Chapter 286: Glory League, eSports people's own Boruto
The moment they encountered each other at the border area, whether it was Tyranny or Samsara, their first reaction was not to be stunned, but to breathe a sigh of relief at the same time.

I was lucky this time, as I successfully encountered it on my second trip without wasting too much time.

When we were playing training matches before, we would often go back and forth four or five times and spend more than ten minutes looking for the enemy.

So much so that the beginning became a torment.

But even so, almost no team would dare to give up the mobile warfare strategy at the beginning to fight the BOSS.

Because those who dared to try, no matter how many times they stopped, or how remote the BOSS point they chose, were all beaten to death by their opponents without exception.

Now that we have encountered it, there is no need to continue to procrastinate.

Zhou Zekai's shot pierced the clouds and the double white guns in his hands began to roar, while Bai Yanfei of Tyranny also controlled the elemental mage Rota to chant spells.

Lu Boyuan's judo character rushed to the front and faced Han Wenqing's lonely smoke in the desert without showing any weakness.

After the house-switching style of play was developed, front-row players like Lu Boyuan were the happiest.

After all, I don’t have to sit in jail at the BOSS point every day.

There is no way. With the current average damage of the BOSS, even the tankiest knight will fall to the ground after a few hits and cannot afford to resist damage at all.

The close range control skills of professions such as judo and gangster are just for show.

The current person at the top of the queue has lost his function and can only go to jail.

On the contrary, professions like Boxer, which lack tankiness but have maximum displacement and high damage, can take the front-row position in BOSS battles.

Lu Boyuan would rather fight an opponent of Han Wenqing's level for three hundred rounds than to fight even one more BOSS.

The emergence of the home-swapping flow is actually a disguised callback for these abandoned professions in this version.

It's just magical.

Han Wenqing naturally would not show weakness, and the two sides immediately started fighting fiercely.

offstage.

"This scene... is not very interesting." Ye Du Hantan complained.

“It always feels weird when I can’t see the flaming red fists of the Korean team.”

The flaming red fist is Han Wenqing's signature silver weapon known as "The Lone Smoke in the Desert", a pair of fiery red boxing gloves.

Not only are the gloves fiery red, as one of the top weapons in the game, the special effects of this thing are naturally extremely luxurious.

Every time Han Wenqing threw a punch, it seemed as if his fist was covered with a layer of burning fighting spirit, which was extremely dazzling, especially in the relatively dim map.

Even when he swung his fist, the sound of the wind created had a vigorous feeling like a raging fire.

As a result, he, a boxer, often looks more like a qigong master than a qigong master.

But now, all of everyone’s equipment is gone, and everyone has a set of blank equipment, without attribute bonuses, and naturally without special effects.

Although Han Wenqing still fights with great vigor, old fans like Ye Du Hantan will find it quite awkward to watch.

"Not entirely. Without those light pollution-like special effects, the game should be a lot more intuitive." Jiang You looked further and made up for it.

“But it just doesn’t look good. Everyone is dressed in blank white and without special effects, the viewing experience is reduced by half.” Ye Du Hantan insisted.

"One of the biggest advantages of Honor is its top-notch audio and video. This effect is worse than the LPL next door. Isn't this just destroying one's own strength?"

There's nothing you can do. Although the blank equipment has basic special effects, its scale and level of refinement are quite average, and the sound effects are also much worse.

Although there are no special effects, the picture is indeed slightly more intuitive.

But the price paid was a bit too high.

“I can only say that the official didn’t expect the players to just give up on the boss fight.” Jiang You had no choice but to try his best to clear the way.

In fact, with regard to equipment handling, inspired by the Tenghai system, Todd and others did not have any major problems.

Although for the sake of fairness, the BOSS only drops orange equipment, but when different characters use it, they will be given special effects based on the equipment of this character in the online game.

