Chapter 251 Internal Test: Each Family’s Little Thoughts

No matter how chaotic the situation was internally, the public opinion storm surrounding the launch of the new version of Honor was suppressed little by little thanks to the "concerted efforts" of all parties.

Online public opinion was forcibly suppressed by crazy Yun fans through desperate cutting and time history books.

Even under the screen-sweeping of cloud fans, a storm that was originally caused purely because the difficulty was not unreasonable was turned into a conspiracy theory by them.

All in all, I feel that it was done by Rongying, Lugou, Xingza, Tenghai Army, and Dansha Bar Fun People. It is impossible for us Glory players to be so uncultured!

At this critical juncture, as Honor officials urgently announced that they would launch a difficulty grading system, players who are not used to the current difficulty can choose to play in a mode that lowers the BOSS difficulty.

This speed of sliding to kneel, which has never been seen in the history of Glory updates, has largely alleviated the dissatisfaction of a considerable number of players.

After the conflict was eased, the public opinion that had been raging gradually calmed down.

However, during this process, many truly experienced players were so angry that they left.
Some players even posted videos of their accounts being destroyed on major video platforms, breaking off their relationship with Glory in the most brutal way possible.

But the final impact on the authorities was minimal.

Even though their actions caused a huge uproar on the Internet, forcing Honor Cloud players to make up the so-called "Honor Infant" to distance themselves from them.

But the authorities do not care much about their loss.

After all, these rich guys do spend a lot on Glory.

However, not much of the money spent went into the government's pockets.

In essence, although it is an online game, Honor of Kings can actually be considered a buyout game.

There are almost no in-app purchases, no costumes, and no skins.

Although there is an official mall, there are very few things for sale there, so few people buy recharge cards.

The wild growth of the trading market, coupled with the fact that gold coins cannot be used to purchase things directly, makes the official krypton gold channels vulnerable to merchants.

Most of the money spent by the rich guys went into the pockets of various game merchants and gold-making studios, and the official was not able to make any money from them.

So I don’t mind the dissatisfaction of rich guys so much.

On the contrary, although cloud players are just clouds, they occupy a very high position in the hearts of the officials.

In Kotick's opinion, due to the disappearance of the main creator, he was unable to make real changes to the Honor system and make the original in-app purchase system truly profitable.

If you want to squeeze out the profit, you have to think of ways from the perspective of e-sports.

When it comes to watching games, there is no distinction between cloud players and real players.

In a sense, cloud players who cannot understand the game and do not pay much attention to details have even greater consumption potential in e-sports.

With this mentality, Honor's operational strategy has achieved a strange balance.

Old players continue to leave, but new cloud players continue to pour in.

There are more and more new posts in the community, but most of them are flattery and various rhythm posts. The real game content has long disappeared along with their angry authors.

As for the professional players...

Even though they had already prepared themselves mentally after having experienced an internal beta test, they were still a little overwhelmed when they actually got started with the public beta test.

Not only is the difficulty of the BOSS more difficult than one level higher, they are not even included in the latest difficulty-adjustable update.

In order to make the BOSS-killing process more interesting, future official competitions will lock in the highest difficulty.

Many players felt their scalps tingling when they thought about being tortured by this group of perverts every time they played a game.

Don’t do that kind of thing!
Amidst all the sighs, the only thing that could comfort the wounded hearts of these unfortunate guys to some extent is the upcoming internal testing of Tencent’s new game.

If we can take this opportunity to transform, then we can look forward to a truly promising future...

The internal testing time of the FPS game "Counter-Strike" that Zhou Zekai and others have been longing for was relatively late. On the contrary, the previously mysterious "Codename: Zed" started its offline closed testing earlier.

Regarding this new game, discussions in the professional circle have already exploded.

In the chat group that day, Wei Chen only roughly revealed that the new game would have a certain degree of similarity with the Honor of Kings model, but he remained tight-lipped about what exactly it would be like.

It can be said that this has whetted the appetite of professional players.

Some people speculate that this will be a new MMORPG game that improves on the shortcomings of Honor, and some say it will be a new dawn for fighting games.

There are also those who are more familiar with Tenghai's style and firmly believe that the new game will be an unprecedented new model, opening up a whole new gaming track.

In the blink of an eye, several days passed.

