Chapter 230 "Machine War Storm"
Brain-computer terminal equipment is also a part of this combination, and it is also an important tool for maintaining social stability.
Either you have the bond of family and children, or you are addicted to the virtual world, etc. With this series of combinations, there is always one that can stop you from gathering people to cause trouble.
Lu An put down his bowl and chopsticks when he was full, took out a banknote and wiped his mouth, "By the way, how is the game development of Liang Yuzheng's Fog Mirror Studio? I gave him a three-year deadline, and it has been almost two and a half years."< br/>
Meng Qiuyan replied: "About every two months or so, Fog Mirror Studio will send you regular progress reports. I haven't seen how they are doing recently. You can ask Xiaoling."
Lu An nodded: "That's right."
Lingxi has long been connected to the internal network of Yuanjie Intelligent Control and knows the company's situation well.
As long as she has information related to the company, she can know it immediately.
· Employees in the company, including Yu Changle, Jing Xuan and other core members of the board of directors, cannot fully understand the company's information.
For example, they don’t know about the bionic human project.
Before Lu An created Lingxi, he was actually unable to fully understand the company's situation.
Especially regarding the situation at the grassroots level of the company, he, the big BOSS, cannot go to the front line, and he does not have that much time and energy to go to the various departments on the front line to understand, so he also has information gaps.
If someone at the grassroots level is being fooled, he may not know it.
But things are different now. With Lingxi connected to the company's intranet, she can know all the company's changes immediately.
And the matters will be prioritized according to their severity. If there is a major emergency, Lingxi will report it to Lu An as soon as possible, while ignoring the insignificant matters. Lu An will not report it without asking specifically, and will report it in detail after asking.
"Xiao Ling, how is the project development progress of Wujing Studio?"
As long as Lingxi knows the company's information well, it means that Lu An knows everything.
Lingxi was not in the restaurant at this moment, but a smart speaker installed here came from her reporting voice:
“According to the recent report sent by Fog Mirror Studio, the PVP mode of "Machine War" has reached about 85% of the development progress, and the overall project completion rate is 43%." Hearing this, Lu An thought for a moment, and then looked at Meng Qiuyan.
"Go and arrange a schedule, and say hello to Liangyu. I will go to his Fog Mirror Studio tomorrow to have a look."
Meng Qiuyan nodded slightly: "Yes."
The Fog Mirror Studio is not located in Jianing City, but in Beijing.
The next morning, Lu An arrived in Beijing by private plane and rested for two hours at the hotel.
Meng Qiuyan did not come with him, but Lingxi and Lu An served as personal assistants and bodyguards. They were both competent assistants and reliable bodyguards.
At around 16:00 that afternoon, Lu An arrived at the headquarters of Fog Mirror Studio.
After learning the news, Meng Liangyu came to the company gate in person and waited early.
The driver of Lu An's special car stopped at the door. Meng Liangyu saw him getting out of the car and greeted him.
「Brother-in-law!」
His shouting "brother-in-law" immediately startled several subordinate employees nearby.
Good guy!
It turns out that my boss has such a relationship with Lu An, a super giant in the technology circle.
I felt very strange before, how could a giant like Lu An personally come to their game company to inspect. Even if Metaverse Intelligent Control sent a director, it was considered a very high standard, but it turned out that the founder of this company came in person.
After knowing this relationship, other things can be explained.
No wonder Fog Mirror Studio has received such a huge investment from Metaverse Intelligent Control and the support of various other resources.
At this moment, Lu An smiled and nodded and said, "Let's go, take me to see how your game development is going."
Meng Liangyu smiled and said, "We plan to officially launch it on the PC side in the middle to late next month. It only takes more than twenty days."
Lu Anyi said: "Can it be launched so soon? Didn't your previous report say that the overall completion of the project is less than half?"
Hearing this, Meng Liangyu immediately explained: "Oh, the PVP mode will be launched in June, and the overall project is complete. The ratio of 43% is because it includes the PVE campaign story mode. The PVP mode itself is equivalent to an independent game, and the relative volume of developing the PVP mode is much smaller than that of PVE. "
Lu An nodded suddenly.
He didn't know the specific gameplay of this game project, so it was normal not to know.
When this project was handed over to Meng Liangyu to lead the development, he was not given too many requirements. He was to develop a game around armed robots, and then make the game fun, and it was not required to make more money, and it was acceptable to even operate at a loss.
As for the specific gameplay, Lu An did not interfere and gave Meng Liangyu great creative freedom in game development.
The so-called PVP mode is player versus player, such as many e-sports games, while the PVE mode is player versus player environment, which is a single-player story mode.
Lu An, led by his brother-in-law, entered the company headquarters.
Although Fog Mirror Studio is called a studio, its scale is considered a major game development company in the game industry.
But so far, the company has not launched a single game product, which is a unique example in the gaming industry.
The current number of employees of Fog Mirror Company has reached more than 3,700. Meng Liangyu once proposed to have 5,000 people. In the end, he found that the more people there are, the faster the efficiency will be.
When the number of people increases to a certain scale and reaches a peak, the improvement in efficiency is almost gone. Forcibly stacking the number of people will slow down the project efficiency.
At this moment, Lu An followed him to one of the development rooms within the company.
Meng Liangyu introduced to Lu An: "The PVP mode of the "Machine War" game we developed is somewhat similar to the battle royale mode of "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds"
· It belongs to the tactical competitive sandbox game play."
· It is worth mentioning that just over two months ago, "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" was officially launched.
Once the game was launched, it quickly attracted the attention of players with its unique "battle royale" mode. The number of people online is increasing, and it seems to be a global hit.
Lu An searched the memories of his previous life, and after listening to Meng Liangyu's introduction, he felt that the game "Machine War" was stable.
Because he knows that this type of tactical competitive sandbox game will be very popular around the world.
However, Meng Liangyu did not refer to the game "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" when developing the PVP gameplay of "Machine War".
Because this project was established in 2015, there was no trace of “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds” at that time.
Meng Liangyu developed the gameplay based on Lu An's proposal that armed robots must be the core, and within this framework, he finally found inspiration from another game "H1Z1" released in January 2015.
The "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" launched this year only has gameplay and no game background story.
"Machine War" developed by Meng Liangyu created a science fiction background story with a grand world view, and unfolded it in the subsequent PVE campaign plot mode. The PVP battle mode is actually a plot intercepted from the campaign plot, so that PVP also has a story background to support it.