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When it comes to fighting crickets, most people may associate the image of Jing'er Ye with a cage bird, thinking that it is a product of the old era with a lack of entertainment.
Countless literati and princes have left anecdotes about fighting crickets, all of which have been sealed in history, and are rarely mentioned today.
However, this gradually eliminated entertainment activity has actually caught the cyber express train, and has been reborn and has become an electronic mustard for many people to eat - it is the popular "electronic cricket".
(Plants vs. Zombies Fighting Crickets, from @MSGames)
I don't know if you have paid attention to it, but in the past two years, a number of "electronic crickets" have become popular.
From "War3" and "Dota 2", to "Plants vs. Zombies", "Slaying the Spire", and even the mobile game "Ark of Tomorrow...... It has become a phenomenon of the gaming community.
The content of the video is basically similar to that of a real fighting cricket: after the contestant data is set in advance, it will no longer intervene (unless a specific operation is required), and let the computer AI operations fight each other until one of them wins.
In my memory, the first to bring this wave of electronic crickets should be the Elden Ring community. After the release of the Old Man Ring on all platforms in February 2022, the game was quickly played.
There is a special type of "BOSS vs BOSS" and "BOSS Survive" videos on YouTube, which send the bosses who have abused players to death and come back to life into the cyber gladiatorial arena and become electronic pets watched by tens of thousands of onlookers.
Essentially, the joy of electronic crickets is to look at the unknown variables without subjective influences. After all, if you really have to let the player operate it yourself, a scumbag fighter like me may be overloaded in an instant.
All I think about is "wall of fire, wall of fire", "rolling and dodging", "can this knife be greedy", and the operation is in a hurry, and there is no time to appreciate the complete posture of the boss.
And now you can lie comfortably on the couch with beer in your left hand and skewers in your right. Seeing the AI on both sides bombarding each other, fighting back and forth, it is no less than a movie full of ups and downs with special effects.
Especially in the 1v1 battle of the humanoid module, the elegant and handsome brothers dodge the bloody blades and dance, coupled with the passionate narration, the ups and downs of the blood bar are like the embodiment of the audience's blood pressure, not to mention how sensitive.
These highly enjoyable videos have become traffic passwords. Soon, a large number of UP masters also emerged in China, and the French ring BOSS vs BOSS game had hundreds of thousands and millions of views at every turn.
At the most exaggerated time, the video submitted in the middle of the night was watched by 5 or 6,000 people online at the same time, which was really scary. In the comment area, there will also be tactical analysis of the audience, where to win and how to improve when you lose.
If some of the bosses are related to the background story, then the viewing will be higher, and the barrage often begins to come up in the middle of the two, like what husband and wife turn against each other, enemies join forces, martyrdom for love, etc......
After there are more UP masters, the content has also begun to roll in, and slowly come up with a variety of new tricks, such as letting the boss team up in pairs, or large-scale multiplayer team battles, and even the old man's ring version of auto-chess.
It can be said that this auto-chess is an auto-chess in the "true sense", and each chess piece moves on its own, and it will be slightly manipulated when it is played (laughs), and the scene is really grand. The only difference is that the chess player doesn't seem to have any effect.
Of course, if you really have to go back to it, this kind of electronic fighting cricket is not the first creation of the old man's ring players, as early as more than ten years ago, it was actually popular in the fighting game circle.
If you're a fan of the Internet, you've probably heard of the "M.U.G.E.N" — a free doujin 2D fighting engine pronounced "infinite" in Japanese, and a pioneer of electronic fighting crickets.
As long as you want, you can make your favorite characters into fighting game characters and stuff them into the engine to fight against other characters.
(Dense selection interface, very common in MUGEN)
The old color critic should have heard of a butter called "All-Female Fighting", which allows female characters to interact with various monsters in a sweaty way, which is also achieved through MUGEN.
Since MUGEN allows computer AI to control characters, there are people in the community who have long developed the cyber gameplay of "electronic fighting crickets" to allow AI to compete with each other.
The most common are the two series of The King of Fighters and the East.,There are a lot of derivative fanworks.。 IT'S JUST THAT TODAY, THE FIGHTING GAME CIRCLE IS QUITE NICHE IN CHINA, AND MUGEN IS RARELY MENTIONED.
Until the pouring traffic of the old man's ring, the long-dormant electronic cricket once again entered the public eye. Around the second half of 2022, a large number of electronic cricket UP masters have also emerged in other game communities.
(Plants vs. Zombies Fighting Crickets)
(Red Alert Fighting Crickets)
"Fighting electronic crickets, being cyber princes, pouting virtual cat c......rickets" has become a favorite of players, and some seemingly outdated old games have also been reborn because of electronic crickets.
Among these electronic crickets UP masters, the most famous is "Gongsun Yaliang", which specializes in Warcraft videos.
I occasionally mentioned a few mouthfuls in BB Ji's articles before, but now it has completely become the favorite daily meal of "Warcraft veterans" like me. Even professional players are not exempt from vulgarity, knocking on bowls every day and other updates.
