Chapter 373 The War Is About to Begin

After the mall incident, a week passed in the blink of an eye.

Today is April 30th. When the clock strikes midnight, the preliminaries for the Peak Championship will officially begin.

After this week, the levels of the four Hell Front members have naturally improved. Now Feng Bujue has become the one with the highest level. He is already level 34 and has more than half of his experience. And Xiyu, Beiling, and Xiaotan are all at level 33.

In fact... if Brother Jue tries his best to level up, he can gain 40% experience advantage by clearing a scenario, and it is no problem to reach the top of the rankings.

But he obviously doesn't intend to do that...

First of all, he didn't want to create an excessive level gap with his peers in the club, because that would make the team script more difficult and would be of no benefit to his own expertise growth.

Secondly, after the leading groups in the game have basically passed the level 30 mark, the rankings on the level rankings have remained very stable. If there is someone on the level list who makes rapid progress, passes the level, and rushes all the way to the front, it will be easily exposed... This thing is useless even if it is anonymous. You () only need to line up a team to meet people. Whenever you meet people, they will see your level. In the entire Thriller Paradise, there are only a handful of people who have reached level thirty-six, and most of those around thirty-five are professional players affiliated with the studio. If Brother Jue doesn't control his level, he will be far away from becoming famous. Not far away...

Of course, there was another reason why Feng Bujue kept giving up experience rewards - he wanted to get high-quality equipment.

The [Zero Magic Crusher] is definitely an abyss of evil. In addition to the three pieces of equipment delivered in the early morning of the 24th, it has swallowed ten more sophisticated items in the past seven days. Among these ten items, eight were drawn as extra rewards, and two were cheap and useless items that Feng Bujue found in the auction house.

When Brother Jue made it for the second time, he also filled in three pieces of equipment, but it failed.

this time. The machine's manufacturing success rate has been accumulated to 6.01%...

When making it for the third time, a naive person told himself - "There are only three things that can be done", so he gritted his teeth and stamped his feet and filled in four pieces of equipment. The result... still failed...

At this time, the machine's manufacturing success rate has accumulated to 10.01%...

By the time of the fourth production, Feng Bujue's mentality was similar to that of gamblers who sit in front of slot machines and lose hundreds of thousands and still play.

So, three more. Continue to fail...

The manufacturing success rate reached 13.01%, but Feng Bujue's patience was close to zero... However, he was not crazy.

It's a coincidence that compared to the past, Brother Jue's probability of drawing sophisticated equipment has increased significantly in the past seven days. Although he still occasionally gets things like stones and toy bats, in most cases, As long as he chooses to draw equipment. At least something above ordinary level can appear. I guess this has something to do with level. After all, he is over level 30. The reward of [randomly selecting a piece of equipment corresponding to the level] cannot be given to him as a big shit. And mark in the remarks that this is a piece of holy shit (holy_crap, slang, meaning something like I'll kill it, literally translated as holy shit).

It's a pity...the quality of the items extracted has gone up. But none of the truly valuable items were drawn. They were basically useless items, and the handling fees were charged when they were put into the auction house. Even without filling it into the grinder. 80% of them will be sold. That's why Brother Jue filled them into the machine.

It can be seen that Feng Bujue is not a pure gambler. At least he has not lost his mind, otherwise he would have stripped off all the good equipment and filled it into the machine.

Compared with Brother Jue, the performance of other players during these ten days can be called truly "crazy".

As the date for the pinnacle battle approaches day by day, all kinds of cascading effects are coming like stormy waves.

Let’s talk about the forum first…

During this period, the forum’s posting volume reached its second peak after the open beta began. Posts with titles similar to "How to quickly reach level 30 in xx (xx here may be ten days, eight days, or a week, even the boldest dare to write it in five days)" are everywhere, and they are all very popular. .

The replies in the post are also very interesting. For example, a guy went to all similar posts to grab the second floor, and copied and pasted the sentence "Everyone downstairs, you spent your leveling time reading this guide. I already regret it.”

In addition, posts with titles such as "My Opinions on the Contest Format" and "When in May are you less likely to meet professional players while queuing?" can also get a lot of clicks. To be honest, reading posts like this is a real waste of time... If they could advance by studying the competition system, the national football team would have been a frequent visitor to the World Cup.

