In 2019, the Jian Mu excavated from the tomb of Liu He, the Marquis of Haixia, Jiangxi, recorded a table game called "Liubo Chess" that was popular during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the text in the bamboo Jane not only described the rules of the game, but also recorded the nature of the "chess game" similar to the "chess game".
Interestingly, at that time, the hot search tag of this news was "Ancient Game Raiders Found in the Tomb of the Marquis of Haixia":
It can be seen that since the birth of the entertainment form of "game", the "game strategy" responsible for introducing the rules, guiding novices, and sharing skills has become its indispensable derivative content.
With the changes in game types, communication media and player culture, the form of the raider is not static, in the eyes of different eras and different players, it is not only an auxiliary tool for entertainment, but also represents a special carrier of game culture in a certain period.
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In the era when the network was not yet developed, players would record the game's strategy on paper and spread it in the form of books, magazines, etc. This type of strategy will often publish some more common skill content, such as the main line flow of the game, props and so on.
Prima Games, founded in the 1990s, was once the largest publisher of guide books in the United States, and in order to release raiders as soon as the game was launched, the company often signed contracts with some well-known game masters and columnists.
David Hodgson, who has written guides for games like The Witcher 3 and Fallout 4, is a raider author with nearly 20 years of experience, but it's sometimes not exciting to be able to play unleased games one step ahead of the curve.
If drawing a map in reality requires knowledge of mathematics, geography, astronomy, and adventure in uncharted territory, then making a map guide in a game may require a strong level of play and patience to endure boring work.
David said in an interview that the process of writing a guide usually includes a 6-month work cycle, word count and typography limits, deadline pressure, and a strong level of play (which usually requires all the missions and levels of the game to be completed in 100 hours).
David is working on a guide for the game
In order to ensure that the strategy is accurate, these authors will also use a special developer version to turn all areas of the game upside down, in order to find some hidden props, after writing nearly twenty game guides, David once lamented that his job has never been to "play the game", but to "check the accuracy of the raider information".
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In addition to the traditional raiders with text as the carrier, calling the hotline has also been one of the ways for players to obtain strategies.
In 1987, in an era when Raiders books were not yet popular, Nintendo's U.S. headquarters opened a game guide line that allowed players to call a hotline to seek game help from professionals, and these employees who answered questions had an official title called "Nintendo Game Consultant". （Nintendo Game Play Counselor）
These consultants work to answer players' questions about the game, including, but not limited to, "how to beat a particular boss," "how to get rare equipment," or "how to get through a specific level."
A game consultant is at work
In order to answer the player's questions, these employees can not only get Nintendo's new console for free at the first time, but also get the game in advance when it is released. Playing games every day and paying a salary can be said to be the dream job of children at that time.
However, this kind of "phone consultant" is not as easy as it seems, not only needing to spend a lot of free time on the game, but also having to face the player's vague questions. Since the phone can't see the picture, they must quickly reflect on the area described by the player and give accurate advice on the best way to play.
But consultants are also ordinary people after all, in order to be able to "know everything", they will make their own game skills into notes to share, and over time they will form an internal exclusive database:
Hand-drawn map information by the game consultant
Although compared with the traditional text strategy, telephone Q&A has the advantage of "tailor-made and correct medicine", but in the face of tens of thousands of calls for help every day, even if Nintendo expands the size of the consultant to 200 people in the later stage, it is difficult to meet the needs of all players, in order to make up for the cost, finally can only change the hotline to paid consultation.
By the turn of the millennium, with the development of the Internet and game forums, players could ask for help on the Internet, and the single form of "telephone consultant" naturally lost its competitive advantage, and in 2005, the Nintendo department of the United States officially closed the hotline.
An advertisement for a consultation hotline at the time
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If in the early days of the Internet, the form and function of the raiders were similar to the paper media at that time, then in the era of self-media, the domestic game raiders may have evolved into a more strange form - "academic research".
As we all know, when a player starts calculating how to hit the maximum damage in a game, it's usually when his brain turns the fastest...
Whether it is the probability of drawing cards, the damage bonus of Buff, the restraint logic of attributes, many raider authors have brought the spirit of curiosity in the classroom to the game.
For example, players with Diablo 2 try to use the Poisson distribution and binomial distribution to simulate the probability of shipment of the game's "betting equipment" gameplay.
As a knowledge point in college probability theory, the Poisson distribution is usually used to describe the probability of the number of random events occurring per unit time, and such a distribution model can be applied to games with many random events.
Take Diablo 2, the probability of shipment of dark gold equipment in the game is known, one in two thousand, so after repeated brushing two thousand times, the probability of getting a piece of dark gold equipment is 100%? Not. According to the author's formula applied to Poisson's distribution, even if you brush two thousand times, the probability of getting dark gold equipment is only 63.2%.
Calculating the probability of shipment is just an appetizer for these "academic players", when they really start the damage bonus of various buffs in the game, you will see what is called "making the raider into an academic paper".
If you enter the NGA's Protosthetic Plate, you will see this scene in the Raiders area:
Due to the complexity of the mechanisms that affect damage in the game, hardcore players have worked together to compile a full set of strategies for calculating the value of the original god damage, or it can be said to be a "full set of teaching materials".
From the calculation of the injury formula to the mechanism test of the elemental response, not only does it use numerical analysis, statistics, probability theory and other knowledge, but also the authors of the strategy also attach complete statistical charts and text descriptions:
The same strategy logic also appears in the player circle of The Eldon Circle. For example, in the game, the valkyrie Marlenia is a difficult late-stage boss, and her special move "Water Bird Dance" is a nightmare for the handicapped party because of the high damage and judgment.