(Surrounded by the cross, which hero can successfully escape)
For example, the three eggs th〇〇〇, I often see Mr. Dan eating skewers live on the Internet, while watching the slices of the Warcraft fighting crickets - it is really electronic mustard, which is very fragrant.
In the War3 video with an average of thousands of views on station B, it may be that Gongsun Yaliang can easily reach hundreds of thousands, or even exceed one million.
(If Warcraft learned to mine hard, who could mine faster than the fast-moving tinker?)
Gongsun Yaliang's Warcraft Fighting Crickets is so popular, one reason is that his videos are very brain-opening, not only limited to whether the "electronic crickets" play well or not, whether the picture is gorgeous or not, and whether the commentary is in place.
Instead, a series of preconditions are set up, just like a trial RPG map, so that the heroes in the game can compete one by one. Then a bunch of people gathered in the barrage and in the comment area to discuss and study.
(A lot of ideas are also brainstormed)
War3 is, after all, an RTS game with an emphasis on multi-class warbands. Some heroes, such as the undead "Xiaoqiang", are very weak in the normal house-building mode, but they are particularly strong in the electronic fighting cricket.
There are also "archmages" like the human race, whose strategic significance is very high, but in the fighting crickets, they are weak chicken heroes who are bullied by everyone. Of course, there are also heroes of unknown significance like the Night Elves' "White Tiger" who will always be at the bottom.
(There's even a "White Tiger Conservation Society" series, such as the video below ↓↓↓ Under the protection of 100 archers, see which heroes can kill a White Tiger with 10 HP through the Hundred-Man Circle.) )
And the prerequisites for each of his videos are very well controlled, and basically the hero win rate of the breakthrough video is maintained at about 40%-60%. Half of the heroes can pass, half of the heroes are eliminated, and there is always suspense.
Who is the strongest level 1 monster?A level 5 XX hero can single-handedly take on a few level 10 weakest heroes, the White Tiger?In the process of various tricks to engage in the effect of the show, dig out details that have not been discovered in previous War3 battles.
(Based on the results in the video, the player's self-made ranking)
The most outrageous Warcraft fighting cricket video I've ever seen is the "Nightmare Proving Ground" series, where all heroes become chess pieces on the chessboard, a bit like an SRPG game, where the chess pieces enter the mini-map battle (fighting crickets) when they touch.
In fact, "Gongsun Yaliang" belongs to the group of people who have figured out the War3 editor, and they could have made money from RPG maps, but now they are running to liver video to live, which is somewhat of a dimensionality reduction blow.
(For the liver video, it is equivalent to making an RPG map directly)
Therefore, a major premise for realizing the brain holes of various fighting crickets is to understand the game itself - which is why most electronic fighting crickets come from PC games.
Of course, in addition to PC games, there are also mobile games like "Ark of Tomorrow" that are more free to customize......
The phenomenal electronic cricket has long been part of the community culture of porridge, derived from a series of fun stalks, and finally received official attention and officially introduced the game.
(Part of "Ark of Tomorrow"'s electronic cricket UP master)
(Some game memes, from Xiaohongshu @Rhode Island Personnel Department)
On April 1 this year, "Ark of Tomorrow" officially launched an April Fool's Day limited-time event "Terra Investment Masterclass".
In addition to making the popular electronic cricket into the game, it also added the investment and financial management gameplay of betting 10%, 30%, 60%, and all in (in fact, it is to bet on which side wins).
Old readers should know that our BB Ji editorial department has an old relationship with the "two-color rainbow" of the Ark's actual combat theory, and the electronic cricket tests the understanding and knowledge of combat power, which is a good ball area for everyone.
Although the mini-game does not have a polemic link in the barrage comment area, it always feels a little less interesting, but the addition of betting gameplay is just right - the electronic cricket is played as a gambling cheating simulator.
(Bet on which side wins)
(Fight each other and divide the results)
Because it is a limited-time event of the festival, the money won cannot be brought out, so even if the "investment" in front is conservative, everyone will want to be all in the end. How many people are blindly studing, resulting in unsurprisingly losing all their money.
Fun cricket battles like this have taken root in various gaming communities, and even the Dota 2 arcade has creators who have taken inspiration from "electronic crickets" and launched custom maps.
(dota2's electronic cricket UP master "Old Sheep")
BB Ji usually likes to look through the comment area of the electronic cricket video. You will find that the older the games, the more chatty they are, the more reasonable the data is presented, and the discussion is very harmonious.
It's not the same as the real fighting cricket, and many times the "win or lose" result of the electronic fighting cricket doesn't matter (I won't say it, I like the White Tiger, a War3 hero, and I hope she wins every day).
(A lot of ideas come from the audience and collide from the interaction)
The important thing is the people who discuss it together in the barrage and comment section.
In today's Internet trend, where it is becoming more and more common for the party to fight against dissent and eliminate dissent, such a harmonious community atmosphere where everyone seriously discusses the game itself is too pure. It's so pure that it's a bit trance-like.
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