Chapter 104 New Game: City Abandoned by God (Second Update)
"City Abandoned by God" is a post-apocalyptic social survival game.
The background of the story is roughly the Western Middle Ages, and the player plays the role of the city lord of the city abandoned by God.
The reason why it is called the City Abandoned by God is because a loose seal of hell was found underneath this city. The humans in the city either actively or passively accepted the knowledge of demons, abandoned their belief in God, and The city was plagued by plague and morally corrupt, so it was abandoned by the gods.
The angel regarded this place as an unclean place and wanted to send down the holy light to completely destroy it.
The city lord played by the protagonist must try his best to overcome many difficulties so that the city can survive.
The main gameplay of the game can be roughly divided into two types: one is the management and construction of the development mode, and the other is real-time combat.
The development part is mainly about resource allocation and construction planning for the city, such as:
Providing rations and drinking water to different units, consuming resources to build city defense buildings and livelihood facilities, and dispatching adventures The team goes outside the city or explores underground ruins, organizes city defense forces, upgrades city defense mechanisms, promulgates policies, summons demons to help, etc.
In addition, various different events will break out in the city, such as hungry people riots, church propaganda, disaster victims coming to escape, home sects leaving, plague epidemics, scorching heat, severe cold, strong winds, accelerated corruption, animal migration , Angel Invasion, Divine Punishment Comes, etc.
Players must also respond to and deal with these events while developing daily.
In addition, as players deepen their exploration of underground ruins, they gain more and more demonic knowledge, and can unlock up to five different "demon skills".
Hell Vision: After turning it on, you can see the attributes of the target unit.
Hell Power: After opening it, you can gain powerful combat power.
Hell Knowledge: When turned on, demonic knowledge can be spread to control thoughts.
Hell Summoning: Summon demons to enrich the army and raise the dead.
Hell's Gift: Allow others to temporarily gain any one of the above four abilities.
In the real-time combat part, there will be a steady stream of enemies coming to attack the City Abandoned by God. Some are bandits and bandits from the outside world, some are crusaders who come to crusade, and some are simply powerful angels themselves. Go down to earth and join the war.
Players can control a powerful hero character to participate in the battle just like a MOBA game. Of course, this hero character is the city lord himself.
If that were just the case, "City Abandoned by Gods" would still be a game with a fairly normal style.
It's nothing more than managing, building, fighting, and resisting one round of attacks after another.
But obviously, the games designed by Lilith will never be so kind.
In the game "Forsaken City", in addition to the two gameplay modes of "Management" and "Combat", there is also a "Development" gameplay!
In the plot, the city lord adopts a little girl Xia Mi as his adopted daughter. In addition to management and fighting, players can perform a series of nurturing operations on this little girl, including roughly five types:< br>
Lifestyle: Various criteria for choosing the little girl’s basic necessities.
Education: transfer certain knowledge and skills to little girls, or provide ideological education.
Favorability Category: Entertain and play with the little girl, make decisions that suit her, and improve your favorability.
Affairs: Let the little girl help handle various affairs in the city and improve her ability to respond.
Special category: extreme operations such as abandonment, imprisonment, and execution of little girls.
This is actually quite normal, but here comes the key question: This little girl is actually a mole!
She perfectly fits the definition of "Holy Virgin Bitch" that everyone summarized before.
When there is obviously insufficient food in the city, she will also save the surrounding refugees;
She will secretly release the angel believer prisoners in the prison;
Even She will secretly transport the food and weapons in the city to other villages that are suffering from famine;
When the city lord wants to increase working hours, she is the first to jump out and object;
When the city lord wants to go deep into the demonic ruins to obtain demonic power to protect himself, she will firmly oppose or even secretly sabotage it;
And the most outrageous thing is that even when the "Animal Migration" event is triggered, she will Ask for the few supplies to be used to adopt and rescue these animals!
