This is not a BUG, this is a game feature

The next day, Tianba Community.

The official account representing Tianba Studio issued a clarification announcement about the "blood lock" incident in the community pinned post, the official website homepage, and inside the game.

[Investigation results on anomalies in the "Galaxy" peripheral driver...]

As soon as the announcement came out, Yu Wenjie was finally avenged!

He couldn't wait to log into his Tianba community account and posted a post titled "I'm not cheating" in the digital technology section.

As soon as the post came out, it quickly attracted countless likes and comments from players. The most popular reply was the three words "Sorry".

Yu Wenjie was really suffocated.

In the past two days, the entire community has been scolding him, saying that he is a cheater, and that he has an ulterior secret deal with Brother Ba, so cheating will not be banned.

It turned out that he was innocent.

What plug-in?

He is clearly an unjust victim. He did not cause this problem. It was another player who triggered the driver bug.

If we have to talk about cheating, it should be Zhao Yunlong. After all, he can control the characters of other players through the network cable. Isn't this cheating?

Of course, this is a joke.

Tianba Studio has issued an announcement to explain the situation. This matter not only has nothing to do with Yu Wenjie, but also has little to do with Zhao Yunlong. To put it bluntly, it is a game bug induced by the driver.

Brother Ba has committed a heinous crime!

The players felt guilty for wronging a good person, but also felt speechless towards Brother Ba.

Why are you speechless?

Of course, this is because although Brother Ba admitted that the incident was caused by the Galaxy peripheral driver, he did not admit that it was an in-game problem.

"Don't talk nonsense! The game I made is perfect, there are no problems at all! The Galaxy peripherals are produced by Mirage Electronics. If you want to scold me, just scold Mirage Electronics!"

Mirage Electronics: "..."

Mirage Electronics was also speechless regarding the scapegoating behavior of the chairman of the parent company.

No, they made the equipment. There is no problem with this statement, but the drivers for the Galaxy peripherals were made by Brother Ba himself.

There is no problem with the hardware, but there is a problem with the driver. Can we blame them?

Okay, okay!

Who made Mirage Electronics be acquired by Tianba Studio and is now a subsidiary of Tianba Game Company?

Brother Ba has said so. Although Mirage Electronics is aggrieved, it cannot refute it. It can only take the blame and admit that it is their problem. If you want to scold them, scold them. Don't scold Brother Ba.

The only good thing is that because the Galaxy peripheral set is priced relatively high and has a single use scenario, not many players buy it.

That is to say...

Although this incident caused a lot of noise, it was only a small-scale commotion and would not affect the actual experience of the vast majority of players.

Anyway, we haven’t sold many sets of the equipment, so we should apologize, stop selling them, and issue refunds!

This is what Mirage Electronics thinks and does. Since the driver of the Galaxy peripherals has serious flaws, which greatly affects the normal environment of the game "Star Emperor 2", it will stop selling it first and slowly think of a solution.

You can’t continue selling until the problem is solved, right?

Then players can't... huh?

Chen Ba thought of many possibilities, including players filing for refunds after learning the truth, Galaxy peripherals being discontinued and delisted as soon as they were released, and becoming a complete joke, etc.

no way!

This was indeed due to poor consideration on the part of him and Mirage Electronics. They did not expect this situation to occur, and there was no better remedy.

learn from mistakes!

Chen Ba has thought about it. These Galaxy peripherals that have been sold should be recycled as much as possible. If they cannot be recycled, new driver patches will be released on the official website for everyone to download and install.

The driver written by Tiehanhan system cannot be used no matter what, so just use the original driver! Although the fit will be a little worse, at least there won't be so many problems.

But he never expected that after the studio issued an announcement to explain clearly, Galaxy peripherals not only were not returned or refunded on a large scale, but instead experienced a surge in sales!

That's right...

Previously, advertising was overwhelming all over the Internet and barely sold more than 10,000 sets of Galaxy peripherals. After the announcement was made, tens of thousands of orders were received in just a few hours.

This is not the point. The point is that all the players who placed the order asked not to change the driver. What they bought was the original one, and they will be refunded directly once the driver is changed.

And those players who bought Galaxy peripherals before now have no refunds or returns.

