Chapter 76: New Playstyle

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[5. New Content:

Shelter 404 level B2 content will be opened after the

Bloodhand Clan

quest is cleared.

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[6. Wasteland Tips:

The weather has turned cold, please remember to wear more clothes. In addition, if you see the owner of the weapon shop dozing off, please remember to wake her up to prevent her from catching a cold.

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On the same day, at six o'clock in the evening, the official website updated the announcement on time. The comment area below the announcement was quickly occupied by the players who had been camping for a long time.

Tail: Throne is mine! (≥ω?*)?

Quit_smoking: First!

Quit_smoking: Fuck! My first reply!

Garbage: Damn, I thought it was a new update!

Sword Execution: I got excited for nothing!

Irene: By the way, there are new players coming in again. How many batches of new players do we have already? (?° ?? ?°)

Quit_your_bullshit: This is the 5th batch of people alright! A total of 40 people! It's so cool, hahaha, I was so excited that I couldn't fall asleep last night. Finally, I will be able to have fun tomorrow night!

Makka_Pakka: Brother, don't get too happy, this game is not a normal game, I must let you know in advance!

Midnight_pubg: I’m a strength type player looking for a team, do any newcomers want to cut trees together? Come and cut trees with me, the axe is the man's only romance!

Sword Execution: Heh! No one is going to get to do anything else! All newcomers are mine! Muhahaha!

Night Ten: Brother Sword! Your mature and steady image has collapsed!

Perverted_old_man: This man is scary. (?Д?*)

Little_book_worm: Is this game serious? Is it serious? (nervous.jpg)

The official website was as lively as always, full of joy.

The next day was the fourth day since version 0.4 went live, and there would be forty newbies arriving in the game world.

The population of Shelter 404 would also rise to ninety!

Chu Guang glanced at the number of applications. It just broke the eight hundred mark. This time, thanks to the illustrations drawn by a certain mole on the forum, many passersby were attracted to join in the fun.

Chu Guang clicked on the post and took a look. He found that the subject of the painting was actually himself.

Haha, not bad, the guy in the paintings is pretty handsome, but still not as handsome as the real person.

Escaping Mole: What else do you want to see? There seem to be only a few NPCs.

I_am_the_darkest: Doujinshi! I want to read the Doujinshi of this game's NPCs!

Rainy_night_without_umbrella: Yes! I want Teng Teng and Yaya's Doujinshi! (nosebleed)

Teng Teng: No, you don't want to! (#`Д′)?? oIo

Little_girl_trafficker: Yaya and leech!

Escaping Mole: Damn, you are perverted.

Chu Guang burst out laughing.

It was great, his game was getting more and more lively.

His announcement on the Wasteland Online official website was a success. Although there was no new news about the development progress, some settings were gradually released as the game plot advanced. Many smart players still got a lot of important information from the announcement.

In the Bull and Horse Club.

The Bull And Horse Club players, headed by Old White and others, basically got up on time at 6 o'clock, and their work and rest time was quite healthy.

Every time after going offline, the first thing these people did when they got up was not to wash their faces and brush their teeth, but turn on their mobile phones to brag in the group.

The focus of the day was on the announcement on the official website.

Old White: Holy shit, the amount of information in this update is a bit big!

Quit_smoking: Good brother, tell me more about it! T.T

Old White: To summarize it in a single sentence; there’s one new NPC and a new Faction Relation setting! There are also new NPC Background Story and personality settings! If this update was in other games, it would be considered a new expansion pack!

No_one_understands_love: It's a pity that Brother Arrogant Lord left the group, or I would’ve had a lot of fun by now. (LOL)

Night Ten: Who knew that his psychological endurance is so bad, I just said that if he barks again, he will be banned, but he quit by himself. (?° ?? ?°)

Gale: Freedom of speech.

Mosquito: ( ?° ?? ?°)

Tomato Eggs: (eating popcorn)

Without the Arrogant Lord, the Bull And Horse Club had a lot less fun.

As it turned out, the dude left the group only to head over to run his mouth over on the Wasteland Online forum.

Ample Time: Just ignore that person, let me talk about my analysis first. Although the official website did not release new content in the form of Alpha 0.5 version, this soft update is enough to be called a major update! My guess is that maybe it is because this part of the content does not require new test players, so the official version number is not updated.

Old White: It makes sense. Every time the version number is updated, it seems that a batch of closed test qualifications will be issued. If the version number is not updated, it means that the content of this test is actually within the framework of version 0.4.

Ample Time: Exactly! In fact, you should have noticed that since the last version, the frequency of our communication with NPCs has almost doubled. First, merchants visited us, and then nearby indigenous people came to cooperate, and today we organized a caravan of players and headed to Brown Farm. Who wants to guess what this means?

Seeing no one answer, Ample Time estimated that everyone was waiting for an answer from him, so he continued to type.

- This means... A wider open world! Think about it. From the perspective of the publisher, why do you update the Favorability Setting at this time?

Night Ten: Uh, I can't figure it out. Can you elaborate?

Ample Time: I still remember what Light said at the beginning. What Wasteland Online wants to create is a completely real world! Since it is a real world, then doesn’t that mean that NPCs will definitely evaluate the player's behavior and make corresponding reactions?

Night Ten: It seems to make sense, but what does this have to do with the wider open world you are talking about? Originally, NPCs already had favorability settings.

