Squatting over a corpse is a skill.
To protect players' fragile egos, there are multiple ways to resurrect: resurrect on the spot, resurrect in the nearest city or vehicle, resurrect at specially bound coordinates, or even log off without resurrecting. Furthermore, players can only resurrect a maximum of ten times every six days within the Galaxy, making it very difficult to "camp out" (i. e., intentionally stay in a corpse camp).
In his previous life, Han Xiao could cause all sorts of trouble without any problems, largely thanks to this method of resurrection.
Even with such stringent conditions, players still relentlessly engage in camping corpses, with common and widely circulated tactics including kidnapping and forced vehicle landings. Since logging off during combat is restricted and forced exits incur penalties, kidnapping has emerged as a method to lure the target to the nearest respawn point and surround them. Forced vehicle landings work on the same principle, ensuring the target either remains in their original location or respawns at the same spot... However, none of these methods completely bypass the respawn mechanism, making them highly difficult to execute. Even if all locations are blocked, the target still needs to cooperate and not log off to escape.
So, in the end, the only prerequisite for camping a corpse is... that the opponent is stubborn.
From the ID of this guy who posted [Dai Ao Xuan Nai Wo], Han Xiao could feel the unruly and reckless aura, which could not be hidden, like a firefly in the dark, so bright and outstanding.
In the post, this [Dad Ao Xian Nai Wo He] is a legion player and explained his own experience in detail.
"Just now, I was on a solo errand-running mission in the Free Competition Zone. I arrived at a transit planet and encountered a group of unfamiliar players from another faction. As soon as they saw me, they attacked without saying a word and ganged up on me until I was dead."
"I asked them why, and they actually said they just didn't like me. I don't know about others, but I couldn't stand it, so I respawned on the spot and fought them head-on. I was just so indignant. These guys are really something else, they just camped around and killed me over and over again, using up all my respawn chances for the day, and they even sent me private messages to mock me, damn it!"
"I was eating hotpot and singing when I suddenly got beaten up! What did I do to deserve this?! I've already posted these bastards' IDs. Today I'm going all out— Huaxia netizens, today you're all my daddies! One arrow pierces the clouds, and a thousand armies come to meet you! Answer my call, lend me your support, and help me send my insults to their families. Let these bastards experience a baptism of positive energy!"
Han Xiao glanced at them and realized that these IDs were clearly from American players, and their species were all demons.
Looking down at the replies, he found that the post had become a sea of joy.
Besides these chaotic replies, there were also other Legion players complaining, and many others had the same experience.
However, not everyone is so stubborn. Many more have been unexpectedly ganged up on by players from other factions, and the opponents weren't just Americans, but also players from other countries, and not all of them were guild members... It was almost like they were specifically hunting down legion players.
Han Xiao's heart stirred, and he secretly pondered the reason.
It's probably still the butterfly effect of its own actions. In the past, without the Black Star Army, everyone was a disorganized mess. But now, the Black Star Army is the largest faction in terms of player numbers, and its success has attracted attention.
Judging from the players' reactions, this incident is most likely unrelated to NPC factions and was entirely a spontaneous act by some players. It could be that someone is hostile to legion players, or it could be that a large foreign guild is colluding in private. There are probably only a few possibilities.
Currently, tens of millions of players are flocking to the Shattered World and stepping onto the cosmic stage, which has increasingly attracted the attention of major forces to the player group. Tens of millions of people are just a drop in the ocean for a star field, but if they are a group of immortal Grade B superhumans, then they are a force that cannot be easily ignored.
As part of the cosmic ecosystem, players' actions now affect others. Han Xiao's intelligence network reports that more and more forces are beginning to study the characteristics of players in depth, and more people are trying to exploit players. The Three Universal Civilizations have also put the recruitment and research of players on their agenda.
The Black Star Army, which attracts even outside players who are willing to switch factions to join, has also received more attention. Many factions are curious about the source of Black Star's influence among the Immortals – although Black Star is indeed very famous, it is puzzling why so many Immortals choose the Black Star Army as their first choice.
