Why the bug I wrote became a core gameplay mechanic?!
Chapter 330 - 339: Keep it up, the new version is online!

Chapter 330: Chapter 339: Keep it up, the new version is online!

Over the past few days, Lilith had been closely following the online public opinion and the reactions of streamers in various live broadcast rooms.

But she wasn’t worried at all; on the contrary, the more she watched, the happier she became, and she almost laughed out loud.

Wasn’t this where the continuous stream of negative emotions came from?

On the first day, Lilith had been quite nervous, fearing that some preposterous bug might emerge and reverse everything, causing the negative emotions she had gathered to vanish into thin air.

But now, five days had passed, and Lilith had basically put her mind at ease.

It was steady!

All was steady!

Up to now, neither Instructor Ding, Chen Tingquan, nor Gan Di had discovered any bugs that existed in the game.

To be precise, there were small bugs, but were there any special bugs that could overturn the gameplay? Not a single one.

Are people still playing "Legend of Infinity Fantasy"? Of course, they are, and there are quite a few of them.

But most of these players have already given up on the Power of the Elements and are fighting according to the conventional gameplay, such as shield reflection, Perfect Dodge, and so on.

At this stage, the players who had already cleared the game basically had only two goals.

Most players just wanted to complete the game’s full collection, doing side quests daily, unlocking unopened ruins, or gathering herbs and fishing in the game.

Whereas a small part of the players were trying to speedrun the game, to see if they could defeat the Demon Lord in the shortest possible time.

But these players likely weren’t enough to change the overall situation.

Lilith was delighted; evidently, the scheme she learned from Shengjing Group had succeeded perfectly, even better than the original!

As for the online memes, boomerangs, and the like, she didn’t care about them at all.

After all, the harsher everyone criticized, the more negative emotions were produced.

It was like an ordinary person getting cursed at online and earning money for every insult; if there were such a good deal, then no one would get angry, but instead would be happier the more they got cursed at.

Gu Fan’s face also wore a light smile, "Congratulations, President Li! It’s true that hard work pays off!"

Lilith nodded, "Yep, yep!

"So the new version of ’Shadow World’, we can proceed with it as planned!

"This time we’re going to give the players another surprise!

"Gu Fan, go and notify Zhou Yang to get the update ready according to Plan A, the game will officially go live on Saturday!

"Actually, such an important matter—I’ll notify him personally!"

It was clear that Lilith was excited and full of anticipation for the new version of ’Shadow World’.

At this point, the new version of ’Shadow World’ had of course already completed its development and testing. However, the outside world didn’t know that this new version actually had two completely different sets of content prepared.

That was what Lilith referred to as "Plan A" and "Plan B".

Of course, the basic content of the new version of ’Shadow World’ was the same, including new maps, skills, and new team instances, and so on.

Whether it was Plan A or Plan B, these contents would be updated as normal.

The decisive difference between the two plans was related to the "all-profession gameplay" content.

If the update were in accordance with Plan B, then all of the all-profession gameplay-related content in ’Shadow World’ would be fixed, and players would no longer be able to learn skills across professions; likewise, the mechanism that unlocked player skills during the boss battles in Lava Mouth would also become invalid.

Players could only continue playing Version 70 of the content according to the original occupation settings.

However, if the update follows Plan A, then Shadow World’s full career gameplay will be retained, and it will receive more enhancements!

These include:

The skill panel, where all players can learn all skills and talents, will be open to all. Players can simply click the tab to switch between professions and spend skill points or talent points to learn the corresponding abilities directly. All the information is clear at a glance.

Special items will be made available which can be used to forget all talents or skills with a single click, without the need to visit a Profession Trainer. These items can be exchanged for other currencies.

In the game, a BD System will also be introduced, wherein players can save their BD to the system, and also open up to four talent slots, saving four different sets of talents.

In the BD System, each player can share their BD and can also find existing BDs to learn with one click.

All these are functionally oriented updates, or plainly speaking, to make copying BD, saving BD, and researching BD more convenient for players.

Beyond these, there are some new features.

The most important are the "Special Glyphs".

The game has always had a glyph system, where each skill has four different types of glyphs that can change the skill’s attribute or specific form; combining different glyphs can develop different BD strategies.

Special Glyphs, however, are some additional glyph effects.

In the new version, a player can carry a total of 13 different Special Glyphs, with up to 1 Orange Glyph, 3 Purple Glyphs, and 9 Blue or Green Glyphs.

These glyphs also enhance skill effects and change skill attributes, but they are more powerful than the original glyphs.

Especially the Orange Special Glyphs, which almost all have the potential to become the core of a BD.

Among these, the glyph called "Biased Elementalist," which Lilith particularly loves, does the following: when a player applies this glyph, a cycle of four different buffs appears in the buff bar, specifically Fire, Ice, Wind, and Earth.

When the cycle reaches the Fire Buff, the player’s Fire Elemental Damage will be boosted by 300%.

The same goes for the other buffs.

If a player consciously selects different elemental damage skills from various professions around this glyph, they can construct an incredibly overpowered BD.

The damage capacity of this BD could be twice that of the mainstream damage BDs!

And its visual effects could be even cooler than the Dark Chain BD from "World of Star Spirits".

Of course, there are many other Orange Glyphs, but within the preset numerical system, none are as powerful as the "Biased Elementalist".

The acquisition methods for these Special Glyphs vary; most of them drop randomly from scrolls. Some Special Glyphs require killing monsters at specific locations or completing quests to obtain.

So why does Lilith love the "Biased Elementalist" Special Glyph so much?

Obviously, because there’s a catch in it!

According to Lilith’s plan, after a certain period following the game’s launch and when a specific condition in the game is met, the "Biased Elementalist" feature will be automatically nerfed by the game system, achieving the same effect as Star Soul World’s nerfing of "Dark Chain"!

All of this is pre-planned by the game and does not involve any follow-up modifications, so it will not affect the collection of negative emotions.

This is what’s known colloquially as fattening up before the slaughter!

Initially, Lilith was torn between executing Plan A or Plan B. Based on Shengjing Group’s previous experiences, Plan A was obviously the better choice, but Lilith worried about potential complications.

But now, the success of Legend of Infinity Fantasy has given her a strong dose of confidence, somewhat inflating her self-assurance.

Take a risk, and a bicycle might turn into a motorcycle!

If both Legend of Infinity Fantasy and the new version of Shadow World are hugely successful and collect a large amount of negative emotions, wouldn’t that mean double the celebration?

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