Valentine's Day is also New Year's Day... It's only been a few days, and everyone's life is back on track.
Before the seventh day of the Lunar New Year arrived, Xiao Tan and Xiao Ling came back from Europe.
Feng Bujue asked Xiaotan why he didn't take his daughter-in-law on honeymoon? Xiao Tan said something to him - "Actually, if you love the right person, Valentine's Day is celebrated every day", and then Brother Jue gave Xiao Tan a gorgeous combo that you might not even see in fighting games.
Later, Feng Bujue heard from Ruoyu that there were two reasons for this: first, most of the relatives and friends of the two families came during the wedding, and everyone gathered happily this time. There is no need to visit relatives anymore; second, around the end of the new year, the probability of various supernatural phenomena will increase significantly, which means... Nine subjects will be very busy. Therefore, Xiao Tan, a "trainee" who had just joined the ninth department, was called back by Section Chief Gu, and went to "practice study" with Bao Qing and Qi Zhi.
After talking about these two objective reasons, Ruoyu added another sentence-"Besides, as long as the couple loves each other, every day is a honeymoon, you have never heard of the saying 'Actually, if you love the right person, every day on Valentine's Day Have you passed'?"
Feng Bujue heard the words, and immediately complained: "You guys should know that you are only quoting lyrics when you say this kind of line with confidence, right? And that song is obviously called "Happy Breakup"! And... you are the most People who are not qualified to quote this sentence, okay! You can't get rid of the seal to discuss a hairy love with me?"
After he finished speaking, Ruoyu used a gorgeous combo that you may not even see in fighting games.
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In short, this year has passed in such a harmonious atmosphere.
During the Chinese New Year, Dream Company also closed as previously announced—from New Year's Eve to the sixth day of the new year.
Originally, Feng Bujue didn't think there was anything wrong with the game company's Chinese New Year holiday, but after chatting with Ruoyu, combined with the sentence "The probability of various supernatural phenomena will increase significantly before and after the New Year's Day"... this A holiday seems more reasonable.
In any case, at midnight on the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, the online malls of Horror Paradise, Crazy Thinking, and Dream Company reopened exactly on time.
At the same time, the announcement that was released at the end of last month and has been hanging on the homepage of the official website: [The pre-selection rules for the "Peak Contest S3" in Horror Paradise will be announced after the year] has finally been replaced.
Instead, the content is the relevant description of the peak competition S3.
The "long-term competition system mixed with individuals and teams" that has been pondered by major studios for nearly a month has finally surfaced.
Like the previous two times, the competition system this time is once again surprising.
First of all, for the S3 game, you must form a team to participate. The number of teams is limited to seven people, and there is no substitute.
Secondly, S3 actually "has no preliminaries", or in other words, its "preliminary selection process" has already started at a point in time that no one knew...
Nearly a year after the game’s server launch, Dream Company announced a shocking setting: In fact, since the earliest internal beta version, Horror Paradise has always had a built-in "hidden score" mechanism. The mechanism will give each character a certain score based on their "performance" in the script, and this score... this score that the player doesn't know at all, is actually one of the important basis for the system to generate the script process, that is to say... It is directly related to the difficulty of the script that the player is ranked.
"Hidden score" is not the same concept as the "player combat power leaderboard" in the early days of the game, and the later "player comprehensive strength list"; Level 10 players try their best to single out a small OSS", regardless of factors such as level, equipment, skills, etc., from the perspective of the parties involved, the difficulty experience is similar; From the perspective of "strength", the two players are far behind, but the hidden score evaluation obtained by this behavior is not much worse.
In addition, the "hidden score" is calculated as the "average score", not the total score. It does not mean that the more scripts you clear, the more you can get more; "High and low" is the most accurate scoring mechanism, because this is a scoring mechanism that has nothing to do with equipment and skills, and purely depends on the player's "performance".
Of course, players who occupy high positions in the power rankings generally have not low hidden points; even if a large part of the "hard power" of professional players can be supported by the studio, if their own abilities are not good enough, naturally You won't get as many resources.
So... now it's easier to explain the "no preliminaries" thing.
Different from the previous two competitions that set both a "threshold" and a "preliminary round", in this S3, as long as the "threshold" is crossed, it will be a rematch.
And this threshold is - [the total hidden score of the seven members of the team exceeds 500], as long as the team meets this condition, it can directly enter the knockout stage.
