game trailblazer

Chapter 208 Summer Storm

Ever since he cleared "Blood Battle on the Bund" with the highest difficulty level, Li Wenbo rarely played this game, but this year's situation is a bit special. After one series of unpleasant things happened, he played "Blood Battle on the Bund" again , not only him, but also many students in the class, and even some who didn't play games before joined in.

It's the same today. After Li Wenbo entered the game, according to his recent habit, he first entered the three cheat codes of all weapons, unlimited ammunition, and invincibility, and then copied the most powerful weapon, the bazooka. The RB devils, whether they were dragging guns or riding horses, were all blasted to pieces, and even the armored vehicles that had to hide to face them, Li Wenbo could stand in front of them and bombard them calmly.This new way of playing also made him discover new fun, for example, he can use the rocket to jump to the high platform that he couldn't get up to, and get some things that he couldn't even use the cheat code, but because of the existence of invincibility, the high platform The spare blood bag really became a decoration.

After playing the game for a while, Li Wenbo felt his mood gradually improved. He pressed the pause button, picked up the magazine next to the computer, and turned to the color page advertisement in the middle to read carefully.This is a game advertisement about "Tunnel Heroes", which is actually a painting, which shows several militiamen crawling out of the tunnel in the donkey pen. One of them came out first and was leaning against the window and looking out. Also wrote a few lines, "The militiamen are ready, are you ready? On July 7th, "True Heroes" will face the little devils!"

There is no game screen in the entire advertisement, but Li Wenbo has a feeling of enthusiasm, and he really wants to rush into the game to fight. Unfortunately, "True Heroes" has always been very mysterious. Except for a few words, there is no game screen leaked at all. This made Li Wenbo very upset. Fortunately, during the club activities at the end of June, he finally saw a game demo screen, and the exquisite 6D screen immediately attracted his attention. What kind of game is Heroes?It is not accurate to say that Li Wenbo knows what type of game "True Heroes" is, because this game has elements of management and construction, as well as real-time battles, and even the characters in it can be upgraded like a role-playing game. He doesn't know which type of game to put this game in, but he is still very clear about one thing, that is, this game is very interesting and fun, and he has secretly decided to buy a set as soon as the game is released Come back and do some research.

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July 7th was an ordinary Sunday, but it became extraordinary because of the incident that happened in the Marco Polo Bridge area 7 years ago.At 59 o'clock in the morning of this day, it was still at the entrance of the Haidian Theater that everyone was already familiar with, and it was also a temporary stage, but with the background of different music, it showed a different atmosphere from the past.

"Tunnel warfare, hey tunnel warfare,

Ambush millions of divine soldiers,

Hey, millions of magic soldiers are in ambush,

A guerrilla war was launched in the Great Plain of Thousand Miles,

Villages and village households and household tunnels are connected into a piece,
The invaders dare to come,

The beating made him tremble with fear,

The invaders dare to come,

Beating others upside down,

All the people are soldiers,

All the people join the war,

Completely wipe out the invaders.

......"

The impassioned tune and the familiar lyrics quickly boiled the blood of the players on the scene. In addition, several seventy-year-old veterans of the Anti-Japanese War sitting next to them and the banner on the venue read "Big swords to the devils' heads" Cut it up", the only thing left in the players' minds is to buy a set of "True Heroes", and then go home and teach the devils a lesson.

Li Wenbo was no exception. In order to get the game faster, he rushed to the venue very early to line up. With this first-mover advantage, he successfully obtained the right to buy the first batch.After receiving the extremely thickly packaged game from the staff, Li Wenbo handed over the 8 cards prepared in advance, then hugged the game, and under the eyes of the players in the back row, he left the venue excitedly, riding Get on the bike and drive home.

Unpacking the package as always, Li Wenbo didn't bother admiring the accessories inside. Anyway, he knew that some of the things he brought every time were pretty good, so he took out the game disk, installed it on the computer, and then double-clicked on the desktop. Tunnel War" icon to start the game.

First came out a sequence that looked like a black and white movie, with the familiar theme song of "Tunnel Warfare", Li Wenbo immediately recalled the scene of watching the movie "Tunnel Warfare" when he was a child. Of course, this title did not follow the example of some game companies. I made up a piece of video from the movie, but imitated the style of the "Tunnel Warfare" movie, recreated a scene, telling the scene of the devils invading the Central Plains, and the soldiers and civilians from all over the country rose up to resist, and then cooperated with the voice-over "During the War of Resistance Against Japan, behind the enemy lines In order to resist the invading enemy, the soldiers and civilians in the base area launched mass guerrilla warfare, fighting by themselves and villages themselves, and created all kinds of ingenious tactics. The tunnel warfare in the Jizhong Plain is a glorious An example of..." The introduction highlights the feeling of that era.

After the title, a few people standing in the village appeared on the screen. Suddenly, a man with a white towel ran over and said anxiously to a man wearing a gray cloth hat: "Team...captain, there are devils and The puppet army is coming towards our village."

The man in the gray cloth cap asked calmly, "How many people have come, and how long will it take?"

The man wearing the white towel kicked a few times: "There is still a stick of incense to come, there are four devils and six puppet soldiers."

"Everyone, don't panic, let the masses go down the tunnel." The man in the gray cloth hat began to assign tasks in an orderly manner.

