This is not a BUG, this is a game feature

Jiangning, Tianba Studio.

As usual, Chen Ba crossed his legs and hummed an unknown tune while sipping the scented tea he had bought at the market for a huge sum of money.

As a result, before taking a few sips of tea, Xiao Lu opened the door and walked in.

"How many times have I told you to knock before you come in? Knock first!"

Chen Ba was already numb to this rude and reckless Xiao Lu. I taught him to knock first when entering a door countless times, but he never knocked on the door once.

"Knock on the door next time!"

There was no trace of apology on Xiao Lu's face. He quickly sat down opposite Chen Ba and said, "Brother Ba, there is a bug in our "Ancestral Tree"..."

"oh?!"

After hearing this, Chen Ba quickly put down his legs, sat upright and said, "What's going on? Tell me quickly."

"The thing is like this..."

Xiao Lu talked about his findings, as well as the feedback he received from players, combined with his own recurrence testing, to make judgments about the causes of bugs and problems.

"With multiple ancestral trees formed by the same xyz axis coordinates, will there be a bug of abnormal growth of the model?"

At first, when he heard this, Chen Ba had no expression. After all, in his opinion, this was just a mechanism designed in advance!

What abnormal model growth?

That is obviously to prevent ancestor tree A from blocking ancestor tree B, so we simply do not generate other models. There is a restriction that only one ancestor tree can appear on each xyz coordinate axis.

Worried that Xiao Lu wouldn't understand, Chen Ba patiently explained to him: "This is not a bug, this is a unique mechanism of the game."

"Ancestral Tree" is a 3D game.

There are three spatial coordinate axes xyz in the game, and only one ancestral tree can exist at the same coordinate axis position.

Not just the same location.

Several adjacent grids, because they are too close together, will actually be counted as the same location, and a second ancestral tree will not be generated.

For example...

At the position (x, 1, y, 15, z, 3), an ancestral tree is generated. Within the circular range with the x-axis x1 as the center and a radius of approximately two coordinates, no second ancestral tree will be generated.

Therefore, the positions (x, 2, y, 15, z, 3) and (x, -1, y, 15, z, 3) will also be regarded as the same position.

Because the second ancestral tree will not be generated in this area, what should I do if the character dies multiple times in this area?

The answer is that the only ancestral tree will grow in size on the original basis to reflect the difference from before.

"I understand the mechanism."

Xiao Lu waved his hand and said: "What I want to talk about is the special situation born on the basis of this mechanism."

"As long as this ancestral tree dies in the same area, will its size model grow infinitely?"

"Infinite growth? No way!"

Chen Ba frowned and said.

Since the "Global Evolution" incident, he is now very cautious about any "infinite" game mechanics, for fear of creating something terrible again.

Under this mechanism, the ancestral tree will grow by absorbing nutrients, and its size will also increase slightly.

But there are limits to this increase.

After reaching this limit, the ancestral tree will bear one more fruit, and the cycle will continue until the tree is full of fruit.

"Then I finally understand what the problem is..."

Xiao Lu suddenly realized: "The threshold that limits the growth of the ancestral tree is to bear fruit. But if this ancestral tree cannot bear fruit, it will be like Teacher Saitama in "One Punch Man", and it will grow infinitely."

No fruit?

Um? How could this happen?

The mechanism of this game is that after the character dies, he will leave a special legacy for the descendants who pass by in the future to inherit.

The so-called inheritance is the fruit hanging on the ancestral tree. How can it be possible without fruit? unless……

Chen Ba thought of something.

Seeing his hesitant expression, Xiao Lu nodded and said, "No need to doubt it, it's just what you thought, the first trap in the novice level!"

"Fuck..."

Chen Ba's forehead was covered with black lines, and he felt that his intelligence had been insulted.

The novice level, isn’t that free experience and benefits? If you throw some rice on the keyboard, the chicken will be able to get through it, right?

There are people here who have died, and they have died more than once. The place where they died is exactly where the first trap appears. Is this a person?

"I also think it's outrageous, but it's precisely because it's outrageous that this bug was discovered, right?"

Xiao Lu explained: "The current situation is that his ancestral tree does not bear fruit, but it keeps growing in size."

