The virtual empire starts from the game

Chapter 193: This is still a chicken feather! ! (Two in one)

"Lord of War" was previously heavily criticized for its 50G demo and 25G update patch.

The current official version has even increased its size to 200G!

If Dream Building hadn’t started pre-downloading three days in advance, players with slow internet speeds might have finished downloading the game before dawn.

Putting aside the issue of download speed, hard drive capacity is also a problem.

In today's gaming industry, even well-known blockbusters will try their best to control the size of their games.

100G is a line.

If it is really impossible to compress it further, we will try our best to control it within 150G.

Otherwise, players will doubt:
Your game content is really so vast, and it's enough to satisfy you.

Or is it because the technology is too poor and the optimization is rubbish, so the difficulties are passed on to the players?

It is never the case that the bigger the game is, the better it is. If this cannot be translated into gameplay, it will only become a disadvantage.

When the pre-download of "Lord of War" was launched, many players in Mengjin complained:
[Oh my god! 200G! I have to delete the game]
[You just deleted the game, but I'm going to delete the study materials! ]
[For this game, I deleted 60G of disks. If the game doesn’t work, I will go to Dream Building to find Xu Meng and ask him to download the disks for me!]
[Outrageous, I bought a 168-yuan solid-state drive for a 1000-yuan game]
……

Many people have finally made space to download the game, thinking that everything is ready and they just need to start playing.

But when the game was launched at 0: and I was excited to enter the game, I found that I had only completed the download and there was still an installation process before I could play.

The space required for decompression is twice the size of the game itself!
A lot of players - especially those who used to mainly play mobile games and second-tier games, and came to play "Lord of War" because of "Frost Project" and the motion sensing synchronization server, were almost broken.

Even the two anchors, Orange Juice and Qihuahua, were a little confused.

Deleting video footage during live broadcast late at night.

——Their hard drives are filled with a lot of video footage from live broadcasts. They say they will edit it into a video and post it when they have time, but in reality, the more it piles up, the less they want to edit it, and the less they want to edit it, the more it piles up…

Over time, it has become a historical issue.

Now I finally found a reason to delete a lot of content to make room for the game.

After deleting enough space and waiting for the installation to complete and launching the game, an hour had passed.

This is considered fast.

Many players are still complaining about the game online and in groups while waiting for the installation.

The various gaming media and self-media did not expect that the first hot topic after the release of "Lord of War" would not be sales or game content, but that everyone could not enter the game...

This situation was not greatly alleviated until two hours later, when players from all over the world entered the game one after another.

Huodao, the big brother in the field of gaming media and one of the main writers of Game Observation, is also one of this group of people.

As one of the first people to sense DreamCraft's ambition to produce a buyout game, and who had been following the progress of "Lord of War" after the Cologne Expo, it was natural for him to not miss the game's launch day.

Experiencing the game as soon as possible and writing and publishing the manuscript as soon as possible are also his job requirements.

After coaxing the child to sleep, he tiptoed to the study and opened the game.

Then the installation process was stuck for almost two hours...

But finally, it was installed!

He sat outside the lakeside cabin and clicked on the "Lord of War" icon. A line of system prompts popped up -

[Do you want to inherit the Demo account data?]
"Inherit! Must inherit!"

Although Huodao is not as hardworking as the anchors and college students, he has accumulated some [War Bonds] and [Collections] over the past month and unlocked some weapon skins.

This cost him a lot of energy, so naturally he was reluctant to give up.

After confirming the inheritance, the main menu page of the game pops up.

The [Hell on Earth] that was previously unavailable for selection can now be entered normally - in addition, there is a new option, [War Zone].

Huo Dao was very patient and chose [Hell on Earth] first.

Another option popped up -

[Are you sure you want to skip the tutorial level [New Soldiers Report] and head to the cruel battlefield?]
"determine."

[You are being matched for your first battle. After completing the first battle, you can choose the battle server of your choice.]
After the last line of prompts, the scene in front of Huo Dao slowly went dark.

In the darkness, there was the sound of crackling flames.

A voice that has experienced many vicissitudes of life sounded beside Huo Dao's ears——

"In 1944, the Allied Operation Market Garden suffered a setback and the strategic goal shifted to the Rhine River."

"Immediately, the largest-scale Siegfried Line breakthrough was launched."

Along with the narration, pictures gradually lit up in the darkness before Huo Dao's eyes.

That is the perspective of an eagle flying across the sky. With the special lens language, it was in the Netherlands in the last second, and arrived at the border between Belgium and Germany in the next second.

The camera swoops down quickly, and the narration continues——

"During this breakthrough battle, there was a long and brutal battle that left both sides with deep pain."

"It was the longest single battle in the history of the U.S. Army and the longest battle ever fought on German soil."

"This is the Battle of Horgen Forest."

As the ground got closer, what was happening on the ground became clearer.

