In the Internet age, who still makes traditional games?

Although the [Ocean Survival Competition] is an extension of the Easter egg in "Monster Hunter", the content of the competition is the responsibility of the [Black Flag] project team.

Lu Ming, as the project leader, personally presided over the opening ceremony of the competition.

He will also participate in the commentary on the first day.

This is also one of the trends brought about by Xu Meng—the project leader should personally participate in activities and communicate and interact more with players.

If players have familiarity and affinity with you, they will be more tolerant of your game.

In the event of any problems, players will be more patient and believe that you can solve the problem, instead of directly opening champagne to celebrate its demise.

If the game doesn't have any problems, this goodwill can also help you sell the game better.

The [Black Flag] project team he led spent most of their time on serious content such as [Caribbean Scenery], [Maritime Climate], [Port Royal], [Nassau], [Pirate Ships], [Naval Battles], and [Island Decryption].

They originally didn't want to do the [Raft Survival] gameplay.

—"We worked so hard to make so many pirate ship assets, and instead of using them, we let players play on rafts??"

But Xu Meng said: This gameplay can be used for large-scale promotion.

Lu Ming knew very well how important promotion was.

They quickly changed their thinking and split two more teams from their tight manpower to create this gameplay according to Xu Meng's requirements.

Therefore, most people in the development team are actually not very clear about the details of this gameplay.

Lu Ming was the same.

So he was a little uneasy.

Especially since the number of registered players reached more than 48 million, and the starting method was no longer randomly teleporting to the competition sea area, but everyone standing on rafts outside the competition sea area, waiting for him to announce the start of the competition before paddling into the competition sea area.

—Of course, before Xu Meng got the Photonic Topology Server Array, there were actually only 10,000 players in the same mirror server.

This was still because the starting point was only the endless ocean, which put less pressure on the server.

But 10,000 people and 10,000 rafts lined up together, which was visually boundless and extremely spectacular for the players in it!

Lu Ming, as the person who announced the start of the competition, had to turn the [Flying Dutchman] pirate ship into a real "airship" in order to bring all the participating players into view.

Thanks to Zhumeng's superb mirroring skills, the pirate ship flying into the sky appeared in all mirrors at the same time.

Lu Ming imitated Xu Meng's "airship speech" in the overgrown metropolis and stood on the edge of the deck, facing all the players and said:

"Welcome everyone to the [Ocean Survival Competition]!"

"Your task is very simple—salvage materials, upgrade rafts, obtain supplies, fight against crises, overcome all difficulties, and survive to the end!"

"The total number of current participating players has exceeded 48 million!"

"But the final winners will only be 100!"

"These 100 players will be able to participate in the offline trial event of Zhumeng's new equipment."

"At the same time, the [Black Flag] project team will also prepare a special gift for you!"

"Now, get ready, the competition will start soon!"

"Countdown—"

"10!"

The moment Lu Ming counted down, the Flying Dutchman's 54 cannons fired at the same time.

In the violent explosion, white smoke drew a huge number [10] in the air.

All players in all mirrors could see this number as long as they looked up.

"9!"

The pirate ship in the air fired again.

The number formed by the white smoke quickly deformed, changing from [10] to [9].

"8!"

Cannons fired.

The players on the rafts looked around at their opponents, and their hearts began to stir.

"7!"

Countless viewers in the live broadcast rooms on all platforms also started counting down together using bullet screens.

"6!"

Qi Huahua stood on the raft, looking for players wearing blue T-shirts like her.

She once pulled together a team and became the last survivor of the [Chaotic Era Global Survival Competition] by relying on the "turtle" strategy, and won the title of [Survival Master].

Now that Zhumeng has started another survival competition, she did not hesitate to continue her previous thinking and pulled together a team again, hoping to replicate the previous success.

The 250,000 yuan bonus she received earlier was all distributed to the team members without taking a penny for herself—except for the "manure thief" [Big Red Persimmon] who destroyed the unity.

Big Red Persimmon not only didn't get any money, but was also kicked out of the group.

With the precedent of sharing the money, Qi Huahua's character was guaranteed, and she easily pulled the team back together.

It's just that it may not be easy to find teammates on the sea this time, so they agreed on many collection codes.

The blue T-shirt is one of them.

"5!"

"Brothers, don't rush later! And don't squeeze!"

"Don't capsize at the beginning!"

Heroic Sniper tried his best to shout to the surrounding players, fearing that his small raft would be knocked apart.

"4!"

"Brothers, help me! Let's cooperate to rush into the competition area first!"

