Chapter 1325 Competition System
Valentine's Day is also New Year's Day... It has only been a few days, and everyone's life is back on track.
Even before the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, Xiao Tan and Xiao Ling came back from Europe.
Feng Bujue asked Xiao Tan why he didn’t take his wife on their honeymoon? Xiao Tan said to him - "Actually, if you fall in love with the right person, Valentine's Day will be celebrated every day." Then Brother Jue used a set of gorgeous combos on Xiao Tan that you may not see in fighting games.
Later, Feng Bujue heard from Ruo Yu that there were two reasons for this: First, most of their relatives and friends came during the wedding, and everyone got together happily. This year’s New Year was also There is no need to visit relatives; secondly, around the end of the year, the probability of various supernatural phenomena will increase significantly, which means... Jiu Ke will be very busy. Therefore, Xiao Tan, a "trainee" who had just joined Section 9, was called back by Section Chief Gu and went to "practice learning" with Bao Qing and Qi Zhi.
After talking about these two objective reasons, Ruoyu added another sentence - "Besides, as long as couples love each other and every day is a honeymoon, you have never heard of the saying, 'In fact, if you love the right person, Valentine's Day Every day?"
Feng Bujue heard this and immediately complained: "You guys should know that you are just quoting lyrics when you speak such lines so confidently, right? And the song is clearly called "Happy Breakup"! And... you are You are the last person to quote this sentence! Why don’t you discuss a stupid love with me?”
After he finished speaking, Ruoyu unleashed a set of gorgeous combos that you might not even see in fighting games.
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In short, this year passed in such a harmonious atmosphere.
During the Chinese New Year, Dream Company was closed from New Year’s Eve to the sixth day of the Lunar New Year as previously announced.
Originally, Feng Bujue didn't think there was anything wrong with the game company having a New Year's holiday, but after chatting with Ruoyu, he combined it with the sentence "the probability of various supernatural phenomena will increase significantly around the end of the year"... This holiday seems more reasonable.
In any case, at midnight on the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, Thriller Park, Crazy Thinking, and Dream Company’s online mall reopened on time, exactly on time.
At the same time, the announcement that was released at the end of last month and has been hanging on the homepage of the official website: [The pre-selection rules for Thriller Paradise's "Peak Contest S3" will be announced later this year] has finally been replaced.
The content that replaced it was the game-related instructions for Peak Contest S3.
The "long-term competition system with a mix of individuals and teams" that has been pondering by major studios for nearly a month has finally surfaced.
Like the previous two times, the format this time was once again surprising.
First of all, in S3 games, you must form a team to participate. The number of teams is limited to seven people, and there are no substitutes.
Secondly, S3 actually has “no preliminaries”, or in other words, its “preliminary selection process” has already started at a time that everyone is completely unaware of...
Nearly a year after the game was launched, Dream Company announced a shocking setting: In fact, from the earliest closed beta version, Thriller Park has always had a built-in "hidden points" mechanism. The mechanism will give each character a certain score based on their "performance" in the script, and this score... this score that the players themselves don't even know about is actually one of the important basis for the system to generate the script process. That is to say ...It is directly related to the difficulty of the scenario assigned to this player.
"Hidden points" are not the same concept as the "player combat effectiveness ranking" in the early game, and the later "player comprehensive strength ranking"; for example, "a first-level player kills an enhanced zombie with bare hands" and "a five-level player kills an enhanced zombie with his bare hands" "Level 10 players try their best to challenge a small BOSS", regardless of factors such as level, equipment, skills, etc., from the perspective of the parties involved, the difficulty experience is similar; although from the perspective of "combat strength" or "comprehensive In terms of "strength", the two players are far apart, but the hidden score evaluation obtained by this behavior is not much different.
In addition, the "hidden score" is calculated as the "average score", not the total score. It does not mean that you can clear more scripts if you clear the level. According to Dream Company's attitude, this score is the system's way of judging the player's "comprehensive ability." "High or Low" is the most accurate rating, because this is a scoring mechanism that has nothing to do with equipment or skills, and purely depends on the player's "performance".
Of course, players who occupy a high position on the power rankings generally have a high hidden score; even if a large part of the "hard power" of professional players can be supported by the studio, if their own abilities are not good enough, they will naturally You won't get as many resources.
So... Now let's go back to the "no preliminaries" thing, it's easier to explain.
Different from the previous two competitions that had both a "threshold" and a "preliminary" setting, this time S3, as long as the "threshold" is crossed, it will be a rematch.
And this threshold is - [the total hidden score of the seven members of the team exceeds 500]. As long as the team meets this condition, it can directly enter the knockout stage.
