Survival games are a very popular genre in the game industry in recent years, it is not only very popular, but also has a strong adaptability, can be combined with many types of gameplay, bringing a completely different play experience.
For example, the MC based on construction can allow players to experience a highly creative free building, and the famine with exploration adventure as the core gameplay can bring players a stimulating survival experience with great survival pressure, and after the gameplay integrates shooting and zombie elements, the extremely popular type of survival will be born. Even later, on top of this kind of gameplay, it also derived a chicken-eating game that combines operation experience and survival competition, and has become the hottest game category in the world.
Although the world in which the player lives will also change in classic survival environments such as desert islands, wilderness, space, and the end of the world according to the difference in the theme of the game, no matter where they are, the genre will highlight a common feature, that is, the "realism" of the survival experience.
Players often need to explore harsh environments in naked conditions, from picking up branches to "drilling wood for fire" to arming themselves a little bit to build enough shelter to survive. Just like the fire of "Beiye" in previous years, this survival experience of returning to the primitive and awakening the DNA of humans sleeping for thousands of years has always been popular with players. The sense of realism conveyed from the game also stems from the extension of human survival instincts in the virtual world.
In order to give the player this kind of direct inner stimulation, the survival game will not only focus on a sufficiently realistic environment design, but also make the player's character have an almost real physiological response. Thirsty need to drink more hot water, eat too full will also bloat and vomit, it will be the real needs and desires of human beings in survival into the game, so that the character becomes flesh and blood, closer to reality, and thus make it easier for players in the experience process to examine and feel the joy of survival in the game from the perspective of real people.
Compared to equipment-driven games that require constant reinforcement and damage levels, the thrill of survival games is more stable and lasting. At least until the arrival of the late stage when resources and materials are fully abundant, the poor days of hunger and hunger, and the tension and excitement of finding life-saving materials when life is hanging on the line, and catching a glimmer of life when the bullet is exhausted, can continue to attract players, so that just surviving in this kind of game can make people feel a sense of accomplishment.
This kind of gaming experience that does not bring real pain, but can constantly enjoy the excitement and freshness, is really fascinating.
In this type of survival game, "Dayz" is the representative of the cruel world, in addition to having zombies everywhere and encouraging players to plunder each other, in fact, in the portrayal of the world environment, it is more difficult to survive than the same type of game. Early in the game, players are more likely to starve to death because they can't find food, or die of colds in the rain, and challenging the harsh natural environment with a fragile body is also a great pleasure of the game.
Another recent space survival game by Dean Hall, the father of Dayz, Wing Star Survival, also inherits this difficult survival experience, and the environment of Wing Star Survival in space is even worse than that of the broken city. As a failed place for the transformation of the planet of human colonization, even the air on this broken planet is poisonous.
In order to survive in the wing star, in addition to preparing the necessary food, water, and shelter, it is also necessary to maintain basic breathing needs, and the increase in basic resources also makes the game survival problem more serious.
Because of this, compared with the "Dayz" "Wing Star Survival" in the survival experience of the more than the problem, the shortage of food and water resources, the manufacture and exploitation of oxygen, the plague of disease and pain, and the loss of physical data caused by long-term bad state, these problems are also very serious in this game. If you choose to eat spoiled and rotten food in order to survive hunger and hunger, in order to maintain a temporary physical strength, although you can save your life for a while, you can't escape the punishment of negative effects such as many diseases and infections.
At the same time, the rain-induced loss of temperature and even fever, excessive exercise caused by the foot, fractures, wound infections caused by wild creatures attacks, these seemingly insignificant but very deadly "small injuries" are always reminding the player that here you are not a superman or a hero, you are just a fragile, ordinary and real person.
Interestingly, in addition to these parts that have a direct impact on the gameplay, the game can also encounter a lot of strange real physiological phenomena. For example, watermelon, a "top food" that can both withstand hunger and quench thirst, has a similar effect to real life, when several large mouthfuls of watermelon belly, the player's fragile stomach will immediately sound the "countdown to rocket liftoff", ready to pour out the fuel in the abdomen.
Although this is actually due to the negative effects of food poisoning, it reminds me of the feeling of happiness and regret after eating ice watermelon in the summer.
And the "sense of realism" conveyed from the characters is not only a inheritance of new and old works, but also the simulation effect of the game based on the real physiological response of the human body, so that players can better experience the difficulty of survival in extreme environments in the game.
Of course, it is not only "humans", other creatures living on this planet will also face similar "real problems" to the player, the most obvious is that when hunting, if the player shoots a non-fatal part, the prey will continue to bleed, and the player can follow the blood to find the injured prey. Although this design is not as detailed as in professional hunting games, for a survival game, such a hunting experience is real.
These realism is part of the real experience in wing stars, the game will fall in different directions due to the difference in the location of your cutting, wood collection must also be cut down and split before it can be brought back, picking up items in the water will also ripple, and even the game also designed a unique thunderstorm, storm and other extreme climates, so that players will be crushed by nature if they are not careful.
I remember that during a mission, I forgot to set up a lightning rod and the wooden house was directly hit by lightning, so that the hard-won shelter was burned in the rainstorm, leaving me and the scorched black wreckage at a loss.
These fun and realistic physics make the entire wing star more realistic and allow players to truly immerse themselves in this fascinating environment.
Although from the current point of view, "Wing Star Survival" still has some areas that need to be improved in the game rhythm, single-player experience and other parts, but whether it is from the overall gameplay or the pursuit of survival game "realistic", it can be regarded as a satisfactory work. And its future will also be with the follow-up continuous update, so that the game experience has been further expanded and improved, I believe that the future of "Wing Star Survival" will have a more gratifying performance.