110: Chapter 110 Who's More Fun?

At nine in the morning, several related trending topics were already hanging on all major platforms.

crossfire's Zombie Mode went live.

alliance of valiant arms reopened its servers.

These terms occupied almost the top of the trending lists.

Among them, the most eye-catching ones were the top few trending topics.

"The mission of the crossfire substitute is over; alliance of valiant arms is back!"

"Why is alliance of valiant arms more fun than crossfire?"

Clicking into the second topic revealed a comparative review several thousand words long, criticizing crossfire from three dimensions: graphics, gameplay, and innovation. The conclusion was just one sentence: alliance of valiant arms is the future of shooting games.

The first few entries were all paid for by alliance of valiant arms, press releases secretly stepping on crossfire.

Because the previous "obsolete product" incident was widely known, most of the comments under the trending topics were indeed expressing anticipation for alliance of valiant arms.

"After waiting a month, I can finally play it. I'm skipping class today to spend the whole day at the internet cafe."

"Escort Mode, here I come."

"Playing crossfire for half a month was certainly fun, but alliance of valiant arms has better graphics and newer gameplay. I'm switching over starting today."

However, many players still mentioned one thing.

"I'll definitely have to log into crossfire at 3:30 in the afternoon; they're giving away golden melee weapons just for being online."

"The Kukri is too cool. I'll come back to continue playing alliance of valiant arms after I claim the reward."

"See you at 3:30. I'm leaving as soon as I claim it."

Although many players were prepared to play alliance of valiant arms mainly today, because crossfire's event rewards were truly generous, it was a consensus among these players to at least log in for one match in the afternoon.

...

9:30 AM.

The internet cafe behind Shenzhen University was already packed with people.

Several people without computers were waiting on the benches in front of the counter. Some were squatting at the entrance smoking, occasionally poking their heads inside to see if anyone was logging off.

Chen Yang and Old Chu were sitting in their usual spots in the corner against the wall.

Both computers were on, and the login screens open on the desktops were identical.

alliance of valiant arms.

Although it was morning, the internet cafe was still packed, much like the situation a month ago when both games had their first open beta.

However, a month ago, everyone ended up playing crossfire because they couldn't get into alliance of valiant arms.

But today, they could finally play alliance of valiant arms.

Old Chu was watching a livestream on his phone.

On the screen, Old C was also waiting for alliance of valiant arms to open its servers, watching the alliance of valiant arms promotional video while speaking to the camera.

"Today you will know that I haven't lied."

"alliance of valiant arms is truly so much better than crossfire. You'll know as soon as you try Escort Mode; it's a game mode on an entirely different dimension, and it's incredibly fun."

Old Chu swiped down, and the blogger in the next livestream room was saying the same thing.

"You only know the charm of alliance of valiant arms once you play it. Graphics, feel, modes—every single aspect is stronger than crossfire."

In the third livestream room, a streamer who previously specialized in CS was also praising it.

"I've streamed CS for five years and thought that was all there was to shooting games. alliance of valiant arms let me know that it could actually be played this way."

At this moment, on Douyu and Huya, almost all streamers were praising alliance of valiant arms.

Even many game streamers on Douyin were preparing to livestream alliance of valiant arms to see what it was like.

Putting down his phone, Old Chu was full of anticipation.

"I can finally play alliance of valiant arms. After waiting a month, I'm definitely going to enjoy it from start to finish today!"

He paused.

"Of course, I'm definitely going to claim the crossfire rewards at 3:30 in the afternoon."

After saying this, he looked at Chen Yang beside him.

"But after claiming them, I don't know if we'll continue playing crossfire later."

Chen Yang could only smile.

Although he was on the side of gameplay at the beginning, feeling that crossfire was very fun, after knowing that crossfire was just an obsolete product of alliance of valiant arms, he felt a bit unconfident instead.

Is alliance of valiant arms really that fun? Even the developer doesn't think highly of crossfire?

He wanted to try it out for himself today.

He patted Old Chu on the shoulder and looked at the time again.

Ten-second countdown.

Ten.

...

Three.

Two.

One.

10:00 AM.

In the internet cafe, the players not playing league of legends had almost all clicked on the alliance of valiant arms icon. Only a few players sitting in the corner chose to check out the new crossfire mode first.

Even Chen Yang was thinking of playing alliance of valiant arms first to see.

He entered his account and password and clicked login.

A prompt popped up on the screen.

"Server busy. Currently in queue. There are 3,400 people ahead of you."

Chen Yang frowned.

However, this situation was quite common. Many games would have queues when they launch; it's fine to just get stuck for a bit, at most a few minutes.

He leaned back in his chair, waiting for the queue progress bar to move forward.

Beside him, Old Chu was also stuck on the login screen, with a progress bar faster than his, with nearly 2,000 people ahead.

Watching the queue number on the screen decreasing rapidly, although it looked like it would be his turn in three or four minutes at most based on the speed, Chen Yang always felt a bit irritable and didn't really want to keep waiting and wasting time.

"Forget it."

He glanced at his watch.

He exited the alliance of valiant arms login screen and clicked on the crossfire icon.

Two days ago, he had just bought the Barrett sniper rifle in crossfire, and he had practiced his sniping. He had been having a blast killing in Team Deathmatch over the last two days.

While queuing just now, he remembered the scene of his crazy killing spree yesterday, which made him unable to resist.

Anyway.

It would be the same to log into alliance of valiant arms later when there weren't so many people; he wouldn't have to wait then and could go straight in.

Watching Chen Yang's actions, Old Chu tutted.

"Then I'll just have to play alliance of valiant arms first."

"It's just a pity that you can't experience such a great game with me."

In the meantime.

On Chen Yang's side, crossfire logged in successfully right away, without any queue.

After all, Qin Mo had long since increased the servers for crossfire, and currently, most people were logging into alliance of valiant arms first.

After entering the game.

Chen Yang quickly clicked into the Team Deathmatch channel. Just as he was about to find a few maps he was familiar with, he noticed the next second that a room for Zombie Mode had actually been created in this team channel.

Biohazard Pyramid.

Chen Yang hesitated for a moment, but ultimately clicked into the room, preparing to go in and try it out first.

If it was scary and not fun, he would quit.

Beside him, Old Chu also saw Chen Yang's actions and laughed.

"Aren't you a coward? You never play the zombie mode in CSOL and even trash it; why are you playing this now?"

Chen Yang put on his headphones.

"Just taking a look. If crossfire spent so much effort making a trash mode, I'm really going to curse at them."

He clicked start game.

The loading screen lit up, and it started loading the map named Biohazard Pyramid.

At the same time.

As the last few hundred people quickly disappeared.

Old Chu also finally successfully finished queuing and entered the main game interface of alliance of valiant arms.