Chapter 385: Chapter 372: Real Men Don’t Need to Lower the Difficulty! _2
Translator: 549690339
However, most of the topics about “the future” were answered very conservatively by Fred.
Only for the upcoming “big event”, he was very certain, saying “It will definitely happen, but it might be a little different from what everyone imagines.”
Here, a small episode occurred, a player at the scene asked: “What exactly is the game that Lincoln mentioned as [unparalleled, unprecedented]? Give us any news, even just a slight hint, please!”
Fred thought for a moment and remembered Cloud Dream’s newly established [Cold Weapon Combat Technology Development Team] and the [Virtual Chang’an] where they fought daily.
He was very certain that the game the Boss referred to must be this one, as both the Boss’s attention to it and the investment he knew of so far proved this point.
But obviously, he couldn’t reveal it here…
So he weighed his options and answered, “Alright, I’ll give you two more hints.”
Everyone immediately perked up their ears, even Shuihua, who was shaking hands with Little Milkshake, stopped and turned her head to look at Fred.
Fred: “This is not only an [unparalleled, unprecedented] game but also a [miraculous, dreamlike] game.”
“Ah——” The audience immediately burst into a chorus of loud sighs…
When they tried to ask more questions, Fred just waved his hand with a smile, unwilling to answer.
Whether for the players at the scene or the ones in the live broadcast room, he teased them to the point where they were itching for more.
The comments were all saying: Cloud Dream people have been spoiled by Lincoln!
The liveliest topic in the player circle for the entire Sunday was this appreciation event.
When the players finally came back to their senses, they discovered: The players from Izumo were here to compete for the game’s first completion.
And it seemed… there really was hope?
How could this be?!
Who gets the game’s first completion is not important for Daxia’s players.
But whether the game’s first completion stays within Daxia or not is extremely important to Daxia’s players!
The discussion heat of related topics suddenly changed.
Because now it was no longer a competition between a few players but a competition between countries!
The hardcore streamers competing for the first completion suddenly received an unprecedented, tsunami-like surge of massive traffic!
Especially those streamers with the most advanced progress, their live stream’s heat skyrocketed like a rocket, multiplying dozens or even hundreds of times over in a short time!
Mavis reached out her hand and pinned the live streams of the top three in progress, then listed another 10 live streams according to their progress order.
At the bottom, she also marked the total number of anchors attempting the “First Encounter Speedrun”: [42].
As you can see, the number of players challenging the “First Encounter Speedrun” was scarce. Excluding those who just used the title to gain popularity, there might be fewer than 30 remaining anchors.
As for those who privately played the First Encounter Speedrun challenge in their spare time, there must be some, but the proportion of them referring to live-streaming was certainly not much.
Lincoln then understood: The speedrun player circle in this world seemed smaller than in the original world.
Moreover, in various aspects, it was a little rough, and they hadn’t even built a dedicated site yet.
“Should I build one?”
As the idea surfaced, Lincoln immediately thought of the pile of things on his hands, immediately shook his head and threw the idea out of his mind, refocusing his attention on the live-stream screen.
The current top three among Daxia’s anchors in progress were:
[Tim], [Kevin], [Drawing a Snake With Horns].
[Tim] didn’t look like a “bamboo pole”, he was tall and strong, as if he could physically hold down a frightened fat pig!
[Kevin] was not “wide”, although he had a small round face, he was actually thin and small, and even rarer in the niche speedrun field, a female player.
[Drawing a Snake With Horns] was an ambitious newbie streamer.
In the previous two days, his progress led all streamers by a wide margin, earning him praise and the nickname “Big Horn”.
Unfortunately, after being stuck at the [Church] mission checkpoint for a few times, he had to improve his character strength, and so his progress was slowly caught up and he has even fallen to third place now.
The players behind him were also struggling to catch up, and his place in the top three was already in great danger.
After looking at the situation of these three players, Mavis had already thoughtfully synchronized Izumo’s live streams in the same order on the other side.
Lincoln turned his head to look, and the most conspicuous were the first three live-stream rooms:
[Xichuan], [Da Sen], [Kato Tora].
It wasn’t clear if it was because there were fewer female players in speedruns or fewer female players in games like “Speed Chase”, but these three players were all male.
And as the game designer, Lincoln naturally saw at a glance that the current top-three ranking players in Daxia and Izumo, if ranked purely by progress, would be-
[Xichuan]-[Tim]-[Da Sen]-[Kato Tora]-[Kevin]-[Drawing a Snake With Horns].
Daxia’s players were obviously at a disadvantage!
No wonder the heat of related topics on social networks is getting higher and higher, and the players are getting more and more fierce!
“Wait a minute.” Lincoln looked over at Daxia’s side, at the live-stream rooms behind the top three.
“Why are all these streamers strangers? What about those streamers who fought for the speedrun last time during ‘Assassins’ Alliance’?”
Roger, Lance, and Warehouse Bird were indeed held back by the competition, but it wasn’t just these three competing for the first completion last time!
What about the others?
“Their positions are even more behind.” Mavis waved her little hand, shrinking and pulling the Izumo live-stream screens to one side, and then called up eight more live-stream rooms.
These were the progress of the top 10 players from the previous speedrun, and eight of them were still playing.
Lincoln looked through them one by one and found that their progress was indeed significantly behind.
“What’s going on? Did they suddenly not know how to play after switching games? Or did the previous games play too deep and they couldn’t adapt to the new combat system?” Lincoln guessed as he asked.
“Nope.” Mavis shook her head, “After the speedrun last time, they discussed on the forum and felt that the ‘dynamic difficulty adjustment’ would reduce the game’s ornamental value, and they were very resistant to this system.”
“Not only them. Actually, on social networks, especially on game forums, whether or not to enable the dynamic difficulty adjustment, there is a disdain chain!”
As Mavis spoke, she showed a screenshot of a forum post with the title-
‘Real men don’t need to lower the difficulty! Play it in its original state!’
“So…” Lincoln understood, “They have all closed the dynamic difficulty adjustment and are challenging the [First Encounter Speedrun] with a fixed difficulty?”
“Yes, yes, that’s right!” Mavis nodded repeatedly.
“Alright.” Lincoln understood and could appreciate their persistence.
After all, he had given players the option to turn it off because he knew very well that many hardcore players disdained low difficulty levels and always preferred to challenge higher difficulties.
But…
Can’t you guys read the atmosphere?!
“Is this first completion battle really going to be lost?!”