The chicken eating boom in 2017 has receded after 4 years, but this does not affect the status of battle royale games in the hearts of players, in this category of similarity in the category track, cold weapons, national style culture of chicken eating games can not be described as lacking.
On December 15th, a national style wuxia chicken eating mobile game developed by Runmeng Network called "Wuxia Qi" topped the TapTap reservation list with 2 million reservations and 2.14 million followers, which attracted our attention.
It is worth mentioning that the game has opened the paid deletion test on the Android platform at 11:00 a.m. on December 15, according to the "Wuxia Qi" producer Mermaid II, the paid deletion test may become the final test before the official launch.
This game is actually released in July 2018, the first game produced by Runmeng - the mobile game version of the "Wuxia Qi" end game, which has attracted countless players to experience it with its fresh combat mechanism and era background, because Runmeng was still very young at that time, and had little experience in how to operate a game, the direction of resource tilting, etc., and then the appearance of pig factory "Forever Doom" is getting dimmer and dimmer.
After four years, they brought players this "Wuxia Qi" mobile game that had left many regrets, reconstructed the server and AI based on the original end game foundation, and solved many bug problems left behind by the end game. In addition, Runmeng has also done a lot of gameplay tuning, such as in-game resurrection, including hints, etc., and also launched its own set of hero system, hoping that players can find a sense of belonging in it.
Official live video of "Wuxia Qi"
Map design with the characteristics of the national style martial arts
Wuxia Qi player demo video
The architecture and characters of "Wuxia Qi" can be described as full of national flavor, which takes the Ming Dynasty as the historical background and fictionalizes a martial arts dispute. Players will play as martial artists here to compete with many players, and each competition may bring a different competitive experience to the participants.
Like the common chicken eating game, this game also has a relatively grand map setting and basic mechanism, such as sandstorm, that is, "poison circle", which is a necessary battle royale system for eating chicken, every once in a while in the map will raise sandstorms, the player's true qi in the sandstorm will gradually decrease, until the true qi is exhausted and dies, and the player can restore the true qi by taking dan medicine.
In addition, there is a common airdrop supply system, players can use the unique and random props in the airdrop, such as ink words, players can pull out the Mo Wen epee at the specified location after obtaining and using, which is powerful and can greatly enhance the player's combat effectiveness.
In addition, "Wuxia Qi" also added many interesting mechanisms to the map, bringing more possibilities for the direction of the game process and the player's game experience, such as the Fire Foreman Tuo, the player can find the Fire Foreman Tuo in the cave of the classic mode Central Plains map, defeating him can get the Ink Record and other rare items; the unique "Chance" mechanism - each game map will randomly refresh the elixir, ink record, broken dragon strength, empty tooth dagger and other rare items at random locations on the map. Among them, the Broken Dragon Jin can lift the Duan Dragon Stone after learning, so as to obtain the Former Dynasty Relic treasure in the back secret cave.
Diversified prop acquisition channels are bound to bring richer and more varied tactics and strategies to the competition, and also mean that players are caught in the strategic choice of "trade-offs": the pursuit of high-risk, high-reward conquests, or avoid their sharp edges, and the stable development of "Secluded and Secretive".
The most interesting death row setting is called the variety show resurrection game, if the player dies before the second sandstorm appears, he can be revived through a 1V1 duel on death row, this resurrection mechanism can be described as novel, while improving the player's early fault tolerance rate, it will also bring those "lost" players a chance to come back. It is worth mentioning that the death row mechanic is limited to three rows of classic mode.
In addition, there are many settings such as resurrection, wind tower, etc. for players to savor. "Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and chivalrous culture is interpreting various versions of the rivers and lakes." We provide a relatively free space for players to imagine and create their own heroes. The developer said.
The word freedom is to the martial arts world, just like the bones are to the human body, if you are not free and cannot quickly solve the revenge, how can it be called a qualified martial arts game? Wuxia Qi obviously notices this, whether it is the dusty ruins mentioned above, AI copies, or driving a BMW and riding the wind, it can be said that the development team has carved freedom from beginning to end in this open world.
