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It also, as expected, made it to Weibo's hot search.

Penguin Group and all players believed that this was Honor of Kings' countermeasure against the Combat Night event.

In order to attract more users and to compete with Dota Mobile, Honor of Kings released so many modes and maps at once.

And after seeing the activities launched by Honor of Kings,

the happiest ones were actually within Dota Mobile.

Because initially, they were worried that if Honor of Kings also launched an event similar to Combat Night a month later, it would be troublesome for Dota Mobile.

But Penguin didn't expect it.

Honor of Kings did not launch such an event; instead, it increased the number of players through new modes and new maps.

This choice was naturally what Penguin Group wanted to see.

They certainly didn't think that a few new modes and maps were more attractive than directly giving away skins.

And that was indeed the case.

Although these new modes were fun, they were still far less appealing than the Combat Night's direct skin giveaways.

What the people at Penguin Group completely failed to realize was that,

Honor of Kings' countermeasure against them was actually in another direction, a direction that Penguin Group had not anticipated at all!

The purpose of Honor of Kings launching new maps and new modes was not to compete with Dota Mobile for the original 60 million mobile game users.

These new maps and new modes, as well as the strengthened AI bots,

all of this was for the novice players who had never played mobile games!

If it weren't for Penguin's current attention being focused on the upcoming Combat Night,

perhaps Penguin's internal team would have discovered that Honor of Kings' update this time was entirely prepared for new players!

This also indicates that,

a significant portion of Honor of Kings' current player base is a potential player group that Penguin Group has never discovered!

And by the time Penguin truly discovered this point, it was already too late.

Chapter 88: Penguin Group's Blind Confidence, Exploding User Numbers!

In a coffee shop in a small city in northern Yan Country.

"Xue'er, are you really not coming with us?"

"We're all playing Honor of Kings; you'll be too bored by yourself."

"It's not easy to get two hours of rest, and you're still not playing games to relax."

Several girls sitting in a corner were talking to a girl next to them.

Listening to their voices, the person called Xue'er shook her head.

"I downloaded Honor of Kings before and played a few rounds."

"But then I uninstalled it."

Hearing this, someone asked in confusion,

"Why?"

"I remember you were like me, never playing any games before, but now I've grown to like Honor of Kings, so why did you uninstall it?"

Listening to her friend's voice, Xue'er sighed softly.

"Honor of Kings is quite interesting, but my skills are too poor, and I often get scolded."

"Last time, a primary school student directly opened his mic and cursed at me for a long time; I was really annoyed."

"But besides matchmaking, Honor of Kings has no other modes, and the AI bot difficulty is too low to be fun."

"But if I go into matchmaking, I'll get scolded again."

"That's why I uninstalled Honor of Kings."

Xue'er was actually quite helpless.

She had originally wanted to try Honor of Kings.

But because it was her first time playing a game, her skills were very poor.

If she directly played matchmaking to practice her skills, she would mostly be scolded, but the AI bot difficulty was too easy and didn't improve her skills.

So in the end, she uninstalled Honor of Kings.

And listening to Xue'er's voice,

her friend paused, then placed her phone in Xue'er's hand.

The Honor of Kings game on her phone was still in progress.

The person's voice continued,

"Honor of Kings just updated several new modes yesterday; they're all especially fun, and in this mode, even if your record isn't good or you don't play well, no one will scold you, because it's an entertainment mode."

Hearing this,

Xue'er was a little surprised, "Really?"

Her friend nodded.

"You'll know once you start playing now."

"This mode is called Infinite Brawl; all heroes' attributes have been increased, and cooldowns have been greatly reduced, making it especially fun."

"And look, in this game, the top lane's score is already 0/5, yet no one is scolding him; everyone in the chat is talking about how interesting this mode is."

After her friend finished speaking,

Xue'er quickly looked at the chat box and realized her friend hadn't lied to her.

If it were a normal matchmaking or ranked game, someone would have cursed at that score long ago.

But in this mode, surprisingly few people were speaking.

Everyone was enjoying the incredibly exhilarating game in Infinite Brawl.

"Then I'll try."

"I'm really bad, though."

The next second,

Xue'er picked up her friend's phone and started playing seriously.

After just a few minutes of playing, she discovered that

this game mode was simply much, much more fun than the regular mode.

Hero cooldowns were so fast that before she could even press her next skill, the previous one had already cooled down.

Everyone was happily engaging in various brawls and maneuvers.

"Wait."

"Two enemies are coming to gank me."

"I'm probably going to die!"

After Xue'er spoke, her friend immediately said,

"Don't give up! The Xiao Qiao you're playing is very strong in Infinite Brawl; you can counter-kill!"

"Okay, watch my moves!"

After taking a deep breath, Xue'er started frantically tapping on her phone.

With the buff from Infinite Brawl, a few seconds later,

the hero she controlled actually managed to counter-kill both enemies!

Watching this scene on her phone, Xue'er couldn't help but cheer.

Before uninstalling Honor of Kings, she had played many rounds, but she had never managed a counter-kill with such low health, let alone against two enemies.

But in this mode, she succeeded.

And her friend beside her also laughed,

"Because the cooldowns are very low in this mode, you can operate freely and practice skills or whatever."

"And besides this mode, there are several other new modes and maps that are also very fun and suitable for beginners."

"The key is that..."

"this update also adjusted the difficulty of the AI bots."

"Now, the highest strength of AI bots can reach Diamond, so you can slowly choose AI bots that match your skill level to train."

"My friends and I are both Gold, but we can't even beat AI bots of the same rank."