Due to the characteristics of the climate of the Sichuan Basin, I never thought that Chengdu would be cold in winter, but after arriving at the scene, I was "slapped in the face" by this cold wind. When I opened the weather forecast, I found that the temperature in Chengdu had plummeted by about 10 degrees in the past few days.
Just like the recent climate changes in Chengdu, the trial meeting of "Naraka: Bladepoint Mobile Game" also came very "suddenly". Although the official announcement of the trial event from the 15th to the 17th was only a few days in advance, loyal fans still gathered around the event site from early in the morning and gradually crowded into a long queue to see the true face of this product.
Mobile games are lighter, but chivalrous are heavier
I also couldn't suppress the excitement and anticipation in my heart, and came to feel the rare joy and warmth in this winter. There are 200 IPhone 14 pro Max in the venue to escort players to play smoothly and perfectly, dedicated cosers incarnate as "anti-seasonal warriors" to hand players ginger soup to support the cards of this offline conference, and some staff members hold notebooks to record players' feedback. The whole trial venue was extremely professional and full of atmosphere, and at the same time, there was still a lot of fun on the scene.
When I saw that the main planner directly hung the words "kill me" on the name plate, I was really shocked and laughed; in addition, someone actually set up a tent inside; and on the stage backdrop, there were golden sentences such as "kill Kelie alone" and "burn yourself with anger......
In fact, before this mobile game trial, I had read a lot of comments about the actual machine trailer. Since the mobile game and the terminal game are in the same line, the characteristics of the terminal game, such as vibrating the knife, charging, and parkour, will presumably also be inherited into the mobile game, and there will not be too much suspense. Therefore, most gamers are more concerned about another question - how to achieve a smooth and efficient operation experience on the PC on the touch screen?
During this period, I found that there is a unique group of players who will use cloud gaming to play Naraka: Bladepoint on their mobile phones, but the key positions of cloud games have not been adapted and optimized, and there will be a situation where the screen is full of buttons.
"Could it be that this group of players are all geniuses?" "Wouldn't it be the same with a formal mobile game?" It wasn't until the cold, hard touch of the demo machine came that it pulled me back from my memories and confusion.
From the first experience, my concerns were obviously unnecessary, and the game made a lot of lightweight design. Sideways attack has been changed to a normal attack. Vibrating, ascending, dodging, and charging are fused into a single roulette button. The game also adds features such as automatic pickup, parkour assist, blood medicine and nail powder in one. However, these changes do not affect the game's advanced gameplay: the mechanics of charging the vibrator, dodging the vibrator, and wall strike are still retained in the mobile game.
In terms of heroes, 5 heroes have been opened in this trial, and Fire Man, Big Buddha, Canaan, Ning Hongye, and Hu Tao have all restored the characteristics of the terminal game well. While familiarizing myself with the hero's controls, a nearby player warmly invited me to go head-to-head, but he didn't show any mercy to me because I was a newbie. I've lost a few times in a row.,If it's in normal times.,It's definitely not a good experience to be "pressed on the ground and rubbed" like this.,In the last game of solo.,I saw him send me away with a set of spoons after the fire man opened the big one.。
"Can you also flip the spoon in a mobile game?"
My eyes lit up, and the previous frustration was swept away, you must know that the fire man is also one of the features of "Naraka: Bladepoint", and it is still very curious how the mobile game can reproduce this.
I immediately said, "Coach, I want to learn", and he readily agreed, and in this offline trial meeting, I unexpectedly gained a master.
Fire Man's Twist Spoon is quite easy to get started in mobile games, punching + ascending dragon + punching punch + ascending dragon...... You can cycle it, and if you set up a one-click combo, then the difficulty will be even lower. However, I didn't have time to rejoice when I returned from school: will the convenience brought by the simplification of hero control affect the balance of the game?
Due to the cancellation of the energy setting in the mobile game, the fire man can punch without responsibility, and once he succeeds, he can easily use the spoon to kill the opponent, and I also noticed that the remote grappling of the Buddha has been changed to an automatic lock, so the "double grab" is also easy to hit with such a highly profitable operation. After asking the staff at the scene, they said that they had actually received a lot of similar feedback, and some targeted adjustments would be made in the future.
After I became familiar with the operation, I had the confidence to open the four rows with the people around me. Surprisingly, when they were in the fourth row with their teammates on the scene, everyone had a good conversation at first sight, and two of them said that they had been in contact with terminal games for a period of time under the "ears and eyes" of their dormitory classmates, but they did not insist on getting through the "novice period".
Another "Eternal Calamity Realm God" from the terminal game is amazing: "I only play Eternal Calamity, and I don't actually play mobile games." "I'm the kind of person who likes to watch recordings, and when I commute to work, I look for Xiao Ming's recordings to watch...... "It's a pity that we chatted and chatted for a long time before we got out, but everyone laughed at it.
