Chapter 408 Unsolved mysteries after unpacking

Chapter 408 Unsolved mysteries after unpacking

"Oh? Unpacking videos appeared so quickly?

"These people are pretty fast."

Gu Fan was indeed a little surprised.

In fact, any popular game will most likely be unpacked, it's just a matter of speed. For example, the previously popular "Ascension" was also unpacked a month after its release, and there are technical UP hosts who specifically analyzed the specific mechanism of switching between the two worlds of this game.

But generally speaking, the more popular the game is, the faster it will be unpacked.

After all, there are only a few big players who are capable of unpacking. The game must be popular enough to enter their field of vision and make them willing to spend time and energy to do this.

But strictly speaking, the popularity of "Heartbeat Dreamland" is still a certain distance away from that of Ascension at the time.

I didn't expect that the unpacking video would come faster.

Gu Fan looked at the UP host who posted the video. His name is "Dongshengjun" , from the content of previous videos, he seems to be a UP host who specializes in unpacking games.

Of course, strictly speaking from a legal point of view, unpacking game programs is actually an infringement. If the game manufacturer insists on pursuing it, and the unpacking of the game program causes the leakage of certain commercial secrets, such as exposing the operation activities or update content of the next version in advance, it is possible to be sued.

However, generally speaking, most game companies do not pay much attention to this, and will not really sue the unpacked players for this.

If it is an online game, the player leaks the next version of the big activity by unpacking, which will indeed make the manufacturer a little annoyed. If it is a stand-alone game, even if it is unpacked, it will often not have any great destructive effect, but it will have Help players better understand the game mechanism, or increase the popularity of the game in disguise.

Therefore, most single-player game manufacturers have turned a blind eye to this unpacking behavior.

These UP hosts are also very smart. Most of the games they unpack are foreign games, especially single-player games. Even if they unpack some domestic mobile games and online games, they will deliberately avoid the next version of related content in the video content.

So in general, this kind of unpacking video has always existed on the Internet and has a fairly fixed audience group.

To put it bluntly, many players still have this curiosity to get to the bottom of things. For video creators, this is also a very unique ecological niche.

Just looking at the release date of these videos, Gu Fan keenly discovered a small problem.

Obviously, most of the unpacking videos released by this UP host before were released about three months to six months after the game was released.

Why choose this time point?

On the one hand, it is because the UP host needs to accumulate popularity, so that after a period of time after the game is released, when players have completed the game or even tired of playing, watching the unpacking video can have a better effect and avoid spoilers; on the other hand, it is naturally to avoid legal risks as much as possible.

But the unpacking video of the game "Heartbeat Dreamland" obviously does not conform to this time pattern, it is much faster.

In fact, so far, let alone the so-called "true ending", many players have not even scored the second female character into the third stage of full favorability, let alone full favorability of all game characters and unlocking all illustrations.

In this case, releasing the unpacking video, from the point of view of time, does not conform to the consistent thinking of this UP host.

However, this can only be regarded as a small doubt, and it does not explain too many problems. What if this UP host just likes "Heartbeat Dreamland" more and unpacks it without thinking too much? This is not impossible.

Judging from the previous videos, this UP host named Dongshengjun should have a good technical level. He has unpacked some classic games from big manufacturers, and even some console games.

Many details after unpacking have been dug quite deeply.

For such a technical expert, unpacking is not a particularly difficult thing. It took three to six months to unpack before, not because of technical problems, but because of other considerations.

But no matter what, we still have to wait and see the subsequent developments to figure out why he is in a hurry to unpack "Heartbeat Dreamland" this time.

Zhou Yang clicked on the video and ate while watching.

At this time, Gu Fan's mobile phone also rang twice. It was a message from the partner of the hand-made figure.

"Mr. Gu, if there is no problem, you can put it on the event promotion page today, and then it will be officially put into production! It is expected to be mass-produced and ready within this week."

Gu Fan took a look and saw that the partner sent a promotional page for the new Eleos hand-made figure.

Compared with the previous promotional pages, there have been significant changes, mainly with eye-catching elements marking the words "second generation" and "upgraded version". The gorgeousness of the promotional pages has also been significantly improved compared with the previous ones, using more magnificent decorative elements.

But obviously, this is all fraud.

In fact, the second-generation Eleos figure is marked with your "increase in price but not in quantity". While the price has been greatly increased, the contents inside have basically not changed.

The size and material have not been updated, just simply changing the color of some elements and adding a rechargeable interface.

For manufacturers, these changes are simply too simple, so they can be mass-produced and sold at the speed of light so quickly.