In short, she refuses to drink when the city lord toasts, and she turns tables when the city lord picks up the dishes. The very existence of this adopted daughter is the biggest obstacle to the survival of the city abandoned by God. Perhaps the player, out of patience, will choose to directly take special actions to imprison her, or simply execute her.
But, it still doesn’t work!
Because from the plot point of view, this adopted daughter has a lot of background. She is actually the human incarnation of Archangel Chamuel. Once she dies, the angels will immediately send down divine punishment and completely destroy the entire city abandoned by the gods. On flat ground, the game ends immediately.
In other words, players will face a dilemma:
Killing is definitely not possible. If you kill, divine punishment will be directly imposed and the game will end;
If you don’t kill, If she is imprisoned, her adopted daughter Xia Mi's favorability will go crazy, and she will incite the prisoners in the prison to riot from time to time;
If she is not imprisoned, she will often make trouble and propose Some excessive demands have severely weakened the city's supplies and defense measures. If she doesn't follow her wishes, her favorability will still drop;
If everything goes according to her wishes...then this city won't be able to hold on for long and will be lost.
The most annoying thing is that every time the player makes a decision that does not meet her expectations, she will issue a moral torture to the player.
Even if the city lord died in the end because of the destruction of the city, she would only think that this was the punishment that a person who believed in the devil deserved, and he looked like a white-eyed wolf.
As for how to complete such character AI?
Of course we still use fake-AI technology!
Previously, "The Legend of Wolong" used this technology to cause trouble, mainly because it used the story background of the Three Kingdoms. How would the AI be spoiled?
But "The Forsaken City" is an original story background, and even the designer does not know how the future plot will develop. Is it okay to use fake-AI now?
As for the benefits of fake-AI technology, it is also obvious. It will make the behavior of NPCs more unpredictable, which will naturally make it easier for players to break defenses.
Of course, this fake-AI technology still requires a series of training, mainly to stamp Xia Mi’s thoughts to ensure that players cannot easily change her thoughts through acquired education.
Perhaps players mistakenly believe that as long as they treat her better and increase their favorability, they can change her mind, but this is obviously wishful thinking.
...
Everyone couldn’t help but look at each other.
It seems that the previous stereotype is indeed correct at all. Zhou Yang’s guess is completely correct!
In fact, after the brainstorming meeting yesterday, many people's attitude towards Lilith has improved.
Although the first impression of this little girl is not good, she looks like a stupid leader who doesn’t understand games and likes laymen to guide experts, but everyone’s communication is quite smooth, right?
At least after everyone discussed "Holy Mother" and "Holy Mother Bitch", she made a quite accurate summary.
The Virgin Mary is stupid, the Virgin bitch is bad. The former is to pay too much benefit at any cost to dogmatically implement a certain moral code and even infringe the actual interests of oneself and friends; while the latter is to use morality to The method of kidnapping forces them to fulfill a moral code and adhere to double standards for themselves and others.
So, what players hate is Mary Disease and Mary Bitch, not the real Mary.
Isn’t this a very accurate summary?
According to this idea, if you want to create a friendly unit in the game, you must shape it into a true Madonna, not a Madonna bitch, right?
But how is the game "Forsaken City" designed?
Xia Mi is the most important female ally in the game. It is not only related to all the development methods in the game, but also involves the management and combat content of the game.
But such a character was designed to be a top-notch virgin bitch, confronting players at every turn, and like a dog-skin plaster, she couldn't get rid of her even if she wanted to!
Everyone exchanged glances with each other. Apparently, they all determined one thing.
I was thinking before, is this investor stupid or bad?
Is it because the level of game design is too low and the gameplay is thought to be interesting, or is it knowingly doing so?
Now it seems that it is probably more of the latter!
Lilith asked confidently: "What about my design plan? Is it a genius idea?"
No one knew what to say and could only look at Gu Fan.
Gu Fan was a little confused: "Why are you looking at me? If you have any opinions, just raise them. Mr. Li is not an unreasonable person."
(End of this chapter)