Chapter 165: REJOICE
Official website forum.
Book Worm: Hahahaha! Awesome, I won the second prize, a LD-47 Sickle Assault Rifle!
Mosquito: I also got the second prize! Wait, Armour Fist Bazooka is a single-use item, right? What a rip-off!
Night Ten: God damnit! Why are you all so lucky? I freaking opened two premium gift boxes, but all I got were a stupid squad leader pistol, and an army-limited iron barrel rifle, the Ripper... This shit is even worse than the 7mm produced by Boulder Town! Bad luck! What bad luck!
Makka Pakka: LMAO, this guy has the worst luck! It’s confirmed!
Night Ten: Red dot! Fuck yeah! My intermediate gift box has a red dot. Hahahaha!
Makka Pakka: %)@#!
The announcement of the gift box exchange has just been updated for less than ten minutes, but the speed of new posts popping up on the official website forum has more than doubled.
There were those who were showing off gift boxes and prizes, those who were showing off their event points, those who were furious and cursing, and those who were live-streaming the process of opening the gift boxes.
The whole forum was buzzing as the gift reward pool of this expansion pack could be said to be pretty good.In particular, there was even an orange-yellow exoskeleton as a special prize!
According to the display data, whether it was the load-bearing abilities or battery life, it far exceeded the KV-1 exoskeleton used by the administrator before, and it used the pinnacle of electrochemical batteries, one that was made from metal hydrogen!
This type of battery was already a quasi-T1-level technology in the game setting, much higher than the polymer azide battery and solid-state hydrogen battery!
Although the exoskeleton was called the Miner Type I, that was not important.
Putting it on, the muscular player of the strength type could be transformed into a moving fortress, and physically weak players of the intelligence type could also become a super warrior.
Since it was motion-sensing rather than neural sensing, the equipment did not require any attributes. In other words, it was levelless equipment that had no hard requirements!
As the special prize of this prize draw, both premium gift boxes and intermediate gift boxes had a chance to give out the prize, but the probability was only 1% and 0.1% respectively.
In addition to the special prize, the first prize of the premium gift box also included the Enterprise’s standard weapon, the Black Swan G9 assault rifle.
With a compact barrel and receiver, modular accessories and foldable stock, digital grey city camouflage... All of its features were designed for urban terrain.
Moreover, the 7mm caliber ammunition was very effective against humans and mutants; in particular, the gun could switch between automatic and semi-automatic rate of fire, and even adjust the firing rate in automatic mode, covering 60/200/700 rounds per minute in three different modes.
Once it was switched to the highest gear, the assault rifle would immediately change to a submachine gun!
In the previous battle against the Army, Chu Guang obtained 20 Black Swans and 31 red dot sights from the Pioneer.
After the battle, he had been busy arranging funerals, so Li De was too embarrassed to ask Chu Guang to give them back. Of course, Chu Guang would not take the initiative to bring it up, so the matter was put on hold.
In the prize pool of this prize draw, Chu Guang put a total of 10 Black Swans in the premium gift box, and 10 red dot sights in the intermediate gift box.
As for the rest, they were priced at 500 silver coins and 233 silver coins respectively. He planned to sell them slowly at the Weapon Shop.
After all, although it was fun to play with this type of gun, the ammo was way too expensive.
The bullets equipped by the well-funded Enterprise for the Black Swan G9 were all filled with X-4 fibers. According to the design process, its theoretical explosion rate could reach 133% of the traditional smokeless powder. ŗ𝔞𐌽Օ𝐛Ěş
Although Chu Guang had picked up a lot of X-4 fibers from the carbon dioxide traps, it was impossible to build a separate production line for those twenty rifles. After all, there were too few receivers and iron barrels that could withstand this pressure. In the end, it would be more likely to use traditional smokeless powder, so the power would definitely not be as good as the original bullet.
But does it matter to the players?
Obviously, it doesn’t matter!
All they would care about is if the gun looked cool!
This Black Swan undoubtedly conformed to their preferences. Its shape clearly looked like a precious weapon. If they could get their hands on it, they couldn’t be happier!
The drop rate of the exoskeleton was so low that it was simply outrageous, but the drop rate of the Black Swan was still acceptable. Almost all players who exchanged for the premium gift box were after it.
Chu Guang glanced at the back end of the official website.
In just ten minutes, more than 200 premium gift boxes and nearly 1,000 intermediate gift boxes were opened. The difference between his players’ luck was revealed in an instant.
Three lucky players won the Black Swan, and five players got the red dot sight.
Almost all of them had posted an acceptance speech on the forum, and the replies they received were filled with envy.
Sleepwalking Follower: Damn it, this is so fishy!
Broken Leg Kevin: It’s too shady, too shady! Why can’t I get one?! I don’t care. The official is broken. You better give me one of the guns or sights!
