Chapter 102: A New Batch of Newbies

Back on the official website.

- Breaking news! The female mercenary was flirting with Administrator Dawn!

- Shocking news! The administrator slept with a female mercenary!

- It was said that they did it for five days straight!

- Their child is already 5 months old!

- We are all adults who can play games for seven days a week. Please be mature! Don't be so naive! So what about the process animation? What about the CG plot? How could they skip it? No CG, bad review!

- Hahaha, you guys think NPCs can't surf the Internet, so you can spread rumors about them without losing their favorability? Hahaha.

Not only were the test players excited, but the non-test players were also joining the post for fun.

At this moment, the artist, Escaping Mole, jumped out and created a separate post.

- Here are the drafts! (Picture) (Picture) (Picture)

Ya Ya: !!!

Teng Teng: Is, is this something you can read without spending money? (Nosebleed)

Night Ten: Brother Mole is da best!

Ample Time: Awesome!!!

Escaping Mole: Hey hey hey, don't panic brothers, it's just a draft, please wait for me to color them!

[Escaping Mole has been muted for 12 hours]

Old White: ?!

Irene: Danger! (?° ?? ?°)

Light: Don't post strange pictures. All obscene pictures will be prohibited in the future. Although our server complies with local laws and regulations, we are a serious company and the game is also a serious game. Please restrain yourself and don't post any pictures that are not family-friendly.

- Although the qualifications for the game are only issued to adults, anyone can enter the official website. There are people of all ages on the forum, so such obscene pictures are really not suitable to be uploaded.

- Wasteland Online is a fun-oriented game that focuses on easy entertainment and leisure development. There are no obscene scenes. This game will not promote micro-transaction, let alone pornography.

- If anyone posts obscene pictures, first-time offenders would receive a formal warning and be banned for a certain period of time, the second-time offenders would be directly listed on the dangerous account lists, and the third-time offenders would be permanently IP banned and kicked out of the game.

Since Chu Guang discovered that Little Seven could operate the computer instead of himself, Chu Guang even let Little Seven manage stuff like that.

After all, if it was manual management, he really couldn't handle thousands of posts every day.

In addition, Chu Guang had also instructed Little Seven to highlight interesting strategy posts for him, so he could take a look at them when he was free.

He needed to pay more attention to those highlights.

What if there are some good ideas?

Hehe I’ll just add them to the alpha 0.6 version!

Night Ten: Damnnit, I thought mods were asleep!

Eye Owe Money: I see, so the game designer will only come out if someone posts obscene pictures!

Good_names_are_taken_by_dogs: Spread the words around, the game designer was reading NSFW posts during work hours!

Chu Guang: ...

Damn this bunch of trolls...

Ample Time: Alas! I feel sorry for my Brother Mole. He just drew a few pictures, but he got ruthlessly punished. It's so miserable!

Teng Teng: Since you can't draw doujinshi of the administrator and the female mercenary, how about... Brother Mole, how about changing the female mercenary to a male? (o?▽?)o

Night Ten: I propose that you draw Teng Teng and Yaya!

Gale: Second this!!!

Irene: Teng Teng and Yaya (?° ?? ?°)

Mosquito: !!! Goblin Technology will sponsor one silver coin for the picture!

Yaya: What the hell?? (。 Д 。;)

Teng Teng: (?‵□′)?╰?╯

...

With the end of the transaction with the Horseshoe Merchants Association, October soon rolled about.

As the vast majority of experienced survivors predicted, winter came earlier than ever.

It was just the beginning of October, but the daily average temperature on the surface had dropped from single digits to below zero. As the howling cold wind and falling snow swept the ground, it only took one night for the snow on the surface to build up from sole-deep to knee-deep.

The snow did not keep falling.

On a rare sunny day, the endless ruin ushered in a group of energetic and enthusiastic new players.

They awakened from the comfort of the culture chambers.

Looking at the extremely real bodies and the surrounding environment before them, they were shocked, surprised, and even ecstatic to a point that they couldn't breathe.

Chu Guang locked the permission to open the door and gave them ten minutes to put on clothes and adjust their emotions so that they would not do shameless things in public.

Then he used the broadcast to remind them to gather in the central lobby on the B2 floor.

"Holy shit! Holy shit!....! It is really a virtual reality technology!"

"Shocking, I'm not dreaming, am I!?"

"Pinch me!... Huh? Why doesn't it hurt at all?"

"You idiot! Didn’t you learn anything after waiting on the official website for more than half a month!? It is pain shielding, do you understand pain shielding?"

𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

"Hehehe, can you open it? I want to open it..."

"...???"

Facing these shocked newcomers, the old players were not surprised. After all, they also had similar reactions in the past.

In addition, new players always entered the game batch by batch, so it had become one of the traditions or fun of this game to see the embarrassing behaviors of new players.

"Oh my. That guy is not bad. He isn't surprised at all, he must be a veteran player."

