First post: Holy shit, isn't this Liangshan Stronghold Chief a little too ruthless?!
Second post: Spawn camping and corpse camping. He's grinding the faces of the players in Novice Village No. 51169 into the dirt.
Third post: Tsk, tsk...
The forums buzzed with discussion.
Spawn camping and corpse camping between players were nothing unusual.
If someone posted it on the forums,
the perpetrators would, at most, earn some scorn.
But—
an NPC corpse camping players was a first, and that was an entirely different matter.
Aside from that,
another matter had sparked heated discussion among the players.
That was—
the game had been updated.
It wasn't an offline update, but a live one. There had been no announcement beforehand, making it seem very abrupt.
As for the update's contents, there were only two entries.
"Players must wait ten minutes to resurrect. Each additional death on the same day increases the resurrection wait by ten minutes, up to a maximum of one hour."
"Resurrection Point restrictions have been removed. Players are no longer limited to Resurrection Points and may resurrect randomly in any public area within the Novice Village."
These two update notices
immediately reminded some players of what had happened in Novice Village No. 51169.
The last entry, in particular, seemed to have been added specifically to prevent NPCs from corpse camping again.
Logically speaking,
this should have been a good thing.
But—
the first update entry seemed designed to restrict players.
Before the update, players could resurrect with almost no delay. To defeat monster bosses, many teams had relied on these virtually endless human-wave tactics.
Now, after the update,
that exploitable advantage had vanished in an instant.
With one benefit gained and another lost,
it was impossible to say whether this update was good or bad.
However—
some