I Regressed But The World Didn’T Fall Apart 16
Real, Real Beginners (1) – [Ultimate Fighter]
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“You can set it up over here.”
In the end, he had done it.
When Lee Dohyuk saw the capsule entering his room, one thought crossed his mind.
The price of a basic capsule was in the millions of won.
But for a high-spec full-dive ga to run smoothly, and even to handle broadcasting, the price of a high-end capsule was several tis that.
And that wasn’t all.
“They said it had additional personal optimization options.”
This was an option worth millions of won, only available for high-end capsules. It included features not present in the existing Jian capsules.
Perhaps the slight unease Lee Dohyuk felt when he first executed a full-dive was due to this.
“Installation is complete.”
“Thank you.”
But it didn’t end there.
After adding several recomnded convenience features that Jian insisted would be essential for future broadcasts, the price skyrocketed once again.
In other words, the cost of one of those 2M machines ca very close to two million won.
“…”
An expenditure exceeding two million won.
Moreover, Jian had purchased it with his credit card.
Given the hefty amount, Jian had to opt for a 12-month installnt plan.
Of course, the card’s paynt was expected to be covered by Lee Dohyuk, but that didn’t an Jian wasn’t grateful for readily paying for the broadcasting capsule.
As the broadcasting revenue ca in, not only would the installnt be paid off, but ample gifts for his younger sibling would also need to be purchased.
Of course, Lee Dohyuk, who hadn’t even decided on his strear na yet, was still unsure if he could succeed in broadcasting…
“It might be worth a shot, though.”
To be honest, he wasn’t entirely without confidence in succeeding in broadcasting.
There was Jian’s unwavering belief that he would undoubtedly succeed, and the offer to collaborate from Black Oak, a fairly successful strear, also contributed to that thought.
But most of all, it was seeing the cheers pouring in during his ga play yesterday that led him to think so.
“It wasn’t that difficult.”
Sizzle-
As Lee Dohyuk entered the capsule, he had that thought.
-Whoa;;
-Damn, his physique is insane
– Is the reaction speed real?
Viewers’ chats mainly cheering on his play.
From Yi Dohyuk’s perspective, it’s hard to understand.
Just with this level, they cheer this much?
Actually, there were occasional chats like that in yesterday’s chat box too.
-Hmm… Is that so.
Well, even though such chats were quickly suppressed by other viewers, Yi Dohyuk did sympathize with them to so extent.
The play he showed in [Eat Kills Two], it wasn’t impressive at all by Yi Dohyuk’s standards.
‘It’s closer to being disappointing in many ways.’
Of course, the excitent and satisfaction felt in battles were very fulfilling.
But at the sa ti, there was an inevitable sense of disappointnt.
Unlike his hunter days fighting extraterrestrial beings, his physical abilities in [Eat Kills Two] were rely exceptional for an ordinary person.
Compared to the days when he fought with superhuman physical abilities, there was still sothing unfulfilled.
Hm-
And that’s why Yi Dohyuk ended up in the capsule now.
The current ti is 3 p.m.
There were 5 hours left until the scheduled broadcast with Jian at 8 p.m.
“Is this how it’s done?”
If compared to an old PC, it’s like a white space similar to a desktop.
Yi Dohyuk, who was examining a few basic icons, reached out to the icon labeled “Full Dive.”
Like he saw Jian do it, he touched the icon twice and executed it.
Hm-
Upon the brief loading, Yi Dohyuk was greeted with a sense of reality.
“Oh.”
Yi Dohyuk let out a small gasp.
Certainly, it felt rewarding to spend money.
The discomfort he felt when using Jian’s sub-capsule yesterday was no longer present.
The effect of personal optimization.
“Start STAM.”
After finishing the body check, Yi Dohyuk imdiately started STAM.
Beep, beep, beep.
It’s not that he hadn’t experienced virtual reality, nor that he hadn’t used such a ga platform.
Yi Dohyuk opened the [Explore] window, applying various filters to find a ga to play.
This ti, in ga mode rather than reality mode.
Even though it was a ga mode, unlike [Eat Kills Two] where the character’s physical specs remained within ordinary levels, he was thinking of trying a ga where he could utilize specs close to superhuman.
Perhaps in a different ga, he could fulfill what he couldn’t with [Eat Kills Two].
