[ Howling Pothos ]: "I sincerely invite you to become a member of the encyclopedia editing team."
[ Dark Archmage ]: "Hmm, let me think about it."
The test of " World of Disorder " will end at 8:00 AM every day in the real world, so the time between 8:00 and 9:00 AM is the most active time for players to communicate in the group. After this time, the frequency of messages will gradually decrease, since the players are mainly composed of office workers and students.
Player [ Dawn Ah ] put down his phone with lingering enjoyment, and graduate student Li Yu officially logged in.
Although the game's production quality and content richness far exceeded his expectations, after playing for a full twelve hours, he still hadn't forgotten his original reason for registering the game account.
Observe the creatures in the game.
He imported some screenshots from last night's game onto his computer and began to carefully examine these high-resolution images on the screen.
Among the pictures were Deadwood Vine and Strangler Fig composed mainly of plants and supplemented by animals, as well as Vine Sheep and "Plum Blossom" Deer composed mainly of animals and supplemented by plants. He looked at these pictures carefully, observing the symbiotic positions and assimilation methods, trying to find some patterns.
He also took photos of the remains of the wooden house monster after its death, but Li Yu's interest in the wooden house monster was far less than that in the Aberration creatures that could be seen everywhere. In his eyes, the wooden house monster's design was not very thoughtful. From the remains, it was clear that the flesh and blood were simply fused together with the wooden planks. It did not have the unique sense of integration that the special ecosystem formed by the Aberration creatures had. Instead, it was somewhat stiff.
But thinking about it, Li Yu felt that based on her experience last night, the game was so well-made in almost every visible and invisible aspect that it shouldn't have made such a simple mistake.
Unless, this is also part of the design...
But why?
Aside from being a standalone boss, what is the fundamental difference between the wooden cabin monster and those Aberration?
Just as Li Yu was brainstorming, someone suddenly patted him on the shoulder:
"Senior, the boss asked me to remind you not to forget the group meeting this afternoon. Did you prepare the PPT?"
"Senior brother, what are you doing? What are you looking at? What kind of AI images are these? Wait, this art style seems familiar... where have I seen it before? Hmm, what does this watermark say?"
"Disorder... world... Holy crap, World of Disorder! Isn't this that game that's been all over the internet lately, that so-called groundbreaking, fully immersive game?"
A barrage of questions bombarded Li Yu's ears, leaving him completely unsure which one to answer first.
He turned to look helplessly at the enthusiastic junior who was a year below him, feeling that the other person was completely unaware that he had created the noise of three or four people by himself, and had even reached for the mouse wheel to zoom in on the image.
"Yes, that's it, so please let go of my mouse first."
He subtly stopped his junior's excited behavior, and the two locked eyes.
Li Yu didn't want to waste too much time, so he said bluntly:
"So I need to make the PPT now, you can go do yours too."
But this enthusiastic junior was clearly completely captivated; he stared wide-eyed at Li Yu:
"Senior, there are only two videos of this game online right now, and they don't have your screenshots in them."
"Hmm, so what?"
"So where did this come from? I heard hundreds of thousands of people made reservations, but only a few were qualified for testing."
"Well, don't you already know the answer?"
"What do you mean... Ah!"
Seeing his junior's eyes practically popping out of their sockets, Li Yu wanted to help him get an appointment to check for hyperthyroidism.
"No, really, senior brother? You really have it?"
Li Yu opened the mobile app of the game platform and showed the page displaying her qualifications to her junior.
"Ah! Heaven is unjust! Waaah, why?!"
Ignoring her junior's jealousy, Li Yu silently created a new PPT template and began filling in the content.
"Senior, please let me play with this for a bit, I beg you, just for an hour, no, just ten minutes is fine. I'll help you make a PPT, monitor the petri dishes, and write a report. Can I just let you play with it for a little while?"
Li Yu was utterly annoyed. He opened the test instructions on his phone and showed it to his junior, who was practically a snotty-nosed mess:
Read this line.
"The activated test qualifications for this game are linked to the official game account, game platform account, citizen identity information, and personal iris pattern, and may not be bought, sold, or transferred through any means."
"No!"
Looking at his junior who had gone completely berserk, Li Yu said calmly:
"It's not that I don't want to lend it to you, it's just that even if I did, you wouldn't be able to log in... I only just won the lottery yesterday, so feel free to ask me anything."
As if grasping a ray of light in the darkness, the junior's jealousy instantly transformed into a thirst for knowledge:
"I only have one question: is this game really as advertised?"
"What do you mean?"
"Art style, gameplay, and level of immersion."
Li Yu thought of the physical condition in reality that [ Good Times Don't Last ] had told her during the game, and reflected on her own experiences that day. She looked sincerely at her junior:
I think it's a bit of false advertising.
Li Yu sensed that the light in his junior's eyes had gone out, so he quickly stopped joking and said seriously:
"What I mean is, it's much more amazing than advertised. There are no clipping issues on any terrain, the freedom of movement is outrageous, and the art style perfectly matches the promotional images, or rather, the promotional images are screenshots from actual gameplay."
"There are no mandatory cutscenes. Your actions can affect the plot development. As for the level of immersion..."
Thinking about this, Li Yu suddenly discovered an advantage in " World of Disorder " that no one had paid attention to, or rather, that was not surprising to players, but unimaginable to those who hadn't played it—
"Let's just say this: this game lets you smell things."
Yes, you can smell things in this game!
The visual impact and immersive experience will keep first-time players glued to the screen, but upon closer inspection, Li Yu discovered an even more outrageous technology!
Traditional games have focused primarily on visual and auditory elements, but with the advent of holographic and immersive games, haptic feedback has also been incorporated into the game.
Smell... the smell of soil when planting crops, the bloody smell when killing Aberration, the putrid smell of the monster in the cabin after it died...
These things all feel so real.
"Aww!"
As soon Li Yu finished speaking, he felt as if he had met a human who had not yet fully evolved, and for the first time he understood what it meant to have "light in one's eyes".
In the office where only the two of them were present, this junior student vented his excitement as if no one else was around:
"Okay! Even if it takes a year, no, two years, I'm determined to get the qualification!"