Chapter 65: Alpha 0.4 Update, You Can Play At Night Now

[Wasteland Online Alpha 0.4 version update announcement.]

[Major updates]

[1. Increased number of closed alpha players to 90.]

[2. Night system has officially launched.]

[Optimizations]

[1. Enriched NPC facial expressions.]

[2. Optimized the details of the snowflake texture.]

[3. Fixed a few bugs.]

...

As always, after the announcement, Chu Guang, as a planner, clicked and sent the edited post.

Development Log: Alpha 0.4 Version

- Hello everyone, I am your dearest game designer! After sacrificing a programmer, we’ve finally completed the development of version 0.4!

- There have always been players complaining that they can only enter the game after 6 o'clock in the evening, and can only shitpost on the official website during the day.

- Now, this bug has finally been fixed. Even in the daytime, everyone can log in normally. Are you surprised? Are you happy?

- If you are happy, then I can only congratulate you for being happy too soon!

- Due to the settings in Wasteland Online, your characters not only need to eat and drink, there is also the hidden fatigue setting. That would mean that your in game character also needs to sleep!

- High fatigue will cause 1~33% of the attribute debuff effect. Excessive fatigue can also cause the character to fall in a trance, hallucination or even coma, and trigger a forced logout. If you want to step into the wasteland in the best state, please ensure that you have more than eight hours of offline rest a day to stay with your relatives and friends.

- This setting is not only for the consideration of hardcore elements but also for the health of players. You can understand it as an anti-addiction system.

- The night online function will be turned on at 12:00 today, when it is exactly 0:00 in the wasteland. By the way, due to the setting of Wasteland Online, the night is full of dangers, so even if you go online, you can only do activities in the base. Please be extra cautious.

- I will repeat again, we are a serious company, and Wasteland Online is a relaxed and casual game.

- We do not advocate excessive gaming, nor do we advocate going AFK.

- Control your game time, maintain a good schedule, and arrange the time you use to play reasonably, I wish you a happy life!

The announcement was posted, and the comments were shockingly quietly

Makka_Pakka: Wait, casual?!

Construction Boy: No excessive gaming!?

Yaya: Liar detected!

Garbage: ??? Wait, everyone can play at night time now? Damn it! Wouldn't that mean my lizardman would lose all its advantage?

Sword Execution: Hahahaha, here comes Brother Garbage's epic nerf! You are the unluckiest guy of this version, confirmed!

Garbage: QAQ!

Quit_smoking: Screw you guys! You guys can be online 24/7, but I haven't gotten the qualification for the closed alpha yet! T.T

Irene: I just checked it, and the number of applications has gone past 600. This time they only released 40 invitations, that is to say... the probability of you getting one is less than 6%. (?° ?? ?°)

Quit_smoking: 凸(艹皿艹)!

𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

This_lord_is_arrogant_what_can_you_do: LMAO, only an idiot would apply!

Seeing this, Chu Guang almost couldn't hold back his urge to send him the qualification for the closed test.

So close.

Must hold back!

Qualifications were precious in the early stage, and they couldn't be wasted on haters like him. Candidates’ selection must be rigorous, and it was not the time to randomly select players yet.

After sending text messages to the selected players, Chu Guang closed the forum, got up from his chair, walked to the corner, and pushed Xia Yan's arm. "Hey, wake up."

Maybe the past few days had been too peaceful that her vigilance fell, but the damn girl actually fell asleep while trying to memorize her lines!

Moreover, while sleeping, she was still muttering stuff like chocolate, wine, and how she couldn’t eat anymore.

Xia Yan, who was disturbed by Chu Guang, opened her eyes in a daze.

When she saw Chu Guang in front of her, she was startled like a frightened hamster. She completely awakened, and tightly clamped down on her knees and arms. "What do you want?"

Chu Guang pointed at the door with his chin. "I’m here to remind you to go back to your room. Don’t sleep here."