At this moment, a prompt flashed on the screen: "The first level, the first show. You still have a lot of time (15 minutes in the game, equivalent to 5 minutes in real time) to prepare, because there are not many militiamen in the village. , and also lacks good weapons, so you must use the built part of the tunnel to hide yourself and attack the enemy. Victory condition: all the invading enemies are destroyed. Failure condition: the hiding place of the masses or food is discovered. "

Li Wenbo looked at the time passing by on the screen, and couldn't help becoming nervous. He regretted not studying the game manual first, and suddenly he didn't know what to do.Fortunately, a prompt appeared on the screen at this time, suggesting that he arrange a few villagers to collect wood, bamboo, stones and other materials, and then arrange a few people to use the existing resources to build simple organs and traps.

Li Wenbo immediately followed Shan Ruliu's advice. He moved the mouse and clicked the collection button on the lower edge of the screen. He assigned half of the staff to collect the supplies, and then assigned the rest of the staff to dig a few pits at key locations in the village, and put in some chips. A pointed bamboo stick, or hang a mine.Time passed quickly, and Li Wenbo nervously watched the progress bar of the construction slowly increase. Just one and a half minutes away from 15 minutes, the construction work was completed, and Li Wenbo quickly evacuated everyone into the tunnel, and then Several militiamen were arranged to guard the key positions of the entrance.

As the alarm bell rang, the devils and puppet soldiers appeared at the entrance of the village, and began to enter the village in a big way.Not long after he walked out, a puppet soldier accidentally stepped on the trap and fell in. The sharpened bamboo stick inside made him howl and died.The remaining devils and puppet soldiers couldn't help but be careful, but when they pushed open the door of a house, they encountered a landmine exploding in the air, and another hapless devil was hanged on the spot.When this group of enemies finally found the entrance of the tunnel, only half of the four devils and six puppet troops were left. Waiting for a few guys to touch the tunnel in fear, soon there will be another flying from nowhere Bullets or red tasseled guns came out suddenly to meet them, and they were all killed before they walked 20 meters.A burst of passionate music played, and Li Wenbo won the first village defense battle easily. Only then did he realize that the game "True Heroes" seems to be quite easy to learn.

But when Li Wenbo continued to play, he gradually discovered that "True Heroes" is not easy. Not only the number of enemies is increasing, but the combat power is also getting stronger and more durable.From the puppet army and RB recruits at the beginning, to the later RB veterans and elite RB soldiers, the arms have also developed from the simplest riflemen to machine gunners, grenadiers, cavalry and special agents, etc. It is becoming more and more difficult to deal with.In addition to reasonably arranging manpower to collect resources (including cleaning the battlefield after each battle), Li Wenbo also needs to further develop the scale of the tunnels (from simple tunnels on the first floor to complex tunnel networks with two or even three or four floors) , rationally use resources to build organs and traps, and even take time to train the militia. Through combat and training, the militia grows into an elite militia, and even develops into sharpshooters, assaulters (using machine guns), swordsmen, scouts, etc.

Li Wenbo gradually figured out the characteristics of the game. As long as he makes good use of the limited preparation time before the start of the game, he can greatly improve our combat effectiveness and weaken the enemy enough. Opportunity to stand in front of the tide of enemies and complete the task of destroying the enemy and protecting the masses.

Other players who bought the game felt similarly to Li Wenbo. "True Heroes" is a game that is easy to learn but not easy to pass. Those players who don't know how to use resources effectively and allocate manpower reasonably always end up sooner or later. Sometimes the defense is completely broken, the enemy rushes to the place where the masses are hiding or storing food, or in some levels that need to stick to it for a certain period of time, it is impossible to reach the last moment.

Unwilling players began to look for the cheats of the game, so the game strategy book released by this shareholder wind became a hot commodity, and even the game magazines that published articles such as the complete strategy were also very popular, and even the sales volume was slightly lower. After flipping through it, "How many levels do you persist until" has become a buzzword for players to greet each other when they meet, and some good people even roared out the words "If you are a man, you must persist until the end".

Under the deliberate arrangement of Fengyun Interactive, the news of the popularity of "True Heroes" has successfully appeared on the pages of some newspapers, and it has attracted a lot of attention. Knowing the name of "True Heroes", the sales volume of the game has also set a record of 9 sets in the mainland in three weeks, and there is even hope to hit the 2 sets mark.

The hot sale of the game has attracted many follow-up works. For example, Weidi Company launched a game called "Tunnel Warfare", but they chose DoomToo's No.1 shooting game.The hot sales of the game also attracted the attention of pirates, but with the reasonable distribution of Fengyun Interactive, they managed to win about three weeks. Starting from the third week after the launch of "True Heroes", a small number of pirated copies came from the south. It spread out, and by the fourth week, the pirated discs had been floating all over the place like snowflakes. As a result, the sales of genuine copies began to plummet from the fourth week. After a long time, "True Heroes" still failed to break through 98332 sets A feat, the final sales stayed at [-] sets.

Chen Jingyi was also very sorry to see this result. "True Heroes" can be said to have taken advantage of the right time, place and people. The real-time strategy game "Three Kingdoms" that was released in May in advance, and the "Sword Inn" that was launched later Compared with "The Heroes of the Sui and Tang Dynasties", it is much worse. Although the performance has improved compared with last year, reaching more than 5 or even 5 sets, it still cannot get rid of the fate of having to rely on export sales to pay back. "True Heroes" originally hoped to achieve a balance of payments purely relying on sales in the mainland, but unfortunately it fell short in the end, and almost broke through the break-even point of [-] sets.Not only Chen Jingyi, but all the employees of Fengyun Interactive who participated in this marketing campaign felt the same way. They were very annoyed by the result, and felt that if they had worked harder at the beginning, the goal of [-] sets might have been achieved. It's a pity that there is no medicine for regret in this world, so the employees of Fengyun Interactive have to transfer their grievances to the game that will be released next, and prepare to work hard and achieve better results.

(End of this chapter)