The editorial department, which was originally full of fish, sounded one after another high-frequency mouse clicks when it was time to eat, and from time to time there were savage-like screams from the workstations, and the lower right corner of Steam simultaneously lit up the online prompt. . .
Is this a distortion of human nature, or a moral decline?
Please follow reporter Xiaofa to uncover the mystery of this incident.
It is understood that they are stuck on the line at the meal time, and have only one common purpose, that is to play a Steam game called “20 Minutes Before Dawn”.
I interviewed the vast majority of them why they were so obsessed with the game.
They looked at me contentedly, and invariably answered one word: “Cool!”.
I’m curious, how cool is this game so they don’t even eat? So I found a colleague and asked him if he could perform live.
The colleague agreed quickly, and with a click, he selected characters and weapons and entered the game.
My eyes were fixed on the screen, and I saw monsters constantly attacking the character controlled by my colleague in the darkness, and he could only use his pistol to fight and retreat.
I watched it for more than ten seconds, and found that his speed of fighting monsters was not as fast as that of monsters.
Sometimes I can only take care of the escape gun and dare not open it ▼
That’s it? Tell me what’s so cool about this game?
I began to doubt these colleagues’ evaluation of it, so I thought about going out for a cigarette, and thinking about the possibility of them jointly deceiving me.
It was about five minutes. I came back after smoking and wanted to see if this colleague was still being abused.
But what I saw was my colleagues randomly pressing the left button on the screen, the monsters fell one by one, and even the BOSS died within a few seconds.
If it weren’t for the countdown in the upper right corner of the screen, I really thought he was playing in a different role secretly.
By the end, his screen had almost stunned me, with bullets flying all over the screen, and with the sound of bullets, I couldn’t tell whether the monster was chasing the person or the person was chasing the monster.
For a normal game, it would take a few hours or even longer to complete such a “counter-attack” stage, but now it only takes less than 10 minutes.
Can this kind of game be unpleasant?
The rules of “20 Minutes Before Dawn” are very simple. Players must keep killing monsters and not be killed by monsters. After 20 minutes, the game is over.
The main difficulty of the game is that as time progresses, the number of monsters will increase, and later on, you will almost come from all directions.
This requires us to quickly increase our speed of clearing monsters in a short period of time.
The key to the speed of clearing monsters is the combination of skills.
In the game, players will drop an experience gem every time they kill a monster, and they can upgrade by picking up a certain number of gems. Each time they upgrade, they can choose one of several skills that appear randomly.
Each skill has a corresponding series of branches, which are divided into basic, second-order, and third-order skills.
Only by ordering the basic skills of a certain series, the second-order skills of the series may appear during the upgrade process, and the same is true for the third-order.
For example, if I want the “focusing” effect of the magic crystal, I have to click on the most basic “magic crystal” first, and then click on the “flame crystal” and “prism” points in the subsequent upgrade, so that it may appear randomly.
This kind of design is actually meaningful, because the choice of basic skills is very important, it let me know what is “greedy for more chewing”.
Every time a player upgrades, there are only 5 random skills to choose from. If you randomly click on one of the basic skills, there will be two more second-order skills in the next random.
If you click on every basic skill, the “pool” of random skills will double, and the difficulty of getting your favorite skill will increase.
The second-order skills are also the preconditions for the third-order skills. If we want to become stronger quickly, we must point out the third-order skills as soon as possible.
Therefore, before we start the game, it is best to think about what genre we want to play at the beginning. For example, in the summoning stream, we only need to click on the skills related to summoning, and we do not choose any other skills.
There are also “ultimate skills” in the game. These skills need to be learned after specific third-level skills before appearing randomly in the skill selection column, and the effect is very powerful.
In addition, different characters and different firearms also have different characteristics. For example, in this character called Fireworks, every time the bullet hits the target, it will cause lightning damage.
Therefore, we can choose the dual guns with the most bullets and trigger her attack effects as much as possible.
The skills in the game are mainly based on elemental damage such as burning, freezing, and lightning, supplemented by fire rate and bullet capacity, and with some abilities in the rune system, you can chase monsters and kill randomly in the later stage.
All in all, how to find a strong match among the many skills is the key to clearing the game.
Take Hana as an example, her own attack will be accompanied by lightning. One of the lightning skills is that after the lightning hits the enemy, there is a 20% chance to reload 3 bullets.
This is paired with the Minion Thunderbug and the talents that increase the rate of fire and magazine capacity.
If you are lucky, you don’t need to reload at all in the later stage, and the game is over by holding down the left button.
Another example is the summoning stream, where the summoned object points to hit, and you don’t even need to press to shoot, just use the cursor to draw a circle.
The strongest genres at this stage are Summoning Flow and Elemental Flow. As long as the luck is not too bad, there is basically no pressure in about ten minutes. It is a must for beginners.
Of course, because “20 Minutes Before Dawn” has several sets of different skills and talent systems, there is a lot of room for players to freely mix and match.
For example, my colleague came up with a non-mainstream collocation of “self-mutilation masculinity”.
The bullet damage of this genre is particularly high, and the shotgun is used. It is a large piece when sprayed. The shape of the bullet is like a broom, and the visual effect is amazing.
“20 Minutes Before Dawn” is generally very smooth in the design of the difficulty curve, allowing players to feel their own improvement every moment, and it is cool enough in the later stage.
The price of 15 yuan is quite close to the people.
If I insist on the shortcomings, it may be that the strength of the later BOSS is not enough.
The gameplay of “20 Minutes Before Dawn” doesn’t actually have an official name yet, but players like to name it after the first game to use this design.
It’s called “Vampire Survivors”, and the corresponding game type is called Vampire Survivors-like.
As a pioneer, “Vampire Survivors” is not as complex as “20 Minutes Before Dawn” in the skill system, but it does not prevent it from bringing players a refreshing gaming experience.
It didn’t actually have particularly good results when it was first launched, but it suddenly exploded in January this year, so there was later “20 Minutes Before Dawn”.
Their common feature is: through the upgrade of skill effects, or the combination of different skills, the player’s combat power will form a “qualitative change”.
High damage, dazzling visual effects, and the sense of urgency of survival time bring players a sense of “short and smooth”.
Think about it, sometimes it takes more than 20 minutes to play “Honor of Kings”, and you can’t pause.
20 Minutes Before Dawn is a full 20 minutes, which is great for playing in fragmented time, and has a more casual 10-minute mode.
I think the emergence of Vampire Survivors-like games has the greatest significance that for office workers in the office, there is one more choice besides “mobile games”.
Plus, this option will keep you entertained from start to finish.
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