You said you were going to make games, how did you become the richest man without doing anything?

Chapter 339: Shinkansen Team Building, another weird bug in the game! Bullet effects are all random? (2 in 1)

At this time, a system prompt popped up in front of Lu Yu:
[Receive special care from girlfriend Liu Mengyuan, feel happy, get a critical hit, leisure points +300]

Lu Yu nodded slightly.

After having fun, you can get money. How cool!
And in front of Liu Mengyuan, a prompt popped up:

[Your skill proficiency improves, and the following skills are upgraded]

[Equipment Maintenance·Domain Lv2: Use Absolute Domain to surround the enemy's position and polish and maintain the target's combat equipment. Maintenance Effect: Increase the upper limit of the target's equipment's rigidity by 30% (can be further upgraded)]

She had a complicated look on her face.

To put it bluntly, this is a naval battle game that falls into the Thucydides Trap.

Because she was afraid of direct fighting and the hull could not withstand it, she, as a player, has been maintaining the equipment of the enemy ship recently, avoiding fighting and protecting the ship.

Unexpectedly, the more I polished it, the stronger the opponent's equipment became.
Now, the enemy flagship's main gun has almost become the weapon of the Eighteen Arhats - a hot vajra, which will undoubtedly deepen our fear of war.
If this continues, won't the cycle continue endlessly, until one day the situation completely collapses and both sides of the conflict spiral out of control?!

Liu Mengyuan covered her face with her hands.

I don't want such an ending...

……

Afterwards, the Taoyuanxiang tour group's train left Kyushu Island and arrived in Honshu.

We ate, drank and had fun along the way and arrived in Osaka.

Osaka is a key tourist city in the Kansai region, so Lu Yu asked his company employees to stay here for two more days.

We first came to Shinsaibashi in the central district of Osaka, which is the core shopping district with many boutiques, specialty stores, restaurants and large shopping malls.

Standing at the street corner, all you can see is the bustling crowds of citizens and tourists.

Lu Yu waved his hand:
"For this team-building trip, I hope everyone will feel free to shop. The company will provide each person with a 1200 million yen reimbursement credit. Spend as much as you want. If you don't spend it all, your credit will be automatically canceled upon your return."

The employees were shocked!

Wow, 1200 million yen is equivalent to the annual salary of an ordinary white-collar worker in the island country.

So, Mr. Lu just let everyone get it for free?!
The Chinese tourists around were also shocked. What kind of magical company is doing team building on such a large scale?

The employees began to chatter and discuss how to distribute the 1200 million.

"Why not go shopping at a used luxury goods store?"

"I heard that watches and bags in the island country are cheaper than in China..."

"I want to save it for when I go to Akihabara."

All Taoyuanxiang employees are looking forward to the upcoming shopping trip, feeling happy and resonating with each other. Leisure points +12000 points.

Seeing the system prompt, Lu Yu was quite satisfied.

very good!

This is just the beginning of earning points!
The 3 million R&D budget of "Codename Shinkansen" should be spent on things like this!

Moreover, the system cannot stop him from spending so much money, because "traveling along the Shinkansen" was originally the theme of game development in this cycle. This is not passive resistance. Everyone is obviously collecting materials for game development, which is only natural!

Hehehe, I am such a genius!

After a shopping spree in Shinsaibashi, Lu Yu took everyone to taste authentic Osaka cuisine at lunch.

Everyone started to eat Okonomiyaki, Kushikatsu, and Takoyaki. On this street, they also tasted the flavors from other parts of Asia as well as Europe, the United States and other countries around the world.

Moreover, on this street, many store signs are three-dimensional. In addition to the well-known "big crab", there are also green dragons, giant hands holding tuna sushi, extra-large dumplings and other shapes. Employees took photos to commemorate the occasion.

In the afternoon, continue to have fun at the cinemas, theaters, and European Village on the street.

After being tired from shopping, Lu Yu took everyone to Dotonbori in the south of Shinsaibashi for dinner.