However, many players have gone to other factions, so while the situation of the Black Star Army is concerning, it's not as dire as some might think. If they were to recruit all the players into their own faction, the Empire would probably be knocking on their door the very next day.
"Other factions haven't targeted the legion, but the players who joined them are the ones causing trouble first."
Han Xiao carefully read through all the replies and found that the majority of players in the Hunter Legion were Americans and Japanese/Korean players.
While attacking Legion players, the opposing side also tried to avoid killing Legion warriors, clearly targeting players specifically.
He suddenly had a thought and searched the forum again. Sure enough, he found some anonymous posts that had been blocked for using foul language. These posts were from players of other factions boasting about killing players from the Black Star Legion. They claimed that the posts were specifically targeting the Black Star Army and were extremely arrogant, even naming and scorning Huaxia players.
"Interesting, so that's the method they use."
Han Xiao suddenly realized what had happened and finally understood the cause and effect; his eyes narrowed.
He was familiar with this tactic; it had occurred among players in his previous life, also starting with version 4.0.
This is a very underhanded tactic, and the mastermind behind it must be a large club. The method is to secretly organize a group of players from their own country to hunt down players from the target faction, and then ridicule them on the forums to provoke the anger of the target faction's players and start a war of words. Then, they have someone secretly act out a double act to guide the conversation towards racial, national, and regional discrimination, igniting hatred.
The goal of this is to manipulate the faction choices of players within the country by instilling hatred.
The explanation is simple: clubs in each country can only control their own employees and a small number of peripheral players, which is not many. The majority of players are ordinary players within their own country, whose actions are beyond their control. Therefore, someone in the previous life devised a treacherous tactic: inciting national hatred to influence the faction choices of ordinary players.
For example, if a faction has one million players, with Huaxia players making up the majority (800,000) and the other 200,000 being ordinary American players, then American clubs will hunt down Huaxia players, mock them, incite Huaxia to curse them, and then fan the flames, shifting the topic to national hatred.
This will also upset the 200,000 ordinary American players in this camp, drawing them into the flame war, and then the clubs will continue to fan the flames and create conflict.
The consequence is that a significant portion of these 200,000 Americans will leave the camp due to their anger towards Huaxia players, and many more ordinary American players will also develop prejudices because of this war of words, resulting in a significant decrease in the number of Americans joining the camp... This is an important method used by large clubs to secretly manipulate the camp inclinations of ordinary players in their own country: to create hatred, use hatred, and enhance the cohesion of their own players.
The reason for doing this is simple: the clubs don't want their own players to work for the factions of clubs from other countries; they only want their own ordinary players to serve their own faction.
With more players in the same faction, competition increases for ordinary players, but for clubs, players from their own country represent cheap labor. Once they join a club, whether for regular development or in national wars, ordinary players will generally respond and become free combat power as long as the club raises its voice.
Regular players want to enjoy the game easily, and professional players deserve respect, but clubs and official guilds are commercial organizations whose goal is to achieve rankings and make a profit in professional leagues.
So after the 4.0 global server was launched in the previous life, some clubs, led by Americans, started to use all sorts of dirty tricks to control their followers, which led to a certain degree of deterioration in the forum environment. In this way, they weakened the mainstream of other clubs and strengthened themselves in turn... Simply put, they were trying to fleece their followers.
Only a few clubs in different countries have not succumbed to corruption, and Huaxia is one of them.
In the past, Huaxia's national strength was so great that, coupled with certain historical factors, it was often discriminated against by some idiots in foreign countries, which made it very cohesive. But now, most Huaxia players are in the Black Star Army, so there's even less need to use such underhanded tactics.
"Tsk tsk, this tactic has been used against me for the first time, and it's even a joint effort by clubs from multiple countries."
Han Xiao quickly understood what these clubs were thinking.
