Why the bug I wrote became a core gameplay mechanic?!
Chapter 574 - 557: Fantasy Book

Chapter 574: Chapter 557: Fantasy Book

Zhuge Jun sighed: "Ah, what do you know? This is equivalent to the game’s original art collection, and 39 yuan is a bargain.

"Look at other games and films’ art collections, which one could you get for under 50 yuan?

"Besides, not only does it include original art and various scene settings, but it also activates additional features by scanning with a controller. This is practically a steal.

"I suggest you go buy one now, to avoid having to catch up on homework later."

Hou Ji was still unconvinced: "Give me a break, when you actually start playing, will you even have time to flip through this damned book? I don’t buy it.

"Anyway, I can’t wait to go try my luck in the new UP pool."

The two began their games.

If it were a new account, the content experienced at this moment would be similar to the beta version, still the opening video and encountering Little Lolita Xiyun, among others.

But if it were an account that has already played the beta version, it could continue from where the beta left off.

For Zhuge Liang and Hou Ji, there was no need to re-experience the previous content; what mattered more were the new maps and new areas.

Upon entering the game, what first caught their eyes was a long list of activities.

The most eye-catching was the server-opening benefits, which simply put, directly gifted gacha items that could be claimed for 7 consecutive days, with the first three days gifting 50 draws each, and the following four days 30 draws each.

Adding up to a total of 270 draws.

The level of generosity was quite impressive, considering that in typical games around 80 draws might produce one gold, this game could yield about 3-4 golds, which was extremely generous.

Usually, games would at most gift one four-star character over seven days.

These 3-4 golds, together with rewards from exploring the map early on and various other activities, could almost form a complete five-star team.

If the player planned well and matched the team properly, then this team could totally go on a rampage in the big world, with no need for subsequent in-app purchases.

In addition, the game also explained the opening and updates of regions.

Simply put, the game currently had over ten regions of varying sizes, approximately opening a new region every month.

After opening a new region, there were roughly a few kinds of content available for players to explore:

First was the main mission, the part with the most rewards and the most thrilling, which were mandatory and not to be skipped. Only after completing the main content of the current region could one proceed to the next area.

Next were various side missions, which also had decent rewards; while these were not mandatory, they might be related to unlocking some crucial areas on the map.

Finally, there were other elements on the big map, such as puzzles, sudden events, and instance activities.

It’s worth mentioning that the main missions could not all be completed in one go; they were divided into many phases, each phase likely spaced by two to three natural days to unlock, taking roughly two weeks to complete all.

That is to say, every two to three days, players could undertake the latest main missions, and in the following two to three days clear side missions and explore the big map.

After finishing the main missions in two weeks, they would still need to stay in the current region for a while, spending the next two weeks clearing up other side missions and exploring the big map.

This schedule was mainly to reasonably distribute the main storyline time, making the real time and game time broadly match, so that players wouldn’t run through the storyline too quickly or slowly, causing them to forget the previous storyline content.

For example, if the game’s hero had to prepare for a big battle two days later, then players would also need to wait two real days before unlocking this battle content.

Without such restrictions, players might complete all main missions on the first day of the month and would only be able to start the next segment of the main storyline the following month.

This would lead to players playing too fast, not forming any deep memories, and after a month, almost forgetting everything, thus impacting the storyline recollection.

Of course, Lilith had other profound reasons for wanting players to better remember the storyline.

These specific update times were announced to players at the start through official notices, acting like a preventive measure to prevent players from getting too frustrated while waiting.

Zhuge Jun happily grabbed the 50 draws of the first day, exclaiming that Nitiandang was so conscientious.

He opened the pool to take a look at which character was currently in the UP pool.

The permanent pool had no changes, still that bunch of wood attribute characters, nothing worth mentioning; no one would bother.

Unless the system gave some free tools for drawing from the permanent pool, under other circumstances nobody in their right mind would spend money on this pool.

As for the UP pool, it should still be the ice-thunder dual attribute character, Cold Frost, right?

After all, Cold Frost was the first UP pool character of the beta version, and it had only been UP for about four days.

Generally, like this kind of game’s UP pool, it would UP for half a month; too short a time isn’t friendly to players.

Because many players need to wait a few more days, check reviews to decide whether to draw or not, and some wanting to draw might not have the money and need to save slowly.

Although Cold Frost had only been trained by Qing Lin to blow up Gold Coins, she also blew up Lei Tu’s Gold Coins.

