Orange Juice was full of confidence.
He was a computer science graduate after all, and had even interned at a game company for a few months.
Not to mention identifying frame rates with the naked eye, he at least had the ability to judge the detail level of animations.
"A lot of people don't know this, but the background image of the Frost Snow Project launcher can actually be found in the files," Orange Juice explained while opening the Frost Snow Project folder.
"If you want, you can even change the background image yourself, and the operation isn't complicated."
After continuously opening several subfolders, Juice stopped his hand.
"This is it. Does anyone else want to raise the stakes and bet together?"
Chat users loved joining in on the fun, and with Orange Juice's provocation, quite a few of them immediately eagerly took the bait:
"I bet! If it's above 800 I'll gift you a sports car, if it's below 800 you do a handstand and wash your hair!"
"Count me in for a sports car, if you lose you have to cross-dress!"
"Add one! If you lose you subscribe to the channel, and if you lose you cos Tong Que!"
"Isn't having him cos Tong Que too hard on the eyes? How about Bu Erxi? Bunny girls are pretty good, and black silk stockings can even cover leg hair."
"What's wrong with leg hair? That's just my thing! Raise the stakes, bet on He Yin! I want bare legs!"
Orange Juice originally wore a beaming smile, feeling that he had successfully tricked a huge wave of tips.
But watching the topic shift to having him cos a character from Frost Snow Project, he instantly felt that things were going terribly wrong and hurriedly interrupted this dangerous trend:
"Alright, that's it! Betting is closed!!"
--If they kept discussing it, just in case the chat users got all excited, in the end it wouldn't matter even if he won.
These chat users, who loved stirring up trouble and watching the spectacle, would never give up until they achieved their goal, right up until the day he actually cosplayed.
This was too dangerous.
Orange Juice no longer gave the chat users a chance to chime in, and immediately clicked on the folder.
Thus, densely packed thumbnails unfolded before everyone's eyes.
Orange Juice casually opened one, and sure enough, it was an image from the launcher background, while the total number of items shown by the folder was--
1060!
Orange Juice was dumbfounded on the spot: "I even took a look yesterday when I opened it, and back then there was only a single static image with a special format."
"After an update it directly jumps to 1060 images? Has Dream Builder gone crazy?!"
"I know hard drive prices have dropped lately, but you still can't do this??"
The chat users originally didn't understand these things, but with Orange Juice putting it this way, going from 1 image to 1060 images, with this gap of over 1000 times right in front of them, they could more or less feel some of Dream Builder's sheer madness.
However, Orange Juice quickly came back to his senses, laughing out loud as he said:
"Where are the people who made a bet with me just now?"
"A bet's a bet! Hurry up and hand over those subscriptions and sports cars, haha."
Quite a few chat users faithfully started sending gifts.
Orange Juice was having a blast watching channel subscriptions and sports cars pop up one by one, and excitedly logged into the game.
He had a premonition that today's stream popularity and gift revenue would be extremely impressive!
Just by looking at the launcher, viewers in the Livestream Room had directly approached 80,000, and gifts were rolling in like crazy.
Next, entering the game officially, he couldn't even imagine how high the popularity could surge and how many gifts he could rake in!
"Frost Snow Project, launch!"
Over the past month, to record footage, he had also pushed through the main storyline on and off, and now his progress had reached the only major city in Frost Snow Project: Silver City.
However, as for the gaming experience...
"To be fair, the preceding plot was boring to death, and by the time I played further in I was getting sleepy."
"The overall feel is just go here, go there, and go there again, listen to her talk, listen to him talk, and then listen to him talk some more, while beating up some miscellaneous mobs along the way."
"This is the entire gaming experience. If it weren't for Dream Builder's remake, I would never open it a second time."
While he was speaking, the loading bar finished, and his character was already standing on the streets of Silver City.
A white Long-tailed Luan Bird with an envelope tied to its feet flew in front of his eyes, and the next second the envelope opened, transforming into a guidance page--
Character New Outfit
Login Bonus
Current Event
Change Log
"That's definitely Character New Outfit!"
Orange Juice clicked into Character New Outfit, and the guidance page transformed into a row of 8 character cards, with each character available for trial play.
On the cards were precisely the 8 characters whose remakes had already been completed.
"Who should we look at first, who should we look at first?" Orange Juice couldn't wait.
After asking symbolically, without even glancing at the chat users' Bullet Comments, he continued: "Tong Que? Alright, then Tong Que!"
With a click of the mouse, the card enlarged, transforming into an official artwork of Tong Que.
In the lower-left corner of the artwork was the signature of the art staff: Ding Nian.
--This was Xu Meng's requirement: to use the artists' initial official artworks on the loading screens of trial stages.
This way the artists could receive recognition—even shy artists could accept this recognition using pseudonyms.
Players wouldn't find the loading times hard to endure either.
