This is not a BUG, this is a game feature

"Mr. Chen, it exploded!"

"What exploded?"

As soon as Chen Ba arrived at the Mirage Electronics headquarters, he heard someone say it exploded. This made him very curious, what exploded?

"Of course sales are booming!"

Xiong Hongping, general manager of Mirage Electronics, said with an excited expression: "The sales of Galaxy sets have taken off. The existing orders alone are enough for our factory to work overtime until February next year."

"That's it?"

Chen Ba disagreed and said as he walked: "What did I think it was? Didn't I already know about the Galaxy suit's sales yesterday?"

"No no no!"

Hearing this, Xiong Hongping waved his hands and said: "Although yesterday's sales growth was exaggerated, it is not as outrageous as today. Today, hundreds of thousands of consumers came, asking by name to buy our Galaxy suit."

"How many...how many people?"

Chen Ba didn't take it too seriously at first. After all, in his eyes, Mirage Electronics' basic market was so big that selling tens of thousands of Galaxy peripherals was not surprising.

But when he heard that hundreds of thousands of people came to buy the Galaxy suit, he was shocked.

No...where are so many people coming from?

After yesterday’s announcement, the sales of the Galaxy set increased instead of decreasing, which can also be explained by the fact that players like “Tauren”.

But these hundreds of thousands of people are really beyond Chen Ba's expectation. After all, the total number of active players in the game "Star Emperor 2" is not that many!

"You're not mistaken, are you?"

"That's right, there are really so many, more than the current total number of players in "Star Emperor 2"!"

Guessing what Brother Ba wanted to say, Xiong Hongping took the initiative to explain before he could speak: "As you might think, these customers who come to buy the Galaxy Set are not "Star Emperor 2" players."

"Where did that come from?"

Chen Ba became even more puzzled.

The Galaxy Set is a set of somatosensory peripherals specially created for the game "Star Emperor 2". If you don't play the game "Star Emperor 2", why would you buy this thing?

You can’t just buy it and play other games, right?

Thinking of this possibility, Chen Ba couldn't help complaining: "Although our Galaxy suit supports other games, the operation logic and adaptability are very average. Only by playing "Star Emperor 2" can you have a better experience..."

Impossible, absolutely impossible!

Chen Ba didn't believe that these people came to buy the Galaxy set just to play other games. It was not worth it.

There must be other reasons.

"You are right. Our Galaxy set has very low adaptability to other games. When used to play other games, it is not as useful as general-purpose devices such as controllers and keyboards."

Xiong Hongping couldn't help but laugh: "But is there a possibility that these people buy the Galaxy suit not to play games?"

Chen Ba: "..."

What did he hear?

Don’t use the Galaxy Set to play games? If peripherals designed for gaming are not used to play games, what else can they be used for?

"Is such that……"

Xiong Hongping quickly explained: "Isn't there a driver bug in our Galaxy suit? This bug will cause players to abnormally intervene in other players' character operations. You also issued an announcement explaining the situation."

"so what?"

"After that, we will prepare the normal driver to replace the old driver and put it on the official website for everyone to download the update."

Xiong Hongping spread his hands: "Although most of the first batch of users who purchased the Galaxy suit chose to keep it as it is without updating the driver, there are also a few who updated it..."

This update is bad!

I don’t know which link caused the problem. Players who had updated the driver were shocked to find that this driver update was a lonely one.

Isn't this still the same thing?

Not only were the old drivers not replaced, but even after the update, the Galaxy Suite they had had more problems.

It was fine before that I could play the game "Star Emperor 2" normally. As long as I didn't get hit by my opponent until the game crashed and then reconnected, it would be difficult to trigger the so-called "body seizing" bug.

But now, as long as the computer or console is connected to the Galaxy Suit, as soon as the game "Star Emperor 2" is opened, the Galaxy Suit starts to convulse.

"Convulsion?"

Hearing this adjective, Chen Ba raised his eyebrows and asked, "What specific method is it for convulsing?"

"Well……"

Xiong Hongping scratched his head and forced himself to explain to Chen Ba: "I don't know much about games, but I have played "Star Emperor 2" including the previous game. There is a spectator function in the game, right?"