……

"Captain, can we get the airfare reimbursed?" Li Xun calculated the expenses of these days with some heartache.

"Yes, yes. You are so petty. You even care about such a small amount of money. After all, you are considered a popular contestant." Li Xuan scolded with a smile.

"The alliance is in a recession, so we should save as much as possible. I even had a tooth replaced recently..." Li Xun grinned.

As the main tactician of the Void, although Li Xun has never been selected into the All-Stars, he has a certain fan base due to his passion for risking his life.

The income is considerable among ordinary players.

Even he felt bad about the airfare to Shanghai for the closed beta test, which shows how unhappy the lives of the players left behind on the Honor side are.

On the Void side, apart from the two gun players, Fully Transparent and Semi-Transparent, who went to join in the fun of the CS game next door, they sent out two three-person teams to participate.

Among them, the three-person team formed by the three top players Li Xuan, Wu Yuce and Li Xun can be said to have been given high hopes by the management.

Before leaving, Xukong's manager gave captain Li Xuan many instructions, hoping that they would perform well and try to become familiar to Tenghai.

Void is one of the clubs that is having the hardest time in the Glory League.

The team itself is not big enough, and does not have enough financial backers, so it cannot afford to waste resources like the Reincarnation and Micro Herb Tyranny did.

There is no player in the team who has successfully transformed. Even though Li Xuan and Wu Yuce are all-stars, their exposure is far less than that of Fang Rui, who has found his own track.

With the expenditure seriously insufficient to cover the income, everyone from the management to the players are living a tight life.

At the most desperate moment, the manager of Void even considered whether he should learn from Fanhua Xuejing and attract some CP fans for his two ghosts.

After waiting for a long time for Tenghai to open up a new track again, the Void Team immediately came out in full force, even Gai Caijie who was still in the youth training camp was sent out.

Li Xun continued to mumble about calculating the expenses of this trip. Li Xuan smiled helplessly and closed his eyes to rest.

"I don't know if this trip will really have a good result." Wu Yuce sighed.

If he wasn't extremely disappointed with Glory's current situation, he really wouldn't want to make such an attempt.

When he first debuted, he refused the team's request for transformation and insisted on playing the Ghost Swordsman. He was stubbornly conservative about these things.

As long as Honor can continue to develop, he really doesn't want to try such a transformation with an uncertain future.

Who can blame Honor for being so disappointing that it actually cuts off its own old players?

Seeing that one after another of his old friends who used to have some friendship in the online game were so angry at the official attitude and the rampant Glory guards that they broke down and deleted their accounts, Wu Yuce became more and more pessimistic about the future of Glory.

This game is really going nowhere.

But even though he was desperate about Honor, Wu Yuce still maintained a conservative attitude towards transformation.

"Just do your best." Li Xuan knew how stubborn his old partner was, so he didn't try to persuade him.

Even he himself was not sure whether he could achieve nirvana through this opportunity.

……

If the dull atmosphere on Void's side was because everyone was not good at speaking, then on Howl's side, the atmosphere was simply frozen.

Tang Hao glanced at Zhao Yuzhe to the left, then at Liu Hao to the right, cursing in his heart: Why didn’t I realize earlier that these two guys were in the same group?

On the Howling side, Fang Rui, who was already preparing to play in the World of Warships World Championship with Zhu Xiaoping, was not very interested in the new game.
Therefore, the ace three-man team sent out was composed of Tang Hao, Zhao Yuzhe and Liu Hao.

The lineup looks pretty good, with an All-Star, a former vice-captain of Excellent Era, and a best rookie. They seem to be pretty competitive, right?

But the problem is, this is the Howl, the Howl with the most serious internal strife.

Liu Hao, who believed that he had a natural talent for forming alliances, had long since identified Zhao Yuzhe as his new boss.

On weekdays, when Zhao Yuzhe complained, he diligently played the role of a jester.

Brainwashed by the words of such a treacherous but loyal person, Zhao Yuzhe, who had encountered many setbacks in his work, not only did not reflect on himself, but instead naturally attributed all the problems to the outside world.

It's all the management's fault, it's all Tang Hao's fault, it's all Fang Rui's fault...

All I can say is that if Zhao Yuzhe was born a few years later, he would be very suitable to be a Rong guard to whitewash Rongyao.

