SFS #339 - Shinkansen team building, the game has a weird bug again! Bullet effects are all random? (2 i
#339 - Shinkansen team building, the game has a weird bug again! Bullet effects are all random? (2 i
At this moment, a system prompt popped up in front of Lu Yu:
【Accepting girlfriend Liu Mengyuan's special care, feeling happy, triggering a critical hit, Leisure Points +300】
Lu Yu nodded slightly.
It feels great to get money after having fun!
And in front of Liu Mengyuan, a prompt also popped up:
【Your skill proficiency has increased, the following skills have been upgraded】
【Equipment Maintenance·Domain Lv2: Use the absolute domain to encircle the position, polish and maintain the combat equipment of the engaged target. Maintenance effect: The target's equipment's rigidity strength upper limit is increased by 30% (can be upgraded further)】
Her expression was complicated.
To put it bluntly, this is a naval warfare game that has fallen into the Thucydides Trap.
Because she was afraid of direct combat and the ship's hull couldn't withstand it, she, as a player, had been maintaining the enemy ships' equipment to avoid war and protect her ship.
But unexpectedly, the more she polished, the more the opponent's equipment strength continued to increase.
Now, the enemy flagship's main gun is almost becoming the weapon of the Eighteen Arhats—a scalding vajra, which will undoubtedly deepen our side's fear of war.
If this continues, wouldn't it be a continuous cycle, and one day it will completely collapse, causing both sides to ascend to heaven together?!
Liu Mengyuan covered her face with her hands.
I don't want such an ending...
...
After that, the Peach Garden Township tour group's train left Kyushu Island and arrived at Honshu.
Everyone ate, drank, and had fun all the way to Osaka.
Osaka is a key tourist city in the Kansai region, so Lu Yu asked the company's employees to stay here for two more days.
Everyone first came to Shinsaibashi in Osaka's Chuo Ward, which is the core shopping district, concentrating many boutiques, specialty stores, restaurants, and large shopping centers.
Standing at the street entrance, as far as the eye can see, there are bustling citizens and tourists.
Lu Yu waved his hand:
"For this team-building trip, I hope everyone shops freely. The company will provide each person with a reimbursement limit of 12 million yen. Spend as much as you can. If you don't spend it all, it will be automatically canceled upon returning to China."
The employees were shocked!
Good heavens, 12 million yen is equivalent to a year's salary for an ordinary island country white-collar worker.
As a result, President Lu is directly letting everyone freeload?!
The surrounding Hua country tourists were also shocked. Damn, what kind of fairy company is doing team building with such a large sum of money?
The employees began to discuss what to do with the 12 million.
"Why not go to a used luxury store and buy like crazy?"
"I heard that watches and bags are cheaper in the island country than in China..."
"I want to save it for when I go to Akihabara."
【All Peach Garden Township employees are full of anticipation for the upcoming shopping trip, feeling happy, resonating, Leisure Points +12000】
Seeing the system prompt, Lu Yu was quite satisfied.
Very good!
This is just the beginning of earning points!
The 300 million R\u0026D budget for 《Project Shinkansen》 should be spent in this kind of place!
Moreover, the system can't stop him from burning money like this, because "traveling along the Shinkansen" is originally the game development theme of this round of the cycle. This is not passively slacking off. Everyone is clearly conducting game development research, which is justified!
Heh heh heh, I'm really a genius!
After a shopping spree in Shinsaibashi, for lunch, Lu Yu took everyone to taste authentic Osaka cuisine.
Everyone began to eat Osaka-yaki, kushikatsu, and takoyaki to their hearts' content, and also tasted flavors from other regions of Asia and countries around the world on this street.
Moreover, on this street, many stores have three-dimensional signs. In addition to the famous "Big Crab", there are also green dragons, giant hands holding tuna sushi, and extra-large dumplings. The employees took pictures one after another.
In the afternoon, they continued to go crazy at the movie theaters, theaters, and European Village on the street.
When they were tired of shopping, Lu Yu took everyone to Dotonbori in the southern part of Shinsaibashi for dinner.