Watch function?

Chen Ba thought about it carefully, and it seemed that this was really the case.

In "Star Emperor 2" and the previous generation of games, players have nothing to do. They can go to the "square" to watch the games of other players and learn from the operations of the masters.

This is a built-in functional module in many games, but all competitive games and even many casual games also have this viewing function.

So what's the relationship between the two?

"What a big deal!"

Xiong Hongping covered his face and smiled bitterly: "After replacing and updating the old and new drivers, I don't know what went wrong. Players can use this spectator function to forcefully compete with other players."

"Huh? Forced fight?"

Chen Ba's eyes widened, and he said with disbelief written all over his face: "Is the forced battle you are talking about the forced battle that I understand?"

"That's right, that's the force!"

"And this battle is not a battle that takes place in the game "Star Emperor 2", but...how should I put it, you will know after watching this video."

Probably because he didn't know how to describe it to Chen Ba, Xiong Hongping, who was at a loss for words, simply took out a popular video of "Perak and Thunder" that was just uploaded last night and had more than 5 million views today.

Chen Ba took a glance.

The video is very popular. Less than 12 hours after it was uploaded, it has been viewed 5.71 million times! In addition to the huge number of views, the video also has high numbers of likes and coins, and the comment area has accumulated more than 100,000 messages.

"black! dark! Decide! fight! 》

The video is a common title template for abstract videos, that is, an emoji expression is added after each word.

Chen Ba's interest was piqued and he clicked play. As the video started to play, a familiar BGM soundtrack suddenly sounded.

Fierce duelist!

This is a piece of pure music. No matter whether you are born in the 90s or 00s, everyone will exclaim "The man holding the grass card" when hearing it.

Of course, that's not the point.

The point is that as this BGM played, a scene appeared in the video that made Chen Ba stunned.

The UP owner who originally just wanted to watch the master's operations, entered the viewing page and just selected the viewing target, but the computer screen went black.

The game crashed?

No no no!

Chen Ba quickly overturned this guess because he saw that "Star Emperor 2" did not crash after the brief black screen.

It's just that the picture has changed from a viewing perspective to a "combat" perspective.

in other words……

The player on the opposite side was playing against another player and was playing well. Suddenly a third person appeared in the game.

The most embarrassing thing is that his previous opponent was inexplicably taken away. Although the character is still the same character, the person who controls this character actually became the UP master "spectating" the battle.

"Can you still play like this?"

Chen Ba was shocked. He didn't expect that the body-seizing bug could be triggered under the watch function, and this body-seizing was done in front of the "sufferer".

The most tauren episode, I cried when I was a kid!

Chen Ba thought that this was all the video wanted to express, which was what Xiong Hongping called convulsions.

But he never expected that things were not over yet, and the real showdown had just begun!

Back to the video.

It is difficult for the UP owner who accidentally triggered the seizing bug, but he has no way to quit. He can only bite the bullet and fight for the suffering owner.

The battle is about to begin!

When the seizing bug is triggered in the spectator function, the seizing player, also the UP owner, can see the real-time game screen.

In other words, as long as you are familiar with the skill mechanism and spell-casting action instructions of his character, it will still be fun after taking over.

But unfortunately...

The UP owner has never played this character, not even once! I don’t even know what the skill mechanism is, let alone the spell-casting actions and passwords.

"Don't fight, don't fight, let me see the skill introduction!"

The owner of UP is very anxious, and he doesn't want to take away someone else's house, but now that he has already taken over, he can only bite the bullet and take over.

The problem is that he has never played this character, and he doesn’t know what skills this character has or what the specific mechanism is, so he is panicked...

As everyone knows.

When people are in a panic, if they cannot regain their composure in time, they will just die like a headless fly.

The opponent didn't know that the opponent had changed, and thought it was the original opponent. He struck mercilessly, fast and hard, making the UP leader run away with his head in his arms.

In the process of being beaten, the UP owner could not help but suffer some injuries. After all, how can you not get injured just by being beaten? Do you look down on the other person?

But if you get hurt, just get hurt. Why does the game screen freeze abnormally every time you are beaten severely by the opponent?

