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Starting from 2009's "Devil's Souls", soul games and Miyazaki Hidetaka with a stable output of 2-3 years each for continuous updates, after "Only Wolves" won the 19-year GTA Game of the Year Award, the popularity of soul games continued to rise, and finally after the release of this year's "Eldon's Ring of Law", it ushered in a horror result that was known around the world and sold 10 million in the first week after release.
So, do you know the stories of players who went into the Pit Soul series earlier before the Eldon Ring of Law was sold, and their traditions?
Perhaps, you've ever heard soul players call themselves "old ASS", because many of the enemies in soul games are very powerful and need to plan the timing and route around the enemy's back during the battle, triggering the backstabbing execution.
Perhaps, you have been deceived by the messages of other players on the ground in the cliffs and chambers of the Eldon Circle, crashing into hard walls or even traps, or fading cliffs, but before you, there are countless players who have been deceived in the Dark Souls series, only wolves.
Among these various soul gamers' traditional arts, if you want to pick a tradition that best represents the spirit of soul gamers, then you must not wear clothes.
You heard that right, you don't wear clothes.
Of course, it's not that the player doesn't wear clothes, it's that the player's character doesn't wear clothes, to be precise, it's the Useless Man Level 1 No Damage Challenge.
In Rings and other Souls games, there is a class that is only born at level 1 (other classes will be around level 10), all have the same attributes, have no armor except the accompanying stick, have nothing, and are useless.
The Useless Man Level 1 Harmless Challenge refers to the use of this class to defeat the difficult boss battles in the game under various limited conditions, which is a tradition of soul players, a test of the player's level, and a default racing competition in the player group.
We chatted with one of the useless human challengers of The Eldon Circle of Law, the B-station UP master @ tail tail, and listened to his story from interest to determination to completion of the challenge.
40 days, 288 hours, "good value for money game"
Tail has laughed at himself in the video, he plays Elden's Ring of Law for a good value, other players have played 40 hours to the end of the week, and he is stuck in the "Evil Omen" Malkett and Stonewell City.
The reason is very simple, the boss value of the soul game is very high, for those who are well-equipped and add the level, the boss level enemies are often two or three knives can easily take it away, and for the useless people who are naked at level 1, this damage often means a one-hit kill.
And when he completed the Level 1 Useless Man No Injury Challenge, the final boss battle of the main line of the Golden Law Faragan + The Beast of Eldon, the game time of Eldon's Ring of Law was displayed as 288 hours, a full 40 days had passed since he first embarked on the Unharmed Man Challenge.
40 days, 288 hours to complete a total of 9 high-difficulty BOSS no-damage challenge, in the same period of useless people this result is not good, whether in the B station or in the Tieba can see the unharmed video earlier than him, killing more players with a larger number of bosses.
"My game talent is at most decent." Tail said.
On March 18, the Tieba Great God No Injury Challenge completed the initial King Gefrey
But to stand out from the crowd of useless people of this generation, winning three million-view videos (one of which surpassed 2 million), tail has its own uniqueness.
To put it bluntly, tails are not the strongest of this generation of useless people, but they must be one of the most troublesome.
In the face of the boss who has his arm amputated and equipped with the head of the dragon, he "picks up" Greg, the tail forehand hammer boss, and the backhand can also come to a cross-talk that fits the actual situation of the scene.
And in the first giant high-difficulty BOSS battle that the player faces, even because the difficulty is too difficult, the official allows the player to summon a large number of auxiliary NPCs, the already crazy demigod-level BOSS, the "broken star" Rataen, the tail can also beat the boss while beating the boss, bring back the audience's message, and then write a joke.
In fact, Tail is not the kind of idle social animal player, and the talent for jokes and stand-up comedy is also heard from childhood. At the beginning of the attempt at the new level 1 useless man harmless new series, it was his interest, and the upload time can also be seen, from the first three episodes of the tree guard to The Greg were recorded in advance, and the subsequent videos were separated by several days.
"Are you deceived by the barrage, after beating Greco, you directly smashed the star." I asked him.
Tail said a little helplessly, "I didn't expect the broken star to be so fierce." ”
It is this style of entertaining the audience that makes it very interesting that happens during this journey, and when attacking the boss, the tail is recognized by the audience and leaves a message on the way, and it is also seen by the tail.
However, being able to complete such a difficult challenge, tail is not all as fun as he shows in the video, tail is actually a somewhat strong player.
"Actually, I posted other game videos a few years ago, but the effect was not good, and I took a year off in between."
This useless man challenge has allowed him to gain nearly 100,000 fans, and Tail also bluntly said that if it were not for the encouragement and support of the audience, he would not be able to persevere, during which he was also beaten by the bosses and wanted to give up.
But as he says in the video in Broken Stars, he really cares about the size of the "X" that the teacher hits on his wrong question.
13 days, 4 minutes and 5 seconds, "the chairs are knocked off for you"
The boss battle design of soul games often has two main categories, one is a humanoid enemy holding a weapon, and the other is a giant beast-type enemy with a variety of different postures. After completing the challenge of "Broken Star" Rataen, Tail stepped on the most difficult and difficult boss battle of this unharmed challenge, and the most difficult of the humanoid enemies, Valkyrie, "Mikaela's Blade" Marlenia.
We have written in the previous article discussing the "Ring", the Valkyrie's strategy difficulty core skill is water bird dance, the player who can reach here is generally level 90+, and there are a large number of skills and equipment reserves, as long as you can safely handle this skill, then the difficulty of attacking her will be greatly reduced.
But for the tail who only has level 1 and does not have any increased attributes on his body, and can only rely on the big stick given at the beginning to fight, raid the Valkyrie, torturing him for 13 days.
