White Night Supreme Immortal's Inch Force Cracks Skulls-And You Call That a Useless Character Who Takes Too Much Grinding?

How should I put it? Although this kind of plot was common, it already counted as fairly substantial compared to the games in this world.

Most other games only provided a rough framework, with barely any plot afterward.

So the players still found it somewhat fresh.

Besides, they had been playing Maiden Voyage for a while now and had developed some fondness for The Starter Trio.

As such, the players were eagerly anticipating this rescue mission.

In the game, Yu Weiwei controlled her character as she infiltrated the enemy camp alongside the red-haired mature beauty and the black-haired girl, two members of The Starter Trio.

But what the protagonists did not know was that their entire plan had been under the enemy army's control.

Only after they had completely penetrated the enemy camp and found the badly wounded Erica did the enemy troops lying in ambush nearby swarm out and completely surround the protagonists.

After a difficult escape stage, Yu Weiwei finally reached the final stage of the new chapter.

However, after clearing the stage, an anime playback button appeared as well.

Seeing this, many Honkai Impact 3rd players lurking in the livestream were furious.

Everything had been copied from Honkai Impact 3rd.

Whether it was the gameplay or the UI.

Even making an anime CG for the final stage had been copied from Honkai Impact 3rd.

Even the plot... was about rescuing Erica, one of The Starter Trio...

It was just that Maiden Voyage's plot seemed far too small-scale compared with Honkai Impact 3rd.

Tencent really had thick skin. No one even knew how many times it had blatantly plagiarized others.

Many players had long since gotten used to it.

This time, they merely grumbled about it silently.

After all, Tencent had made significant progress this time.

The fact that it was even willing to spend money on an anime short that could not rake in cash was already quite rare.

At the very least, it was much more sincere than its previous games.

So although it was far inferior to Honkai Impact 3rd, it still counted as an excellent start among domestic games.

In the eyes of many gamers, MiHoYo seemed to have put some pressure on those major companies as well.

"Wow! There's actually an anime short to watch!"

Yu Weiwei feigned surprise and excitedly clicked the anime playback button.

As the scene opened, a large group of enemy soldiers slowly approached across a battlefield engulfed in artillery fire.

The War Goddesses stood back-to-back, their injuries making them look utterly disheveled.

After an unremarkably smooth fight sequence, music began to play...

At the same time, the red-haired mature beauty looked solemnly at the endlessly approaching enemies. "Miss Yu Weiwei... in a moment, I'll unleash the Sunburst Greatsword's zeroth rated output and carve out an escape route..."

"When that happens, please immediately take Erica and the others away from here."

Before she could finish, Erica frantically shook her head. "No, Auntie Zela. If you do that... you'll..."

"Erica... there's no time. I hope you can walk the road ahead with strength. Don't be so rash and careless anymore." After saying that, the red-haired mature beauty gripped her greatsword and charged toward the enemy army.

"Go!"

Amid a blinding flash of white light, the red-haired mature beauty unleashed her weapon's ultimate form and swung it fiercely at the enemies ahead.

In the final scene, accompanied by Yu Weiwei's mournful singing, the red-haired mature beauty collapsed helplessly as countless monsters released by the enemy army completely engulfed her.

Seeing this, all the lurking viewers were filled with question marks.

Ahhh!! No! Miss Zela!

She just... died so ordinarily?

And she fucking died that horribly?

Holy shit... wasn't that... way too sudden?

Fuck! What kind of trash writer is this? Can't you even copy properly?

Miss Zela!! Tencent, are you fucking insane?

Yu Weiwei was not looking at the danmaku right now.

To be honest, she was somewhat surprised that the plot had turned out like this.

Still, she reacted quickly. Thinking of the buzz created by Himeko's death in Honkai Impact 3rd, she hurriedly put on a sorrowful expression.

"Miss... Zela..."

She looked utterly disbelieving and squeezed out a few tears. "How could this happen..."

Seeing this, many of her fans began comforting her.

"Sob~ Miss Zela actually sacrificed herself to save Erica..."

In truth, Yu Weiwei was not particularly moved.

Most players even found it rather baffling.

Naturally, this was because Tencent's writers lacked skill and could not stir the players' emotions.

And besides, dying to save someone... not only was that trope already worn out, but its plot arrangement was incredibly abrupt.

Honkai Impact 3rd, on the other hand, had been laying the groundwork for Himeko's sacrifice from the very beginning.

Himeko's death had long been fated, and her final battle was incomparably magnificent and dazzling, completely elevating her image in the players' hearts.

Facing an opponent like a god, Himeko raised her sword to the heavens and changed Kiana's fate.

Now look at Maiden Voyage.

