togophonebook #322 - The flagship showdown drives the entire industry crazy! Taoyuan Township releases trailer, th
#322 - The flagship showdown drives the entire industry crazy! Taoyuan Township releases trailer, th
【Youyi's New Flagship Masterpiece "Wilderness Survival: Redemption" Trailer First Look!】
The trailer begins with the game's story background CG. To the tune of a melodious jazz piece, the following scene appears:
"1898, Texas.
My name is Edhan, and I live in the American West.
It's the end of the great gold rush era, 30 years after the end of the American Civil War. This land is filled with emerging prosperity and endless opportunities.
I was a former banker with a sharp mind and calm judgment, but I was framed by the Mohei Company and became a fugitive—or, you can call me a cowboy who punishes evil and promotes good.
During my escape, I discovered a treasure map marked with the location of a gold mine and met a group of unique people:
A bounty hunter galloping across the prairie, a mysterious priest hidden in a deep valley, and an old friend who was once a companion but has now transformed into a ruthless pursuer for the Mohei Company.
This team, each with their own agendas, forged a brief cooperation for the common goal of the gold mine.
We travel through the scorching desert, explore barren canyons, and even venture into mysterious Indian tribes. During the journey, I discover countless secrets hidden in this beautiful and dangerous land.
The closer we get to the gold mine's hiding place, the more we attract other greedy adventurers, cunning bandits, and ruthless native warriors.
I will have to deal with various challenges, from peaceful resolutions to fierce firefights, testing the team's wisdom and cooperation. As a leader, every decision I make can change our destiny.
In the deepest part of the gold mine, the Mohei Company's conspiracy finally surfaces, and my companions and I will face a life-or-death battle!
I not only need to fight against the enemy's pursuit, but also face internal betrayal and the disintegration of the team.
Whether to insist on family happiness or indulge in the temptation of the gold mine, the fate of everything lies in my decisive moment, merging with this fiery land!
This is me—Edhan, the story of an ordinary Western cowboy."
After this part of the trailer played, players flooded the screen with comments:
"Damn, that's so intense! It's got that American Western vibe!"
"Looks like Youyi Workshop has also upgraded its engine technology. Let the competition begin, hahaha!"
"The protagonist and teammates who appeared are so cool, they fit the Western cowboy image in my heart!"
"The historical details in the visuals are well-researched. The development team put in a lot of effort. Looking forward to it!"
"Indeed, compared to the sci-fi style of CrossFire, I prefer this kind of adventure with a strong historical feel. Every frame is exciting!"
"This jazz music is so flavorful. It's truly a production comparable to a Western blockbuster!"
Next, the video began to play the actual gameplay trailer:
【Good Luck, Tonight Redemption!】
After completing the single-player story, you can participate in a 100-player multiplayer competitive map.
A cross-state train spanning the American West will depart regularly. You and your teammates can choose any location to jump off the train, constantly avoiding the shrinking circle of elimination to become the ultimate winner!
【Western World Immersion】
"Wilderness Survival: Redemption" will take you into a detailed sandbox world, allowing you to experience the Western customs of the great gold rush era.
In the competitive map, you can freely roam, explore supply points, interact with NPCs, and discover various random events.
【Diverse Transportation】
In addition to various horses, you and your teammates can also drive carriages and hijack trains to expand your travel methods and experience the vastness of the West.
You can not only steal horses, but also train and tame wild horses, establish a tacit relationship between you and your horse, and improve the horse's combat power.
【Rich Hunting System】
You can capture wild animals to obtain food, income, and materials. Choosing different weapons and shooting positions will affect the quality and value of the items produced by the animals.
【Unique Revolver Aiming System and Combat Style】
The aiming system allows you to slow down time and mark targets. Different weapons and skills affect the combat style. The game will provide you with more tactical choices.
【Bounty Hunting】
Committing crimes against NPCs will bring higher rewards, but it will attract the state police. The bounty increases with the crime. You can choose to evade capture, clear the bounty, or spend some time in prison.
【Engaging Time Progression Mechanism】
The time progression system in the game allows you to feel the real passage of life. Different surprises may happen every day…
Now, please put on your cowboy hat, put on your Martin boots, load the bullets into your revolver, and catch the next train together.
Youyi's five major studios, jointly presented!
More development information will be revealed successively!
……
When the video ended, the players in the barrage were in an uproar:
"Holy crap, is this the Youyi I remember? It's finally standing up!"
