This year, the new products under the old IP of the Crossfire HD Arena (hereinafter referred to as CFHD) seem to be a bit busy, and related news often attracts a lot of attention in the industry.
Just in June of this year, the Crossfire HD Arena (CFHD) was officially fully opened. Subsequently, the official quickly opened the first professional e-sports event after the full opening - cfHD Champions Cup. Just six days after the end of the CFS 2021 Global Finals, the CFHD Champions Cup also ushered in its own final battle on December 11.
After several hours of fighting, the AG team finally won the cup. After the game, while countless spectators applauded the AG team's victory, I found that the quality of the CFHD Champions Cup had clearly exceeded the expectations of many people. Considering that the event is only the first professional event after CFHD is fully opened, its success in attention and viewing also confirms the huge development potential of CFHD in the future on the road of FPS e-sports.
Considering that the event is only the first professional event after cfHD is fully opened, it is only a touchstone for CFHD to develop FPS events to some extent. Its success in attention and ornamentation also confirms the great development potential of CFHD in the future on the road of FPS e-sports.
Black technology is in place to carve out a new viewing experience for FPS events
As we all know, FPS events are known for their rapid and intense competition, and some wonderful operations may occur in milliseconds, which often brings some drawbacks to FPS events: one is that it is too intense may cause the audience to not understand the game, and the other is that some wonderful shots may be missed.
In order to solve these two drawbacks and strengthen the viewing experience of the entire event, the CFHD Champions Cup also showed many industry-leading "black technologies".
For example, the event data API interface is released to provide multi-dimensional data display for the event, so that the audience can intuitively see the real-time performance data of the players, and the map points that occur in the kill, which reduces the threshold for the audience to understand the event.
In terms of technical performance, the CFHD Champions Cup also provides the industry's highest 160 tick value (server refresh rate) competitive experience, while providing customized function optimization for professional esports, designed to avoid the situation of "no harm in the hit".
At present, the tick value in similar FPS events is generally around 120, and the reason why it is difficult to further improve is mainly for two reasons: First, the high tick value has high requirements for the event server itself, but the high tick value has high requirements on the player's own network and hardware. CfHD can achieve the highest value in the industry of 160, indicating that a lot of thought has been spent on the technical level.
In addition, considering that the official also provides customized function optimization for professional events, there are further upgrades to the operation of the players as a whole, which ultimately feeds back the viewing experience of the event.
Similarly, the CFHD event team has also put a lot of effort into OB, optimizing more than 20 OB and Replay functions, making it easier for viewers to look back at the wonderful moments. This felt me the most intensely during the game, and I was able to take time to order a takeaway even at the height of the battle without worrying about missing every high-energy moment.
In order not to leave every wonderful shot behind, the CF Sky Eye system, which has been carefully developed for many years, was also applied for the first time in the CFHD Champions Cup. With the help of this system, every wonderful shot in the process of the competition is put in front of the audience in time, making the content of the event more watchable.
In short, it is not difficult to see from the technical exploration of the CFHD Champions Cup for the production of the event that the official is intending to create a next-generation FPS e-sports event through a large number of black technologies to enhance the audience's interactive viewing experience. So that's why the CFHD Champions Cup attracts so much attention from players.
Under the appearance of the next generation, a "fair play" heart
Before watching the CFHD Champions Cup final, or rather after the full test opened, I had a deep experience of this product that is known as opening a new era of FPS e-sports. My first impression at the time was that it did have the potential to create a hardcore FPS esports event. This is also reflected in today's CFHD Champions Cup, and the key to this lies in its "fair play" core.
Overall, around fair play, the CFHD Champions Cup is particularly outstanding in two aspects: one is to ensure the fairness of each match through the numerical balance of firearms; the other is to show a strong depth of competition.
Let me give you an example. At the CFHD Champions Cup final, I felt the most strongly that the two teams clearly showed a situation of a hundred flowers in the use of weapon types, and there was no situation where one or two weapons in the same competition were "dominant". Previously unpopular snipings like vsk-94 have appeared frequently because of their very good balance.
This reflects that CFHD has a fairly good balance in gun design, and when this balance is applied to CFHD e-sports events, it gives players more choice and tactical adjustment space.
