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

Chapter 92: Keeping NPCs free
When you come out to hang out, the most important thing is to have enough brothers!

The people in the entire Divine Grace Continent are either my brothers or my brother’s brothers. They are just monsters. What are you going to fight with me as a brave man?

Believe it or not, I brought a train of good brothers, and each one of them drowned you with spit?

The situation reported by Xiao Lu attracted great attention from Chen Ba. He immediately got out of bed and went to the computer to check the situation without washing his face.

really……

Under certain conditions, NPCs can also attack NPCs, recruit followers, and even get married and have children.

The so-called "specific conditions" include other triggering methods besides giving gifts as mentioned by Xiao Lu.

It can be triggered as long as the favorability between two NPCs is raised from friendly or neutral level to following.

For example, recruit two NPC teammates and take them to upgrade monsters together.

During this period, in addition to the increase in intimacy between the player and NPC teammates, the intimacy between the two NPC teammates will also slowly increase.

After two NPC teammates have exceeded the limit of mutual intimacy, choosing to kick out one NPC teammate will reduce the player's favorability with the NPC and try to recruit them again, which will achieve the same effect.

The logic is actually quite simple.

NPCs have two sets of favorable opinions, one is towards the player and the other is towards other NPCs.

The brave man recruited NPC Zhang San as his teammate, and Zhang San followed the brave man and fought together.

NPC Li Si does not meet the conditions for following the brave man, but meets the conditions for following Zhang San.Then when the brave clicks to recruit, the phenomenon of "Li Si is not in the team, but can play with Zhang San" will occur.

"I didn't expect such a bug!"

Yang Dong, who had just finished a cup of milk tea, came over and said, "Why didn't we find out during the testing phase that NPCs can also recruit teammates?"

This problem is not easy to solve!
Chen Ba rubbed his eyebrows, feeling that this matter was really difficult.

This is similar to the favorability bug that Xiao Lu discovered before. The difference is that the bug that Xiao Lu discovered last time was rooted in the favorability program they wrote themselves.

So it’s fairly simple to modify.

But this time the bug is mainly rooted in the hidden favorability between NPCs.

This is not the code they wrote, but part of the NPC generation program provided by the system.

to be honest.

The favorability system developed by Tianba Studio can only cover NPCs and players (braves).

As for the favorable relationship between NPCs, Tianba Studio has never written any code in this area, it is all automatically generated by the program...

"It's broken, it's hit!"

Chen Ba suddenly realized. At this moment, he suddenly understood that the abnormal favorability bug discovered by Xiao Lu before was just a cover.

The real harm lies here!

But even if he found the source of the crime, Chen Ba had no good solution.

After all, the playability of the game "God's Grace Continent" itself is based on the automatic NPC generation program provided by the system. Without this program, this is a garbage game.

If you want to fix this bug, you have to abandon the original NPC generation scheme and change it to wooden stake-type stupid NPCs.

With this change, the problem is solved, but the game "God's Grace Continent" is also useless...

"No, we have to find another way!"

One size fits all will definitely not work. The NPC generation program created by the system is too cumbersome. Without these colorful NPCs, the playability of the game will drop by several levels.

It's not okay to just let go.

This bug has already caused great damage to the game environment.

As a brave player, you can call your friends and use the NPC mechanism to conquer the NPC, and recruit a bunch of young men to bully the monsters wantonly.

Is this still a brave man?

Those who knew it were brave men, but those who didn’t knew it thought it was some kind of bad social vitality organization!When your brave men go to defeat the devil, the battle will be the same as attacking Ping'an County?

Don't be too outrageous!
Moreover, hundreds of NPCs appear on the same screen, and some players have experienced "game freezes".

"It's definitely not okay to form an illegal team!"

Chen Baxian characterized the incident and said: "Immediately make an emergency patch to prohibit more than five combatants under any circumstances."

This modification can be done.

But when it comes to the most fundamental NPC-defeating NPC mechanism, it is difficult to modify.

But Chen Ba has already thought of a way.

The multiplayer team is a bug, but NPCs can attack NPCs, so it can be characterized as the "hidden mechanism" of the game!

When players asked about it later, they said this was their hidden gameplay in "God's Grace Continent".Not only will players not criticize them, they might even praise them.

"In the Divine Grace Continent, everyone is a brave man!"

Chen Ba made a decision and said: "Brother Dong will make an announcement later, saying that we will conduct a round of blockbuster game updates later and launch a new set of idle idle gameplay."

"Put it on hold?"

"Correct!"

Chen Ba also looked at the problem. Since NPCs can defeat NPCs, the root cause is that the generation program provided by the system cannot be one-size-fits-all.

Then change your thinking and reduce the impact of this bug without changing the nature of the game.This bug can even be turned into a special hidden mechanism of the game that coexists with normal gameplay.

How to coexist?
Release NPC teammates, let him recruit friends to fight monsters, and let him build equipment and collect materials...

