This Is Not a Bug but a Game Feature-Chapter 306 - 199: Whose Little Sister Is This? (Happy New Year)
In the game "Global Evolution," the evolution mechanism is the core of the core.
It can evolve a total of nine times!
After nine evolutions, the player’s strength has already reached its limit, equivalent to max level in other games.
This max level is easy to achieve, precisely because it’s easy to achieve, so when the game was nearly two months old, most players were clamoring for higher levels of evolution.
Chen Ba couldn’t ignore the players’ demands.
Since they want to evolve to a higher level, let’s open it up for them to play! After all, evolving nine times or ninety-nine times is the same for the game "Global Evolution."
Why say that?
Because after nine evolutions, the character the players play, the protagonist Chen Yun, has reached the game’s peak in strength, with only one "King of Sea Beasts" able to withstand two moves.
In other words, at this point, the protagonist is already invincible.
Since you’re already invincible, what’s the big deal if you evolve a few more times? If you’re already first in class, raising your score from 95 to 100 still keeps you in first place!
Players are just bored...
That’s what Chen Ba thought, he really felt that evolving nine times or ninety times only changed the digits, with no other changes.
But since the players enjoy it, let them be!
After all, "Global Evolution" is a single-player game, even if players grind to "Burst Star Level" combat power, it’s just for their amusement without any other purpose.
Based on this premise, on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Tianba Studio announced and released a brand new game update for "Global Evolution."
The update had just one sentence.
Evolutions are now unlimited, players can evolve as many times as they want and infinitely strengthen themselves, as long as they’re willing to grind...
"Yo? An update?"
Wang Wei returned home after work and saw the update for "Global Evolution," his face immediately filled with smiles.
He was one of the first batch of players.
When "Global Evolution" was first released, he bought this domestic AAA game and immersed himself in it for a full 314 hours.
Initially, Wang Wei played the normal route, following the storyline and defeating bosses to clear the game.
Later, someone leaked online that you could turn into a game boss by exploiting bugs, so he started a new file and played the boss route for half a month...
After playing back and forth, he noticed his game time was at 300 hours, and Wang Wei did feel a bit tired, having not opened the game for several days.
That’s the way it is with plot-driven games.
While playing, you’re totally engrossed, thinking about the next level during meals and sleep, but after truly beating it and achieving everything, the only end is letting it "gather dust."
This update seems quite decent.
Wang Wei, after a long break, opened "Global Evolution," loaded the first saved file, which was also his first completion file, intending to enjoy it thoroughly.
Infinite evolution?
It sounded interesting, but after entering the game and starting the tenth evolution, he suddenly felt it was just so-so.
No novelty at all?
He thought the tenth evolution would bring some major upgrades, but it turned out every evolution after the tenth was just "panel evolution."
Panel evolution means that after evolving, aside from the stats on the panel showing an increase, there were no other noticeable changes.
Oh, strength increased from 900 to 1500, an epic upgrade!
And then what?
Fighting monsters is the same, a slap to kill one, you can’t really feel any stronger.
"Boring, it’d be better if they released a DLC!"
After Wang Wei muttered this, he seemed to think of something and suddenly had a whim: "Hey! I’m now able to evolve infinitely, what about the NPCs? What about the level bosses?"
In this save file, the protagonist Chen Yun hasn’t evolved into a Fierce Beast boss, still in human form.
Human form Chen Yun can infinitely evolve and get stronger, so theoretically, in Fierce Beast boss form, after evolving to the strongest King of Sea Beasts, he could keep evolving...
But that’s not the key!
The point is, after the last update, NPCs could replace players in various boss matches, acting as their proxies in storyline levels.
So... has the NPC evolution cap also been lifted? Can NPCs evolve indefinitely too?
Out of curiosity, Wang Wei approached his in-game sister, Chen Jia.
She’s a perfect test subject.
Because she’s the game protagonist’s sister, after the protagonist evolves into a Fierce Beast boss, Chen Jia even replaced her brother to become the new protagonist.
From this perspective, the potential of sister Chen Jia shouldn’t be underestimated, and she’s of great cultivation value, being the true protagonist of an alternate parallel world!
"Global Evolution" allows team play.
But experience, or "Evolution Level," is gained based on the player’s total damage to monsters.
Suppose a monster can provide 100 evolution points, and if a player teams up with an NPC and they each deal half the total output, then the evolution points are 50 each.
For this reason, when fighting various bosses or storyline levels, players aren’t very willing to bring NPC teammates.
Because not only are they not much help and just slow you down, they also take away some evolution experience, making it not worthwhile. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶
This is also why the game is popular among loners, promoting the idea that the strong don’t need teammates, not even wanting to bring along their sister.
Wang Wei took his sister to the wild.
He is now a tenth-level Evolver, while his sister is only at the fifth level, so during this process, he can’t intervene and must let his sister fight the monsters on her own.
After all, if he stepped in, his damage would be too high, and all the evolution experience would go to him, leaving his sister with no experience at all.
