Why the bug I wrote became a core gameplay mechanic?!
Chapter 583 - 2 Updated!

Chapter 583: Chapter 566 Chapter 2 Updated!

The next day at noon, Zhuge Jun finished his classes and returned to his dormitory. It was then that he opened a video website to check on the performance of the video he uploaded yesterday.

Hmm, as expected, it wasn’t very popular.

So far, it only had a few thousand views, and other metrics were also quite dismal; only the comments were plentiful.

This was a typical "controversial video."

This kind of video is in a rather awkward position, neither here nor there.

If it gains a bit more traction, with a high like rate and triple link rate, the platform would identify it as a high-quality video and promote it;

if it performs slightly worse, but has a lot of comments and clearly triggers conflicts, with two groups of people fighting fiercely, the platform would push it for the negative attention.

But in its current state, it just fades into the background.

The content of the video wasn’t anything special; it simply featured Zhuge Jun briefly sharing his new discovery on using wood, water, and time attributes to break through an Earth attribute shield, and he concluded:

For safety’s sake, it’s best to pull for Ningyun Monarch.

As for Echio, if one really has to choose between the two, he could be left out. After all, there’s no shortage of Fire attribute characters, and while this character’s stats are excellent, he might not perform as well in the upcoming adventures in Earth Country.

Of course, if you could form the perfect lineup with Xing Ying, Ningyun Monarch, and Echio, that would be even better.

But for most players who haven’t planned in advance, this is a difficult feat.

Sure enough, the video sparked quite a bit of controversy below, and even led to many players attacking it.

"This is just nonsense!"

"If you can’t do gacha recommendations, then don’t do them. Everyone else recommends it, you don’t; everyone else doesn’t, you do. What, are you in your rebellious phase?"

"Xing Ying + Ningyun Monarch? Nice, what an ultimate wrong choice, if you pick this lineup, I don’t even know who to C."

"Disperse, disperse, this is just someone looking for hate to boost traffic."

"When making gacha recommendation videos, it’s still best to be serious and responsible. It’s not easy for free-to-play players to save up pulls. If they draw the wrong character based on your suggestions, the account becomes a suffering account. Can you take responsibility?"

"Eh, why are you all attacking the video uploader? What he tested isn’t wrong, is it? Wood and Time attributes are indeed strong when breaking Earth elemental shields."

"The key issue is that there’s too much conjecture in this video! Even if he could break the shield, so what? There are many other methods to break shields too. How can he be sure that the next region opened is definitely the Earth Country? And even if Earth Country is opened, how can he be sure that there will be a lot of elemental shields?"

"Yeah, this gacha advice relies on too many assumptions, and if any one of them doesn’t hold up, it’s equivalent to a wasted pull. Compared to that, I still choose Echio, because strong stats are truly strong."

"Alright, no need to look further, I’ve figured it out. The next Chapter in the ’Fantasy Book’ after Fire Country is Wind Country, so UP’s inference doesn’t hold."

It was evident that the opinions of this video’s viewers were hard to unify, severely polarized.

Some indeed noticed the shield-breaking actions of the Wood and Time attributes and agreed with Zhuge Jun’s statement, but many others completely disagreed.

The disagreement mainly had three different reasons:

The first is that they viewed Zhuge Jun’s point as a kind of prophecy, which for it to hold true, needs several conditions to be met simultaneously, which is quite improbable.

How could it so happen that the next one is Earth Country, and then it just happens to have a bunch of Earth elemental shield monsters, enough to affect players’ gaming experience, and then subsequent character pools don’t include similar characters either?

Could Nitiandang really do that?

If so, what would they gain? Surely it can’t be just to annoy players?

There’s corroborating evidence here, which is the order of regions in the ’Fantasy Book.’

The first part is uncontroversially Wood Country, corresponding to the contents of Chapter One.

But the third part is not Earth Country, it’s Wind Country.

This becomes an important piece of evidence for many players who insist the next Chapter will be Wind Country.

Of course, this doesn’t hold absolute persuasiveness because the main story of ’Endless Fantasy Legend 2’ doesn’t just finish the entirety of a region at once, whether it’s Wood Country or Fire Country, only parts of them have been explored so far.

The parts that haven’t been opened are still inaccessible.

But anyway, many players don’t think the next region to be opened will be Earth Country.

The second reason is a common attack on gacha videos.

Having always been a thankless task, even if a character’s strength is decent, there will always be people who like to go against the grain, finding faults here and there and trying to downplay the character;

and if a character’s stats and mechanics are not so good, then they are even more likely to be criticized heavily.

Only a very few characters, both statistically and mechanically strong, and uncontroversially so, won’t provoke attacks from these people when recommended in gacha videos.

Ultimately, the reason comes down to the fact that in games, draws are quite rare, and if you mislead players into making the wrong draw, that’s a sin worthy of seppuku.

