This Game Is Too Realistic-Chapter 262.2: Alpha 1.1

[Wasteland Online Alpha test service Alpha 1.1 version update announcement.]

No warning whatsoever.

Every update of Wasteland Online was so unexpected.

One second, everyone was exchanging learning materials, but the next second, all eyes were immediately on this heavy news.

[Major update]

[1. The number of closed alpha players has increased to 1500.]

[2. Tide system!]

[Optimization]

[1. A richer NPC store is now open to purchase neural connection equipment. The most basic unmanned reconnaissance vehicle requires an intelligence attribute of more than 15.]

[2. It is now Spring in game. There will be more vegetation and wild animals, and the night will no longer be safe!]

[3. Fixed a few bugs.]

[4. ...]

[Detailed explanation of the Tide system: A suitable environment in the urban area will cause the Slime Mold to multiply rapidly. When the concentration of spores in the air reaches a certain threshold, it will cause the incubation chamber in a stable state to randomly undergo certain changes to form new Hives. It is predicted that the Tide will happen in the next 2 weeks. Players, please be prepared, this may be the most severe test since the server was opened!]

[New NPC: Hunter Yu Hu from Baker Street will join Shelter 404 as a calm and collected, experienced hunter, proficient in trap-making and tracking.]

[In addition, the Hunters Guild is formally established, and the first president will be Yu Hu. Congratulations to the Hunters who now have their own organization!]

[Development Log: Version Alpha 1.1]

Light: Hello everyone. This new version took some work. In fact, the version number we planned before was supposed to be Alpha 1.01, but thanks to our wonderful potato suppliers, we managed to get a massive stockpile of potatoes… I mean server resources.

- In short, 400 lucky people will get to experience the new version. The announcement of the closed alpha test qualification will be released later, most likely after it goes online tomorrow.

- All the staff of the Wasteland Online game development team promise you that although we are still in the early stage of this venture, we will still do our best to provide as much content as possible for the players in the alpha test, and to make the game world as perfect as possible. The much-anticipated public beta version will be released at the final stage of game development.

- In fact, we already have a specific timetable, but this involves enterprise confidentiality, so it’s not convenient to disclose anything.

- Next is the description of the new version. We have introduced a brand-new concept in the game, the Tide. Although in the early stages of the game, most of our players took on humans from the wasteland as opponents, in fact, the extremely deadly threat was not only the wastelanders with heated weapons. Those horrible mutated creatures also poses a huge threat! Be it Deathclaws or Slime Mold Mutants, they have long become hungry after the long cold winter.

- During the duration of the Tide, the Slime Mold Mutants will reproduce crazily, and the high concentration of spores will even form a misty spore cloud in the air. Excessive intake could lead to respiratory infections and even some tissue lesions. It is recommended that players with low constitutions wear a gas mask as much as possible when exploring the city, and constitution type players should not take it lightly, either.

- Search and destroy is the only way to end the Tide. We can’t expect them to disappear out of thin air, let alone watch them destroy the home we built with our hands.

- It is for this purpose that the ’Hunter’s Guild’ was created!

- Take on the job of Hunter, search for the source of spore release, and eliminate potential dangers. You could be richly rewarded, and unlock rare achievements and medals!

- The information about Hives and Slime Mold Mutants has been updated in the official website database. For more details on how to play, please explore by yourself! ŗАꞐŏ₿Èś

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The first day of the new release.

The number of players with the Hunter profession doubled instantly.

Except for Lifestyle Profession players who didn’t respond, almost all Combat Profession players had taken on the Hunter profession and registered as members of the Hunter Guild.

As the president of the Hunter’s Guild, Yu Hu also lived up to the expectations of the players. Using the budget allocated to him by Chu Guang, he recruited some experienced hunters from Baker Street to teach the players the skills of hunting and tracking prey, as well as organized the players to conduct a search mission in Clearspring City.

More than 200 Hunters were divided into over 50 teams, starting from the Flower Garden Street subway station in 3 different directions and carrying out a carpet search towards the fifth ring to the fourth ring in Clearspring City, looking for the source of the released spores.

