The gameplay trailer this time felt off from the very beginning—
The first scene featured a group of hunters, barehanded, shirtless, and with bare thighs.
They moved through a jungle full of weeds and green leaves, searching for weapons and armor.
Netizens quickly started asking questions:
“Why aren't they wearing clothes?”
“Is it for fair competition? If the prey doesn't use weapons, neither do the hunters???”
“I can't take it anymore, just looking at this scene makes my whole body itch!!!”
“Do skilled hunters have to enter the hunting grounds naked and craft weapons by hand on the spot?”
Breastplates, leg armor, boots.
Greatswords, giant axes, shields.
Grappling hooks, potions, traps.
… …
Everything was there.
Viewers watched as a hunter ran and picked up pieces of equipment, quickly adding them to his body. When he finally threw a grappling hook to grab the treetop and swung himself out of the shot, he was fully armed.
The speed was so fast that it was dazzling!
Everyone almost thought that this person was the main character of this gameplay trailer.
Then, this old brother swung his sword, only to have his weapon knocked away, and he was instantly killed by a spear piercing his chest.
The hunter in the scene was dumbfounded.
Huan Yue and the players outside the scene were also dumbfounded—
“What the heck? How did the greatsword fly away?”
“Is the recoil effect that strong? A new mechanic?”
“The weapon pierced his chest! Not a clipping error! Dream Maker has finally applied physical destruction effects to characters!”
“But wait a minute, isn't this gameplay called [Eternal Hunting Ground]???”
“Where are the prey? How come we haven't seen a single prey, and the hunters are already fighting each other?”
… …
A barrage of question marks flooded the screen.
Huan Yue was also a little confused.
He thought he was hallucinating.
Because he saw obvious astonishment on the face of the character who was pierced through the chest by a spear.
But this was unreasonable!
Dream Maker's VR glasses also have internal cameras, which can indeed capture players' facial expressions and reflect them in the game.
However, for the sake of smooth game operation, the expressions that game characters can present have always been relatively simple.
This was evident in 《War of Kings》 and 【Sprawling Metropolis】.
But the hunter's astonished expression was so rich in detail!
It was almost like a real person.
The surprise was full of confusion, and the confusion revealed grievance.
Such complex emotions, expressed in just 1 second of screen time…
How was this possible?
It must be a hallucination!
But this hallucination became more and more intense in the subsequent gameplay trailer—
A hunter wielding a large katana was slashing left and right, having a great time.
Suddenly, a spear blocked him.
Another “clang”!
The katana flew out of his hand.
The hunter's first reaction was not to dodge the subsequent attack, but to look back in disbelief at the katana that had been knocked away, before blankly looking at his opponent.
The daze, coupled with the loss of his weapon, left him with no power to fight back.
He was stabbed to death on the spot by his opponent, and his equipment exploded all over the ground.
—
A spear hunter was fighting with someone else when a hunter suddenly jumped down from above his head, wielding a giant axe and hacking down at his head!
But that hunter squatted down and held the spear horizontally.
The next second, the sounds of two metal collisions rang out almost simultaneously!
The weapons of the two opponents—the giant axe and the dual swords—were simultaneously knocked out of their hands.
The two of them were also stunned for a moment before they thought of dodging.
In one of the scenes, Huan Yue keenly captured a very small detail—he was sure he saw the giant axe hunter's mouth opening and closing, saying something.
The trailer did not release the hunter's voice, and Huan Yue couldn't lip-read.
But this was not a big problem.
He refreshed the page and pulled the progress bar back to this point again.
Sure enough, a large red barrage appeared on the screen—
【Looking at the shape of the mouth, what was said here should be "WTF"】
This barrage received hundreds of likes from players in a few seconds.
“Hahahaha” barrages emerged densely.
Huan Yue didn't laugh.
“So… this trailer is performed by real players?”
“Was it acted by the development team?”
“But that's still not right! If it's the development team, why would they be so surprised after their weapons were knocked out of their hands, looking like they didn't expect it?”
Huan Yue couldn't figure it out.
But the answer was actually very simple—
Under Xu Meng's arrangement, the team responsible for developing the 《Monster Hunter》 main world and the development team for the [Eternal Hunting Ground] gameplay were two different groups of employees.