Escaping Mole: Shady my ass. All you know is how to complain! You don’t even need to spend tens of thousands of real life cash to get to Lv10 and get legendary equipment. Have you ever seen such a nice game company?
Director Qi: Wuwuwu, Devs, please give me one as well!
Among the initial three first prizes, Chu Guang accidentally saw a familiar ID.
It was actually Escaping Mole.
When the dude went to the battlefield with the borrowed gun in the past, he wrote everything about it as his in-game experience. He actually got his hands on the gun right after.
However, it didn’t matter who got it.
The important thing was that Chu Guang drained half of the server’s event points in just ten minutes.
Those players who had finished opening the gift box would either post their reward on the forum, or post envious replies in the lucky guys’ posts.
The traffic to the official website increased, and the players were very happy. More cloud gamers and passers-by netizens were eager to apply for the test qualification. Chu Guang even lost count of how many benefits this event had brought him.
In short, it was a lot!
Elf Wang: Damn it! Why can’t you pay for this broken game!
Battlefield Cheerleader: Yes! I strongly recommend the game company to release an official paying feature! I want to become their VIP customer!
Makka Pakka: It is unreasonable that this event point cannot be bought with money. The game company should learn more from Tencent. Although it is still in the testing stage, as long as the data is not deleted, I think paying is completely feasible!
Yaya: Yeah! At least fix the bug that doesn’t give the microtransaction function! And it would be even better if there are more beautiful dresses. QAQ
Teng Teng: Are the dresses made by me not good enough for you?! Σ(゜ロ゜;)
Night Ten: Boss Ya is right! ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Irene: +1! I support her unconditionally. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Looking at the idiotic interactions of players in the official website forum, Chu Guang smiled slightly.
Just when he was about to appease the unlucky players who had used all their points, a post suddenly appeared.
Spring Water Commander: Hahaha, exoskeleton! Hahahaha! This uncle got the special prize!!!
Night Ten: !
Irene: !!
Ample Time: ???
The reply below the post instantly filled the screen, more than 100 replies appeared in just one minute.
No one believed what he was saying.
But after a while, Spring Water Commander posted a screenshot of the winning record in the post, accompanied by a 1080p large smug face emoji.
This taunting effect completely maxed out!
"Damn you! Kill this lucky guy!"
"QAQ! Why can’t I get one! This isn’t fair! It must be a developer’s alt account!"
"Big brother, do you want to sell it? I’ll pay 2,500 silver coins!"
"I’ll pay 3,000!"
"5,000!"
The subsequent bids were getting more and more outrageous.
Unable to stand it any longer, Spring Water Commander jumped out and replied, "Get lost. You think you can fool me? Do you really have that much money? There’s no way I will sell it, even if you want to pay me 10,000 silver coins!"
5,000 silver coins was definitely an exaggeration.
Even if the exoskeletons obtained by lottery were not bound to the player’s account, and belonged to the legendary levelless equipment in MMORPG, it was unlikely to sell for twice the original price.
After all, Wasteland Online didn’t allow players to have an alternate account, and there were not many gaming guilds playing this game, there was no such thing as everyone working hard just to get their hand on a single piece of equipment.
10% to 50% higher than the original price would be more reasonable.
Well… Unless the public beta was released and huge guilds entered the game, prices would not be so inflated.
Spring Water Commander’s post wasn’t the only one that blew up.
On the forum outside the post, there were also other envious posts.
Chu Guang, who had planned to comfort the unlucky players, was embarrassed to show up when he noticed IDs of the players who were clamoring that the event result was shady.
He just pretended that he did not see them.
Whatever it was, the newcomer with the little-known ID, which was hard to find even among the later groups of players, suddenly became popular all over the forum.
To be honest, Spring Water Commander was a little confused. When he saw that he won the special prize, he felt like he was on cloud nine.
It was like living in a dream.
If he used the set of exoskeleton well, there would be no problem for him to advance from the third tier of players to the second tier of players, and if he worked hard, he may even reach the level of top-tier players!
Without any hesitation, he logged into the game.
When he came to the Weapon Shop, he took advantage of the moment before closing time and quickly claimed the magical outfit that made countless players envious, the Miner Type I Exoskeleton!
The orange-yellow paint and the dumb name did not affect how handsome he looked. It might even be better to say that because of the strange paint, it made it feel more like a protagonist’s exclusive suit.
As we all know, the protagonists in the mecha anime were all piloting training machines, and the colors of the training machines were mostly yellow.
Spring Water Commander’s eyes were sparkling, he couldn’t stop touching the exoskeleton.
Am I the chosen person in the legend?
The protagonist in the Virtual MMORPG novel?
I’m too lucky!
...
Bull and Horse Club.