Over time, this type of power-gaming voice has grown.

As for the third kind, it’s the players who missed out on Xing Ying.

By this time, Xing Ying’s pool had already ended, and if what Zhuge Jun said was true, then it meant that they had missed out on Xing Ying and couldn’t remedy it.

So, instinctively, they would resist this notion and not want to accept this reality that may occur.

In any case, under these attacks, Zhuge Jun’s video did not have much impact, and the data were not very impressive either. It only barely managed a few thousand views, relying on the basic traffic of the website and the traffic-driving effect inherent to "Endless Fantasy Legend 2".

Following this trend, even after a few more days, the view count might only reach twenty to thirty thousand, which is to say, it wouldn’t have much presence on the video website.

"Perhaps, this is just fate."

Zhuge Jun couldn’t help it, his original intention for making this video was to alert more people, but since it wasn’t well-received, he couldn’t very well pay out of his own pocket for promotions.

It’s just, let nature take its course!

...

In the following two weeks, players had a good time.

"Endless Fantasy Legend 2" had reached its final stage of grinding, which was also the stage the players enjoyed the most.

With the main storyline of the first Chapter concluded during these two weeks, players could engage in side stories and special character plots, pushing the exploration of the large map to 100%.

If they had extra stamina, they could farm equipment for their characters, improve their training level, and prepare for the upcoming new Chapter.

This content, the storyline was not yet poisoning, and the side quests were also quite restrained, which was quite healthy.

Players were using the physical "Fantasy Book" along with the game content for an excellent effect.

Zhuge Jun’s video gradually faded into obscurity, without any new traffic coming in, and the view count finally settled at just over thirty thousand.

Just like that, all the players eagerly awaited the update of the second Chapter.

...

Two weeks later.

The second Chapter of "Endless Fantasy Legend 2" was heroically updated!

Unlike other games that require server maintenance, the content of "Endless Fantasy Legend 2" is updated automatically according to server time, and pushed out once the time arrives.

Chen Tingquan, who was also livestreaming this game recently, naturally entered to experience it immediately.

"Alright everyone, today we continue playing ’Endless Fantasy Legend 2’, ah, no matter how many times I say it, the name feels like a tongue twister.

"Let’s see what’s in this week’s UP pool, if there are any characters that fit the XP.

"Spending money? It’s impossible for me to spend money, I always firmly belong to the non-paying clan when playing such games.

"Beating the great world is enough, I’m just here purely for the story."

Different from Instructor Ding, although Chen Tingquan is also a streamer, he does not like to draw too many max-star characters.

He plays very casually, drawing only when he sees someone he likes, and only drawing once without going for multiples.

If he has more draw chances, he would save them up.

It could be said that it’s quite a standard hoarder playstyle.

However, when Chen Tingquan plays such games, he can’t really talk about having great skill or understanding of the game, much of his play is about riding the popularity wave while giving an analysis of the game’s plot.

After all, these are his strong suits.

The new main quest popped up on the left side of the screen, signaling that the new Chapter had started, and Chen Tingquan was immediately spirited away to start the mission.

In the last Chapter’s storyline, the circumstances in Earth Country Daliang were briefly introduced.

Overall, similar to the plot of "Ascension", Little Lolita Xiyun came to Wood Country to find a way to save Earth Country, and Ningyun Monarch traveled all the way from Penglai Immortal Island in the southeast to save the people from dire straits.

The Hero first headed to the border between Wood Country and Fire Country, temporarily repelling Fire Country’s offensive, thwarting the villain’s plot.

But realistically, it was also not feasible to counter-attack and enter Fire Country.

As deeper into the capital of Fire Country the Hero ventured, the stronger the enemies and the more adverse the environment would become, and currently, the Hero didn’t possess that kind of strength.

Thus, it was about time for the Hero to head to the next area.

"So according to the sequence in the ’Fantasy Book’, the next should be Wind Country.

"Wind Country seems like a state that was annihilated, seemingly nothing left but relics buried in the desert, and the citizens of Wind Country all fled to...

"Huh? Wait.

"Why is it Earth Country?

"The main storyline is not following the sequence of the ’Fantasy Book’?"

Chen Tingquan was instantly baffled. He had already flipped open the "Fantasy Book," but in this physical book, Earth Country was clearly in a more central and backward position.

Chen Tingquan had thought that the main storyline would strictly follow the sequence of wood, fire, wind as in the physical book.

However, he didn’t think too much of it, after all, "Endless Fantasy Legend 2" had a rather whimsical plotline until now, with only parts of Wood Country and Fire Country open, perhaps it might still circle back.

Heading to Earth Country this time wasn’t something unacceptable.

"Heh, I can’t wait to unleash the Glacier General and Echio!"

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