Chapter 422 The new version of CG of the virtual battle platform (2 in 1)
After returning from the Lake of the Dead, Bai Xiaowen's experience value has climbed to 58% of level 5. Although there is no side mission in the special treasure space, Bai Xiaowen has defeated many bosses, and the combat experience he has given is naturally very rich.
Bai Xiaowen estimated that after one or two more adventures in the spirit world, he would be able to reach level 6. His upgrade speed was two or three times that of college students of the same age. There are many excellent heroic professional college students who only reach level 6 in their junior and senior years.
Upgrade to level 6.
Bai Xiaowen is not in a hurry to enter the spirit world for the time being. After returning from the Lake of the Dead, he plans to rest for a while.
Of course, the rest here is not about sleeping all day long, nor is it about picking up girls and playing with things to lose one's ambition, but it is about settling down, consolidating one's own foundation, and preparing for the next exploration of the spiritual world.
The so-called foundation refers to the strength other than attributes, skills and equipment. It mainly refers to combat expertise, including skill lv.
He has the telepathy ability to share the memory of summoned creatures' combat specialties. Bai Xiaowen's combat specialties are pretty good. However, his skill level lags far behind. Now he is more than half of the awakener level 5, and most of his skills are only lv3. He relies on the strongest
The academic master's title bonus has only been raised to lv4, which is a bit low.
Only by clearly knowing his own shortcomings can he make progress. After that, Bai Xiaowen spent most of his time in the psychic training ground, practicing his skills hard. In his free time during training, he would also practice Kusanagi-ryu ancient martial arts.
Melee routines, explore the combo that suits you best.
New Year's Day of 1997 came, and Bai Xiaowen's first semester at Jinghai University came to an end.
The virtual battle company sent an invitation, inviting Bai Xiaowen to shoot a promotional video for the 97 version of the battle platform. The director of the promotional video is Bart Kelvin, a well-known figure in the film industry and a China expert.
Originally, Director Kelvin asked Bai Xiaowen for a schedule of at least one week. This was a bit unbelievable for Bai Xiaowen, who only appeared in the promotional CG for 1 second. However, Director Kelvin's reason was that Bai Xiaowen had never been an actor.
From experience, this week was mainly used to make up lessons for Bai Xiaowen.
After all, Director Kelvin is just an ordinary person. If he were an awakened person, he would never have so little confidence in Bai Xiaowen.
Being in the spirit world itself is a role-playing process. If you lack acting talent and cannot impress the people in the spirit world, it is impossible to switch to the hero profession and achieve such dazzling achievements. In other words, Bai Xiaowen's achievements in the spirit world,
This in itself shows that his acting skills are not weak.
Regarding Kelvin's contempt, Bai Xiaowen did not argue. He only made a request, which was to ask Director Kelvin to take a look at his audition.
As a result, Bai Xiaowen was exempted from acting classes for a week. Director Kelvin was also very single and said frankly:
"You are a natural actor, with an idol appearance and a powerful connotation. If you are willing to join the film industry, you will become a household name within three years."
Of course, Bai Xiaowen will not become an actor and join the film industry, but Director Kelvin's words also gave him a warning. If there is an opportunity, guest appearances in a few distinctive movie roles should be very helpful in increasing world popularity.
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In fact, many well-known awakened people, especially European and American awakened people, like to star in movies. For example, Dushi, a regular in the Super Bowl and the main player of the Rolling Stones, has even starred in a series of superhero movie protagonists. Of course, Mr. Dushi is an investor.
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It can be said that half of Jushi’s A-level worldwide popularity comes from the big screen.
This is probably one of the reasons why ordinary directors are respected by the awakened people, right? With this idea in mind, Bai Xiaowen and Director Kelvin left each other's contact information.
Then there is the production of Bai Xiaowen's character template.
What should be noted here is that when the character template is created, equipment skills, equipment enhancement special effects, and combat skills will not be subdivided. Instead, they will all be used as the available skills of the character and appear uniformly in the "skill list" of the character.
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Of course, after getting a character template, experienced players can still identify which skills are the awakened person's combat skills, which skills are equipment skills, and which ones have enhanced special effects.
The simplest way to identify is to look at the cooling time. The cooling time of combat skills is the shortest, the longest is ten minutes or twenty minutes, and the shortest is only one or two minutes or even ten seconds, while the cooling time of equipment skills is
But it’s always 12 hours, 24 hours.