In fact, Tail completed the analysis and dismantling of all the Valkyries' moves in about 4 days, but having an idea and being thoroughly proficient and completing the challenge are two different things.
For example, in order to perfectly deal with the Valkyrie's water bird dance, it is necessary to know one of the mechanics of The Eldon's Ring of Law: while the player locks the boss, the boss will also lock the player, and the player will lose the lock (unlock) when the boss is completely lost in the screen, and this also applies to the boss.
That is, when Marlenia uses water bird dance, the tail must stand in a suitable position and use tumbling at the right time, so that when the boss loses the lock and re-locks the character, the move will be frustrated because of the action module of the skill itself.
But being harmless means more demanding, and for other players to fight hard with pills, Tail must figure out how to circumvent them. Marlenia herself is a boss who likes to read the player's attack instructions, and the attack derivation changes a lot, among which the fast knife and the breakthrough jump that read the attack instruction and have almost no reaction space are all problems that the tail must overcome.
"I hit really didn't want to see her again, and it suddenly passed."
In this generation of Eldon's Law Ring, toughness and impact judgments are separated, and the boss slowly recovers resilience when not harmed, which increases the difficulty of Marlenia for useless people.
Therefore, there are other useless people who have chosen to fight back with shields and find opportunities for gaps.
On the way to attack the Valkyrie, some viewers recommended this style of play to Tail. But when Tail was familiar with the Valkyrie moves, he had already figured out what he was going to use to play - forward attack, shieldless counter, and use tumbling and normal attacks to deal with all the Valkyries moves.
The Valkyrie is a boss with poor toughness and impact resistance in the human form boss, and the big stick, as a blunt weapon, happens to have the higher toughness and impact power of physical weapons.
Tail said that he chose the most ornamental and difficult play, and the train of thought was only two words: interrupt.
High-risk and high-return play, bringing 4 minutes and 5 seconds, which is close to 4 minutes of extreme results, in the conversation, Tail is proud to have successfully played this extreme result, but Tail is not the first player to play useless people and harmless Valkyries.
During this period, because the player who first released the Valkyrie Useless Man Challenge was accused by other players of being a hanging brother and a video clip because of the "BUG" of the endurance bar reply and the disappearance of blood on the body after entering the second stage.
The tail that also carried out the harmless challenge was also affected by the rhythm, forced to open the live broadcast to prove its innocence, and when the rhythm formed a whirlpool, it did not give up, but constantly told the audience in the live broadcast, so that they did not participate in the rhythm, and played their own good.
"Everyone has difficulties that cannot be escaped." Tail said, "At this time, you can't ask yourself if you have talent, all you can do is stand and solve the problem, or concede defeat." ”
Tail didn't concede defeat, but he was also under pressure, but he did his best to put it into action.
It's like breaking Marinoya's chair after each time she enters stage two, after dodging her stunts.
"Let you beat me for 13 days, lol." Tail said so.
The romance of useless people, the best summer
When Asked if he was dressed, Tail once said in the video: "The main thing is to like summer." ”
Later, after the Valkyrie finished playing, everyone knew which summer Tail liked.
After 13 days of grinding, after turning the valkyrie over the mountain, several bosses waiting for the tail did not stump him.
In the words of the tail, he liberated nature.
The two videos of "Black Sword" Malikas and "Warrior" Horelu can be described as full of crosstalk, while removing the useless people and their unfriendly "Full Moon Queen" Rena La because of the extremely long running map and the lack of mechanism and attack power, the useless people on the tail are not injured to challenge the main line BOSS on the road, leaving only the golden law of the final battle, Fladagan and the Beast of Eldon.
When I found tails, I asked him if the boss had finally fought, and he told me it was over.
But this time, Tail did not choose the usual cross-talk style to end, but when challenging the Beast of Eldon, as a "useless person", he told some of his own understanding of Eldon's Ring, the Soul Game, and Hidetaka Miyazaki.
"In the final battle of the Souls game, you have to defeat an old man who usually ends up with nothing for the sake of faith."
"And in the soul system game, there will always be a group of players who invariably choose useless people, people who have nothing, to end the previous generation of people who have nothing, the old man ring is nothing more."
It's a romance that belongs to useless people, but it's more than that.
Through the video of Tail, some players who like "Eldon's Ring of Law" spontaneously changed the B station id to the name of the NPC in the game, and interacted with the audience in the comment area, and more players witnessed the 40-day journey together, and were encouraged in tail's persistence -
Bear witness, King of Eldon
In the end, those players who insist on the "Eldon Ring of Law" and the Soul series games, one of the important factors that like and love the Soul game so much, is not also as long as they insist on practicing hard, not only the improvement of the character value, but also the player's own technical level, as long as they work hard, they can overcome the sense of achievement?
Players believe in the same thing, so the spirits are deeply linked, as the video comment area of the tail-free Valkyrie, the player who is the first to be reviewed, said.
"Your enemy is the god of this world, and her soul is more of an emotionless program, except for slashing people according to instructions and probabilities, and will only say her dry taunts according to the program when you die;
And you are almost the weakest being in this world, your soul is flesh and blood, will be tired, will be up, will be afraid, will look at the bullet screen in a bunch of weak minds angry but keep smiling, will feel guilty because of the high expectations of others, will also be discouraged by the final cold reality.
You even have to go to work the next day to deal with your family, because games are just a part of your life. What I watch in your live broadcast room is no longer the Valkyrie, I am watching you go from optimism to frustration, to despair, to despair and then to rise again, I have never been interested in live game broadcasting, I am watching Don Quixote rushing to the windmill again and again.
This is the gold content, this is the king of Eldon. ”
The romance of useless people is even more the romance of thousands of people who are enthusiastic about the game they like, and they have not given up the romance of people who are still insisting in the face of adversity.