This is not a BUG, this is a game feature - #258 - Chapter 258 Merit Changes Luck

Chen Zihan, a male college student.

As a standard post-00s generation, he was the target of the popular internet meme “Teacher My Family Zihan XX” in the past two years.

no way!

Who asked his parents to name him just when names like Zihan, Zixuan, and Zihan became popular?

As the saying goes, this time and that time.

When his parents first named him, they probably didn’t expect that “My Family Zihan” would become an internet meme, let alone that there would be so many peers with multiple names.

It’s embarrassing, I’m used to it anyway.

What’s more, although this name is very popular, just like Jianguo and Weiguo in the 1970s and 1980s, it is still the name given by the parents.

Chen Zihan didn’t think there was anything wrong with this. Because when he gets married and has children, he will probably be named after this internet celebrity.

Chen Zihan is not in love.

In addition to teaching himself photography and vlogging to record life, his biggest hobby is playing games, which is also the norm for many college students.

This is no surprise…

As for college students, there are only a few who are motivated and self-disciplined. Most of them are like wild horses. It is definitely unrealistic to let them spend all day in the library.

“The fantasy of cultivation has been updated!”

As soon as he returned to the dormitory, Chen Zihan heard the exclamation of his roommate Yu Zihan.

That’s right! There are two “Zihan” in their dormitory 403, and they were both born in the same year and had the same university major.

Because of this, Dormitory 403 is also called “Zihan Dormitory” by the dormitory next door. The other two roommates who were not named Zihan were also nicknamed “Brother/Brother Zihan”.

“What’s updated?”

Pulling out the chair and sitting down, Chen Zihan rubbed his ankles and asked curiously: “Did Brother Ba realize his conscience and finally adjusted back the output of the foundation-building dungeon?”

“I want to eat shit!”

Yu Zihan shook his head and said: “This update seems to have modified the merit system. The update announcement is rather vague and I can’t quite understand it.”

How can I not understand it if it’s all in Chinese?

Chen Zihan was speechless. He suspected that his roommate’s college entrance examination scores were faked. A college student couldn’t understand a game update announcement. Are you kidding me?

“let me see!”

Chen Zihan stood up and walked behind him, looking at the 16-inch screen of the laptop.

“After the update, there are new ways to obtain merits in “Mountain Village Past”. In addition, merits can affect luck to a certain extent. Fellow Taoists, please work hard…”

What the hell?

Chen Zihan also plays “Once Upon a Time in a Mountain Village”. To be precise, this is a game that several people in their dormitory raised money to buy.

If one person buys it, the whole dormitory will have fun!

It was precisely because he had played “Once Upon a Time in a Mountain Village” that he was confused and puzzled by this update announcement.

Isn’t “Once Upon a Time in a Mountain Village” a pure stand-alone horror game? There is no online function, how can I obtain merit?

This game was linked to merit, which already puzzled him. What puzzled him even more was the description that “merits can affect luck to a certain extent.”

Luck?

What is luck? I wonder if there is no spiritual recovery in this world, how can I come up with a special term for novels?

Even if it’s broken, he can’t understand it!

The two looked at each other, and finally decided to go to the Tianba community to see how others analyzed and understood this update. Otherwise, after studying for a long time, they probably wouldn’t even understand what the so-called “luck” is.

“Oh, I see……”

After browsing several popular posts in the Tianba community, Chen Zihan roughly figured it out.

This luck actually means luck! It’s just that this luck has nothing to do with luck in reality, it’s just “luck in playing games”.

“Is there such a thing?”

In the process of reading and replying to the posts, the two also saw an abnormality in the divination system of “Once Upon a Time in the Village”, which can predict “good and bad luck” in other games.

Chen Zihan was greatly surprised, so he quickly opened his computer and planned to verify it himself.

It turns out that this is true!

In addition to “Cultivation Fantasy” and another two-dimensional mobile game, Chen Zihan also plays a neon online game called “Beach Volleyball”.

In this game, players can draw SSR swimsuits for their favorite characters, obtain materials to improve the properties of the swimsuits, develop their characters, and finally play “eye-catching” beach volleyball.

Chen Zihan first made a divination, and the result showed “Xiao Ji”, so he used the lottery tickets he had saved to draw ten consecutive draws.

Sure enough, I pulled out my favorite SSR limited swimsuit!

