Chapter 235: So this is how the game works?

Chapter 235: So this is how the game works?

"???"

Seeing the system message in the lower left corner, Dr. Qin subconsciously opened his personal role panel and took a look.

Merit: 11!

He really gained 11 points of merit. This reminder message was not false. The system indeed awarded him 11 points of merit.

Oh my god, it’s not a bug, right?

Dr. Qin's reaction was the same as Guo Mo's at the beginning, disbelief, shock mixed with a bit of confusion, not understanding what was going on.

what happened?

Didn't the great master of the second test tell him that merit is difficult to obtain, and even a little merit is very laborious? Why did his merit automatically increase by 11 points without doing anything?

Wait a minute...11 o'clock?

The number 11 seemed to make Dr. Qin realize something.

Reminiscing that he just cut the screen and went out to play "Hunting Hour", and played a game while checking in daily, with a net KD11 of 14/3, he suddenly became curious, could there be any relationship between the two?

"No...impossible, right?"

Although he vaguely felt that the two might be related, Dr. Qin immediately denied this speculation.

Cultivation Fantasy is a cultivation fantasy, and Hour of the Hunt is Hour of the Hunt. These are clearly two different games, produced by two different game developers. How can they be related?

Even if there is a connection, is this connection too nonsense?

He killed several Neon players in "Hunting Hour", and the Heavenly Way in "Cultivation Fantasy" distributed corresponding merit rewards?

Aha?

Stop being funny, this kind of thing...

From the bottom of his heart, Dr. Qin did not want to believe that such an outrageous thing could happen in this world. After all, it was too unbelievable.

But he had just done nothing except cut the screen to play "Hunting Time", and "Cultivation Fantasy" was hanging and running in the background.

If this is not the reason, could it be the 11 points of merit caused by hanging up?

Hanging up to show merit is also nonsense!

Neither of the two outrageous guesses is reliable, but after ruling out all possibilities, the reason why he gained merit may actually be one of these two unreliable guesses.

Either it's a good thing caused by hanging up, or it's inseparable from "Hunting Time"!

Anyway, he had nothing to do, and he was not in a hurry to form a team to write a book. Dr. Qin decided to do another experiment and cut the screen to play a game of "Hunting Time".

"Hunting time, start!"

It is still the familiar competitive mode. There are only two Neon players in this game. Dr. Qin still transforms into a tyrant, chasing these two Neon players with the unique operational reactions of high-end players.

After half an hour, the game ended.

Because there were relatively few targets in this round, there were only two players, and the other players were relatively close to each other, so Dr. Qin’s record was not very good, only 7/5/3.

"Net KD2..."

Based on the experience of the previous game, after Dr. Qin clicked the settlement button, he quickly switched back to the "Cultivation Fantasy" game page hanging in the background.

[Your behavior has been recognized by heaven, and your merit +2! 】

Really hammered!

Seeing this system message, Dr. Qin's guess was finally confirmed. His merits were indeed brought about by "The Hunting Hour".

Moreover, the amount of merit seems to be linked to his net KD. The amount of net KD is the amount of merit gained.

"Does it feel so good?"

Dr. Qin was immediately interested. He didn't expect that the two games he loved to play could be linked in such a strange way.

Out of curiosity, he tried again.

This time he won't target them. It doesn't matter whether they are Neon players or Chinese players. He will kill them whenever they see them, mainly in pursuit of a higher net KD.

In this game, he had an excellent record of 20/1 net KD19.

When he switched back to "Cultivation Fantasy" and expected to see the system message of merit +19, he found that he had not obtained any merit this time.

"ah?"

Dr. Qin was stunned.

What's going on? Why was it that he was fine before, but his net KD was so high in this round, but no merit was given to him?

"The card bug was discovered?"

Regarding this phenomenon, Dr. Qin subconsciously wondered whether his behavior of getting stuck in the bug was noticed by Tianba Studio?

But this is wrong!

If Tianba Studio notices his abnormal behavior of playing bugs and gaining merit, it should ban his account directly.

After trying it, his account has not been blocked, there is nothing abnormal, and he has not received any warning messages. It is just that the bug has not been triggered to gain merit.

"Then the posture is wrong..."