And the promotional page is obviously intended to deliberately mislead players.

When the players saw it, they were like, wow, the price has gone up so much? And judging from the changes on the promotional page, this must be a big upgrade!

The 399 figure is already like this, so the 699 one must be going to take off, right?

The 399 figure before was actually a limited edition, and it had already been sold out. It was prepared entirely to cooperate with the release of the "Heartbeat Dreamland" game. In fact, each figure was sold at a loss, just to scare the players and collect negative emotions.

Later, when the players wanted to buy it again, it was gone.

On the second-hand trading website, this broken thing was easily sold for thousands of yuan because of its good quality, small quantity and out of print, and it was difficult to buy.

This time, even though many players may realize that it will be available in unlimited quantities and will not become an absolute financial product like the first edition, many people will still buy it in the first batch out of inertia.

And the trap of this figure is obviously prepared for these people.

Gu Fan immediately replied: "No problem, send it!"

Then he sent a message to the relevant contact personnel in the company, asking them to cooperate in the promotional activities and fully update the promotional materials of the previous generation of figures.

Afterwards, Gu Fan put away his phone and continued to watch the unpacking video of "Heartbeat Dreamland".

At this time, about one-third of the video had passed, but Gu Fan watched it intermittently, and there was nothing particularly exciting in the front.

It was still the same as most unpacking videos.

For example, the UP host analyzed in detail how the face-changing of Alvette Beach was achieved, the model details of these characters, and the switching mechanism between the love content and the horror content in the game.

It was basically the content that had been discussed by players before, but with more details.

But soon, as the video entered the latter part, the unpacking content became more and more exciting.

Especially this so-called "true ending".

"But dear audience, the UP host also found some unsolved mysteries during the unpacking process. For example, the "GM panel" in this "true ending".

"We all know that through the AI ​​breeding method, we can cultivate Ellios into a real savior, and then use her authority to activate the GM panel to directly adjust various parameters in the game.

"Many players regard this as the official mercy, just like the unlimited rocket launchers given after clearing some horror games, which allows players to feel free to enjoy themselves after suffering and experience their favorite game content in the later stages.

"I thought so before, but after unpacking, I was confused.

"Because I really didn't find any interface in the game to call this GM panel!

"And the name of this panel in the editor is called "GM tool for testing". If you look closely, you will find that the art resources of this interface seem to be made-up, with a lot of stretching and rough edges...

"So, how exactly is this GM panel called into the game? I have never figured this out.

"That's why I wrote on the cover of the video: The true ending does not seem to exist in the game code? This is a suspicion, a guess. I don't know how Ni Tian Tang called this panel and put it into the real ending of the game. "

In order to prevent players from not understanding, UP host Dongshengjun also explained some professional knowledge, such as the name of the panel in the editor is randomly chosen by the developer in the editor, just for the convenience of memory, and will not be displayed in the game. It can only be seen after unpacking; for example, the art resources of the formal interface should be adjusted by special UI art. If it is a formal resource, there is no reason for stretching, rough edges, etc. This is a very unprofessional performance for an experienced game company.

It is basically the same as what Gu Fan gave Lilith.

It's just that Dongshengjun doesn't know how to call this panel and how many endings related to fake-AI are played. No detailed explanation.

It's not that he doesn't want to say it, but he really doesn't know.

These contents are directly related to fake-AI, and the inside story is very complicated. After all, Dongshengjun has only been unpacking for a short time, so it is normal that he can't study these contents.

Even if it is a top programmer, if you want to thoroughly understand these problems, you have to study for at least three to five days.

Soon, the video was played.

But it is different from the previous unpacking videos. After watching the previous videos, the audience felt that they understood it, but after watching this video, the audience felt more confused!

There are more doubts!

While the number of video views increased rapidly, the questions of players in the comment area continued to accumulate.

"What? This GM panel actually has no code to call, how is it possible!"

"I don't understand it very well. Does this mean that the GM panel is actually just a game testing tool for developers? It's not the official game content?"

"No way, I saw the analysis of Shaowan Games before. The appearance of this true ending is reasonable. In fact, without this true ending, the game is incomplete!"

"It's not designed? I don't believe it! It can't be that the god of code has appeared, right? The code itself generated a true ending? "

"Outrageous! Could it be that the UP host deliberately hyped it up? "

Obviously, the many "weird talks" in the video made it difficult for most players to accept them at first.

After all, this kind of thing sounds a bit far-fetched.

But in this matter, ordinary players have little say. Whether there is such a thing in the code or not, it is up to the programmers to unpack it and study the code line by line and speak with facts.