After the ten consecutive draws, the divination was performed again, and the divination turned out to be “big bad”. You don’t need to think about it, and you will definitely not be able to ship the goods if you draw again.

“The divination function of “Once Upon a Time in a Mountain Village” can actually be used like this? Damn it!”

Yu Zihan, who was watching his operation, was surprised: “How does this thing calculate good or bad luck? It feels quite metaphysical, but the key is that the calculation is quite accurate!”

“How could it be metaphysics…”

“You are a college student after all. Can you have some basic common sense? This is a probability calculated based on data. Do you really think you are a fortune teller under the overpass?”

Chen Zihan shook his head, and then said: “Although I know the principle, this thing’s calculations are so accurate, it is indeed a bit powerful!”

Calculating probability is not difficult.

If nothing else, just take the process of smoking SSR swimsuits just now as an example, make a formula yourself, and calculate it on a scratch paper, you can also come to a rough “shipping” conclusion.

But my own calculations are definitely not as accurate as those calculated by the divination function of “Once Upon a Time in a Mountain Village”, or even far worse.

The hexagram just now is so accurate that it can determine whether every ten consecutive draws will be shipped!

If you calculate the probability of shipment by yourself, can you calculate which one will be shipped in ten consecutive rounds? I can’t figure it out, but I can calculate that at most four or five “ten companies” will ship like this.

“It will be shipped within fifty draws” and “It will be shipped within the next ten draws” are two concepts.

The most powerful thing about the divination function of “Once Upon a Time in a Mountain Village” is that it makes many probabilistic and data-based things more accurate.

If you draw a lottery 50 times to guarantee a minimum, is it one shot to win the soul, or is it to take 50 times to guarantee a minimum?

No one could answer this question before, because no one could explain probability clearly.

The divination function of “Once Upon a Time in a Mountain Village” cannot calculate which lottery will deliver the goods within the 1-49 draws. But it can calculate which round you will ship at 10, 20, 30, 40, or 50.

certainly!

This calculated hexagram is not 100% accurate. Someone from the Tianba community has verified it. At least one of the ten hexagrams is wrong.

But even so, this function allows players to control the direction of their own luck, which is already very powerful.

After all, before this, everyone was opening boxes and drawing cards for draws and so on. At most, they played “Good Luck Comes” to increase their confidence, but in fact, everyone had no idea.

At least we have a bottom now.

Chen Zihan looked at the discussion among the community leaders and had a certain understanding of the term “luck”.

simply put……

The so-called “luck” refers to the luck in the game. The stronger the luck, the more you play the game, the more you will become the so-called “European King”. The worse your luck is, the more you play games and become the so-called “non-chief”.

“Is there still such a thing?”

Another roommate walked into the dormitory carrying a lunch box. When he heard this, he couldn’t help but said curiously: “I understand what you mean, but what’s the point of studying this? Both the African Chieftain and the European Emperor are destined. Is it possible that the African Chieftain Can I still sneak into Europe and become the Emperor of Europe?”

“Congratulations, you got it!”

Chen Zihan snapped his fingers and said: “If the update announcement is correct, then a non-chief can really sneak into Europe and become the emperor of Europe, provided that your merit is high enough!”

“ah?”

The two roommates were stunned.

My buddy is talking to you about games, but you are talking about metaphysics, right? Luck is destined by nature. If you can change your luck, wouldn’t everyone be able to win five million in the lottery?

“Ahem…”

“What are you two thinking? The boss has already said that the luck we are discussing is limited to game luck, that is, luck when playing games.”

Chen Zihan said speechlessly: “Does this have anything to do with real luck? You won five million in the lottery. Even if the child of destiny comes, he probably won’t win, right?”

Reality is reality and games are games.

Luck in reality cannot be touched or seen, and it is even less possible to change luck against the will of nature. That is a true metaphysical concept!

But luck in the game…

Who said this thing can’t be changed? Who said that African chieftains in the game can’t sneak into Europe and become European emperors?

In the final analysis, the game is just a bunch of code. Since it is a computer program and it is a program controlled by people, it means that this thing has room for manipulation.

“To put it bluntly, those game plug-ins are just the protagonist templates in the novel, and the standard version is Grandpa Goldfinger.”

Chen Zihan couldn’t help but smile and said: “Do you understand now? Luck in the game can be changed, and it is also possible for non-chiefs to sneak into Europe and become European emperors.”

“How to achieve it?”