For example, if a pair of boxing gloves dropped by Da Mo Guyan when he fights a boss, after he equips it, although it still has the attributes of orange equipment, its appearance will still look the same as the Fiery Red Fist.

They are even thinking about using these appearances and special effects to sell some special e-sports fashions to make some money, which is a very wise approach.

But no matter how much he planned, he didn't expect that these professional players had learned their lesson and had no intention of fighting the boss. They just wandered around in white clothes and it took them nearly ten minutes before the fight started.

As a result, the audience was able to "feast their eyes" and enjoy the magical scene with a bunch of whiteboards and cheap special effects flying all over the sky.

The following battle scene was a little lackluster for veteran viewers like Ye Du Hantan.

Except that both teams' equipment have been replaced with white ones, isn't it similar to previous team competitions?

Even the original five starters and one substitute were replaced with a simpler and more crude six starters.

Ye Du Han Tan suddenly remembered something and chuckled, "You know, the official Glory team has gone through so much trouble, with suspensions and updates, but the final battle scene is still pretty much the same as before, isn't it?"

"If the officials had just cancelled the equipment when Blue Rain protested, wouldn't that have saved a lot of trouble?"

Speaking of this, Ye Du Hantan couldn't help but sigh: "If this is the case, maybe clubs like Blue Rain will not withdraw, and Glory may still be the largest e-sports project..."

A year and a half ago, on the one hand, we wanted to protect the prices of online game materials and equipment, which were still relatively strong at the time, and on the other hand, we were also worried that our clubs would encounter difficulties due to the sharp drop in the value of equipment.

When Blue Rain took the lead in protesting and demanded that the league be reformed and the equipment be balanced, the Glory officials rejected it without hesitation.

As a result, after more than a year, none of these goals have been achieved.

The price system was supposed to collapse and it collapsed even more thoroughly due to the sluggish state of everything from the league to online games in the past year and a half.

As a result, in order to survive, countless honor material and gold coin merchants chose to change their track and started the business of accompanying players and leveling up for games such as League of Legends.

He would rather compete with Tenghai's super anti-cheating and anti-explosion system than continue to stay in Glory.

Even just creating this new version, the effect of which remains to be seen, wasted a year and a half.

During this period, countless players and clubs who had no games to play chose to move to neighboring countries, and those who stayed behind also shrank drastically.

It's like losing the watermelon while still not being able to pick up the sesame seeds.

The content of the current competition is not even as good as before.

"After just one or two years of development, they came up with a castrated version of the previous competition. The individual competition, the arena competition and so on were all cut. How confident are they in that damn new model..." Ye Du Hantan muttered.

Yes, that's right. The competition system of Season 3 has cut all the individual competitions and arena competitions, leaving only a team peak showdown mode, but it is a best-of-three BO format.

Otherwise, why do people say that Honor's event planners just copy things without thinking?

Seeing that the LPL competition next door only had a 5v5 map in Summoner's Rift and did not consider anything like solo matches or battle royales, I just copied it.

This is also the current general situation of the event planners of the China Glory Professional League.

The game planners at the headquarters have at least invited several luxurious teams, and even if they have no experience or expertise, they can still come up with something that will impress people.

But the planners who plan the event...

When Feng Xianjun left his job, all those who had some ability were poached.

The remaining employees were disgusted several times by Codick's blind command and greed, and their morale was basically completely broken.

The few people who are capable of being used are only the confidants of the new president, Comrade Han Yong.

However, President Han has been too lazy to even act recently. He basically follows Feng Xianjun every day to learn about the experience of managing and operating e-sports.

It is said that it was because Pei Yunteng secretly promised him a big pie one day.

As for Honor, in his opinion, it would be in Boss Pei's pocket sooner or later, so why should he care about him?

When the boss takes the lead in giving up, the employees below will naturally salute the Ming army one by one and fire three shots into the air, which will be considered as doing justice to the great President Codick.