This video quickly took advantage of the popularity of "Heartbeat Dream" and had a far-reaching impact.

Players quickly started their own research!

Some of them discussed on the forum, and some shared their new discoveries on video websites. In short, everyone had only one goal, which was to figure out how the GM panel was called!

Including how the true ending was achieved.

Which part of it was written by the production staff of Against Heaven, and which part appeared unexpectedly.

If nothing unexpected happens, this debate will last for a long time, from three days to a week.

Zhou Yang was a little stunned: "Mr. Gu, this... the players actually analyzed it seriously!"

In fact, during the development of "Heartbeat Dream", Zhou Yang had a private discussion with Gu Fan.

Zhou Yang was not sure at first how to achieve the true ending of "Heartbeat Dream".

If you want to achieve this true ending by code, it will obviously be easier and the workload will be greatly reduced.

But if you want to achieve this ending secretly by AI, it will be much more troublesome and risky.

Zhou Yang initially tended to use part of the code to assist in achieving it. After all, Li Zong might not go into it, right? What's more, Li Zong doesn't understand the code, so it shouldn't be difficult to fool her.

But Gu Fan insisted again and again that he must use AI to achieve this secretly, and must not leave any evidence in the code.

As for how to achieve it by AI?

Obviously, it can only be achieved through repeated training in the early stage, so that AI will most likely adopt the same handling method when encountering a specific situation.

The advantage of this is that fake-AI itself is a black box state. It is composed of a large amount of code and decision-making. It is easy to adjust a result, but it is difficult to figure out why it does so.

Just like the top AI playing Go, you can only know that the move it makes is the optimal solution, but you can't explain why it is the optimal solution.

You can only memorize it.

Any attempt to crack the AI's thinking behavior is doomed to fail. Even the strongest programmer can't do it.

Obviously, Gu Fan used this method to seal the deep ending of the game in the black box of AI, leaving no trace of evidence.

Even the fake-AI development team couldn't find any flaws in person.

Zhou Yang couldn't help but be surprised: "Mr. Gu, did you predict it from the beginning..."

Gu Fan shook his head: "No, I just want to be more safe."

Is it possible that Lilith was fooled directly and didn't verify it in depth? Of course, this is possible.

Is it possible that players don't unpack and don't delve into the way to achieve this true ending? It's also possible.

But Gu Fan had to consider the possibility that Lilith and the players delved into it, and put more energy and make more turns during development to nip this danger in the bud.

At present, it seems that safety is reserved for those who are prepared.

Gu Fan does not need to continue to pay close attention to this matter for the time being, because they are unlikely to find any loopholes.

After all, these unpacking UP hosts are just interested, but Gu Fan is betting his life and property.

What is that saying? Never challenge other people's jobs with your hobbies, not to mention that Gu Fan is not only a job.

...

Soon, as the second batch of Elliot figures officially started pre-sale, the discussion of online players also increased rapidly.

Although there are many doubts on the promotional page, this obviously cannot dampen the enthusiasm of players.

Most players have only one attitude: buy! Buy it and it's done!

Although some players have raised questions, in the face of the high consumer enthusiasm, these questions have not attracted too much attention from players.

"There's not a single rendering of this second batch of figures?"

"There's no first batch either, aren't they all blind boxes? Anyway, no matter which pose it is, it shouldn't be bad."

"Yes, judging from the first batch of figures, it's just the poses that are different. All three poses are very beautiful and have their own merits. There's no big difference."

"What if you want to collect all three?"

"You're dreaming? It's good enough to grab one, but why don't you grab three? Why don't you go to heaven?"

"Why is the price so much higher!"

"It's okay. In fact, the first generation was originally sold at a loss. , the price has been upgraded this time, so the figures should also be upgraded. ”

“Is it bigger or more exquisite? At least they should change a few sets of clothes, right? There is nothing written on this promotional page, which is really frustrating.”

“It’s okay. Judging from the situation of the first generation, it will definitely not be wrong to buy it without thinking. The cheap money is all mental damage compensation given by Ni Tian Tang.”

“Place an order, place an order, if you are slow, it will be gone!”

“I vaguely feel that the second batch of figures will definitely not be as conscientious as the first batch, but it doesn’t matter. As long as they are slightly modified and the size is a little bigger, this price is also worthwhile!”

Players spread the word quickly, and the first batch of stock was sold out at lightning speed.

The first batch will be officially shipped in five days, and the manufacturer will continue to produce during this period. If you miss this batch, you will have to wait for the next one.