Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 330: 326: Combat System, From 0 to 1_2

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“But there’s a limit to human reaction speed. Once a master has reached a certain level, they’re reliant on instinct and muscular reflexes,” Xu Chun explained to Lincoln.

“Those visually satisfying fights you see, they’re all orchestrated martial arts performances.”

“To achieve such effects in a real fight, we can either limit the speed of attack, or utilize skill enhancements, like we did in [Assassin Bloodline], to improve the players’ reaction time and physical strength.”

“I get it, so let’s try it out,” Lincoln nodded in understanding.

Then he directly copied the body enhancement upgrade system from “Assassins’ Alliance”.

Following a numerical curve, he doubled the enhancement limit, divided it into 20 levels, packaged it into a small tool, and locked it to be effective only in this world before sending it to Xu Chun.

— It’s best to keep this kind of thing locked away, otherwise, if it accidentally gets out, it’ll become a full-blown game cheat.

Then came the neural response time.

This was simpler, he just copied the skill effect from [Assassin Bloodline].

However, unlike the enhancement of physical limits, Lincoln halved the time slowdown effect and then divided it into 20 levels.

Then he repeated the previous steps, handing it off to Xu Chun.

“Try this first. The details of balancing combat might take some hard work and need to be experimentally figured out. If you later need any other enhancements, talk directly to the developers in your team. If they can’t handle it, they can find me.”

The reason for this is that it’s the early stages of technology accumulation rather than formal development. Limited manpower is a normal.

Hesitating not a second, Xu Chun maxed out both tools for himself and Lori as soon as he received them.

“Come on, take out your gun, let’s try again.”

Lori happily opened the control panel and chose a standard spear.

—As soon as he entered the virtual world, Lincoln loaded this tool onto everyone, adding all kinds of cold weapons he had ever seen.

Things are different this time!

In the eyes of everyone watching, the speed of both participants was absurdly fast.

They closed the distance in the blink of an eye, with Lori taking the initiative to thrust out his long spear with a fierce whoosh!

Xu Chun barely paused for a moment before lunging forward.

Lori hesitated not for a second and retreated while thrusting his spear towards Xu Chun with undiminished speed!

Xu Chun paused once more as he blocked to continue attacking.

Lori retreated again with his spear out!

Xu Chun advanced!

Lori retreated!

At first, Lincoln was thrilled, but by the end, he was getting overwhelmed.

The speed of both was so fast that they could hardly see, but it was still a cycle of advancing and retreating, advancing and retreating…

Lincoln had to step in and call for a halt.

Xu Chun summarized his experience: “The time slowdown effect is too strong. We both had ample time to react, allowing for optimal defense and attacks, leaving no vulnerabilities.”

Lori analyzed: “And since our physical strength has been increased too much, our stamina has not declined at all. It is impossible to create a gap in physical fitness with different combat moves and thus defeat our opponent.”

Xu Chun then opened the tool, halved the sensory slowdown effect and prepared to try again.

“Wait,” Lincoln paused.

Inspired by Lori’s words, he remembered something common in action games from his previous life–

“How about I add a hidden ‘stamina bar’ first?”

“I’ll separate stamina from physical condition and artificially set a limit. Normal actions won’t reduce the stamina bar, but explosive actions will greatly consume stamina. If you perform too many explosive actions consecutively, you will run out of stamina, become restricted in movement, and your speed will decline.”

As Lincoln explained, he quickly implemented this feature and loaded it onto both participants.

And so the clash began once more!

This time, after only seven or eight seconds of engagement, a victor emerged—Xu Chun was struck cold with a direct hit.

The reason turned out to be the ‘stamina bar’ Lincoln added.

Xu Chun, wielding his sword, tried to continuously break into close-quarters combat at an explosive speed, while Lori, holding his longspear leisurely, easily caught Xu Chun’s vulnerable breathing adjustment gap and dealt a fatal blow.

After Xu Chun described his feelings, Lincoln quickly understood: The stamina bar, in such an immersive environment of virtual reality, is counterintuitive and unreasonable.

But he wasn’t hung up on it and removed the stamina bar without hesitation.

After Xu Chun adjusted the sensory speed effects for both parties again, they immediately engaged in another intense clash.

This time, they seemed to have finally hit the proper balance!

The two quickly collided, and the clashing of swords and spears quickly echoed throughout the room.

Between them, the tables and chairs in the hall were scattered about. Lori took advantage of the chaos and kicked the tables and chairs towards Xu Chun to disrupt his rhythm.

Xu Chun fearlessly responded with his sword!

He slashed through tables, smashed chairs, and pressed forward without ceasing.

The ceramic wine pot was shattered midair by the longspear, splinters flew everywhere, and a palm-deep sword mark was carved into a solid wooden pillar.

The onlookers reflexively retreated out of the restaurant, moving away from the ever-expanding battlefield.

But as they had just left the restaurant, they heard a loud noise.

Turning around, they found that Xu Chun had already made it to the street.

It turned out that Xu Chun had finally succeeded in getting close, but after Lori dodged a strike, he found an opportunity and kicked Xu Chun squarely in the chest!

As a result, Xu Chun was sent flying backwards, crashing through the restaurant’s wooden wall, and landing hard on the street.

But Xu Chun was unscathed, rolled up to his feet, and immediately charged towards the hole he had crashed through.

But as soon as he got close to the hole, the cold blade of a spear suddenly jabbed out!

The next moment—the result was decided!

The hole in Xu Chun’s forehead quickly healed.

But he didn’t feel any sense of defeat. The feeling in his heart could only be described by one word—

Exciting!

The nine cold weapon experts who were spectating also felt a surge of excitement—

No matter how long or hard they trained in reality, they could never achieve such effects!

This was just too intense!

The employees watching also looked at Lincoln excitedly.

–With Daxia’s prevailing martial arts competition atmosphere, even martial arts films are realistically styled swordplay flicks. Where would they have seen such spectacular fights?!

Even Mavis on the second floor watched with sparkling eyes.

Lincoln, standing amidst the crowd, felt equally thrilled.

This was the combat he wanted to see!

He didn’t expect that on the first day, the combat development team would do so much.

They pushed the laborious task of ongoing repetition and trials a big step forward!

Admittedly, the combat system was still rough at this stage, and it could only be considered a prototype of “Assassin’s Creed: Chang’an” combat system in the future.

But with the correct direction and validation that Lincoln’s ideas were feasible, the subsequent development would undoubtedly be much smoother!

After all, moving from 0 to 1 is always more difficult than moving from 1 to 10!