I'm Really Struggling: "Holy shit, holy shit, holy shit!!! This is even more fucking hype than reading a power fantasy!"
Immortal Star Luo Yan: "Jade-Faced Grenade King? Three guys hugged bombs and charged into a crowd to blow themselves up? Those three First Closed Beta veterans are absolute bastards!"
Grind King 001: "The NPCs in this game can actually cast screen-wide AOE heals? That's so fucking realistic!"
Who Stole My Keyboard: "Aaaaaah! Why didn't I get a closed beta code?! I want to cling to a monster's leg too! I want to be a human bomb too!"
Countless Cloud Gamers watched with their blood boiling, desperate to dive straight through their screens and fight shoulder to shoulder with these lunatics.
Hot on their heels, the other Second Beta Test players began posting too.
They might not have had Kuang Shao's way with words, but they had something more direct: screenshots from the game!
[Hot thread]: "Image overload warning! These graphics, this lighting, these models-this is fucking art!"
Original poster: [Die If I Don't Stay Up]
"Enough talk. Straight to the pictures!"
"Image 1: The eerie, oppressive Black Forest, with the strange human-face patterns on the tree trunks clearly visible."
"Image 2: The Ash Altar atop Sighing Heights, glowing a spectral blue and carved with intricate runes."
"Image 3: Fog Town's Central Plaza, with dark red Flesh Magic swirling through the sky and the townspeople hiding inside the barrier."
"Image 4: Ma Lou doing a bizarre Venom dance in the Cultists' camp. (Special thanks to Boss Jia for generously providing this image.)"
Screenshot after screenshot, without a single filter and captured directly from the players' actual view inside their gaming pods, hit like depth charges, blasting every doubt about the graphics and realism to pieces.
Images so detailed that even the