Ample Time: It has a lot to do with it! The player is set as a member of Shelter 404. There is not only the relationship between the player and the NPCs, but also the overall evaluation of the players by the NPCs! For example, if a player killed a native today, do you think the relatives, friends, and neighbors of said native will welcome us with smiles tomorrow? Naturally, they will become vigilant even if they don't become hostile!

Night Ten: Seriously? Are you telling us we have a joint responsibility?

Gale: This will make the gameplay a little bit difficult. Now that the circle is small, it is still manageable. But it is difficult to ensure that everyone is a normal player when the circle becomes big.

Ample Time: I don't think so. The troublemakers and trolls are mostly new players, and it is unlikely for old players to suddenly change the gameplay style. Generally, these newcomers have no guns, no money, no attributes, and no skills. If there is a conflict, the NPCs can whoop their asses easily. If we find the problem early, we can deal with it early. After a period of time, once they become addicted to the game, they will cherish their account much more. It would make them think twice before doing something stupid. You know what I mean?

Gale: It makes sense.

Night Ten: ?? What? What? What do you mean?

Ample Time: The trolls and troublemakers are the problems that the server operation and maintenance personnel need to worry about after the internal test. Let's not discuss it here. In short, the power favorability system has been opened, which shows that the publisher has consciously guided the players to start thinking about the overall interests of the shelter. But why did they roll out this suddenly, you ask? Obviously, it is paving the way for the opening of a new map and adding new forces!

Old White: I agree with Ample Time. I don’t know if you all have noticed it. As mentioned in the fifth point of the update announcement, the level B2 of the shelter will be opened after the Bloodhand Clan quest is cleared! What does this mean? Obviously the new map has been developed, but it’s not yet open.

Night Ten: Damn it, are they testing the AI or testing us?

Ample Time: They are probably working on both sides. After all, the game is for people to play. If they want to create a game close to the real world, an open virtual community, then they have to test the player's behavior in this community and adjust server rules and gameplay. I have to praise the development team again, this idea is simply incredible!

Old White: Okay, okay, stop kissing ass and tell me what you think. What do we do next? Are we going to hunt or do other stuff?

Ample Time: After the winter, there will be fewer and fewer prey, and it won’t be too profitable to hunt. Now that the war with Bloodhand Clan has begun, I speculate that the administrator will soon increase the bounty for marauders. The next stage of gameplay will revolve around this.

Gale: It makes sense.

Night Ten: By the way, we bought our land but we haven't started construction yet. When will we build a house?

Mosquito: Yes, yes, I am waiting to open the workshop. (?° ?? ?°)

Gale: Don't worry, our own construction efficiency is too low, it is better to hire a few people to build it.

Ample Time: I think so too. Just leave the task of building a house to the professional construction players. We still focus on farming coins and upgrading equipment.

Chu Guang, who hadn't been on the chatting software for a long time, looked at the computer screen and was impressed by those players again.

As expected of Ample Time!

His understanding of the new version was even better than the person who came up with it!

Starting tomorrow, I'll increase the bounty for marauders.

[Mission:

Capture a hostile target

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[Description:

After the identity is confirmed as a marauder, an additional 20 silver coins and 200 contribution points will be awarded on the original 5 silver coins reward. If you bring back a marauder's corpse, an additional 10 silver coins and 200 contribution points will be awarded in addition to the original 5 copper coins. If the opponent is a squad leader, the award will be doubled!

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Oh right, in order to prevent newcomers from intentionally leeching, the level of rewarding tasks has to be restricted. Mhm... I’ll temporarily set it at LV2 and adjust it later depending on the situation.

The genetic sequences of the players of the first echelon has basically reached LV2, and players such as Old White who entered the game earlier have even reached LV4.

Being able to reach LV2 showed that they had a certain understanding of the game, and the bonuses brought by the basic attributes could also prevent players from being killed easily when facing marauders.

Of course, the most important thing was that players of that level had savings. After a little hard work, they could afford the cheapest iron-barreled rifle in the weapon store.

Chu Guang checked the lockers every day.

In addition to every silver coins issued, he asked Little Seven to keep a record. It could be said that Chu Guang knew even better than the players how much money they had.

In fact, the land itself was not expensive. It only cost 10 silver coins per square meter.

By that time, most players had already saved enough money to buy land but had not yet saved up to the contribution points to upgrade their citizenship status.

Since this was the case, there would be no point in them saving money. They would take out their money to buy guns to farm contribution points.

When the mission was cleared, the opportunity to earn contribution points would be gone!

Depending on the situation, if there are not many people buying tomorrow, I'll let Xia Yan give a 10% discount to the basic gun in the weapon shop.

Of course, only iron barrel rifles and revolver rifles would be sold at the discounted price, but bullets were not included.

A steel cored bullet produced by Boulder Town was sold for 1 silver coin in a weapon shop. The rolled copper shell bullet produced by Red River Town was sold for 5 copper coins.

If it was an inferior bullet made by the weapon shop owner with black powder, it would be slightly cheaper, and people could buy one for 2 copper coins.

Too expensive? Go complain about it to her. It has nothing to do with me! After all, I don’t own the store...

There was a smile on Chu Guang's face as he thought to himself.

Finally, he didn't have to worry about the ammunition of these players by himself.

When the players bought the guns, they could waste as many bullets as they liked. Since he changed the system, they would have to buy it with their own money.

Xia Yan, who was sitting in the corner memorizing a book, shuddered suddenly without warning.

Warm air obviously blew from the air vents, but there was cool air whistling behind her. She always felt that the man sitting in front of the computer was planning something evil.

His smile looked too perverted...