This is not a BUG, ​​this is a game feature

Chapter 51 Default Keys
Chen Ba was a little troubled.

At the China Overseas Gaming Exhibition, the game exposed many shortcomings and problems.

After returning to Jiangning, he made a list of problems that the studio needed to solve before the early access version was released.

The first is the default key position!
There is no problem with the adaptation of the controller. Although the default key positions are a bit abstract, they are at least usable and will not make players crazy about the stupid key positions.

Mainly a keyboard and mouse issue...

In the game "Star Emperor", WASD controls the movement of the character and the mouse controls the perspective. This is a very reasonable key layout.

But the skill keys are not very reasonable.

ERTY is the four commonly used skills, F is to activate the constitution, G is to activate the imperial weapon, and H is to activate the secret method.

During the trial period, some players reported that the three TYG buttons were too difficult to press.

The left hand of a normal game player is basically placed on the four WASD keys. People with a slightly longer index finger can press the T key, but people with a shorter index finger may have to move their left wrist.

There is also the G key, which is difficult to reach with your thumb.

In other words, you can press it!But this posture is not elegant, it is also very labor-intensive, and the operation logic is very strange.

"Can't the key positions be changed?"

Not long after he entered the studio, Xiao Jie, who previously worked as a mobile game dog planner at Juhua Network, scratched his head and asked: "If it feels awkward, then change it to a key position that is comfortable for you!"

It's no big deal.

Who has never experienced the operation of "changing keys" when playing games?Is it true that some people stick to the default key positions for a lifetime?
"You have to know that some players...how should I put it, they are either too lazy to change, or they forgot to change, or they don't know how to change the keys..."

Chen Ba spread his hands and said: "This kind of player relies heavily on the default key positions. If it makes them feel uncomfortable, that is a very bad thing."

"Indeed, I'm too lazy to change the keys when playing games. It's too troublesome." Xiao Lu nodded repeatedly.

"In those wall-breaking games you play, the left button of the mouse will automatically find the path, and the right button of the mouse will automatically attack. Why do you need to change the keys?"

Changing the key also scores points.

Some people just find it troublesome, like Xiao Lu, who always uses the default keys for everything they play.

In order to take care of these people, we should develop a set of default game keys that are more logical and easy to use.

"How about this……"

After simulating the operating habits and logic of keyboard and mouse players, Chen Ba analyzed: "The Ctrl key, Shift key, and the number 123 key seem to be more convenient."

The TYG key travel is indeed a bit long.

During a duel, if the battle is particularly intense and you press WASD to avoid skills, it will be difficult to press the TYG keys.

Not entirely useless though.

Some special skills that have a relatively long cooldown time and may only be activated once per battle can be bound to these unconventional keys.

Such as the ultimate sublimation!

This mode can be used at most once per game, so tying a Y button is not a big problem.

Anyway, you only need to press it once, and you are not asked to press it all the time, so what?You still think the blood deduction speed is not fast enough?

"The Imperial Soldier can bind the G key!"

Yang Dong suggested: "The frequency of use is not high anyway, and in our game, imperial weapons and supreme weapons are BUFF skills."

"Correct!"

Chen Ba nodded.

Skills like Imperial Weapon and Ultimate Sublimation that don't need to be used frequently can have a longer key range, which doesn't matter.

It can even be said that having the keys further apart is a good thing.

Otherwise, if you bind an F key to "Extreme Ascension", what if the player is in a hurry and accidentally presses it at the beginning?
Key positions are determined based on frequency of use.Take the protagonist Starry Sky Emperor as an example. The special physique he uses most often is the "Astral Sky Body".

The astral body has two physical phenomena: lunar and solar. During the battle, players need to frequently switch between physical phenomena to change combat strategies.

Therefore, Chen Ba decided to bind this key position to the Shift key. The reason is that the logic of switching the input method between Chinese and English is very consistent with the logic of the physical switching phenomenon.

Other great emperors or supremes, who have special physiques with this kind of switching phenomenon, are also tied to the Shift key to reduce the player's learning and adaptation costs.

I won’t talk about the common keys QERF and 1234.

The key point is that the two keys Ctrl and Alt need to be bound to one or two special secrets.

Secret skill is a special mechanical skill in the game that is higher than ordinary skills. It is not a big move, let alone a finishing move, but a combination skill similar to the nature of LOL's "Ultimate Grimoire".

simply put……

Each Great Emperor or Supreme has a set of exclusive skill modules, which is the so-called "Emperor's Scripture".

The Starry Sky Emperor's skills are all derived from the "Starry Sky Sutra", so the special effects of the skills are also related to stars.

The so-called secret method refers to stealing the master!

The secret method only has two grids, and the CD has been used for a long time. Each secret method is a unique skill of other emperors or supremes.

With the other way, return it to the other body?
This is the saying of martial arts, and according to the saying of fantasy immortals, this is the practice of "using one's body as a furnace to cultivate hundreds of scriptures" and transforming all ways into one's own way.

The secret method is not used very frequently in battle. After all, the CD is not short, but it can occasionally work wonders, so Chen Ba bound the Ctrl and Alt keys.

The secret technique is not a secret technique!

After excluding special keys such as secret arts, imperial weapons, and ultimate sublimation, the remaining keys are commonly used skill keys.

Sounds like a lot…

But to be honest, there are only four or five commonly used skills in the game.

Yes, only four or five are commonly used.

But these four or five skills can be combined with other skills, or used in conjunction with secret arts, physiques, imperial weapons, etc.

Commonly known as "combination moves"!
Although "Star Emperor" is not a serious fighting game, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is trying to sell the dog's meat, it still has the combo mechanism that a fighting game should have.

Combinations of moves must be discovered by the players themselves.

Because the combos are extremely flexible and can be combined, there are so many combos that can be created!

Even Chen Ba himself couldn't tell clearly how many combos there were for the six characters in the game.

He hasn't tested it either...

After all, there are too many types of combos, and it’s enough to test individual skills to make sure there are no bugs. Who wouldn’t want to go through all the combos?

Including imperial weapons, secret arts and physical phenomena, a character has a total of more than a dozen skills, and every two skills can form a set of combos.

Moreover, character A can also extract character B’s skills, which are secret techniques, to form new combos...

There are six characters in the game!

If the calculation is correct, there must be hundreds or even thousands of combos.

Such a huge base determines that Chen Ba cannot test them all. It is enough to test individual skills.

There are definitely bugs.

The trial version had a bug with incorrect scene textures during combat, but it was quickly fixed.

Other than that, it seems that I haven't encountered any vicious bugs.

This is also the reason why Chen Ba has the confidence to release the early access version of "Star Emperor" in advance.

After all, they have been tested and their game is perfect without any bugs or loopholes!
(End of this chapter)