Why the bug I wrote became a core gameplay mechanic?!
Chapter 534 - 517 PPPPVP

Chapter 534: Chapter 517 PPPPVP

"No way, does this game have a design flaw?

"I don’t want to play with him, but why can he always join my team first? And I can’t block him just on my side?

"Does this Revenge Mode really force us to battle outside the game?"

Li Wenhao was at a loss for words too. Since he started playing Star Plan, it was the first time he had encountered such a situation.

Every player could see the current game status of teammates they had matched with before and could join them on priority. But unless both of them blocked the other person and they were both in the game, there was no way to prevent him from entering the game.

In other words, with Li Wenhao’s current status, it seemed like he was stuck in a situation with no solution from the perspective of the game’s mechanic design.

As soon as Li Wenhao started a match, Mouth King could join first.

Li Wenhao doesn’t start, waiting in the lobby, and Mouth King can still see his status.

Isn’t this a vicious cycle?

Of course, to say there’s no solution at all? That wouldn’t be true.

For example, if another player who had played with Li Wenhao before rushed to join, then it would just be a matter of who has quicker fingers between that person and Mouth King.

Li Wenhao could quit the game a few times until his good buddy managed to get in, and then Mouth King wouldn’t be able to join.

Or, Li Wenhao could simply quit the game and wait a random amount of time.

Mouth King seeing him offline, after waiting a few minutes and not managing to join, might choose to start a match of his own.

Then when Li Wenhao logs back on, he could play his own game.

Or Li Wenhao could choose to fight magic with magic, have a 1V1 manly battle, just like how a certain streamer and his viewers flamed each other all night until the viewer couldn’t handle it anymore and yields, leaving the streamer to make a name for themselves.

Or like two bored netizens on the internet who get into a three-word insult battle for years, turning the post into an internet classic.

Li Wenhao could choose to keep starting matches and sabotaging each other with Mouth King, keeping it up to see who caves first.

After all, for Li Wenhao, he’s a livestreamer, creating some show effects and even making money from it, so however you look at it, he doesn’t lose.

But the problem is, Li Wenhao doesn’t want to do that. He wants to play the game seriously, doesn’t he?

These three methods, while they could solve the problem, all have a cost and are all so troublesome.

Truly, wouldn’t it be simplest if the official just added a one-sided block feature directly?

Design flaw, definitely a design flaw!

Li Wenhao was furious but had no solution because everyone knows that once an online Nitiandang game goes live, it’s in its final state, and no matter how much criticism it receives, it’s unlikely to change.

He had to adapt on his own.

"Kid, I’ll fix you. Just you wait, I’m calling for reinforcements!"

Li Wenhao hadn’t expected it, but originally thinking Star Plan was a PVE game, he only found out it was a PVP game as he played. And now, it even shows tendencies of evolving into a PPPVP game.

As a livestreamer, he’s never short of viewer support.

He didn’t even need to rally the people in his livestream; a shoutout in his own fan group and several old fans who had played Star Plan with him before all came out.

"Listen to my commands, let’s get started!"

Quickly, two minutes later, Li Wenhao started a new match.

Have to say, Mouth King had really fast hands and got in the game in a second.

Li Wenhao didn’t care, immediately quit, and restarted.

This time, Mouth King didn’t make it.

An old fan who had played Star Plan with Li Wenhao before got the spot.

"OK, let’s start our match.

"Wait and see how I handle him.

"Everyone, listen to my command, launch Star Plan, get ready to start matching!"

Li Wenhao began dual-wielding; he played his own match while keeping an eye on Mouth King’s movements through a separate friend interface window.

Sure enough, once Mouth King saw that Li Wenhao had started a game, he also began matching.

"Now, everyone start matching!"

At Li Wenhao’s command, his fans also started the matchmaking process.

Although Li Wenhao didn’t have as many fans as Instructor Ding, he had quite a number.

While there were many players in Star Plan, there weren’t that many matching at the same time. Li Wenhao’s fans queueing together significantly increased the probability of them being matched with Mouth King.

Of course, from the moment Li Wenhao saw the best player start matching to when his fans also began, there was a delay of about two to three seconds.

Normally, it would be difficult to be matched to the same game.

But Star Plan had another mechanism, which was prioritizing players who had queued together in previous matches when starting a new game.

If such players chose to join, they would get priority.

This added a slight delay, usually less than a minute, to the regular matching mechanism, further increasing the probability for Li Wenhao’s fans to be matched.

So far, Mouth King had matched several randoms, but who knows if these people were not online or didn’t want to play a second time with him?

In any case, not a single random that had played with him before chose to join first.

When it was time for regular matching, Mouth King’s match was promptly completed.

