90: Lin Ye’s new way to play, soldier battle selection mode!
In fact, as early as the first time Kim Geun-seok saw the map for Raging Sea, many details in Earth Online seemed unreasonable to him.
One of them was the difference in the territories of these “countries”.
In the real Azure Star, the areas of different Settlements were actually quite similar, with the largest and smallest not differing by more than five times.
Yet, the territory of the enemy force, Mao Xiong Country, in the current instance was 170 times that of South Korea?!
In Kim Geun-seok’s opinion, this distribution of power territories was extremely unreasonable, and somewhat indicative of Designer Lin Ye trying to bluff people!
However, it was also a harmless matter.
The map was just an embellishment; what was more important was the subsequent mission settings.
【Mao Xiong Country possesses strong military reserves and good weapon support in land, air, and sea systems. Due to the setting by the instance Designer Lin Ye, this instance will not introduce Mao Xiong Country’s military reserves to Challengers in the early stages of the mission. Challengers will need to explore them in actual combat.】
【Additionally, this instance has a specially set weather system; the territory within Mao Xiong Country is extremely cold. Challengers, please prepare in advance!】
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【Next, a detailed mission introduction will be provided:】
【Mission One: Capture any one of Mao Xiong Country’s three main cities: Volgograd, Saint Petersburg, or Moscow.】
【Mission success rewards 500 points! Mission failure deducts 800 points!】
【Mission Two: Within half an hour after the instance opens, declare submission to Mao Xiong Country and hand over all personal technology to Mao Xiong Country! Deduct 20 points!】
After seeing the detailed mission introduction, Kim Geun-seok’s brows furrowed slightly.
The rewards and penalties for the missions had significantly increased.
Kim Geun-seok remembered that when Raging Sea first opened, the point rewards and penalties were generally below 100, but now the penalty points had directly risen to 800.
However, this was understandable, as since the last Raging Sea ended, all instances on the entire Azure Star had been increasing their rewards and penalties, and his own instance had also raised its rewards and penalties to 1000 points.
Under this general trend, Lin Ye, as the originator of large points, an 800-point penalty setting was indeed not high.
What truly made Kim Geun-seok breathe a sigh of relief was Lin Ye’s mission setting.
This instance did not require Challengers to annihilate Mao Xiong Country, but merely to occupy one of its main cities.
Annihilating a country and occupying a city are vastly different.
In that case, the difficulty of the instance would be greatly reduced.
With ten thousand Challengers, and five thousand of them being elites from his Kim family, capturing a city sounded like a very hopeful prospect.
“As expected, this Designer Lin Ye’s design ability isn’t that strong after all!”
“His instance’s initial launch was purely experimental, so the mission objectives would be set relatively simply. Overall, it doesn’t seem much different from ordinary instances.”
【Sky Curtain Hint: Instance Designer Lin Ye has incorporated an innovative military combat mode selection mechanism into the instance. If Challengers choose to execute Mission One, they can subsequently choose between four modes: Land Combat, Air Combat, Sea Combat, and All-Out War.】
【Land Combat, Air Combat, and Sea Combat modes belong to single-unit modes. After selecting a fixed combat mode, all weapons and technologies unrelated to this mode in the instance will be frozen!】
【All-Out War mode is an all-unit combat mode where all weapons and technologies can be freely used!】
【Once the mode selection is complete, this instance cannot be changed. Challengers, please choose carefully!】
“Hmm? Military combat mode selection?”
“What in the world is Lin Ye doing?”
This was a new setting Kim Geun-seok had never encountered before, and he fell into deep thought.
After all, he had previously watched Raging Sea, and while he could boast, Kim Geun-seok honestly harbored some apprehension about the tricks in Lin Ye’s mission designs.
He was afraid of inadvertently falling into Lin Ye’s trap.
At the same time, the instance’s live stream room was bustling with lively discussions.
【As expected of Lord Ye, there are constant innovations! This new instance has even incorporated new gameplay!】
【Unit mode selection, that sounds very interesting. It’s actually an indirect way of reducing the difficulty for Challengers, because Challengers can choose their unit based on their strengths. Tears!】
【The one above, stop fantasizing. The reason Lord Ye dares to set up modes like this is because he is confident in every type of weapon and technology in his instance.】
【Isn’t this new mode indirectly slapping the Korean Kim family in the face? The people of South Korea said Lord Ye copied their technology, and then Lord Ye immediately countered with a new mode… If the people of South Korea really had the ability, why haven’t they set up a new mode all these years?】
【Don’t say that. Kim Geun-seok and Lord Ye are roughly at the same level. It’s still unknown who will win.】
As they spoke, the live stream room began to mock the South Goryeo Settlement.
Unlike their previous treatment of the Da He Settlement, while the people of the Dahe Clan were annoying, it had to be admitted that they did possess some strength. Many Settlements on Azure Star were wary of them.
However, the Korean people were generally looked down upon.
First, in terms of hard power, although several chaebol groups in the South Goryeo Settlement indeed had some strength, there was still a gap compared to first-tier Settlements.
Although their momentum had been strong in recent years, they always seemed to be lacking that final push.
South Korea’s strongest, Park Chengwan, was only LV3, and below him was Kim Geun-seok, who had just fallen out of the TOP50.
This meant that this Settlement simply did not have a top-tier LV4 expert. Their usual bluster was just self-indulgence.
Furthermore, another more important reason why everyone disliked the Korean people was that the people of this Settlement were simply too shameless.
Whenever other Settlements had new technologies or notable design geniuses emerge, South Korea would always jump out and say inexplicable things.
It was fine once, twice, but after too many times, everyone started to feel disgusted.
【Hmph! What are you saying! Siba!】
【My Korean people are the smartest race on Azure Star, what do you losers know!】
【Geun-seok Oppa is the best! Don’t be influenced by these haters, your fans will definitely protect you!】
【Hmph! Lin Ye can have a bet with Geun-seok Oppa. If any weapon that appeared in the previous Raging Sea instance appears in the Winter is Coming instance, Lin Ye should be directly judged to have lost!】
It must be said that the Koreans’ ability to curse was quite formidable. The strength of an entire race was able to exchange insults with other viewers in the live stream room.
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“I understand!”
Kim Geun-seok, who had been deep in thought, suddenly exclaimed.
As if he had an epiphany, a triumphant smile appeared on his face.
“This free selection of military combat modes seems interesting, but it’s actually a product of Lin Ye rushing his work!”
“The loopholes in it are simply too big; it can’t withstand scrutiny at all.”