Chapter 422 New Version of CG on the Virtual Battle Platform (Two-in-One)

After returning from Dead Soul Lake, Bai Xiaowen's experience value has climbed to 58% of level 5. Chen? Fate? Wenxue→.com has a special treasure land space and cannot dig out side missions, but Bai Xiaowen has pushed down a lot of bosses, so the battle experience given is naturally very rich.

Bai Xiaowen reckoned that if he ventured into the spirit world once or twice, he would be able to rise to level 6. His upgrade speed is two or three times that of college students of the same age. There are many outstanding hero professional college students who only reached level 6 in their junior and senior years.

Bai Xiaowen is not in a hurry to go to the spirit world for the time being. After returning from the lake of dead spirits, he plans to rest for a while.

Of course, the rest here is not to sleep in every day, nor is it to pick up girls and play with girls, but to settle down, consolidate one's foundation, and prepare for the next exploration of the spiritual world.

The so-called foundation refers to strength other than attributes, skills and equipment, mainly refers to combat specialties, and also includes skill lv.

With the telepathic ability to share the memory of summoned creatures' combat specialties, Bai Xiaowen's combat specialties are not bad. However, the skill level has lagged behind a lot. Now that he is more than half of the awakener level of level 5, most of his skills are only lv3, and he has only been promoted to lv4 by relying on the title bonus of the strongest scholar, which is a bit low.

Know your own shortcomings clearly, and then you can improve. In the following time, Bai Xiaowen spent most of his time in the psionic training ground, practicing his skills hard. In his spare time during training, he would also practice the melee routines in Kusanagi-style martial arts to explore the most suitable combos for him.

The New Year's Day of Lingyuan's 1997 came, and Bai Xiaowen's first semester at Jinghai University came to an end.

The virtual battle company sent an invitation letter, inviting Bai Xiaowen to shoot the promotional video of the 97 version of the battle platform, and the director of the promotional film is Bart Kelvin, who is a well-known figure in the film industry and a China hand.

Originally Director Kelvin asked Bai Xiaowen for a schedule of at least one week, which is unbelievable for Bai Xiaowen who only appeared in the promotional cg for 1 second, but Director Kelvin's reason was that Bai Xiaowen had never been an actor before. From experience, this week is mainly used to make up lessons for Bai Xiaowen.

After all, Director Kelvin is just an ordinary person. If he were an awakened person, he would definitely not have such no confidence in Bai Xiaowen.

Being in the spirit world itself is a role-playing process. If you lack acting skills and cannot impress the characters in the spirit world, it is impossible to change to the hero profession and achieve such dazzling achievements. In other words, Bai Xiaowen's achievements in the spiritual world itself shows that his acting skills are not weak.

For Kelvin's contempt, Bai Xiaowen did not argue, but only made one request, that is, to ask Kelvin director to take a look at his audition.

final result,

Bai Xiaowen skipped a week of acting lessons. And Director Kelvin is also very bachelor, frankly said:

"You are a natural actor with an idol-like appearance and a capable connotation. If you are willing to join the film industry, you will become a household name within three years."

Of course Bai Xiaowen would not become an actor and join the film industry, but director Kelvin's words also reminded him. If there is a chance, it should be very helpful to play a few distinctive movie roles as a cameo to increase the world's popularity.

In fact, many well-known awakened people, especially European and American awakened ones, like to act in movies, such as Super Bowl regulars, the main player of the Rolling Stones Jushi, and even starred in a series of superhero movie protagonists. Of course, Mr. Jushi is an investor .

It can be said that half of Jushi's A-level world popularity comes from the big screen.

This is probably one of the reasons why ordinary directors are respected by awakened people, right? With this in mind, Bai Xiaowen and director Kelvin left contact information with each other.

Then there is the production of Bai Xiaowen's character template.

What I want to explain here is that when creating a character template, the equipment skills, equipment enhancement effects, and combat skills are not subdivided, but all of them are used as the available skills of the character and appear in the "skill list" of the character. middle.

Of course, after getting a character template, experienced players can still identify which skills belong to the combat skills of the awakened, which skills belong to equipment skills, and which skills belong to enhanced special effects.

One of the easiest ways to identify is to look at the cooling time. The cooldown time of combat skills is the shortest, the longest is ten minutes, twenty minutes, the shortest is only one or two minutes or even ten seconds, while the cooldown time of equipment skills is often 12 hours, 24 hours.

