Not only had she taken a huge sum of money from Tencent, she had also unexpectedly gained so much attention. This was a massive win!
"Even if they're haters... haters are still fans too~" Yu Weiwei hurriedly contacted her agent to discuss a plan for repairing her image.
She had merely endorsed a Tencent game. It was hardly some unforgivable crime. Once the heat died down, she could come forward, apologize... and play the victim a little...
Wouldn't those haters become fans then?
After hearing Yu Weiwei's explanation, her agent was pleasantly surprised as well.
"Who would've thought... a game would help you take another step toward the top tier!"
"Then, what do we do now?"
After thinking for a moment, her agent smiled. "Let's wait and see. The momentum is already fully underway. MiHoYo won't just sit back and do nothing."
Over at MiHoYo, Rita hurriedly informed Mo Li about the situation.
Anyone with eyes could tell that Tencent was deliberately smearing them.
And with an incredibly far-fetched excuse at that.
Still, they couldn't just watch without doing anything.
After all, rumors spread long enough eventually became "facts."
There were plenty of immature student players online, as well as players too lazy to learn the full story, who would be misled by such rumors...
So the girls were all rather anxious.
Mo Li merely took a quick look at the angle Tencent was using to smear them.
"Heh. Such a flimsy excuse... Looks like Tencent is completely out of options and has started trying to disgust us."
Originally, he hadn't wanted to bother with Tencent.
After all, openly falling out with such a massive internet company wasn't exactly rational.
Yet since they couldn't beat him with actual strength, they had started resorting to underhanded tactics.
"If you want to suffer a loss, then I'll gladly oblige."
Mo Li looked at Rita and reassured her softly, "You don't need to worry about this. One video from me will settle it."
"Go gather evidence of Tencent's plagiarism and sue them directly."
Mo Li's words left Rita slightly startled.
"Boss... are you sure? Tencent has fought plenty of plagiarism lawsuits, but they've never lost one..."
Rita's expression turned serious. "Boss, if we lose, I'm afraid it'll have a major impact on Honkai Impact 3rd's reputation."
Mo Li smiled. "Don't worry... Honkai Impact 3rd's code contains plenty of our Studio logos."
"Coincidentally... Maiden Voyage's game code also contains plenty of MiHoYo's logos."
"What..." Rita was utterly dumbfounded. Tencent had actually dared to copy the game code directly!?
But with conclusive evidence, there was no way they could lose this lawsuit.
With that thought, Rita gave a charming smile. "All right, Boss. I'll go prepare right away..."
After Rita left, Mo Li turned on his computer, logged into his game account, and recorded a Memory Battlefield clear showcase.
"Heh. They actually said farmable characters were useless? You've clearly never tasted the Immortal's One-Inch Punch!"
In the current version of Honkai Impact 3rd, the ceiling for physical damage was the Herrscher of the Void.
Meanwhile, the ceiling for lightning damage was one of the farmable characters, Fu Hua's Shadow Knight.
And they had the nerve to say farmable characters were useless?
As soon as Mo Li posted the video, it immediately drew a massive crowd of players.
At first, the players thought it was a new official game announcement.
But when they clicked in, they found that it was a Memory Battlefield clear video.
Farmable character White Comet Celestial—seven health bars in one second
Let me show you what it means to make a health bar disappear—Kallen, 31,180 points
As soon as the video began, intense, blood-pumping electronic music started playing.
First, it displayed the team composition and stigmata.
White Comet + Elysia: Pristine + Valkyrie Moonlight.
Among those three characters, God's Grace was considered the hardest to obtain.
White Comet, meanwhile, had already reached 3S for anyone who had kept playing. Even those who played only occasionally could easily reach SS through the events of recent days.
As the music grew more intense, the battle officially began.
First, Valkyrie Moonlight entered the field. After using her weapon skill once, she immediately blinked, triggering Time Fracture.
Next, God's Grace switched in and used her weapon skill. Then White Comet entered to attack Kallen and build SP. Just as Time Fracture was about to end, White Comet caught a blink and triggered Time Fracture again.
By constantly switching characters and catching blinks to trigger Time Fracture, the battle timer ticked down incredibly slowly.
By the time God's Grace and White Comet had enough SP to use their ultimates, White Comet had also kicked through Kallen's yellow bar.
At that moment, the music reached its climax.
In the game, God's Grace directly activated her ultimate and weapon skill, lowering the enemy's defense and boosting the entire team's damage.
Then Valkyrie Moonlight switched in, blinked to trigger Time Fracture, and used her weapon skill to lower the enemy's defense.