This is also a landmark food spot, where employees are showing off all kinds of ramen, teppanyaki, conveyor belt sushi, and puffer fish dishes.
I also went to experience the crab set meal of "Xia Dao Le". In one set meal, you can eat crabs of different flavors: raw crab meat, boiled crab meat, crab meat baked rice, and teppanyaki crab.

On the second day of our Osaka trip, we went to the castle tower located in the center of Osaka Castle.

Xia Shangyu is an expert on the island, so she took the initiative to take on the role of tour guide:
"This building was built in 1583 and was once Toyotomi Hideyoshi's castle.

However, the former castle tower has been destroyed. The current castle tower is a concrete replica built in 1931, and the interior has been converted into a museum about the history of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Osaka Castle.

Everyone looked at the castle tower from afar. It had white walls and green tiles, and the ends of the eaves were decorated with golden tigers and golden carp with dragon heads and fish bodies. It was magnificent.

Now is the end of spring and the cherry blossoms are in full bloom.

Entering the castle tower, there is a small theater showing stories about Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Osaka Castle, and you can also try on helmets and haori.

On the upper floors, there are screens and miniature models depicting the "Summer Battle of Osaka," as well as the "Settings of Taikoki."

Finally, we arrived at the observation deck on the 8th floor and looked out at the street scenes of Osaka city from a height of 50 meters above the ground. The modern high-rise buildings, the Osaka Plain, the towering mountains in the distance and other scenery were all in sight.

Members of the "Codename Shinkansen" project team took photos while looking at the ruins of Osaka Castle.

Scene Artist Xie Ying: "I think Osaka could be designed as a stop along the route where people can get off the bus and move around."

Level Planner Pan Hao: "But, isn't this an FPS game about train travel? Why are you getting off the train?"

Producer Milk Sugar: "Hey, I think Sister Xie Ying's idea is feasible. We can have the protagonist of the game be forced to fight in the castle tower for some reason, and use the treasures inside as equipment..."

Copywriter Hao Shuwen's pupils trembled:
"Sister Toffee, with all due respect, our protagonist, Kitahara Kensuke, a deputy inspector of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, has encountered such a vicious traveler that he's forced to run to the castle tower and fight in Toyotomi Hideyoshi's armor?"

This complaint instantly brought everyone back to their senses. This matter sounds like a fantasy, but if you think about it carefully, it is indeed a fantasy.

Liu Mengyuan, who had been listening, smiled and said:
"I don't think it's a big deal. Mr. Lu has already stated that we must spend at least 3 million on this game. If you have any good ideas, feel free to add more.
Moreover, do you all think that Mr. Lu really brought everyone here just for fun?

In fact, Mr. Lu once gave me a new development hint on the train!"

"Oh?" Everyone's eyes lit up.

"Yes, there are two key words in this suggestion, one is 'the meaning of the journey', and the other is 'the scenery along the way'."

Xie Ying rested her chin on her hand and said, "So, if we put it together, Mr. Lu is saying that all the scenery along the way has meaning?"

Liu Mengyuan: "That's right, so I support you in developing the cities along the way! As for the villains, just make them as evil as possible. Gotham City already has pure fun people like the Joker, so what's the big deal?"

"Oh oh oh, I get it!" Everyone was instantly excited.

But the operations girl Lin Ying is still a little worried. This is tourism and adding seemingly insignificant attractions to the game. It sounds like the 3 million research and development funds seem to have all been spent on this. Is this... really okay?
……

Afterwards, we took the Shinkansen to Tokyo.

The first stop is Tokyo Tower, a red and white iron tower modeled after the Eiffel Tower in Paris, and is 333 meters high.

Everyone climbed up the Tokyo Tower and looked down at the city of Tokyo through the transparent observation platform.

The second stop was Sensoji Temple.

The symbol of Sensoji Temple is the Furajinmon Gate at the entrance. On the left and right are the wind god and thunder god who guard the temple. A huge red lantern with the words "Kaminarimon" written on it hangs on the gate, which is very impressive.

