2018 is an extremely special period for domestic buyout games.
In this year, domestic games showed a trend of a hundred flowers blooming, and they had their own place in various categories. For example, "Ancient Sword Legend 3", which is known as the light of domestic production, "Taiwu Picture Scroll", which has opened up a new way to play, "Portia Time", which is a masterpiece of simulation management, and "Chinese-style parents", which is a unique simulation development game.
It can be said that the gameplay types of domestic games have been greatly expanded during this period, which has deeply influenced later game developers. However, in addition to these masterpieces that have gone down in history, many domestic games that players may not be familiar with are also secretly making efforts. Among them, a super hardcore survival game "Reality Survival" impressed me deeply.
Before 2018, well-known survival games such as "ARK", "RUST" and "Seven Days of Kill" gave players a lot of shock, rich and complex construction systems, open worlds with absolute freedom, and gameplay mechanics that required unbridled imagination, such games almost became the top of the live broadcast industry at that time. So, why do you take out the domestic game "Reality Survival" separately, and what are the differences from the above games?
To be honest, there are actually a lot of domestic survival games, but "Reality Survival" is definitely the most unique one in it, and the main reason is its main hardcore. Just like the title of this game, the main feature of Reality Survival is that the player is placed in a near-real wild environment, and through various survival skills, the development of power and finally the king.
Unlike most survival games, Reality Survival does not just take out a set of designed modules for players to place at will, but from the acquisition of raw materials, to the formation of tools, to the assembly of finished products, each link allows players to participate in it, and strives to bring the most realistic survival experience.
In addition, the risks and impacts of physical functions brought about by various harsh environments have also become an important part of the player's survival process, and players must be proficient in basic medical knowledge in order to save the day.
While it may seem like a high barrier to entry for Reality Battleground, the complex and interesting systems and mechanics for hardcore gamers are still exciting. Even when there was almost no publicity at that time, the first sales of "Desperate Survival" reached 50,000 copies, which is the best proof of its own quality.
After EA was launched, "Desperate Survival" entered a long testing period, during which a large number of new gameplay and content were added, and it was not until the 15th of this month that this long-standing hardcore survival domestic game was finally announced to be released in its official version, making survival players extremely excited about what new experiences it will bring.
The ultimate form of a hardcore survival game
In the past, survival games have always regarded themselves as hardcore, and the high threshold for getting started has not known how many passers-by have been dissuaded, but for the audience, this mechanical complexity is precisely the essence of what they relish. But despite this, after I tried the official version of Desperate Battleground, it still felt like it took hardcore survival to the next level.
Why do I say that, the hardcore degree of "Desperate Survival" is far beyond my imagination, and it made me deeply realize that the "super super super hardcore" on the store page introduction is really not a joke.
Like most survival games, Desperate Battlegrounds offers a pinching system and sandbox map customization before you start the game, but once I got into the game, I instantly felt the rigors of realistic survival. Other survival games are the first to enter the game, but "Desperate Survival" is the first to recognize the stone.
Doesn't it sound inexplicable, this is because the game does not have a mechanism that can directly obtain tools by combining them in pairs, but requires players to start with raw materials, polish and obtain various parts of the tools by themselves, and finally adjust and assemble them to take shape. Thanks to the rich material system in the game, the stone alone is divided into rough stone, hard stone, sheet stone, strip stone, etc., each stone not only has a different shape and color, but also has different functions and processing methods, which requires players to be proficient in screening skills.
To take a simple example, as a survival game, the most common is the axe, where the player needs to first pick up a piece of stone and place it on the stone to sharpen it into a stone blade. What, you asked me why I emphasized the emphasis on stones, because in the game, there is a difference between flatness and hardness of the crafting site, for example, the hardness of sand is on the soft side, and if you want to polish stones, you can only put them on hard stones that are equally hard.
Once you'll need to find a short stick, create a hole at the top of the craft node, and then choose an angle to combine the two, you'll finally have the most common tools in other survival games. As for how to distinguish hard stones, and how to use branches to get short sticks, I won't go into too much detail.
