I Regressed, But the World Isn’t Destroyed - Chapter 16
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016.
“You can install it here.”
I ended up doing it.
This was the thought that Lee Do-hyeok had when he saw the capsule entering my room.
The price of a standard capsule is in the millions of won.
The price of a high-end capsule that can handle not only running high-spec full-dive games but also broadcasting is several times that amount.
And that’s not all?
‘I thought personal optimization options were added.’
This is also an option that can only be added to premium capsules, costing several million won.
It was also a feature that was not included in the existing Gian capsule.
Perhaps this was the very slight sense of alienation that Lee Do-hyeok felt when he first started Full Dive.
“Installation is complete.”
“thank you.”
It doesn’t end there.
The price went up again as we added some of the convenience features that Gian recommended as essential for future broadcasts.
That means the price of one of those 2M machines is very close to 20 million won.
“···”
It’s an expense of over 20 million won.
Even this was bought with Gian’s credit card.
Since the amount was that much, Gian also had to pay in 12 monthly installments.
Of course, Lee Do-hyeok was going to pay for the card, but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t grateful to Ji-an for readily paying for the broadcast capsule.
As soon as the broadcasting revenue comes in, shouldn’t I buy a generous gift for my younger sibling as well as pay the installment amount?
Of course, it was uncertain whether Lee Do-hyeok, who had not even decided on his own streamer name, would be able to succeed in broadcasting…
‘Isn’t it worth a try?’
To be honest, I’m not sure if I’ll be successful in broadcasting.
There was also Gian’s words that if it was her brother, he would definitely succeed, and there was also an aspect of that thought that came about thanks to Black Oak’s proposal to merge, as he was a fairly successful streamer.
But more than anything, it was seeing the cheers pouring in for his gameplay yesterday that made me think that way.
‘It wasn’t that difficult.’
Chiik-
Lee Do-hyuk had that thought as he entered the capsule.
-and;;
-Your physical is crazy
-Is the reaction speed real?
These are the chats that viewers who watched his play mostly used.
From Lee Do-hyeok’s perspective, it’s actually not very understandable.
Are you cheering like this with just this much?
Actually, there were chats like that occasionally in the chat window I saw yesterday.
-Hmm… Is that right?
Well, when this kind of chatting started, it was quickly suppressed and met with criticism from other viewers.
Although he didn’t say anything, Lee Do-hyuk seemed to sympathize with that chat to some extent.
The play he showed in [It Kills To] wasn’t anything special by Lee Do-hyuk’s standards.
‘Rather than that, it’s closer to saying that it was disappointing in many ways.’
Of course, the elation and fulfillment I felt during battle were very satisfying.
But at the same time, it was inevitable that regret would follow.
Unlike his days as a hunter dealing with aliens, his physical abilities in [It Kills To] are ultimately just at the level of an ordinary person.
Compared to the past when he fought with superhuman physical abilities, there was still something that was unfulfilled.
Woof-
And that’s why Lee Do-hyuk is now inside the capsule.
The current time is 3:00 PM.
There were five hours left until 8 o’clock, when the broadcast with Gian was scheduled to take place.
“Is this how it is done?”
If we compare it to an old PC, it would be a blank white space like the desktop.
Lee Do-hyeok, who was looking at some basic icons, reached out to the icon that said full dive.
I double-tapped the icon to run it, just like I saw Gian from the side.
Woof-
Then, after a brief loading period, a sense of reality greets Lee Do-hyeok.
“oh.”
Lee Do-hyuk let out a small exclamation.
I should definitely say that it was worth the money.
The discomfort I felt when I used Gian’s sub capsule yesterday was no longer there.
The effectiveness of personal optimization features.
“Run stam.”
After completing his body check, Lee Do-hyeok immediately started the stamina test.
Boom- Boom, Boom.
It’s not that he hasn’t tried virtual reality, it’s that he hasn’t used this type of gaming platform.
Lee Do-hyeok launched the [Explore] window and used various filters to find a game to play.
This time in game mode, not reality mode.
Unlike [It Kills To], where the character’s physical specifications are no different from those of an ordinary person even though it is a game mode, I wanted to try a game where I could utilize specifications close to superhuman.
I thought that maybe there was something I couldn’t do with [It Kills To] that I could do in other games.