Judging from this four-row trip, the consciousness and technical aspects are secondary. The powerful game itself brings people of different backgrounds together. If it comes to mobile games that emphasize lightweight, this will be further amplified. In fact, the four-row mode added by the development team this time not only considers fault tolerance, but also takes into account the actual situation of the four-person dormitory of college students. This proves once again that only by going deep into the player ecosystem can we create products that are truly close to the hearts of the people.
Enjoy the charm of "vibrating knife" anytime and anywhere
After a little experience, producer Guan Lei also came to the scene and shared with us the original intention and story behind the production of this product, which gave us a deeper understanding of the game.
Both mobile games and terminal games are projects of 24 Working Group, and both are by producer Guan Lei, but they are independent of each other. The mobile game is in charge of another team in the group, and there are also many talents with experience in triple-A action game development, and the development of mobile games will basically not affect the operation of the terminal game. In addition, the team also has a lot of cooperation between terminal games and mobile games, for example, the biggest resource sharing is art. In addition, mobile games basically restore the level of terminal games in terms of special effects, but the performance resources accounted for are only one-third of those of terminal games.
After we understood the basic situation, Guan Lei said frankly to everyone: "In fact, we have been doing this set of sliding screen operation methods for mobile games for a year, and a year ago, the team developed a version of the terminal game that is extremely restored in all aspects, but it had to be redone because it was too hardcore. ”
This transformation is undoubtedly two-sided, on the one hand, as mentioned above, the simplification of some mechanics will give up part of the depth of the game, such as the game around the fire man's punch, the game around the long flash and the short flash, etc., which are actually lost compared to the terminal game. (Of course, this is only a demo version and does not represent the final product.) ）
But on the other hand, this shift takes care of all the players who love martial arts competitive games. If it is the ultimate restoration of the PC gaming experience, there may be anti-human button settings like cloud gaming. Not to mention the difficult operations such as spoon reversal and double grabbing, the end game needs to be charged + sprint + sliding shovel jump just to rush, and from time to time it is interspersed with hook lock air A and other skills, and this is just "walking". When it comes to mobile games, if you still ask players to press four or five buttons in a flash, it is obviously beyond imagination.
Later, Guan Lei himself mentioned, "Mobile games are not just for serving users of terminal games, but to allow more players to experience the fun of vibrating knives anytime and anywhere, regardless of whether they have played Naraka: Bladepoint before." ”
In view of the difference between the operation of mobile games and terminal games, there is also the problem of simulators, as far as many competitive mobile games are concerned, in order to ensure the fairness of the game, ejector players and mobile game players are generally not matched together, will Naraka: Bladepoint mobile games adopt this strategy in the future? This is also a curious point.
Guan Lei jokingly said, "If you have a computer, why don't you play the terminal game?" There will be an emulator version in the future, but it still needs to be considered whether this part of the players can be matched with mobile game players. ”
Although the producers have always emphasized not to over-compare mobile games with terminal games, in terms of commercial results, the number of players of Naraka: Bladepoint has almost doubled to 40 million just three months after the announcement of its free game. Officials could expect the number of players to increase after the transfer, but this speed was a bit unexpected for them. With the end game of Zhuyu in front, everyone is naturally very concerned about the future performance of the mobile game.
Can mobile games reach the same height? Guan Lei has certain expectations for this. "Since there are no cases of the same type of products on the market, in fact, I don't have a bottom in my heart", "The number of players who play mobile games is several times that of terminal games, and I definitely hope that it can perform better than terminal games."
In the matrix's view, whether it is a terminal game or a mobile game, the product "Naraka: Bladepoint" has indeed been taking its own "single-plank bridge". If you insist on finding a reference, NetEase's own "Against the Water and Cold Mobile Game" has now achieved results that are not inferior to the end game, although Naraka: Bladepoint and Reverse Water Cold are not on the same track, but there are many things in common in the martial arts temperament, and the two did not have the slightest sense of disobedience in the previous linkage. Therefore, Guan Lei's expectation is actually reasonable to put on his "Naraka: Bladepoint Mobile Game".
Write at the end
After the trial, I was still stranded in Chengdu for a while, and I passed by the scene many times during this period, thinking if I could try my luck and queue up to open a game of four rows when there were few people. However, the situation at the scene shattered my unrealistic illusions, and the fans at the back of the queue basically had to wait three or four hours to experience it. After a short period of revelry, I have to agree that this is no longer a place where I can categorically "step in".
The huge square of Chunxi Road, everyone is willing to squeeze into this trial meeting of several hundred square meters. The cold wind at the end of the year is still the same, but it still can't blow in here for half a minute. Joy and abruptness coexist, meeting like-minded people on the spot, chatting with the production team, or seeing the joy of "stepping on the network cable...... Now NetEase's product has also unveiled the veil of mystery, and I believe that in the near future, "Naraka: Bladepoint Mobile Game" will rush to a wider player base with rapid momentum.