There are 14 types of weapons in "Monster Hunter."
At this moment, there are 14 people in the stronghold, including Xu Meng and Xiao Meng, exactly one for each weapon.
This is also what Xu Meng intentionally arranged.
Each weapon has unique usage skills and combat styles, which must be demonstrated to the players.
However, different weapons inevitably have varying degrees of popularity.
Popular weapons are liked by everyone, while unpopular weapons are less desirable.
For fairness, Xu Meng allowed everyone to choose freely, with himself and Xiao Meng filling in the gaps.
If two people fancy the same weapon, it's simple—
A duel!
Whoever wins gets to choose first.
Unsurprisingly, Xu Meng witnessed a chaotic battle between four katana enthusiasts...
In the end, [You Guagua], a hunting master with higher damage than Huan Yue in the [Global Survival Competition], was the last one standing.
However, after that, Qi Huahua and Luo Yeqiuqiu both favored the greatsword but didn't fight.
Instead, after a few words of discussion, they decided the ownership of the greatsword with a simple game of rock-paper-scissors.
The four katana enthusiasts, who had fought fiercely to determine the weapon's ownership, looked at this harmonious atmosphere in confusion, their faces filled with the words:
"Is that even allowed?"
Indeed, it was.
And until all the weapons were distributed, there were no more fights.
This made the four katana enthusiasts a little embarrassed.
Fortunately, after the weapons were distributed, Xu Meng announced free time, so they didn't have to continue feeling awkward.
Of course, although Xu Meng said it was free time, no one was really calm enough to play around. Instead, they all started practicing using their weapons.
—Some people were assigned weapons they weren't familiar with.
Even for those familiar with their weapons, switching from the Mirage Game Platform to the Dream Weaver had brought about significant changes in combat logic, requiring them to re-familiarize themselves.
Tomorrow, they would be live-streaming hunting in front of players worldwide, and they were all a little nervous.
To practice coordination, they also formed small hunting teams.
Unfortunately, the internal beta phase only allowed for 4-person teams, so they couldn't team up all 14 of them. Otherwise, they would have definitely given it a try.
Among this, game bugs were only one aspect.
The players' views on the game's worldview, BOSS difficulty, weapon preferences, equipment crafting, material drop rates, and other mechanisms also needed to be summarized and analyzed to determine whether adjustments were needed.
The last day of February passed by in such busyness.
—After work, Xu Meng returned to the laboratory and hosted the first day of the exchange meeting.
And he actually played the scene of Huan Yue hugging and passionately kissing Huo Huo at the meeting.
Huan Yue was shocked and immediately lowered his head to cover his face, too embarrassed to see anyone.
But the remaining 11 people stared wide-eyed, watching the scene intently.
Especially Qi Huahua!
—Her [Mind Cube] was also given to Huo Huo, and Huo Huo was also her wife!
"You! You! You!" Qi Huahua pointed at Huan Yue, unable to speak for a while.
In the end, she only managed to squeeze out a sentence: "How could you do this?!!"
I haven't even kissed him yet!!
"Hahahahaha!" Luo Yeqiuqiu burst into laughter, unable to stop.
"Haha, Teacher Huan, let me interview you," the Brave Sniper ruthlessly mocked. "Is there any difference between kissing Huo Huo this time and the time you kissed him at the Cologne Game Show?"
"Yes, yes, how does it compare to real girls?" The others also became curious.
Xu Meng controlled his expression very well, with not a hint of a smile on his face.
He remained serious, as if this was just a normal meeting procedure.
"It's okay, speak freely, say what's on your mind."
"Using a new device like the Dream Weaver to enter the game world is very different from traditional methods—even the Mirage Game Platform. The contact between players and NPCs is also an unavoidable part."
"I know everyone hopes that the virtual world is as real as possible."
"I also hope so."
"But we must also realize that we must limit players from being willful and making excessive behaviors towards NPCs."
"If they are ordinary NPCs, it's easy to handle—let the NPCs stop the players, or punish them at the system level."
"But the characters of the 'Frost Snow Project' are another situation."
"The core experience that 'Frost Snow Project' provides to everyone is companionship."
"We cannot use crude methods to block some of the more intimate interactions between players and characters."
"So, this part of the scale becomes very difficult to grasp."
"Before the Dream Weaver is truly launched, Dream Architect must find that line that is as appropriate as possible. This also requires everyone's help. Your thoughts, attempts, and opinions are very important."
"Including the attempt to kiss the character?" Qi Huahua asked.
Xu Meng smiled gently: "Yes, including this kind of attempt."
"Even more outrageous attempts, right, Luo Ye?"
Luo Yeqiuqiu, who was laughing heartily, suddenly thought of something after being reminded by Xu Meng, and his smile froze on his face.
"Ah, this... Yes, yes."
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"But that one of mine, there's no need to release it, right..."
Luo Yeqiuqiu was scared to death.
Fortunately, Huan Yue finally spoke at this time: "You asked me how it compares to real girls... I don't know! I haven't had a girlfriend."
"???" The Brave Sniper was surprised.
"???" The others were also shocked.
"Dude, you spend so much money in the game, you can't be short of money, right? You're telling me you don't have a girlfriend?" Luo Yeqiuqiu couldn't believe it.
Huan Yue was puzzled: "Do these two things have anything to do with each other?"
Luo Yeqiuqiu opened his mouth, speechless.
The others were also speechless.
The Brave Sniper even had a look of admiration in his eyes.
—Who would have thought that Huan Yue, a guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes who has piles of wives in the game world, is actually a pure love party?
"But it doesn't seem to be any different from the Cologne one?" Huan Yue said uncertainly.
After all, Cologne was several months ago.
That incident was a bit unbearable to look back on, and Huan Yue always avoided thinking about it.
Now that he had to compare, the memories were inevitably a bit blurry.
However, Xu Meng quickly helped him confirm: "Your feeling is right, it's exactly the same."
"???" Everyone had even more question marks on their heads.
Xu Meng explained a little helplessly: "Only Xiao Meng and I are currently doing the data connection between the Dream Weaver and the game world."
"The development team of the Mirage Game Platform certainly wouldn't write you guys what it feels like to kiss a character."
"I have limited energy, so I took a shortcut."
"If you have a memory of kissing a girl, you will automatically call this part of the feeling when kissing a character."
"If not, the basic template will be called uniformly—that is, the touch of kissing simulated silicone."
"This is also the convenience of the Dream Weaver in creating dreams—just like you are really dreaming, the brain will call your past experiences and memories to automatically fill in the details of many things, without me having to write details for every action, every taste, every touch."
"If not, you would probably have to wait several years to play games with the Dream Weaver."
Xu Meng considered that these people were all players and did not use any difficult academic terms, but tried to describe the operating mechanism of the Dream Weaver to them in easy-to-understand everyday language.
"So..." Huan Yue said speechlessly, "If there are things you haven't experienced in reality, you can't experience them in the game?"
"That's not the case." Xu Meng shook his head, "It's just that you can't simply rely on the brain to fill in the details, but the developers—for the time being, that is, Xiao Meng and I—must write these details to let you feel them."
"Believe me, not to mention things that you haven't experienced, even things that are completely impossible to happen in reality, I can let you experience them."
Xu Meng was very confident in this.
[Creating experiences] was originally his goal and philosophy for making games.
"Things that are impossible in reality?" Everyone blinked, guessing a little blankly:
"Flying?"
"Going to the universe?"
"Being an emperor?"
"Traveling through time and space?"
"Graduating from innocence?"