The problem is simply that too many foreign players have flooded into the Black Star Army, and some foreign clubs don't want the Legion's player base to continue expanding. Otherwise, the Legion would have too much of an advantage in faction competition, not only squeezing out the development space of other factions but also giving Huaxia clubs a free wave of labor, which would be tantamount to aiding the enemy for foreign clubs. Even during national wars, these ordinary players from various countries might not respond to the call due to faction restrictions.
"As expected, because the legion is so outstanding, the Huaxia club has become the target of everyone's criticism. Although those foreign clubs are not targeting me personally, if they continue to cause trouble, my farm might shrink."
Having understood this, Han Xiao remained completely calm, even laughing instead of being alarmed.
Isn't this a golden opportunity for me to boost the sense of belonging among the new members of the legion?
The reason why the Horde and the Alliance each have their own cohesion is partly due to their backstory and game settings, but the more direct reason is simply that players from the two factions fight each other.
Setting a target is a great way to quickly improve team cohesion!
Discrimination involving real-world factors is an internal player issue, and given my current position, I can't really handle it. But we can target the main factions of your foreign clubs.
--You control the countries, I control the factions.
Foreign clubs organize people to hunt down Legion players, which is basically done out of love. The faction doesn't give any rewards, so in their view, this is just an internal matter among players.
If I were to issue a bounty, rewarding Legion players for killing players from your faction, I would be delivering a devastating blow from the perspective of faction policy. This would allow Legion players to escape a passive position and organize targeted counterattacks. What would happen then?
--I'm afraid that by then, even ordinary players from your own clubs will be eager to take you down!
Can the few people the club secretly hires compare to our legion's eight million warriors?!
If you play dirty tricks, I'll beat you to a pulp!
"Hehe, since you guys can't focus on developing your businesses properly and can't stand the loneliness, instead resorting to these underhanded tricks all day, then let me give you a little push and make your businesses even more prosperous."
Thinking of this, Han Xiao's lips curled into a wicked smile. He sat up from his lazy throne, brought up the faction panel, and began to draft the bounty order.
Meanwhile, in an encrypted player chat channel, executives from professional clubs and guilds from multiple countries were online.
Among them are American Devil and Key Club, Japanese clubs like Yamata, Amaterasu, and Werewolf Club, Korean clubs like Kimchi and Three-Star Bomb Club, Italian clubs like Classical and Pizza Club, and Southeast Asian clubs like Red Bay, Archipelago, and Titan Club, etc. It can be said that more than half of the regulars in the international arena are on this channel.
The topic being discussed by the club executives at this moment was related to the Black Star Army.
Just as Han Xiao had predicted, as more and more players from various countries switched sides to the Black Star Army, these guilds that did not intend to change factions became restless and secretly joined forces to try to curb the Black Star Army's ever-expanding player base.
"... Our team is operating according to plan, and we're still preparing the public opinion; the players' emotions need to be built up," said an executive from the American-owned Key Club.
"The conditions are actually in our favor. Huaxia's consecutive championships in the professional league are a source of pride for them, giving them a natural sense of superiority. We can guide public opinion, get Huaxia players to talk this way, and then escalate it to the point where ordinary players from other countries are deliberately targeting us because of the poor performance of our teams, causing Huaxia players to ridicule us. This way, we can stir up hatred."
"Actually, this kind of tactic is quite easy to see through; people these days are very shrewd..."
"Don't worry, players are players. Once they get into it, the reason doesn't matter. Professional competition is a great entry point; it's easy to get their emotions going."
"Hopefully it will work. We belong to different factions, and the biggest threat right now is the Black Star Army. There are just too many players there. If it's not weakened, the Huaxia Club's advantage will be terrifying."
"It would be best to isolate them this time."
The executives discussed the matter animatedly.
As for the Black Star Army's own attitude, it was completely out of the question—in their view, this was all just a matter between players, and the NPC faction was nothing more than a decoration.