The Spring Festival trial version of "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds: All-Army Attack" is online, conforming to the mainstream of mass-market machines worth thousands of dollars
Author: liugaotian
At 1 a.m. on September 13, 2017, under the spotlight, Apple’s 2017 autumn new product launch conference was officially held. As the highlight of this conference, the announcement of the new generation of iPhone's iconic product "iPhone X" undoubtedly dropped a blockbuster for the mobile phone manufacturing industry that currently lacks creativity. Unexpectedly, unlike the continuous exclamations from the media and mobile phone manufacturers, this time, iPhone X failed to arouse the same enthusiasm among mobile phone users, including Apple fans, as the iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 did in the past. Is the reason because this generation of iPhone is no longer excellent?
First of all, iPhone It is undoubtedly a phenomenal product. But the problem is that, firstly, as time goes by, users’ novelty towards Apple will inevitably decrease; secondly, and the most critical point, the price of buying an iPhone X in China can be directly compared to an i7 or 1070Ti of luxury desktops. So even though the iPhone X is really great, only a few people can afford this luxury product.
The price of iPhone For the gaming industry, "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" released by Blue Hole Company in 2017 was a model of highbrow and understatement in the early days of its launch. To a certain extent, for most domestic Tencent players, the transition from games such as "LOL" and "DNF" to "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" is undoubtedly a leap. The latter's computer configuration requirements far exceed the common computer configurations of Tencent players. So we see that in order to enter the world of high-end games, many players often spend 5,00 yuan to change graphics cards and CPUs. The process is not without difficulty.
The configuration requirements of "Chicken Game" on Steam are at least 1050Ti to open to high configuration
So, how to balance between "game quality" and "low configuration" Reaching a balance between them has become an unavoidable problem for game manufacturers. Looking back at the game market in 2017, according to a recent data report released by the US data website SuperData, Tencent's "League of Legends", "Dungeon Fighter" and "Cross Fire" ranked among the top three PC game revenue lists. It is true that these three games cannot represent the highest level of today's gaming industry, but their dauntingly high income still has to make people marvel.
When talking about the reason why these three national-level games, which were released in 2009, 2005, and 2007 respectively, have been able to thrive for so long, we cannot help but mention the huge number of social products owned by Tencent. User base. Leveraging its considerable traffic and the accumulation of funds from several "self-developed" games in its early years, Tencent stood out from a number of domestic game developers and became the domestic agent for these three games. Regarding how to convert a huge user base into gamers, in addition to the people-friendly "free to play" operating concept, the excellent optimization of the game itself and the low-profile features of fun play have greatly improved user adaptability.
In the 2017 game market revenue rankings, Tencent is firmly in the top three
As the saying goes, things change. Over the past few years, the mainstream trend of domestic games has gradually shifted from MOBA to "eating chicken". Throughout the history of domestic game development, for a long period of time, due to some indescribable reasons, domestic games have experienced discontinuities. Following the PC, the domestic game market has transcended the era of consoles and handheld consoles and directly entered the world of mobile phones. In today's mixed mobile game market, the most eye-catching party is undoubtedly Tencent's Tianmei Studio Group.
Many popular mobile game masterpieces such as "Tiantian Cool Run", "Tiantian Speed", "King of Glory" and so on are all produced by Tianmei. In addition, what is gratifying is that the games produced by Tianmei have always had the characteristics of "low configuration and fun to play". From iPhone X, a fruit machine worth ten thousand yuan, to a domestically produced Android machine worth a thousand yuan, regardless of the price of the model, you can always enjoy the core fun of Tianmei games.
"Glory of the King" - one of the masterpieces of "low configuration and fun to play" owned by Tianmei
On March 9, Tianmei Studio Group produced The new version of the authentic mobile chicken game "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds: Army Attack" is online. There is no need to worry about the quality of "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds: Army Attack", and this was confirmed by the author's personal trial. Based on this, many players have raised doubts about whether the game can be adapted to full-price models. You must know that the reason why the game is called the genuine "chicken game" is that it truly achieves the perfect display of chicken game on the mobile phone. Among them Naturally, this also includes picture quality.