Tang Hao and Fang Rui were both in the club, so even if Zhao Yuzhe wanted to do it, he didn't have the guts to do it.

But now...

Two of the three-person team are my people, so the advantage is on my side!

So, along the way, the two of them tacitly isolated Tang Hao intentionally or unintentionally, just chatting with each other for a while, leaving Tang Hao aside. Although Tang Hao was straightforward, he was not stupid. He was very clear about the conflict between Zhao Yuzhe and himself.

However, he, who had never cared much about these things, had no idea that this bastard Liu Hao was actually involved with Zhao Yuzhe.

Until the day they set off for the Magic City, Zhao Yuzhe hugged Liu Hao and said proudly

unlucky.

I should have led a team in the youth training camp earlier. Although he is a bit incompetent, at least he wouldn't have put himself in such a situation.

At this moment, Zhao Yuzhe suppressed his pride and said seriously: "We must cooperate well later and try to leave a good impression on the officials!"

Judging from the tone of his voice, if someone didn't know him, they would think he was the boss of Howling.

Tang Hao has such a bad temper. How could he control himself after being provoked by Zhao Yuzhe?

Just as he was about to explode, he discovered that Liu Hao was winking at him from an angle that Zhao Yuzhe couldn't see.

No, isn’t this guy Zhao Yuzhe’s younger brother?
But Liu Hao's proactive winking behavior did divert Tang Hao's attention to a certain extent, and his anger was suppressed a little without him noticing.

The original outburst of anger ultimately turned into a cold look.

Zhao Yuzhe felt a little embarrassed when he saw that Tang Hao didn't get angry and had asked for trouble.

But when I thought about the bright future of this journey, my anger subsided.

Teng Hai stipulated that there should be three people in a team, so he would definitely take advantage of it after discussing it with Liu Hao.

Tenghai's competitive games have always attached great importance to resource allocation. As long as they can control this aspect through the advantage of numbers, they don't have to worry about Tang Hao stealing their limelight.

The future is infinitely bright!

Before they knew it, the special car had already taken them to the closed beta test venue. This time, Tenghai did not hold the closed beta test in its own headquarters building.

After getting off the bus, there were already quite a few people waiting.

The most eye-catching team among them is undoubtedly the Weicao team.

Tyranny is focusing on their ambition to enter the LPL, while Samsara is placing all its bets on the FPS game that will be released in a few days.

In order to allow Zhou Zekai to perform at his best, not only the spear-class Zhou Zekai was sent out, but also the magic sword Jiang Botao, the judoka Lu Boyuan and the priest Fang Minghua were all sent out.

I don’t know how Tenghai will accept them forcing people into this.

Only Weicao, led by Wang Jiexi himself, came to the closed beta test site of "Codename Jie".

Among them, Wang Jiexi personally led Gao Yingjie and Li Yihui to form a team. This luxurious lineup of three all-stars is definitely the most luxurious lineup at present, without considering the compatibility with the new game.

In addition, on the void side, there are two ghosts and Li Xun.

On the Baihua side, Xin Fanhua and Xue Jing are both there, and Zou Yuan is one of the few gun players who gave up CS and came here. These two, together with Zhou Guangyi, who was introduced from Tyranny by Baihua before, are also quite powerful.

There is also 301, Yang Cong, Xu Bin and Gao Jie. They are not as good as Vici Gaming, but they have been partners for many years and have a good understanding of each other.

Looking at these seemingly excellent configurations, and then looking back at his own current sinful situation, Tang Hao felt depressed.

It would have been better to keep Baihua and partner with Yu Feng and Zou Yuan. Maybe there wouldn't be so many troubles now. Tang Hao cursed inwardly.

At this moment, Zhao Yuzhe went to the toilet, and Liu Hao and Tang Hao were the only two people left at the scene.
Liu Hao hesitated for a while, then walked over hesitantly.

"team leader……"

Tang Hao was stunned for a moment, then sneered: "Are you calling me captain now?"

He remembered clearly how he and Zhao Yuzhe had bullied him along the way.

"Alas, Captain, I have no choice..." Liu Hao sighed, looking pitiful.

"I'm just a marginal player worth one million, with a bad reputation, and I'm not taken seriously in the club."

