When I write a bug it becomes the core gameplay

"These are not bugs, but part of the game content? Are they directly related to the game plot?"

Black Dragon almost thought that Wang Dawei was talking nonsense. The bugs in the game were obviously problems with the development process. How could it be related to the game plot? The dimensional wall no longer exists, right?

However, Wang Dawei thought seriously and became more and more convinced of his speculation.

"Brother Long, have you understood what the plot of this game is about so far?"

This time, the black dragon was stopped.

He hesitated for a while, and finally said: "I don't understand."

Wang Dawei explained: "The game "Ascension" does exist in two worlds at the same time, a fairy world and a mechanical world. The protagonist Li Huanzhen exists in these two worlds at the same time. In single-player mode, this The two worlds will switch randomly, and in the two-player mode, players play one of Li Huanzhen's personalities and see one of the worlds respectively.

"Then the question is, Brother Long, which world do you think is real?"

Black Dragon was confused again: "Ah? Why do you ask?"

Wang Dawei explained: “Because for players, they must be sure that a certain world is real, so that the plot of the game can progress!

"Li Huanzhen is a typical schizophrenic patient. He will have visual hallucinations, auditory hallucinations, and even hallucinations of another world. So according to common sense, one must be a real world, and the other world is just Exists in Li Huanzhen's imagination.

“If the player believes that the world of Xianxia is a real world, then he or she must make a choice based on the plot of the world of Xianxia; conversely, if the player believes that the mechanical world is a real world, then they must make a choice based on the plot of the mechanical world.

"If you think that both worlds are real, you will only fall into complete madness. After all, when you are saving people in one world, you are killing people in the other world; you become the savior in one world, and you are the savior in the other world. The world has become a world-destroying demon.

"This kind of cognitive confusion is definitely enough to drive a normal person completely crazy.

"So, not long after I entered the game, I have been thinking, which world is the real world?"

Black Dragon nodded: "Well... Do you have the answer now, Brother David?"

Wang Dawei shook his head slightly: "No!"

"Pfft!" Black Dragon almost spit out, "Brother David, what have you been saying for a long time..."

Wang Dawei explained: “Although there is no definite answer yet, through interpretation of the plot, we can understand why there are so many bugs in the game.

“A lot of hints have been given in the plot of Jingon Temple before.

"The old monk asked us, should we choose reality or illusion? Or is reality also illusion? This means that both worlds are probably real. The reason why the protagonist travels between these two worlds is because of his specialness. identity.

"In the world of Xianxia, ​​he is the lifeblood connecting two worlds, so he can often see another world, but this is beyond the limit that ordinary people can bear, so there will be schizophrenia, dual personality, visual and auditory hallucinations, etc. question.

"In the mechanical world, he is part of the debug program. It is a collection of a large number of error codes and illegal programs. It can also be said to be some kind of more advanced "cyber psychosis". So as the error codes gathered in him become more and more If there are too many, AI will become increasingly chaotic.

“In this way, all the bugs that have appeared in the previous games will have reasonable explanations!

"If you look at it from the perspective of the Xianxia world, these bugs such as texture confusion and model slippage are actually all illusions that occurred when Li Huanzhen, who is destined to be a man, is on the verge of mental collapse; but from the perspective of the mechanical world, these are It's a BUG that appears in the world.

"Including that as the game progresses, players begin to see hallucinations of another world more and more frequently, have auditory hallucinations, and encounter more and more bugs. This means that with the power of Li Huanzhen, As the situation continues to increase, the price he bears is also increasing, and he is even gradually approaching the edge of collapse!

“Isn’t this perfectly consistent with the plot?

"These are not bugs at all, but a manifestation of the game's plot!"

Black Dragon nodded as if he understood: "So that's it, Brother David? However, such outrageous bugs as swimming in the air and the relic sword bug, can they also be linked to the plot?"

Wang Dawei nodded: "Of course!

"If you think about it carefully, what did the old monk say when he introduced the features of Mingdi or the debug program?"

Black Dragon: "...What did you say?"

Wang Dawei was a little speechless. It seemed that Black Dragon really didn't remember the plot at all.