Finally, the UP master was beaten.

The opponent's finishing move was so gorgeous that the screen instantly changed into a PPT, sending the UP owner away with joy, and the game screen also went black.

"I was offline, not only that..."

The camera turned and showed the scene that the UP owner should have recorded with his mobile phone. The UP owner was seen with a sad face, reaching out to lift the cover of his computer case.

A puff of white smoke rose quickly!

"As you can see, with this punch, the capacitor of my motherboard was blown out! Ahhhh... you beast!"

The video ended abruptly with the UP owner wailing, but the shock caused by this video to Chen Ba had just begun.

What the hell?

What did he look at?

Isn’t that a pretty normal game play? Why is it that the UP owner's computer host is smoking while I'm fighting?

It looks like the configuration is not low. How could this happen?

Chen Ba didn't understand.

He didn't even know what happened or why it happened like this. What makes him even more puzzled is why the watching function also triggers the body-seizing bug?

And looking at it like this, the destructive power caused by triggering this bug through the spectator function is many times more terrifying than triggering it normally!

"Is it caused by the drive?"

Thinking of Xiong Hongping's previous remarks, Chen Ba calmed down and asked: "After the driver update, the old driver of the Galaxy set failed to be successfully uninstalled?"

"Yes."

Since Xiong Hongping showed this video to Chen Ba, he must have investigated and verified it specifically, so he also has some information.

"The old driver, that is, the version of the driver you provided, has not been successfully replaced by the new driver..."

"There was a conflict between the old and new versions of the driver, which combined with an unknown bug in the game, led to this situation."

Xiong Hongping explained: "I also verified the situation in the video, and it is indeed true!"

"When another player is forcibly brought into the match through the spectator function, both parties will experience hardware scheduling problems due to injury feedback..."

Xiong Hongping analyzed in a simple and in-depth way why the conflict between the old and new versions of the driver will cause such serious consequences.

The reason is due to the "injury feedback" mechanism of "Star Emperor 2" that is linked to the Galaxy suit.

When wearing the Galaxy Suit to play "Star Emperor 2", when the player is injured or attacked, the Galaxy Suit will provide a series of "hit" feedback.

This is the case!

However, there was a conflict between the old and new versions of the driver, which caused problems. After the player was attacked or injured, the injury feedback that should have been passed to the "Galaxy Suit" for processing was not processed, and was even transferred... …

"Transfer?"

"Yes! It's a transfer!"

Xiong Hongping gave a very vivid example, that is, a couple quarreled and the child was hungry and wanted to eat, so he left it to "third parties" such as grandparents and grandparents to deal with it.

Under normal circumstances, a child needs to eat when he is hungry, and parents must cook for him.

But the parents got into a fight and had no time to take care of their children, so naturally they had to ask other people in the family to take care of them.

"The injury feedback mechanism requires the Galaxy Suit to receive and process it, but due to conflicts caused by the driver, the Galaxy Suit cannot handle it, so it was lost to other family members!"

Who are the other family members?

Of course, it is other computer hardware that is under the same roof and everyone operates within the same system.

"But……"

After roughly understanding it, Chen Ba frowned and asked: "Transfer processing is useless! This injury feedback mechanism is bound to the Galaxy Suit, and the corresponding effect can only be achieved on the Galaxy Suit."

Transferring it to other hardware is useless!

So what CPU, GPU, keyboard, mouse or controller can handle this task? I'm afraid they can't even read the mission information. How should they handle this mission?

"That's right, we can't handle it!"

Xiong Hongping raised his eyebrows and said: "Only the Galaxy suit can handle this injury feedback task, other hardware cannot do it at all."

“But it’s precisely because it can’t be handled that this overloading and overclocking phenomenon occurs!”

Hardware is not human. It doesn't understand what rejection means. It knows it can't be done but still tries to solve it. This is rigid mechanical programming thinking.

This is just like a crappy graphics card rendering top 3A games. Your graphics card knows it's not good, but will it refuse to perform this task?

Won't!

It will just bite the bullet, and even if it cannot render or is stuck in a slideshow, it will still render desperately according to your instructions.

And that's exactly the problem...