Chapter 66: Version 1.3 Update |
Emperor’s Mound Village, Primordial Altar.
Qi Sheng stood atop the altar, swiftly scanning the flood of information produced by the players in his mind, searching for the contents and direction of the next update.
Guide floated beside him throughout, keeping him company.
After several days of adaptation, the fourth batch of new players entering the game had gradually adjusted to the difficulty of the Waning Moon scenario.
The strategy posts left by earlier batches on the forum had provided considerable help to the newcomers in understanding Monster World.
In particular, the Monster & Evil Entity Compendium and Spirit Plant & Spiritual Ore Compendium created by the explorer player Lu Xing had offered substantial assistance to the newly arrived players.
They clearly informed players about the general distribution of Evil Entities on the map as well as the hunting level ranges.
This inspired Qi Sheng.
He felt that he could completely integrate a similar compendium function into the map system, replacing Lu Xing’s makeshift compendium and making it more convenient for players to explore Monster World.
Going forward, all monsters, Evil Entities, spirit plants, and spiritual ores recorded in the compendium would include a line of text such as [Discoverer: XXX], and this mark would be permanently archived.
Next, Qi Sheng believed that the initial basic feature settings could be further refined.
Currently, the information displayed on the players’ attribute panels was limited, and many details were not accessible to them.
Taking the first player Li Zheng’s game panel as an example:
[Challenger Name: Game Gold-Farmer]
Primary Form: Human
Body Tempering Level: 3 (Perfect Inherited Soul Attributes: 3)
Star Vein Embedment Level: 4 (Can embed four different Monster Souls):
Slot 1: Black-Scaled Serpent Soul Lv24 (Trait: Venomous)
Slot 2: Force Savage Lv13 (Trait: Brute Force)…
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By clicking on the embedded Monster Souls, players could view detailed attribute values.
However, the attribute panel could not display the specific attribute values of the Primary Form after inheriting attributes perfectly through the Body Tempering Level.
This issue had already been raised by players on the forum. Taking in their suggestions, Qi Sheng decided to add a display for inherited attribute values in the attribute panel.
In addition, a ‘Hunger Level’ value would be added to the attribute panel.
Monster World was not fundamentally a game but only used a game concept to recruit players. Therefore, players still experienced hunger and fatigue in the game and needed to replenish their physical consumption by purchasing food from the store.
Until now, players could only gauge their hunger based on physical sensations.
With the addition of the Hunger Level feature, the degree of hunger could be seen more directly.
Although this feature might seem somewhat superfluous, and many players didn’t need food to replenish their energy, such as the Bonefire form, which had no hunger setting, only flesh-based lifeforms faced such concerns.
However, in the future, many players would choose builds that embed multiple Monster Souls into their Primary Forms and primarily explore in human form. Adding this feature was aimed at improving the player experience.
With these ideas in mind, he immediately had Guide begin preparations.
Half an hour later, a system update notification sounded in every player’s mind:
[Challenger Notification (All Channels): The game will undergo Version 1.3 update and maintenance. The update contents are as follows:
Update Content 1:
After this update, the forum feature list will add the Monster Compendium, Evil Entity Compendium, Spirit Plant Compendium, and Spiritual Ore Compendium. Players’ discoveries and analyses of external elements will be recorded in the compendiums by category and can be viewed at any time (all players share compendium information).
Update Content 2:
The map will add a ‘Details’ feature. By clicking on a region’s details on the map, players can view information on Evil Entities, monsters, spirit plants, and spiritual ores discovered in that area. This feature will synchronize with the four compendiums and update in real time.
Update Content 3:
A new Hunger Level attribute has been added and can be viewed directly on the main attribute panel.
Update Content 4:
A new Primary Form attribute display feature has been added, allowing players to view the specific attribute values of the Primary Form after inheriting Monster Souls via the main attribute panel.
(Note: This update will be applied online without requiring players to log out.)]
Following the update notification, new configuration runes surged into the Challenger System, like pulsing characters swirling around Qi Sheng.
With a wave of his hand, the Challenger System faded away, and Qi Sheng switched to the player perspective.
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After the update concluded, the most discussed topic on the forum was the map function.
Compared to the previous map, the new version added a highly practical feature.
When players focused their gaze on a specific area of the map, a ‘Detailed Introduction’ marker would pop up above the region.
For example, take the Ancient Battlefield.
When players focused on the Ancient Battlefield, their consciousness would tap the popped-up detailed introduction marker, and a detailed display box would open on the map, showing a miniaturized terrain of the Ancient Battlefield along with a textual description of the area.
On the right side of the box were selectable compendium categories.
By clicking on these, players could view the discovered Evil Entities, monsters, spirit plants, and spiritual ores for that map area.
For instance, clicking on the Evil Entity Compendium entry for ‘Cursed Soldier’ would display a detailed introduction of the Cursed Soldier, its general distribution area, average hunting level, and other relevant information.
After its release, this feature was unanimously praised on the forum.
Even players who usually cursed the Lunar Eclipse race on the forum rarely offered compliments but now acknowledged that this time the Lunar Eclipse race had genuinely considered the player experience. However, they still insisted that the Lunar Eclipse race’s shameless hunger marketing tactics remained unchanged, arguing that if they truly cared about players, they would massively distribute game access, and that hunger marketing was a grievous sin.
Qi Sheng paid no attention to these remarks.
After all, the players were cursing the Lunar Eclipse race. What did that have to do with him, the Emperor’s Sign?
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Twelve hours after the Version 1.3 update concluded.
Blood-Soaked Plains.
After killing a Rageclaw, Lu Xing sat on the ground, panting heavily.
He glanced at his attribute panel and saw that his Owl-Headed Fiend had reached Level 15.
Calling up the livestream interface, the comment section was still filled with motivational stories, but none of these words could sway his resolve anymore.
“I’m not going. I’ll challenge that Coward Butterfly when I reach Level 25.”
Browsing through the comments, Lu Xing firmly shook his head and refused his livestream viewers’ suggestion to fight the Mystic Butterfly again.
“You say Level 25 is too strong and that the Mystic Butterfly will run away? If it runs, then so be it. If it runs, I still win.”
“If it flees, that proves it got scared when facing me, so naturally, I win.”
Faced with the viewers’ coaxing, Lu Xing remained unwavering.
Just then, one comment caught his eye.
Weapon Master: Bro, you don’t need to tire yourself out like this. Just buy a bunch of psionic bombs and challenge the Mystic Butterfly. If it dares approach, throw a bomb and detonate it. One-hit kill. Easy and fun. Why go through all this grinding?
Lu Xing was, of course, familiar with the psionic bombs mentioned in this comment.
He was certain that the player who suggested this was a member of the Arms Dealers Guild, known for aggressively marketing custom weapons.
But upon consideration, Lu Xing found the idea quite viable.
Although he hadn’t participated in the final battle to purify the Shadowed Cavern, he had watched the replay on the forum and witnessed the power of the psionic bombs.
When multiple psionic bombs exploded simultaneously, even the Level 25 Black-Scaled Soldiers couldn’t withstand them. Theoretically, they could indeed easily take down the Coward Butterfly.
His heart pounded, and a thought surfaced in Lu Xing’s mind.
Why not give it a try?
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