In the earlier plot, the War Goddesses had been virtually invincible.

There had even been scenes of them toying with these enemies.

Then in the next chapter, a member of the protagonists just died...

Not only was it abrupt, it also left an utterly disgusting feeling.

This was not even a knife twist anymore. It was practically force-feeding players shit.

That was why the danmaku was filled with so much anger.

They cursed Tencent for not even knowing how to copy properly.

At the same time, Zhao Wenbo looked at the newly surging trending topic on Weibo, then at the abuse in the danmaku...

"How could this happen..." His expression was extremely ugly.

Bang!

He slammed his fist against the table, venting the resentment in his heart.

"Why is it that when Honkai Impact 3rd kills off a character, players praise it to the heavens, but when my game kills off a character, you say I'm feeding you shit?"

"Why can your short film shoot up the trending list in such a short time, while my game can't?"

He looked at the four words prominently displayed on the trending list.

Sky Dome Meteor

"Zhao Yi... after Yu Weiwei ends her stream, have her make a few Weibo posts comforting the players."

"Then hire internet trolls and smear Honkai Impact 3rd."

Zhao Yi nodded. "Then what reason should we use to discredit them?"

Zhao Wenbo's eyes gleamed. "Say that their game is unplayable unless you pull a Herrscher, and that A-rank Valkyrie Armor is just there to scam players out of money!"

White Comet Celestial's One-Inch Punch to the Skull—And You Call Grindable Characters Useless?

Several days had passed since Himeko's livestream.

But countless players in the gaming community were still discussing Honkai Impact 3rd's new storyline.

Eden's album had also been released one after another.

The Weibo trending list was completely dominated by news of her new album.

Honkai Impact 3rd only stayed on the trending list for the day of its update before quickly being squeezed out.

Tencent's new version content had it even worse... it had not even appeared on the Weibo trending list.

Only when videos about Honkai Impact 3rd occasionally popped up on Douyin would Maiden Voyage's new plot be dragged out and ridiculed all over again.

There was no helping it. That kind of sudden character death was simply too disgusting.

But at some point, comments began appearing beneath many Honkai Impact 3rd videos, accusing MiHoYo of scamming players and claiming that the game was unplayable without money to pull Herrschers.

These comments left many people baffled.

Honkai Impact 3rd did not even have a PvP mode. Its only Abyss and Memorial Arena rankings merely gave a few hundred extra crystals.

Their purpose was simply to let paying players experience higher-difficulty challenge modes.

Maiden Voyage, on the other hand, had added a PvP mode of its own on top of Honkai Impact 3rd's foundation.

And games with player-versus-player combat were the ones that truly could not be played without spending money.

So when they saw people say Honkai Impact 3rd was a cash grab, many players simply treated it as a joke.

But soon, claims that Honkai Impact 3rd was a cash grab grew more and more common.

It was not until someone commented under Yu Weiwei's Weibo, asking whether she had played Honkai Impact 3rd, that one of Yu Weiwei's posts caused the whole matter to explode.

"Honkai Impact 3rd"? I've played it, but I feel like the game is completely unplayable if you don't pull Herrschers. It looks like there are lots of grindable characters, but they're completely useless. It seems suspiciously like a scam to take players' money.

Who was Yu Weiwei? She was, after all, a second-tier celebrity.

When she publicly claimed that Honkai Impact 3rd was a cash grab, many of her die-hard fans naturally supported her blindly.

Countless Honkai Impact 3rd fans flooded Yu Weiwei's Weibo to curse her out, saying she was shameless enough to throw away even this much dignity just to boost the popularity of the game she endorsed.

After all, anyone with eyes could see that Maiden Voyage's PK mode existed to push players into spending money.

And the rewards for that PK mode were exceptionally generous.

Many players were willing to throw money into it just to obtain ranking rewards.

For example, the reward for first place in the weekly PK rankings was an ultimate armor available for seven days.

It was not only good-looking, but also terrifyingly powerful.

Yet Yu Weiwei did not say Maiden Voyage was forcing players to spend. Instead, she claimed Honkai Impact 3rd was forcing players to spend?

Naturally, this enraged many players.

Looking at the abuse beneath her Weibo posts, Yu Weiwei's expression darkened.

Although many fans defended her below, they had remained at a disadvantage.

This was her home turf, after all.

In her anger, she directly restricted Weibo comments, allowing only fans to comment.

Only then did her fans finally gain the upper hand.

But very soon, her follower count began climbing at a terrifying rate.

Previously, including the zombie followers she had bought, she had twelve million followers.

But now, only half a day later, her follower count had surged to fifteen million.

This gave her a pleasantly unexpected surprise.