189: Chapter 189 is officially online.

Wang Ye spoke happily in the livestream room, regardless of whether the developers could actually hear him.

Anyway, it was enough that he had voiced his opinions.

Since that last time, he had been thinking about it constantly for nearly a month.

Now that the game was finally releasing, the excitement in his heart was written all over his face.

For the past month, he had been streaming the previous game.

After playing for a month, he was able to achieve high scores in many levels.

Two days passed in the blink of an eye.

Early that morning, Zhou Yang opened the game's backend.

At this point, the game's pre-order figures had already reached 150 million.

In just two days, the pre-order figures had hit 150 million; this was already quite impressive.

Once the game officially opened its servers, so many players would be flooding in at once.

It would put quite a bit of pressure on the game's servers, but fortunately, these game servers were all provided by the creator platform.

The price wasn't very expensive, and the more you needed, the cheaper it was.

As the time gradually approached 10:00 AM.

Wang Ye entered the game the very first moment it was available.

Seeing the game's CG, it was the Pearl Harbor attack he had seen during the closed beta.

Wang Ye skipped it immediately.

In the closed beta, it couldn't be skipped, but after the official release, you only needed to watch the CG for twenty seconds before you could skip it.

Skipping the game CG, registering a nickname, and entering the game lobby.

The game lobby still had that familiar feel, just like in the closed beta.

However, the open beta had many more things than the closed beta.

For example, more campaigns; last time during the closed beta, he had only played the Battle of Iwo Jima.

But the Pacific War didn't just consist of the Battle of Iwo Jima.

There were also campaigns like the Battle of Okinawa and the Pacific naval battles.

Currently, all modes were unlocked, but only one campaign in Story Mode was unlocked.

To unlock the next one, you had to complete the tasks of the previous Story Mode campaign first.

The requirement was to get at least a score of 60, or play it five times.

For the first mission, some people might find it difficult.

So Zhou Yang specifically lowered the difficulty.

You only needed to play it five times to unlock the next campaign.

In other words, as long as you died quickly after entering the game, you could unlock the next one by going in and out five times.

Of course, Zhou Yang didn't oppose this behavior.

How the players played was their own business.

He wanted players to play through the game's story, but if the players weren't willing, there was nothing he could do to force them.

Wang Ye opened Story Mode; he had originally intended to play ranked matches directly.

But he discovered that he needed to play one round of Story Mode to unlock ranked matches.

Looking at the unlocked campaigns, the first one was the Battle of Iwo Jima.

This was to let the players experience the cruelty of Iwo Jima.

And the next one displayed was the Battle of Midway.

Following that were the Battle of Guadalcanal, and finally, the Battle of Okinawa.

He hadn't played any of these campaigns, so he didn't pay much attention to them.

Looking at the familiar Iwo Jima, Wang Ye didn't hesitate at all and chose to enter the game.

Last time he had been hit by friendly naval gunfire, but this time, he certainly wouldn't repeat the same mistake.

Upon entering the game, Wang Ye heard chattering all around him.

"Holy crap, this is so damn realistic! The atmosphere of war is way better than watching a stream."

"True, true, but it seems we are Tankers."

"What's wrong with being a Tanker? Do you want to charge as infantry instead?"

"Forget that. Infantry are just pure targets, the kind that charge up just to die."

Wang Ye listened to these players' discussions.

He clearly saw the scene around him.

At this moment, he was inside a tank, and the ones speaking were the other tank crew members beside him.

They were all players.

Listening to the curious and excited tone of these players, the corners of Wang Ye's mouth curled up slightly.

In the livestream room at this moment, the audience was filled with laughter.

"Hahaha, let them experience the taste of being dominated by an Anti-aircraft gun."

"Driving a tank is useless; you still get beaten up."

"Yeah, driving a tank makes you die even faster! The enemy's anti-tank guns and Anti-aircraft guns hunt you down."

"Brother Wang might die even faster this round than last time."

"Let's make a prediction and see how many hours he can survive."

Seeing the viewers' comments, Wang Ye's face darkened slightly.

Suddenly, his mind flashed back to the last closed beta when he played Story Mode, and his tank was taken out by two shots as soon as it charged halfway up the slope at the start.

However, he was the driver now.

With the experience of driving a tank in the closed beta ranked matches, Wang Ye felt somewhat confident.

Not to mention, they had air support suppression, so as long as he didn't drive too fast.

When their own planes were suppressing the enemy, they could charge up without being targeted.

As the amphibious landing craft in front landed on Iwo Jima, the infantry behind were also successively landing on the beachhead.

Looking at this familiar beachhead, Wang Ye was not in a hurry at all.

At this moment, the other players in the cockpit thought Wang Ye was an NPC; since the NPC wasn't driving, they didn't know what to do for a moment.

"Buddy, are you a player?"

Finally, one of these four players couldn't wait any longer and asked directly.

"Ah, yes, I am a player. What's up?"

Wang Ye came back to his senses and said with a smile.

"It has already started, why aren't you driving?" the player named Cheng Sheng Zhui Ji asked in confusion.

"Isn't going up now just asking to get beaten? If you peek your heads out and look at the shore, you'll know what the situation is."

"How do you know?" Cheng Sheng Zhui Ji widened his eyes, feeling somewhat skeptical.

"I am a closed beta player; naturally, I know because I've played it. I was beaten up badly back then," Wang Ye said with a chuckle.

Upon hearing this, Cheng Sheng Zhui Ji immediately stopped doubting.

"Oh, so you're a closed beta expert! We are all players who just started playing this game; please carry us, expert!" Cheng Sheng Zhui Ji looked at Wang Ye like a little fanboy.

The other three players followed suit, all shouting, "Please carry us, expert!"

Seeing this, Wang Ye nodded with a smile.

"Alright, just follow my commands."

"Of course, I can't guarantee a high score, but I can guarantee we won't die so quickly."

"It's fine, it's fine," Cheng Sheng Zhui Ji waved his hands quickly.

The other players nodded as well.

"That's right, if we did it ourselves, it would be good enough not to die quickly. We never even thought about getting a high score."

"We are all newbie noobs; we will listen to everything you say, expert."

Wang Ye nodded, then he looked outside.

He started the tank and drove towards the beachhead in front.

Upon reaching the beachhead, he immediately discovered that the tank's treads had sunk into the sand of the beach.

Wang Ye tried to move, but couldn't advance an inch.

However, he had experience from before, so he immediately told the Observer on top to clear the loose sand under the tank's treads.

This Observer player immediately jumped down from the tank and busied himself beside the tank's treads.

After busying himself for seven or eight minutes, Wang Ye tried starting the tank, and it broke free from the restriction of the sand on the first try.

The Observer immediately chased after it and returned to the tank.

At this moment, in front of them, quite a few tanks were charging up towards the hilltop.

Wang Ye didn't care at all and followed closely behind a tank.

He wanted to use this tank as a meat shield.