The trees were burned black, the machine guns in the bunkers spewed out a rain of death, and the soldiers fell like straw during the charge.

The tank's shells hit the bunker, and the solid cement shattered like tofu and exploded in all directions.

On both sides of the tank, the soldiers bravely moved forward and then fell down in the hail of bullets.

The smoke and fog dissipated, revealing trenches littered with corpses under the thick fog.

The fighters on both sides pierced each other's bodies in the hand-to-hand combat, and even after losing their lives, they still supported each other and refused to fall down.

"Tens of thousands of soldiers died in this brutal battle."

"Rumor has it that even death did not end the battle."

"In the thick fog of late autumn, hunters still see the undead fighting in the mist!"

"Now, latecomers, go witness their fight and end this battle!"

With the burning battlefield as the background, the system prompt appeared again -

Choose your side

Two badges appeared in front of Huo Dao's eyes, the left one read [Allies], the right one read [Axis Powers].

Huodao didn't think much about it and chose [Allies].

——After all, Xia Kingdom was an Allied country during World War II.

Choose your role

A tree-like table appeared before his eyes.

There is only one box at the top, with [Commander] written on it.

Below the commander are three boxes, which read [Combat Squad], [Armored Squad] and [Reconnaissance Squad] respectively.

These three grids cannot be selected, but the grids at the next level can be selected - those specific [Team A], [Team B], [Team C]... [Armored Squad], [Reconnaissance Squad No. 1], [Reconnaissance Squad No. 2] and so on.

In each team, there are also [Team Leader] and [Team Members] to choose from.

Huodao looked at the tree diagram and felt a little confused as to where to start.

"Are there any requirements to be a commander?" He tried to click on the [Commander] option.

As a result, a small window popped up -

[Applied for the position of commander]
[Current number of applicants for the position 14/1]
"Wow, 14 people applied to be the commander?"

"So many great people? Then I won't join in the fun."

He quickly canceled the selection.

This position requires a lot of talking, and his wife and children are asleep, so it's not suitable for this job.

He randomly picked an empty team as his member.

There was no competition for this one, so the position was determined instantly and the selection of soldiers began.

The types of soldiers are also much richer than in the Demo——

[Rifleman], [Assaultman], [Automatic Rifleman], [Machine Gunner], [Medic], [Support Soldier], [Engineer], [Anti-tank Soldier]...

It's another dazzling array of arms.

Fortunately, these arms are just the refinement of the four major arms in the Demo. You can basically understand their positioning by looking at the names. Huo Dao quickly chose [Assaulter].

This completes the preparation work.

But the battle for commander continues.

After the 90-second preparation time was over, the system randomly selected a commander from the remaining six applicants.

Seeing this scene, Huodao was already shouting in his heart that something was wrong!

When he entered the battlefield and saw the scene of the Horgen Forest, he immediately heard a lot of complaints:
"What the hell, is that true? Randomly select a commander? Are you kidding???"

"It's outrageous. Can they all command?"

"Forget it, just pretend there is no commander and do whatever you want."...

In addition to these complaints, there are also a lot of chaotic shouts:
"C-Team, come this way, C-Team, come this way!"

"Which team am I in? I forgot!"

"Where's the tank? Where's my tank?"

"Did DreamCraft finally delete the stupid loader? Congratulations!"

"Fuck, this picture! This detail! This house! This wheel! This soil! This tree! No wonder this game is so big!"

"Wait a minute, a blowtorch? You're using that to fix a tank? Seriously, bro?"

"Fuck, using watches to build outposts and military stations? What kind of super-dimensional World War II smart watch!"

……

Huo Dao looked around and saw a large group of new recruits scattered around.

Some people were looking around, while others were taking out weapons or props from their bodies and studying how to use them.

At the same time everyone was chatting loudly.

There was no sense of tension on the battlefield at all, instead it felt like being in a vegetable market.

He was a little speechless. The epic and cruel feeling created by the CG at the beginning was completely destroyed.

But he quickly adjusted.

It's a game, everyone is just having fun, don't be so harsh.

He pushed forward with his left hand wearing the tactile glove, walked to the side of the person who just shouted "Team C assemble", and asked in a low voice:

"Are you the captain of Team C?"

"What did you say? Speak louder!!" the player with the ID [Maximism] answered loudly.

Huo Dao had no choice but to call up the chat box and type:

"Are you the captain of Team C?"

"Yes!" the older brother answered quickly, "You are my team member! OK, everyone is here, get in the car, and go!"

Huodao didn't think much about it and controlled the character to jump onto the supply transport truck.

The truck engine roared, and the driver took the team away from the headquarters.

Some people saw the truck leaving and ran out after it, but they could not keep up with the vehicle and were soon left behind.

The noisy sound quickly faded away.

Then Fire Knife heard the driver's voice: "Captain, where are we going?"

The captain said proudly: "Go to the front line of the war!"

