Chapter 219.1: New Talents

In the Bull and Horse Club group.

It was as lively as ever.

Since Night Ten and Gale became the first perception type and intelligence type players in Wasteland Online respectively, the Bull and Horse Squad became completely famous on the forums.

Some people on the forum somehow got the group number, so now there were people joining the group every day.

𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

In order to prevent some strange people from coming in, and to prevent people from harassing Light, the group owner, Old White, simply closed the application to join the group.

Based on the posts on the forum, it was said that two more players had awakened on the server today.

And they were all strength types.

One of the unlocked talents was Berserker, which could convert half of the intelligence stats to strength stats, and the other was Fighting Enthusiasm which could increase agility and constitution by 10%. Both talents needed to be activated manually, the duration was 1 to 2 minutes, and the cooldown was not very long.

Now the entire gossip subforum was clamoring for the game company to open a channel for re-selecting their genetic sequence, preferably releasing the function of modifying the gender as well.

However, the game company did not seem to want to pay attention to it, and Light did not show up from the beginning to the end.

Since the topic on the forum could not get into the ears of the developers, everyone came to the group.

Mosquito: Sigh, I really envy you guys for leveling up so quickly.

Quit Smoking: Hahaha, Mosquito, come down to clear the underground tunnel with us. There's so much fun there. I'm already level 5!

Mosquito: Fuck, even Quit Smoking is level 5!

Quit Smoking: What do you mean?! I've been in the game for more than a month, okay? (Angry)

Mosquito: Tsk.

If it wasn't for him entering the game too early and blindly following Ample Time to choose the agility type sequence because he didn't know much about the gameplay, the second intelligence type ability user in the whole server would've definitely been him!

But he was not the most unlucky, the real unlucky ones were the two factory managers of Steel Plant 81.

When they entered the game, they heard that the strength type sequence was the strongest, so they all chose the strength type sequence. But now they didn't even have many chances to hit the iron with hammers, which left them completely speechless.

Tomato Eggs: Time flies so fast, I just realized that we've been in closed alpha for almost three months already.

Ample Time: The novice period of this game is really a bit long. It took three months to get to LV10. I don't know if the difficulty will be adjusted during the open beta test.

Night Ten: How high do you think the max level is?

Ample Time: Who knows, the devs have never mentioned the level cap, but I feel that there may be a hurdle at LV40 or LV50, and then it will be increased gradually according to the progress of the expansion, which is probably similar to

WOW

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Old White: I think you're thinking too much. At this speed, it's a question of whether you can reach LV40 this time next year!

After LV10, Old White felt that the difficulty of leveling up had increased significantly.

When the level was low before, the progress bar could be seen moving even when cutting trees. But now, cutting trees could only increase the proficiency, and the progress bar did not seem to move at all, so he didn't know if it had increased or not.

It was much harder than any MMORPG he'd played before!

Remembering that Tomato Eggs had also awakened a few days ago, Old White continued to type.

Old White: By the way, Eggs, what's the talent you unlocked?

Tomato Eggs: Balance.

Old White: Balance?

Tomato Eggs: Yes, the name is Balance, the effect is to convert half of the constitution into strength for 1 to 2 minutes.

Night Ten: What the hell?! Is it that awesome?!

Gale: It can be said to be a magical skill...

Converting half of the constitution into strength. Wouldn't that mean he would be a Tank and an ADC at the same time?!

If all the constitution type sequences could unlock this skill, the strength type sequence's battlefield dominance after LV10 would be at least halved by the constitution sequence!

After all, the defense provided by the strength attribute was really pitiful.

At medium and long distances, the influence of strength attributes on DPS was mainly reflected in the control of weapons and the distance of projectiles.

Unless the distance was closer to the limit, in most cases, the damage bonus provided by the strength attribute was marginally diminishing!

Or there was more equipment that could give full play to the value of strength type.

Like the loyal Golden Toilet of the Emperor of Mankind, or the chainsaw gun or something...

On the other hand, after the constitution attribute points exceed 10, even if it was not as exaggerated as recovering health points by breathing in other games, the effect of rapid hemostasis after being shot was still very useful.

