Source: Game Think Tank
From the "Tuning Test", to the "Noise Reduction Test", and then to the current "Noise Test", the distance between "Jeopardy Zero" and players is getting closer and closer.
At 11 o'clock on April 18, 2024, the third test of "Jeopardy Zero" - "Noise Test" officially opened.
Compared with the previous tests, the three tests of "Jeopardy Zero" have some similarities and some differences.
Congratulations on winning the "Open Beta" qualification
The same is the reaction of players, as early as March 16, the official account of "Jeopardy Zero" successfully aroused the interest of players with a group of bangbu, and the discussion on major social media has been higher and higher, with excitement, speculation, and no lack of discussion about what eye-catching content will appear in the third test.
By the time the test qualifications were officially issued, more familiar images appeared.
For example, the famous phrase "It's not that you can't afford to play the second test, but the public test is more cost-effective", in fact, during the second test of "Jeopardy Zero", players laughed at their own bad luck, and this stalk is often accompanied by a "cool and handsome" emoji, when someone replies "take off the glasses", players will reply with a "crying" emoji to show pity.
In this third test, the familiar sunglasses reappeared, although it is an old stalk, but the way of "taking off the sunglasses is a crying face" is still there, and players are even more happy.
In addition, many people shouted "Congratulations, I have been qualified for the open beta" and "As we all know, the open beta is the most cost-effective".
Guess the time of the open beta.
and sighed that he had never drawn it, why Mihoyou was so ruthless.
Of course, there are naturally many lucky people in the comment area who are ready to go, and they can't wait.
Every time the test of "Jeopardy Zero" is opened, it can cause heated discussions on the whole network. miHoYo's brand blessing, its own high art quality and eye-catching cool style make the game stand in the center of the stage as soon as it is exposed. From the number of reservations on the whole platform in the 6 hours after the first PV was released on May 13, 2022, to the number of reservations on the official website of the second test approaching 17 million, and then to the number of global reservations exceeding 30 million on March 30, 2024, as time goes by, the steps of "Jeopardy Zero" are getting bigger and bigger, and the whole picture of the game is becoming clearer, and there are naturally more and more interested players.
As for the difference, compared to the previous tests, the preparation for the start of the "noise test" took longer.
On March 17th, "Noisy Test Preview|Warm-up is a Necessary Preparation" was officially released, and the number of views on Station B alone exceeded 2.6 million, and more than a month has passed from the release of the test preview to the official start of the test. Many players said frankly that "Jeopardy Zero" is so calm this time, it seems that it is going to make a big wave.
After the "Noise Test" is turned on, it is not difficult to find that compared with the second test, the changes in "Jeopardy Zero" are really a bit big.
Let Bangbu no longer be a "side dish"
If you've been following Jeopardy Zero, it's not hard to see that the game's combat system is always evolving.
At last year's Cologne Game Show, Li Zhenyu, the producer of the "Jeopardy Zero" project, gave a brief description of the upgrade process of the combat mechanism, and exposed the three designs under the extreme support system - "parry support", "evasion support" and "assault support", in order to enrich the support part, make the game's combat system more complete, and further raise the ceiling of the combat gameplay of "Jeopardy Zero".
In the second test, the emergence of advanced combat skills - extreme support has been widely recognized by test players, and has given players more options to deal with in battle, such as when encountering an attack that cannot be avoided, players can parry the attack by switching roles to achieve "parry support".
Essentially, Jeopardy Zero hopes to add combat value to non-combat behaviors with more design, so as to ensure the coherence and coordination of the combat system, and make the combat experience more enjoyable and exciting.
In this three tests, "Jeopardy Zero" cleverly integrated the "little side dish" during the battle, Bangbu, into the combat system in an extremely silky way.
Before the launch of the "Noise Test" preview PV, many players speculated that the focus of the three tests was the deepening of the value of Bangbu, especially when a group of Bangbu flocked to monsters in the PV and played various coordinated attacks with multiple characters, the credibility of this guess increased a lot.
After the test opened, Bangbu finally got rid of the identity of "little side dish".
In the second test, Bangbu's existence is more passive, although it has a certain connection with the combat system and the cultivation system, but the functionality it provides is stronger, like a "equipment" that provides buff buffs for battle formations. Its active and passive skills,This "equipment" also has a certain attack ability,During the battle,Bangbu will move freely on the field,Random attacks,The attack method is different depending on the weapon it holds。 In addition, Bumbu has its own stat values, which are health, defense, attack, and impact, and different Bumbu has its own stat focus.
From the above introduction, it is not difficult to see that although Bangbu has different attributes and abilities, there is no strong active connection between it and combat.
In the three tests, Bangbu has become a powerful "partner" for players in battle, and some battles Bangbu can not only provide support with active skills, but also have additional "Bangbu Combo Skills", which can activate combo skills like other characters, helping players play more varied outputs and deepen the action game experience.
It is not difficult to understand that instead of being a small transparent, the official must hope that there will be more interaction between Bangbu and players to further enrich the player's combat experience. And the official is not "dominant", "Bangbu Combo Skill" will not occupy the number of times the player triggers this round of Combo Skill, and at the same time has a corresponding cooldown, its role is to amplify Bumbu's combat ability, which is the icing on the cake for the combat system.
Continuous polishing in many aspects
Compared with the previous two tests, the changes in the three tests of Jeopardy Zero are more reflected in the details, on the one hand, enriching the core of the game, and on the other hand, optimizing the player's experience.
Like the appearance of the game, whether it is the scene or the character modeling, the game as a whole has become more vivid and detailed, and the look and feel has been further improved.
The appearance of the agent characteristic divides the characters into five categories: "strong attack, breakthrough, abnormality, support, and protection", highlighting the role positioning, and giving the game strategy to cooperate with the attributes, while the attribute anomaly effect is to amplify the role of the attributes, so that the characters have a systematic and intuitive way of playing.
Regarding the design of the running map of "Jeopardy Zero", it has also caused some controversy in recent times.
The running map of "Jeopardy Zero" is actually using an abstract way to restore the experience of real exploration of the void. The changes that occur after each move, every inadvertent pop-up word, are showing what the player sees and feels when exploring the void, which is not as intuitive as the animation, but it creates enough emotional impact, and with the expression of TV broadcast, the experience is very amazing.
Of course, "Jeopardy Zero" also takes into account the needs of other players, so the accelerated playback function has been added to the three tests, giving players the right to quickly run the map, and when playing the main story, players can also choose casual mode or challenge mode to reduce the difficulty of the battle, make the game rhythm universal, and further meet the needs of all kinds of players.
In addition, the shortcut manual that can be directly challenged by clicking on it, which is divided into four periods and corresponds to a time system corresponding to different schedules, various events and monsters, growth mechanics that can unlock more difficult challenges, and many other content, are also met with players one by one in the three tests.
I have to admit that "Jeopardy Zero", which came to the third test, is one step closer to the best self in the future open beta, for this, I believe that whether it is the anchor who follows each test, the UP master, or the players who have been paying attention to the work, should have a clear and profound experience.
Looking back at its debut in May 2022, more people were surprised by the unique appearance of "Jeopardy Zero", and now, through both internal and external training, the game stands firmly in the center of the stage and accepts the scrutiny of countless players in the context of the current multi-party involution and the pursuit of high-quality expression. It is certain that after the start of the third test, "Jeopardy Zero" will continue to polish and show its better side during the open beta.