In the Internet age, who still makes traditional games?

“What the fuck!?”

Zhang Siming watched as his character's health bar was almost emptied by his own ultimate move, and then Vivian finished him off with a single sword strike, leaving him completely dumbfounded.

“Ultimate moves can be reflected?”

“A non-corporeal dragon can be slashed?”

“Are you fucking kidding me!?”

This was the most outrageous scene he had ever witnessed.

But it wasn't the most infuriating thing.

What really made his blood pressure skyrocket were the two opponents who seemed to be teaming up—

She didn't move an inch the entire time!

And the most, most, most outrageous thing was that she even took the time to throw a lasso at Zhang Siming in the middle of it all!

—When fixing the Lasso bug, to compensate the players, Xu Meng weakened the Lasso effect, which was originally going to expire after the event, and turned it into a permanent item.

When the lasso landed on his face, Zhang Siming was completely stunned.

You bringing a healer to fight me is one thing, but what's with throwing a lasso at my face?

What, do you think I can be tamed?

Am I so bad that you don't think I'm even a primate playing this game??

His teammate, who had been watching the whole thing behind him, couldn't help but gently pat him on the shoulder: “If you can’t do it, just give up. Don’t make it hard on yourself.”

“I can do it!” Zhang Siming was a little provoked. “How could I not be able to do it? I can totally do it!”

“Okay, okay, don’t get worked up.” The teammate quickly comforted him in a soft voice.

“I’m not worked up!”

But in reality, he was.

Whenever he managed to pull off a brilliant kill and regain some confidence, something unexpected would always happen.

The gameplay of 【Dragon Palace Treasure】was just too different from traditional FPS competitive games, with too many elements beyond the traditional gunfight.

Each character has a different ultimate move, and there's also the paperization mechanic, which disrupts the rhythm of combat and damage calculation, making it easy for the situation to become one of “perfect calculations, but utterly flawed execution.”

Zhang Siming's reaction speed, aiming accuracy, and battle judgment were all fine.

But 【Dragon Palace Treasure】is a 12-player game, and many people are more familiar with the characteristics of the characters' ultimate moves than he is.

—He had to ensure his training volume in 《Crossfire Confrontation》every day, so he really didn't have much time to play 《Frost Snow Project》.

His main impression of many characters was their clothing destruction animations and ultimate move animations.

His biggest impression was "sexy," "super sexy!"

He really hadn't remembered too many details about the specific effects of the ultimate moves.

This meant that his advantages were not enough to determine the outcome of the game.

Not even enough to guarantee a win in a 1v1.

Because no opponent would honestly trade shots with him…

This was a far cry from his initial expectation of "relaxing before training" and "fishing for noobs"! It also led to emotional agitation after successive setbacks.

—This was also a small flaw in his personality.

In the previous World Championship, he had been too excited when the match point was in his hand, resulting in a mental breakdown and a significant drop in his aiming accuracy.

After two consecutive losses, Zhang Siming didn't continue playing. Instead, he washed up, changed his clothes, and went on a massive spending spree to draw cards.

This time, he was fully prepared to spend gold coins for Dream Building to complete his collection!

Before, he felt it wasn't worth spending too much money just for the clothing destruction animations and ultimate move animations.

He would stop after spending a little.

But now, with the animations becoming an added bonus and these skills being very useful, the feeling was naturally completely different.

—Dream Building had actually considered players with incomplete collections.

According to the game mechanism, free trial characters would rotate every week.

Characters that have not been obtained can also be "hired" with Conquest Points. Although the price is not low and it's only a short-term hire, after hiring, you can only play them in the 【Dragon Palace Treasure】mode.

But at least if you want to play, you can play without spending money, you just need to spend more time and effort.

Zhang Siming had limited time, and the points he gained from two consecutive losses were not enough, so he could only spend money.

And the amount wouldn't be small!

Especially for the five-star characters, He Yin and Vivian—fishing for five-stars in the standard pool makes even dogs shake their heads.

Not to mention fishing for two.

As a result, he spent more time on recharging and drawing cards than on playing the game.

Finally, after much effort, he managed to get Vivian and light up most of the four-star collection, he chose to stop.

He was going to play sword parry with Vivian.

