Chapter 326: Subversive Showdown

As early as six days ago, the online preliminary round of "Battle in the Clouds" had already started in full swing.

The competition adopts a three-round points system,

one round a week, one round of 20 games, the first two rounds will eliminate 50% of the teams, and the last round will select the top 100 teams according to the total points ranking of the teams to enter the offline competition.

For all online competitions, the system will automatically match different teams, and each team can flexibly choose the time and match opponents for the competition.

With the start of the online competition, the popularity of "Battle in the Clouds" suddenly began to rise rapidly.

A few days before the start of the competition, the number of online players surpassed that before the game update, and after 5 days of competition, it soared to 100,000.

For a hardcore and unpopular game, 100,000 simultaneous online users are definitely a hit.

The surge in the number of players also made the intensity of the competition directly increase.

Even Cui Zhifeng began to feel the pressure.

At first, he thought that with his experience of flying airplanes in real life and playing DCS World for many years, playing Duel in the Clouds would be a piece of cake.

In addition, the four players he recruited were all hardcore DCS World players. Although their theoretical and operational skills were not as good as his, they were basically not a drag.

So there would be no problem in entering the offline competition.

But he didn't expect that with the surge in the number of players, and the official introduction of introductory video tutorials, which were gradually integrated into the game's novice tutorials, the overall level of players suddenly began to rise rapidly.

Although they have not lost so far, the pressure is also increasing.

In the first game, they could still beat their opponents 0:5 with zero losses,

but after the twelfth game, they could only play 5:1 or even 5:2 with losses.

You know, this is only the first round!

What the hell are these new players? !

"This damn official must have deliberately matched us with a team that has won consecutive games!"

"Isn't that nonsense? If I were the game official, I would definitely not let anyone bully the weak all the time."

"..."

Because of the matching mechanism, the waiting time for each official game is usually 10-60 minutes.

But fortunately, during the matching process, players don't have to wait and can play games and practice normally.

So during this process, teammates chatted relatively relaxedly.

As before, Cui Zhifeng still broadcast the game live.

Anyway, if he doesn't broadcast live, the official will also have game replays, so there is no need to worry about leaking tactics. It is better to increase the popularity of the live broadcast room through live broadcast.

And to be honest, this game has not had much tactics so far.

After all, everyone is not very skilled in flying airplanes. They can't execute tactics even if you tell them.

So the current way of playing is that everyone sees each other from the radar from a distance, and then starts to compete with each other in operation and team tacit understanding. Even if the opponent eavesdrops on their conversation throughout the whole process, they can't beat them.

On the contrary, by switching to "Battle of the Clouds", Cui Zhifeng's number of fans grew at a speed that even he himself was a little dumbfounded.

With more than 500,000 fans and more than 50,000 real viewers in the live broadcast room, he seemed to be the top live broadcaster of "Battle of the Clouds".

"Why do you think "Battle of the Clouds" is so popular all of a sudden?" Cui Zhifeng suddenly talked about this topic with the fans in the live broadcast room.

[The prize money is high, and they are all attracted by the prize money. ]

[Agree +1, anyway, I just came here to try my luck. ]

[This kind of popularity will definitely not last long. After the game, the number of players will definitely drop sharply. ]

[It's normal, but as long as some people can stay, this wave of marketing is actually successful. Isn't the next door "Ace Flying" also learning from "Battle of the Clouds" and organizing a wave of competitions to get attention? It's just that the prize money is much less than that of "Battle of the Clouds". 】

【I came from "Ace Flying". I don't know if you have noticed that when I first came to "Fighting in the Sky", I felt that it was impossible to adapt to this hardcore gameplay. But when you really study hard and successfully fly the plane, it is so cool. This feeling is not what you get from playing "Fighting in the Sky". 】

【+1, I agree with this! When I got the first drop of blood in my life yesterday, I jumped up excitedly.】

【In fact, even if there is no competition, I think "Fighting in the Sky" is much more fun than brainless games like "Fighting in the Sky". Anyway, I plan to keep playing it. 】

【……】

While playing the game, Cui Zhifeng looked at the barrage.

He has turned off the barrage broadcast.

There is no way. With more viewers, there will be more barrages, and the voice cannot report them at all.

After seeing everyone's comments, Cui Zhifeng suddenly felt that "Fighting in the Sky" really played a powerful combination this time.