“Wow.”
Thus, nurous gas appeared before him.
The first thing that caught his eye was the star ratings and… prices displayed beside them.
Ido Hyuk paused for a mont.
The money needed to purchase the ga wasn’t much, he thought he had it charged up, but it turned out the amount he had in mind was nowhere near enough.
Is it true that virtual reality gas are just that, virtual reality gas?
Among the gas that caught his eye, there wasn’t a single one priced under $200.
Click-
In the end, Ido Hyuk had no choice but to use the price filter to find a ga within his initial budget.
Starting from quirky gas that seed to be for kids, to gas with noticeably outdated graphics that seed to be from a long ti ago, to models that sohow looked lacking.
By the ti he realized there was a reason behind the low prices.
“Huh?”
There was one ga that caught his eye.
[Ultimate Fighter FD]
“This… seems like that ga I know?”
More precisely, it was the full-dive version of the arcade fighting ga Ido Hyuk played in his childhood.
He distinctly rembered the character with a whirlwind coming out of his hands, the one with a sword releasing a slash, and even characters casting spells.
Probably, it would remain unchanged even in the full-dive version.
Upon examining the detailed page, it precisely t his desired criteria.
Watching the gaplay video confird it was a superhuman fighting ga.
Moreover, the price was half of his budget, with a rating of 4.8, which was quite impressive.
Click-
[Purchase]
He went ahead and completed the purchase.
Then, he imdiately launched the ga.
“For a nickna… should I just go with anything?”
[HmGujungDungga]
Ido Hyuk simply used a few chat ssages he saw yesterday as his nickna, without any particular aning.
“I’ll skip the tutorial.”
Although there was a prompt for a tutorial to adapt to the ga, Ido Hyuk turned off the notification.
Among gars, there are those who ticulously read through tutorials, those who grasp only the essential information and move on, and those who find it botherso and skip everything, learning through direct experience.
Ido Hyuk belonged to the latter group.
Apart from the tutorial, if we were to explain it in terms of the legendary League PC version he enjoyed in his childhood, he was the type to raise the proficiency of a new champion in regular gas first before applying it to ranked gas, rather than practicing in ranked gas.
Having been talented not only in sports but also in gas requiring quick reflexes and visual acuity, Ido Hyuk had developed such a habit since childhood.
“Wow!”
Anyway.
Ido Hyuk stepped into the waiting room and started moving his body.
Spontaneously, an exclamation escaped his lips.
A different sensation from just a while ago.
Swoosh-
Swish. Thwack!
Ido Hyuk ran around, throwing punches and kicks to check his senses.
“Definitely fast.”
This should be insufficient to be called a ‘superhuman’ by Yido-hyuk’s standards, but shouldn’t we consider it as exceeding the limits of a human?
Feels like an overall increase in physical abilities by about double.
Perhaps this is the maximum limit that ordinary people can adapt to.
If it gets any faster from here, it would be impossible to keep up with that speed using ordinary cognitive abilities.
“Alright.”
Having moved this much should be considered practical.
This isn’t even a real battle.
Since it’s just a ga after all, Yido-hyuk’s mindset was to enjoy it lightly.
Swoosh. Swoosh.
He was about to jump straight into a ranked ga.
An alert popped up saying that he couldn’t access the ranked ga due to insufficient level.
Yido-hyuk reluctantly scrolled through the list of public rooms.
“This seems fine.”
He clicked on a room that caught his eye.
[1:1 Showdown, Only for True Beginners]
**
After the ergence of Full Dive, the ga industry had expanded several tis compared to the past.
Just by looking at the skyrocketing popularity of videos on YouTube, most of the videos in the gaming category dominated the scene.
The e-sports industry was also rapidly expanding its share, taking over the pie that traditional sports had held at an incredible pace, broadening its base.
The live streaming sector was also benefiting from this trend.
Even dostically, there were strears with an average viewership of over 10,000, a far cry from the early days when there were only a few major companies in the field.
It was truly the era of internet superstars.
“Yes! Mission accomplished!”
However, even in such an era, one could classify Kumdun Girl as a fairly successful strear.
Strear na: Kumdun Girl.
A first-year broadcaster with a solid fandom of around 2,000 average viewers.
“Let’s eat well!”