There are also some posts that are purely strategy posts, such as "Weapon selection and skill matching for shooting players", "On the power of summoning specialization and obscene flow", etc. The level of these posts is uneven, and they are different from the poster's game. Level and written expression ability are all related. Some people play well, but they may not be able to write good strategies. Some people write very colorful and realistic strategies, but due to their limited level, their strategies may not be accurate.

The most important thing is... In a game like Thriller Paradise, where players have extremely distinctive personal characteristics, it is really difficult to tell whether learning other people's growth patterns is helpful or misleading...

Let’s talk about the game level.

The enthusiasm of players of all levels for leveling up is unprecedentedly high. Those who have not reached level 30 want to obtain the registration qualification as soon as possible, and those who have reached level 30 want to establish a level advantage and accumulate strength.

Among all game modes, the queue rate of the killing game has increased significantly recently. Many players who don’t like PK or are not good at PK on weekdays, such as Xiao Tan, have also thrown themselves into the tide of "fighting with others" during the period before the start of the battle for hegemony, and gradually got used to the atmosphere and rhythm of fighting.

The buying and selling situation in the auction house is unprecedentedly hot... In the 26 days since the opening of the service, the popularity, social influence, and number of players of Horror Park have been steadily increasing. On the eve of the battle for hegemony, it has increased rapidly. The increase in the number of players, the number of online people, and the online time means more scripts are generated, more props are taken out of the script... In the end, these things will be reflected in the number of transactions in the auction house.

As the first major event in the game, the peak hegemony undoubtedly attracted most players. When they become "old players" in the future, they can say to those newcomers: "Tsk...Thinking back to the first peak competition, I was so and so..." That would definitely be a very face-saving thing.

On the contrary, if you are already in the horror park when the big event happens, but you haven't reached level 30, or you have entered the preliminaries but were eliminated before playing a full 50 games, then there will be nothing to talk about in the future... You can't help but feel that "I have been in the world for a long time, but there is no legend about me in the world. If you dig deep, you can only ask about my shame."

Of course, situations like Si Yu and Bei Ling are exceptions. They are pure casual players, and they are all local tycoons. They are not obsessed with winning or losing, and they don't want to become famous. If these people are not interested in the game, they won't participate.

After talking about the players, finally, we have to talk about the situation at the game company...

As the war is approaching, Dream Company adheres to their usual style - to remain unchanged in the face of changes. It was like a disgusting face of a monopoly enterprise, which made those fans who were happy and sad silently surrender.

It stands to reason that in this period, general game companies would take advantage of the situation and launch various money-making strategies...

For example, they could pack a bunch of special items, give them a ridiculous name like "Peak Battle Preparation Pack", set a price of 998, and lure some unsophisticated people to take the bait, so that they can feel superior or something.

Another example is that they could raise the price or package promotion for the double experience card whose sales have doubled recently.

They could also launch a few new props, such as five times experience cards, scenario difficulty downgrade cards... Although there is a possibility of destroying the balance of the game, as long as there is a so-called "limited sale", they can justifiably cheat people at a high price. They can even do "bundling sales", for example, if you buy a game cabin, I will give you a virtual prop or something...

These methods have been used by countless unscrupulous businessmen in the past few years, and they have been tried and tested. Given the current popularity of Horror Paradise, it is entirely possible to do the same thing and make a fortune.

But Dream Company is so unique... so stable...

At this critical juncture, they did not make any moves.

Even the exchange rate between RMB and game coins remained stable, only from 1:2000 to 1:1900. This fluctuation is not much different from the natural fluctuation every week. Obviously, Dream Company did not intend to raise the price of game coins. This attitude, on the contrary, stimulated the market and gave players greater confidence in this game company. Many players who never spent money in the game could not help but open their wallets.

However... Dream Company has another characteristic - if it does not make a sound, it will be amazing.

Sure enough, on April 30th, they announced a shocking news on their official website...

At 5 pm that day, the specific rules for the preliminaries, semi-finals, and finals were promulgated, named [Battle of Insects], [Battle of Cocoons], and [Battle of Butterflies], respectively. The three battles will determine the top 3,000, top 100, and top 50.

After these three battles, the remaining fifty players will be eligible to participate in the real [Peak Battle].

Along with this set of rules announcements, there is also this message: [Until 00:00 on May 1, the registration deadline. The system will select ten "specially invited players" from all registered players to directly enter the Butterfly Battle. ] (To be continued...)