game development designer

Chapter 103 Initial Thoughts on the New Mode of "Jianghu"

The sender of the email is Beyond Studio. As for the content, it is very simple and just a thank you letter.

Thanks to the Jianghu project team for their convenience, and also introduced the development progress of their large-scale MOD.

"Let's take a look at this MOD." Chu He read the entire email, was very interested, and greeted Xu Chang and Pig who were working.

According to the link attached by the other party in the email, Chuhe logged on to their MOD official website to download. According to the above display, the number of downloads has exceeded [-].

Of course, many of them must have been downloaded repeatedly.

Because the MOD module is only partly developed, it is not very large, only about 1G.

"Completely Westernized MOD?" Pig and Xu Chang were called over, looked at the screen on Chuhe's computer, and asked with great interest.

Use the MOD installer, install the MOD, and enter the game, Xu Chang next to him said in surprise.

Unlike Jianghu just released before, the game has gone through such a long time, and many MOD makers have already produced Jianghu MOD.

And there are many MODs that add new plots, change the original NPC, and map modeling.

But most of them are just adding and deleting text on the background of the original world.

But the MOD in front of Chuhe was completely created.

The new western background, we can see that it borrows a lot of DND settings, as well as the background of the Lord of the Rings.

It's not even a change from the original, they really made a new island continent.

Of course, it is a bit of an exaggeration to say that it is an island continent. It should be said that they plan to make a brand new island continent, but so far they have only completed a small town.

"Beyond the MOD produced by the MOD production team, I originally thought that they would delete the model in Jianghu itself and completely replace the background with the western one, but now it seems that they want to do something even crazier." Chu He turned his head. Zhaopige said to Xu Chang.

This is not a very simple technical task. Even with the official MOD editor they made and more functions opened up, it can only be regarded as a cumbersome task at best.

However, a private non-profit MOD production group still surprised them by wanting to make such a huge MOD module.

"The degree of completion is not bad. Considering that it is only a preliminary version, the appearance of BUG is expected." I tried it for a while, because I am familiar with the various settings of the game, and after a little practice, Chuhe found that there are still some BUG affecting the game.

But considering that it is only a non-profit MOD made by the folk MOD group, it is already very good, and the BUG is not particularly obvious.

"Do you think you can recruit them?" Chu He touched his chin, looked at Pig and asked Xu Chang.

Since he thought about recruiting Merrick's team before, Chuhe now feels that he sees a team with better skills, and wants to tie them into the Tianhe network.

Xu Chang didn't speak, but Pig rolled his eyes: "This is unrealistic, beyond the members of the MOD production team, their skills are very strong, and even many are core employees of EA, Ubisoft, and Blizzard, and even they Compared with ordinary small game studios, they are more capable, making non-profit MOD modules is just their hobby.”

Although there is an official website and a sponsorship account, the MOD production team itself has not used the MOD they produced to make a profit, and even part of the sponsorship amount is used to hire a special voice actor to perform dubbing in the MOD module.

It can be said that Beyond MOD Studio is a representative of truly generating electricity with love.

After listening to Pig's words, Chu He spread his hands, and took another look at Jiang Hu with MOD on the desktop.

Suddenly an idea popped up in my heart.

"If players are all allowed to enter the world of rivers and lakes to play, or let players install MOD modules and play online, what do you think?" Chu He looked at Xu Chang and asked Pig.

As of now, Jianghu's global sales have reached close to [-] million, although most of the sales are in China.

And the average number of people online has reached 70, and only about 70 of these [-] people are online in the battle royale mode.

Tepid, that's the model.

With the quality of Jianghu games, this multiplayer mode did not become popular, and Chuhe had to admit that it was his own fault.

The battle royale mode is not necessarily unsuitable for the martial arts genre, but now I don't get the gist of it.

But in the multiplayer mode, Chuhe still believes that there is a lot to do.

"Technically speaking, it is not a difficult task, but the key is how to ensure fairness, because the types of MODs are uneven, and some MODs will cause serious game compatibility problems and destroy the balance of the game itself." Xu Chang looked at Chu. River said.

MOD, to put it more simply, its principle is similar to that of a cheater.

If players are really allowed to use MOD to create a multiplayer mode, it is tantamount to agreeing to allow players to hack.

How to ensure balance and fairness is a very important issue.

"Multiplayer mode cannot use MOD. This must be persisted. Although it sounds interesting, in a 50-player battle, as long as one person uses a vicious MOD, the experience of the remaining 49 players will be destroyed." Pi Ge said to Chuhe.

This is absolutely not open, even if it sounds very interesting.

Listening to Pig's words, Chuhe thought about it and knew that he was a little whimsical.

In fact, game makers have some cool ideas, and feel that if they can be made into a game or a game mode, it will definitely make players feel very good.

If everything can go according to your own ideas, then it is really great.

But a game, even a certain mode of gameplay in a game, has too many things to deal with.

The first is the problem of technology, can you make it perfect and prevent it from vicious bugs.

Secondly, there is the problem of numerical balance, and if there are players with poor quality who play passive games and cheat, how to maintain the game experience of normal players and minimize the losses they receive.

These are all things to consider when a new game model emerges, and in addition to these considerations, general game companies also need to set a profit plan, such as how much profit this model can bring, and what is expected to be achieved Such goals, these all need to be completed.

However, after Pig dismissed Chuhe's idea, Xu Chang, who was next to him, looked at the computer in front of Chuhe and proposed a more interesting game mode idea.

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