-Burp-
-5,000 missions cleared-
-Easy peasy, hahahaha
-Did quite well
-Today’s missions are really rewarding
The reason she was able to gather that many viewers within a year of starting her broadcast was all thanks to her past experience.
Once a renowned ga that had even world championships, Ultimate Fighter FD, Alpa.
Kumdun Girl was a forr pro of Alpa, who used the nickna Sword Maiden during her pro days.
In a Full Dive pro scene where n dominated, she was a skilled player in the fighting ga genre to the point of being active as a pro.
Although she was more famous for her looks than her skills, it wasn’t that her skills were lacking.
In fact, she was an extrely skilled player not only in Ultimate Fighter but also in the current popular one-on-one fighting ga, Iron Fist.
But as Alpa’s popularity waned and consequently the popularity of the pro scene started to decline, she retired from the Alpa pro scene.
After declaring retirent, she didn’t jump into another pro scene of a fighting ga but instead ventured into internet broadcasting.
There was no special reason.
She had simply shifted her focus from the intense world of professional gaming, where only victory mattered, to online broadcasting after retirent.
And she found success in the realm of online broadcasting as well.
Given her decent career in the professional scene, not at the top level but respectable, her beauty that made her more famous than her skills, and the fact that she was a “girl gar who’s really good at competitive gas,” it was only natural.
The main content of this dark girl was the Ultimate Fighter, which was like her roots, and Iron Fist, a trendy competitive ga these days.
Today was a day to play Alpha, one of them.
But there’s a reason so gas are dood from the start.
“Huh? What’s this? 1800 points?”
– A dood ga, lol
– How do you even lose points down to -900?
– All the users must have quit, lol
– Feels like the queue is taking forever
In a ranked ga, opponents with similar scores should be matched.
However, sotis, when the queue takes too long, you end up getting matched with soone whose score difference is huge.
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It’s what happens when high-ranked users like the dark girl have already found each other.
Still, she couldn’t just leave the ga she got matched into.
[Victory!]
3 minutes later.
“Wow, a 3-minute match. This was so boring, it ended too quickly, right?”
– Yeah
– But the moves were pretty good
– I was dominating in the beginning, lol
– Doesn’t work against Gomhee though
– Seriously, how good is Pro Jamba
With such a huge gap in scores, the ga ultimately ended in disappointnt.
Even the viewers found it boring.
“Huh? 9 minutes waiting ti for the next match? Oh, that’s too long.”
Even the estimated waiting ti for the next ga was 9 minutes.
At this rate, the broadcast’s energy was going downhill.
That’s when it happened.
[“SpiderGirl” has donated 1,000 won.]
“Should I do a viewer mission then? The queue is taking forever.”
[“SpiderGirl” has requested a 100,000 won mission.]
– 5 wins in a row for a viewer mission
Ti left: 11:59
– Oh
– Let’s go for it
– Let’s pick a YouTube character
– Mission Directive
Even setting up missions.
Cheolji was a grateful fan who considered the entertainnt value of the broadcast.
Moreover, the battlefield in Ultimate Fighter, where most light users have left and only hardcore, or rather rotten users remain, is like a kind of dungeon.
Rather than struggling to play against opponents of similar skill in a rank ga where matchmaking is not working well, it is a place where all kinds of experts gather in the battlefield to feel excitent by mocking the underlings.
However, because everyone had such thoughts, that place, the battlefield of Ultimate Fighter, beca a feast of rotten users deceiving (and no one being deceived).
“Phew. 5 consecutive wins? It could be tough to get 5 consecutive wins in the battlefield.”
– Overreacting.
– hahahaha, you got beaten by a high-level player last ti.
– He was a beta tester.
– Yeah, later it was uploaded to YouTube.
– Even Geomi couldn’t beat the beta tester.
“Ah, was it because I wasn’t using my main character back then? The beta tester brought his main character. It won’t work. I’ll show them properly this ti.”
Such a dungeon of evil spirits.
The Ultimate battlefield.
[1:1 Duel, Only for True Beginners in Ultimate Fighter]
In that place, the epito of evil, Dark Maiden, threw down the gauntlet.
The map was the legendary 1:1 Duel.
Making all the dark spirits flustered, while at the sa ti luring them in with the magical words ‘True Beginners’ in the title.
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