“···wow.”
So many games coming his way.
The first thing that catches your eye is the star rating floating next to it and… the price.
Lee Do-hyuk paused for a moment.
I thought I had enough money set aside to buy games, but it wasn’t nearly as much as he had thought.
I guess virtual reality games are virtual reality games after all.
None of the games that catch my eye are under $200.
Click-
In the end, Lee Do-hyeok had no choice but to use the price filter to find a game that fit his original budget.
Starting from cute games that are supposedly for kids, to games with noticeably poor graphics that are supposedly from a very old game, to ones with poor modeling somewhere.
That’s when I realized there was a reason it was cheap.
“uh?”
There was one game that caught his eye.
[Ultimate Fighter FD]
‘This… seems like that game I know?’
To be exact, it is a full-dive version of the fighting game that Lee Do-hyeok played as a child.
I clearly remember the game as having characters that could shoot wind from their hands, characters with swords could use slashing attacks, and characters that could use magic.
That will probably remain the same in the full-dive version.
Let’s actually go into the details page and take a look. It matches exactly what he was looking for.
Even just watching the gameplay video that popped up, it was clear that it was a superhuman fighting game.
The price is also half of my budget, and the rating is also very respectable at 4.8.
Bb-
[purchase]
I completed the purchase as is.
Then run it right away.
‘For a nickname… I’ll just use anything.’
[Hmm, is that right?]
Lee Do-hyuk used a chat he saw a few times in the chat window yesterday as his nickname without any particular meaning.
‘Skip the tutorial.’
A prompt appeared asking if he wanted to run a tutorial to help him get used to the game, but Lee Do-hyeok turned it off.
If we divide gamers broadly, there are those who read the tutorial thoroughly, those who learn only the important parts and move on, and those who find it too bothersome to read and just skip over everything, and those who learn by experiencing things for themselves.
Lee Do-hyuk belonged to the latter.
Aside from the tutorial, if we were to explain it in terms of the PC version of Legend League that Lee Do-hyeok enjoyed playing as a child, he would be the type to first get used to using a champion in a ranked game rather than raising his proficiency in a normal game and then applying it to a ranked game.
Lee Do-hyeok was a talented player not only in sports but also in many games where reaction speed and dynamic vision were important, so he developed that habit from a young age.
“oh!”
Anyway.
Lee Do-hyuk escapes to the waiting room and moves his body.
An exclamation burst out of his mouth without warning.
A different feeling than before.
hook-
Swish. Taat!
Lee Do-hyeok ran around and tested his senses by throwing punches and kicks.
‘It’s definitely fast.’
Although this is not enough to be called a ‘superhuman’ by Lee Do-hyeok’s standards, shouldn’t we consider it as having surpassed the limits of a human being?
It feels like my overall physical abilities have doubled.
Perhaps this is the maximum that normal people can adapt to.
If it gets any faster here, normal cognitive abilities won’t be able to keep up with the speed.
“good.”
If you’ve moved your body to this extent, it’s real.
This isn’t even a real battle.
Since a game is just a game anyway, Lee Do-hyeok’s mindset was to enjoy it lightly.
Swish. Swish.
So I tried to play ranked games right away.
A notification will appear saying that you cannot play ranked games because you do not have the required level.
In the end, Lee Do-hyuk had no choice but to look through the list of rooms that had been made public.
“This would be good.”
He clicked on a workshop that caught his eye and entered.
[1:1 Fighting Spirit, Only Really Really Beginners]
**
Since the advent of Full Dive, the gaming industry has grown several times larger than before.
Even if you just look at the trending videos on iTube right now, most of them are in the gaming category.
The e-sports industry was also expanding its base at a tremendous pace, taking up a significant portion of the pie previously occupied by traditional sports.
Live streaming also benefited from this.
Even in Korea alone, there are streamers with an average of over 10,000 viewers, and the number of invited companies in the past has exceeded several dozen in today’s network.
It was truly a time of great prosperity for the people.
“Yay! Mission accomplished!”
But even in those times, someone like Black Girl can be classified as a fairly successful streamer.
Streamer name: Black Girl.
A first-year broadcaster with a fairly solid fan base of 2,000 average viewers.
“I will eat well!”
