making a total of 16 people.
Some players in the chat channel were confused and their friend requests to this player were rejected.
"What's wrong? You're asking to team up in the chat channel?"
The group didn't answer either.
Teaming up makes it easier to discuss strategies and advance together in the team chat, and helps prevent the grasshopper from getting away.
Over there, a small team also heard the noise and rushed over, just in time to see the people in front of them.
The captain hissed to quiet everyone down. "Get your hooks ready, get close, hook the person quickly, and throw them out. I'll catch them, and you guys clear the way."
"Okay, Captain."
This team is a regular player; they usually work together to gather resources and make money, splitting the profits equally. They cooperate very well and harmoniously.
After the captain gave the instructions, everyone took out their grappling hooks and their eyes sharpened.
Captain: "I'm facing number one on the left. Simultaneously, the first, second, and third men from both sides."
The teammate quickly responded: "I'm on the left."
"I'm on the right."
"I'm second from the left."
"I'm second from the right."
.......
Captain: "Let's go!"
They just formed a team and are discussing profit sharing in the chat.
Suddenly, a whooshing sound came from behind, and one of the team members shouted, "Enemy attack!"
Before he could turn around, the hook grabbed the back of his collar and threw him away.
Then a net was laid down, and it was even thoughtfully tied in a tight knot.
The player struggled desperately but couldn't get out.
The attacker said smugly, "Don't struggle, we're professionals."
It will not cause players to get hurt, attract the attention of the official protectors, or give enemies a chance to escape or cause trouble.
The players ahead of us have already located the cricket and roughly know where it is.
They are completely unaffected by the slightest movement at present.
The cricket stopped chirping, and the squad leader caught it in a large net and lifted it up.
Blow a whistle and evacuate.
The players who were trapped inside cursed and swore, "What the hell is this?!"
The net was quite sturdy; it took me seven or eight minutes to cut it with a dagger.
Chat Channel:
"Who robbed the grasshopper-catching team in the district? Step forward, I challenge you to a duel!"
"Who is it! Step forward, I promise I won't kill you!"
"Who is it, launching a sneak attack! There are so many crickets, is this really necessary? I'm going to file a complaint against you!"
The group that stole the cricket remained silent.
Professional robbers must be able to withstand immense pressure, otherwise they cannot make a fortune.
After retreating back to the main city, everyone arrived at the team's base. The team members asked, "Captain, how did it go?"
The captain said with a beaming smile, "Great stuff! Let's put it up for auction and sell it for 100,000 gold ingots."
"One hundred thousand!"
The team members were incredulous; how could something that wasn't a rare edition sell for 100,000?
The team leader took out the cricket. "One hundred thousand is still too low."
This katydid is entirely brownish-red, with very clear dark red veins on its wings. Its legs are powerful and robust, with a bright sheen, and it is quite large.
It's of excellent quality and also has a combative label.
"The tag announcement didn't mention it; it should be designed so that players can discover it themselves. The ones we caught before didn't have tags. It's still orange quality and ranked third."
The team member excitedly said, "Captain, let's go for 200,000. 100,000 is too much of a loss."
The team strategist said, "I suggest we go for 500,000. We caught over twenty before, half of them were white, and the rest were all green, which means the higher the quality, the harder they are to find. I just checked the auction house, and there are no battle pets for sale. We need to be the ones setting the prices. Also, battle pets have a mechanism where they can die in battle."
The strategist's words immediately made everyone understand.
It can die, which means there is a loss.
The value of these items can even exceed their extinction value!
The captain made the decision: "Five hundred thousand gold ingots."
They didn't want interstellar coins. The exchange rate between gold ingots and interstellar coins is constantly increasing, so they're stockpiling them, hoping to sell at the peak. Even if the exchange rate doesn't increase, given Qingfengyi's size, it at least won't depreciate.
In-game currency exchange is an important way for professional gamers to make money, and they are such a group of people.
Soon, the battle pet was listed on the auction house.
Some wealthy people who didn't want to catch insects were already eagerly waiting for this cricket, and it was sold out as soon as it was put on the shelves.
The buyer is a player who loves beast fighting and has always dominated the rankings in Zhilan Mountain. This time, he also wants to dominate the rankings of all the major beast fighting leaderboards!
After purchasing it, summon it and use the low-level insects you bought earlier to determine its grade and health.
It went well at first; I piled up a dozen or so white ones.
A white one can provide 10 points of health and aptitude; stacking it to over 1000 makes it a high-level character.
Who knew that when the number of beetles reached two hundred, a green-grade beetle made a stunning comeback and instantly killed the orange grasshopper!