Even on the trading platform officially opened by Tianba Studio, some people are hyping up second-hand "Galaxy Sets".

Second-hand is more expensive than brand-new, you didn’t expect it, right?

"I really didn't expect this..."

Chen Ba's mouth twitched and said, "Is it because we didn't write clearly in the announcement? If they bought it even though they knew it was defective, are they mentally ill?"

"Write it clearly!"

"It is precisely because the announcement is clearly written, and even the process of how to trigger this driver bug is written out, that the sales of the Galaxy set have skyrocketed."

Yang Dong didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Please, take other people's roles, that's so cool!"

As for taking away the body, he would block the knife for the player whose body was taken away, and accidentally cause himself to be seriously injured and disabled... This is all trivial.

What everyone mainly wants to experience is the process of "taking over" other players.

This is so interesting!

It would be even cooler if you could still see the real-time picture of the character whose body was taken away after taking over the body. The main focus is on a "power leveling account".

"Well……"

When Chen Ba heard this, he couldn't help but hesitated and said: "Is this the so-called tauren?"

"Ahem, you are so perverted."

Yang Dong coughed and couldn't help but explain: "But it is indeed the reason you mentioned, that is, the character is awesome to others, which makes the players very excited."

It doesn't matter even if you pay hundreds of dollars for it, or even if you are seriously injured and lose blood.

"Then...then do I need to replace this driver?"

Xiao Lu was speechless as he listened. Aren't we discussing solutions? Why are Brother Ba and Brother Dong talking about the Tauren while they are chatting?

Should I change the driver?

Regarding this question, Chen Ba hesitated.

If it was a few minutes ago, then he would definitely support replacing the driver. After all, the driver written by Tiehanhan System had already caused such a big disturbance.

But now he feels that this driver doesn't have to be replaced...

"What do you mean by maintaining the status quo?"

Chen Ba thought: "The impact of this driver bug doesn't seem to be very big. There may be pros and cons!"

"But it's not fair!"

"The opponent has been taken away and has two lives, so I only have one life. Isn't this unfair to other players?"

"No no no!"

Yang Dong pondered: "You only saw the fact that the opponent had two lives after triggering the driver bug and was taken away by other players, but you forgot that after the opponent took away the life, you could not actually see the situation of the battle."

If your body is taken away, you have two lives!

But after being seized, the player controlling the character, that is, the person who initiated the seizure, cannot actually see the game screen and can only type blindly.

Whether this is good or bad is hard to say...

Two lives sounds unfair.

But if your opponent is blind and deaf, that's a different story. After all, as a fighting game, "Star Emperor 2" is still very demanding.

You can't even see it, how else can you operate besides defensive counterattack?

And this is actually avoidable.

If you want to avoid this unfair competitive situation, you only need to adjust the matching strategy so that players using Galaxy peripherals match players with the same device, and players with keyboard and mouse controllers match keyboard and mouse controllers.

"That's really okay..."

Xiao Lu thought for a while, if the matching was done separately and Galaxy Peripheral players could only be matched with Galaxy Peripheral players, the so-called unfair competitive conditions would be eliminated.

In other words, everyone starts with two lives, and everyone can "invite the gods"!

Then the nature of the game changes.

The original "Star Emperor 2" and the previous game "Star Emperor" were all relatively simple one-on-one duels.

However, this driver bug caused the original Solo duel match in "Star Emperor 2" to inexplicably become a 2V2 match.

In the first round, everyone invites gods, and it all depends on whether the gods they invite are reliable.

After both sides ask the upper body gods to leave, it is the critical moment for the two players to officially confront each other.

Anyway, everyone has two lives, and they will all be taken away by others. There is no such thing as two lives fighting one life.

"Hey! Wait a minute..."

As if he had thought of something, Chen Ba said thoughtfully: "Please bear with me, all the injuries suffered will be returned to the player who took the body. Isn't that right?"

"That's right!"

Yang Dong and Xiao Lu nodded in unison.

Seizing other players' bodies and manipulating their characters is a tauren behavior that will inevitably lead to divine punishment. And this divine punishment will be inflicted on himself for all the injuries he suffered during the seizure.