If the vital parts were not hit, players could at least withstand a few more shots!

After awakening, even the bandages could be saved!

Tomato Eggs: Magical ability my ass. Only Elaina's Limbs Regeneration can be called a magical skill, alright!? His ability can even grow a lost limb!

Ample Time: Holy shit!

Gale: Damn, isn't this the skill of mutants?!

Irene was not in the Bull and Horse Club chat group, but the people in the group were familiar with him in the game, and occasionally teamed up with him.

Especially on the forums, where he and Night Ten often exchange funny memes.

Hearing that he had actually unlocked such an incredible ability, everyone was envious for a while.

Gale: I feel that the next buffed sequence will not be the intelligence type but the constitution type. (Sigh)

Quit Smoking: Hehe, the constitution players are ecstatic! (Smiling)

Night Ten: This is very unreasonable. I thought Elaina would unlock the old Ratman's Iron Stomach, but I didn't expect him to unlock the regeneration of bears and lizards. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Mosquito: Speaking of which, Night Ten, Gale, have you tried your talents yet? Are they good?

Night Ten: I tried it, and it feels average. Light said that the talent I unlocked is pretty awesome, but I don't feel it at all. (Helpless)

The talent he acquired was called Killing Intent Intuition.

According to the description of the talent, it was a passive ability, and could feel the subjective killing intent at the conscious level.

And the stronger the killing intent, the stronger the feeling!

Unlike perception mediated by factors such as light, sound, smell, and vibration... This perception did not seem to rely on material media, but directly read the killing intent at the conscious level in an unknown way.

Brain waves?

Heart rate?

Or can it be some unknown field?

There was no specific scientific explanation given in the talent description, perhaps the game company themselves did not know how to make it up.

Aside from these details, there was actually a big problem with this talent, that was, it was seriously attenuated by distance!

The trigger range in the open field was as far as 800 meters to 1 kilometer, but in the indoor environment, the maximum capture range may be a 3 or 4 story house.

To be honest, this distance was somewhat useless for the perception type.

After all, before Night Ten had awakened, he had relied on the bonus of perception attributes to capture the faint reflection of the sniper scope 1 kilometer away.

According to Ample Time's analysis, the real role of this killing intent intuition should be to prevent sneak attacks.

For example, when they were in the Central Continent Aerospace Ecological Experimental Base before, they didn't notice the high agility unit, the Deathclaw, lurking in the forest with the perception of Night Ten.

And if there was this killing intent intuition, Night Ten may be able to discover it the moment they were targeted.

But on the other hand, if the other party restrained the killing intent, or did not discover them at all, his talent might very well be useless.

Overall, it was still useful. It just wasn’t as useful as they thought!

Gale: Mine is similar... The name is Overclocking, and the effect is roughly similar to Old White's intelligence type talent, with a 150% to 200% increase in brain work efficiency. The duration is slightly longer, about 30 seconds.

To be honest, this talent was probably more useless than Night Ten's Killing Intent Intuition.

At least for the current version of intelligence type, what was lacking was not attributes at all, but the ability to convert attributes into damage.

For example, a mechanical arm was a tool that could convert intelligence attributes into damage they could deal per second, but there was a limit to the output power of the mechanical arm, especially after awakening, this was particularly obvious.

When the intelligence attribute was below 10, each increase in the attribute point could increase the maximum work efficiency of the mechanical arm by 10% and enhance the coordination with muscles, allowing the user to control it more accurately. But when the intelligence attribute exceeded 10, the improvement effect would become minimal.

Gale's analysis was that two more mechanical arms should be installed on him, or a third arm should be implanted. He could even get multifunctional arms, just like Dr. Octopus.

Another idea was to use neural connection devices to operate drones or ground unmanned vehicles in multiple threads, turning one’s brain into a drone hive that dominated the drone swarm.

However, there was a premise to taking these two paths, that was, these two things needed to be available on the shelves of the NPC's Weapon Shop.

Well... It would be pretty difficult!

Quit Smoking: Damn, intelligence bonus? That's a bit useless...

Gale: I don't think it will be completely useless, maybe its usage needs to be developed a little bit.

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