113: Chapter 113, Tank Mode, is that all?

Meanwhile, on the other side, Old Chu was fighting it out in Escort Mode.

The rules of this mode weren't difficult: one side pushes the vehicle while the other side tries to stop it. The side trying to stop it has items like rocket launchers, while the side pushing the vehicle can repair it.

The vehicle itself is a heavy armored car mounted with a machine gun. If you occupy the firing point on the vehicle, you can provide suppressive fire while it advances.

When Old Chu first entered the game, he was indeed amazed by the innovation of this mode.

The sight of the vehicle crashing through a wall and into the plaza was exactly the same as in the promotional video, with the entire screen shaking. He carefully followed beside the vehicle, holding his gun and inching forward.

But he soon discovered a problem.

Compared to other modes in alliance of valiant arms, this mode seemed to just add a vehicle!

The map was a standard urban combat map, the guns were the same old guns, and the feel of firing them was just as dull.

He advanced with the vehicle, and as soon as he rushed to the front, he prepared to find someone to kill.

A teammate's message popped up in the chat box.

"Hey, the one named Old Chu is the Handsomest, go back and repair the vehicle, don't rush forward."

Old Chu was stunned for a moment.

He turned his head to look, and the vehicle had stopped in the middle of the plaza and wasn't moving.

There were no enemies around. It was just that no one was repairing it.

He checked his stats: zero kills and three deaths, the worst on the team, which is why his teammate told him to come back and repair the vehicle.

Old Chu took a deep breath, turned around, and ran back to the vehicle. He pressed the repair key.

The vehicle began to slowly recover its health.

Just as he finished repairing the vehicle and prepared to take his gun and rush out to continue looking for people, a rocket shot over from a distance, hitting the side of the vehicle directly, and it was broken again.

He ran back to repair it again. Just as he finished, an enemy rushed out from an alleyway beside him and killed him directly; he was dead again.

Running back from the respawn point, he found the vehicle broken again. He repaired it again. Then died, then repaired again. He was trapped in a cycle of repairing, getting killed, repairing, and getting killed.

Because he was always repairing, he didn't get any kills; because he didn't get any kills, his stats were bad; because his stats were bad, his teammates all told him to repair. It had become a vicious cycle.

Finally, while repairing the vehicle, Old Chu tried to comfort himself.

"This mode must be more fun for the side trying to stop it; the side pushing the vehicle is boring. If it weren't for me kindly repairing the vehicle, we probably would have lost long ago."

He comforted himself this way. Finally, the two sides swapped teams.

He was now on the side trying to stop the vehicle. Having become the defending side, he could use a rocket launcher to blow up the vehicle. Just as he respawned and finished swapping his loadout, he saw all his teammates on the map running very fast, all surging in the same direction.

Some people were even throwing smoke grenades at their teammates just to get a head start.

Old Chu was full of question marks, not knowing what was going on. But he soon figured it out.

His teammates were all going to grab the rocket launchers.

Only rockets dealt high damage to the vehicle, and there were only a few spawn points for rockets on the map, with several people camping at each one every time they respawned.

So everyone was fighting for them. They were either fighting for a rocket or on their way to fight for one. After much effort, he finally picked up a rocket, set it up, aimed at the vehicle, and pulled the trigger.

The rocket flew out, hit the vehicle's armor, and exploded in a burst of sparks. The damage numbers popped up. Not bad.

Then he started running to the next rocket spawn point. Halfway there, he was killed by someone from the opposing team. He respawned and continued fighting for rockets.

Soon, as he played, Old Chu realized something. In this mode, the attacking side only cared about repairing, and the defending side only cared about rockets; it seemed there was no strategy or gameplay to speak of at all!

Although it was only his first game, Old Chu already felt a bit bored. After a while, this round of Escort Mode ended. Old Chu leaned back in his chair, his brow furrowed.

He felt like something was wrong somewhere. Is this it for alliance of valiant arms?

He took out his phone and opened Douyu. Old C was still bragging in the livestream.