To give this example, I want you to understand that the underlying logic of "Desperate Survival" is realistic survival, thanks to a good enough and complex construction system, from small stone axes to large docks, players will start from the most basic raw materials, personally participate in every part of the construction, and truly experience the adventure close to realistic survival.
But fortunately, "Desperate Survival" is not blindly emphasizing hardcore to the end, after a production process, players can use the formula mode to quickly process the tools that have been made, and another experimental mode, you can make bold attempts through wild imagination, and finally form a variety of interesting props, and generate the corresponding formula. While ensuring the freedom to explore and fun, it also minimizes unnecessary repetitive actions for players.
It can be said that the charm of "Desperate Survival" lies in how to turn island survival into the process of island vacation step by step, from the initial poverty, even there is no space to store items on the body, it takes half an hour to make a fire, to build your own house, weapons, furniture, sailing or hunting in the deep forest, and living a life of abundant food and clothing.
Suffocated by, the main focus is complex and real
If building and producing is only the first step to survival, then the physical ability to cope with harsh environments may be the biggest test for survival gamers.
In "Desperate Survival", the player's physical attributes are divided into 7 categories, such as physical strength, fatigue, calories, water, muscle, fat, and blood volume, and different adverse reactions will occur for different environments. For example, too high light intensity will burn the skin, too much rain will reduce the body temperature, wind speed will affect body temperature, thereby aggravating the evaporation rate of body surface water, and even the trace elements that are rare in other survival games are also divided into three categories in "Desperate Survival", namely salt, vitamins B and C, and different types of trace elements also maintain different body functions.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg in "Desperate Survival", the game also has a strict division of body tissue areas and functions, such as the teeth in the mouth affect the ability to chew, how many incisors and how many molars, the degree of tooth decay, and tooth damage will affect the player's physical function.
For the external limbs, the game also provides 6 parts, which correspond to different diseases, and players need to keep an eye on their health at all times.
Desperate Survival is almost full of survival elements, and from another point of view, as an important part of the sandbox game, the ecosystem of animals and plants is almost at the service of this core mechanic.
In the game, players can not only see almost real island vegetation, such as palm trees, green coconut trees, banana trees, etc., but each plant will provide unique raw materials to increase the player's chances of survival. For example, coconut palms provide food, palms provide fire elweiss, and bananas can be used for laxatives. The anchor who was suffocated to death by "" before was because he was constipated and did not take effective measures, and finally hated the northwest.
On the other hand, the animal system has been greatly strengthened in the new version, and it can be clearly felt closer to the real wild, both in terms of numbers and AI. Some hares will run away in a hurry after seeing the player, while the black bear, the overlord of the forest, will actively attack the player, and the player can not only enjoy the thrill of hunting in the game, but also see the animals naturally foraging and even migrating with their own eyes, and different kinds of animals will even cooperate, compete, and prey on each other, which also brings more variety and fun to the ecosystem.
Finally, it is worth mentioning that the multiplayer mode launched in the official version has raised the survival fun of this game to a new level. Players can not only work together to build or hunt together, but also tear each other down and mess together. I have encountered a lot of hardships and raised a fire, and in a blink of an eye, it was instantly extinguished by a pig teammate with a soak of urine, and then angrily went to seduce a black bear, and directly turned on the "slaughter" mode that night, focusing on a revenge must be avenged.
epilogue
After several years of EA updates, Desperate Survival is finally officially launched, bringing an unprecedented hardcore survival experience. The official version adds a large island, allowing players to build more complex dhows for more sustained sea expeditions, while optimizing animal behavior logic, increasing animal species, and greatly improving the ecology of the wild.
At the same time, the game has launched a sincere DEMO trial, adding a metal smelting system, a new animal AI system, and a planting system, enriching the types of ores and buildable tools, and supporting multiplayer online cooperation.
It can be said that in the survival game track, which has gradually declined, with the official version of "Desperate Survival" online, fresh blood will be injected, and it is also worth looking forward to by all survival players.