Inside the gate is Nakamise Shopping Street, which leads to the temple square. Many shops are lined up, filled with small commodities with various island styles. Employees are here to select traditional fans and paper trinkets.

There is a huge incense burner in the square of Sensoji Temple, and many tourists fan the smoke on themselves to protect their health.

The third stop is Akihabara, which is the largest electronics commercial district in the world. There are hundreds of electronics stores of all sizes along the street. The exclusive theater of the popular idol group AKB48 is also located here, and there are many AKB48 related products.

The employees found that the place was full of animation, comics, video games, and figurine stores, as well as many idol shops, anime cafes, maid cafes, etc. The company's LSPs were immediately excited when they saw the streets full of Cosplay boys and girls!
There are several large electronics chains on the main street, such as Yodobashi, Akihabara Radio Hall, Ishimaru Electric, etc.

With a budget of 1200 million, the employees went on a shopping spree, buying all sorts of new electronics, action figures, toys, watches, bags, cosmetics, and more.

After leaving Tokyo, the tour group continued north along the railway line, visiting Nagoya, Sendai, Hokkaido... In Hokkaido, everyone visited White Lover Park, which is similar to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Then, visit the summer fireworks display at Lake Toya.
Finally, after skiing for three days at Sapporo Kokusai Ski Resort, I flew back home.

……

After traveling for half a month and returning to the company, Lu Yu looked at the system prompts of a series of points earned and was quite satisfied.

Soon, this trip to the island country brought him points worth 360 million!

Moreover, it seems that everyone is gradually enjoying the trip and their plans are carried out.

Not far from Lu Yu, Liu Mengyuan was discussing the development ideas of "Codename Shinkansen" with other employees in the work group.

System Planner Shao Peng: "During this trip to the island nation, we've accumulated a lot of material. I think we can develop the cities we stop at along the way into explorable bases."

Zhao Yuhang, numerical planner: "I also think that the enemy types can be more diverse. They don't have to always be thieves and petty thieves. Our story is about the protagonist tracking down a conspiracy, so we can definitely let go of it and create some conspiracy twists!"

Copywriter Hao Shuwen: "Hey guys, are you guys really going to overdo it? I've been going bald thinking about stories these past few days."

Level Planner Pan Hao: "I'm more concerned about debugging the core gameplay, but there's been something strange going on these past few days. Have you noticed?"

Everyone: "What's going on?"

Pan Hao: "The Taoyuan Kaiwu Engine suddenly has some new development components for tuning the feel of guns. These components seem to have appeared overnight, and some of them are cutting-edge technologies. I've only seen them in the trailer for Wild: Redemption before."

Shao Peng: "Good boy, I initially thought Youyi came to discuss cooperation with us for ulterior motives, but I didn't expect them to actually give us their core technology?"

Zhao Yuhang: "Wu Liang, seriously, I'm crying. What internationalism is this?"

……

A few days later, Xiaohutuxian Toy Company sent people to deliver the first batch of gun handle samples produced by the factory to Taoyuan Township.

When we saw these samples, we were stunned:
The gun has a strange external shape, and the magazine is arranged completely randomly, not as symmetrical and neat as traditional firearms. The magazine has an unconventional wavy and spiral shape, making the bullet loading process more complicated.

The firing pin is also misaligned, and the sights are asymmetrical and oddly shaped...

Although everyone thought the gun had a strange shape, they still decided to try it out first.

As a result, soon after connecting this peripheral to Taoyuan Shenyou, two very strange bugs appeared in the game.

The first bug is that when firing a pistol, the trajectory of the bullet is completely random. In just a few moments after entering the game, the developers have already detected several different trajectory effects caused by this bug:
Spiral trajectory: The bullet takes a spiral path during flight.
Random direction trajectory: The bullet changes direction randomly during flight, sometimes flying upwards, sometimes flying downwards, which is completely unpredictable.

Arc trajectory: The bullet can turn after being fired.

Refraction trajectory: The bullet will be affected by the air or other factors during flight, causing refraction and changing its original flight path.

Bounce trajectory: The bullet bounces off an object and changes its direction of flight, possibly multiple times in a row.