"alliance of valiant arms is the most exhilarating shooter I've ever played; the innovation of Escort Mode is revolutionary."

Old Chu opened the reviews from those gaming media outlets again, flipped through them for a long time, and saw a sentence.

"alliance of valiant arms is extremely realistic, pursuing a true battlefield experience, and not everyone is suited for it."

After seeing this sentence, Old Chu took a deep breath. "It must be my problem, not the game's. I haven't really gotten into it yet. I'll play a few more rounds, I'll get used to it after playing a few more rounds."

Just as he was about to start another round, a shout suddenly erupted from Chen Yang beside him. Old Chu turned his head to look.

Chen Yang wasn't using the gun in his hand; he was holding a knife, jumping around on the wall. As he jumped, he was making strange noises. Woohoo, woohoo! Aha! It seemed very exciting and fun.

Even after Chen Yang was caught by a Biohazard Mutant and turned into a mutant himself, he didn't go after people; he just kept jumping around, trying to figure out how to jump up to a high platform.

Old Chu said, "Are you crazy?"

Chen Yang didn't even have time to talk to him. "This Zombie Mode is so fun, it's so exhilarating. I already know a few movement spots. They're just certain places where, as long as you know how to jump, you can get up there, and the zombies can hardly catch you. I can teach you; I researched these spots for a long time before I found them."

Old Chu shook his head and hesitated for a moment. "Forget it, no rush. I haven't really gotten into this alliance of valiant arms yet. Anyway, I'll definitely log in before 3:30 PM, no need to rush now."

He turned back and prepared to start another round of Escort Mode.

...

Meanwhile, after the two games launched their open betas, countless players across the country flooded into both games.

During the morning, most players were experiencing alliance of valiant arms. After all, whether it was the reputation from streamers, the reputation from media, or the knowledge that crossfire was a discarded product, all these things had frantically intensified players' expectations for alliance of valiant arms.

By noon that day, several trending topics for both games had surged to the top of the Weibo search rankings. The top three were all trending topics for alliance of valiant arms. "alliance of valiant arms Open Beta." "The Unique Design of alliance of valiant arms." "alliance of valiant arms is so fun."

The last trending topic was even bought to the number one spot by Tencent, but the comments and real-time feed under this topic showed that player sentiment was quite average.

"Doesn't feel very fun, just average." "The handling is too bad; I've been shooting for ages and don't even know if I've hit anyone." "Escort Mode isn't fun; I'm always repairing or getting blown up by rockets." "The graphics are indeed good, but it's not interesting to play. I can't put my finger on it, I just don't really want to start another round."

In the comment section of this trending topic, there were also many messages from crossfire players who had spontaneously come over. "Zombie Mode is so exhilarating. I played over twenty rounds in one morning and couldn't stop." "Brothers, go try crossfire's Zombie Mode. I really didn't expect fighting zombies could be this fun." "I thought alliance of valiant arms was fun in the morning, but after playing for two hours, I switched to crossfire and got addicted immediately."

While alliance of valiant arms dominated the top three trending topics, keywords related to crossfire's Zombie Mode were also rising. At first, it was just hanging around the tenth position. The trending topic name was "Zombie Mode is so fun."

Clicking into it, there were almost no negative reviews. "Zombie Mode is truly exhilarating. It's not like those creepy zombies in CSOL. The maps are fully lit, there are no horror elements, it's just pure fun."

"Whoever came up with the design of getting points for hitting targets really understands players. Whether you kill them or not, you get feedback." "I've played it all; both humans and zombies are great experiences. Zombies chasing people is exciting, and humans defending a point with machine gun fire is also very exhilarating."

As more and more players experienced crossfire, the reputation of this mode skyrocketed. So much for being a mode eliminated by CS; it should be the most fun mode in shooting games!

When the time reached 1:00 PM, a keyword entry for 'crossfire Zombie Mode Popularity' finally surpassed alliance of valiant arms to reach number one. And this trending topic only had one screenshot. All channels in crossfire were full. In every channel, all the rooms were Zombie Mode!