Yu Zihan raised his eyebrows and said: “Cheating? Just crack the game and let everyone transform into the children of destiny and have fun in the game?”

“I don’t know, but it shouldn’t be cheating…”

Chen Zihan shook his head and said.

If it is cheating, or directly cracking and modifying the client or server data of the other party’s game, wouldn’t Tianba Studio be committing a heinous crime?

All game companies have to sue them and make them pay for their losses, right?

Based on this premise, the “merits and luck changes” mentioned by Brother Ba in the update announcement are definitely not carried out by cheating or directly modifying data.

But Chen Zihan couldn’t figure out how to implement it specifically. After all, he was just an ordinary college student and didn’t know much about computers.

“Wouldn’t you know if you try it?”

Yu Zihan was eager to try: “According to the description of the update announcement, it means that the more merit you accumulate, the stronger your luck will become, right?”

“It seems so.”

Chen Zihan nodded and said: “However, the announcement did not mention the specific amount of merit required to change one’s luck, and…”

This merit changes luck. What kind of luck is changed?

Modify the luck for a certain game individually so that you can enjoy the “European Emperor” treatment when playing this game?

Or is it a change in game luck? No matter what game you play, you can enjoy the same treatment as “European Emperor”?

The most important thing is, how did Brother Ba achieve this “merit-changing fortune”? Isn’t it possible that just after the front foot has changed its luck, the back foot will be banned and sanctioned?

…

“Have you forgotten our merit whitelist?”

Seeing that Xiao Lu was also confused as to what the so-called merit change was, Chen Ba explained: “We are all in contact with the games on the merit white list, including those that are not on the list.”

Brothers, they are all brothers!

Through the game “Cultivation Fantasy”, Tianba Studio has established “deep friendships” with many friends and businessmen.

With this kind of relationship, if the time comes to say hello, let them do something in their own games, and give certain preferential treatment to high-merit players, wouldn’t it be like “merits change luck”?

“It turns out that this is how luck changes…”

Xiao Lu complained: “I thought you were going to use illegal means to invade the other party’s server and modify the game data to change the players’ luck!”

“How can it be!”

Chen Ba firmly denied it: “Am I that kind of person? I wouldn’t do that kind of thing. Besides, with the power of the divination program in “Once Upon a Time in the Village”, do I need to invade the other party’s server?”

It changed without anyone noticing!

After all, this is code written by Tiehanhan System. It is a piece of cake to reduce dimensionality and carry out small actions against friendly merchants.

Chen Ba is a civilized man.

He felt that it would be better to communicate in advance. After all, we are all buddies, how could we do something secretly?

If these game companies are willing to accept his proposal and conduct secret operations on players with “immeasurable merit”, then everyone will be happy.

If you don’t want to…

Sorry, you have to be willing if you don’t want to. After all, if Tianba Studio really wants to do something small, these friends can not only stop it, but they can’t even detect it.

do not forget!

In the game “Once Upon a Time in a Mountain Village”, the meaning of the divination program is that there are divination images first and then the game process.

“First, divination is used to obtain the hexagrams, and then a suitable game flow and plot are deduced based on the hexagrams.”

Chen Ba explained: “In other words, the divination program of “Once Upon a Time in the Village” has the ability to modify game content and data from the beginning.”

Although the scope of the modification is limited to the game “Once Upon a Time in the Village”, this restriction is not irreversible…

“Okay, I have no objection to any of this. I just want to know, as a horror game, do you think “Once Upon a Time in the Village” is missing something?”

“Almost what?”

“The plot! How come no one discusses the plot or the horror elements in the game?”

Xiao Lu was extremely mad and said: “Please! We made this game and worked hard to create so many puzzle levels and interlocking plots. Why is no one discussing it?”

This makes him look stupid!

You know, “Once Upon a Time in a Mountain Village” is a story script that he burnt countless brain cells and devoted himself to polishing. Each puzzle level is also carefully designed.

result……

It has been almost a week since the game was released, and no one has finished the game yet. Everyone is studying the divination system.

Xiao Lu felt so tired and had an urge to wish the world would be destroyed immediately.

Are these players seriously ill? Hu Xi’s adoptive father in the plot has been dead for almost a year, why hasn’t he been laid to rest yet?

Why do you study those broken copper coins all day long? Can you walk through the plot and bury your father quickly? Don’t let him expose his body in the wilderness?