"No..." The driver was a little helpless. "I mean, which road should we take and which point on the map should we go to?"

"..." The captain was silent for a few seconds, "Follow the main road to the nearest stronghold and occupy one first."

Obviously, it was the first time for the team leader to play as well.

"OK, let me see which way to get to the nearest base." The driver responded.

Huodao did not participate in the conversation. He just stood in the truck bed and looked around, taking in the dilapidated street scene.

Until he found that the small building with the second floor half destroyed by the artillery shell was getting closer and closer!
"Shit! Turn!"

He finally realized that something was wrong and quickly reminded them.

"I'm looking at the map! Damn! This car..."

Before the driver could finish his words, the material transport truck crashed head-on into a small building on the street.

The small building, which had already been hit by artillery bombardment and was on the verge of collapse, could no longer withstand the impact and collapsed with a loud bang.

The entire supply transport vehicle, along with the entire team on board, was buried in the rubble.

[Huo Huo’s real husband (Commander)]: “?”

[Huo Huo's real husband (Commander)]: "Why are the supplies suddenly 300 points less?! Is there a bug?"

Huo Dao looked at the [Redeploy Countdown: 9 seconds] in front of him and couldn't help but blink.

"Is the vehicle we are driving a supply truck?" he said in a low voice.

The captain, who had asked him to speak louder before, now lowered his voice: "Maybe... yes?"

"Um... sorry, I was busy looking at the map..." The driver was very nice.

"Ahem, it's okay, just let someone else drive next time."

"It's all because of the dream building. The house on the roadside will collapse... Who could have thought of this?"

"Do we have engineers? Can they come back and fix the car?"

"If it's repaired, can we still retrieve the supplies?"

The team members didn't have any negative emotions - everyone thought the matter was ridiculous, but also a little funny, and they were talking about it for a while.

While chatting and laughing, the six members of the team were resurrected at the birth point.

At this time, there were very few people at the birth point, and those who had been resurrected were all rushing to the front line.

——Looking at the chat channel, a fight has already started ahead.

Only one person stood still, holding a map in his hand, and gave passionate instructions:
"Team A advances two squares!"

"Team B will go around from the north and attack from the front and back!"

"Attention all teams in area E7, I'm going to call in a bombing! Be careful to stay away from the stronghold circle!"

"Why did Team C die halfway? Did the enemy infiltrate? Was it an enemy reconnaissance team?"

Originally, the commander's voice commands should only be heard by the team leader.

But now they were so close that they could hear it clearly.

The fire knife thief was embarrassed and immediately bypassed the commander and ran to the front line.

Captain Maximism remained calm: "No, we had a car accident."

"Car accident?" The commander finally put down the map, raised his head and looked at the team leader blankly.

"Yes, it's all about dream building." The team leader said firmly, "Okay, let's go to the front line to provide support."

After saying that, he led the team straight to the front line.

Without a car, they no longer took the highway, but just walked in a straight line.

Apparently, many people shared their thoughts. Not long after they walked, they saw tracks left by tanks on the ground, as well as roadblocks, walls, and even dangerous buildings that had been broken by tanks.

The armored team chose the wildest route to the front line.

They walked in a perfectly straight line!

All obstacles on this straight line were ruthlessly crushed and hit by them!

"Wow, that's awesome!" A teammate couldn't help but exclaim in admiration as he looked at the wild passage in front of him.

“It’s so cool to watch!”

"I'll drive a tank next time!"

Several people were extremely envious.

They climbed up a slope and saw a tank that had crashed into an anti-tank pile, with its upper half lifted high and its engine emitting white smoke...

The entire crew ran out and surrounded the tank in worry.

Four meters away from the side of the tank, there was a person standing there motionless, and another person was half-kneeling in front of him, and it was unknown what he was doing.

"What's going on with you?" the teammates shouted from a distance.

The crew member wearing a tank cap also shouted back: "Our tank is stranded! As for them, it seems they stepped on a mine, and they are defusing it now!"

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a loud "boom" and the mine exploded.

The two men were blown into the sky in an instant!
Black mud splashed up three or four meters high, and mine fragments flew out and hit the tank armor again, and were bounced away again with a clanging sound...

The crew members outside the tank fell to the ground instantly!
The Fire Knife Squad, which was still some distance away, was also shocked - their vision was distorted and shaking, and the image was blurry.

Fortunately, they were not hit by the shrapnel.

Huo Dao looked at his fallen comrades, speechless and dying.

"We haven't even seen a single enemy yet! And we've already lost a supply truck, a tank, a crew, and eight infantrymen?"

“Are non-combat casualties so outrageous???”

"This is still a chicken feather!"

　A little short today, make up for it tomorrow!
　　-
　　Thanks to [Big Porcelain Merchant] for the 1500-point reward.

　　Thanks to [Performance in the Wind] for the 100-point reward.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)