This is also a landmark-level food base. The employees went crazy eating various ramen, teppanyaki, conveyor belt sushi, and pufferfish dishes on this street.
They also experienced the crab set meal at "Kani Doraku", where one set meal allowed them to eat different flavors of crab: raw crab meat, boiled crab meat, crab gratin, and teppanyaki crab.
On the second day of the Osaka tour, everyone went to Osaka Castle's central tower, the Tenshukaku.
Xia Shangyu was considered an island country expert, so she took the initiative to shoulder the responsibility of being a guide:
"This building was first built in 1583 and was once Hideyoshi Toyotomi's castle,"
"However, the original Tenshukaku has been destroyed. The current Tenshukaku is a concrete building rebuilt in 1931. The interior has been transformed into a museum about Hideyoshi Toyotomi and the history of Osaka Castle."
Everyone looked at the Tenshukaku from afar, with its white walls and green tiles, and the golden tigers and dragon-fish shachihoko decorating the ends of the eaves, glittering with gold.
It was now the tail end of spring, and cherry blossoms could be seen in full bloom.
Inside the Tenshukaku, there was a small theater showing a play about Hideyoshi Toyotomi and Osaka Castle, and you could also try on helmets and jinbaori.
On the upper floors, there were screen paintings and miniature models depicting the "Osaka Summer Battle", as well as "Scenic Taikoki".
Everyone finally came to the observation deck on the 8th floor, overlooking the cityscape of Osaka from a height of 50 meters above the ground, with a panoramic view of modern high-rise buildings, the Osaka Plain, and the mountains in the distance.
The members of the 《Project Shinkansen》 project team took pictures of the Osaka Castle ruins one after another.
Scene artist Xie Ying: "I think Osaka can be designed as a station where you can get off and explore along the game's route."
Level planner Pan Hao: "But isn't our game an FPS game about train travel? What are you doing getting off the train here?"
Producer Milk Candy: "Well, I think Sister Xie Ying's idea is feasible. We can let the game's protagonist be forced to fight in the Tenshukaku for some reason, and even use the collections inside as equipment..."
Copywriter Hao Shuwen was immediately shocked:
"Sister Milk Candy, excuse me for speaking frankly, but what kind of extremely vicious passengers did our protagonist, Keisuke Kitahara, a respectable police inspector of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, encounter that forced him to run into the Tenshukaku and fight wearing Hideyoshi Toyotomi's armor?"
This complaint instantly brought everyone back to their senses. This matter sounded like a fantasy, but thinking about it carefully, it was indeed a fantasy.
Liu Mengyuan, who had been listening all along, smiled:
"I don't think there's anything wrong with that. President Lu has already requested that we spend at least 300 million on this game. Add any good ideas you have,"
"Moreover, do you all think that President Lu is simply taking everyone out to play on this trip?
In fact, President Lu gave me a new development hint on the train!"
"Oh?" Everyone's eyes lit up.
"That's right, this hint has two keywords, one is 'the meaning of the journey' and the other is 'the scenery along the way'."
Xie Ying supported her chin and said: "So, if we combine them, President Lu means that all the scenery along the way has meaning?"
Liu Mengyuan: "That's right, so I support you developing the cities you pass through! As for the villains, just shape them to be as evil as possible. Gotham City has pure jokers like the Joker, so what's the big deal?"
"Oh oh oh, I understand!" Everyone was instantly invigorated.
But the operations girl, Lin Ying, was still a little worried. Adding seemingly unimportant attractions to the game while traveling, it sounded like all 300 million R\u0026D funds were being spent on the handle of the knife. Is that... really okay?
...
After that, everyone took the Shinkansen to Tokyo.
The first stop was Tokyo Tower, a red and white iron tower built on the model of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, reaching a height of 333 meters.
Everyone climbed Tokyo Tower and overlooked Tokyo from the transparent viewing platform.
The second stop was Senso-ji Temple.
The symbol of Senso-ji Temple is the Kaminarimon Gate at the entrance, with the wind god and thunder god guarding the temple on the left and right. The gate has a huge red lantern with the words "Kaminarimon" written on it, which is very impressive.
