Chapter 162: You guys… are you betting this big?! (Seeking monthly tickets)
Valiant Sniper was completely shocked!
“Wasn't the Demo just released on the 25th? It's only been 6 days, not even a week!!”
“Even if they worked 24 hours a day, treating one day as three, subtracting meal times, it's only been half a month.”
“You guys have made the Demo half again as big in this time?”
It wasn't just Valiant Sniper; all the players who had Vapour games and received the Dream Building update push were stunned by the patch size.
Then they hurriedly went to look at the patch announcement.
Valiant Sniper also downloaded the update while reading the announcement—
[Content Update]
1. [New Recruit Report] Added the fourth level—[Air Support].
2. [Close Encounter] Gameplay, added a new mode.
3. Updated [Camp], where players can familiarize themselves with weapons, practice shooting, or play casual mini-games.
4. Updated [Currency], [Souvenir], and [Loot] systems.
5. Updated [Barracks], where players can unlock personal residences to store firearms and items.
Optimized burning effects, greatly reducing hardware pressure.
… …
[Map Expansion]
[Visual Improvement]
[Sound Effects \u0026 Music]
[Problem Fixes]
[Balance]
— —
After all, it's just a game Demo. Valiant Sniper skimmed over content like balance and problem fixes, focusing all his attention on the new content at the beginning.
The more he read, the more surprised he became.
“I thought Dream Building's next update would be [Hell on Earth], but they added another section to the tutorial level?”
“And [Camp] and currency, what's that for?”
No one could answer him at the moment.
So, after the game finished updating, he didn't continue waiting for the hardware. Instead, he first opened the War of Kings Demo on his computer, wanting to see what was in this new camp.
After the game started, the [Camp] option appeared directly in the main menu.
Valiant Sniper clicked to enter.
After a few seconds of loading, the appearance of the new camp was displayed in front of him.
— — Inheriting the overall art style of War of Kings, the gray and dusty dirt ground, the interior space constructed of cement, wood, and tents, machine guns and anti-aircraft guns visible everywhere, defensive fortifications built of sandbags, and the crisscrossing trenches and barbed wire on the periphery.
Without any doubt, the first glance was enough to confirm: this was a front-line camp.
Valiant Sniper suddenly hesitated again:
“Or… should I wait until all the equipment is here before coming to see it?”
He had played the game with the full set of equipment, so he was very clear: there was a huge difference between entering the game using a haptic suit + VR glasses and using a computer.
He also made a special comparison video, explaining the huge difference to netizens in detail from his personal experience—
Whether it's “observation field of view,” “movement method,” “hit feedback,” or “shooting method”…
The two are completely different.
And the combination of various differences has resulted in playing games through somatosensory, which completely blows away the computer in terms of immersion!
The few remaining advantages of playing this game on a computer are that it is not tiring and that the marksmanship is good.
— — Shooting guns in VR really requires starting from scratch. Encounters often don't have much aiming time. It's never as easy or accurate as aiming directly with a mouse.
Although he is stronger when using a computer, if he has a choice, he still chooses somatosensory.
But the fans can't wait:
“Wait for what! What time is it? If you wait any longer, it will be time for lunch!”
“Hurry up and take a look at what's there. You can always change it when the equipment arrives.”
“Charge! Charge! Charge!”
… …
“Okay.” Valiant Sniper sighed and strolled past the buildings one by one.
The closest building seemed to be a warehouse.
Walking closer, a quartermaster with wrinkles as deep as knife cuts on his face said, “This is the armory. You can familiarize yourself with firearms here.”
“Armory?” Valiant Sniper walked in curiously.
Inside were all shelves.
Half of the shelves were filled with firearms of various countries and models.
From bolt-action rifles to semi-automatic rifles, to light machine guns, heavy machine guns, and even flamethrowers, nothing was missing.
The other half was classified and placed with different types of grenades, landmines, detonators, smoke bombs, C4, and other explosives.
Valiant Sniper moved the mouse and clicked on the most familiar Mosin-Nagant rifle.
So the character reached out and picked up the rifle, placing it horizontally in front of him.
The game interface changed—
Other UIs were hidden, leaving only the firearm in the center, with arrows with numbers marking the various parts of the firearm.
Valiant Sniper moved the mouse, and the firearm rotated accordingly, and the arrow prompts also moved along with it, always clearly visible.
According to the numbered markings, he clicked on the receiver, trigger, bolt, sling, handguard, iron buckle, cleaning rod… one by one.
So the parts of this Mosin-Nagant moved in front of him, being disassembled from the gun body.
Until it finally turned into a pile of parts, neatly arranged in front of him.
Valiant Sniper opened his mouth wide in surprise: “Can this gun be disassembled so much?”
“That's not right… Playing on the computer just requires a click of the mouse, but if I play in somatosensory mode, wouldn't I have to disassemble and assemble it myself?”
“I didn't even remember the order just now!”
“I don't have to pay for it if I don't assemble it well, right?”
“Oh right, I don't have any money now, so it's okay.”
He directly closed this interface.
The firearm parts floating in the air were re-captured by gravity and fell to the ground with a crash.