How do I dodge this move? Some players have found that using a prop curler can interrupt casting during the pre-swing stage of the boss's move, thus easily skipping class:
However, it was soon realized that the interrupting effect of curling was not effective at all times, and after repeated tests, it was found that because the boss's elemental resistance would increase with the number of attacks it received, after the first few damages were interrupted, the increased resistance would reduce the damage of the next attack, resulting in the attack action no longer being interrupted.
So the question is, how to calculate exactly how many curling attacks will be blocked by the boss's elemental resistance?
Real hardcore players will unpack the game file to obtain the basic information of the prop, and then monitor the resistance change of the boss through auxiliary software such as the modifier, and finally found that after taking two damages, the boss's elemental resistance will exceed the state accumulation value of the prop, so the third curler can never interrupt the Valkyrie's attack.
In order to make the argument more convincing, some people also made a table of the attributes of all the props in Excel
This is also another trend of "game raiders" now, just to give the conclusion that "boss immunity to the third item damage" is far from enough, for academic players, through the exploration of basic data, repeated tests, and finally infer the process of inferring the damage value is obviously more attractive.
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Nowadays, any player can publish their own summary of the raiders, which also makes the "game raiders" content carrier with a more obvious personal style.
Hardcore players want to prove the optimal solution of a boss or level through rigorous calculations; Salted Fish players will share the benefit collection guide of "Official Wool"; Casual gamers are more likely to teach things like "game photography skills" or "how to recreate recipes in a game."
Of course, the necessary sense of ritual for the raiders is never indispensable
Since different players have their own unique needs for game strategies, is there a more comprehensive platform that can include many functions such as sharing people's game experience, the desire to find a good game, and receiving game benefits?
As a one-stop game service software, "OPPO Game Center" is such a mobile game platform that tries to meet all the needs of players.
In response to the needs of users to "find a good game", OPPO game in the heart not only has the game circle anchor, video author and other industry KOLs are sharing game recommendations, skill strategy, in the built-in "pick up fun" section, the system will also refer to player preferences, combined with the evaluation of editors and appreciation groups, to push the user a suitable game type or strategy, truly realize the "find a game, convenient and easy." ”
For example, the well-known game area of B station, Up Main Run, was recently invited to become the game recommendation officer of the OPPO community, and recommended many interesting stand-alone mobile games for everyone, such as "Monument Valley", "Ancient Tree Melody", "Paper Wedding Dress" and so on.
As the KPL team coach of the Raiders Officer, King of Glory anchor Gemini gave a lot of suggestions about lineups and skill combos in the game's Raiders section.
Go to oppo Game Center for more guides
In addition, Game Center Game +, and the game assistant in the game that can be opened by floating windows, serve as two entrances for the game center function to communicate, and you can view the above raider content at the same time. As an important auxiliary for users to play games, Game + provides functional support throughout the entire process of the game. In addition to allowing users to customize and manage all the games in the device, they can also monitor the battery life, version update, network status of the current mobile phone in real time, and teach users to adjust the mobile phone configuration to achieve the best game state by viewing the playing machine skills column.
At the same time, the game assistant also has many functions such as "game voice change", "extreme stable frame", "lightning start" and other functions that can improve the player's game experience, covering the game process from preparation, game and post-game.
The highlight function of the game assistant built into the game has always been the core of the OPPO mobile phone in terms of game performance. For example, after opening the "Lightning Start" option, the game can automatically skip the opening animation, and support background automatic update, you can open multiple games at the same time and put them in the background to complete the update task at the same time; OPPO's "Extreme Frame Stabilization" optimization supported by reno, oneplug and K series ensures a stable gaming experience in scenes with a large number of special effects. These are the unique strengths of OPPO players, and this is why OPPO Game Center differs from platforms such as TapTap with hardware support.
In addition to the adjustment of parameters, the "game assistant" can also push the detailed and comprehensive strategy content in the pop-up floating window according to the game that the user is running, without exiting the game or switching the screen, just slide the screen to the right at the left end of the game page to achieve the convenient operation of watching the strategy while playing the game, which fits the other big selling point of the game center" Playing the game, the assistant is super useful. ”
Because the use scenarios of mobile game users are often uncertain areas such as subways, stations, restaurants, etc., switching back and forth to see the strategy is actually a very troublesome thing, so this "one-click pop-up" shortcut operation undoubtedly enhances the use experience from another perspective. In actual use, it is completely possible to get the raider information or open various functions from the floating window on the other side while operating the game:
Game+ and Game Assistant content are interoperable and can be opened both in the Game Center and within the game
Since OPPO games want to build a more comprehensive service platform, the game welfare that players are most concerned about is naturally one of the priorities. As the last selling point of the game center, "receive benefits, exclusive broadcasts", it is an exclusive package with a large number of cooperative games, which can be described as the gospel of "Zero Kr Party".
In addition, OPPO will hold various forms of player activities from time to time to provide users with community-exclusive reward content. Online according to different time nodes to launch the corresponding game activities, offline combined with physical stores, e-sports events, comic shows and other forms to create a super large game carnival, to attract more players to participate.
In the past, whether it is looking for a good game or searching for detailed raider cheats, it is a very troublesome thing for mobile phone players, and the game platform that OPPO tries to build has located the player's actual pain points, accurately predicted what users think, and taken many solutions to meet these needs, which also reflects OPPO's concern and determination to improve the player experience. It is believed that in the future, "OPPO Game Center" will continue to introduce updates, more perfect functions and content to meet the needs of players.