Put your mind aside and if you have any uncertainties, just go to the League of Legends Professional League organized by Tencent Esports next door and learn some precedents.

Anyway, the latter is currently the most successful and systematic e-sports league in the world. As long as they copy others, they can confidently say that this is how LPL is set up when they are held accountable.

As for whether the game content and the competition system are suitable, that is not their concern. On the field, the situation gradually became tense as both sides were evenly matched.

Although Tyranny is not as good as Samsara in terms of configuration, they also have their own advantages, good coordination, and good condition.

After all, Sun Xiang has just joined the Samsara team, so it will definitely take some time for them to get used to each other.

Moreover, their current transformation direction is CSGO, which has a certain degree of overlap with Honor.

Let these guys who have been throwing AKs to high-flash gunmen every day go back to using cold weapons to play magic. Except for Zhou Zekai, no one will be able to adapt.

As a result, the situation on the field fell into a stalemate.

I sighed quietly while sitting in the cold pond at night, feeling a little sad.

He is willing to come to the scene, so he must have something in mind for Glory and the Glory League.

But judging from the current poor performance of the Glory League, he really doesn't see much possibility of regaining glory.

Just then, a hand gently pulled the corner of his clothes.

Ye Du Hantan turned his head in confusion and found that the two girls sitting next to him were looking at him cautiously.

"Excuse me, are you old players of the game Honor?" One of the girls pointed at Ye Du Hantan and Jiang You on the other side and asked curiously.

"Ah, I guess so. I used to be in the Tyrannical Guild." Ye Du Hantan was a little absent-minded at the moment and answered casually.

"That's great. We are fans who have only recently started playing the Glory League. Could you please answer some questions for us?"

The two girls had been listening to the two guys from Baiqixiongtu talking for quite a while, and guessed that these two guys, who knew each other well, must be veteran players of Honor of Kings.

I just happened to have a lot of questions, so I came to ask.

"Okay, go ahead and ask!" Ye Du Hantan nodded.

"Aren't they fighting? How come they don't lose much health?" One of the girls pointed at Damo Guyan and Yunshan Luan who were fighting on the screen.

Because it was an encounter battle and in a border area, there were relatively few buildings and bunkers, so neither side had much room for tactics.

Basically, apart from treatment, in one-on-one or multi-on-multi fighting situations, the soldiers are all experienced and will not give the opponent many opportunities to outnumber the enemy in certain areas.

Ye Du Hantan took a closer look and saw that in the contest between Han Wenqing and Lu Boyuan, Han Wenqing's health was still around 90%, while Lu Boyuan was a little worse off, with his health dropping to around 75%.

Ye Du Hantan roughly estimated that only two or three minutes had passed since the encounter between the two sides.

Both sides have professions with certain tankiness and control, so it is normal to fight like this, and the speed is even not slow.

"It fell, and quite quickly. What happened?" Ye Du Hantan answered casually.

"It dropped? But it's been almost three minutes. Why did it only drop a little?" The girl asked in surprise, pointing at her watch.

Ye Duhantan was stunned for a moment, then he laughed: "This is the normal speed of a glory battle!"

Whether it’s a team battle or an individual match, doesn’t it often take more than ten minutes in Glory?

Especially in this kind of duel between masters, with quick reaction and good operation, most of the ten skills can be dodged, and the speed of blood loss will be much slower.

Moreover, both of them have healers around them, so the health that is finally reduced can be restored in a short time.

"You should be fans of the LPL next door, right?" Ye Du Hantan did not hold back and asked bluntly.

The two girls looked at each other and finally nodded gently: "Yes, I liked Happy and Ye Xiu at first, and then I heard that he had a rival in the Glory era, so I came here to learn more about it, and then I became a fan of the Korean team."

"It's strange." Ye Duhantan chuckled, "So how do you feel now?"

The girls hesitated for a while, and finally answered in a organized tone: "As for feelings, I am really happy to see Captain Han in person. He is so domineering, worthy of being Ye Shen's nemesis."