The fighting power and recovery power of Slime Mold Mutants were positively correlated with the concentration of spores in the air. If the spore cloud were to reduce the light on the surface enough, even daytime would no longer be safe.

It was not realistic to kill the Tide in the cradle. Most of the mutants that made up the Tide came from mature Hives, and these Hives were usually located in the city center, and the oldest was even more than a century old.

However, if a mutating intubation room could be found and destroyed before it formed a new Hive, it would undoubtedly greatly reduce the concentration of spores in the air in the northern suburbs, thereby weakening the strength of the Tide and the combat effectiveness of the crunchers.

Such was Hyrja’s speculation.

Thus, it was the first mission that Chu Guang assigned to the Hunter’s Guild.

Just as the Combat Profession players were heading towards the urban area of ​​​​Clearspring City, the exit of level B3 of Shelter 404 was getting busy.

Several players of strength and constitution type were dragging cargo carts, moving the nurturing cabins one by one from the shelter to the tunnel outside.

These nurturing cabins were lined up in front of the outpost at the gate, and not far from them parked a newly assembled truck.

That was the latest creation from goblin technology.

Since the customer who placed the order was the honorable administrator, this truck was, unusually, given a slightly more normal name. It was called the Electric Mule.

As the name suggested, this was a pure electric truck. It looked like it was basically modeled on the light truck of the Army, but the length of the cargo box was increased, and the portable steam engine was replaced with a battery and a motor.

The structure of the whole vehicle adopted the conventional layout of a steel cab and wooden body nearly 5 meters long, with 4 wheels. Its total weight was 4.3 tons. The maximum engine output could reach 80 horsepower, and the rated maximum load capacity was 1.8 Tons, in fact, even overloading it to 3 tons was not a big problem!

In addition to the advantages of 0 emissions, excellent battery life, and low noise, the car had excellent off-road performance, and the high chassis design could well adapt to rough terrain. Not only that, there were brackets on the front of the car that bulletproof plates and machine guns could be welded on to.

The wooden boards on both sides of the cargo box were also designed as a structure that could be unfolded outward, and thus could be easily used to install 4-cannons anti-aircraft guns on the truck.

Whenever the need arises, the transport vehicle could be turned into an Armored Transport Vehicle anytime!

In addition to its domineering appearance and wide range of uses, the technical content of this truck was also not low.

The energy storage components were 102 solid-state hydrogen batteries of the same type as KV-1 connected in series, with a total weight of 102 kilograms, installed in the back end of the truck for easy disassembly and replacement.

The truck was also the first order that the Liszt factory received from Shelter 404 since it started production!

Unlike fuel trucks, the structure of pure electric trucks was relatively simple, and the core technology basically focused on energy storage, with no major technical difficulties in power components.

Therefore, except for the batteries, all the components, including the motors, were basically manufactured by workshops and factories in industrial areas, both large and small, and developed by independent research and development.

The only shortcoming of this truck was probably how difficult it was to acquire its power source.

Unlike the portable steam engine that was fueled by burning wood, the 102 battery pack used in this truck was expensive, and the production cost of only one set was as high as 12,000 silver coins.

Not only that, the electricity outside the shelter was mainly generated by thermal power. At the end of the day, they still had to burn wood. Without any improvements to the energy structure, or the discovery of an all-new energy conversion process, electric trucks ultimately consumed more firewood.

However, considering the ventilation environment in the tunnel, this was also the last resort. After all, it would never be possible to move a firewood-powered truck underground.

If they tried to do that, it would not take long before carbon monoxide poisoning resulted in all their deaths.

Silver Sword put down the nurturing cabin he was holding, raised his arms, and wiped the sweat from his head. Looking at the truck not far away, he couldn’t help but sigh with emotion, "How much does this truck even cost?"

Silver’s Father, who was standing to one side, said with a jeering smile, "I don’t know, but all I know is that you can’t afford it."

Silver Sword snorted in contempt, "Meh, why would I buy something like this? I’m just curious."