Xia Yan breathed a sigh of relief. While muttering something quietly, she leaned on her crutches, stood up, and limped back to her room,

It seemed like she still hadn’t fully awakened yet.

Thinking that he would not be able to count on her for some time, Chu Guang ignored her, looked at Little Seven on the side, and said, "Little Seven, I'll take a quick nap, remember to wake me up at 23:55."

The camera above its head nodded lightly, and Little Seven said very energetically.

"Okay, Master!"

...

0:00 in the wasteland.

It should be 12:00 noon in reality and when Chu Guang lifted the login restrictions, a total of 27 players logged into the game.

To be honest, Chu Guang was quite surprised.

There were actually so many bums who didn’t need to work during the day! Of course... It could also be an exception.

Facing the players whose faces were filled with excitement and couldn't wait to go out to see the stars and the moon, Chu Guang signaled them to calm down with a powerful gaze.

Then, he said the lines he made up while he was dreaming.

"Winter is approaching, and danger is coming with it."

"Because of our days of exploration and hunting, our existence has alarmed our neighbors. This is both an opportunity and a threat."

"Now, I need 8 warriors..." Before Chu Guang finished speaking, twenty-seven pairs of legs moved forward in unison, stunning him speechless.

"Ahem, wait for me to finish," With a light cough, Chu Guang readjusted his state, faced pairs of expectant eyes, and sped up his speech, "I need 8 warriors to shoulder the heavy responsibility of night defense and serve as guards."

"When you are on duty, your equipment will be provided by the shelter, and you will receive 15 copper coins and ten contribution points per hour as a reward."

"You can do a maximum of eight hours of night duty, and there will be a rotation every six hours. If you die while on duty, other than the resurrection cooldown, the death penalty will be removed. You will also receive a compensation of 1 to 10 silver coins depending on the situation.”

After a pause, Chu Guang continued, "You have 20 seconds to think about whether you really need this job..."

"Now, those who need it, please raise your hands."

The last sentence was obviously redundant.

For the players who wanted to be online the entire day, the job was just too tempting!

From twelve o'clock in the morning to six o'clock in the morning, they would be able to work for six hours in total! They would also gain 9 silver coins and sixty contribution points.

Apart from the lower contribution points while playing at night, the pay was equivalent to the income of normal players during the day!

Almost as soon as Chu Guang's voice fell, twenty-seven pairs of hands shot in the air.

After all, Chu Guang didn't make it clear that raising two hands was the same as raising one...

However, trivial matters like that weren't important at all!

Chu Guang asked Little Seven to register the eight players who raised their hands first, then went to the locker in the airlock room, took out the weapons locked in the locker and distributed it to them.

Eight people shared four 7mm revolver rifles, and they were split into four two-person teams. Each team was responsible for guarding a single wall, and one of them would hold the gun while the other would hold the bullets.

In addition, each person also carried a wooden bow, nine arrows, a Molotov Cocktail, and a DIY grenade made of black powder and cans.

Chu Guang especially told them that if mutants came close, they could shoot or drive them away with a bow and arrow. No shots should be fired when mutants were far from the fence, and they shouldn’t waste the explosives unless they had no choice.

If they ran into an unidentified survivor, guards were supposed to use a bow and arrow to drive them thirty meters away. If the opponent continued to approach without revealing their intentions, or even committed hostile behavior, they were allowed to open fire.

If they were mutant humans, their instruction was to shoot on sight. They would definitely do the same anyway...

...

Under the envious eyes of other players, the eight guards stood on the elevator with their heads high and returned to the surface.

As the four teams arrived at the wall and took their place, the rest of the players were also led by Chu Guang into the outpost.

Outside the nursing home, the galaxy shone as bright as fire.

The eyes of the players who had never seen such a clear night sky before were wide open, trying to imprint the scene before them in their minds forever.

"It's so beautiful..."

"Is this really a wasteland?"

"So you can really see clouds at night!"