The player was stunned.
After the beetle counterattacked and killed the monster, it absorbed 200 health points and 20 quality points from the orange cricket, bringing its quality to purple.
Players were confused and quickly went to read the announcement for a detailed explanation.
He had already taken a screenshot of the announcement details in his album, which he could then view.
After looking through it, I didn't find anything, but I did find the mystery in my own battle pet slot.
This purple beetle has an orange tag underneath: 1% chance to trigger a 200% critical hit! (The probability and critical hit rate will change depending on the quality and the number of battle victories)
Overjoyed, the player burst into tears and roared, "Hahaha, I'm going to become the invincible being in the world of battle pets!"
The tags were quickly discovered by players, and catching pets became a craze.
Many players don't participate in beast battles; instead, they focus on catching battle pets, aiming for those with the best aptitude and the most complete set of tags.
If Lin Shu-ying knew, she would laugh.
Probability is the most frustrating thing in games; it really tests a person's luck.
Some people with bad luck can only improve their luck by buying things or grinding; it's impossible to catch them.
That's why she set up her battle pets so they could level up through victories; otherwise, those players with bad attitudes would cause trouble.
As a skilled animal handler, Deng Yijun would never sit idly by and wait for his fate.
He found two of each of the black tiger, panda, bird, and goldfish he had and made them into battle pets. Then he used white battle pets with poor aptitude and no tags to improve their quality and aptitude.
As long as you are strong enough, you will not die.
As a wealthy man, he has that confidence.
There was no requirement for him to participate in this event, so he focused entirely on shopping.
Soon, they amassed five orange-quality crickets, beetles, horses, cows, and so on, along with their pets. Their true forms were at their limit, and they remained seated in the arena, refusing to leave.
He's very willing to take on challenges that allow him to capture battle pets on the spot.
The limited-edition pets are no good; the opponent's combat power must be lower than yours to be effective.
Many players believe that very few people modify their pets into battle pets, so those rare arenas must be empty.
It might even be used as an arena for other battle pets.
Unexpectedly, these arenas are always packed, filled with wealthy players battling it out, spending rare pets as if they were free.
If one dies in battle, it will at most let out a couple of mournful cries, and then the next one will take its place.
Xia Chunqi and his friends occasionally saw wealthy players using rare, limited-edition pets in battle, and their hearts would skip several beats.
While eating, Xia Chunqi asked Lin Shuying, "Sis, will rare pets become extinct?"
Lin Shuying: "No, the last one will definitely exist, it won't die."
If there's no one left to fight, how can you die?
Lin Shu-ying even considered this and set up a final hidden reward.
It's highly unlikely that this will happen.
The last of this type of battle pet will regain its rare pet characteristics, will be unable to participate in beast battles, and will be immortal.
It means returning to the pet category.
Back then, that pet was absolutely priceless!
Liang Ranran asked, "Boss, why did you make it so that rare pets can participate in battles?"
Lin Shuying laughed and said, "Don't you guys think there are too many rare pets?"
There is a limit to the number of players, but there is no limit to the number of limited-edition items that can be obtained through events. As long as players work hard enough, it's not a problem for everyone to have a large number of them.
This will lead to a price drop for rare items, especially pets.
In her previous works, pandas and red pandas were supposed to be as expensive as goldfish and birds.
However, the price response was lukewarm. This event brought in many new players, but the highest price for pandas and red pandas in the auction house was only 100,000 gold coins, which is equivalent to 1,000 interstellar coins.
The goldfish in the goldfish event and the birds in the Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix event, the most numerous of which are priced starting at 500 million.
Converted to 50,000 Star Coins.
The difference is enormous.
Liang Ranran and the others still didn't quite understand, but Lin Qiaoqiao and Lu Yunzhi understood immediately.
Lin Qiaoqiao: "Boss, this is a good move. Pet prices are going to go up again, hahaha."
Makes a killing.
Although many players trade privately, all transactions involving gold ingots must go through Qingfengyi's trading system. Qingfengyi takes a cut from each transaction, and that cut is how they make money.
In other words, the more active the players are in private transactions, the larger the transaction volume, and the more funds Qingfengyi can recover and the more money it can earn.
Many players overlook this point, thinking that private transactions are more cost-effective.
In fact, no matter how the transaction takes place, as long as it involves game currency, it cannot bypass the game platform.
Currently, there are many wealthy players who recharge their accounts with in-game currency, but the StarCraft law imposes limits on the amount that can be spent on in-game purchases.
If everyone spends money on games, what will happen to real-world production?