26: Chapter 026 Official Public Beta

"There really is one?" Yang Ruoxue's eyes widened as she said in surprise.

"Yes, but the game will only be released after the Anti-War Competition ends," Zhou Yang nodded.

After completing the Battle of Shanghai and the Battle of Nanjing for the main Eastern theater, he can start a new project.

As for other things, that can wait.

After all, making too many games of the same type will lead to player fatigue; they need to experience something different.

"It's fine, Zhou Yang, do whatever you want, I'll definitely support you wholeheartedly!"

"Just let me try it out first when the time comes," Yang Ruoxue said with a smile.

These days, she had also been playing wwii: eastern meat grinder.

But she was a GM, with invincibility and auto-aim, brutally crushing the Little Devils in the game.

"Okay."

After chatting for a while longer, Yang Ruoxue left.

Two days later, eight in the morning.

The first day of the competition.

The Anti-War Competition's official website opened for game downloads.

All players could download and play the game for free.

However, after playing a game for more than two hours, players must pay to purchase it.

This was to protect the rights of game developers.

After all, some games don't have long playtimes and can be fully experienced in a few hours.

Those who didn't want to pay could exit the game within two hours.

Zhou Yang immediately paid attention to the Anti-War Competition's official website's participant backend.

At this moment, in the backend, the click count and download count for wwii: eastern meat grinder were soaring.

Every ten seconds or so, there would be tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of downloads.

This competition was not only anticipated by game developers but also by game players.

After all, it was a competition spearheaded by the Huaxia government, so it garnered a lot of attention.

Thanks to the attention from the closed beta, the game's download count surpassed a million in just a few minutes.

In the Anti-War Competition, there was also a real-time download ranking.

At this time, wwii: eastern meat grinder ranked in the top three, with the two games ahead of it both being from Yiteng Group.

After all, they were a big company, and their games had been promoted for several months, from the announcement of the competition to its start.

Spending real money definitely had an effect.

At Yiteng Group, Zhang Yida looked at the real-time download ranking.

When he saw that eastern meat grinder was actually in third place, he couldn't help but frown.

He admitted the game was good, but he hadn't expected it to break into the top three.

Currently, six of the top ten games on the download list were from their Yiteng Group.

Thousands of soldiers crossing a single-plank bridge.

The more people, the greater the probability.

Fortunately, the game's download count was still quite far from their company's second and first place, so it wouldn't be surpassed.

However, the competition wasn't about download count, but about the Anti-War Rate.

High download numbers didn't necessarily mean a high Anti-War Rate; only a high Anti-War Rate could win prizes.

He felt a faint unease in his heart.

The company entered the competition aiming for first place.

As long as they secured a first place, the rankings of other games wouldn't matter.

...

At eight o'clock, Zhou Xiaoyi immediately started her livestream, then downloaded the official wwii: eastern meat grinder game from the competition's official website.

After two days of adjustment, she felt like playing the game again.

As soon as she started the livestream, thousands of people flooded into her livestream room.

However, the number of viewers was significantly less than in previous days.

But she understood; after all, the game officially launched its public beta today.

Everyone had been eager to experience the game.

Those who were still in her livestream room now were basically office workers or students with early morning classes.

"The game is finally officially in public beta, but unfortunately, I'm still working my butt off."

"I, an early morning student, also feel terrible."

"Sister Yi, quickly check what's new in the public beta update!"

The audience in the livestream room sent a flurry of bullet comments.

They were already impatient to see the public beta content of the game.

Zhou Xiaoyi saw the bullet comments and was equally curious about the public beta content.

It definitely couldn't be just a few small dungeons like in the closed beta.

Sure enough, as soon as she opened the game.

After quickly skipping the new player tutorial, she finally entered the game's main page.

Then Zhou Xiaoyi immediately noticed that the public beta's game homepage was completely different from the closed beta's.

"Hey, brothers, my military rank seems to still be there! I thought the closed beta was a complete wipe?"

Zhou Xiaoyi saw 'Private Second Class' clearly written in her military rank section.

She immediately exclaimed.

The audience, seeing this, suddenly became speechless.

"Sister Yi, that's the lowest military rank, a recruit's rank, you get it when you enter the game."

Zhou Xiaoyi, seeing this, immediately felt very embarrassed.

"Ah? Is that so? I didn't pay attention."

"Never mind, let's look at something else."

Saying that, Zhou Xiaoyi discovered another difference.

That was the addition of a 'campaign mode'.

Clicking on 'campaign mode', a new dungeon appeared.

Battle of Hongkou.

Clicking on this battle, a long string of text appeared before Zhou Xiaoyi, which was the introduction to this battle.

[On July 7th, 1937, after the July 7th Incident, the Japanese Army accelerated its military operations in North China.]

[At that time, the Chinese Nationalist Government opened a second front in Shanghai, intending to force the Japanese Army to disperse its forces and attract international attention.]

[On August 9th, 1937, the Hongkou Airport Incident occurred, where a Japanese officer was shot dead after forcing his way through a checkpoint. This was the fuse for the Battle of Shanghai.]

[On the eleventh, the National Revolutionary Army's German-equipped Division 87th Division and 88th Division were stationed in Shanghai.]

[On the thirteenth, the Japanese Army fired the first shot west of Bazi Bridge, and the 1st Battalion of the 523rd Regiment of the 88th Division counterattacked.]

[The Battle of Shanghai began.]

[Approximately 30,000 Chinese German-equipped Division soldiers participated, with about 12,000 casualties. Approximately 4,000 Japanese Army soldiers participated, with about 1,500 casualties.]

[The battle ultimately failed. Two Japanese Army divisions landed in Shanghai, and the National Revolutionary Army was forced to retreat, suffering heavy losses and calling for reinforcements from local armies across the country.]

After reading this introduction, Zhou Xiaoyi roughly understood the course of the battle.

"Goodness, brothers, looking at this story introduction, why do I feel like I'm reading a history book? It's as if everything written here is real history," Zhou Xiaoyi couldn't help but exclaim.

"Also, this casualty ratio is too exaggerated. 30,000 fighting 4,000, resulting in an 8:1 casualty ratio."

To Zhou Xiaoyi, 30,000 against 4,000, wasn't that an advantage on their side?

How could it still turn out like this?

The audience in the livestream room, hearing herFeeling, also agreed.

"Indeed, I feel the same way. I noticed this during the closed beta a few days ago, the background setting is too detailed."

"If we really treat this as our Huaxia's past history when playing, will we have different feelings?"

"It makes me so curious, I really want to know what happened next?"

"This casualty ratio is indeed exaggerated. How difficult must it have been to achieve such a casualty ratio?"

Zhou Xiaoyi quickly scanned the bullet comments, then clicked to enter the battle.

She entered a matching interface.

"Hey, you can even invite friends? But I don't have any friends."

Zhou Xiaoyi was surprised that she could invite friends.

"Sister Yi, add Brother Wang as a friend, invite Brother Wang, he hasn't started matching yet."

"Yes, yes, yes, let Brother Wang carry you."

Seeing her fans' enthusiastic requests, Zhou Xiaoyi opened Wang Ye's livestream room.

Then she saw that Wang Ye was also on the matching page, just like her.

At this moment, a friend request from someone named 'Wang Daye' came through.

Zhou Xiaoyi immediately accepted.

Team invitation successful.

At this point, Wang Ye pulled another person in, Old Kui.

Then he started the match.

Matching in progress.

Zhou Xiaoyi looked at the number of players matching below, a full three thousand.

This number made her eyes widen directly.

"Holy moly, brothers, this campaign mode is actually a three-thousand-person battle!"