-Bu-uhk
-5 man mission off-
-Easy lol
-I was very careful
-Today’s mission was really good.
The fact that she was able to gather that many viewers in just one year since she started broadcasting was all thanks to her past history.
[Ultimate Fighter FD], Ulpa, was once a famous game that even had world championships.
The girl with black hair was a former professional wrestler who used the nickname “Geomhee” during her pro days.
A black girl who was skilled enough to be a professional in the full-dive professional world, where most of the players were male, and in the fighting game field at that.
Although she became famous for her looks rather than her talent, it is not that her talent was lacking.
In fact, he is an incredibly skilled player who has achieved the highest rank not only in Ultimate Fighter, but also in Iron Fist, the current popular fighting game.
However, she retired from Ulpa Pro as the popularity of Ulpa began to wane, and along with it, the popularity of Propane.
And after announcing his retirement, he jumped into internet broadcasting rather than professional broadcasting of other fighting games.
There wasn’t any special reason.
Having spent my entire life in the cutthroat world of professional sports, where I had to focus solely on winning, I found myself drawn to internet broadcasting after retirement.
And she has also managed to establish herself in the internet broadcasting field.
It was only natural, considering her decent, if not top-notch, professional career, her looks that made her more famous than her skills, and her reputation as a ‘woman who plays competitive games but is damn good at them’.
The main content of that dark girl is her roots, Ultimate Fighter, and the current popular fighting game, Iron Fist.
Today was one of the days I played Ulpa.
But there is a reason why a game is a mess.
“Huh? What’s this guy? 1800 points?”
-I lost the game lol
-What -You can get up to 900 points?
-Then all the users are gone lol
-I thought it was taking a long time to get a cue
Normally, it would be a ranked game where opponents with similar scores would be caught.
However, sometimes, when the time it takes to queue like this gets longer, you may end up being matched with an opponent whose score is significantly different.
This is what happens when users with high queues, like the Black Girl, are already matched with each other.
But the girl in black couldn’t escape the game she was caught in, so she continued on.
[victory!]
3 minutes later.
“Ugh, a 3-minute cut? This time it ended too quickly and was boring, wasn’t it?”
-yep
-But looking at the moves, it seems like they hit a bit.
-I was a bit of a pro at first, lol
-Even so, it won’t work on Geomhee.
-How much is a real pro jamba?
The score gap was so big that it ended up being a waste.
The situation is boring even for the viewers who are watching.
“Huh? 9 minutes waiting time for matching? Oh, that’s too long.”
Even the expected time until the next game is matched is 9 minutes.
If things continue like this, the excitement for the broadcast will be at an all-time low for a while.
It was at that time.
[‘Girl Spider’ donated 1,000 won.]
-Would you like to do a workshop mission for the first time in a while?
A donation from a fan.
“Is that so? I can’t even catch the cue.”
[‘Girl Spider’ has applied for the 100,000 won mission.]
-When you win 5 consecutive battles
Time remaining: 11:59
-oh
-gggg
-Let’s pull out the eyelashes
-Mission Action
Even giving missions.
He was a grateful fan who thought the broadcast was fun.
Moreover, in Ultimate Fighter, where most light users have left and only the old, or rather, rotten, people remain, the workshop is like a den of cards.
A place where all kinds of experts gather to feel the thrill of teasing the lower-level players in the workshop, rather than struggling to play against opponents of similar skill in ranked games where matching is difficult.
But because everyone thought like that, the Ultimate Fighter’s workshop became a feast of rotten people who deceived each other (and no one was deceived).
“Whew. Five consecutive wins? Five consecutive offense and defense wins might be a bit tough.”
-Just kidding
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋI got beat up last time when I met a J expert
-He was a betago
-Yeah, I heard it came up later
-Even Geomhee can’t beat Betago
“Ah, I said that was because I didn’t use the main character back then. Betago hyung brought the main character. It won’t work. I’ll show you properly this time.”
A den of such demons.
The Ulpa Workshop.
[1:1 Fighting Spirit, Only Really Really Beginners]
There, the demon of demons, the black girl, properly threw down the gauntlet.
The map is that time-honored fighting spirit.
With the magic words ‘Beginner Only’ in the recipe that make all the devils flinch and at the same time tempt them.
Only real beginners (2) – [Ultimate Fighter]