First, attract people with bonuses, so that players can experience the sense of accomplishment and superiority of hardcore games after playing the game, thereby retaining users.

Although there are not many players who like to play hardcore games in this era of fast food culture, it does not mean that this group has completely disappeared. It’s just that the number is small, and then after being divided by major games, it seems particularly niche.

Now, attracted by the tens of millions of prizes, they suddenly gathered in "Battle in the Clouds".

"Brother Feng, we've been matched!"

Just when Cui Zhifeng was chatting with his fans, his teammates suddenly reminded him, and Cui Zhifeng quickly looked at the match results.

GIF team?

After seeing this name, Cui Zhifeng immediately perked up.

He had seen this team on the leaderboard!

Like his own LDW team, they have 19 wins and 0 losses so far. As long as they win one more game, they will be 100% sure to enter the second round.

It's a strong opponent!

On the other hand, after seeing LDW, the captain of the Chuncheng GIF team, Huang Yu, was immediately under pressure.

Although the official also launched novice tutorials one after another later, Brother Feng's live broadcast replay video at the beginning bought them at least three days of precious time, and he can be called their "enlightenment teacher".

"Come on, everyone. It's the last round of the first round."

"I didn't expect to meet Brother Feng so soon."

"I feel like this round is a bit suspenseful..."

"It's okay. Keep a good attitude. Even if we lose this round, we will most likely be able to enter the second round."

"Oh, I thought the competition was not fierce, but I didn't expect it to be so difficult."

Since the start of the competition, Huang Yu and his team have only played two official games a day, and the rest of the time is used for review and practice, trying to extend the game time as much as possible to give themselves time to evolve.

But after all, they are just new to this kind of game, and facing Brother Feng, a big guy who switched from "DCS World", the pressure is still very high.

As the reading bar ended, the game officially began.

Teammate of both sides immediately lined up on the runway to take off,

because they felt that their proficiency in air combat was worse than LDW, and they were worried about being defeated one by one, so Huang Yu chose the tactic of grouping up in this round.

Just want to go head-to-head, compare operation and cooperation.

The players who took off first chose to circle around the field, and after their teammates took off, they reorganized the team and directly formed a long snake formation to kill LDW.

When LDW captain Cui Zhifeng saw their formation on the radar, he immediately ordered the team members to be divided into two groups and adopt a two-plane pincer attack plan.

This is a very efficient and dangerous BVR air combat tactic in modern air combat, which is often used to carry out encirclement and suppression charge against ground-based formations.

Its specific plan is that when the two-plane formation enters the Crank pre-defense line, the leader and wingman immediately separate to the left and right and spread into a wall horizontal formation.

After the leader and wingman open up a distance of 5-10 nautical miles, they immediately start to close the distance again, and simultaneously launch medium-range active missiles to carry out cross-fire suppression.

At this time, the enemy will definitely launch missiles at them.

But they can use the Doppler radar principle and ground clutter interference, and release chaff interference or air-launched decoys to assist in softly avoiding local missiles by performing Notch down-high side defense (leader wingman double-plane collision) after entering the DR decision line.

In general, this tactic can be detached with the help of complex interference factors.

If the enemy's missile is still tracking steadily, the aircraft will immediately turn around and reorganize the formation to escape.

On the contrary, it will continue to take advantage of the opportunity when the enemy is still avoiding the high-throw active missile to carry out a second suppressive attack, forcing the opponent to lose more escape energy.

It is equivalent to repeating the cross-fire suppression and colliding with the DR decision line leader's wingman.

"Fuck, what is this operation?!"

The GIF team, which has just mastered the operation of the aircraft, has never seen such an air combat tactic.

When they saw the two formations of the LDW team launching a two-plane pincer attack from two angles, they were a little confused.

In addition to firing crazily, they couldn't think of any countermeasures for a while.

Bang——

Don't even mention the second suppressive attack, two GIF teammates were directly bombed.

The remaining three immediately lost their footing and scattered.

Fortunately, when a formation of LDW was conducting a double-plane hedging action with the wingman at the DR decision line, the tails of the two planes collided due to the poor distance control and the operation error, and the upper one was directly blown up.

Although the other plane did not explode, its maneuverability was greatly reduced after the tail was damaged.

Huang Yu immediately seized the opportunity to chase him, wanting to take his life while he was sick.