Moreover, as the only conveniently drawable ice attribute character for players at the moment, she was also a favorite of the XP party; her UP pool should probably continue into the official server version at the start.

However, upon closer inspection, Zhuge Jun was almost knocked off his feet.

"What the heck, they changed it?"

The official server’s UP pool suddenly featured two characters, and they were both new characters!

According to the usual settings, the UP pool generally features one new character and one repeat old character.

But "Endless Fantasy Legend 2" only just launched, aside from the few permanent characters, there are basically no old characters.

So for a long time, this gacha pool will introduce two new characters, and it might take at least two or three months before they bring back any old characters.

"That’s not bad, given they are launch characters, their strength should be guaranteed."

Zhuge Jun didn’t mind either, he closely examined the two new characters, then frowned deeply.

"Umm...

"Isn’t this just writing the answer on their faces?

"Do I have any reason to pull this green onion lolita? Both are Wood attribute, isn’t that begging to be countered in Fire Country?

"As for this big and mighty dude, Water and Ice attributes, that looks really strong!

"Poor Cold Frost, backstabbed twice now."

The contrast between these two UP characters is just too obvious.

The first UP character, named "Xing Ying", is also a lolita character. However, her physique is different from the initial Lolita Xi Yun.

Specifically speaking, Xi Yun has the physique of about a 14-15-year-old, while Xing Ying looks younger, probably around 6 or 7 years old.

From an appearance perspective, Xing Ying is quite cute, with elf-like pointed ears, green accessories, and her plump little legs exposed; this color scheme makes her look like a big green onion.

But the problem is...

Her primary and secondary attributes are both Wood!

As for the other UP character, he is called "Glacier General", his setting is a wanderer from the distant Water Country, originally a captain, but chose to flee due to being tired of the war between Water Country and Thunder Country.

Glacier General is a standard adult male character, with very dimensional features, and dressed in Victorian Era styled attire, strongly reminiscent of a character from "Blood of Lies."

Moreover, he has some accessory elements like shoulder tassels and medals, which make him look robust and distinguished.

His attributes are Water and Ice.

For Zhuge Jun, this is just a giveaway!

Single attribute characters? No one would play those!

If it were any other game where all characters were single attribute, then the importance of attributes wouldn’t be so great, primarily depending on skill mechanisms and value strength.

Because no matter how you organize, you can only bring four types of attributes maximum in your team.

But "Endless Fantasy Legend" is different, when a character has dual attributes, it means he can react alone.

Like Hero, who is Wood and Fire dual attributes, first use a small skill to apply Wood to the monster, then use the ultimate move to blast fire and ignite, causing high damage.

Single attribute characters can only rely on other characters to react, and the overall number of elemental reactions also decreases accordingly, looking totally subordinate.

As for XP perspective, it’s just that each has its advantages.

Though Glacier General is a male character, male players might not necessarily dislike male characters, such powerfully robust male characters are also welcome by male players.

Of course, there is also a critical point, the first area the player experiences is Fire Country.

Originally, Hero had suffered a lot here, casting Wood attribute made him a traitor, being punched by a monster from Fire Country and caught fire himself first.

Ice, Thunder, and Water attributes have a natural advantage when fighting Fire attribute.

Now, the dual Wood attribute Xing Ying is even less played, why bother hanging loads of Wood attribute then buffing the monsters?

It’s quite humorous just thinking about it.

Of course, if looking at the long term, Xing Ying is promising for the future.

After all, they would only be in Fire Country for a month, what if they go to another country afterward? Maybe Wood attribute will have its day.

But that’s too far fetched, who knows until when that’ll be.

Even if that day really comes, it doesn’t matter, since these characters will all be re-launched later, just pull them then.

Thinking this, Zhuge Jun prepared to just pull Glacier General.

But then he thought again and stopped.

"Why the rush, surely some rich man will help test it, I’ll check the reviews first."

In-game, these two characters do have trial experience levels, but these levels really don’t show much as they make sure that all players pass smoothly, not really a testament of strength.

Since the monsters fought by the two characters during the trial plays are different, it’s hard to compare them horizontally.

So, the evaluation of other players must be seen.

Zhuge Jun is reluctant to spend money to pull both, but online there are plenty of rich men.

For rich men, this was never a question of choosing one over the other.

Zhuge Jun took out his phone, and entered Instructor Ding’s live broadcast room.

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