"And after dying more than a thousand times, he encountered a new bug and his perspective was stuck."

The situation Yao Mao encountered was not just a bug, but the result of multiple bugs superimposed.

The first bug is that the ancestral tree model grows abnormally and has no upper limit. The second bug is that after his death, the resurrection perspective is locked on the ancestral tree.

"The perspective is locked on the ancestral tree?"

When Chen Ba heard this strange description, he couldn't help complaining: "Then the game just freezes?"

"The strange thing is that the game did not freeze directly, but continued to run normally. Because the player's perspective is locked behind the ancestral tree, the protagonist tree treasure is still controlled by someone, and he is still going through the levels..."

After repeated operations, Xiao Lu confirmed that Yao Mao was not lying and that this situation really existed.

That is, the player is trapped in the ancestral tree, but the character can still move freely, and even go on adventures as usual.

"This is indeed strange..."

When Chen Ba heard this phenomenon, his first reaction was not panic, but shock.

Because "Ancestral Tree" does not have a so-called computer hosting mechanism, that is to say, only players can control the game characters.

Now the player is stuck in a bug and is locked in the dark room of the ancestral tree, unable to move. How can the character still move? This is not common sense!

Could it be haunted?

With strong curiosity, Chen Ba took Xiao Lu to the computer, and once again reproduced the scene where the player was trapped in the ancestral tree, but the character still acted as before.

"This is not human control..."

Xiao Lu couldn't understand the underlying code of the game, but Chen Ba did.

The problem lies with this ancestral tree that has grown abnormally but has no fruit!

The code of the ancestral tree is written by Tiehanhan system, which has some magical properties in itself. Under normal circumstances, nothing would happen.

But when the player died more than a thousand times at the same location and cultivated the ancestral tree to a size that couldn't fit on a screen, the tree obviously mutated.

As a result of this mutation, the ancestral tree will take away the player's control over the character.

Once the character controlled by the player dies and is resurrected, there is a very high probability that the Ancestral Tree will seize control and then forcefully log in to fight.

Same thing.

When the character controlled by the ancestral tree dies and is about to be resurrected, the perspective is locked in the ancestral tree, as if the imprisoned player can take back control of the character.

"One time, one person, one person!"

Chen Ba explained: "You can understand that this ancestral tree thinks you are a loser, and it wants to take action personally, and then you are locked in a small dark room."

"Blank!"

Xiao Lu has never been so speechless in his life. What does it mean that the ancestor tree dislikes him and decides to fight for him?

Are mere humans and machines looking down on players?

…

Because the incident happened suddenly, many players were not aware of the seriousness of the problem, and Tianba Studio suddenly issued an announcement.

In the announcement, the player Yao Mao was thanked for his feedback and the cause and explanation of the problem were given.

"To sum up, when the ancestor tree cultivation reaches a certain level, the human-machine hosting mode can be unlocked. This is a hidden mechanism specially designed by us to free the players' hands and reduce the burden on the players..."

No one paid much attention to the last paragraph of the announcement. What everyone cared about was only the first two paragraphs of the announcement.

What the hell?

If you die near the same ancestral tree more than a thousand times, will you unlock the advanced human-computer hosting and automatic level-breaking mode?

OK OK!

Ancestors are manifesting themselves, right?

When you can't pass a level and your mentality is shattered, you can directly ask your ancestors to take the number. You can pass the level while lying down with your hands free. This is so cool!

Players have said that this hosting mechanism is good, and Ba Ge is so considerate of the players.

The only player who knew the inside story, Yao Mao, who first reported the problem to Tianba Studio, couldn't laugh at all at this moment.

Blanch!

What kind of human-computer hosting is this?

His hands are indeed freed, but the problem is that this is not a trusteeship initiated by him! But this ancestral tree insisted on grabbing control, and the man was addicted to food, so he took it from him forcefully.

In other words, he didn't want to find any human-machine hosting at all, nor did he want to free his hands.

But this ancestral tree was too domineering and insisted on grabbing control, so it became a situation where he and the ancestral tree had a game, and whoever lost went into the dark room.

"Is there any mistake?"