At this point, many comments floated by in Li Wenhao’s livestream chat.

"I didn’t get matched!"

"Did I get matched with a viewer?"

"I’ve got viewers here too."

"What a pity, should I still start my game?"

"Huh? I got in!!"

Most of the people here were matched with other viewers from the live stream or with random players in the game.

After all, the lucky one who got matched with Mouth King was just one person.

Other players matched with viewers either started the game or didn’t, but the lucky one who got matched with Mouth King was obviously very excited, even sending a paid bullet chat message.

"Alright, I won’t say much. I’m a positive energy streamer, right? I can’t incite fans to do bad things, right?

"Anyway, just do whatever you think is best. If you have the ability to reform him, then... then I’ll reimburse you for Nitiandang’s next game."

Li Wenhao didn’t say much, he just continued playing games with the viewers.

The viewer who got matched with Mouth King, on the other hand, was being urged by the bullet chats to start a separate live stream.

"Quick, we want seats in the front row to watch the battle up close!"

"Start another live stream, dude, quick quick quick!"

Clearly, the guys in the live stream room loved watching a good commotion.

Anyone who had seen the previous streams hated Mouth King to the point of itching teeth and naturally hoped that he would be severely punished.

"No problem, bros, just click on my avatar, I’ll start streaming right now!"

Soon enough, many viewers from Li Wenhao’s live stream also opened another window, enjoying both at the same time.

Obviously, at this moment, Mouth King had no clue what was about to happen.

He still thought that he was matched with just another ordinary player, keeping up his disguise as a normal person, not directly revealing his troll identity.

The two of them courteously agreed on their roles. Li Wenhao’s sly fans chose the position of the leader, first ensuring that they were in an invincible spot.

Or in other words, they could advance or defend as needed.

The viewers in the live stream were excitedly switching back and forth between the two.

On Li Wenhao’s side, things were stable, as he was playing with a viewer who had coordinated with them before and had a good understanding.

On Mouth King’s side, it seemed like a repeat of the previous day.

At first, it looked like the two of them were getting along happily.

Soon, conflicts began to emerge.

Then, the struggle escalated quickly, and the heat intensified rapidly.

Finally, the two became utterly incompatible, passionately interacting in the public chat and using every game mechanic viciously to sicken each other.

In fact, Li Wenhao’s viewer wasn’t really trying to disgust Mouth King on purpose, and it was obvious that he initially intended to play seriously.

After all, if he could reform someone that even Li Wenhao couldn’t, wouldn’t that make him look even more awesome than the streamer?

But soon, his delusion shattered, and the interaction with Mouth King continually escalated.

In the end, it was "Screw reforming, I just want to kill him now"!

Before long, the game entered the "Erect a monument for the Governor" phase.

Naturally, the match ended in a quick defeat.

But as the gameplay ended, the real contest had just begun.

Mouth King exited the game, feeling a bit unlucky—why were there so many idiots online? Why did he always get matched with them?

Start another round.

Generally speaking, unless it was someone like Li Wenhao with a big grudge, he wouldn’t specifically target others. After all, he couldn’t hold a grudge against the majority of players he had been matched with, could he?

And just as he started a new game, Li Wenhao’s viewer came in first again.

"What’s the meaning of this?"

Now it was Mouth King who was confused.

Clearly, the tables had turned!

Originally, he was the one trolling Li Wenhao, and Li Wenhao could do nothing but find viewers to bail him out.

So now that Li Wenhao’s viewer was trolling him, who would bail him out?

But true to his title as Mouth King, he quickly made a decision.

Face-to-face confrontation!

Whoever flinches is a loser!

And thus, the match entered a brand-new PVP phase.

The two jumped into the game and just trolled each other, wasting each other’s time—either they didn’t build anything, or they built randomly, or they competed in typing speed and defending their parents in the public chat.

If the game bombed, then just start another round.

After all, whoever quits first admits defeat!

Both sides were stubborn, neither wanting to admit defeat, and both sought to regain their pride in the game.

If it was the leader, they would erect a monument for the Governor in the wilderness, shaping it in a specific figure.

The Governor wasn’t powerless either, able to use existing buildings to create specific structures.

Although the leader could destroy the Governor, removing the buildings made by the Governor wasn’t an easy task.

What should have been a construction game almost turned into a game of Pictionary.

One game after another.

Both were unbending, locked in a stalemate.

Neither wanted to exit first because quitting would equal admitting defeat, and that was unbearable!

As Li Wenhao kept streaming, he suddenly realized that his stream’s popularity actually wasn’t as high as the other one.

Because he was just streaming the regular game content, while the other side had already entered a very strange off-field PVP mode. Not only were his viewers watching, but the other stream even got featured, attracting more and more viewers!