When Xu Meng was recording this [Eternal Hunting Ground] gameplay trailer, he pulled in the employees who developed the main world of the game to try it out.
When explaining the gameplay, he secretly concealed the "parry" mechanic.
This resulted in the shock and bewilderment on the faces of every employee whose weapon was knocked away for the first time being 100% genuine.
By the time they finally realized: the boss was being inhumane again!
And figured out the details and cooldown time of when this mechanic was activated, and united to find trouble with Xu Meng, Xu Meng waved his hand and said:
“Everyone has worked hard, the footage is enough.”
“Let's call it a day today.”
“Of course, you can continue to play if you want, I'll go edit the footage first.”
After speaking, he slipped away.
Leaving a group of people looking at each other.
What was even more excessive was: he didn't really go to edit the footage, but threw the footage to Xiao Meng and ran to the edge of Sprawling Metropolis to watch the players jump off cliffs himself.
Xiao Meng edited the footage, of course, editing it to be as fun as possible, and also gave Xu Meng, the owner, enough face, editing in all of his highlight moments, and deleting all the moments of mistakes in one second.
What was finally presented was the gameplay trailer that players are seeing now.
The content behind the trailer, in addition to the battles between hunters and the fleeting monsters, was the frost that slowly condensed from the edge of the map towards the center.
Indicating that the entire map would eventually be covered by extreme cold ice and snow.
After watching the trailer, players were both excited and expectant:
“It's already playable! That means it's almost done!”
“So this is actually a real machine demo?”
“It shouldn't be yet, but it's probably coming soon!”
“Worthy of Dream Maker's efficiency!”
“Is it with holographic display? Otherwise, it feels easy to throw off the VR glasses.”
“So holographic display is coming soon too?!”
… …
The netizens were very optimistic.
Huan Yue couldn't be optimistic.
One was that he felt that the game probably wouldn't come out that soon—the prey only flashed by, and it didn't show what the use of hunting in this mode was at all.
It should not be finished yet.
The second was because—
“When this game goes online, the streamer will be jointly hunted down by passersby, right!?”
“Could it be that I have to change my name every day by then?”
The moment he said it, the netizens in the live broadcast room were already eager to fight, ready to chop him down.
Huan Yue immediately shut up.
Instead, he went to see if the official had launched any more challenges, such as “20 million followers on the entire network to publicly release the third gameplay trailer” or something like that.
But unfortunately.
After releasing this trailer, the official account fell silent.
So after watching the trailer two more times, he planned to continue to climb the Sky Arena.
In these days, he has made rapid progress—
He has gone from being unable to climb past the 50th floor to being stable above the 60th floor.
The highest record even reached the 65th floor!
This meant that his combat power had increased by at least 20%!
Now he likes to take the back roads when he goes out, hoping that some ignorant hooligan will jump out and let him try his skills.
Unfortunately, the security around the neighborhood is too good, which disappoints him every time.
In order to facilitate climbing the floors, he set the login point in the Sky Arena.
—This is the benefit for boxers who have climbed to the 50th floor.
Below the 50th floor, if you want to bind the login point in the Sky Arena's hotel, you still need to pay credit points to the hotel.
Just as he was about to leave for the 63rd floor, Brave Sniper suddenly called him:
“Buddy, are you still climbing the floors?”
“Yeah, what's wrong?” Huan Yue asked, “You seem to be broadcasting very little these days?”
“Oh, I moved.” Brave Sniper said in a relaxed tone.
“Moved?” Huan Yue was a little surprised, “Why move? Where did you move to?”
“Ningzhou.” Brave Sniper replied with a smile, “The house is all cleaned up, it's in Jinghu District, very close to Dream Maker headquarters!”
“Ah, then congratulations, congratulations.”
“Don't rush to congratulate me, you're in trouble haha!” Brave Sniper couldn't help laughing.
“Trouble? What trouble could I have?” Huan Yue asked in confusion.
“I'm at the Dream Maker Game Experience Hall now, guess who I saw?”
“Who?”
“Asian boxing champion Hou Cong!” Brave Sniper gloated, “There are also several people I don't recognize, but they look like professional boxers too!”
“Soon they will become your opponents.”
“Come on! Beat them! I believe in you hahahaha…”
Huan Yue was speechless, almost pointing at his nose and asking:
“Beat the boxing champion? Me?”