On February 5, "PUBG" launched a wave of advance server technology tests. During the technical test at that time, "PUBG" announced a long list of test machines. Models, the specific list is as follows: Click to view
Partial screenshot of the model list
It can be seen that, unlike what players imagined, the technical tests at the time , the officially announced models are not selected on the basis of merit, but cover almost all price ranges of mobile phones available on the market. Even domestically produced thousand-yuan phones like the Redmi Note 3 are still included in the list. The test machine used by the author to play "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" this time is a very affordable Android "thousand yuan machine". What is gratifying is that the "thousand-yuan machine" did not affect the author's trial experience.
Light and shadow effects
Face pinching
As can be seen from the author’s actual screenshots, “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds: Army Attack” The picture expression is very close to the original "Chicken Eating". In the Spring Festival trial version, the game first adds a face-squeezing function, so players can freely match their facial features, skin color, and facial paint. The character style of "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds: Army Attack" is more realistic and more European and American. This is very consistent with the original work.
Segmentation Mode
The success of "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" is inseparable from the novel game mode. From the perspective of game design, this type of game has clear steps and strong randomness. In the conventional path of finding points, collecting, walking, and collecting again, an encounter link that can unfold anytime and anywhere is inserted. But "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" did not create a new logic. It is better to say that it organically unifies many systems such as shooting, survival, loot collection, and action.
In other words, the above contents can be explored separately. "PUBG" further subdivides the classic gameplay into four parts: sniper elite, cold weapon combat, Jedi training and magic training. What’s interesting is that they are extreme gameplays that correspond to each other: the firearms available for players to search for in Sniper Elite are all sniper rifles, and the cold weapon combat is crossbows and melee weapons; Jedi training is about map running ability, and divine equipment training What is tested is the true strength of players with the same equipment.
With this update, you can regard it as a reasonable expansion of one's own strength by "All-Army Attack". After all, these gameplay methods are actually like MOD and water-friendly versions, satisfying differentiated players. needs.
Playing is about sniping
Optimization
Optimizing and maintaining the game is an ongoing job. Sometimes it is the same as the above content, by adding gameplay to make the game content no longer monotonous. Sometimes it is to reduce procedural problems in the game and give players a more comfortable gaming experience.
According to the official information currently released, the game standardizes the collision volume in terms of sports (climbing, climbing), adds climbing scenes, enhances the aiming and strike sense at the shooting level, and controls scenes such as houses, weather, etc. A lot of optimizations have been done.
OB and performance
The performance of "PUBG" in terms of frame rate is also satisfactory. From parachuting, opening doors, licking bags, to complex actions such as crossing, opening the camera, and shooting, the game shows no signs of lagging. And when the author and other players hit a "surprise" around the corner, a series of coherent operations such as pulling the crosshair, adjusting the stance, and shooting were very smooth in a very short period of time. Therefore, games such as "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" are also entertaining in the field of live broadcasts and competitions.
The Spring Festival trial version has added the option of OB anchors in the social system. I think, similar to the popular Douyin and Kuaishou, the existence of opinion leaders can often gather some groups among players. Up, it is easier to build a community.
While maintaining a high level, it also has outstanding optimizations that do not exist in other "chicken-eating" games. For players who love "eating chicken", the emergence of "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds: Army Attack" is already good news. Even in cold weather, players can still sit in bed and "eat chicken." In addition, "PUBG"'s full adaptability to models of different price ranges is also a manifestation of Tianmei's long-standing downward vertical penetration idea. "Create happiness with heart", "PUBG" is exactly such a product that creates happiness and continuously changes to adapt to the needs of players, rather than blindly pursuing self-absorbed luxury goods.