Silver Hand frowned at the side. "What I want to know is where these nurturing cabins are being sent."

Silver Sword thought for a moment and said, "It’s probably Shelter 117!"

"Shelter 117?" Silver Hand looked surprised. "What are they going there for?"

Silver’s Father sighed, "You fool! Apart from the 100 or so rooms left, is there any more room in Shelter 404? Unless the operator creates a new server, they have to move the resurrection points of new players to other shelters!"

Silver Hand’s eyes widened in shock. "Damn it, does that mean that we’re the last batch of players in Shelter 404?"

Silver Sword thought for some time before responding, "Not necessarily. If level B4 is opened, we’ll be joined by another 600 good brothers... But this game is too realistic! Even the resurrection points have to be transported by old players."

Silver’s Father sighed, "Indeed, it’s so realistic… As a player and a father, no other game has made me this anxious."

As soon as he said this, he was met with two thoroughly scornful eyerolls.

Just thinking of his name made them angry. The 2 decided to ignore this idiot for the next hour.

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400 nurturing cabins were now laid out in the tunnel.

The Electric Mule medium-sized transportation would send those nurturing cabins to Shelter 117 located under the Flower Garden Street subway station in batches of 50, making 8 trips in total.

Through the continuous efforts of the players, the tunnel from Shelter 404 to Shelter 117 had been completely opened, and the mutated creatures and hatching rooms along the way had been completely cleared.

The tunnel with a total length of 7 kilometers would take an hour to walk, but took only 10 minutes with the Electric Mule, assuming an average speed of 30 miles per hour.

New players would use Shelter 117 located under the Flower Garden Street subway station as the resurrection point.

There were controllable fusion reactors and wireless power supplies to power the nurturing cabins.

Shelter 117 possessed well-equipped living facilities, and the underground passage could be connected to Shelter 404, so transportation was very convenient.

In addition, 200 nurturing cabins had been installed in the outpost and Longevity Town save points, as well as public hotels that offered free rooms, which could meet the offline needs of players at any time.

As for the management of the newcomers, there was no need to worry at all.

After obtaining the authority of the Shelter 117’s administrator, the management system of the entire shelter had been connected to the main server of Shelter 404.

Chu Guang had authorized part of his authority to Little Seven.

The cameras in the shelter had almost no blind spots. As long as it was within the signal coverage of the shelter, he could keep track of the situation in the shelter at any time.

If something unexpected happened, Little Seven would notify him as soon as possible.

To be sure, Chu Guang even granted Little Seven the right to deal with emergencies.

In the event of a special situation above moderate violations, Little Seven could directly cut off the power of a specific number of the nurturing cabins in accordance with the management regulations, and then report the fault to him.

The whole process could be completed in a split second, and was described as a fuse mechanism in the shelter management regulations.

To put it bluntly, it was like unplugging the network cable.

It took a whole morning, and with the cooperation of players and NPCs, the 400 nurturing cabins were finally sent to Shelter 117 and placed in separate rooms.

After finishing up, Chu Guang immediately started the synthesis program and began to generate clones of the players.

The 400 newcomers would go online in 3 days. According to how he picked our their application, half of them were Combat Profession players and half of them were Lifestyle Profession players.

The battle against mutants would not only test the combat effectiveness of the shelter, but also its logistical capability.

What Chu Guang needed was not only a large number of Combat Professional players to fill the front line, but also bullets and shells that could be continuously supplied to them.

That was the only way to guarantee they would be able to fight for a long period of time.

Chu Guang had high expectations for his new sprouts.

Looking at the gate of Shelter 117, Chu Guang wore a gratified smile while standing in the previous administrator’s exoframe. "I guess this should be the last batch of players before I open the beta test.”

"If the idea of ​​sending the nurturing cabin to other shelters as a resurrection point is feasible, we could focus on searching for shelter information in the future."

Little Seven’s voice came from the communication channel the next moment. "Master!"

Little Seven continued without waiting for Chu Guang to ask what was the matter, "The players you sent to scout around the fifth ring seem to have discovered something extraordinary...!"