"The battle royale gameplay with 100 players eliminated each round, combined with the Western theme, sounds pretty interesting."
"This cowboy wants to go gold panning now. Is there anyone online to team up with?"
"This revolver aiming system looks pretty interesting. Will they sell a separate revolver controller?"
"To be honest, whether it's the story or the gameplay, Youyi's new game is not inferior to Longteng's."
"This is a real flagship battle. Just watching the trailer makes me feel so good and excited, hahaha, let the manufacturers fight it out!"
After this trailer was released, it quickly soared to 1.8 million views per hour!
Longteng Group naturally refused to be outdone and continued to buy trending searches and traffic for its own game.
In this way, "CrossFire: Reverse Warfare Hero" and "Wilderness Survival: Redemption" took turns topping the video viewership charts of major platforms.
In the evening, the promotional videos of the two games exceeded 10 million views, and broke 20 million the next morning!
And under the crazy money-burning volume purchase of Longteng Group and Liu's Group, the two games also took turns topping the Weibo hot search list!
The intensity of the battle was so fierce that players refreshed the screen every few seconds and found that the hot search champion had changed.
The publicity war launched by the two giants made the small and medium-sized manufacturers in the industry tremble.
Someone left a message in the game developer forum:
"Holy crap, are these two daddies crazy? The money they burned on publicity in these two days is enough for our research and development funding for several years!"
"Can't afford to offend, can't afford to offend… Our FPS project should honestly change the schedule."
"You guys are lucky, you can still change the schedule. We can't. After our boss watched these two trailers in the afternoon, he asked us to change the track."
Of course, small studios dodged the schedule, but some large and medium-sized game companies chose to enter the game immediately when the FPS popularity rose!
The day after these two trailers became popular, Mileyou announced the sandbox FPS project "project-SH".
According to the insider news released by Mileyou's internal employees on the Internet, this game is known as a VR version of the two-dimensional beautiful girl GTA, led by the founder Cai Yuhao himself.
Currently, the project team has expanded to more than 300 people.
In addition to the games of the two giants, the most anticipated by players is naturally this new game from Mileyou:
"Cai Meow is leading the team? Then this project is stable!"
"The abyss of "Honkai Impact 3" is almost impossible to clear. Hurry up and bring us some new things to play."
"But to be honest, if it is still the classic weapon pool, character pool, dismantling life seats, big and small guarantees, I can't afford to spend any more money."
Originally, other manufacturers were still watching the competition between the two giants.
However, after Mileyou announced its entry, more manufacturers began to follow up!
Nanshanju, Haizhu City, announced the full-platform distribution of the two-dimensional beautiful girl VR shooting project "Dust White Zone".
Mengchuang Tiandi, Shenzhen City, announced the beautiful girl VR shooting project "Calabi Qiu", which is exclusively owned by Longteng Fantasy.
Bilibili, Jianghai City, announced the self-developed full-platform beautiful girl air combat shooting VR project "Slitherine"
……
For a time, more than 30 small and medium-sized manufacturers that received investment announced their entry into FPS, and the game industry was in chaos!
In the past two days, players on the NGA forum have been shocked by the manufacturers' madness:
"Holy crap, in the FPS field, is this really going to set off an industry-wide melee?"
"Let the competition begin! Hahaha, the manufacturers' internal competition will benefit the players!"
"I hope the price of VR game equipment can be lowered. Except for Taoyuan Shenyou, the prices of the other two companies are a bit expensive and not friendly to wallets. ┓(`)┏"
When someone mentioned Taoyuan Township, everyone realized——
Hiss… yes!
I said why the FPS melee these past two days seems a bit wrong. It turns out that an important participant is missing!
Where is Taoyuan Township?
Where is my so strong Taoyuan Township daddy?
In the first VR console launch battle this spring, Taoyuan Township's performance was obvious to all. All three VR games launched were top-notch hits. "My Wife is a Savior" even became popular abroad.
The first flagship game of each console can determine the face and future of a game console.
Taoyuan Township is now one of the three major domestic game consoles. It stands to reason that it should participate with all its strength.
But!
Why wasn't Taoyuan Township's name on yesterday's trailer showdown? What is this company doing?!
Thinking of this, a large number of Taoyuan Township fans and melon-eating passers-by players frantically poured into Taoyuan Township's official accounts on various platforms.
Then——
Everyone was completely dumbfounded.
The dynamics of all of Taoyuan Township's official accounts all stopped 7 days ago and have not moved.
