Orange Juice was full of confidence.
After all, he graduated with a degree in computer science and even interned at a game company for a few months.
Even if he couldn't visually identify frame drops, he still had the ability to judge the refinement of animation.
"Many people don't know that the background image of the Frost Snow Project launcher can actually be found in the folder," Orange Juice explained as he opened the Frost Snow Project folder.
"If you want, you can even change the background image yourself, and it's not complicated to do."
After opening several sub-folders in succession, Orange Juice stopped.
"This is it. Anyone else want to raise the stakes and bet with me?"
The viewers were the most eager to join in the fun. With Orange Juice's instigation, many people immediately jumped at the chance to be fooled:
"I'll bet! If it's higher than 800, I'll send you a sports car. If it's lower than 800, you'll do a headstand while washing your hair!"
"Count me in for a sports car. If you lose, you have to crossdress!"
"Add one! If you lose, you'll subscribe. If you lose, you'll cosplay Tong Que!"
"Isn't making him cosplay Tong Que a bit too much of an eyesore? How about Bu Erxi? A bunny girl would be nice, and the black stockings can cover his leg hair."
"What's wrong with leg hair? That's exactly what I like! I'll raise the stakes and bet on He Yin! I want to see those bare legs!"
Orange Juice originally had a happy expression, feeling that he had successfully tricked a large wave of rewards out of them.
But as he watched the topic shift to him cosplaying a character from Frost Snow Project, he immediately felt that something was wrong and quickly interrupted this dangerous trend:
"Alright, that's enough! It's over! Deadline!!"
—If they continued to discuss it, in case the viewers got too excited, it wouldn't matter even if he won in the end.
These viewers who loved to stir up trouble and watch the fun would never give up until they achieved their goal, until the day he actually did a cosplay.
That was too dangerous.
Orange Juice no longer gave the viewers a chance to interject and immediately opened the folder.
Thus, a dense collection of thumbnails was displayed before everyone's eyes.
Orange Juice casually opened one, and it was indeed a scene from the launcher's background image. The folder displayed a total of—
1060 items!
Orange Juice was immediately dumbfounded: "When I opened it yesterday, I took a look, and there was only one static image in a special format."
"It directly added 1060 images after the update? Is Zhu Meng crazy?!"
"I know hard drives have gotten cheaper recently, but you can't do this, can you??"
The viewers originally didn't understand any of this, but after Orange Juice explained it, the difference between 1 image and 1060 images, this more than 1000-fold difference was right in front of them, and they could somewhat feel Zhu Meng's madness.
However, Orange Juice quickly recovered and said with a big laugh:
"Where are the people who bet with me just now?"
"A bet is a bet! Quickly hand over the subscriptions and sports cars, haha."
As expected, many viewers kept their word and started sending gifts.
Orange Juice was overjoyed as he watched the subscriptions and sports cars pop up one after another, and he excitedly logged into the game.
He had a feeling that the popularity and gift revenue of today's stream would be very considerable!
He had only looked at a launcher, and the number of viewers in the stream was already approaching 80,000, and he was raking in the gifts.
He couldn't even imagine how high the popularity could soar and how many gifts he could receive when he officially entered the game next!
"Frost Snow Project, launch!"
Over the past month, he had gradually pushed some of the main storyline in order to record material, and now his progress had reached the only main city in Frost Snow Project: Silver City.
But as for the game experience...
"To be honest, the early plot was boring to death. I was getting sleepy playing it."
"The overall feeling is just go here, go there, and then go there again, listen to her, listen to him, and then listen to him again, and kill some mobs along the way."
"That's the whole game experience. If Zhu Meng hadn't remade it, I definitely wouldn't have opened it a second time."
As he spoke, the loading bar finished, and his character was already standing on the streets of Silver City.
A white Long-tailed Luan Bird with a letter tied to its leg flew to his eyes. The next second, the letter opened and turned into a guide page—
[New Character Outfit] [Login Bonus] [Current Event] [Changes Overview]
"It has to be the new character outfit!"
Orange Juice clicked on [New Character Outfit], and the guide page turned into a row of 8 character cards, each of which could be tried out.
The cards featured the 8 characters that had already been remade.
"Who to look at first? Who to look at first?" Orange Juice couldn't wait.
After asking a symbolic question, he didn't even look at the viewers' comments and continued, "Tong Que? Okay, let's go with Tong Que!"
He clicked the mouse, and the card zoomed in, turning into a Tong Que concept art.
In the lower left corner of the concept art, there was also the signature [Artist: Ding Nian].
This was Xu Meng's request, to use the artists' original concept art in the loading interface of the trial levels.
