Chapter 871 It Doesn't Matter if You Lose a Little (Ask for a Monthly Ticket!)

In addition, He An also noticed that the size of the buildings and arms units in "Mission and Choice" is very different. The size of a ground base is several times that of a space starship, and a space starship is dozens of times that of an ordinary spaceship. Ordinary spaceships are dozens of times larger than the smallest individual combat unit "Skylark".

Therefore, the entire map of "Mission and Choice" will appear very large. When the viewing angle is at the highest and lowest, the scale changes very drastically. At the lowest point, you can see the details of the armor of the skylark warrior, and at the highest point, you can see a large ground. An overview of the base.

After zooming into the high-altitude camera, those skylark fighters walking on the ground are like ants.

Different units are distributed at different height levels. The space starship is at the highest level, the ordinary spaceship is below, and the skylark squad that parachuted from the spaceship to the ground is below.

Therefore, players must often adjust their viewing angles in order to better observe the overall picture of the battlefield.

The resulting problems are also obvious: the configuration of the machine is required to be high and the operation is inconvenient.

In classic RTS games like "Fantasy Battle" and "Star Sea 2", the proportions of various units are distorted. The size of many arms differs by dozens of times in the settings, but in the game they are at most less than double the size.

Because RTS games require a lot of operations and a high level of balance.

If it is done according to the real size, what are the moving speeds of a large mothership and a reconnaissance plane? Will they overwrite each other causing players to ignore them? Are small units thankless to operate? Will small units attack large units deal very limited damage? Isn't it very unscientific for a group of soldiers to blow up the main base with machine guns?

After all, RTS games are just games, not war simulators. These problems are thankless and almost impossible to solve. Therefore, traditional RTS games have greatly sacrificed authenticity for the sake of balance and operability.

"Mission and Choice" does the opposite, ensuring the authenticity to the greatest extent, but this also means that the balance and operability of the game are completely gone.

In traditional RTS games, 30 soldiers can easily blow up a tank, but in "Mission and Choice", no matter how many machine gunners encounter large ground heavy equipment, they can only be beaten.

In He An's view, this undoubtedly greatly increased the probability of game failure.

However, the operation difficulty of this game is really low.

He An is old, and his reaction speed and hand speed are far from those of young people, but it is not too difficult for him to complete the operations in the game.

Because the units in the game basically act in formation, for example, the most basic combat unit "Skylark Squad" is composed of 5 Skylark fighters, and the higher level is a battleship, and the next level is a small The battleship formation, the next level is the battlegroup to which the mothership belongs...

Players can give orders to formations at any level, and the selection of enemies is also based on formations by default.

For example, giving orders to the battle group of the entire starship to attack the enemy's main force is actually an operation similar to "F2A".

But the difference is that all the units in "Mission and Choice" have a certain amount of intelligence. They will not rush up stupidly, but will maintain a specific formation and will not fight too ugly.

Of course, players can also order a certain formation or a certain battleship alone to perform other tasks.

But this kind of high-degree-of-freedom operation is actually not commonly used. Most of the time, it is enough to issue commands to the battle formation level. Even if you operate these spaceships or soldiers one by one, the final effect may not be better than direct A. .

Therefore, even for an elderly person like He An, it is easy to operate and does not feel any difficulty in operation.

But this does not mean that the combat experience of the game will be very good, because all the units in it will run around!

Some spaceships will run away from the battlefield even suddenly, even if the player goes to give it instructions alone and repeatedly operate it, it will not be able to pull back, highlighting a willfulness.

Some spaceships even crashed into cliffs or crashed inexplicably while flying and flying in extreme panic, which left He An dumbfounded.

Because there is no plot, this DEMO will start playing as soon as it comes up.

The most important thing He An has to do is to give instructions to the formation to attack the Zerg, and to constantly process and respond to the alarm information sent by AEEIS.

There are a lot of alarm messages, but it is not a big problem to ignore them. If you ignore them after a while, AEEIS will handle them by itself.

After about twenty minutes, the battle was over.

Although it was difficult for the first time to get started, many things were learned and played now, and the score at the final settlement was not high, but He An still got through the DEMO smoothly.

Pei Qian asked expectantly: "Mr. He, what do you think?"

He An was silent for a moment, but decided to tell the truth.

"The graphics of the game must be fine, well-made, and the scenes during the war are also very gorgeous, giving people a feeling that the battle is very intense."

"but……"

"These little soldiers are often out of control, which is too uncomfortable! Many situations that can be won, but because the little soldiers have their own ideas, the entire army is wiped out. This is so annoying!"

"This is an RTS game, and it's hard for me to accept this kind of gaming experience."

Hu Xianbin hurriedly said: "Oh, Mr. He, Xiaobing's AI is still under development, so it is relatively simple and mindless. When the AI ​​is ready, Xiaobing's choices will be more diverse and smarter, and the experience should be better. .”