At that time, he specifically asked Heilong to repeat what he saw the old monk said, but in the blink of an eye, Heilong forgot all about it.

Wang Dawei could only explain patiently: "Whether it is the life system or the debug program, they all have a very powerful ability, which is called 'refining falsehood into reality'!

“To put it more simply, it’s called ‘all your wishes come true’.

"In the world of Xianxia, ​​anything that Mingdi is convinced of has a high chance of becoming a reality; and in the mechanical world, the debug program is also directly connected to the program backdoor of the AI ​​in this world, and can directly invade the intelligent programs of other machines, allowing These machines were short-circuited and scrapped, and even caused the AI ​​to become completely confused and kill each other.

"It can be said that this actually surpasses the power of the Creator!"

Black Dragon was even more confused: "Huh? Am I so strong? But if our wishes can come true, why would we be tortured to death by a random BOSS...

"If we hadn't been beaten repeatedly by the crane-riding immortal, we wouldn't have returned to Jiangdu City to continue clearing out the mobs."

Wang Dawei shook his head: "I said, this 'refining falsehood into reality' is conditional, that is, you must 'believe'! Oh, to be precise, it is not the players who must believe, but Li Huanzhen himself who must believe.

"Does Li Huan really believe that he can kill the Crane Master instantly? He doesn't believe it!

"Because in Li Huanzhen's view, the Master Riding the Crane and the previous BOSSs are all extremely powerful, and he may not be able to defeat them even if he tries his best. Therefore, his ability to turn the fake into the real cannot play a direct role in the BOSS.

"But empty swimming is different."

Wang Dawei continued: "Brother Long, think about how the empty swimming happened?

"It was Li Huanzhen who accidentally fell into the moat and kept swimming. At the same time, he accidentally swam out of the boundary of the map.

"In the game, it is the boundary of the map, so what is it in the game world? It is the boundary of the world!

"Or it can be said to be the junction of two worlds, or the projection of one world in the other!

"When Li Huanzhen thinks he is swimming in one of the worlds, he can freely travel through any space in the other world just like swimming."

Black Dragon felt that there seemed to be some problems here: "Wait a minute, but all the buildings and collisions in the two worlds are the same, and the areas where the rivers exist should also be the same."

Wang Dawei nodded: "It's the same. In fact, Li Huanzhen had already left the water and reached the ground and the air. However, because he mistakenly thought that he was still swimming, he continued to swim, even overlooking the place from a God's perspective. Two worlds.

"Until Li Huanzhen steps on the ground again, or enters the water, so that he no longer believes in it, this state of 'swimming in vain' will be lifted."

This sentence is a bit brain-burning, and it short-circuits the Black Dragon CPU.

"In other words, the area where Li Huanzhen travels in a vacuum is actually the boundary or projection area created by the overlap of two worlds? And the reason why Li Huanzhen can travel freely in this area is because of the characteristics of his life base. He firmly believes that he can swim, so the false practice becomes true?"

Wang Dawei nodded: "Yes! Brother Long, you have good understanding. You understood it so quickly. That's what I meant!"

"So the action of 'swimming in the air' is completely explainable from the plot!"

Heilong nodded silently: "Well... it does sound reasonable. But to say that this was something the production team had thought of in advance, I still find it a bit unbelievable."

Wang Dawei said matter-of-factly: "Of course the production team had thought of it in advance! The reason is simple. The map model boundaries I saw while air swimming were very complete!"

Black Dragon didn't quite understand: "What does this mean?"

Wang Dawei explained: “For game makers, in order to reduce resource usage as much as possible, they basically save everything they can in areas that players cannot see.

"For example, I need to place a castle in the distant view of a certain scene. Do I really make a castle and put it there? Of course it's impossible. On the one hand, it would be too laborious to do, and on the other hand, it would take up a lot of space. Player space and resources.

“So, even if players will go to this castle in the later game process and the corresponding resources have been prepared, the game makers will generally not put the castle model directly here, but will put a texture.

"So in other games, if a player accidentally gets stuck outside the map boundary, when he looks at the original scene model, he will probably see some fragmented paper textures."

Black Dragon nodded: "Well... that seems to be the case!"

Wang Dawei continued: "But "Ascension" is obviously different!