This tactic clearly worked extremely well, as neither Orange Juice nor the chat users did anything except stare wide-eyed in appreciation of Tong Que's high-definition official artwork.
They even felt for the first time that the game was loading too fast.
--Before they had seen enough, they entered the stage.
"Wow!"
Orange Juice let out an exclamation of amazement right away, simultaneously rotating the camera and aggressively pushing the mouse wheel to zoom in on the screen.
"Damn! This modeling... Holy shit!"
He was far too surprised, and couldn't help but curse out loud on the spot.
Even though he had already noticed while watching the real machine preview that Tong Que's modeling detail was very high, he still hadn't expected it to reach this kind of level! Her fluttering red hair moved without wind, she held the spirited posture of an older sister boss, and as she moved, the VaultChain and jade ornaments on her body swayed and collided, emitting low but crisp, pleasant sounds.
Appreciation in a static, ultra-close-up view was different from the kind of continuously moving dynamic display in the trailer.
--More details were clearly visible.
The chat users went wild on the spot:
"So lewd! Cow Cow is about to burst!"
"This is way too overpowered! Four Dimensions, learn from Dream Builder! Take a look at the modeling in your own game!"
"Most games have 100-point 2D illustrations, but the modeling is only 70 points, and getting 80 points is already considered rare. But you guys genuinely aren't willing to deduct even a single point?!"
"This time we don't need to kowtow to the art staff!"
"Just bow to each other as husband and wife instead! You're both too overpowered, a match made in heaven!"
"Let's go, let's go, Frost Snow Project—launch!"
Orange Juice also widened his eyes.
Yet the part that shocked him was a bit different from the chat users.
He operated Tong Que to walk slowly, run fast, jump forward, jump backward, jump left, and jump right, carefully observing every single action, but he wasn't looking at anything lewd.
As for his state of mind at that moment...
To describe it in one word--
Silky!
Two words--
Silky, still silky! Whatever bouncy butt, whatever pink and white slender waist, none of it compared to how shocked he was by the sheer abundance of details on Tong Que and the smoothness of her motion transitions.
This wasn't just a matter of polygon counts.
Through the screen, he seemed to see Dream Builder's animators with dark circles under their eyes and sunken eye sockets, huddled together at their workstations burning the midnight oil to k-frame.
"This action's smoothness level!"
He finally started interacting with the chat users: "I dare bet with you guys! Not only is her polygon count among the very top across the entire ACG Game circle, you might even be able to drop the 'among'... she's simply number one!"
"And she's at a first-class standard in keyframe count, pre-rendering, and physical calculation!"
"Is anyone going to bet with me?"
"This time I'm eating two bowls!"
Yet the chat users didn't care at all how many bowls he ate: "Zoom in the camera, zoom in the camera!"
"Change to a low-angle view! Then jump once and take a look, I want to see the Southern Hemisphere."
"What Southern Hemisphere, check out the panties first!"
"What about skills? What about the Ultimate Skill? Hurry up and show them off!"
Seeing that this bunch of people were completely immune to reason and had nothing on their minds except lewdness, Orange Juice also had lines of black dots all over his forehead.
Yet he completely ignored the requests for special angles.
Are you kidding me? This was precisely the moment when traffic was exploding, viewer numbers were soaring, and in just this brief moment it had already broken past 100,000, with gifts also flooding the screen crazily.
The earnings from streaming for a single day might just match a regular week! At a time like this, making me pull off those dangerous stunts—what if the Livestream Room gets banned, are you guys going to reimburse me for this money?
Orange Juice decisively skipped those dangerous suggestions and chose to answer a relatively safe Bullet Comments: "Want to see skills and the Ultimate Skill? OK, I'll start aggroing monsters right now."
The trial stage was just a very small circular platform, and when the character walked to the middle, three mechanical four-legged monsters automatically refreshed.
Two melee and one ranged, they immediately began attacking Tong Que.
Orange Juice was a new player who didn't understand any high-end maneuvers, and instinctively went to attack the ranged monster first.
As a result, he was directly knocked flying by a savage charge from one of the pouncing mechanical beasts! Then, under his shocked gaze, the screen suddenly entered slow motion, and Tong Que not only let out a cry of pain when hit, but the clothes on her body strung together by VaultChain actually--
Burst open! Several of the VaultChain across her chest snapped on the spot, and golden beads and jade stones splattered outward.
The gorgeous chest, which was already not very tightly wrapped, instantly exposed a large area all over again!
Right at this moment of revealing skin, the entire livestream room screen completely froze.
The chat users howled with excitement, thinking that Dream Builder had specially designed a time-stop effect so that players could easily appreciate the wonderful moment.
It wasn't until this time-stop effect lasted for over 5 seconds that everyone belatedly realized--
Something seemed a bit wrong? The next second, over 100,000 people in the Livestream Room were collectively kicked out of the livestream room.
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