"How do you know that he is not scared silly? Look at those pupils, they are all dilated."

"Alas, the qualities of this batch of new people are not that great, their psychological endurance is not strong, and their reactions are too exaggerated."

"Give me a break! You even have the audacity to say this! I clearly remember that when you just entered the game, you even wanted to take off your pants in front of everyone, but you were stopped by the people around you."

"Okay, okay, you can shut up."

Chu Guang was also watching them closely.

He was waiting for everyone to arrive.

The next moment, several screams suddenly came from behind the crowd.

Chu Guang looked up and found a white bear with a length of about 2.5 meters, holding on to the door frame timidly, its bear face popping out from the north entrance of the square nervously.

"Why... Why am I so hairy?!"

Many players nearby were taken aback, and instinctively moved away.

"Holy shit! There is a bear!"

"Bear?! Where?"

"Wow!"

The old players were rather calm.

After all, there was even a Lizardman in the shelter, so what was so strange about having a bear?

This game would occasionally give out special accounts, either with special talents or with a genetic sequence different from that of normal players.

As for Chu Guang?

He was even calmer.

After each player logged in, their genetic sequences would be updated in the Shelter Resident Directory provided by the system. He was also the first to see the player's attribute panel.

[ID:

Roshan

]

[Genetic sequence:

Mutants·Bear

]

[Level:

LV0

]

[Attributes]

[Strength:

9

]

[Agility:

6

]

[Constitution:

7

]

[Perception:

7

]

[Intelligence:

3

]

[Talent]

[Cold Resistance.

Highly resistant to severe cold, not good at hot environments, and subject to additional burn damage.

]

[Rough Hand.

Higher endurance, and difficulty in operating complex machinery.

]

[Physical regeneration.

Stronger resilience, difficult to level up genetic sequence level.

]

The agility, constitution, and perception of this player were one point lower than that of Garbage; They had one higher point in strength and intelligence.

Of course, they were comparing between mutant genetic sequences when they were both LV0, but Garbage had already reached LV2.

Although the initial attributes of the mutant sequence were generally stronger than those of the five mainstream sequences, the growth-weakening debuff that came with the mutant sequence was a serious flaw.

A great example was Garbage.

Obviously, he was the first few players who entered the game, but his level had been suppressed for quite a while. He had been playing the game for more than half a month but he was still only LV2, which was really embarrassing.

Moreover, the characteristics of Rough Hand made them more inclined to engage in primitive activities, and it was difficult for them to operate the equipment as easily as normal humans.

Still using Garbage as an example. Even if the trigger and grip were improved, it was difficult for him to operate light weapons.

Anyway, Chu Guang's feeling was that the dude had given up using a gun and had completely embarked on the path of physical evolution. If he could fight in close combat, he would, but if he couldn’t, he would throw javelins.

Most players were happy to team up with him.

After all, who wouldn’t love tanks?

If he couldn't get behind the enemy lines, he would be a target, but if he could, it would be a massacre!

When new players first saw the bear, they were all panicked, but after discovering that this bear seemed to be very timid, they leaned forward curiously.

At this time, a short-haired female player named Tail quickly walked around and curiously stretched out her hand to grab Roshan’s tail, which scared the bear to jump forward.

"What are you doing?!"

Tail smiled. "Bro, your account is really awesome! How much did you pay for this account?"

"I, I, I, I applied for it normally and waited for a long time. As for how much I spent... There is no option for me to pay."

Another long-haired female player named Sisi came over as well, and curiously pulled the fluffy tail, scaring the bear into leaning its back against the wall.

"Speaking of which, why are you using such a strange name, Roshan?"

"I, I, I, I wanted to be called Rosan, but I made a typo. This game doesn’t have a rename function, so I can’t change it.."

Sisi suddenly revealed an evil smile.

"Understood, I will go to the forum to register an alt account called Rosan."

"Please don’t...."

Tail touched her chin and thought for a while, then her right fist suddenly hit the palm of the other hand.

"It's decided, I'll call you Roro from now on! And you will be my mount. Wait, let me check if you have that..."

Roro almost wanted to cry.

"Go... Go away! I'm a girl!"

Tail laughed even more happily. "It's okay, me too! Hurry up and let me check it!"

Sisi grunted at the side, "Hey! Are you a pervert?"

"Of course not, how can a woman be a pervert!" After a lot of yelling, Tail finally let go of the bear in disappointment and smacked her lips. "Tsk, there’s nothing."

Needless to say, that furry animal was still very attractive to female players.

The sad thing was, this bear was very timid and was not domineering at all. She was completely unlike mutant brown bears on the wasteland. They could even kill a Creeper with just one slap.

But having said that, if players in the mutant sequence didn't have that organ... Can she be considered a male bear or a female bear?

Emmm...

Whatever.

The question was too difficult for Chu Guang.

