In recent days, the company's game group, which originally had no one to talk to, has been particularly active as soon as it comes to the end of the day.
Even Xuanxuan, the beauty editor who usually does not bubble, began to greet us in the group to "fight" together, and when playing games, Xuanxuan's boyfriend could be heard screaming from time to time in the headphones.
Everyone should have guessed that the game that can activate this backwater is Party Animals, which is officially launched tonight
Almost three years ago, when it launched its first demo version, it can be said that the world knew that the number of players directly collapsed the game server...
When the demo version went live, the number of online players even exceeded 100,000 at the same time, and although the test ended not long after, it left a deep impression on countless players. Who doesn't love watching a bunch of cute little animals fight abstractly?
At that time, I boldly asserted that Beast Party (then called Animal Party) would be the next party king!
Unfortunately, since then, "Beast Party" has been officially low-key, almost "disappeared".
In the past three years, with the official "negative news" such as many bounced tickets and high pricing, the official release of "Beast Party" is not as hot as when it was trialed.
So three years later, can it still become the king of parties?
After a few days of beta play, I have the answer.
First of all, the core gameplay of Beast Party today is similar to that of three years ago, and it is still the Brawl game based on the physics engine.
Characters can use taps, head cones, flying kicks, and tumbling moves, and when your character stuns people, you can throw them out of the field and eliminate them.
In addition to hand-to-hand combat, the game will also randomly drop some weapons, such as the famous toilet plug, crossbows, electric shockers, tennis rackets and so on.
As far as the experience of the beta version is concerned, the types of weapons dropped have not increased much.
The biggest effect of these weapons is to add program effects, such as when I take a shock and electrocute someone else, and then numb myself by the way.
But sometimes if the weapon is used well, it can really eliminate the opponent quickly, such as this guy who knocked me off with nunchucks in a row, which I would like to call the contemporary Bruce Lee.
I feel that the most fun part now is that after being eliminated, as an off-site audience, I have more of a troublemaking choice.
Compared with the previous pure spectator, now after being eliminated, we can throw banana peels, bombs, fish and other props in the field, affecting the surviving players and adding more variables and fun to the game.
The best thing about this setting is that there is no "sage time" for players, and all players can enjoy the whole process.
As for what you think is unfair? Please, this is a casual game, everyone is happy, there will be no one who just wants to win, right?
In survival matches, when someone gets a match point, it immediately becomes the focus of attention, and everyone wants to play more.
The surviving people chased and blocked him, and the eliminated people would also keep throwing fish, which was really very happy.
That's all the changes in gameplay, relatively speaking, not particularly big.
So, what's the biggest change in Beastparty three years later?
The answer is that it took the official three years to turn Beast Party into a full game.
First of all, from the game itself, you can actually think of it as a buyout online game, which has its own server, which ensures that players can play smoothly.
After all, how many games have you seen on Steam that you can play without an accelerator and don't get stuck at all?
In addition, it has also made a very user-friendly improvement in some basic functions.
For example, add a friend list, add quick join the game and other functions, if you have friends, then naturally there is no problem, open the friend list and pull is a car of bread people.
If you don't have friends to play with, you can still enjoy the game right away with the quick join feature.
Finally, I think that in the past three years, the most important part of the official effort has been to increase the content of the game.
In the beta version alone, we can already play a total of 8 maps in Survival + Score, while the official version has 20 maps, and there will be a Smash Bros. mode.
For example, the survival match has traditional martial arts clubs, wind tunnels, submarine maps, and black hole laboratories, although they are all the same chicken-eating mode, but there are many changes in gameplay and map design.
Take the Black Hole Lab, for example, every once in a while, a black hole appears in the center of the map, sucking up everything on the map.
And its attraction is gradually stronger, the first round will be fine if the position is slightly better, the second round must grasp the heavy objects, and the third round must catch the chain fixed to the map.
If it falls to the middle exhaust fan position, it is directly eliminated.
The submarine is set to dive non-stop, and we have to climb as high as possible to survive until the end.
But if you climb high at the beginning, you will be blown away by the missiles launched by the submarine.
The score map is more ingenious than the survival game.
For example, in the candy grab mode, there are two types of candy, ordinary and large, and the way to win is to collect enough sugar as soon as possible to win.
Ordinary sugar is easy to grab, and it is fast to pick up and run, but the score is low; Candy Bears has a high score, but it will seriously affect the speed and give the opponent plenty of room to mess around.
After the candy is transported to the destination, someone still needs to open the mechanism, the candy falls to be counted as a score, and if the person stands on it, it will also fall down to enter the resurrection reading seconds...
Of course, if you don't fall, but you are pinched, you will fall into this dilemma: not eliminated, but worse than eliminated...
This map also has a special design.
It takes a certain amount of time for the handle of the mechanism to cool down each time it runs out, which means that if I want to prevent the opposite side from scoring, I can use the switch once before they ship the sugar to achieve the purpose of delaying.
In addition, like a bomb trebuchet map, we have to score points by throwing the trebuchet on the opposite side to explode.
But this brings us to new ideas.
For example, if the bomb from the opposite side comes, can I throw the bomb into the river so that they can't get points?
For another example, since the trebuchet can throw bombs over, can you throw me over to the opposite side to make trouble, so that the opposite side cannot drop bombs?
These changes in detail and the map design actually generalize the victory conditions, making the ordinary "score" mode more variable, allowing players to have more ways to win.
As a result, players have to make trade-offs between "survival" and "messing around", so even the same game mode can have different fun.
That's all about my personal feelings about Beast Party during the test.
In other words, the popularity of the casual game category in recent years can be traced back to the rise of "Mankind Failed" and "Jelly Guys" during the epidemic.
If Beast Party had been released at that time, sales would have exploded.
And now, "Jelly Guys" has been free on all platforms, but your "Beast Party" will sell for 98 yuan, which inevitably brings a sense of gap.
I personally think that with its quality, there is no problem selling 98 yuan, because I know that the content of the official version will be richer and the gameplay will be more diverse.
Of course, the price of this thing is different for everyone, if you think it is expensive, you can choose to wait for the price to be reduced before buying.
After all, a good meal is not afraid of being late.