Last weekend, "Dark Zone Breakout", which just turned two, held a large-scale offline event in Chongqing. I thought that this game was a realistic hardcore FPS, and the offline activities must be based on a serious hardcore tactical style......
Na Cheng thought, as the "rat man" with a very stealing sense and the "rat extermination master" with Cheems' head began to perform "Dog with Mouse" live, the laughter of the players formed another main line.
Just play serious? Inexistent!
In fact, this kind of abstract plot with a strong sense of contrast can almost be regarded as the main theme of the second anniversary scene of the dark zone.
In the same scene, the comical-looking Coser is driving a heavy ordnance, armed to the teeth fans will shout abstract memes, and the pedicure master can face the symphony conductor across the crowd, and the game can also take the player crazy.
Hardcore military weapons are still its background color
Hardcore is still the undertone of the dark zone, from the gaming experience to the community culture.
Like many military fans who come to the scene as high-end special forces sauna enthusiasts on a 38-degree weekend, as a veteran player who was attracted to the detailed military details of the game, I also came for the hardcore experience of military fan team building.
And the official construction of the offline event scene of "Dark Zone Breakout" this time is indeed satisfactory.
The overall construction of the activity area is mainly gray and black, and the outside of the venue is guarded by a fully equipped eight-wheeled armored car, and there are four popular characters such as Ajax, Renoyle, Dick · Vinson, and Black Carty carrying live ammunition to carry out COS parades.
In addition to the officially arranged COSER and various weapons and equipment, members of the well-known super tactical channel and TRN-BAC industry also came to the scene, not only did they wear full clothes in the hot weather, but the members of TRN also put on the tactical armor that was previously linked to "Dark Zone Breakout".
can see, touch, and take a group photo, and the coolness of military fans is directly doubled.
According to their own words, they came to turn off the air conditioner on site
In addition to the "pros", there are many players who wear full tactical gear and carry launchers to participate in the event.
Even if they are amateurs, the core level and purchasing power of military fans will never disappoint: tactical suits, realistic modified rifles with tactical butts/grips/scopes, night vision devices, tactical communication devices, etc., bits and pieces, all the proud belongings are on them, and all the spiritual comrades-in-arms are lined up to take a group photo by their side.
Of course, if you are a light and medium military fan who succumbs to the pressure of high temperature like me, in addition to taking a group photo and shouting "WOW", you can also have a good place to get tough: the official arranged a hunk training area on the spot.
Here, all kinds of tactical helmets, auxiliary defense equipment, tactical gloves and all kinds of props and firearms are readily available, if you want to be tough, just continue to line up for cross-dressing.
After the preparation, the immersive shooting experience hall on the side also has a laser target shooting challenge, which provides a good opportunity for players to show off their skills, so a large number of players also gather here, competing with players to show their marksmanship and competition, and there is no shortage of people who use their skills to win rewards.
How can a military fan not be crazy? It's the same with Dark Zone!
As mentioned above, the hard-core military is certainly the "background" that cannot be washed away in this event. But to make the players present smile, it is not something that can be done simply by "hard" - you still have to have "work".
Among them, the classic duel between "Ratman" and "Rat-exterminator" runs through the event, but there is much more to good work than this.
For example, in the low-cost COS category, the well-known dark area anchor Brother Pigeon took his "little brother" to show the majesty of a "poverty alleviation emperor" on the scene.
When he asked "do you want to help the poor", who could refuse?
The pedicure master who carried the metal toolbox and the locksmith also came to the venue in person to engage in in-depth exchanges of different occupations and technologies.
When a pedicure master meets a locksmith, this is not a collision of good and evil camps
As the inventor of "Little Sheep Heavy Industry", Little Lamb Cub relied on his unprecedented gun modification technology, which stunned the players at the scene. More abstractly, the purpose of her trip is mainly to take her honey modified gun to attack the "Golden Umbrella Rope Award", which is known as the worst prop award.
All of the above, on top of the hardcore military background of "Dark Zone Breakout", gives a touch of vitality that belongs to the player's atmosphere.
Whether it's funny or crazy, there is indeed only one that grows such a unique "crazy atmosphere" under the soil of hardcore military forces.
But to find out where this atmosphere came from, we have to turn our attention to the authorities themselves.