He decided to just stick to the player's gender when referring to them.

After all the players arrived at the lobby, Chu Guang cleared his throat loudly to signal them to be quiet. Before speaking in a solemn voice, "First of all, I have good news to tell you. The war is over!"

"Bad news is, our world has changed beyond recognition. If you expect to go home with your luggage and find your mother right away, it'd obviously be impossible."

"This year marks the 200th anniversary after doomsday. Fortunately, we have successfully survived the most difficult years. To be able to stand here today, you are already more fortunate than 12 billion people before you. I now need you to recognize what situation you are in as soon as possible, and then fulfill your declaration under the banner of the Federation of People. We will rebuild our homeland!"

"This robot next to me is my assistant. You can call it Little Seven. You can ask it any questions about the shelter or other things you don't understand."

Just like many times before, Chu Guang announced the rules and regulations of the shelter to the hundred players who had just climbed out of the culture chambers as the administrator of the shelter.

The cutscenes of each player when they just entered the game were the same, but the alpha 0.5 version was slightly different from the previous versions. Chu Guang had added a special task for old players who had reached the citizen level.

That was, to help newbies to level up.

All players who had reached the level of citizenship and received a VM device could receive the mission, Passing The Torch, in the mission system.

The mission content was very simple.

Players who received the mission could choose up to three newbies and become their novice guides, as long as they could help them to level up from LV0 to LV1 within a week, they would receive a hundred contribution points and ten silver coins as rewards.

One hundred contribution points were not attractive to players who reached the citizen level, but the reward of ten silver coins was still very attractive.

Like players of the strength type, as long as they kept cutting down the tree until they were exhausted, they could almost reach LV1 by simply cutting trees two days in a row.

Other sequences’ leveling required some skills. Basically, except for the intelligence type, it was not too difficult to level up from LV0 to LV1, and they could almost complete the mission in about three days.

While leading people to level up, they could also do other tasks to make money, and they could also bring three minions at a time. It was basically free money, so why not do it?

In addition, newcomers with genetic sequence level LV0 could also receive the related task through the public notice in the lobby.

They could choose a shelter veteran with VM equipment to serve as their novice guide.

As long as they leveled up to LV1, they could get eighty contribution points and eight silver coins, which was basically equivalent to the normal twelve-hour income of new players.

This numerical design was very reasonable.

The reason for launching the mission was to allow the newbies to quickly become familiar with the game so as not to run around blindly like headless flies. In addition, it was to integrate them into Shelter 404.

Especially the latter.

For a class of one hundred people, even changing seats would change the class environment, let alone suddenly doubling the number of people.

Chu Guang knew very well that the biggest challenge brought by the alpha 0.5 version update was not the server's CPU, but the impact of new players on the Wasteland Online environment.

After all, this kind of game with a high threshold, hardcore elements, and a virtual community as its selling point was determined by its gameplay and the server environment. They were above everything else.

It was like a normal online game. When everyone was having fun, but suddenly, it became free for a limited time on weekends; it would instantly become impossible to have fun if there were a few bad players joining the game.

Just like a certain game called

Squad

.

A new person could become a nightmare for the whole team. Especially when the dumb player grabbed the only sniper or Rocket Propelled Grenade Launcher in the team, or even got into the vehicle team to become a driver, it would be the beginning of the nightmare.

But could you blame them?

Not entirely.

Everyone started out as newbies. Except for trolls who would take pleasure in destroying the game experience of others, most people would learn and integrate themselves into the group soon.

As long as someone was willing to teach, new players would still be willing to learn. In this way, the server environment would naturally get better.

In fact, from the perspective of making money, the normal logic was to drive away the old players who had paid for the game and let those few bad players run around on the server doing anything they liked. In this way, it could not only make those bad players become addicted to the game but also stimulate consumption. When bad players become addicted to trolling, the server would immediately ban them, which may annoy the trolls and make them open a few more accounts to attack the server. But what those trolls wouldn’t know was that it would only boost the game sales.

For example, the practice used by a certain game studio called

blue something hole

.

But was Chu Guang that kind of person?

What was the use of money?

It was useless!

Wasteland Online would rather operate at a loss to give players the best gaming experience and maintain the best server environment to the end!

"With VMs, friends and team systems can be rolled out soon. All of these features are great tools for maintaining the social ecosystem of an MMORPG."

"When there are more players in the future, the gap in level, wealth, and combat power will widen, and the guild system can be gradually developed."

"A powerful guild will then be able to be upgraded to a legion, and can be sent out to explore wasteland or fight."

"Mhm, the guild and the legion can be associated with the player’s status level. A player who made enough contributions to the shelter can become a ruler of the explored land, a guild leader, and even a legion leader."

"I'm really a genius!"

Looking at the players who were already starting to look for team members in the lobby, Chu Guang's expressionless face couldn't help revealing a smile of satisfaction.

Very good.

These new players are growing really well!