In addition, when the combat skill is upgraded to lv4, there will be additional special effects, which often have more description text than the additional skills of equipment, and the effects are also stronger.

For example, Bai Xiaowen's deterrence will be an independent skill; the supplemental skill of sharkskin boots: floating on water will also be an independent skill; the enhanced +4 special effect of sharkskin boots: sprint will also be an independent skill, and all three will appear In the skill list, occupy a skill column.

The player saw that the cooldown of Deterrence is only 4 minutes, and the effect is still so strong, it must be because of the lack of combat skills.

The cooling time of floating on the water is 19 hours and 12 minutes, and you will recognize that this is a skill attached to the equipment; the cooling time of sprinting is 10 minutes, which also excludes the possibility of combat skills, and this effect usually appears in the strengthening special effects of shoes. It is not difficult to distinguish.

However, there are exceptions to everything. If we take Bai Xiaowen's hero class exclusive equipment Black Soul Stone's additional skill "Return of the Dead" as an example, it will be difficult for players to recognize it.

Bai Xiaowen hides the Black Soul Stone, so the Return of the Dead skill needs to be split into more small skills:

Summon Skeleton Sword and Shield Hand No. 1, a skill.

Summon Skull Sword and Shield Hand No. 2, the second skill.

Summon the No. 6 Skull Sword and Shield Hand, the sixth skill.

Later, there is Summon Shadow Assassin, the seventh skill.

Summon the bone magician, the eighth skill here is the evolved data of the bone magician, because Bai Xiaowen can't scan the information of the skeleton wizard, the customization of the character template is based on the real-time scanning of the psionic camera. Bai Xiaowen can hide some information, but cannot tamper with it.

There are also Vampire Keats and Voodoo Suture Fat Boy in the back. In other words, after Bai Xiaowen hid the newly added ghosts and skeleton warriors, as well as summoned creatures such as Dr. Zombie who was on standby in the Kane plane world, his "Return of the Dead" skill was still split into ten cooldowns. Summoning skills with a duration of 12 hours.

This is also the reason why Bai Xiaowen used to hide the Black Soul Stone when scanning data on the Awakened Battle Platform, but was able to scan out summoned creatures such as the Skeleton Sword and Shield Hand biology.

As long as the psionic camera detects that Bai Xiaowen has a summoned creature, it will record "summon xx" as a skill in Bai Xiaowen's skill list. Moreover, the spiritual camera will also automatically recognize it, and only "permanent" skill effects will be recorded, and if it is a creature summoned by an item, or the buff state of the item, it cannot be recorded in the character template.

Compared with the "Summon of Rage Claw" skill, the 10 summoning skills split by Return of the Dead are difficult for players to distinguish which is a combat skill and which is an equipment skill, because they are all very powerful. This is because the Black Soul Stone is too powerful as the exclusive equipment of the hero class, which is a special case.

In the end, including the skills attached to the equipment and the special effects of equipment enhancements, there are 32 skills in Bai Xiaowen's skill list! Compared with other intermediate-level awakened heroes, the number is nearly double, and this is the case with Bai Xiaowen's reservations.

After the successful customization of the character template, it's finally winter vacation.

The publicity cg of the 97 version of the virtual battle company was officially released a week before the lunar new year.

Bai Xiaowen was also very interested in the cg he made his first appearance on, so he specially watched it online.

The CG starts with the background of the starry sky, and the starry sky transforms into a deep eye in an instant, and then the camera pulls back, a man with hair covering half of his face, leaving only one deep eye, appears on the virtual battle platform classic character, "Astrologist" .

The astrologer spreads his palms flat, a crystal ball rotates slightly above the palm, and then the camera zooms in. In the crystal ball, there is a scene of two girls fighting fiercely. Under the robe is the looming skin. Frost Master and Ash Mage , two surging energy balls, one ice and one fire, shook each other.

After the explosion, the black mist evaporated, and the scene quickly switched to the night. The camera was looking upwards, and a bright moon was hanging high. Three black spots seemed to jump out of the bright moon, getting bigger and bigger, turning into the shadows of three night walkers in black. The image is another classic character, "Phantom Assassin", which seems to have three people, but in fact it is only him.

Several classic characters have been circulated for decades. Among them, the oldest astrologer is said to be the first version of the virtual battle version. Over the past few decades, the Awakened prototypes of these classic characters have become legends, rarely appearing before the public.