Finally, White Comet entered the field and activated her ultimate. Under White Comet Celestial's dazzling barrage of attacks, Boss Kallen's health bar drained at a horrifying speed.
By this point, the players were completely stunned.
Memory Battlefield could be played like this?
There was no helping it. Honkai Impact 3rd updated far too quickly.
The many events and story chapters already filled up most of their gaming time, so naturally, fewer players spent time developing gameplay strategies and team compositions.
This kind of operation, killing Kallen within fifteen seconds, had utterly blown their minds.
Holy shit!!
???
What the hell...
Kallen: ?? What just happened? Where did my health bar go?
Kallen: Is this the pressure of a fifty-thousand-year-old woman?!
Fu Hua is freaking insane!!
The Scarlet Bird Immortal hiring someone to play for her has been confirmed!
Tencent, get your ass out here! Tell me again, Master, what you mean by farmable characters being useless?
I thought the Queen was already unrivaled beneath the heavens! I never expected Fu Hua to be even more terrifying... Whose general is this?
On the results screen, the view switched to Fu Hua.
The Immortal wore a humble expression. "This performance... was not perfect enough."
The Danmaku exploded once more.
You're being too modest...
Redefining perfection...
Listen to yourself! Is that something a human would say? Look at the Kallen beneath your feet first!
Aahhh!! The Immortal is so cool!!
Copying the homework, copying the homework! I happen to have these stigmata and characters. I thought they'd just gather dust in my inventory, but they're actually this strong!
This homework... I don't think you can copy it!
Honestly, even when I use a 3S Queen against Kallen, I'm not this fast...
Tencent, get out here!! Yu Weiwei, come take a look! This is what it means for characters to be fucking useless?
In different situations and against different bosses, farmable characters could crush paid characters... Awesome! Wasn't MiHoYo afraid nobody would pull limited characters by doing this?
PS: This was a version from a long time ago. If the author remembered White Comet's strength wrong, please go easy on me.
Just treat it as fan creation... Though it probably wasn't too far off...
Tencent Lost the Lawsuit, the Game Shut Down, and the Genshin Impact Preview Was Ready!
As soon as Mo Li posted the video, it rapidly went viral.
Free characters could actually be this strong?
Forget other games—just compare it with Maiden Voyage. In Tencent's game, let alone free characters...
Even if you spent money, you would still get beaten senseless by big spenders wearing Ultimate Armor.
Not to mention killing a boss instantly with free characters like in Honkai Impact 3rd.
Mo Li's video was not only incredibly entertaining, but it also slapped Yu Weiwei directly across the face.
It drove countless players to share it wildly, praising the Immortal while mocking Yu Weiwei for talking nonsense for money.
With things blowing up like this, Yu Weiwei had no choice but to apologize publicly.
Dear Honkai Impact 3rd players, I sincerely apologize for my previous remarks.
Due to work, I had little time to play games, so I didn't know much about that game and made some inappropriate comments.
Please don't take it to heart. Honkai Impact 3rd truly is a good game, and I hope to have an opportunity to work with MiHoYo in the future.
After she posted that Weibo, those players stopped pressing the issue and unfollowed her one after another.
However, a small number of people still left mocking comments beneath her post.
After all, while the post appeared to be trying to make nice with Honkai Impact 3rd, it did not look like an apology at all.
As a result, Yu Weiwei not only gained nothing from this incident, but also left an extremely bad impression on her former fans.
Her public image took a huge hit as well.
But the matter did not end there.
After the video had circulated for a few days, all Honkai Impact 3rd players gained a brand-new understanding of God's Grace Sonata.
In one sentence—she was the ultimate support for physical teams.
Whether paired with White Comet in Battlefield or with Aether in the Abyss, she performed exceptionally well.
As a result, many players frantically pulled from the Dorm Supply, all in order to obtain God's Grace Sonata.
This caused Honkai Impact 3rd's daily revenue to surge dramatically.
The sight made Zhao Wenbo green with envy.
He was practically furious to death.
He had paid out of pocket to hire people to disgust Mo Li.
Yet Mo Li had responded with one video that not only slapped him in the face, but also caused Honkai Impact 3rd's daily revenue to skyrocket.
Many Maiden Voyage players even suddenly came to their senses and compared Honkai Impact 3rd with Maiden Voyage...
The result was that they realized they had been complete idiots before, nearly brainwashed by Tencent's bombardment of traffic.
On top of that, Maiden Voyage's new story had suddenly killed off characters, causing a large number of Maiden Voyage players to abandon the game.
They joined the ranks of Honkai Impact 3rd instead...
A classic case of trying to steal a chicken and losing the rice instead.
This left many players who had been following developments in the gaming scene thoroughly delighted.
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