"You take the game effects too seriously.”

"It would be nice if I could live in this world forever."

"Hehe, stop dreaming, if you really came to this world, can you even survive two episodes?"

"Uh, then forget it."

"..."

The ban on cement kilns, blast furnaces and other open flame facilities at night was lifted.

With the expansion of the players' range of activities, it became meaningless to try to stay hidden. If he continued doing it, it would be nothing more than a waste of his time.

Besides, the dozen or so guns in the base were not toys.

Chu Guang needed all these production facilities to be working, preferably running twenty four hours a day, to maximize production capacity and produce weapons, protective gear, tools, parts, and building materials for the outpost.

Besides, those players finally got the chance to go online at night, he couldn’t just let them log into the game doing nothing, right?

For them, having nothing to do was much more uncomfortable than doing something!

On a three-meter-high concrete wall...

Elf Wang and Irene were responsible for the security of the southern section of the wall.

According to the distribution of forces around the shelter, the south and west sides should be the safest. One was leaning on the scavengers' colony and the other was leaning on the lake, so they didn’t need to be too nervous.

Even if there were mutants, mutant humans, or marauders, they would come from the east and the north.

That was unless they knew how to use tactics.

But was it really necessary?

The two players stood behind a cover formed by the door of an old car while looking at the dark forest twenty meters away, passing the time with small chats.

Irene mumbled, “It would be great if this game had a built-in browser. At least, I could watch some anime. But this is really boring, can’t we use bots to guard the wall?”

Elf Wang sneered, "Built-in browser? Haha, I would already be very happy if a visual property panel can be rolled out in the next update. Speaking of which, that damn hamster was right. Version 0.4 really rolled out the concept of defense, but I don't know when the green-skinned weirdos will attack us."

Irene chuckled, "How do you know that it was not the devs who added it last minute after seeing the post?”

“How can this be added at the last minute? Do you have any ideas about making games? Brother, do you think that this kind of big project that can cost tens of billions of Chinese yuan at every turn can be changed easily? According to the game designer, just to solve the currency system, they held a meeting for three days!" Elf Wang sneered.

Raising an eyebrow, Irene mumbled, "Of course I know, they even said that they sacrificed a programmer to implement the night gameplay. But if you really fell for their tricks, you...”

“Shush!" Elf Wang suddenly became alert and made a silencing gesture, "Don’t make any sound...... There’s movement outside?!"

“Are you serious?"

Did they really trigger the defense plot?

The two players nervously leaned against the cover to hide themselves. While carefully watching the outside, their hands had firmly pulled the bowstring which already had an arrow nocked.

Are they humans? Or are they mutants?

The creepy feeling lingered in their hearts.

However, it was dark outside, and nothing could be seen.

Elf Wang tried to open his eyes as big as possible, and his Thermal Vision scanned along the edge of the forest. However, it was the first time he used his skill that needed to be actively triggered. He was not proficient at all and found nothing.

Irene couldn't help urging, "Did you see anything?"

"Can’t see shit! Do you think my eyes are telescopes?" Elf Wang cursed, wishing he could be a perception type player.

Unfortunately, he was an agility type player.

His talent was completely useless at the moment.

Irene comforted herself. At the very least, they had several scrap copper and iron as cover. The other side wouldn’t be able to see them well.

Actually, she was right.

The other party really couldn't see them, so they didn't act rashly.

In the forest, a pair of sharp eyes stared at the wall and the man’s gaze moved along the outline of the wall, seeming to be weighing their next move.

The sound of forging metal and people could be heard from inside the wall.

Ten people?

No, it was a settlement with at least 20, or even 30 people.

The conversation on the wall stopped abruptly. It seemed as though the guards noticed him!

From that, he could tell that the people there were really vigilant.

A trace of fear flashed through his eyes and he quietly retreated into the darkness, ending his scouting trip.

His mission was to escort the tribute, and not to cause extra trouble.