He An was silent for a moment: "In other words, there will be more ways of not listening to me?"

Hu Xianbin: "Uh...you can understand it this way."

He An: "..."

He was silent for a moment, then looked at Pei Qian: "Boss Pei, don't blame me for being blunt. I'm mainly worried about wasting money. After all, 500 million is not a small sum. Even if it's a luxury, it's better than buying a luxury car or a mansion." Float is much better."

"Although the game's AI may affect some game experience, I think that with the current AI technology, even if the game's AI is finished, the combat experience of the game will not be greatly improved."

"The current DEMO, I can only say that it is a silver-like pewter gun head, which is not useful. There is absolutely no problem with the graphics, but the gameplay does not attract me at all."

"And a good picture means that the computer configuration requirements are high, which will further reduce the game population. This is very unfavorable for a game with such a huge investment."

"How much is left of the 500 million? It's still too late to stop the loss, change the gameplay, reuse the current art resources, and make a new game, so that the 500 million will not be lost."

Pei Qian couldn't help but beam with joy.

Lost everything?

That would be great!

When the game project was first established, Pei Qian had already explained the basic design ideas of the game to He An, and got the answer of "definitely a loss", but after all, the game was not made, and Pei Qian was still not at ease.

Now that He An has played the game's demo, he still thinks that the game will definitely lose money, and he will lose all his money. This is undoubtedly a boost for Pei Qian!

But Hu Xianbin who was on the side was not happy.

He frowned slightly, disapproving of He An's death sentence in "Mission and Choice".

Because this is just a DEMO, the plot has not been added yet, and the content is also missing. Is it too early to say that it will fail now?

Most importantly, this is Mr. Pei's idea!

Mr. Pei's idea, can it be wrong?

Therefore, Hu Xianbin subconsciously wanted to say a few words to refute.

Although He An is an old-timer, different designers have different views on the game, disagreements happen from time to time, and even quarrel when it is intense.

As a designer, it is normal to speak out your own ideas confidently and improve your game understanding and design level in the process of debating with other designers.

But Pei Qian, who was on the side, saw Hu Xianbin's dissatisfaction, and immediately patted him on the shoulder without a trace, making him hold back the words on his lips.

Pei Qian doesn't want Hu Xianbin and He An to have a battle here, it's meaningless.

He An just said that this game is absolutely a blood loss, Pei Qian is too happy to be happy.

He smiled and said: "Mr. He, you are so right! I completely agree!"

"Okay, the game is over, let's go back to Moyu Internet Cafe and have a cup of coffee, please."

Seeing Pei Zong's attitude, Hu Xianbin's frown relaxed, and his mood was instantly relieved.

I'm on top, Mr. Pei has a confident and tolerant attitude!

As a relatively young designer, it is indeed easy to argue with others. After all, to become a designer, one must have strong self-confidence and defend one's point of view.

When two designers both think they are right, arguments inevitably arise.

But Mr. Pei has obviously reached another level. He doesn't argue with others not because he is not confident in himself, but because he is too confident in himself, so he just laughs it off and doesn't bother to have this kind of quarrel.

After all, He An is an old senior. It is normal for him not to keep up with the latest game design trends and not to see the shining points of "Mission and Choice". That's right.

So Hu Xianbin also smiled and said: "Okay President Pei, I will continue to work."

Pei Qian led He An away from Tenda Games with a smile, and was going to go back to Moyu Internet Cafe again.

He An followed Pei Qian for two steps, but the more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong.

"Mr. Pei, you say you completely agree with me, but you actually have no intention of changing it."

"Even if it's to fool the old man, it's too perfunctory, right?"

"Do you think that I am old and I can't keep up with the understanding of the game, even if I explain it, I may not understand it, so I don't explain it at all, just follow my words?"

Pei Qian immediately denied this statement very sincerely: "How is it possible!"

"Mr. He, what I said is absolutely sincere. I really agree with you completely."

"However... this game has already reached this level, and it is not appropriate to change it again, so let's just finish it."

"If you lose a little, you lose a little, it doesn't matter."

He An was shocked, but judging by Mr. Pei's expression, he really couldn't tell whether he was joking or not.

Lose a little? It does not matter?

That's 500 million!

He An was silent for a moment: "Oh, I can tell, Mr. Pei, you have a plan in mind. You agree with the question I raised, but you don't change it, which means you have a better solution."

"Okay, then I'll wait and see!"

Pei Qian: "?"

Looking at the determined eyes of the old man, Pei Qian felt powerless.

There is really no way to explain it!

That being the case, there is no need to explain it. When "Mission and Choice" is released, I will lose all my money. I will treat He An to a meal and thank him.