A jianghu trumpet, 100,000 martial arts heroes
Most of the domestic martial arts works are "xianxia" direction, and the realistic martial arts category is relatively rare. "The difficulty is the action, and we strive to improve the action, and strive to achieve film-level performance." The development team said: "Just like the movie, maybe not all the players in all countries know what martial arts is, but through the real performance feedback of the action, the players who have experienced it can have some understanding." ”
Martial arts has evolved into martial arts based on one move and one style, and "Wuxia Qi" explains this very well: all the complex operations in the game are derived from one move and one style, and on the basis of the end game version, it has been simplified, reducing the entry threshold of the game, but even so, it is still difficult to become proficient and familiar with it, and it is still difficult to achieve the realm of integration.
The official basic operation introduction table can be seen that the game content is relatively rich, and each basic operation has its own unique effect, such as the explosion can forcibly interrupt the stiff state caused by the blow; the flying kick can break the enemy's defense; the wall game can help the player fly over the wall, etc., according to which it can be seen that how to flexibly use the basic skills or become the key to whether the player can take the lead in the duel.
In addition, in addition to the basic operation of the body direction, the basic operation of the martial arts direction also has a mechanism of mutual resistance like a stone scissors cloth, which are four types of moves: sudden, broken, injured, and controlled.
When the player uses the skill with the "burst" icon, it will be white, and it can break the defense type skill and the damage type skill, so it can be seen that this kind of skill may be used heavily, but it will be offset by other player blocks.
The skill with the "broken" word icon is a defense-breaking and damage-breaking skill, and the player is red in the move, which will also cause the enemy to fall into a brief stiff state after interrupting it.
In addition to these two, there are also damage skills "injury" and control skills "control" that can only be used in the unarmed state, to sum up, the assault moves in the "Wuxia Qi" restrain the defensive move and the damage move, the defensive move restraint block state and the damage move, the block state defense assault move and the damage move, the control move can not play a role in the block state. This interlocking skill mechanism makes the order and purpose of the player's moves clear during the battle, which also means that the game strategy and the player's sense of achievement are improved.
It is no exaggeration to make the mental method system the most martial arts system in this game. "Anger accumulates when the player attacks or is attacked, and when the anger reaches a critical value, it can use the explosive gas, and different mental methods will bring different explosive effects." The developer introduced the mental method system: "After entering the map, the mental method can be understood by picking up the mental law book. Only one mental spell can be applied at a time, and players can equip it according to their own needs.
It can be said that the design of the entire combat system is a good interpretation of the original intention of the development team: "For the obscure martial arts, we hope that it can be generally understood by players in all countries like skills, leaving aside the complex martial arts routine design, only retaining the core essence, simplifying but not losing the level, simplifying the cultivation process, so that players first understand its surface, and then be interested in continuing to understand its inner, first external cultivation and then internal cultivation." ”
Martial arts duels, swords and swords show their true colors
The martial arts world of a single character is boring after all, there are currently 9 heroes for players to experience in "Wuxia Qi", and they are divided into four categories of tanks, tactics, output, and auxiliary according to their own skill attribute characteristics, and each character has two skills: active and passive.
Taking the output category of Ding Xuan as an example, Ding Xuan has a faster movement speed and moderate health thickness, the active skill "Royal Forest Army Morale" can increase the damage of teammates within range, and the passive skill "More and More Courageous" is a state class skill, within a certain range, each near an enemy will enhance its own attack, and defeating the enemy will permanently enhance the effect of the active skill, up to five levels. Obviously, this is a team-oriented warrior-type output hero, and more types of heroes are still to be experienced by the player.
Weapons also have different classifications: divided into three types: long martial arts, heavy weapons, light weapons, according to the official statement, the same type of move weapons are suppressed relationship, Long Wu stands at the top of the food chain, heavy weapons in the center, light weapons in the tail, the so-called one inch long and one inch strong is this truth.
Quite a distinctive map, the skills of each other, a variety of heroes and different functions of the weapon system can be said to be just the right size design, not redundant nor lack of content richness or will add a lot of color to the player's game experience, the current game although the style of painting is gratifying, the picture quality has also been greatly improved compared to the 18th Year Spring Festival version, but there is still a distance from the player's expectations, in addition, the player's response "falling off the cliff, the person fell, the horse is fine" can be seen, the work is lacking in physical expression, There are also situations such as mobile phone fever, fortunately, the Runmeng development team has enough time to improve, in this incremental market of martial arts style eating chicken, the development prospects and potential of "Wuxia Qi" are not small, and how far the future can go, we need to wait and see.
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