Xu Meng could not figure it out himself, so he took the materials and ran to the programming department to look into it together with Peng Linmu.
However, Peng Linmu was also baffled.
What was even more troublesome was that before they could figure out the principle behind this bug appearing, Song Zhicheng came over with other bugs, worry written all over his face.
Xu Meng took the tablet from his hand and checked it together with Peng Linmu.
Soon, both of their brows furrowed.
This time, the bugs weren't as intuitive as the previous ones, so their influence on the internet was temporarily not very large.
However, these bugs were connected to the game's combat system, and dealing with them was not simpler than the previous ones at all—
The first bug was the damage loss problem of Tong Que's ultimate skill.
The appearance of Tong Que's ultimate skill was extremely gorgeous. It involved transformation, costume changes, and adding special effects to firearms and bullets, making it look quite complicated.
Yet, setting aside the animation special effects, the actual effect was not complex: it substantially increased the character's defense and health, while also attaching a fire enchantment to the bullets, with each bullet additionally inflicting a wave of fire damage when dealing physical damage.
Every time it dealt fire damage to an enemy 8 times, it would trigger a burning abnormality effect, adding a layer of vulnerability to the enemy, which could stack up to 3 layers.
Right now, though, some powerhouse whose origin was unknown tested this ultimate skill and found that Tong Que's fire enchantment had damage loss.
As for how he discovered it...
This older brother recorded the entire process of Tong Que shooting during the ultimate skill, imported the video into editing software for slow motion, and checked every single bullet fired from the muzzle.
—It was every single one! Thus, he discovered that when some of those bullets came out of the barrel, they did not have fire special effects.
To be specific, out of the 120 bullets fired during the 15 seconds of the ultimate skill, 6 of them lacked fire special effects.
Slowing down the footage and comparing the damage of these 6 bullets, it was indeed lower than the others.
Thus, he confirmed that it wasn't just the animation effect that was missing, but the entire fire enchantment.--The second bug was He Yin's wind wall skill.
In the skill description, this wall shaped by wind could block enemy ranged attacks.
That sounded like it meant "blocking all attacks," right?
However, the actual effect was that this wind wall could only block solid projectiles—such as bullets, stones, slime, armor plates, explosives, and the like.
Yet the monster types in Frost Snow Project were quite rich, and some monsters used sonic waves and lasers to attack.
In front of such attacks without solid projectiles, the wind wall completely became a piece of decoration.
The characters hiding behind the wind wall were still being beaten up just the same!--As for the last bug—Xiao Ningxi's candy bullets would heal biological monsters...
Xu Meng laughed when he saw it.
Because this wasn't actually a bug, but an Easter egg.
A character trait intentionally added to enhance Ningxi's memorability.
Song Zhicheng didn't know this, and seeing that the boss could still laugh, he became even more anxious: "Boss! Now is not the time to relax!"
"Mm, I know." Xu Meng smiled and nodded.
"No, you don't realize the severity of the problem yet!" Song Zhicheng was somewhat anxious.
Xu Meng didn't quite understand his anxiety, but he still put away his smile and asked seriously, "What's wrong?"
Song Zhicheng wore an expression of immense pressure: "We are standing in the spotlight right now, and many people are staring at us. If we don't resolve these issues as soon as possible, public opinion might soon turn in a direction unfavorable to us."
Xu Meng nodded.
He also had psychological expectations for this kind of situation.
Frost Snow Project being able to achieve such astonishing results now, internet traffic had played a huge boosting role.
However, traffic was a double-edged sword; used well it had infinite power, and used poorly it would hurt oneself.
Considering the scale of Frost Snow Project's characters, controversies definitely wouldn't be small.
And for this kind of controversy not involving the law, what ultimately decided the outcome was often not whose side was right or wrong, but whose volume was louder.
Now that Song Zhicheng was this anxious, there was mostly only one reason—
"Right now on the internet, are there a lot of negative news about Frost Snow Project?"
