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Sword Man World 3 has been in operation for three months since the undeleted test. On the upcoming April 29th, "Sword Man World 3" will usher in a new expansion pack "Valley of Thousand Flowers", and the new Gate Sect Of Thousand Flowers, the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin, and the new Strange Soldier System will all appear in this expansion pack.
I believe that many players will be curious, these classic swordsman elements in the "Swordsman World 3" will have a new form of display? As the latest work in the "Sword Man World" series, has this MMORPG martial arts mobile game that integrates Xishanju's many years of martial arts experience and technology met Xishanju's expectations?
In response to these questions, 17173 interviewed Mr. Sun Duoliang, the producer of the "World of Swordsmen" series, known as Xiaolang Brother. Let's hear how he answered.
17173: Since the undeleted test on December 29, are you still satisfied with the performance of Swordman World 3?
XiaoLangge: Judging from the results, the overall performance exceeded expectations. As a new generation of Swordsman Love Series mobile games in Xishanju, "SwordMan World 3" has achieved the results of Top 9 in the iOS best-seller list and Top 1 in the free list, and has won the recommendation of hardcore superstars, while the App Store has also selected "Swordman World 3" as the best app of December. However, that doesn't mean we'll stop there. In the future, we will also have a higher pursuit of game production of "Sword Man World 3". As it stands, Sword World 3 still has some points that we need to constantly adjust and improve to give players a better experience.
17173: Can you elaborate on the unsatisfactory points you mentioned?
XiaoLangge: For example, the Pioneering Tuanben, which was launched in March, the Hengdao Book, is a relatively difficult tuanben that we launched. When this group was first launched, the enthusiasm of players was very high, because the difficulty of doing it was very high, which led to some high-end players choosing teammates and the like, which caused some impact on the ecology of the game. After discovering this problem, we immediately made adjustments and introduced normal mode and racing mode, allowing players to choose according to their abilities.
17173: What is the feedback from players after tuning the Book of Hengdao?
Brother Lang: The version after tuning has basically met our expectations. At present, players will no longer have a psychological burden when playing this group, and everyone will communicate more, which will further promote the social ecology in the game.
Because in the past, in the absence of such a difficult copy, everyone basically did not have any strategic communication before, and there was not much mutual understanding. But when playing the group, it is necessary to communicate, they will communicate the way of playing, there are also strategic arrangements, and the players become more familiar with each other. Coupled with some family management and high-operation players will play the normal mode together, the player atmosphere in the game is very harmonious, and the overall activity and social viscosity have been greatly improved.
17173: Will the introduction of slightly more difficult copies be our future update direction?
XiaoLangge: Yes, but based on the experience of Hengdao Book Group, when launching a new copy in the future, we will consider launching two modes, so that players with high requirements and ordinary players have corresponding difficulties to challenge and meet the needs of players in different circles.
In the future, "Sword Man World 3" may also launch different numbers of copies according to the ecology of different servers. For example, the Hengdao Book Group needs 12 people, but for some small and medium-sized families, there is still a certain threshold for making copies of 12 people together. In this case, we will launch an 8-player mode, and the damage and health of the boss will be dynamically adjusted according to the number of participants.
17173: How will You Continue to Build Sword Man World 3 in the future? What kind of experience do you want to give your players?
Brother Lang: A major feature of the Swordsman Love Series IP is large-scale bloody group battles, "Sword Man World 3" is basically based on large-scale group warfare PVP, and we will continue to explore large-scale, high-quality PVP combat methods in the future. In addition to the large PVP of the main service, I have an idea similar to the whole district full service in the big world, which has not yet been actually planned, and is still in the preliminary stage of conception.
In addition, in terms of dungeons, the game will continue to launch a series of dungeons of different styles. In terms of game quality and appearance, we have been studying some art upgrade schemes, including the rendering mechanism, costume performance, and scene performance parts will be upgraded later.
17173: In this new expansion pack, the player is most concerned about the new sect, please briefly introduce this sect for us.
Little Brother Lang: Wanhua is a classic sect of the Xishanju Swordsman Love Series. In Sword Man World 3, the new sect Wanhua continues the classic positioning of healing + attack. The characteristics of the gate school are to use the pen as a weapon and fight with the elegant posture of the literati.
To make an analogy, suppose Yi Shui is a nurse, then Wan Hua is a doctor. Based on the characteristics of the Swordsman series, Wanhua can choose the main healing skill to maximize the skills of Wanhua healing, such as helping teammates clear negative and control states, and providing continuous healing for teammates. Of course, Wanhua can also choose the main damage skill, with a higher burst, the skill will be stacked with a layer of Angry Lotus Mark on the enemy every time it causes damage, when stacked to three layers, you can use the burst skill, the lotus instantly explodes, causing high damage. Two different sets of skills can switch to each other to adapt to different PVP and PVE scenarios. Therefore, the requirements of Wanhua for operation will be higher than that of easy water.
17173: Every time you decide to make a new sect, what will you do next?
Xiao Langge: First of all, I will examine all the background information of the new sect's historical origins, provenance, and so on. This includes history, the head of the sect, and the process of the founding of the sect. Secondly, on this basis, the R&D team began to locate the characteristics of the genre according to the previous data, including skills, special effects, styles, etc.
The third step is how to match his equipment, character image, weapon appearance, etc. after the skill characteristic style is formulated. Finally, he balances his skills and allows him to form a balanced and restrained relationship with other sects.