Dr. Qin recalled his three games and suddenly realized that in order to pursue a higher KDA in the third game, he did not specifically target anyone.

Is this the reason why the bug was not triggered in the third game and the merit reward was obtained?

In order to verify his conjecture, Dr. Qin switched back to "Hunting Time" and played a game. This time he no longer pursued high KD, but continued to target foreign players, especially Neon players.

[Your behavior has been recognized by heaven, and your merit +5! 】

Great, it worked this time.

Seeing that his merit count had reached 18 points, Dr. Qin couldn't help but feel a little dazed.

Is this the merit that the second test master repeatedly emphasized, saying that it is difficult to obtain and has great use? It doesn't feel difficult. Isn't it just a matter of having hands?

Then he tried a few more times.

Unfortunately, Heavenly Law did not grant him merit. According to the system prompt message, he learned that the same game behavior could only obtain Heavenly Law of Merit rewards three times a day.

"Only three times a day?"

"The same game behavior, what is the same game behavior? It means changing the game, can I still continue playing?"

Dr. Qin, who didn't understand what this sentence meant, thought of another game he was playing - Master Duel.

This game he plays is also on the foreign server, and he can match the players from other regions.

With the idea of ​​giving it a try, he opened "Master Duel" and excitedly entered the queue to play a game with a player with an English nickname.

"Super heavy warrior, activate!"

The prodigy started with a single card. Yan Rong entered and exited the graveyard seven times. Dr. Qin made the first move and made the opponent speechless. He simply surrendered and gave him a victory.

After easily defeating his opponent and switching back to the game screen of "Cultivation Fantasy", Dr. Qin was delighted to find that his merit increased by five points!

OK OK!

This game can still be played like this, right?

With a deck that had just been strengthened but had not yet been cut, Dr. Qin won three consecutive victories in the rankings, directly accumulating all the merits for today.

Change the game, change the game!

Dr. Qin became more and more enthusiastic as he played. He opened the Steam game library and looked for games that could "provide him with merit."

But just when he was looking for a new game to hit the 100 points of merit in the middle stage of Qi training, "Cultivation Fantasy" hanging in the background suddenly received a private message.

[GameBugs is chatting with you privately: Young man, do you choose to surrender, or do I come to find you? 】

Dr. Qin: "..."

broken!

Why did Brother Ba come to the door so quickly? Is this Brother Ba himself? Isn't it a fake?

…

Facts have proved that the person who privately chatted with Dr. Qin in the game was really Chen Ba himself.

On the first day of the game's public beta, Chen Ba must be at home and monitor the game's public beta at all times to facilitate timely processing.

There was a player in the game whose merit count soared by dozens of points without doing anything, which naturally attracted Chen Ba's attention.

This scene looks so familiar to him!

In the second test, Guo Mo was like this. When he hung up, the number of merits inexplicably increased by ten points. The reason has not yet been figured out.

Unexpectedly, this scene appeared again during the public beta!

And this time, this player seems to have figured out the pattern. The merit increases not only once, but every once in a while.

Chen Ba observed it for a long time and determined that this guy had probably figured out the rules and knew how to trigger this bug stably, and then he contacted the other party.

Do not misunderstand!

When he noticed the anomaly, Chen Ba called Xiao Lu and others to investigate the anomaly in Dr. Qin's account, trying to find out the cause of the problem.

But the result was exactly the same as that of Guo Mo. He knew that there was something wrong with the source of the merit, but he just couldn't figure out where the problem was. What code was wrong?

As the number of merits of "Qingbao is not a cat" continues to grow, Xiao Lu once suggested that his account should be blocked?

Chen Ba stopped him.

He chose not to block his account and continued to observe. After his observation, he determined that the problem probably had nothing to do with "Cultivation Fantasy" but was caused by other reasons, and he finally sent a private message.

After contacting Dr. Qin himself, through his description and explanation, Chen Ba finally figured out what the origin of this abnormal merit was.

"simply put……"

After calling everyone to the conference room, Chen Ba said with a serious expression: "This is a serious game bug with a very bad nature!"

"The Tiandao program running in the background will monitor the player's game behavior at all times and then make corresponding judgments..."

On the whiteboard, Chen Ba circled the words "game behavior" with a pen.