"I won't let everyone work for nothing. As long as you enter the competition area, brothers, report your card numbers and I'll give each of you 300 yuan! Cash on the spot!"

Huan Yue also realized the danger of the start and tried to recharge money on the spot.

"3!"

Zhan Xiangwen, a member of the "War of Kings" project team, mixed in with the players and was infected by the enthusiasm of the surrounding players, and counted down loudly with everyone.

The [Dream Maker] has been deployed to the company by Xu Meng. These days, everyone in the company is in no mood to work and is madly addicted to the Dream Maker.

Xu Meng was not only not angry, but also very encouraged everyone to try it out.

So many employees who are not busy with work are participating in this competition at this time.

—Of course, they, like honorary players, will not occupy the 100 offline event spots.

"2!"

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All players in the mirror tightly gripped their oars and counted down in unison.

"1!"

The red transparent fence in front of the raft army disappeared.

A light blue band of light rose at the edge of the competition sea area.

White smoke turned into colorful smoke, writing the four characters [Competition Begins] in the sky.

Lu Ming also sent blessings to the players:

"The competition begins!"

"Sail away, friends!"

"The Ocean Goddess will be with you!"

—

The players who had been waiting for a long time started instantly, frantically waving their oars and rushing towards the light blue band of light.

But rafts are not the same as cars.

In the game, driving a car only requires determining the direction, and then stepping on the accelerator or brake as needed.

Even if you don't drive well, at least there is no problem driving.

But rafts and boats, these water transportation tools, are different. There is no button that can accurately control the direction of travel.

While paddling, the raft not only moves forward, but also shifts to the other side.

In reality, a person who doesn't know how to row a boat will easily spin in place in the water when they suddenly get an oar, and collide with others.

The development team has simplified some of the difficulty in the game, but the physical characteristics are still retained.

As a result, unsurprisingly: a group of pure novice rafts hadn't moved far before they crashed into each other with a bang, squeezing into a ball.

Exclamations rose and fell:

"Make way! Make way!"

"Watch the road! You're going to rear-end!"

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way! I'm going to attack you if you get any closer!"

"Stop crashing! My durability has already dropped by one-third! If you crash again, the ship will sink!"

"Haha, I knew I didn't buy the haptic gloves for nothing. Oars can also be used as weapons."

"Sorry! I didn't mean to hit you. The raft doesn't listen to me!"

"Someone fell into the water! Save them!"

"Save gu lu gu lu gu lu…"

…

Near the blue band of light, a large area of rafts collided together, quickly causing serious maritime traffic jams.

The unlucky ones who accidentally fell into the water had their heads just emerging from the water. As soon as they shouted "Save", they were hit in the face by the rafts behind them and pressed back into the water.

Want to push away the other party's raft and regain freedom?

Too difficult!

While this large pile of boats was squeezed together, new rafts continued to crash in from behind, pushing this pile of rafts to keep moving and colliding.

The durability of the rafts decreased steadily. Some of the worst people had their rafts' durability reduced to zero before they even entered the competition area, and they broke in the crisp sound of "crack, crack".

The lucky ones could still jump onto other people's rafts.

The unlucky ones fell directly into the water and sacrificed to the Ocean Goddess.

After a while, as more and more rafts squeezed together, new problems appeared—

After the rafts behind crashed into the pile of rafts in front, they no longer just crashed once, but directly rushed onto the rafts!

I have to say, this is a little "ingenuity" of the [Black Flag] project team—

They predicted that many players would not know how to row a boat.

In order to reduce the difficulty of rowing, they modified the collision volume algorithm of the rafts, making the collision box 5% smaller than visually when a collision occurred.

Under this algorithm, the area about a palm's width at the edge of the raft is real to the touch, and it is no problem to step on it.

But if they collide with each other, this part of the area will be blurred.

There is only a visual effect, and no real collision will occur.

Only after leaving the "model overlap" area will it be re-solidified.

In their expectation, this could significantly reduce the probability of rafts colliding.

But this "ingenuity" has now caused serious consequences—

After the rafts behind crashed in, because of the effect of the collision box shrinking, a "clipping" phenomenon occurred instead of an immediate collision.

Then, when the collision occurred, the edge of the raft was forced to solidify, so the raft behind was lifted up.

Under the action of inertia, the raft behind rushed onto the raft in front!

The rafts further behind continued to repeat this process, stacking layer by layer.

Even if it occasionally collapsed due to changes in the center of gravity, this large area of rafts was still being stacked bigger and bigger, higher and higher under the continuous push of the successors behind!

It was almost piled into a temporary "island"!