In addition, when combat skills are upgraded to level 4, there will be additional special effects, which often have more description text than the equipment's additional skills, and the effects are more powerful.
For example, Bai Xiaowen's intimidation will be used as an independent skill; the sharkskin boots' incidental skill: water drifting will also be used as an independent skill; the sharkskin boots' enhanced +4 special effect: sprint will also be used as an independent skill, and all three will appear.
In the skill list, it occupies one skill column.
When the player takes a look, he sees that the cooldown time of Deterrence is only 4 minutes, and the effect is still so strong. It must be because the combat skill is gone.
The cooldown time of water floating is 19 hours and 12 minutes, so you will recognize that this is a skill attached to the equipment; the cooldown time of sprint is 0, which also excludes the possibility of combat skills, and this effect generally appears in the enhanced special effects of shoes.
It's not difficult to distinguish either.
However, there are exceptions to everything. If we take the additional skill "Return of the Dead" of Bai Xiaowen's black soul stone, which is exclusive to the hero profession, as an example, it will be difficult for players to recognize it.
Bai Xiaowen hid the Black Soul Stone, so the Return of the Dead skill needs to be split into more small skills:
Summon Skeleton Blade Shieldman No. 1, a skill.
Summon Skeleton Blade Shielder No. 2, the second skill.
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Summon Skeleton Blade Shieldman No. 6, the sixth skill.
Later, there is summoning shadow assassin, the seventh skill.
Summon the Bone Mage, the eighth skill. The Bone Mage here is the evolved data, because Bai Xiaowen cannot scan the Skeleton Mage's data. The customization of the character template is based on the real-time scan of the psychic camera.
Bai Xiaowen can hide some information, but cannot tamper with it.
Behind him are the vampire Kitts and the voodoo suture fat boy. In other words, after Bai Xiaowen hid the newly added ghosts and skeleton warriors, as well as the zombie doctor and other summoned creatures on standby in the Kane plane world, his "dead man"
The "Return" skill is still split into ten summoning skills with a 12-hour cooldown.
This is also the reason why when Bai Xiaowen was scanning data on the Awakener battle platform before, he hid the Black Soul Stone, but was able to scan out summoned creatures such as Skeleton Blade and Shield Hand. What was scanned was not the Black Soul Stone, but summons such as Skeleton Blade, Shield Hand and so on.
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As long as the psychic camera detects that Bai Xiaowen possesses a certain summoned creature, it will enter "Summon xx" as a skill in Bai Xiaowen's skill list. Moreover, the psychic camera will also automatically identify it, and only "permanent" skill effects will
Be entered in, but if it is a creature summoned by an item, or the buff status of an item, it cannot be entered into the character template.
The 10 summoning skills in Return of the Dead are divided into 10. Compared with the skill of "Summoning Raging Claws", it is still a little difficult for players to distinguish which is a combat skill and which is an equipment skill, because they are all very powerful. This is because of Black Soul
As an exclusive equipment for the hero profession, stone is too powerful, so this is a special case.
In the end, including the skills attached to the equipment and the special effects of equipment strengthening, Bai Xiaowen's skill list has 32 skills! Compared with other heroic professions, there are nearly twice as many intermediate awakeners. This is still a situation that Bai Xiaowen has reservations about.
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After the character template was successfully customized, it was finally the winter vacation.
The promotional CG of the 97 version of the Virtual Battle Company was officially released one week before the Lunar New Year.
Bai Xiaowen was also very interested in the CG of his first appearance and went online to watch it.
CG opens with a starry sky background. Instantly, the starry sky transforms into a deep eye. Then the camera pulls back to reveal a man with hair covering half of his face, leaving only one deep eye. The classic character of the virtual battle platform, "Astromancer" appears.
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The Astromancer spread his palms flat, and a crystal ball rotated slightly above his palm. Then the camera zoomed forward, and a scene of two girls fighting fiercely appeared in the crystal ball. Under the robe was the looming skin, the Frost Controller and the Ashes Archmage.
, one ice and one fire, two surging energy balls clashing against each other.
After the loud explosion, black mist evaporated, and the scene quickly switched to night. The camera looked upward, and a bright moon hung high. Three black spots seemed to jump out of the bright moon, getting bigger and bigger, turning into three night walkers in black.
The image is another classic character, "Phantom Assassin". It seems that there are three people, but in fact it is just him.