The last dynamic 7 days ago was forwarding a lewd picture of the blue and white Ji of "Space-Time Moe Girl" drawn by a painter girl.
The players were instantly broken:
"Good guy, other people's houses are fighting fiercely, you are forwarding lewd pictures here. Where is the new game preview? Bring it up!"
"Although I like Blue and White Ji very much, you are too Buddhist, right? By the way, where can I download the high-definition original picture, slurp ~"
"New game, GKD! New game, GKD! New game, GKD!"
In less than half a day, under the instigation of fans and fun-seekers, the comments on this dynamic exceeded 20,000!
……
That afternoon, Taoyuan Township Villa.
Lu Yu was leisurely leaning on the massage chair, eating potato chips and watching videos. Li Hongmei walked over anxiously:
"Mr. Lu, it's not good, the players are going to capture us!"
Lu Yu was so surprised that the potato chip bag in his hand almost fell to the ground. He turned his head to look out the window:
"What the hell? Are the players coming to fight downstairs in a group?"
"Cough, I mean, the players are going to capture our official account comment area."
"Oh… that's it."
Lu Yu breathed a sigh of relief, re-stabilized the potato chip bag in his hand, and asked blankly: "Why?"
Li Hongmei was shocked. Good guy, as the CEO, you don't know anything about the ups and downs of the game industry?
But on second thought, although President Lu is slow to react, he can always win thousands of miles away. This is also the benefit of planning before acting.
Worthy of being an old layered cake!
After listening to Li Hongmei's explanation, Lu Yu rubbed his eyebrows:
"But we just started the project, and we have to spend a lot of time petting cats and resting every day. Where do we have time to make a trailer?"
He thought to himself:
The game industry in this world is really competitive. The speed at which you start from project establishment to construction is like riding a rocket.
Don't your employees need to rest? Don't you need to enjoy life and spend time with your family?
What is the meaning of being competitive and dying?
Let the boss enjoy the good years for the employees more happily?
……
The latest novels are first published on 69 Bookstore!
However, since the players have so many opinions, Lu Yu thought, it is better to make a trailer to get by first.
The problem is, the game's project file is still in the state of creating a new folder, and there are no art resources, what should I do?
He suddenly glanced at the low-cost online drama he was watching, and a flash of inspiration came to him. He ordered Li Hongmei:
"You do this…"
Three days later.
In the anticipation of the players, Taoyuan Township's official account finally released a new dynamic:
"Sorry to keep everyone waiting. The first trailer for the FPS new work "Code: Shinkansen", which will be exclusively owned by Taoyuan Shenyou console, is released!"
The players couldn't wait to click on the video:
At the beginning of the video, a simple train carriage in reality appeared.
The degree of simplicity and oldness shows that it is a temporary set borrowed from a stage crew.
Then, the door at the end of the carriage opened, and a heroic and punk-style policewoman appeared.
Zhang Qiqi, who played the policewoman, had wavy long hair, bangs gently swaying, and smoky makeup outlining her charming eyes.
Her police uniform is similar to a studded denim shirt, and there are holes in her pants, which set off her smooth white legs. She wears shiny black leather boots.
The baton (actually a baseball bat) in her hand is printed with flying fire and meteors, giving the whole person a rebellious atmosphere.
She shuttled between the carriages, holding a club, full of domineering.
She first stayed next to the female passenger played by Milk Candy,
Zhang Qiqi said seriously: "Hello, miss, please show your ticket and ID."
Milk Candy handed over the documents nervously.
Seeing the gender column, Zhang Qiqi frowned: "You are… Mr. Niu?"
Milk Candy looked out the window with a guilty conscience: "The ticket was printed wrong."
Zhang Qiqi silently returned the documents to the other party.
Continuing forward for a while, a lecherous fatso played by Chu Xiong, drooling, rushed into the carriage.
"Milk Candy sister, I'm coming, ehehehe..."
Zhang Qiqi expressionlessly stopped the fatso: "This passenger, please have some self-respect."
Chu Xiong's beady, raisin-like eyes glared at her: "What's it to you, being so nosy? My Milk Candy brand popsicle is going to melt, don't delay me from licking it..."
Before he could finish, she handcuffed the fatso to the carriage handle.
The camera cuts to Zhang Qiqi in the dining car, where a female passenger played by Hua Wu is asleep on a table.
Zhang Qiqi: "This isn't a place to sleep; I need to tell her to go back to her seat."
She walked into the carriage.