The second bug is that after using this peripheral, each bullet fired in the game will also have different effects. The R&D staff has also discovered several effects -

Toxic Bullet: Releases poison after hitting the target, causing continuous damage until the target dies or is detoxified.

Healing Bullet: Releases healing effect after hitting the target, restoring the target's health.

Frozen Bullet: Releases a freezing effect after firing, freezing the target in place for a period of time.

Shock Bullet: Releases an electric shock effect after firing, causing additional electric shock damage and has a chance to paralyze the target.

Concussion Bullet: Releases a detonating concussion effect after firing, which can repel the target or cause an additional stun effect.

Everyone was completely dumbfounded!
It would be fine if each bullet fired had a different effect, but the problem was that the order in which these bullets appeared was completely random and there was no way to predict it!
How the hell are we going to create levels and gameplay?

Xia Shangyu came back to her senses and asked Hu Tu, "Old man, didn't I remember you saying that we wanted to make the most common firearms?"

"Yeah, yeah, I know you said that."

Hutu touched his graying beard.

“So, we basically didn’t spend any more time and effort developing new equipment. We simply modified the old products in our inventory, added VR sensing chips, and used them as peripherals.

Anyway, in our opinion, those products are just ordinary products.”

Xia Shangyu was shocked.

"Good boy, you're redefining normal."

In her opinion, the old man just wanted to give up and not bother with anything anymore, so he used the inventory in the warehouse to get by.

From this perspective, Mr. Lu's goal of recruiting a bad team has really been achieved...

Xia Shangyu was very anxious. After all, she was the one who introduced this "talent" and she had to find a way to remedy the situation.

"Old man, can we make a new batch of normal peripherals?"

She thought to herself, you could just use an ordinary gun-shaped plastic shell, there's no need to design it so uniquely, it might even affect the game itself, it's just adding drama to yourself!

After hearing this, Hu Tu spread his hands:
"It's too late. Our finalized drawings have already been sent to the foundry. I guess they've produced a lot of new inventory in the past few days."

Everyone was undecided, so they called Liu Mengyuan over.

After listening to this, Liu Mengyuan analyzed:

"It's not just a matter of existing inventory. If we modify the production contract midway, not only will we have to pay high penalties, but we'll also be too late. By then, many players who purchased the game might not have controllers available."

Everyone's face suddenly showed despair. Oh my god, what should we do?

At this moment, Milk Candy, who had been listening, timidly raised his hand:

"Hey, I was wondering if we could find a way to turn the bug caused by this gun peripheral into a game feature!"

Everyone was dumbfounded. How could this be forced to make up for it?
A shooting game where bullet trajectories and bullet effects are completely random is simply unheard of in the FPS market.

But if you think about it carefully, the famous work of Zizai Studio Group, "Zizai Mouth Cannon Life", is a TPS that is quite rebellious.

It should be said that they are worthy of being siblings. Milk Candy’s imagination is exactly the same as her brother’s.

Milk Sugar continued:

"As for the random effects themselves, I don't think you need to worry. We can't control the effects of bullets, but we can give players a heads-up in advance.

Just like Tetris, the shapes of the blocks that will appear in the next few rounds will be announced to the players in advance to facilitate their decision-making.

In this way, our shooting game will not affect the shooting experience too much, but will also test the player's on-the-spot response and strategic ability."

Everyone looked at each other.

It seems...it's not impossible?

It still feels a bit weird, but at least it feels like a game.

Seeing everyone hesitant, Liu Mengyuan said:

"I support Sister Milk Candy. Let's continue developing according to her ideas. We've already invested over 3 million yuan in this project. Success or failure depends on this!"

With Liu Mengyuan's help, all members of the project team can continue to work hard on development with peace of mind.

In the following time, the system not only popped up various proficiency prompts in front of her,

She felt very happy, great, the task of this cycle should be stable!
……

Time came to the beginning of August.

A few days before the game was released, major manufacturers launched a new round of crazy publicity campaigns!

(End of this chapter)