Why the bug I wrote became a core gameplay mechanic?!
Chapter 369 - 378: More Ways to Activate the Master Mod

Chapter 369: Chapter 378: More Ways to Activate the Master Mod

p.m.

Lilith refreshed in Gu Fan’s living room on time, opened the computer first thing, and checked the various mods submitted during the day.

Although they had piled up for 12 hours, there weren’t many mods, just over a dozen. And some of them were resubmissions, where authors, not giving up hope, had made minor adjustments and submitted them again.

For these repeated submissions, Lilith generally spent only two or three minutes to determine whether to reject them.

"Ah, these people still don’t quite get it, do they not understand why these mods don’t pass the review?"

"It’s still Gan Di who understands the times, the hero indeed!"

Lilith casually rejected another gameplay optimization mod, and wished that other mod authors were as compliant as Gan Di.

Of course, even if these mods were rejected, it just meant they wouldn’t be available in the official workshop. If players really wanted to try them, there were countless other channels to obtain them.

Lilith simply preferred out of sight, out of mind, and at most could only ensure that the mods in the workshop were to her liking.

After fighting for over an hour, she had finally reviewed all the mods. In the end, except for two that actually increased the difficulty for players, the rest were unanimously rejected.

"Let’s see how the new Master Mods are doing now!"

Stretching, Lilith accessed Chen Tingquan’s livestream to check it out.

However, she had barely watched for two minutes before her eyes widened in astonishment, and she crushed a cola can with a "pop".

"What is going on?!"

The villa echoed with Lilith’s exasperated voice.

...

Chen Tingquan started his livestream earlier than usual, activating "Master Mode" a bit after 7.

The audience was eagerly waiting to see him suffer at the hands of the Beast God, but upon entering the game, they found that he was there to mow the lawn!

Chen Tingquan seemed to have scouted the area around the Beast God beforehand, marked a few points, then headed straight to the nearest camp to look for materials suitable for making cages.

Sometimes he used stone slabs, sometimes metal plates, and other times special materials from ruins.

After selecting the materials, he used the Power of Water Element to bind them into a "Trapping Beast Cage" to capture the Beast God and unleash a barrage of attacks!

When the Time Stop effect ended and the Beast God’s Blood Bar was emptied from the fierce impacts, it turned into a pile of materials on the ground.

Picking up various items from the ground, Chen Tingquan counted his spoils while heading towards his next victim.

"Beast God’s fangs, hmm, good, these seem to be usable as strengthening materials.

"Beast God’s leather armor, this should be good for making Armor.

"And there’s the Beast God’s greatsword, the Beast God Bow, the Beast God’s spear...

"It’s like trading a bird gun for a cannon!

"I thought the Beast God was a gatekeeper before, but now, it turns out to be a wealth-bringing boy!

In the game, monsters dropped weapons and materials upon death. Clearly, Gan Di had planned this aspect in advance when making the Master Mod, adding related materials into the game’s equipment upgrading system.

Of course, whether materials or weapons, they were essentially stitched together from in-game resources, but they didn’t feel out of place, making one subconsciously believe they were upgraded versions of the original weapons.

Chen Tingquan’s style of play even surprised the audience who had been expecting him to struggle.

"Stop! This is not a fair fight at all!"

"Trapping Beast Cage, huh? If you’re capable, release the Beast God and have a fair duel!"

"I can play like this? I’m going to start up my computer right now!"

"Gan Di’s design for this mod is very clever! Time Stop can’t stop bosses, but it can stop objects? And then use various objects to trap the boss?"

"Looks pretty interesting, I’ll try it too! Bulk purchasing Beast God Bows is not a dream!"

Chen Tingquan had slain several Beast Gods before he finally decided to stop, still seemingly unsatisfied.

Although not a single Beast God was defeated through sheer manual skill, Chen Tingquan still demonstrated a variety of methods.

At first, players thought there was only one method, which merely involved using different materials nearby to craft the Trapping Beast Cages, but after watching for a while, they realized that there was more than one way to kill!

You could set traps in advance, arrange a lot of explosive barrels, lure the Beast God over, then capture it with a Trapping Beast Cage to create a chain explosion;

You could trap the Beast God then slowly shoot it with arrows, and finally use the accumulated power of Time Stop to counterattack;

You could also trap it, then use the original "Justice from the Sky" move to strike a fatal blow from above...

Clearly, these were the results of Chen Tingquan’s research that afternoon.

But merely killing the Beast God was obviously not enough to satisfy him.

"Dear treasures, killing the Beast God is just a small part of the scientific research outcomes. I have many more amazing discoveries to share with you! Next, let me show you one by one!"

"In this mod, I made another incredible discovery, that is... Time Stop can now be cast on almost any unit in the game, including monsters that couldn’t be affected before!"

"This means that Gan Di’s update to this mod has somehow covered the shortcomings of Earth Escape too!"

While saying this, Chen Tingquan demonstrated to the audience.

He came to a relic site, where the ground was teeming with monsters that could easily devour a player using Earth Escape.

If players wanted to clear the level, they had to proceed by memory, recalling the locations of monsters and carefully avoiding them.

But now, Chen Tingquan activated Time Stop, and the monsters in the ground were clearly visible!

Moreover, he could directly use Time Stop on the monsters on the must-pass route, then use Earth Escape to pass through.

Sure enough, the monsters affected by Time Stop couldn’t attack him anymore!

Of course, players couldn’t just blindly pass through, since sometimes there might be more than two monsters on the Earth Escape path, and a player could only use Time Stop on one at a time.

Even with Time Stop, it was necessary to carefully observe and plan the route.

But whatever the case, after this modification, players found that the previous issues with Earth Escape and Time Stop had been resolved simultaneously!

Time Stop became useful against high-level monsters, and Earth Escape no longer solely depended on memorization. It could now be synergized with the Time Stop skill, making it smooth as silk to use!

Of course, Gan Di’s Master Mod is not just about this one gameplay style.

If a player is very confident in their abilities, they can directly confront the Beast God and strive for a no-damage takedown. With rigorous training over time, players will eventually be able to turn the Beast God into their plaything, to be manipulated at will.

Gan Di’s mod essentially filled the last shortcoming of "Legend of Infinity Fantasy," inadvertently providing fun for the endgame and enriching the gameplay.