Excellent weapon balance is inseparable from the team's continuous tuning of weapons, at the 2021 Tencent Game Annual Conference in mid-this year, Chen Kan, a producer of crossfire release, said that the team "learned from the experience of MOBA events when balancing firearms, and strived to maintain the K/D value of firearms at about 1 to ensure that the arsenal is available in a long period of time." ”
In addition to fairness, the CFHD Champions Cup has also done a lot of enhancements in the depth of competition. For example, more new firearms have been added to the event, and many new firearms , such as the FAMAS rifle with stable recoil , have appeared in the Champions Cup, and also through the weapon accessory system, players can independently adjust the attributes of firearms and increase the diversity of competition competition.
Another important yardstick for testing the depth of FPS competition is tactical diversity, and in the CFHD Champions Cup final, I found that the depth of competition is no less than that of the current mainstream FPS esports events.
Take, for example, the "Black Town" map of the third inning. Judging from the positions of the teams on both sides of the opening game, the AG team is the attacking side (yellow side), 4 team members are concentrated on the A zone, and only one team member is guarding the middle road, indicating that this is an obvious A zone blasting tactic.
The BLUE defender's AC team sensed the opponent's intentions through the middle gate and quickly sent three players to defend. In the subsequent offensive and defensive battle of the A corridor, the three AC team members used the advantages of the defensive side in the terrain to complete a wave of 1 for 2, successfully defusing the AG team's intention to grab the A point.
There are two points worth noting here, one is that the attacking side attacks point A, and the other is that the defender has achieved a smaller victory than a large number without being superior. In fact, before that, due to the characteristics of "narrow mouth, wide opening, and few obstructions", the A promenade often brought a huge advantage to the defender, and few attackers chose to rush from here.
The layout of the scene of the previous A large promenade
CFHD's A Promenade
In CFHD, the official added some more obstructions to the A promenade to build a more balanced competitive confrontation. In this final, the AG team gathered rush A point frequently, and this place has become a more concentrated point of engagement, indicating that the balance of the event is quite good. More importantly, the situation of the previous offensive sniper rifles in the uselessness of the A corridor has been completely improved.
Of course, in addition to the impact of the map changes, the tactical battle of wits between the two teams is also a major embodiment of the depth of the CFHD Champions Cup competition. Still taking the above game as an example, after folding two generals, the attacking AG team quickly abandoned the tactic of charging point A head-on and instead swerved back to point A from the side of the middle road.
Cleverly, the AG team did not choose the hard fight method at point A that was superior to the defender, but first used a smoke bomb to attract the attention of the point A defender to the middle door, and then took this opportunity to cut through the A trail corridor above, hit the west with a wave of sound, and successfully overturned in a 3-4 situation.
That's just one of many great games. Overall, compared with the same type of FPS event, the CFHD Champions Cup has an extremely deep performance in terms of map balance and tactical diversity, strengthening the core of fair play. More importantly, it has created its own characteristics in the unchanged FPS e-sports market, and has brought more imagination space to the diversified development of cf e-sports ecology.
epilogue:
It is the unremitting pursuit of all dimensions of FPS events that has allowed the CFHD Champions Cup to quickly gather many teams at the beginning of the competition. From the platform selection competition held on the five major platforms of Douyu, Huya, Kuaishou, Penguin E-sports and Bilibili in mid-June to the main competition that began in September, cfHD, which has just been fully opened, has attracted the participation of established e-sports clubs such as RNG, EDG, AG, and Qingjiu.
On the one hand, this highlights the strong attraction of the CFHD Champions Cup to clubs and players; on the other hand, it also shows that the e-sports industry is more optimistic about the future of CFHD events.
As another brand of new events under CF IP, CFHD e-sports events are constantly exploring and innovating in product competitiveness and event viewing to show more possibilities to the outside world.
Chen Kan has said that the future structure of CFHD events will be a positive pyramid structure. The bottom layer is the mass competition, and the upper level is the cup competition, which is now the CFHD Champions Cup. Further up, there is a complete professional tournament system. From this structure, it is not difficult to find that the Champions Cup plays a key role in carrying forward the top and bottom, laying a good foundation for the operation and production of future professional leagues.
Today, the CFHD Champions Cup, as CFHD's first professional e-sports event, is expected to help CFHD's subsequent professional league "hot start". From this point of view, if the current event configuration of the CFHD Champions Cup can be more widely used in the future, and the competitiveness of the product itself is further strengthened, perhaps the soon-to-be born CFHD E-sports Professional League will grow into another global e-sports event in the near future.
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