For the Chinese people, martial arts is an inseparable cultural symbol and has an irreplaceable status. Because of this, martial arts games have always been the most popular game genre among domestic players. But for a long time, what to do with martial arts games has become a question for many people - the vast majority of martial arts games on the market are "limited" to the routine of traditional MMOs, and they are completely unable to interpret the martial arts imagined by Chinese people.
The biggest reason for the routine of martial arts games is to follow the fixed career setting of MMOs. It can be said that as long as there is a profession, the characters in martial arts games are just "war, law, and pastor" who have changed their skins, and are firmly locked to their professional positioning.
The open-world martial arts "Against the Water and Cold" mobile game, which will be released for public beta on June 30, fired the first shot of deprofessionalization of Chinese martial arts MMOs.
In order to create this game, NetEase has set up the largest R&D team in the company's history, with a capital investment of more than 800 million, creating a record for the highest R&D funds for domestic games.
From the beginning of the game project, the mobile game "Against the Water and Cold" has tried to break the shackles of traditional MMOs and achieve a real "Against the Water and Cold Like" game style.
After boldly throwing out the concept of "no liver and no krypton" season-based gameplay and adding intelligent NPCs to the game to increase immersion, the "Against the Water and Cold" mobile game has reinvented the game's class system. Using the pure concept of martial arts to create martial arts, it truly achieves "returning the divine skills to the rivers and lakes".
First of all, in the mobile game "Against the Water and Cold", the way to learn and master skills is very "diverse". Players have a variety of ways to learn and master skills in the game, including but not limited to acquisition in adventures, quacks and lakes, group of heroes professors or their own epiphany, etc.
Moreover, there is no threshold for martial arts skills in the game, and players can get all the priceless top skills in the game for free as long as they participate in the exploration of the game world.
In order to increase the "martial arts flavor" of the game, the martial arts adventures of the mobile game "Against the Water and Cold" also pay tribute to the bridges of many classic works, including but not limited to accidentally falling off a cliff but discovering peerless secrets, martial arts Taidou entrusted with his life's learning before his death, giving alms to a beggar but being given peerless divine skill secrets by him, etc.
According to the official statement, all the classic martial arts bridges you can think of have been reproduced in the mobile game "Against the Water and Cold".
Secondly, the mastery of martial arts skills of the "Against the Water and Cold" mobile game is no longer restricted by the sect, no matter which initial genre players choose, in the process of the game, they can "steal masters" with various countries to learn the martial arts secrets of other genres.
Just like Hatomo Zhi used Xiao Wuxiang Gong to urge Shaolin's seventy-two stunts, completely breaking the traditional "professional shackles", the original crispy melee combat can also be exported with long-range output, and tanks can also make cameo appearances.
In addition, in addition to the initial genre selection in the game, there is also a "jianghu sect" for players to worship at any time.
The setting of these jianghu schools is more martial arts, there are rootless doors that reject masculine "turbid qi", lovesick gates that specialize in romance, and schools such as Longmen Inn, Pi Gang, and Pingtianmen, joining these sects and mastering the secrets can also allow players to run amok in the rivers and lakes.
Finally, the number of skills used in the mobile game "Against the Water and Cold" is limited, ensuring freedom and balance. The number of martial arts skills that players can obtain in the game is very large, and the number of martial arts known in the second test alone is as many as hundreds.
However, no matter how many martial arts skills players acquire, they can only carry up to eight skills when actually fighting, among which the jianghu stunt, group hero skill and perspective skill are also limited to one.
Under the constraints of the number of skills, the player's game experience will be more balanced, and at the same time, because there are too many optional skills, coupled with the different preferences of different players, the players in the mobile game "Against the Water and Cold" become more "thousands of faces".
This is also more in line with the setting of the martial arts world - although everyone is from the same family, they are all independent individuals, and only with a deeper study of martial arts can they be invincible in the rivers and lakes.
It can be said that the setting of martial arts skills in the mobile game "Against the Water and Cold" has made it more imaginative and free from the shackles of traditional martial arts games. So, what do you think about the "deprofessionalization" of this game?