Chapter 231 Every frame of the opening CG is burning money
At present, the development progress of the PVE mode of this game is less than one-fifth.
In the past two and a half years, Meng Liangyu's team has focused on developing the PVP battle mode. It is simply impossible to develop the PVE campaign story mode at the same time in three years.
It is precisely because the time given to him by Lu An is limited, the size of the game is too large, and the quality requirements are extremely high.
Meng Liangyu realized that it was absolutely impossible to complete the PVE campaign plot mode within three years, and then the complete game would not be launched online.
This made him very worried.
After hard thinking, I finally found a breakthrough in the tactical competitive sandbox game genre.
Relatively speaking, the development volume of the PVP battle mode is much smaller.
It is mainly about competitive battles on several maps. With the addition of some map props, map macro mechanisms, etc., you can have a complete game experience. It is basically an independent game.
But even so, the PVP battle mode of "Machine War" is actually not small in size. To say it is small is a relative term.
Because the PVP battle mode developed by Meng Liangyu is highly related to the future PVE plot mode, including some props on the map, etc.
In addition to the high requirements for image quality and optimization quality, we can only work slowly and carefully.
With such a large team, it still takes two or three years to make the game.
At this moment, Meng Liangyu said: "Look at this CG opening animation. We plan to officially release it to the public during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, and start the promotion and start preheating for the launch of the game."
After speaking, he asked his subordinates to play the opening CG, and projected it to the main screen of the development room for playback.
"Not bad, the quality is very high." Lu An couldn't help but nodded and commented.
Meng Liangyu was encouraged by the recognition from his brother-in-law.
The opening CG picture is indeed quite sophisticated, and it is definitely the top CG special effects in the world.
As for the quality of this CG animation, even ten years from now, it will still be top notch, but it is definitely still playable. Not many new games ten years from now can compare with it.
This opening CG animation was really made with real money, and every frame was a burning expense.
The only thing that the project did not lack was funds, so Meng Liangyu pursued the ultimate perfection and details without any worries.
The first picture shown in the opening animation is the Earth's high-altitude orbit, with half of the Earth appearing in the picture.
At the same time, a time and date is displayed in the lower left corner of the screen - [2189]
The perspective begins to shift to the starry sky, and the earth gradually disappears from the screen.
Then a long shot showed that a fierce space melee was breaking out in high-altitude orbit, with multiple forces from different camps fighting fiercely.
At the same time, the audio is playing the urgent communication and battle reports from all the forces in the communicator.
While highlighting the anxiety of the battle situation, it also explains the reason for this space melee.
According to the background of the story, all this happened because of a damaged and abandoned alien spacecraft without an owner.
The spacecraft was originally floating in interstellar space, and happened to arrive near the solar system. It was discovered by human detectors in 2134. It took humans 55 years to transport this million-ton ownerless alien spacecraft back to Earth.
The technological advancement on this alien spacecraft far exceeds that of human civilization, especially the technology that may enable faster-than-light navigation.
In short, whoever owns this alien spacecraft masters the advanced technology in it.
It can easily unify all mankind, and other forces will be unable to compete.
With the technology of super-light navigation, we can expand beyond the solar system.
· Originally, all parties negotiated an agreement to share and jointly develop alien technology, but some people tore up the agreement and intended to monopolize alien technology.
Hence, there was a huge space melee between various forces in the opening animation.
When the animation was two-thirds of the way through, a human 10,000-ton space battleship was sunk, accidentally collided with the giant alien spacecraft and caused a nuclear explosion in the nuclear reactor of the human battleship.
Because the alien spacecraft was old and did not have any defensive measures, it was affected by the nuclear explosion, causing the spacecraft to break apart in space.
And captured by the earth's gravity, the disintegrated remains of the alien spacecraft fell to the continents on the surface.
Immediately afterwards, all the forces in the melee rushed to dispatch mobile suit squads. Each mobile suit squad quickly entered the airborne capsule, ejected from their respective space battleships, locked the landing point of the alien spacecraft wreckage, and carried out orbital airdrop.
In the last twenty seconds or so of the opening CG, a long shot of about 12 seconds was once again used to present the grand scene of orbital airdrop. Some space capsules have been destroyed in outer space before they have even entered the atmosphere.
·The long lens flew over the airborne pods of several forces, and finally followed the perspective of one of the forces' airborne pods as they successfully parachuted to the ground.
The subtitles in the lower left corner show that this is a place called "Jifengkan", where part of the alien spacecraft debris crashed.
In the last five seconds of the shot, the door of the airborne cabin bounced off with a loud bang and hit the ground hard.
Then five team members wearing mobile armor came out of the cabin, and the camera began to zoom up and expand the field of view, showing the nearby airdrop pods of other forces arriving at "Chifengkan".
In the last two seconds of the shot, a bird's-eye view of "Chifeng Kan" is presented.
On the ground, several mobile suit teams were quickly heading towards the crash point of the alien spacecraft wreckage, indicating that all forces were fighting for the alien spacecraft wreckage and relics.
This 3 minutes and 20 seconds long opening animation ends here.
Obviously, the opening animation has initially revealed that "Machine War" is a gameplay similar to the battle royale mode.
After watching it, Lu An said: "The opening animation is very good, the scene is grand, and the space battle scene is no less than a top Hollywood science fiction blockbuster. But what about the game itself? What is the specific gameplay like?"
Meng Liangyu smiled and said: "We are very confident in the gameplay of the game itself, brother-in-law, how about playing two games?"
Lu An nodded and smiled and said: "Okay, I am also thinking of trying it.
I saw Meng Liangyu immediately calling his employees, preparing to customize the room to start a game, and arranged for 98 other employees to play with him.
After a while, Lu An sat in front of one of the computers. Meng Liangyu sat next to him and also played the game, and was in the same team as Lu An.
The game map selected in the custom room suddenly appeared in the opening CG.
While loading the game and waiting, Meng Liangyu next to him introduced it in an orderly manner.
"There will be 100 players at the beginning of the game, divided into 20 teams, each team has 5 people."
"The core of the gameplay is to collect and compete with resources such as strategies, weapons and equipment, and in the end only one person or one team will win, and the game ends."
"The standard mode includes three major elements: dynamic safe zone, elimination mechanism and resource competition."
"At the beginning of the game, every three months is a season. There are 3 playable maps in the first season of ladder ranking. During the ranking, 3 maps are randomly selected, and more maps will be launched in the new season in the future."
The "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" that has been launched basically has no story background.
"Machine War" has a complete world view and story background. Its PVP player versus player mode means that various forces send mobile suit teams to fight for the wreckage of the alien spacecraft.
In addition to the members of your own team, everyone else and other teams are enemies, and you must defeat them all to win.
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