This way, the artists could be affirmed—even shy artists could accept this affirmation under a pseudonym.
Players wouldn't find the loading time unbearable either.
This trick obviously worked very well. Both Orange Juice and the viewers were only focused on admiring the high-definition concept art of Tong Que.
They even felt for the first time that the game was loading too fast.
They hadn't looked enough when they entered the level.
"Wow!"
Orange Juice exclaimed in surprise the first moment, while rotating the camera and pushing the mouse wheel to zoom in.
"Holy crap! This modeling... holy crap!"
He was so surprised that he couldn't help but swear on the spot.
Even when watching the Real Machine trailer, he had noticed that Tong Que's modeling was very detailed, but he didn't expect it to be so detailed! Her flowing red hair moved without wind, her big sister stance was heroic and sa shuang, and the gold chains and jade stones on her body swayed and collided when she moved, making a low but crisp and pleasant sound.
Appreciating it from a static, close-up perspective was different from the dynamic display in the trailer.
More details were clearly visible.
The viewers were instantly hyped:
"So hot! My dick is about to explode!"
"This is too strong! Fourth Dimension, learn from Zhu Meng! Look at the modeling of your game!"
"Most game illustrations are 100 points, but the modeling is only 70 points, and 80 points is rare, but you guys really don't want to deduct even 1 point?!"
"The modelers don't have to kowtow to the art designers this time!"
"Just get married on the spot! Both are too strong, a match made in heaven!"
"Let's go, let's go, Frost Snow Project—start!"
Orange Juice also widened his eyes.
But the thing that surprised him was different from the viewers.
He controlled Tong Que to walk slowly, run quickly, jump forward, jump backward, jump left, and jump right, carefully observing every movement, but he wasn't looking at anything lewd.
To describe his mood at that moment...
In one word—
Smooth!
In two words—
Smooth, still smooth! What elastic buttocks, what pink and white slender waist, all paled in comparison to the sheer detail and smooth action transitions on Tong Que that shocked him.
This wasn't just a matter of rendering polygons.
He seemed to see, through the screen, the Zhu Meng animators with dark circles under their eyes, sunken eye sockets, huddled in their workstations, frantically crunching to create keyframes.
"This level of smoothness!"
He finally spoke to interact with his viewers: "I dare to bet with you guys! Her rendering polygons are not only among the top in the entire gacha game industry, but you can probably even remove the 'among' part... it's number one!"
"Moreover, in terms of keyframe count, pre-rendering, and physics calculations, it's all top-tier!"
"Anyone want to bet with me?"
"This time, I'll eat two bowls!"
But the viewers didn't care how many bowls he ate: "Zoom in, zoom in!"
"Change to an upward angle! Then jump and let us see, want to see the Southern Hemisphere."
"What Southern Hemisphere? Let's see the panties first!"
"Skills? Ultimate move? Show it off quickly!"
Orange Juice saw that these people were impervious to reason, their minds filled only with lewdness, and his head was also full of black lines.
But he ignored the requests for special angles.
What a joke? This was the time when traffic was exploding, the number of viewers was soaring, and it had already exceeded 100,000 in a short while, with gifts also frantically flooding the screen.
The income from broadcasting for a day today might be equivalent to a week's worth normally! At this time, asking me to do those dangerous things, if the livestream room gets banned, will you guys compensate me for the money?
Orange Juice decisively skipped those dangerous suggestions and chose a relatively safe bullet comment to answer: "Want to see skills and ultimate moves? OK, I'll start the monster fight now."
The trial level was just a small circular platform. When the character walked to the center, three mechanical quadruped monsters automatically spawned.
Two melee and one ranged, they immediately began to attack Tong Que.
Orange Juice, being a new player, didn't understand any high-end operations and subconsciously went to attack the ranged monster first.
As a result, he was directly knocked away by a savage charge from the pouncing mechanical beast! Then, in his shocked gaze, the screen suddenly entered slow motion, and the hit Tong Que not only cried out in pain, but the clothes on her body, strung together by golden chains, actually—
Popped open! Several of the golden chains in front of her chest broke on the spot, and golden beads and jade stones flew out.
Her beautiful breasts, which were already not very well covered, instantly revealed a large expanse!
At this moment of fleeting exposure, the entire livestream screen completely froze.
The viewers howled with excitement, thinking that Zhu Meng had specially designed a time-stop effect to allow players to appreciate the wonderful moment.
It wasn't until this time-stop effect lasted for more than 5 seconds that everyone belatedly realized—
Something seemed wrong? The next second, more than 100,000 people in the livestream room were collectively kicked out.
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