Otherwise, where would the two lives come from?

"Then if player A seizes player B, defeats his opponent for him, and reaches a high ranking, will player A get any reward?"

Chen Ba frowned and said, "And can this mechanism be used in official competitions?"

Take the GAL League as an example.

There are often multiple professional players in a team, and it is impossible for them all to appear in a game.

But under this special mechanism, it seems that the format of the game can be changed, allowing multiple players from one team to compete for the same role in turn, and then start a round-robin battle with other teams.

In this way, there is a possibility of one versus five in the game, where one person can defeat a team...

"How many people are taking over the house?"

Xiao Lu was surprised: "Is this okay?"

"sure!"

When reproducing the bug, Chen Ba discovered that the bug caused by the driver has no upper limit on the number of people in theory...

Of course, a theory is a theory.

In actual situations, it is very difficult to achieve this. After all, to trigger a bug, you must hit the opponent until the game "crashes and crashes".

However, in professional competitions, you can directly call the relevant data and fabricate a character who is "seized by five people at the same time".

The family must be neat and tidy!

Father and son go into battle, brothers fighting tigers. At this moment, XXX is not fighting alone, he also has the will of four teammates in him!

I wiped it and it lit up...

"We still need to change it so that we can see the game screen when fighting for the body."

Yang Dong explained: "Otherwise, if you ask God to play blindly, the game probably won't be very exciting."

"Can!"

“Not only can I see the picture, I think I can also do some tricks in the area of ​​impact feedback.”

Chen Ba had a sudden thought: "For example, if I punch you hard in the chest, the other people who take your body will also receive a punch."

Who said a slap can't make a sound?

joke!

Brother, one slap can hit four or five people at the same time. I wonder if Qili is powerful?

"Well……"

Yang Dong didn't speak, but Xiao Lu on the side had already thought of a scene that made people laugh.

Intel Team VS NVIDIA Team, the extremely popular "Double-English Derby" is about to begin!

OK!

Player Zhang San of the NVIDIA team used a Thunder Fist to directly call out player Li Si of the Intel team.

Oh my God! This punch hit the target, and Contestant Li Si received a "fatal beating" and lost the ability to move...

As soon as the camera turned, the five players from the Intel team all covered their crotches, and the injury feedback was conveyed to them almost at the same time, and no one was left behind.

Unfortunately, the parts included in the Galaxy Set have no lifeblood.

However, Xiao Lu felt that if the changes were made as Brother Ba said, there might really be a fatal blow and an outrageous scene in which five people were injured.

"But then again..."

Yang Dong scratched his head and said, "If I remember correctly, this situation of seizing a body seems to be very demanding on hardware performance?"

"right!"

It was okay if Yang Dong didn't say it, but he remembered it as soon as he mentioned Chen Ba.

The bug caused by this driver also has a hidden side effect, which is that it consumes computer performance.

The CPU and GPU usage will be very full, especially the CPU. If it's even slightly worse, it's really hard to get enough of it.

This is still a case of one person seizing the body. If multiple people seize the body at the same time, it will undoubtedly be an epic disaster for the player who initiates the body seizing and the player who is captured.

Maybe while I was typing, several people's computers started to smoke at the same time.

"real or fake?"

"The optimization of "Star Emperor 2" is not that bad, right? Besides, the current PC hardware performance is so overflowing, isn't it so easy to shut down?" Xiao Lu said with some doubts.

"What does a well-optimized game have to do with a computer that can't handle it?"

Chen Ba asked back: "What do you understand by seizing the body? Is it just a role of simply manipulating other people?"

not that simple!

The game caused by this driver bug seems to be two players controlling the same character, and the performance is the same.

But actually...

The characters controlled by the two players are not the same. Instead, in the original 1V1 game, a new XYZ axes overlap and an invisible character enters the game.

In other words, this is not a fight, it is just that at that moment, the character controlled by player A and the character controlled by player B were "replaced".

Therefore, when five people compete for one character at the same time, it seems that the game screen is a 1V1 duel, and there is no third character in the game.

But in fact, there are a total of six characters in the game, and the game screen is calculated in real time for six people, which is certainly not enough for ordinary home computers.