Dark Sand: My Players Are All Actors
Chapter 359 - 231: New Affiliated Identity_3

Chapter 359: Chapter 231: New Affiliated Identity_3

"Form a tight formation, everyone line up in three or five rows, leaving half a meter between each row.

"Remember, during the loading process, it’s necessary to use a ramrod to clean the gun barrel or compact the ammunition. Make sure to put the ramrod back after using it, and don’t just throw it on the ground!

"After firing, if possible, try to confirm whether the bullet was actually fired. If not, hurry and switch to another gun. Don’t foolishly continue to load..."

Under the command of Li Hongyun and other players, those equipped with matchlock guns began to constantly practice loading ammunition and marching steps among other basic tactics.

Only with proficient skills and strict discipline could they ensure that this team had sufficient combat power.

Still, Li Hongyun was quite optimistic about this, as the players were far more reliable than the natives from the historical slice of the Qi Dynasty.

It took these natives ten years to train because it was difficult for them to understand why they shouldn’t retreat when shot with arrows and should withstand it until the enemy was close enough to shoot.

Their education level was low, and they each had their own private interests, so training them with methods beyond their times naturally took a long time.

Although players in the historical slices have the fast-forward feature, which allows them to quickly jump to key junctures, training natives was still somewhat torturous for Li Hongyun.

Now that it was players, the training was much quicker.

Watching the ranks of the matchlock gun team grow, Li Hongyun couldn’t help feeling proud.

So what if we didn’t pass the Cavalry Trial?

With matchlock guns, we can still annihilate demons!

Divine Machine Battalion will never be enslaved!

...

At this time, Meng Yuan was in Return Order Space with Can Shen, observing the situation inside Return Order Fort.

From a bird’s-eye view, the players looked like a group of diligent ants, busily moving around the fort and various resources, which brought Meng Yuan a sense of bountiful joy.

More precisely, the joy of others helping him reap the benefits.

Being a hands-off manager sure is blissful!

However, after seeing various actions of the players, Meng Yuan suddenly realized a previously somewhat neglected issue.

"Should I unlock a new subsidiary identity for the players?"

Meng Yuan suddenly thought of this.

So far, Dark Sand had only unlocked one subsidiary identity, which was the Cavalry.

Mainly because the identity of Cavalry was so essential, as soon as conditions permitted, Meng Yuan initiated the exclusive trial, allowing players to obtain the Cavalry identity and win subsequent battles.

But after unlocking the Cavalry identity, there wasn’t much lacking from the battlefield in the short term, so Meng Yuan hadn’t thought about what other subsidiary identities to open.

Seeing the players buying matchlock guns and training in firing squad tactics, Meng Yuan suddenly realized this issue.

It wasn’t because the matchlock guns were strong that a new subsidiary identity needed to be introduced to add a balance but rather to consider upgrading combat power later.

As they advanced towards the Ancient Era, firearms would definitely become less lethal.

Then, if the tactics that players were training so hard in became useless, wouldn’t it be quite hurtful?

Moreover, matchlock guns represented not just a way of fighting, but also a type of warfare.

That is, a warfare primarily using equipment.

Even in ancient times, there were definitely many kinds of equipment that could be made available to players.

Thus, Meng Yuan thought he should open another subsidiary identity that would allow players skilled in construction and use of equipment to receive an enhancement in their innate skills.

That way, even if powerful demons eventually appeared, the players’ matchlock guns or crossbows could still be effective.

It wouldn’t be that all players in the end would have to rely solely on melee weapons.

Can Shen nodded in agreement, "Hmm, that sounds indeed necessary.

"But you forgot to mention it in the previous update announcement."

Meng Yuan wasn’t bothered, "No worries, such things are ultimately decided by the game planners.

"Adding this bonus without increasing the price, players won’t think I forgot, but will take it as a surprise prepared for them.

"Anyway, I’ll go add it to the announcement now!"

...

It wasn’t long before players on the official website of Dark Sand saw a new additional announcement.

The content was as follows:

"New update content:

"5. Subsidiary Identity Unlocked: ’Divine Machine.’

"On top of the four basic identities of infantry, assassin, scholar, and Ranger, the subsidiary identity ’Divine Machine’ is unlocked alongside ’Cavalry.’ Begin the Divine Machine exclusive trial, ’Masterful Craftsmanship.’

"After completing the Divine Machine exclusive trial, one can obtain the Divine Machine’s identity and receive exclusive innate skills.

"Note: Only one subsidiary identity can be held, choose between ’Cavalry’ and ’Divine Machine.’"

At the same time, this new content was also added to the new version’s update announcement.

Soon, players began discussing.

"Wow? Another new subsidiary identity!"

"I thought there were no more updates this version, how come there’s an addition?"

"Could it be... that the production team of Dark Sand forgot?"

"Unlikely, after all, it’s a trial instance. Even with Dark Sand’s strong technical team, it must take a long time to develop, right? How could they just add it after forgetting? I think this is probably a surprise!"

"Divine Machine, does it mean Divine Machine Battalion? Does this subsidiary talent enhance the power of muskets? Or even improving the accuracy works!"

"The instance’s name is ’Masterful Craftsmanship’? Hmm... the Cavalry Trial’s name tells me that this trial will definitely not be simple..."

"Who cares, the instance is out now, isn’t it? Let’s go try it out!"