"But maybe it's because I'm not used to it. I feel like the games aren't as... impactful as those in the LPL."

"It's just boring, right? Actually, I feel bored too." Ye Du Hantan didn't hide anything at all and directly pointed out the girls' unspoken meaning.

That’s right, even he, a long-time Honor player, now finds the Honor games boring.

This would be the case even if the tournament and individual competitions were brought back.

The pace of the Glory game is just too slow.

Individual duels can last for several minutes or even more than ten minutes, during which time hundreds of skills and general attacks can be exchanged.

You have to know that this is pure offensive combat, without any farming or lane control, no tower pushing, and no returning to the city to buy equipment.

The slower you play, the more diluted the thrill of victory becomes.

The victory or defeat of CSGO is decided in a split second. When a gun is fired, someone will die. The excitement is extremely high.

Although the victory or defeat in LOL is a bit slower, it has the added bonus of multiple elements and judgment methods, so a real battle only takes about ten seconds.

In comparison, Honor's mode, which is calculated in minutes, is so slow that it is unbearable to watch.

I even felt a little sleepy when spending the night in the cold pond.

In other e-sports leagues, when the audience hears the commentator's exclamation, it basically corresponds to a beautiful kill in a certain part, or an exciting scene of escaping with a sliver of health.

But in Glory, nine out of ten times Li Yibo yelled was simply because a certain character had a 5% health advantage in the duel.

How can anyone get excited about this?
Zhou Zekai's gun skills are beautiful and aesthetic, but after watching it for a long time, it seems that he is just a character walking back and forth within a few steps, firing and doing weird things.

The same goes for everyone else.

Why was it that the previous peak showdown, although apparently not very mature, was able to attract most people's attention?

It was because in the BOSS battle, the high-intensity output of one claw, which took away half of the blood, completely tore the original slow pace apart.

In this era where the pace of everything is accelerating, the slow-paced fighting style of Glory really cannot get people excited.

This characteristic is also reflected in the venue.

The atmosphere in the stadium, which had been bustling during the entrance ceremony, had unconsciously begun to cool down. Only two commentators were left to occasionally utter a few formulaic explanations, but there was not much novelty.

Considering that the light in the venue was not bright, one can imagine how many audience members were already drowsy at this time.

This Glory League was okay before, but now compared with the next door, it’s just like Boruto!
High quality non-flammable material!

After chatting with the two new fan girls, Ye Duhantan glanced at the field and suddenly said, "The first game of Tyranny should be a sure win."

The problem of reincarnation still exists after all, and one game cannot help these new tough guys get back to their form.

As a result, Samsara's offensive was gradually suppressed by Tyranny.

"Does this mean it's over?" The two girls perked up.

"It's still early. Unless there's some really stupid mistakes, the two teams can still play for about another ten minutes. And that's not even considering the possibility of the two teams widening the gap."

Spending the night in the cold pond broke the little girls' thoughts.

Seeing the two girls who were obsessed with dragons wilting like eggplants hit by frost, the evil-minded Ye Du Han Tan suddenly said something hypocritical to comfort them:
"You don't have to be too disappointed. In a while..." He deliberately prolonged the voice.

"Are there any more exciting parts?" The girls were fooled and became excited, asking immediately.

"Uh...that's not the case." Ye Du Hantan, whose true intention was revealed, laughed with evil humor.

"I just want to remind you that this is only the first game."

"The new competition system is a best-of-three format."

"And considering Samsara's adjustment ability and lineup, plus the Korean team's age factor which cannot be ignored, these three games will most likely be played to the full extent."

“Be prepared!”

The two girls looked at Ye Duhantan who was smiling happily, and then looked at each other, and both of them could see an emotion called numbness.

Is it too late to sneak away now?

　The first update is 5,000 words, and there will be more in a while.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)