Hello everyone, I am Dr. X
In the Chinese online game circle, there is such a game that is incompatible with the traditional MMO - "Rocky".
If you only look at the picture, you may feel, emmm, this texture effect is worthy of the old game of 14 years ago.
(Although quite cute)
But if you put aside the graphics and look at the game with the current eyes, you will find that "Rocky" still has too many advanced settings.
For example, comparable to the Warcraft nostalgic suit-like suffering upgrade tour, scissors stone cloth guessing fist style battle mode, about 5,000 levels to break out of the new category of design, etc., even thousands of levels of legendary miracle games do not dare to play like this!
Although "Rocky" hides a hardcore heart under its cute and casual appearance, making the road to this dream world particularly difficult;
But players who have gone through the hellish novice period and stayed behind, without exception, have engraved rocky marks on their hearts, no matter how many times AFK will come back to see.
And those big guys who still stick to Rocky for 14 years have spontaneously become the hard builders of the Eileen Continent, and various core forums have flourished.
The recent 14th Anniversary Player Meet&A also proved everything, Dr. X saw a lot of drag families with babies to participate, more than 300 players crowded together, and the whole venue was almost full.
Not only did the Rocky project team of Century Tiancheng preside over the overall situation, but also the current development team director (director) Park Woong-hee of South Korea and the captain of the development department Choi Tae-hwan also came to the scene to expose the new content and future plans of the G24 version.
Dr. X also took this opportunity to chat with Director Park.
Key point one: One of Rocky's most distinctive systems is finally returning after eight years
In the alternative design of "Rocky", "Elf Weapon" is also on the list.
This type of weapon is to make a contract with the elves, so that the elves can stay on the weapon, thus giving the weapon soul;
Players can not only talk to the elves in the weapon, but also grow with them by feeding the elves, so in order to get a full-level elf weapon, many players hang up on the street all day long, just to wait for him to go hungry and continue to feed.
However, with the popularization of the identification and Erge system, the oldest and most characteristic weapon system of the Rocky gradually declined, coupled with the limitations of the long training time and the inability to transform, so that the players who raised the elven weapons as daughters almost ran out of interest.
Therefore, the revision and return of the genie weapons in the new version of G24 have shocked the players of "weapons science" who have been silent for eight years.
"We want to use the characteristics of existing elven weapons to increase players' interest in developing elven weapons," said Mr. Park.
Previously, elven weapons were completely distinguished from normally enhanced weapons, but after this revision, players will be able to perform multiple enhancements on the same weapon, including sprites.
At the same time, the new version of the elven weapon can also be distributed with elf points (ability points) like a pet as the level increases; the types of weapons that can be contracted with the elves have been expanded to 13 models, and the most frequently used chain-bladed weapons can also be sprited.
As for the cultivation cycle that players are most worried about, Director Park said, "Although the upper limit of the elven weapon level is opened to level 100, the difficulty of cultivation has been relatively reduced a lot, and the elven weapon will grow unconsciously in the process of fighting and communicating with the player."
Some big guy players have calculated that the fastest spawning cycle for full-level elven weapons will be shortened from a few years to 14 weeks; and the normal weapon shop will also be able to repair elven weapons.
In short, whether it is the reduction of the growth cycle and the cost of cultivation, or the improvement of the power of the elven weapon skills, there will be a qualitative leap, no longer just the vase-like existence that can only be enjoyed by people.
Key point two: the problem that has plagued players for fourteen years is finally solved
Previously, players have criticized the lengthy storyline, too many branches to squeeze the main line scenes and other issues, Park said that in the eight months of the development of the G24 version, after experiencing countless overturns and redo changes, they have found a balance point in the development of the G24 main line plot.
(Players' choices will be fed back into the plot, well received by Hanbok players)
The G24 version, as the climax of Chapter 7 of The Lodge, arranges 3 trials at once (7 in total), not only with new characters from the Black Moon Order, but also with backstory with existing characters, thus revealing the true face of the Black Moon Order;
The newly opened Touli Canyon is not a new map opened for combat and filling in the pits, and it may also meet familiar faces.
(When Dr. X wants to ask who it is, the head of the room mysteriously says that this is not a good spoiler.)
The series of technical optimizations brought by Choi Tae-hwan, the captain of the development department, mostly focused on some detailed fine-tuning and changes, such as the optimization of the "presbyopia" patch by Hanbok players, which is to make the "NEW" word of the new prop bigger.
There are also such things as dye preview, beauty room search, dyeing site increased from 3 to 6, and so on.
What surprised Dr. X the most was that the official decision to announce the "one-click finishing of backpacks" function in 2020 was immediately cheered.
There may be some players who have not played Rocky do not know that the size of all rocky items and the area of the backpack are inconsistent, and for 14 years, players have all relied on manual arrangement to sort out the backpack, which can be described as a handful of bitter tears, and now it has finally been solved!
No wonder the project team wanted to put this new feature in the finale.
Post-lesson summary:
"Rocky" national service industry has been operating for 14 years, is a rare longevity end tour in China; talking about the reasons for the successful operation for so long, Director Park said that it is inseparable from the exchange and consensus with the national service Milexian.
Although in this era of fast food games, Rocky's slow pace and high threshold seem to be a clear stream, but from this series of changes, it is not difficult to see that it is also trying to provide players with more convenient experiences.
It's just that this change will be gradual, and it will not be drastically rectified at one time, such as the picture improvement part, after watching such an ancient comic-like picture for a long time, suddenly the sudden change in style may accept incompetence.
PS: Some of the image sources in this article are from Dirnano player sharing