Chapter 143-5: Seventy Thousand Newbies, Noobs Pecking Each Other (5) |
Just when the newbie legion thought their side would be routed, a bizarre scene occurred.
The Ecstasy Evil Entities, advancing in a tumble, seemed to encounter an invisible barrier. After crossing this barrier, they would suddenly fall to the ground and no longer move.
After several batches fell in succession, the Ecstasy Evil Entities began to retreat, glaring at the newbies from across the invisible barrier like tigers watching their prey.
This scene left the newbies baffled, but Qi Sheng, observing behind the scenes, understood what had happened.
One of the functions of the Ecstasy tower was signal amplification. The mental control released by the Ecstasy warrior expanded its coverage through the tower, but as soon as it left the coverage range of the mental link, the Ecstasy Evil Entities, unable to connect to the signal, would crash in place.
This was also the reason why the Ecstasy Evil Entities could not get up after falling and would not make any movements.
At this moment, seeing such a foolish Monster AI, the newbies all complained on the regional voice channel.
This scene was also recorded by the newbies and posted on the forum.
[Old players get in here and explain this. What the heck is this?]
Content: I was truly amazed the moment I entered the game.
I give full marks for scene modeling, and full marks for physical behavior as well (so far I have not found any issues), but what is this (video attachment).
At first I encountered a group of giant bears, and I even felt the monster modeling was too exquisite. Pupils, fur, movements, every aspect was perfect.
Until our newbie army ran into the Ecstasy Evil Entities.
This group of Monsters left me dumbfounded, to the point that it suddenly felt like I had switched to a different game.
Missing arms and legs, an arm growing on the head, a head growing on the chest, uncoordinated limbs… apart from a few models that looked relatively normal, most of the Monsters’ modeling was very abstract and clipping into itself.
If it were only a modeling issue, I could accept that the setting is simply like this.
The Lunar Eclipse race deliberately designed this chaotic, disorderly abstract style as one of the monster systems in the game.
But the problem is that the Monsters’ AI performance is too poor. It felt to me like the latency was extremely high. Their actions stuttered. Sometimes they crashed in place, sometimes they suddenly twitched on the spot.
Their attack methods were even more abstract. They even hit their own side’s Monsters. I wanted to fight properly but I could not help laughing several times, to the point I almost had no strength left to swing my fists. This is too much.
So, do Dark Land’s Monsters also have network latency?
This obviously is not a setting issue at a glance. It must be a design BUG.
What do old players think?
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After reading the post, the old players also burst out laughing.
How could they not know what the Monsters’ AI in the game is like.
The learning and growth ability of the two bullies of Emperor’s Mound Village is downright torment. They have always believed the AI is too strong and needs to be weakened.
So when they saw newbies complaining, they felt puzzled.
Until they opened the video and saw the footage of the Ecstasy Evil Entity army advancing, and they completely lost it.
Darkness Approaches: Hahaha, the Purple Tide, right? The Lord of Ecstasy really knows how to make a scene. He actually replicated a Black Tide system. I am dying here. This wave is not a loss. Newbies, farm it well. Guaranteed profit. In the Jianghu the Lord of Ecstasy is known as the Lord of Happiness, or the Lord of Welfare, meaning he can bring players joy and benefits. If the hunt level were not too low and the returns far inferior to the Emperor’s Mound Mountain Range, I would definitely go over and farm hard.
Soaring Into the Clouds replies to Darkness Approaches: What do you mean, Purple Tide and Black Tide, I do not understand.
Darkness Approaches replies to Soaring Into the Clouds: Come to the Emperor’s Mound Mountain Range and you will know. What you are encountering now is a shoddy replica. It is normal for it to be abstract because this is not a normal Monster at all. They are all knockoffs.
Master of the Way of Tea: I am drinking spirit juice by the beach and this made me spit it out. What is the Welfare Lord trying to do? Is he insane? Why imitate the Black Tide calamity and make a Purple Tide calamity? Is it not nice to properly develop the Palace of Ecstasy? I get angry just thinking about how he suddenly closed the doors last time. We did not even kill to our heart’s content before it was closed, with zero consideration for our players’ feelings. Infuriating.
I Love Sweet and Sour Ribs: I have a guess. Maybe the Welfare Lord wants to improve too much. Think about why he hides in the Palace of Ecstasy. He must think his own strength is insufficient and he cannot compete with those cheaters outside. But he has not given up. Bearing humiliation, he captures living beings everywhere to indulge them to death in the Palace of Ecstasy. All the power of ecstasy produced is invested in R&D, and the object of imitation is the Black Tide. So the new scene is very likely the Welfare Lord’s technological R&D center.
XL’s Little Alt: What you see is just the fun. What I see is the bitter and bloody struggle of someone with lacking talent trying hard to catch up to cheaters. The Welfare Lord is amazing. So R&D must be very energy-intensive, right? I suggest opening more nodes to receive customers. I will definitely support it, sacrificing myself to produce the power of ecstasy for you.
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Seeing the Purple Tide army, the forum’s old players were laughing and crying.
After watching the video, not only did they not think there was a problem with the Monsters’ AI, they instead felt the Monsters’ AI had been set too high.
In the worlds they had not yet explored and discovered, every power was striving to grow.
For example, the Lord of Ecstasy was constantly learning and making progress, imitating the legion structures of powerful forces and attempting replication and improvement.
But there is no doubt that at the current stage the Purple Tide had not captured the essence of the Black Tide at all, nor did it have the oppressive feeling the Black Tide should possess.
Just as the newbie players said, the state of the Ecstasy Evil Entities was extremely similar to high network latency, and their combat methods were overly abstract.
Forum players launched a heated discussion targeting this issue.
Through the old players’ explanations, the newbies also understood the reason.
They learned that the Ecstasy Evil Entities in the scene were all shoddy lives created through replication and could not be considered true Monsters in the real sense.
Meanwhile, the news that the player race had appeared in the Rimewinter Snowfield was relayed by the Ecstasy warrior controlling the Purple Tide to the Lord of Ecstasy hiding in an independent space.