What is the general concept of "500 points"? Judging from the big data released by Dream Company this time, excluding players with unstable scores below level 10, the average hidden score of Thriller Paradise players is 62 points; as long as the hidden score is higher than this score, It can be considered that the level exceeds the average.
Looking at it this way, even if there are seven players who are just at the average level, the total score of the team is already 434. Of course, such strength is not enough to qualify...
To participate in the S3 competition, the average hidden score of seven people in a team must reach at least 71.43. Since the score does not count decimals, it is basically 72 points per person.
Compared with S1 and S2, the "threshold" this time is lowered in a sense; if there is a person with a particularly high score, for example, a hidden score of more than 100 points in a team, the requirements for other people will be relaxed accordingly, which allows some people with hidden scores less than 72 to participate.
After talking about the threshold, let's talk about the competition system.
The competition system of S3 is very simple. It adopts the form of a knockout tournament. In each round, all participating teams will be paired up to compete. The losing team will be eliminated directly, and the winning team will advance until there is only one team left, which is naturally the champion.
The matching method is "completely random", that is to say... even if the probability is very low, there is a possibility that a duel like "Order VS Gods" will occur in the first round.
In addition, if the total number of teams in any round is an odd number, then after the random matching is completed, the team that is left alone will be given a bye and automatically advance.
Such a rule... undoubtedly increases a lot of contingency. One situation that is very likely to occur is that the professional teams under the studio will meet each other in the first round and one of them will be eliminated, while some teams of casual players will go further than the strong teams by defeating opponents with lower levels than themselves or getting byes...
Major game studios must have complaints about this; but relatively speaking, the majority of players are naturally happy to see it.
There is a type of game in this world that specializes in making profits by squeezing the money of 1% of deep players. The gameplay of this type of game is secondary, and the experience obtained by the player is completely determined by the amount of money invested. Except for those players who invest a lot of money, the remaining 99% of casual players are one of the functions provided by the game company to deep players; for games like this, the operator does not need to consider the experience or opinions of casual players too much. Anyway, after making a quick buck, the server will be shut down, and after a while, a new shell will be changed, and then a game with the same soup but the same medicine will be launched, and it will be made again.
But... Horror Paradise is not such a game.
After the S1 and S2 games, Dream Company discovered a problem - the "sense of participation" of ordinary players in the competition was too low.
According to the previous competition system, most non-professional players were almost eliminated in the preliminary stage. Except for the extreme exception of "Hell Front", other casual players...whether individuals or teams, even if they entered the semi-finals, they would only be eliminated in one round. It can be said that from the beginning of the semi-finals, the competition has completely become a duel between various studios and individual professional players.
Although this is also a normal phenomenon, and players also like to watch such high-level competitions, but Dream Company still thinks...it needs to be changed.
Therefore, this time the new competition system, on the basis of ensuring that the level of participating players is "above average", gives the 99% of casual players a lot of room for performance; "the strongest team will win" has not changed, the difference is...this time, various teams, those casual players and weird players who are difficult to advance in the previous competition system, all have the opportunity to appear.
Finally, let's talk about the specific form of the competition.
"Peak Hegemony" is just as its name suggests. Since S1, the theme of the competition is fighting, and this time is no exception.
S3 will adopt a duel mode similar to S1's "Butterfly Battle" and the same competition system as the tennis team competition.
That is: three singles, two doubles, and five games to win.
The first game is a 1V1 "pioneer battle".
The second game is a 2V2 "core battle".
The third game returns to 1V1, called the "participating general battle".
At this point, if one team has won three games, the game is over, and the next two games do not need to be played.
If the winner has not been decided, then the fourth game will be the 2V2 "deputy general battle".
If the first four games are tied at 2:2, there will be one last game - the "general battle".
In this way... it takes exactly seven people to play all five games.
In addition, although the order of the above five games is fixed, the positions of the players can be changed in each game. For example, the person who is the pioneer in this game can be the general in the next game, or can play doubles, there is no limit; but... the appearance arrangement for each game must be submitted within ten minutes before the start of the game, and once the list is confirmed, it cannot be replaced.
Seeing this, I believe many people have also thought of it... Everyone has heard the story of "Tian Ji's Horse Racing". If you can guess the opponent's deployment before the game, it is not impossible for the weak to defeat the strong. Just like in S2, the match list for each round of the game will be announced the day before the game or even earlier. This period of time is the time for both teams to engage in information warfare and deployment games.
The above is almost the first wave of news about the Peak Hegemony S3 announced by Dream Company.
Feng Bujue read the relevant rules as soon as possible this time, but after reading it, a question immediately appeared in front of him-there are only six people in the Hell Front now, where should he find the seventh member?