—Fu Ling, as a brand-new five-star character, was a free trial and also a sniper. Her ultimate move was gorgeous, so she was extremely popular at this time, and you could basically encounter her in every game.

After Zhang Siming was face-to-face sword parried by Vivian's ultimate move, he also figured it out:

If you can't beat them, join them!

You can reflect me, can't I reflect you?

The answer is: really can't.

He charged straight at the enemy's Fu Ling as soon as the battle started.

Fu Ling used her ultimate move, and he also used his ultimate move.

“Sword Parry!!!”

Zhang Siming shouted and slashed with his sword!

The sword light passed over the dragon's head, as if cutting through a phantom.

Nothing happened.

The dragon flew him far away, and he was shot to death on the spot by the enemy's follow-up fire in a stiff state.

“???” Zhang Siming froze.

Is this damn game countering me?!

Others can reflect, but I can't?

Targeting me?

Or is there a bug?

Three teammates were already standing behind him.

The earliest one couldn't bear to watch any longer and patted him on the shoulder worriedly, saying, “Stop playing, go eat first. If you keep playing, you'll have a nosebleed and have to go to the hospital.”

“How can I do that?” Zhang Siming shook his head. “You guys go ahead and eat, don’t wait for me. I have to vent this anger today, or my Dao heart will be shattered.”

The teammate hesitated for a moment.

“How about this, wait a moment, I'll go call the rest of the people, let's team up and play together.”

“All the main players are on, we're guaranteed to win.”

Zhang Siming's mouse pointer, which was moving towards the matching button, stopped.

“That… could work.”

—Unlike Zhang Siming, who had strangely turned himself into a lower-class horse all the way, Fang Shuo, a former professional player who spent more time on 《Frost Snow Project》, fully demonstrated his strength.

His starting character was undoubtedly his newlywed wife—

Flying Cloud.

When he switched to the first-person view for shooting, he immediately noticed: the ring on his wife's hand was clearer.

Fang Shuo directly called Dream Building conscientious: “This money is too worth it!”

“Isn't this way better than a gun skin?”

Flying Cloud's ultimate move also made him exclaim that it was easy to use!

No matter what character the opponent is, no matter what the effect of the ultimate move—as long as it's not Bullseye who can pull out a sledgehammer, when you see the opponent start “magical girl transformation,” just use your ultimate move and fight head-on!

At worst, it's a one-for-one trade.

If you're willing to do more operations, and cooperate with paperization and some positioning to dodge, you can usually take down the opponent first.

Coupled with his first-class marksmanship and cooperation awareness, the gaming experience in the first three games was extremely enjoyable.

Three consecutive victories in matchmaking!

After three consecutive wins, the hidden score went straight to heaven! A leap to the upper-class horse!

After that, the pace and intensity of the battle quickly increased, and the opponent's marksmanship, reaction speed, and cooperation awareness all increased significantly.

But Fang Shuo didn't feel targeted at all, nor did he complain about not being able to continue fishing for noobs. Instead, he enjoyed playing more and more!

The only regret was that the simple and crude routines from before didn't work anymore.

If you dare to stand still, you'll die within 2 seconds. With a shield, it's only 4 seconds, and paperization adds another 1 second.

Dragons flying out from various tricky angles, sledgehammers falling from the sky, mechs covering the area with aerial firepower, assassins who don't know when they'll jump out…

It's all about being caught off guard.

After being smashed by a sledgehammer again, a netizen suggested a constructive idea:

“This won't work. You have to be completely familiar with all the characters' ultimate moves to avoid them.”

“It's not just the ultimate moves, you also have to know how other characters ambush and sneak attack to be able to think from their perspective and not be ambushed.”

“This game is so different from traditional FPS games.”

“I feel like I can even spar with professional players.”

“Makes sense, when will there be a netizen competition?”

“Beating up Brick Bro, count me in!”

…

Fang Shuo ignored the netizen competition. Dream Building hasn't even developed this feature yet, thinking about these things now is a pure waste of expression.

However, getting familiar with the battle logic of all the characters is indeed a very reliable suggestion.

So—

“I'm sorry, Flying Cloud.” He apologized to his newlywed wife in the game.

“But you have to believe me! I'm not cheating, I'm just going out to see the world.”

“This is all to reduce your pressure and let you get hit less!”

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