As a backup and commander, Cui Zhifeng, the captain of LDW, rescued the team member as soon as possible, but unfortunately he did not catch up in the end. The team member was bitten and taken away directly by Huang Yu.

However, this team member won a favorable position for Cui Zhifeng. After more than three minutes of struggle, Huang Yu still could not get rid of Cui Zhifeng's pursuit, and was finally shot down by him with a machine gun.

The battle situation suddenly became 3 vs. 2.

After a difficult encirclement and suppression for ten minutes, LDW finally defeated GIF with a score of 5:3, becoming the first team to enter the second round with a perfect record.

The intensity of this game completely crushed all previous games.

Everyone suddenly discovered that "Battle in the Clouds" also has tactics!

And judging from the process of this game, tactics may be more important than operation!

If the two LDW players had not collided due to operational errors, they could have completely wiped out GIF with zero losses by relying on the double-plane clamp tactics that suddenly appeared.

And operation can be improved through continuous training. Judging from LDW's performance today, if they are given some more time, they will definitely be able to execute this double-plane clamp tactics more perfectly.

"I didn't expect that I would be forced to use tactics in the first round." Cui Zhifeng said to his audience immediately after the game. "After tactical confrontation is added to this game, I probably won't be able to broadcast the rest of the game."

[Understand, understand, it’s the same when watching replays. 】

[Brother Feng is mighty! LDW is awesome! 】

[Today seems to have subverted the feeling of the duel. I didn’t expect that it would be such an intense and exciting fight in the first round. 】

[After all, they are all teams with 19 consecutive wins. 】

【Brother Feng 666! ! 】

【……】

Seeing LDW win again, Cui Zhifeng's fans naturally supported him with all their strength, and all kinds of 666s went crazy on the screen.

Cui Zhifeng was reluctant to let go when he thought that the next game would not be broadcast live...

Different from the excitement in his live broadcast room, at Huang Yu's house in Spring City, the five members of the GIF team were still a little confused at this time.

After a while, Huang Yu opened the web page and searched the Internet to find out the tactics LDW had just used.

It turns out that this tactic is called the dual-plane pincer tactic. Not only does it exist in reality, it is also a must-learn tactic for fighter pilots!

"It feels like the difficulty of this game has been upgraded again..."

"It's okay. With 19 wins, we should still have a very good chance of entering the second round." Huang Yu immediately comforted the team members, "I feel that as long as we don't encounter this LDW, it will be very easy to deal with other people."

“And don’t forget our slogan of ‘the more we fight, the braver we get, and the more we evolve’.”

"Through today's game, everyone should have discovered that their LDW operations are actually not very good, otherwise they would not have made the mistake of crashing. As long as we make up for the tactics, there will be very big problems in the future. Chance beats them.”

Huang Yu's words immediately regained the confidence of the team members.

"Well, never give up until the last moment!"

"Think about the three million grand prize... By then we will each share six hundred thousand, and we will have the down payment for the house!"

"I don't want to buy a house. I'm going to lose money buying a house. I want to buy a car!"

"Haha, buying a car is even more of a loss."

"If I buy Master Kong's Guizhen, how can I lose tens of thousands of yuan?"

"..."

After teasing each other, they quickly adjusted their mentality and began to learn the two-machine pincer tactic that LDW used today.

Not only do they need to learn this tactic, but they are also prepared to learn any realistic air combat tactics they can find on the Internet.

Even if you can't learn them all because of time constraints, you still have to at least understand them before you can implement them in the game.

Otherwise, if we encounter each other in the future, we will definitely be as confused as today...

…

Three hours after the match between LDW and GIF ended, the officials immediately released the replay video. Not only did they release the replay video, they also re-interpreted and edited the entire battle through the official third-person perspective.

It even re-rendered, greatly improving the accuracy of the image quality, so that the entire short film looks like a trailer for an air combat movie.

After this video was posted on the Internet, FiberHome Network directly spent one million to cold-start the topic, so the popularity of the video quickly began to soar and began to break through the circle.

[Fuck, this shot is so explosive]

【Burn! 】

[Is this a live game recording? What domestic game is so bad? 】

[Battle in the Sky, it seems to be quite popular during this period. They held a competition, and many professional players of the game have recently gone there to compete for the million-dollar prize. 】

[Holy shit, a multi-million dollar prize? Is it too late to play now? 】

[It’s too late. The second round is tomorrow, and this game is very hardcore. It’s too late for you now. 】

【……】