To be precise, the preparatory work also includes materials such as the original paintings of the door school, scenes, CG of the door school characters, and high-mold characters, and multiple lines continue to advance synchronously.
17173: When a new sect joins, it will inevitably have an impact on the existing professional balance, how do you adjust this part?
Xiao Langge: In the area of professional balance, Xishanju's swordsman love series will generally have a five-element set, and the strength of restraint is still relatively high.
This time, the Wanhua Gate Sect launched by "Sword Man World 3" belongs to the Wood Sect. Mu Ketu, Wanhua naturally restrained the Tu sect Wudang, and the sect that restrained the wanhua sect was the Golden Sect. Every time a new genre is launched, we will give priority to the completion of the five-element phase play. In February, the new door sect launched by "Sword Man World 3" is the golden tibetan sword, counting the Ten Thousand Flowers already has the Seven Gate Sect, the subsequent launch of the Sect will also give priority to the improvement of the Five Elements Gate Sect, and continue to complete to the Ten Gate Sect, forming a perfect closed loop of the Five Elements.
In addition, we refer to the combat data of each faction (PVP and PVE values) to adjust the game balance, and adjust the skills that were not balanced before.
17173: In addition to the New Gate Sect Wanhua, what other content updates are worth mentioning in this expansion pack?
Little Brother Lang: The Valley of Flowers expansion pack will also launch the Strange Soldier system. Since its launch, players have been very vocal about whether the weapons can have changes in appearance, and this time it has also launched a strange soldier system in response to the needs of players, allowing players to adjust the appearance of their weapons. In addition to adjusting the appearance of weapons, the Strange Soldier system can also refine colors, make the appearance more cool, and cultivate your own Strange Gate weapons.
17173: What are the differences between The Raiders and ordinary weapons?
Little Brother Lang: The Strange Soldier and the Five Elements will be more linked. There are five elements of the sect, and the strange soldier also has five elements of attributes. Assuming you are a Golden Sect, if you use The Golden Odd Soldier, you will get an attribute boost, and when the Golden Sect uses the Wood Strange Soldier, you can resist the attack of the Wood Strange Soldier. Players can make multiple choices.
17173: In addition to the New Gate Sect and the Strange Soldier system, it is said that this time there will also be a PVP gameplay you mentioned earlier - the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin. Can you talk to us about the difference between the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang in "Sword Man World 3" and the previous Sword Man series?
XiaoLangge: Starting from the end game, each generation of the Swordsman World series has the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin, and the gameplay has been iteratively updated. For example, in the previous Series of Works of Sword World 1 and Sword World 2, the idea is to let each family select 20 elites to challenge inside, and other members beat drums outside to cheer. Although all members can share this honor, there is a regret that many players cannot participate in this game.
In Sword Man World 3, we wanted to make a difference and make a big PVP system where all players were involved. The specific idea is as follows:
There are a total of 4 bosses in the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, and the final boss is Qin Shi Huang located in the Hall of Eternal Life, and the player needs to solve the three small bosses "Three Generals of Qin Shi Huang" before entering the Hall of Eternal Life. In the design of the map of the Hall of Eternal Life, we have also made a "true and false Hall of Life" play, which will design a hall of true life + several halls of false life, which will also have a distinction between true and false bosses. Players of each clan can only choose to enter one Hall of Immortality. This design is also to take into account the balance of the game, take care of some small and medium-sized family players, to avoid the large family to clear people, the emergence of small families can not enter the situation.
In addition, on the BOSS AI, the game also made some interesting designs, such as when the health of the BOSS drops to a certain level, it will release skills to turn players into the same camp, so that small and medium-sized families can grab some output. When the boss health reaches a relatively low level, the faction changes again, and each family can compete for the boss. This kind of setting can ensure the sense of experience of small and medium-sized families in the activity, while improving the strategic nature of the struggle between large families, so that the group battle becomes more passionate.
17173: In addition to the fact that boss health will change the situation of the family faction, what are the more distinctive designs in terms of combat?
XiaoLangge: The Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum activities will be dynamically adjusted according to the number of participants, such as 750 people entering and appearing 3 ultimate BOSSes, and 1000 people participating in 4 ultimate BOSSes.
The event also added a novel way of fighting: Qin Shi Huang's skill will knock the player out of the Hall of Immortality, and after going out, if he wants to enter, he will fight with the player who blocks the door, thus generating some tactical command operation space. The commander of the clan can adjust the division strategy in real time to ensure that the number of the clan in the Immortal Hall is dominant, such as choosing to block the door or concentrate fire to kill the boss. In the last few minutes, Qin Shi Huang will enter a weak state, and all the doors of the Immortal Hall will be opened, and players can enter freely.
17173: Can you reveal what the next new sect will be after The Thousand Flowers? Is there anything you'd like to say to the player?
Xiao Langge: In the first half of the year, "Sword Man World 3" just launched the gold system of hidden swords and wood systems of thousands of flowers, and so on, it is expected that the next three sects will be water, fire and earth. The next sect we plan to launch will be the new school of water system. Here, many thanks to the players who have been supporting and following us. Expansion pack Wanhua Valley will soon meet with players and friends on April 29, Xinmen Sect Wanhua, Strange Soldier System, Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum large PVP, new scenes and plots and a series of gameplay will appear one by one, looking forward to gathering with everyone in this swordsman real jianghu, thank you!