"The game I bought, the game I paid for, why should I play it alone?"

Yao Mao regretted it very much. If he had known that this was so addictive than the ancestral tree, he should not have raised this thing.

This is just great.

He paid for the game, paid for the internet and electricity, and owned the computer. As a result, the game could only be played by one person, and no one could escape.

After so many years in the gaming industry, this is the first time Yao Mao has encountered this kind of thing.

I have to say, this is quite a bit like playing Contra with your classmates when you were a kid, competing for the controller, and then making a three-chapter agreement, one person and one life.

"Sorry, we are collecting information and verifying the issues you have reported. Please wait patiently..."

After calling the customer service number of Tianba Games and learning that this problem seemed unlikely to be solved in a short period of time, Yao Mao accepted his fate.

Play, play!

Isn’t it just sharing the game with humans and machines, one person has one life? Anyway, humans and machines are no good at playing games, and a life will be lost quickly, so it will be over with a little patience.

But what Yao Mao didn't expect was that man-machine progress would be so fast!

Yesterday, I was struggling with my skills, and the various operations were simply laughable. However, the next day, I was back to normal, and I played quite decently, and died even later than him.

"ah?"

Yao Mao couldn't stand it anymore after realizing that the broken machine would still improve and might even surpass him and clear the game before himself.

You can’t lose to anyone but a human machine!

Otherwise, if word spreads, how will everyone think of him? What do friends and family think of him? What does Brother Ba think of him?

No, you must rush through this game before the human and machine, and you must not let the ancestral tree get ahead of you. Otherwise, what face would he have to continue playing the game "Ancestral Tree"?

"Oh, that's not right..."

Just when Yao Mao was fighting for his life and staying up all night just to get through the level ahead of the human and machine, he suddenly realized something was wrong.

Why do you have to fight so hard?

If the human-machine consciousness of the ancestral tree needs to be cleared, then let it be cleared! Maybe once the game is cleared, this farce will stop?

It's not impossible!

After all, a human-machine is just a human-machine. If the game is cleared and there are no subsequent levels, is it still necessary for it to pass the level?

Thinking of this, Yao Mao breathed a sigh of relief.

Not only was he relieved, he was even a little happy to see the results. After being taken away from the control of the character, he did not want to take it back, but just waited and waited.

Love as much as you like!

If the ancestral tree has a number to fight for, then let it do so. Yao Mao wants to see what this man-machine is going to do?

The people from Tianba Studio also had the same idea as him.

Chen Ba is also testing whether the strength of the ancestral tree account can be used to clear the game? If so, what happens after completing the level?

If not, what happens? Will the operating proficiency of this human-machine evolve?

The answer is surprising.

The player doesn't interfere, just stay in the dark room and let the ancestral tree do its thing, and it can really clear the game.

However, after the game is cleared, the "achievement" will not pop up, nor will the exclusive animation for clearing the level appear. It will be calm as if nothing happened.

But this is just an illusion!

Chen Ba, who monitored the game changes in real time through the background, discovered that after the game was cleared through human-machine hosting, all the ancestral trees on the map would disappear, except for the one that was huge due to a bug.

Then……

A scene that shocked Chen Ba and Xiao Lu, made everyone present speechless, and shocked the entire gaming industry appeared.

The game "Ancestral Tree" originally only had preset levels, but after completing the level, a new level appeared!

"Fuck!"

Chen Ba swore to God that the extra level was really not his fault. He also asked Xiao Lu whether it was a hidden level designed by Xiao Lu.

What Contra underwater level?

fart!

If "The Ancestor Tree" really has such a hidden level, can it be hidden from the main producer Chen Ba?

Precisely because he knew that there was no such hidden level in the game, he was shocked because this level was completely "extra".

What does the extra mean?

This means that the game has undergone changes that even he, the main producer, did not expect, and he has actually started to derive new levels by himself!

OK OK!

Xiaoshu, you are already a mature game. Can you try to deduce the levels yourself, update the map yourself, and support yourself?

Thinking of this, Chen Ba and Xiao Lu looked at each other.

If this is the case, then why do we need these people? Do you still need a game operation and maintenance team?