Commonly known as hanging up to develop!

Since NPCs are so smart, let them delegate their power. As brave players, they only need to take care of themselves. "Is this okay?"

Xiao Lu was a little hesitant. It wasn't that he didn't believe Brother Ba, but he just felt that NPCs shouldn't be that smart. Isn't it the same as letting them go to waste?
"It's okay, trust me!"

In fact, Chen Ba was not sure. After all, he had never seen any game where the NPC was so smart and could support his own family under the premise of freeing up the brave ones.

But "God's Grace Continent" is different.

The automatic NPC generation program created by Tiehanhan System really gave him too many surprises.

Each of these NPCs are so skilled!What NPCs in other games can't do doesn't mean that the NPCs in "God's Grace Continent" can't do it.

After all, before this...

There have been outrageous incidents such as NPCs robbing players, NPCs cheating on players for weddings and gifts.

It's hard to say what this game will look like if we completely untie the constraints of these NPCs and let them play freely.

……

Two days later.

Sharp-eyed players saw the update announcement of "God's Grace Continent" in the Tianba community and the game homepage.

The update announcement is very long.

In the announcement, Tianba Studio stated that the abnormal number of team members is a game bug and has released an emergency patch to fix it. There will no longer be a situation where a team has hundreds or even thousands of people.

But the situation where an NPC follows another NPC is not a game bug, but a hidden mechanism unique to "God's Grace Continent"...

In response to this hidden mechanism, Tianba Studio has worked hard and now releases the latest version of the game, bringing a cool new gameplay to the majority of players.

NPCs can be free-range!
In the new version, players can recruit NPC teammates into the team through two training routes.

The first type is still the same. The brave always takes his teammates with him, takes him to level up, collects materials for him to build equipment, and raises him like a son.

The second type is free movement. In this mode, the NPC teammates of the brave will not follow the brave all the time, but will run around everywhere.

As for what these NPCs will do in free action mode, no one knows...

The only advantage of being a brave man is that he can call his NPC teammates back when necessary.In this way, when conquering plot bosses or powerful monsters, the team will not be short of people.

"Raising NPCs?"

After Qian Xin read the update announcement, he entered the game and saw that a "Free Action" mode switching option was added to the menu bar of the four NPC teammates.

What is this for?

After glancing at the attributes, levels, and equipment of the four teammates, and with the idea of ​​giving it a try, Qian Xin enabled "Clark" to move freely.

Clark is the team's weak link.

Qian Xin didn't invest many resources in training him, and he didn't even have extra equipment for him.

Although he is already level 41, Clark still uses the most basic level 10-15 ordinary equipment.

This kind of teammates just make up the numbers.

He changed Clark's profession to a light mage, and added status or buffs to other teammates when nothing happened. He didn't expect him to deal damage and resist damage, so it didn't matter if he was left alone.

After turning on the free movement mode, Clark really changed.

Even if Qian Xin took the remaining three teammates to the wild to kill monsters, he would not follow them. Instead, he would run to the town alone, not knowing why.

Qian Xin didn't care about him either.

Tianba Studio officially said that after NPC turns on the free action mode, the behavioral logic is unpredictable and is not affected by the player.

Do whatever you want, don't go wandering alone in the wild and die...

After spending half an hour collecting materials, Qian Xin created an epic gauntlet for the fire mage.Unexpectedly, I was lucky this time. The gauntlet comes with a +16% fire element damage bonus entry.

This is a small masterpiece!

Fire mage is now the most popular profession because of its high group damage, which is very useful whether it is to clean up miscellaneous mobs or to obtain gold coins for materials on a daily basis.

Therefore, equipment with built-in fire damage entries are basically in short supply, and one piece can make countless people envious.

"Okay, I've graduated from Fire Technique."

After looking at the fire mage's epic equipment, Qian Xin nodded with satisfaction. He could start raising a wet nurse in two days.

Once the wet nurse is raised, you can almost complete the main storyline of the Orc Empire, and then level up like crazy to prepare for the crusade against the Demon King.

By the way, where's Clark?
Qian Xin didn't see Clark for half an hour and was a little curious about what this guy was doing, so he used a team call to call him back.

As a result, when Clark came back and glanced at his equipment column, Qian Xin was stunned.

What the hell!

Wasn't this guy wearing a white board suit half an hour ago?Where did you get the legendary ring?
I tried to remove the equipment, but the system prompted "Free Movement NPC equipment cannot be replaced."

"what happened?"

Seeing that he could not dismantle Clark's equipment for the fire mage to use, Qian Xin was wondering. Out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly saw Clark, his NPC teammate who had been kept by him, holding the hand of another NPC young woman.

And above the head of the NPC young woman, there is a line of words:

"Hera - Countess"

Qian Xin: "..."

What's the meaning?In half an hour, your boy hooked up with the countess and even gave her a legendary ring?
He is a brave man, why didn't he encounter such a good thing?

(End of this chapter)