Inside the gate is Nakamise-dori Street leading to the temple square, with many shops lined up selling various small items with island country features. The employees picked out folding fans and paper gadgets here.
There is a huge incense burner in Senso-ji Temple Square, and many tourists fan smoke over themselves to protect their health.
The third stop was Akihabara, the world's largest electronics shopping district, with hundreds of electronics stores of all sizes along the street. AKB48, the island country's popular idol group, also has its exclusive theater here, with many AKB48-related products.
The employees discovered that there were animation, manga, video game, and figure shops everywhere, as well as many idol-related stores, anime cafes, maid cafes, etc. The company's perverts were extremely excited to see cosplaying boys and girls all over the street!
There are several large electronics chain stores on the main road, such as Yodobashi Camera, Akihabara Radio Kaikan, and Ishimaru Denki, etc.
With a budget of 12 million, the employees started a shopping spree! All kinds of new electronic products, figures, toys, as well as watches, bags, cosmetics... buying, buying, buying.
After leaving Tokyo, the tour group continued north along the railway line, visiting Nagoya, Sendai, Hokkaido...
In Hokkaido, everyone visited Shiroi Koibito Park, similar to Charlie's Chocolate Factory.
Then they visited the summer fireworks display on the shores of Lake Toya,
Finally, after skiing at Sapporo Kokusai Ski Resort for three days, they took a plane back to China.
...
After traveling for half a month, Lu Yu looked at the system prompts for a series of point income after returning to the company, and was quite satisfied.
Soon, this trip to the island country brought him a point income worth 3.6 million!
Moreover, seeing that everyone was gradually enjoying themselves and forgetting to return home in the later stages of the trip, plan successful.
Not far from Lu Yu, Liu Mengyuan was discussing the development ideas of 《Project Shinkansen》 with other employees in the work group.
System planner Shao Peng: "This trip to the island country has accumulated a lot of material. I think we can develop the cities we stop at along the way into bases that can be explored."
Value planner Zhao Yuhang: "I also think that the types of enemies can be more diverse. There is no need to always engage in petty theft and the like. Isn't our story about the protagonist tracking some conspiracy? We can fully play it out and create some conspiracy reversals!"
Copywriter Hao Shuwen: "Good fellow, are you guys putting pressure on me here? I've been racking my brains for stories these past few days and I'm almost bald."
Level planner Pan Hao: "I'm more concerned about the gun debugging that is the core gameplay, but there's been a strange thing these past few days, have you noticed it?"
Everyone: "What's the matter?"
Pan Hao: "The Peach Garden Kaiwu Engine suddenly has some development components for debugging gun feel. These components seem to have appeared overnight, and several of them are cutting-edge technologies. I've only seen them in the trailer for 《Wilderness Survival: Redemption》 before."
Shao Peng: "Good fellow, I thought Youyi Lai had ulterior motives when they came to discuss cooperation with us, but I didn't expect them to really give us core technology?"
Zhao Yuhang: "Wu Liang is real, I'm crying to death, what kind of internationalist spirit 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 Peach Garden Township.
When they saw this batch of samples, everyone was stunned:
This gun peripheral has a strange shape, the position of the magazine is completely randomly arranged, unlike traditional guns that are symmetrical and neat. The magazine presents a non-traditional wavy and spiral shape, making the bullet loading process more complicated.
The position of the firing pin is also misaligned, and the sight is even more asymmetrically strange...
Although everyone thought the gun was strangely shaped, they decided to try it out first.
As a result, after connecting this peripheral to Peach Garden Shenyou, two very strange BUGs soon appeared in the game.
The first BUG is that when shooting with a pistol, the trajectory of the bullet is completely random. Just for a moment after connecting to the game, the developers have detected several kinds of trajectory effects caused by BUGs:
Spiral trajectory: The bullet presents a spiral path during flight,
Random direction trajectory: The bullet randomly changes direction during flight, sometimes flying upward, sometimes flying downward, completely unpredictable.
Arc trajectory: The bullet can turn after being fired,
Refraction trajectory: The bullet is affected by air or other factors during flight, causing refraction and changing the original flight path.