"The key point is here!"

Tianba Studio obviously discovered the problem very early. Someone triggered the bug during the second test. Why didn’t it figure out until now?

Because this bug affects outside the game rather than inside the game, they spent a long time investigating it inside the game but found nothing.

"I understand!"

"This bug occurs outside the game and has nothing to do with the game itself, so we can't find the problem no matter how we look inside the game."

Xiao Lu said thoughtfully: "Then the question is, what is the specific form of this bug?"

"It's easy!"

Chen Ba continued to explain: "The game did not exit. The Tiandao program did not end the process. Instead, it was triggered by hanging in the background and continuing to run."

This thing is comparable to an input method.

Users can wake up the specified input method program in any program. In the same way, the Tiandao monitoring program of "Cultivation Fantasy" can be awakened at any time as long as the process has not ended and is still hanging in the background.

This leads to a bug!

The player's actions that obviously occurred in another game and another program will also be judged by the "Tiandao" program and rewarded with merit.

"Is this... so evil?"

Xiao Lu was a little surprised. He never expected that this Tiandao program would be so powerful. It could "enforce laws across games"?

"You can't say that..."

Chen Ba coughed, and then said with an embarrassed look: "Don't put it in such a bad way about cross-game law enforcement. This is clearly game process overwriting."

To be honest, Chen Ba was also confused.

He created the Tiandao program, but the core code was written by the Tiehanhan system, so he didn't know that this thing could be hung in the background to implement "cross-game" law enforcement decisions.

It is worthy of the name "Heavenly Way"!

This program is completely worthy of its name. It is so outrageous that Chen Ba doesn’t even know how to explain it to the players.

What do you say?

For the merit mechanism of "Cultivation Fantasy", we specially designed a heavenly program that covers the entire fairy world.

As a result, this program Tiandao not only covers the entire fairy world, but also covers the entire PC world?

Wegame calls the experts directly!

The function of this thing is comparable to XX computer manager and XX anti-virus software that hang in the background at any time.

The most outrageous thing is that this thing can also intelligently judge the player's behavior in other software and games, and then give corresponding merit rewards.

By the way, isn’t this much more advanced than detecting virus software and blocking ad pop-ups?

“It’s really high-end!”

Xiao Lu thought for a while. This program, Tiandao, can make behavioral judgments across games. Its performance is definitely much better than detecting viruses, anti-cheating, and blocking advertising pop-ups.

But what will players think?

There is such a Tiandao program that monitors every move of players at all times, even when playing other games. How can privacy issues be guaranteed?

"So I said, the program Tiandao must be running in the background and cannot end the process, so this bug will be triggered..."

Chen Ba explained: "When players log off normally, exit the game normally, and end the process, they will not encounter this situation."

This is also the reason why only Guo Mo triggered the bug during the second test, and no one else did.

Because everyone is very involved in playing games and will not do anything else. At most, they can switch the screen to reply to chat messages, or switch the screen to search for guides and tutorials.

You will not gain merit by doing these things.

Only when playing "Cultivation Fantasy" and switching the screen to do something "full of positive energy" will the program Tiandao capture it and issue corresponding merit rewards.

"For example?"

Xiao Lu is very curious, why does cutting the screen trigger merit rewards? What are the specific application scenarios?

"Enter other games to kill foreigners, report and respond to those mindless trolls or mentally disturbed people on forums and other software..."

Chen Ba gave two practical examples.

This is a situation that he has just tested and determined to be feasible. It is also the two merit reward methods that have been triggered by players so far.

As for whether there is any other way?

Chen Ba thinks there is.

It's just that I can't think of other methods now, and players need to slowly explore them later. And the most important thing is that he doesn't know what situation will be judged by procedural heaven.

You think you are doing good deeds and accumulating virtue, but the procedural heavenly law doesn’t approve of it, so that’s useless!

Created by Chen Ba, the Tiehanhan system endows the core program with justice, impartiality and no emotion. It has discretionary power and Chen Ba cannot interfere.

As for modifying the judgment rules and filling this loophole, Chen Ba cannot do it...

Unless this program is stripped away and rebuilt, this bug is almost unsolvable and will always exist with the game.