Xu Meng's sentence could be considered hitting Song Zhicheng's heart, and a large string of words immediately blurted out:
"A lot!"
"There are many livestream rooms livestreaming our game being banned, and it's already on the hot search right now."
"Because it was all bans caused by Frost Snow Project's scale, netizens are all saying this is a snow disaster in the livestreaming world."
"In addition, on Weiguang and Red Book, many extreme radical feminist bloggers are stirring up the rhythm, inciting many people to report us on various platforms while giving our game low scores."
"Affected by this, our rating on many channels has dropped to 3 points, and it's still dropping."
"Additionally, a small number of users who once owned male characters are demanding refunds under the excuse that we 'changed already sold merchandise without permission'."
"Furthermore, I also found that a large number of water armies have appeared, spamming everywhere that [poor technology leads to a bunch of bugs in the game], [low moral character, a rogue company], [boring to death except for soft porn games], [wasting money buying 2D paper figures is worse than going to get a foot massage in reality]..."
Seeing Song Zhicheng's posture of wanting to repeat all the water army's trash talk, Xu Meng hurriedly raised his hand to stop him: "That's enough, that's enough."
"I know you're in a rush, but let's put the water army matter aside for now."
"No matter what we do, they are taking money to do a job."
"Let's focus our sights on the players' demands first. The players are our parents who provide us with food and clothing, and serving them well is the most important thing."
"What is the players' biggest demand right now?"
"Uh... this..." Song Zhicheng suddenly became somewhat stuttering, as if Xu Meng had brought up some extraordinary question.
"?" A question mark slowly popped up on Xu Meng's head.
Was this question difficult? Song Zhicheng took the tablet, bit the bullet to operate it, and handed it to Xu Meng.
Seeing him make this move, Peng Linmu also curiously leaned over and looked at the screen.
[Strongly protest that only Tong Que has a naked body model, and strongly demand adding it to all characters!]
The post text:
"If making them all is too troublesome, at least make it for Xiao Ningxi!
Please, this is my request for a lifetime!"
—"???" There were even more question marks on Xu Meng's head.
"Cough cough cough!" Peng Linmu coughed while awkwardly looking away.
What was outrageous was that the likes on this post actually exceeded 180,000! The front-row player replies were also all wishing for naked body models of other characters to be made, and the like counts weren't low either—generally between 60,000 and 15,000.
There were no fake heats on Dreamjin, and players couldn't repeat likes.
Therefore... these were all the true inner voices of the players! However...
"Are there this many loli-cons in 2D?"
"Or perverted loli-cons."
Song Zhicheng didn't know how to answer the boss's question, so he simply chose to skip it: "Not only that, this post has quite high attention on Weiguang and P Station, and the heat is quite high!"
"Psychos!" Xu Meng was speechless.
Tong Que's situation was special, in order to make a benchmark character out.
To reach the ultimate, the modeling and animation team squeezed out time in the tight schedule and made a large amount of work that could be called redundant—separate body modeling, separate clothing modeling, battle-damaged styling modeling, and normal styling modeling were all made.
Some of this work was not for the current work, but for technological exploration.
After the Intelligent Collaboration Development Tool completely digested this entire process, it indeed greatly improved the efficiency of later modeling and rendering for other characters.
Yet, the technological exploration was already complete, and the intelligent collaboration tool had already lit up this technology node, so it was impossible to equip a set for other characters as well.
After all, this couldn't be sold out in the open.
—Daring to sell it would be illegal!
Xu Meng shook his head, "Besides this?"
After finishing, fearing that Song Zhicheng would pull out heaven-defying things again, he even specifically added a sentence: "Something normal!"
"There is, there is, there is." Song Zhicheng reached out and swiped the tablet in Xu Meng's hand.
Thus, the screen switched to a note page, on which two concise and clear demands were written: game bug fixes
and—
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