Rebound trajectory: The bullet rebounds after colliding with an object, changing the flight direction again, and may rebound multiple times continuously.
The second BUG is that after using this peripheral, each bullet fired in the game also has different effects. The R\u0026D personnel also discovered several effects—
Poison bullet: Releases toxins after hitting the target, causing continuous damage until the target dies or is detoxified.
Healing bullet: Releases a healing effect after hitting the target, restoring the target's health.
Freezing bullet: Releases a freezing effect after firing, freezing the target in place for a period of time.
Electric bullet: Releases an electric shock effect after firing, causing additional electric shock damage and a chance to paralyze the target.
Shock bullet: Releases a shock effect after firing, which can knock back the target or cause additional stun effects.
Everyone was completely dumbfounded!
It's one thing for each bullet fired to have different effects, but the problem is that the order in which these bullets appear is completely random and cannot be predicted at all!
How the hell are we supposed to make levels and gameplay like this?
Xia Shangyu came back to her senses and asked Hu Tu, "Old gentleman, I remember you said we should make the most ordinary kind of gun, right?"
"Yes, yes, I know you said that."
Hu Tu stroked his whitening beard.
"So, we basically didn't spend any more effort developing new equipment. We directly modified those old products in stock and added VR sensor chips to them, just as peripherals.
Anyway, in our opinion, those products are just ordinary products."
Xia Shangyu was shocked.
"Goodness, you've simply redefined ordinary."
In her opinion, this old man just wanted to slack off and didn't want to bother anymore, so he used the inventory in the warehouse to make do.
From this perspective, President Lu's goal of recruiting a slacking team was really achieved...
Xia Shangyu was very anxious. After all, she was the one who led the introduction of this "talent." She had to find a way to remedy the situation.
"Mr. Hu, can we manufacture a new batch of normal peripherals?"
She thought, even if you just put on an ordinary gun-shaped plastic shell, it would be fine. There's no need to design it so uniquely that it even affects the game itself. It's simply adding drama to yourself!
Hu Tu spread his hands after hearing this:
"It's too late. Our finalized drawings have already been sent to the OEM factory. It is estimated that they have produced a large pile of new inventory these days."
Everyone couldn't make up their minds, so they called Liu Mengyuan over.
Liu Mengyuan analyzed after listening:
"It's not just the problem of existing inventory. If we modify the production contract midway, we will not only have to pay high liquidated damages, but also we won't have enough time. By then, many players who buy the game may not have a gamepad available at all."
Everyone's faces suddenly showed despair. Goodness, what should we do!
At this moment, Milk Candy, who had been listening, timidly raised her hand:
"Um, I was wondering, should we try to package the BUG brought by this gun peripheral as a game feature!"
Everyone was dumbfounded. Can this be forced to be justified?
A shooting game with completely random bullet trajectories and bullet effects is simply unheard of in the FPS market.
However, after thinking carefully, everyone realized that Zizai Studio Group's famous work, "Zizai Verbal Battle Life," is a sufficiently unconventional TPS.
It should be said that, as expected of siblings, Milk Candy's brain hole is exactly the same as her brother's.
Milk Candy continued:
"As for the randomness of the effect itself, I don't think everyone needs to worry, um, we can't control the effect of the bullets, but we can inform the players in advance.
Just like Tetris, what shape of blocks will appear in the next few times will be pre-announced to the players to facilitate player decision-making.
In this case, our shooting game will not affect the shooting experience too much, and it will also test the player's on-the-spot adaptability and strategic ability."
Everyone looked at each other.
It seems... it's not impossible?
Although it still feels a bit weird, at least it looks like a game.
Seeing everyone's hesitation, Liu Mengyuan said:
"I support Milk Candy, let's continue developing according to her ideas. We have already invested more than 300 million in this project. Success or failure depends on this one move!"
With Liu Mengyuan's words, the entire project team continued to work overtime with peace of mind.
In the following time, the system not only popped up various proficiency prompts in front of her,
She was happy in her heart, very good, the task of this cycle should be stable!
...
Time came to early August just like that.
A few days before the game's launch, major manufacturers launched a new round of crazy promotional offensives!