Night Ten, who had been shit posting on the forum earlier, rushed back to the group.
- I just checked in the game. The Miner Type I exoskeleton is being sold at the weapon store! But the number is limited. There are only 9 pieces!
Ample Time: How much??
Night Ten: The unit price is 2,000 silver coins, but 100 event points can be exchanged for a 10% discount voucher.
Gale:...
Mosquito: WTH! What’s the point of a 10% discount voucher?!
Night Ten: Hehe, you can’t buy it even if you want it. There are restrictions on exoskeletons sold in the weapon store. Your contribution needs to reach the Citizen level and your character needs to be LV10 before you can buy it! Once it’s bought, it will be bound to the account by default, it cannot be traded to other players, but can only be sold back to the NPC shop.
Mosquito: Damn it! I’m only LV6!
Ample Time: Currently the player with the highest level on the server is Old White. We have been focusing on the Greenhouse Ruins in the past few days. We will try to clear it and see if we can level up.
The leveling speed of the strength type sequence that had a higher tendency to strengthen the player’s body would be faster. Whether it was cutting down trees or moving bricks, they could all accumulate progress bars.
Therefore, even if they were on the same team, and they usually went leveling up together, Old White would level up a little faster than them.
After the strength type came members of the constitution type sequence for the tank position, the perception type for the reconnaissance position, and the agility type for the main damage output position.
As for the intelligence type, if they didn’t carry any neural connection equipment, it was basically equivalent to a useless tagalong, and they could only do some damage output with the agility type.
Gale: What about the special prize? Is there a binding for the one drawn?
Night Ten: I just chatted privately with that Spring, and it doesn’t seem to be there.
Ample Time: Sigh, I envy that lucky man. Damn it, I opened three premium gift boxes, but they were all junks.
Gale: Me too... The Squad Leader Pistol uses 10mm ammo, I couldn’t even find that caliber in a weapons store.
Mosquito: You guys got that too. Hahahaha, me too! But it doesn’t matter. Brothers, don’t panic, we can make them without the NPC store! When I get home from work at night, I’ll figure out how to get that!
Night Ten: We are counting on you! ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Gale: Speaking of which, what did Old White get?
Old White: Ahem… What is that called, Black Swan? It looks pretty cool anyway. I just don’t know if it’s good or not. (Grinning)
The group was quiet for a while.
No one spoke for a long time.
Gale:...
Mosquito:...
Ample Time: Looks like there’s a lucky guy in the group.
Night Ten: +1, let’s kick him.
Old White: ???
…
The lottery event lasted from the evening of wasteland time until midnight.
It just happened to be noon in reality and as the event points in the pockets of the players were exhausted, the official website also closed the link to the event, and instead announced the list of lucky players.
Of course, players could also choose to remain anonymous, but no one did.
Why would you hide what you have drawn? After all, luck is also a part of skill!
Everyone is the chosen one, so be confident!
After the reward was announced, Chu Guang also took a brief look, checking what he had sent out.
For the first prize, a total of 9 Black Swans and 8 red dot sights were issued.
The second prize given away was 27 Sickle LD-47 and 49 iron tube sights.
In terms of the third prize and consolation prize, there was no point in talking about it. They were all rubbish picked up from the battlefield.
The standard equipment of the cloned light infantryman, the Ripper rifle, had a scary name, but it was actually just a 7mm bolt action gun.
As for why it was called the Ripper… It was probably because its bayonet was relatively long, and it should be easy to use when charging.
The price of the gun in the store was 100 silver, which was a pretty good deal for newcomers.
Sitting in front of the computer, Chu Guang couldn’t help but smile while looking at the statistics behind the scenes.
It seemed like the batch of players was still lacking.
The reward pool has not been exhausted, but their event points had already been drained by him.
"Uh, Master..."
Chu Guang raised his head and asked when he heard Little Seven’s voice, "What’s wrong?"
"We only have 5 Sickles in our inventory, right?" Little Seven whispered, worried that its master had forgotten. "You have given out a total of 27 this time, but we don’t have that many..."
"Oh, that," Chu Guang said unconcernedly. "I didn’t say that they can claim the reward immediately. Since the new equipment is still being tested, wouldn’t it be normal for it to be delayed for two or three days?"
Not to mention that it wouldn’t take that long.
The custom parts for Steel Plant 81 had already been delivered, and soon Bathroom Goer and Athlete Foot would begin trial production of the first batch of stamped receivers and barrels.
The craftsmanship of the LD-47 was not complicated, and the requirements for shooting accuracy were not as high as the LD-47s of the precise shooter edition.
So why not put LD-47s in the reward pool?
Chu Guang had long considered issues like that.
Little Seven raised the camera and looked at Chu Guang in surprise.
As expected of my master!
It turns out that he has already thought of the problem!