The screen goes black and displays the subtitle: [One Day Later]
Zhang Qiqi yawned and walked out of the dining car groggily.
She approached the restroom door, sniffed, frowned slightly, and knocked:
"Sir, please don't smoke in here."
Zhang Fan's frivolous voice came from inside: "Oh, Officer, come in and stop me if you can!"
Zhang Qiqi, expressionless, kicked open the restroom door and dragged Zhang Fan out for a beating.
Zhang Fan begged for mercy while being beaten:
"Ouch, ouch, Qiqi, be gentle, this... this is just filming a promotional video, ouch, ouch..."
Amidst Zhang Fan's miserable screams, the screen went black and displayed the subtitle:
[As an officer, in addition to solving cases, you need to inspect suspicious people, take care of passengers, and deal with hooligans and petty thugs.
Experience a different train patrol journey, only in Taoyuan Township's new game, 'Codename Shinkansen']
……
After the promotional video ended, the players were completely dumbfounded:
"Did I wake up too early? What did I just see? Taoyuan Township's next-gen flagship title? A CG movie turned into a short skit?"
"The acting is so awkward, so awkward I could build a villa with my toes."
"But, I have to say, Sister Qiqi is so cool."
"Taoyuan Township! I'm really impressed by you, you old trickster, isn't this an FPS game, where are the guns?"
"I'm so disappointed in you, other manufacturers are working overtime like crazy, how dare you put out something like this to fool us?"
"You chose to go crazy instead of releasing posters and gameplay demos?"
"Hurry up and work overtime, be more diligent with the updates, how can you sleep at your age?"
Seeing the online players' urging, Lu Yu smiled without saying a word.
When he was a producer in his previous life, he also noticed that some players often condemned their bosses for forcing them to work overtime on their personal pages, lamenting the plight of working stiffs,
But it was the same people who often criticized game companies for not working overtime, complaining that the development pace was too slow and complaining about daytime server downtime.
In short, it's like this—
Let me work overtime?
No way!
Let others work overtime to serve me?
Absolutely!
……
Seeing the storm of criticism online, the employees in the company panicked!
But Lu Yu was very calm and sent an email to comfort everyone: "Don't panic, stay calm!"
Liu Mengyuan also left a message in the work group: "Everyone, trust President Lu's old trickery, there must be a deeper meaning behind what President Lu is doing!"
Jianghai City, Longteng Group Building.
Fan Langtao couldn't help but smile when he saw the promotional video released by Taoyuan Township.
Hehe, Lu Yu, did you see the resource gap between yourself and the big groups and decide to give up completely?
Or... do you want to deliberately weaken yourself to competitors by releasing a rotten promotional video, planning to withdraw from this flagship battle?
But...
Admit defeat now? Too late! Why didn't you do it earlier?
This time, I will make you never forget!
He called over his public relations assistant and gave some instructions.
Afterwards, the official account of CrossFire quickly stepped in to mock them.
The official account pretended to forward a player's message asking about the development progress, and sarcastically said:
"We are all working diligently and don't have time to film low-quality short dramas to fool players."
This repost immediately received a large number of likes and approvals!
Some small accounts were mixed in to stir up trouble:
"Taoyuan Township is just a small factory after all, they can't handle the big stage at critical moments, you still have to rely on big factories like Longteng to play big games!"
……
Jianghai City, Youyi Company Headquarters.
Shi Yi nodded slightly as he watched Taoyuan Township deeply mired in the players' criticism.
It seems that my position as the head of Youyi is secure!
"Secretary Wu, your plan to kill two birds with one stone is well done."
Wu Liang: "I am just picking up shells on the beach of your ocean of wisdom."
Shi Yi nodded comfortably, this flattery is on point!
He asked: "What do you think, should we also follow suit and mock Taoyuan Township?"
Wu Liang smiled and shook his head:
"On the contrary, we should now use Youyi's publicity channels to spread this embarrassing drama of Taoyuan Township.
But you also know that I am not helping Taoyuan Township by doing this, but putting them on the fire to be roasted, making them even more of a laughingstock!
We and Longteng, one positive and one negative, will definitely make Taoyuan Township extremely uncomfortable and completely withdraw from the competition.
Next, we just need to wait for the cooperation between Longteng and Tenghui to change, and we can be sure of victory!"
Shi Yi said excitedly: "Good! After this is done, I will promote you to Vice President of R\u0026D!"
Thinking of the upcoming promotion, the two laughed triumphantly in the office.