Chapter 630: Chapter 360 Why Provoke Them (Second Update)_2 Chapter 630: Chapter 360 Why Provoke Them (Second Update)_2 Xien Waidao had already started the second difficulty level.
Forgetting sleep and als, Xien Waidao completed the second difficulty and beca thoroughly addicted.
He continued to conquer one difficulty after another, steadily advancing to higher levels, unlocking more content, and increasing the options available for him to play.
Finally, after unlocking the last difficulty, he heard Mukuai 1234’s voice at his ear, “You have proven your strength, and now you can enter a new challenge mode. In this mode, not only will you face neutral monsters, but you’ll also have more powerful opponents. Don’t worry, though, you’ll have AI to help you—together, you’ll achieve immortality.”
“Wait a sec! Afraid of re AI? No way!” Xien Waidao bragged, “Bring on as many as you’ve got, and set them all to enemy mode. My Immortal Road needs no friends.”
“Then I’ll just set you up with so kindergarten-level AI first.”
“Looking down on soone?” Xien Waidao imdiately said, “How hard can a strategy ga’s AI be, anyway? I’ll wipe them out in minutes. Max out the number of players, crank the difficulty to the highest, and switch to a full alliance mode for . I’m going to single-handedly thrash the whole world.”
Watching the cocky Xien Waidao, Mukuai 1234 decided to respect his fate and just secretly enjoy the show.
So, she did as Xien Waidao requested, selecting all the difficulty options for him. Then she let him play while she snacked on virtue and rit on the side.
Although she still didn’t understand what was fun about this ga, Mukuai 1234 quite liked it.
For one thing, the speed at which she accumulated rit was unusually fast, making her feel this was a truly great place to be.
Since the volu of souls involved was considerable, Xien Waidao only had to do a bit of work for her to gain a substantial amount of rit, liberating her financially in the realm of virtue.
But before she finished a small pack of rit, she saw Xien Waidao erge disheveled and covered in dust.
Teasingly looking at him, Mukuai 1234 chewed on rit and asked, “How is it going, my great commander?”
“Just a mistake. Watch my performance from now on.”
Without showing any embarrassnt, Xien Waidao restarted another ga session and re-entered the world of “Immortal Road,” only to restart again after another fifteen minutes.
Unwilling to admit defeat, he restarted repeatedly, and after struggling for over ten hours, he left the ga expressionlessly to return the next day.
Looking at Mukuai 1234 sprawled on the floor, munching on rit and reading a book, Xien Waidao pondered, “I’ve thought about it for a day and realized that fighting seven at once is a bit troubleso; adjust it to a non-alliance mode for .”
“Sure, keep going.”
An hour later, Xien Waidao returned with a grave look on his face.
In “Immortal Road,” players show as semi-transparent souls after dying, so Mukuai 1234 could tell at a glance that Xien Waidao was most likely killed by other cultivators and now appeared like this.
Glancing sideways at Xien Waidao, Mukuai 1234 laughed and said, “What’s up? Xien Waidao-chan?”
Covering his face, Xien Waidao whispered, “Don’t make fun of .”
“I’m not making fun, just stating a fact. Anything I can help with?”
“I feel like the ga’s difficulty could be taken down a notch.”
Staring at Xien Waidao for a while, Mukuai 1234 put away her smile and opened up the replay of his last ga.
After each ga, the system automatically saves recordings for players to watch and reflect on their actions, to improve their gaplay.
Opening the replay for Xien Waidao, Mukuai 1234 analyzed directly, “Your early ga operations were good, and your starting location was nice too, with copper and iron mines necessary for early developnt, and also the water resources essential for the Octopus-faced people. However, you relied too much on your racial talents during the mid to late ga—wanting to control everything you saw with your racial abilities, which easily made you a target for the other AIs.”
“Well, I don’t think they protested against ,” said Xien Waidao, puzzled.
“That’s because they were secretly preparing to deal with you. The AI in the ga secretly forms alliances. Just think of them as politicians in a real-world ga. Those old guys don’t say everything, so you need to send out spies to find out their secret plans. You are usually so underhanded; why did you stop playing dirty in this ga?”
“I wanted to try being righteous for once,” Xien Waidao said sheepishly, “but now that you’ve said this, I get it. I’ll play dirty then.”
An hour later, Xien Waidao ca back in a translucent soul state and muttered to himself in confusion, “Strange, where did things go wrong?”
“…You were really despicable this ti! Dropping a nuke on your own ho and then framing your neighbor, what was that all about?”
“I was referencing reality. North Arica used to love dropping poison gas on themselves and then blaming others.”
Mukuai 1234 was at a loss for words and only after a while did he respond, “So there are still masters out there. Fine, let’s continue discussing the situation here, and then carry on analyzing it.”
“Alright, I didn’t expect you, Mukuai 1234, to be quite impressive.”
Mukuai 1234, praised by Xien Waidao, blushed slightly and couldn’t resist launching an almost harmless attack on him.
The new ga had been released for a few days now, but there wasn’t much discussion online.
Everyone was busy playing the ga.
Unlike the previous gas from Fang Cheng Studio, “Immortal Road” gave off an extraordinarily profound feeling.
On the surface, its the revolves around a Cultivator’s journey to immortality, but after playing it, players would realize that Fang Cheng’s traditional artistry has struck again.
It’s clearly a national epic of developnt.
Especially after unlocking the highest difficulty and encountering other civilizations, the ga’s focus shifted from “how to make one’s character achieve immortality” to “how to make my opponents’ lives a living hell.”
Even the AI on the lowest difficulty had nearly the sa playing level as a normal player.
And as the AI difficulty increased, the AI’s resources did not, replaced instead by a deepening of the AI’s strategic level, until it beca a Holy Monarch with impeccable tactics.
It had complete knowledge of one’s own civilization, and each decision made could be executed to the end; AI of Holy Monarch Level could be said to be the fusion of all rulers in history, having shed all their flaws and retained only their strengths.
And not to ntion the highest difficulty Holy Monarch, even managing a seven-to-one victory with your allies against the slightly less difficult “Emperor” level AI was a feat worth bragging about.
In the comnts section of “Immortal Road,” the players’ posts were extrely entertaining:
[I spent fifty hours proving I’m the King in single-player realms, but AI took just one hour to prove I’m nothing but a noob. This ga deserves an eleven out of ten.]
[After going through hell and back to finally defeat a normal AI, I felt absolutely rubbish. But seeing that most people couldn’t even beat a normal AI, I felt even more rubbish.]
[Holy Monarch Level AI isn’t that tough, I hadn’t even flexed my muscles and it went down. Ok, no more talking, I’m off to play gas with my six Holy Monarch dads.]
[When I play dirty, AI plays dirtier. When I’m strong, AI is stronger. I feel like I’m a male side character who’s received a script for a villain dood to failure, used by the protagonist to enhance user experience.]
[If it takes killing a Holy Monarch to kill , then I feel like I could live forever.]
[Before playing: I can take on ten! After playing: Dad, please be gentle.]
[Becoming an immortal is no big deal, but the AI must die!]
In Fang Cheng Studio, everyone was also actively playing the ga.
The characteristic of a strategic ga is just like this, a giant ti black hole where any amount of ti it encounters is utterly consud.
anwhile, Fang Cheng, looking at the player comnts in the Ga Inn, felt incredibly bewildered.
Becoming an immortal is so fascinating, why don’t you all want to beco one?
Why are you all so obsessed with wiping out NPCs?
Why are you even provoking them?
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