The first time I saw an official who was mad and more fierce than the player
To start the official madness, we might as well start with the award ceremony of this event - the "Golden Umbrella Line Award".
As the name suggests, this award named after the pit daz's item is the "least popular item". As a result, the paracord, which is often disguised as a four-bar gold to allow players to experience the ups and downs, and the special battery pack that "loves to ignore in the safe, and can't climb high when running the knife" instantly received extremely high votes.
While reminiscing about the cheating moments of these props in the game, players shared their painful experiences with each other, and the sound of discussion on the scene almost affected the rhythm of the ancestral pedicure master's knife.
In order to make the joyful atmosphere more enthusiastic, the main stage also did the "most outrageous BUG" selection activity, by the way, these planners who created outrageous BUGs such as "dry burning CPU", "head circle" and "character Hulk" praised them, and even the main planner 117, who has a high popularity among the player group, came to the scene and personally received the Golden Umbrella Line Award and the Most Outrageous BUG Award.
Although from the perspective of outsiders, the official "Dark Zone Breakout" has taken a two-pronged approach to the celebration of hardcore and "upside down", which seems to be an intentional move to subvert the stereotype of its own single hardcore image product in the minds of mass players, but players who really know this game know that the Rubik's Cube Studio, as the developer and operator of the game, has never had any shelf, and they are more committed to creating a community atmosphere and impressing players with rich game content.
For example, in this event, the product team also took advantage of the high interest of players to release the news related to the second season of the game x Ultraman linkage and the variety show "Let's Go to the Dark Zone", and even the PC side of "Dark Zone Breakout", which was popular overseas, was also brought out to open a trial game.
In addition to madness, the blood is boiling
Similar to the game experience, the hardcore of the game, the enthusiasm of winning the gold and the cerebral infarction impulse that was suddenly beaten back to the serf form by the knife boy will always stimulate everyone's nerves alternately. Just when you think it's all about the hardcore and the fun, esports will give you a new answer – the Pioneer Cup Finals, held in conjunction with the 2nd anniversary celebrations, are the main drivers of the night's live atmosphere.
As the game progressed, the game between the major teams began to heat up. In the semi-finals, the XxX club brought out two zeros in a row, and one foot had stepped on the edge of the cliff, but still stabilized its mentality and responded calmly, and successfully advanced to the finals after drawing the gold in two consecutive games, and the desperate comeback to death brought tears to the audience's eyes.
In the final finals, the T7 team performed very well, not only in the melee to meet the two players of the male and Jia Hao with their excellent marksmanship to fight the TEC team was caught off guard, but also in the decisive battle like a storm to wipe out the members of the EDC club, and finally won the championship with their strength and went home with the cup. At the championship award ceremony, Zhang Hanjin (Enzo), president of the Rubik's Cube Studio Group, was present to present the honor to the contestants, which is enough to see the importance that the Rubik's Cube Studio attaches to "Dark Zone Breakout" and even the contestants.
Enzo, the president of the Rubik's Cube, personally presented awards to the champion team, and the ranking was not small
Judging from the results, the offline celebration of the second anniversary of "Dark Zone Breakout" was not unsuccessful, and the official not only filled the participation in the event after letting go of the work, but also completely mobilized the enthusiasm of the players on the spot, but also made this press conference intertwined with hardcore tactics and funny joy directly out of the circle, and once appeared on the hot search list of major social media.
It seems that once the official of hardcore games goes crazy, there is really nothing to do with those casual games......
Two years later, whether it's the eye-catching events or the second anniversary celebrations that are now popular, the Cube studio clearly knows what its users want and is more than happy to provide it to players.
These can understand and do, so that the hardcore gameplay of "Dark Zone Breakout" not only did not become the threshold of the game, but turned into a unique ecological moat, creating a success that is difficult to be replicated by other products.
epilogue
In the final analysis, it is no accident that "Dark Zone Breakout" can be out of the circle through the second anniversary celebration, and the long-term high-quality supply, official co-creation and revitalization, and the fun derivation of players have all contributed to all this.
Moreover, compared with this summer's similar types of products crowded together to fight in the ring, this time as the head product of "Dark Zone Breakout" also showed a bit of calmness and calmness, and the various new linkages and new content announced at the celebration showed that the Rubik's Cube Studio is methodically innovating.
It seems that the law of "interesting and interesting products will definitely be popular" is not outdated today!