At this moment, the NPC guarding the entrance with the name tag [Quartermaster] walked over, picked up the gun parts on the ground, and quickly assembled them with practiced ease.
Then, he put away the tools in his hand and handed the gun back to Heroic Sniper.
Afterward, he picked up another Mosin-Nagant, looked at Heroic Sniper, and asked, "Want to play a little game?"
"We each get a gun, each get a bullet, and see who can assemble it faster?"
"If you win, I'll give you all the money and medals I have."
"? ? ?"
Heroic Sniper looked at the [Accept] / [Decline] prompt on the screen and was immediately dumbfounded.
"Wait, wait, wait, brothers, is this old guy saying... he wants to gamble with my life?"
"One gun, one bullet, whoever is slower dies?"
He suddenly remembered the update announcement saying that there were casual mini-games in the [Camp].
The newest novels are first published on 69shu ba!
"This is the casual mini-game you were talking about?!"
The viewers were also shocked:
"After finally finishing the battle and returning to the camp, the soldiers cheerfully decide to play a game of life and death to celebrate surviving?"
"Damn, this train of thought is too insane!"
"We can resurrect if we die, but what about him?"
"Try it, try it! Practice is the only way to find out the truth!"
...
Heroic Sniper chose [Accept].
So, the two moved a few steps and sat down at two tables in the middle of the warehouse, three meters apart.
The 3-second countdown ended, and they began disassembling the guns!
The moment it started, Heroic Sniper was horrified to discover:
The prompt from before was gone!!
The old coot on the other side was completely unaffected and had already started disassembling with a clatter.
Heroic Sniper could only rely on his remaining memory to try each point one by one.
Of course, this efficiency was a big problem—
He had only disassembled three parts when the old coot on the other side had already disassembled everything.
By the time he relied on luck to disassemble everything, the quartermaster had already reassembled the rifle, loaded a bullet, and aimed the gun at him!
"Hahaha, come play again in your next life!" The old coot cheerfully said goodbye to Heroic Sniper.
Then—
"Bang!"
The screen shook violently, and the view tilted upwards to the roof.
Finally, the screen slowly went black.
"Bang!"
Heroic Sniper slammed his fist on the computer desk!
"You bastard..."
"This坑爹 old coot must have been created by Xu Meng!"
Even more outrageous, two system prompts popped up in the lower-left corner of the screen:
[Match failed, you lost 500 War Bonds to [Quartermaster]]
[Your current account balance is 0, deduction failed]
"Good, good, good, you specially updated a currency just to make it easier for players to lose to NPCs, right?"
"6!"
"Let's go check out something else. I'll practice assembling guns when the haptic suit arrives."
Amidst the viewers' laughter, Heroic Sniper bypassed the armory and came to the next functional location—
[Shooting Range]
As the name suggests, this place is for practicing shooting.
Free to use.
"This is not bad," Heroic Sniper said with satisfaction. "In haptic mode, you really need to practice your shooting."
He talked to the NPC, wanting to try it out.
But he quickly discovered that he could only practice with guns that had already been unlocked.
Currently, he had only unlocked the Mosin-Nagant bolt-action rifle and the SVT-40 semi-automatic rifle.
He chose the dialogue option: "How to unlock more guns?"
The NPC replied: "Basic guns can be purchased with War Bonds, or searched for in [Showdown] mode. As long as you find a weapon and bring it back alive, you can unlock the corresponding gun."
"Special guns must be unlocked through searching or completing mission requirements."
Heroic Sniper looked at the glaring 0 in his account and could only shake his head and leave to go to the next location.
This was a large tent like a circus.
As the character walked in, the headphones immediately became filled with boisterous voices!
The atmosphere here was completely different from the cold and desolate battlefield atmosphere outside.
Because here—
It was actually a tavern located in the front-line camp!
A group of soldiers were holding large glasses of beer and whiskey, laughing and bragging, drinking, and arm wrestling.
In the very center of the crowd, there were three small round tables.
At each round table, there were four people playing cards. Behind the card players, a group of people were enthusiastically cheering them on, each one excited and red-faced.
"I know everyone is under a lot of pressure on the battlefield..." Heroic Sniper complained, "But it's just playing cards, does it have to be so exciting?"
"So, is the final mini-game playing cards?"
He and the viewers were a little disappointed.
Playing cards...
Home, the neighborhood, the park, the chess and card room, even online chess and card battle platforms, where can't you play?
There's no need to download a 75G client just to play, right?
But just as the complaining comments were sent out, a sudden change occurred at the card table—
A soldier threw down the cards in his hand, and amid the enthusiastic cheers of the people around him, he grabbed the Nagant M1895 revolver in front of him and pulled the trigger at his temple without hesitation!
"Bang!"
A bright blood flower exploded in the air!
The soldier died on the spot, collapsing onto the card table.
Heroic Sniper was instantly speechless.
But the cheers of the soldiers around the card table became even wilder.
Heroic Sniper watched as they completely ignored their dead comrade, just letting him lie face down on the card table. The remaining three card players calmly continued to play cards at the table.
He was completely stunned.
It took him a long time to react:
"You guys... are you betting this big???"
Asking for Monthly Tickets!