Several classic characters have been circulating for decades. The oldest among them is Astromancer. It is said that he was included in the first virtual battle version. Over the past few decades, the prototype of these classic characters, the Awakened One, has become a legend.
Rarely appears in public.
The Awakened characters currently promoted by the virtual battle platform are no longer the ones mentioned above. The reason why these characters still have a place in CG is to respect their historical status and increase players' recognition and enthusiasm for the new version.
Subsequently, highly recommended characters appeared one after another.
The "Noble Young Master" with red wine in hand and elegant manners; the "Roaring God" with muscles that almost burst his vest and a ferocious face as he staged a show of explosive clothes; the "Beautiful Witch" with slim figure, wearing a black veil and eyes like a stream of autumn water
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Nearly ten highly recommended characters are presented in order. The prototype of each character is a high-level awakener. There are at least two or three appearances, either in a chic route or in a macho style.
All impressive.
The characters that appear later are relatively simple, with several people in the same frame, sharing the same frame. Of course, even for such a scene, the awakened people who participated in the filming still designed the look for a long time, striving to highlight their own style.
In this precious playing time, he will gain more attention.
When Bai Xiaowen saw this, he wanted to laugh a little. He thought of those non-famous celebrities who "sneered" on the red carpet in the AD era... However, Bai Xiaowen thought of himself and quickly put away his smile. From his position, he didn't seem to be qualified.
Just kidding, would the Awakeneds have worked so hard if it wasn't for world fame?
After dozens of characters flashed by, CG has reached the late stage, and new characters began to appear.
"Come out!" Li Shuyi said excitedly next to her.
The scene suddenly turned to a dark wind. A lonely figure wearing a cloak sat on the bone mountain, with only a giant wolf nestling tightly next to him. Under the bone mountain, skeletons crawled out, with soul fire burning in their eye sockets, raising their hands.
The roar of the knife! The picture quickly zoomed from a close-up to a far perspective. The tall voodoo suture body and the mysterious bone sorcerer all flashed by, creating the feeling of a thousand troops.
Although the appearance time is only one second, it is enough to amaze people. Bai Xiaowen smiled and said: "It's pretty good."
Li Shuyi was still unfinished. She dragged the progress bar forward and carefully watched the one-second animation of Bai Xiaowen's appearance. Then she let the CG playback finish and commented with a smile: "The new character in this issue, you are like a villain.
The big devil. The newcomers at the back all appear in the same frame, a bit like warriors who formed a group to challenge the devil..."
"This is thanks to Sister Zheng's negotiation skills. Otherwise, I would not be able to enjoy the exclusive one-second animation treatment, and would have to share the same frame with other newcomers." Bai Xiaowen is very satisfied with CG, and the virtual battle company is more responsible.
Complied with the contract.
Among the newcomer templates signed by the virtual battle company in this issue, Lin Haoyang of Tsinghua University, Ouyang Heng of Yan University and other CUAA league strongmen have all been selected. They are already in the graduation season and are about to leave school and sign formal contracts with the big guilds.
The jersey has been played in the professional league. It is normal for such a rising star to receive an invitation to sign a contract with a virtual battle company.
Qi Ruifeng was a bit unlucky. Based on his record of leading the national top four last year, it was entirely possible for him to get an invitation to sign a contract with the virtual battle company. Unfortunately, he was abused by Bai Xiaowen in this year's qualifying competition.
Popularity plummeted.
The virtual battle company turned to sign a contract with Bai Xiaowen, which can also be seen as Bai Xiaowen stepping on Qi Ruifeng to quickly rise to the top. Being invited to sign a contract in his freshman year, Bai Xiaowen is definitely "out of the ordinary".
And it is such a newcomer who was specially invited to play a more important role in promoting CG than other newcomers such as Ouyang Heng. Sister Zheng definitely deserves a lot of credit for Bai Xiaowen getting such treatment.
On the day when the CG was announced, Bai Xiaowen invited Sister Zheng to have dinner with her.
In fact, it can’t be called a treat. Sister Zheng pursues singleism. After signing the agency contract, she has been living in Bai Xiaowen’s home in Chihuo District for convenience.
Bai Xiaowen went home after the holiday. He lived with Li Shuyi, Xiaojun and Sister Zheng. He Zhiqing, the life assistant, took care of the food, clothing, housing and transportation. Everyone ate at the same table every day. The so-called treat was just that Bai Xiaowen called He Zhiqing and gave instructions.
Just add a few more of Sister Zheng’s favorite dishes to celebrate in the evening.