What is the concept of "500 points"? Judging from the big data released by Dream Company this time, on the premise of excluding players whose scores are not stable below level 10, the average hidden score of Thriller Paradise players is 62 points; as long as the hidden score is higher than this score, It can be considered that the level exceeds the average value.
Looking at it this way, even with seven players who just reached the average level, the total score of the team is already 434. Of course, this kind of strength is not enough to qualify for the competition...
To participate in the S3 competition, the average hidden score of the seven members of a team must reach at least 71.43. Since this score does not include decimal points, it is basically the standard of 72 points per person.
Compared with S1 and S2, the "threshold" this time has been lowered in a sense; The requirements for other people will become correspondingly looser, which makes it possible for some people with hidden points less than 72 to participate.
After talking about the threshold, let's talk about the competition system.
The competition system of S3 is very simple. It adopts the form of knockout matches. In each round, all participating teams will pair up and start a duel. The losing team will be eliminated directly, and the winning team will advance until the last remaining team is naturally the champion.
And the matching method is "completely random", that is to say... even if the probability is very low, it is not impossible for the first round of a showdown like "Order VS Gods" to happen.
Also, if there is an odd number of teams in any round, then after the random match is completed, the team that was placed alone will have a bye and advance automatically.
Such a rule... undoubtedly adds a lot of contingency, a very likely situation is that the professional teams under the studio's command will encounter each other in the first round and one of them will be eliminated, while some casual player teams rely on Defeat opponents who are worse than yourself, or have a bye... go further than a strong team.
In this regard, the major game studios must be quite critical; but relatively, the majority of players are happy to hear and see.
There is a category of games in this world that profit by extracting money from 1% of in-depth players. The gameplay of this type of game is secondary. In addition to the players, the remaining 99% of casual players are one of the functions provided by game companies to deep players; for games like this, the operator does not need to think too much about the experience or opinions of casual players. Anyway, after making a quick sum of money, the server will be shut down, and after a while, the shell will be changed, and a new game will be launched, and it will be fished again.
But... Horrorland is not that kind of game.
After the S1 and S2 games, Dream Company discovered a problem—in the competition, the "sense of participation" of ordinary players is too low.
According to the previous competition system, the vast majority of non-professional players were almost wiped out in the preliminaries. Except for the extreme exception of "Hell Front", other casual players... no matter whether they are individuals or teams, even if they enter the semi-finals. It's a round trip. It can be said that from the start of the rematch, the game has completely become a duel between various studios and individual professional players.
Although this is a normal phenomenon, and players like to watch this kind of high-level competition, Dream Company still thinks...it needs to be changed.
Therefore, the new competition system this time, on the basis of ensuring that the level of participating players is "above average", has given the 99% of casual players a lot of room for performance; "the strongest team will win" and It hasn't changed, what's different is... this time, all kinds of teams, casual players and weird players who were difficult to advance in the previous competition system, all have the opportunity to appear on the stage.
Finally, let’s talk about the specific form of the game.
"Peak Contest" is just as its name suggests. Since S1, the theme of the competition has been fighting, and this time is no exception.
S3 will adopt a duel mode similar to S1's "Butterfly War", and the same format as the tennis team competition.
That is: three singles, two doubles, best of five games.
The first game is a 1V1 "Pioneer Battle".
The second game is a 2V2 "backbone battle".
The third game returns to 1V1 and is called "Battle of Generals".
So far, if one team has achieved three victories, then the game is over, and there is no need to play the next two games.
If there is no winner yet, then the next is the fourth game, the 2V2 "vice general battle".
If the first four games are tied 2-2, there will be a final game - "Battle of Generals".
In this way... to play five games, exactly seven people are needed.
In addition, although the order of the above five battles is fixed, the positions of the players can be changed every game. For example, the person who is the vanguard in this game can be a general or play doubles in the next game. You can't replace them.
Seeing this, many people must have thought of it... Everyone has heard the story of "Tian Ji's horse racing". If you can guess the opponent's formation before the game, it is not impossible for the weak to defeat the strong. Same as in S2, the match list for each round will be announced the day before the game or even earlier. This period is the time for both teams to engage in information warfare and formation games.
The above is almost the first wave of news about the peak battle S3 announced by Dream Company.
Feng Bujue read the relevant rules at the first time this time, but after reading it, a question immediately appeared in front of his eyes-there are only six people in the front line of hell, where should I find the seventh person? Where are the members