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Honor of Kings!

It launched an update!

The update didn't seem to contain much; there were no new modes or maps, and not even new heroes or skins were released.

It appeared to be a very common daily update.

But within this daily update, Honor of Kings hid something extremely crucial: various leaderboards.

And among them,

the most critical was undoubtedly the hero regional rankings that players were familiar with.

This ranking system could even be said to be an extremely crucial factor that allowed Honor of Kings to attract so many users.

It greatly enhanced player stickiness to the game and successfully leveraged the competitive nature among players.

Before this,

mutual comparison in MOBA games was basically only about skins and ranks.

But after this system was introduced, a third option was added.

And this option's appeal to players was even higher than the previous two.

District badges, city badges, provincial badges, national badges.

When a player's proficient hero's battle power reached the top one hundred in a certain region, different badges would appear.

Players would frantically practice and play for these hero badges; similarly, when a player's hero reached a city badge, provincial badge, or even higher, this would become a means for them to show off.

Wang Mo remembered very clearly.

In his previous life,

when many players met, besides talking about their rank, what they talked about most was how many in the province or how many in the national server their certain hero was.

It could be said that

this was an important factor that allowed Honor of Kings to retain such an astonishing number of players in its later stages.

And this time,

the hero regional rankings were hidden within this Honor of Kings update.

However,

after the official Weibo of Honor of Kings just announced that this update would be released tonight, because the update content was not much, everyone thought it was a small update.

Therefore, this Honor of Kings update didn't even make it to the trending searches.

Even within Tencent, who constantly paid attention to Honor of Kings's dynamics, they didn't take this Honor of Kings update too seriously.

Under the Weibo post about this update, there were even only tens of thousands of likes.

At this moment,

no player realized the true influence of the leaderboards that would be introduced in the upcoming Honor of Kings update.

A few hours later,

the update was pushed.

Although many players updated Honor of Kings immediately, they didn't pay too much attention to the content of this update.

After all, there were no new modes, new maps, new heroes, or new skins.

The update content was only a few hundred megabytes.

No one took this update seriously.

But even so,

there were still players who quickly discovered what was hidden in this update!

In a certain university in Modu.

Lao San and others, who had just returned to their dorm after class, were updating Honor of Kings.

Because this update package was not large, everyone finished updating the game in a short time.

"Alright, hurry up and get into the game, I'll pull you in."

"This time, we must climb a good amount of ranks."

Lao Da's voice rang out from his spot.

Lao Er also quickly entered the room Lao Da had created.

Because Lao Si in the dorm truly didn't play games, usually it was just the other three together.

However, at this moment,

although Lao Da had already called the other two to join,

Lao San remained silent.

Seeing this scene,

Lao Da couldn't help but ask,

"Lao San, what are you doing? You're showing as online, why aren't you coming to join us?"

Hearing Lao Da's voice,

Lao San hurriedly said,

"Wait a moment, you guys just clicked away the pop-up message on the homepage after updating, so you didn't see what was updated this time."

"I just clicked into a new interface that was just released in this update."

Hearing this, Lao Da simply waved his hand.

"No new heroes, no new skins, other updates are useless, hurry up and join us."

Just as Lao Da finished speaking,

a surprised exclamation suddenly came from Lao San's spot.

This exclamation directly stunned both Lao Da and Lao Er.

"What's wrong?"

Lao Da couldn't help but ask, looking towards Lao San's direction.

Lao San, who was originally sitting on the chair, slowly stood up from the chair with an incredibly excited expression.

His eyes were extremely agitated.

"Holy cow."

"Do you know how powerful my Li Bai is?"

Facing Lao San's sudden words, the other two were a bit confused.

"I know your Li Bai is strong, and he carried us many times, but there's no need to suddenly blurt that out now, is there?"

"Exactly, why are you so out of nowhere?"

Both of them were a bit confused by Lao San at this moment.

Lao San, however, simply clicked his tongue and lightly pointed at the two of them with his hand.

"Shallow, too shallow."

"Regarding my strength,"

"you two haven't truly realized it!"

"I said that the reason I couldn't climb ranks in Honor of Kings was because you two were holding me back, and it turns out that's really the case."

"Otherwise, with my Li Bai, I would have probably climbed up long ago."

Listening to Lao San's words, the other two were still a bit strange.

"Lao San, what exactly do you want to say?"

"Although your Li Bai is decent, he's not as powerful as you say, is he?"

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After Lao Da finished speaking this sentence,

Lao San burst out laughing on the spot.

"Do you know how strong my Li Bai is?"

"He's the third Li Bai in Modu City, and twenty-ninth in the national server!"

After hearing Lao San say this, Lao Da and Lao Er were stunned for a moment, then immediately burst into laughter.

"What nonsense are you talking?"

"If your Li Bai can be third in Modu, I'll buy you a week's worth of breakfast, alright? And twenty-ninth in the national server? Did you count them one by one yourself?"