[New Expansion:

Forging Swords into Plows

]

[Introduction:

Winter has come to an end, and the time for the recovery of all things is coming. Right now is a critical period for plowing the lands. Only by ensuring the food supply in the coming year can we wake up more compatriots and start the next stage of work.

]

[Content:

From now on, Wasteland Online will open a series of missions that include farming, management and other related elements. Players can accept them through your VM or from NPCs such as Luca, Guo Bull, and Guo Horse. Completing the mission with the expansion label can get event points.

]

[After the expansion, the points can be used for prize draws, redemption of expansion titles, special rewards, and agricultural land!]

Happiness came too suddenly.

Without the slightest sign, not even a promotional video, the Alpha 1.0 version and the new expansion suddenly appeared on the notice board of Wasteland Online’s official website.

Almost at the same time as the announcement was published, the players who were sharing their gaming experience on the official website, and the netizens who were doing daily shit posting instantly lost their minds!

In less than a minute, hundreds of comments popped up below the announcement.

Tail: !!!

Quit Smoking: New expansion?! Awesome!

Makka Pakka: Making swords into plows?! And event points can be exchanged for land?! Damn, my DNA can’t wait anymore!

Sword Execution: Life Profession players are ecstatic!

Teng Teng: There’s finally an expansion that belongs to Lifestyle Profession players. I can’t do anything in battles. QAQ

Yaya: It’s okay! Left battles to Yaya, Teng Teng just need to make good-looking clothes! (@≥︶≤@)

Night Ten: Just a quick question, has Boss Ya ever been on the front line? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Yaya: ??? Has anyone told you before that you are very rude?

Eye Owe Money: Wait a minute, in the first two expansions, Winter Is Coming, and Continental Vessel, was there an expansion that didn’t buff the Lifestyle Profession players?!

Darkest: That’s right! Don’t try to tamper with our memories! Combat Profession players also need their own expansions! (Crazy)

Battlefield Cheerleader: Please Devs, respawn another wave of marauders! I just spent money to make a bulletproof modification for the exoskeleton I bought, but you told me those marauders ran away! T. T

Spring Water Commander: Should’ve bought a tractor with that money, right? Fortunately, I saved my money. (Smirk)

Night Ten: I suggest the next expansion be the Burning Crusade. I think we can completely take down West Continent City and help Little Sister Teng Teng open the northern market. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Irene: You want to trade with marauders? But I don’t think marauders there can afford clothes. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Lightning Professor: Tsk, you guys, you guys are still too young, too simple. Who said that there is no residual value for the poor? Can’t afford it? Easy. Just build a few plantations and send them in to grow cotton. If they have a job, they should be able to afford it. (Evil Smile)

Night Ten: Damn, my understanding of the expansion is not even as good as a Cloud Gamer?!

Old White: Come and work in our brick factory. We will hire you as the factory manager. (Evil Smile)

Lightning Professor: Sigh, I still didn’t have the invitation. T. T

Chu Guang briefly glanced at the comment area below the announcement, and found that the enthusiasm of the players for the new version and expansion was off the charts.

Many players began to share their experience of growing vegetables on the forum, and hard-core players even posted the design drawings of agricultural machinery on the forum. Ṟ𝘢ΝȯꞖÊṦ

Although most of these posts ended up being offt-opic and turned into the posts with people showing how much land they possessed in real life, there were still many valuable experiences worthy of reference that were preserved.

Chu Guang believed that it should come in handy in the upcoming spring.

If it was not for the fact that the characters in the game also needed to sleep, and in reality players had to go to work, many players would’ve already put on their helmets and logged into the game.

There were also those newcomers who had just obtained the invitations for the Alpha test. In ecstasy, they expressed their acceptance speeches one after another.

As for the cloud gamers who still didn’t get the invitation for the Alpha test...

Although Chu Guang also felt pity for them, he couldn’t do anything about it.

It was true that he was the designer of the game, but this game was not a real game. Even a wishing machine like the black box needed to consume electricity and materials to produce a nurturing chamber, and the maximum output was 24 a day.

Something that didn’t exist couldn’t be created out of thin air.

At present, there were nearly 100,000 pre-registered players. However, there were only 300 units of the nurturing chamber left. Even if Chu Guang used all of them, the probability of players getting the invitation was only 0.3%.

It was impossible to get everyone into the game.

Moreover, when the number of immigrants exceeded the limit of society’s ability to support, it wouldn’t be a good thing.

Like the refugees in the wasteland, if they couldn’t be digested in a short period of time, they would become the breakers of the existing rules and become obstacles to development.

This was one of the reasons why the vast majority of online games on

Steam

could not be played during the discount season or free weekends.

After reading all the hottest posts on the forum, Chu Guang updated the Development Log as usual after some thought.

Although the players were very diligent, in order to let the players enjoy the game better, and also to appease the Combat Profession players who felt abandoned by the expansion, Chu Guang felt that it was necessary to talk to the players about this brand new expansion as the game designer.

Light: Hello everyone, I’m your dearest game designer Light. Last month, the development department was quite peaceful, and no one was sacrificed this time, but it doesn’t matter. The important thing is that after overworking the entire winter, we finally got to the Alpha 1.0 version!

- Thank you to all the alpha testers for your continuous efforts and support, as well as the programmers who worked overtime until they went bald, and the NPCs who risked their lives to fix screws on the assembly line. Without your tireless efforts, we would not have our current achievements.

- Developing a game is not an easy task, especially such an epoch-making game. We are now and will be in the early stages of game development for a long time.

- Building a utopian virtual community is also not an easy task, and it requires our joint efforts. The time needed may be long; it may take three years, maybe five years, but we promise that it will not be longer than

Star Citizen

,

Elder Scrolls 6

or

GTA 6

, and we will never put half-finished products on the shelves and run away after reaping a profit.

- I believe that many players should have discovered that the content of the new expansion is basically concentrated on the word, ’business’.

- We hope to build a near-real economic system in this way. Every player and NPC can play a different role in this simulated reality system, undertake different social divisions of labor, and become the builder of this virtual community.

- It may sound idealistic, but we think it’s worth a shot.

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