The Awakened characters promoted by the virtual battle platform are no longer the above-mentioned characters. The reason why these characters still have a place in CG is to respect their historical status and increase players' recognition and enthusiasm for the new version.

In the follow-up, the promoted characters appeared one after another.

Holding red wine in his hand, the "Young Master" with an elegant demeanor; the "Roaring Tianzun" with a hideous face who almost broke his vest, staged a show of bursting clothes; the "beautiful witch" with a slim figure, wearing a black veil, and eyes like a pool of autumn water

Nearly ten highly promoted characters are presented one after the other. The prototype of each character is a high-level awakened person. At least two or three appearances are made, either in a chic line or in a macho style. All impressive.

The characters that appear later are relatively simple, and they are all in the same frame, sharing a frame. Of course, even with such a picture, the awakened people who participated in the shooting still designed the look for a long time, trying to highlight their own style, and win more attention during this precious appearance time.

Bai Xiaowen wanted to laugh when he saw this. He thought of those non-famous celebrities who "sneaked" on the red carpet in the era of AD, but Bai Xiaowen quickly put away his smile when he thought of himself. Standing in his position, he seemed not qualified to laugh. If the awakened ones were not for world fame, Will it be so hard?

After dozens of characters flashed, the CG also reached the later stage, and new characters began to appear.

"Come out!" Li Shuyi next to her said excitedly.

The scene suddenly changed to dark wind. A lone figure in a cloak sits atop a mountain of bones, with only one giant wolf snuggling close beside him. Under the bone mountain, skeletons climbed out one after another, with the fire of soul burning in their eye sockets, raising their knives and howling angrily! The picture quickly zooms from a close-up close-up to a far-away view. The tall voodoo suture body and the mysterious dead bone magician all flashed by, creating a feeling of thousands of troops.

Although the playing time is only a short second, it is amazing enough. Bai Xiaowen smiled and said, "It's pretty good."

Li Shuyi was a little unsatisfied, dragged the progress bar forward, and carefully watched the one-second animation of Bai Xiaowen's appearance, and then let the cg finish playing, and commented with a smile: "The new character in this issue, you are like a villain Great Demon King. The newcomers behind all appeared in the same frame, a bit like a group of warriors who challenged the Demon King.”

"It's all thanks to Sister Zheng's negotiating skills. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to enjoy the exclusive one-second animation treatment. I can only be in the same frame with other newcomers." Bai Xiaowen is very satisfied with CG, and the virtual battle company is more conscientious Comply with the contract.

Among the rookie templates signed by the virtual battle company in this issue, Lin Haoyang from Tsinghua University, Ouyang Heng from Yanda University and other cuaa league powerhouses were selected. They are already in the graduation season, and they are about to leave school, sign a formal contract with the Great Guild, and play in the professional league in their jerseys. It is normal for such a new star to receive a signing invitation letter from a virtual battle company.

Qi Ruifeng's luck was a little bit worse. Originally, based on his record of leading the national semi-finals last year, it was entirely possible to get an invitation from the virtual battle company to sign. It is a pity that in this year's qualifying competition, he was abused by Bai Xiaowen, and his popularity plummeted.

The virtual battle company signed a contract with Bai Xiaowen instead, which can also be seen as Bai Xiaowen stepping on Qi Ruifeng to quickly rise to the position. Bai Xiaowen was invited to sign a contract in his freshman year, which is definitely an "breakthrough".

And it was such a newcomer who was invited out of the ordinary, which accounted for more weight in the promotion of cg than other newcomers such as Ouyang Heng. Sister Zheng must have contributed to Bai Xiaowen's treatment.

On the day the CG was announced, Bai Xiaowen invited Sister Zheng to dinner.

In fact, it cannot be called a treat. Sister Zheng pursues celibacy, and after signing the agent contract, she has been staying at Bai Xiaowen's house in Chihuo District for convenience.

Bai Xiaowen came home after the holidays. He lived with Li Shuyi, Xiaojun, and Sister Zheng. He Zhiqing, the life assistant, took care of food, clothing, housing and transportation. Everyone ate at the same table every day. The so-called treat to dinner is just that Bai Xiaowen called He Zhiqing and ordered to add a few more dishes that Sister Zheng likes to celebrate in the evening.