"Zhao Yuzhe is one of the future of the team after all. I will have to make a living under him in the future. Usually I can only be his follower..."

"He wants to target you, and I can't persuade him. I can only tell you the truth when he's not around..."

While Zhao Yuzhe was going to the toilet, Liu Hao selectively told Tang Hao some of the things that had happened between him and Zhao Yuzhe during this period.

While completely removing himself from the picture, he also exaggerated the image of Zhao Yuzhe as being jealous of Tang Hao and narrow-minded in Tang Hao's mind.

That’s right, Liu Hao has some little ideas again.

Originally, he thought that a player with a bad record like him would only be able to stay in the Glory headquarters for the rest of his life and be a blue-collar marginal player.

But who knew that this time, Howl would actually send him out to participate in Tenghai’s closed beta test?
When Liu Hao received the news, he was so moved that tears almost fell from his eyes. He felt that his dull career had finally regained some vitality.

But he soon realized a very serious problem: he had recognized the wrong boss.

If he stays in the Glory branch, the boss is most likely Zhao Yuzhe.

But what if he could transition to Tenghai’s new game?

Then I have to continue following Tang Hao!

Even with his help, Liu Hao didn't think Zhao Yuzhe could defeat Tang Hao.

Whether in terms of strength, the degree of fan appeal of his character, ambition, etc., Tang Hao is much stronger than Zhao Yuzhe.

We must change our strategy!

In order to make Tang Hao realize the importance of himself as a jester, he deliberately cooperated with Zhao Yuzhe to make Tang Hao uncomfortable all the way, and then came to Tang Hao to surrender when the test was about to start.

For the sake of the gaming experience later, he would definitely not refuse the olive branch that he was extending to him at this time.

Sure enough, Tang Hao began to hesitate.

He attached great importance to this test.

In order to perform well, he put aside all his pride and sought help from senior colleagues who had participated in the last Tenghai internal test.

Yes, that’s right, it’s the senior that Tang Hao wants to defeat the most, the ultimate target of the underdog, Lin Jingyan.

Due to Wang Jiexi's match-fixing scandal that ruined the eighth season of the All-Star Rookie Challenge, Tang Hao was unable to complete that stunning victory.

So there is no conflict between him and Lin Jingyan.

Upon hearing that his successor came to him for advice, Lin Jingyan, who had already become a happy chess player, naturally taught him everything he knew.

The most important point is to find teammates with sufficient tactical execution and influence!

In the LOL internal test battle that year, Lin Jingyan won half-heartedly.

While Wang Jiexi in the middle lane was killing like crazy, the upper and lower lanes enforced discipline to the extreme.

Even if Ye Xiu's Nasus was badly beaten by Xiao Shiqin, there was no need for him, a jungler, to clean up the mess.

Not only does he have ample space for tactical arrangements, but he can also easily take over Yang Cong's jungle with the cooperation of Wang Jiexi.

Not to mention how comfortable it is.

He conveyed this to Tang Hao and told him to find teammates who would make him feel comfortable playing with.

Tang Hao remembered this advice firmly.

Now, Liu Hao has taken the initiative to pledge his allegiance. If he believes it, then there will still be room for him to perform in the next internal test.

But if you refuse, you might end up in jail.

Tang Hao gritted his teeth and suddenly hugged Liu Hao's shoulders: "Good brother, you have been wronged!"

Liu Hao shook his head pretending to be strong, while laughing secretly in his heart.

This first step of surrender is considered to be a successful one.

The two of them whispered for a while, and then Zhao Yuzhe came back from the bathroom.

He was humming a little tune happily, unaware that his little Lu Bu had already hooked up with a new adoptive father.

There's something to watch next.

As the teams from major clubs had basically arrived, there were already twenty teams with sixty people gathered in the field.

Finally, amid countless expectant and fanatical gazes, in the minds of countless players, the savior who saved their careers, Pei Yunteng, appeared with his signature smile.

Just like more than a year ago when he announced the groundbreaking game that completely changed the e-sports ecosystem.

"Sorry for the long wait, everyone. Tenghai Group welcomes everyone to participate in this test!"

"Naraka: Bladepoint", welcome everyone to Juku Island!"

　The first update is 5,000 words, and there will be more in a while, don’t worry.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)