China's first open world mobile game

With the popularity of Genshin Impact in the world, more and more players are keen on Open World, which is full of freedom, exploration and substitution. This makes many game manufacturers regard Open World as the latest wealth password and work overtime to create their own Open World games.

Game makers get together to make a type of product, which is more like "competing on the same stage" at a disadvantage. After all, Genshin Impact's Zhuyu is in the first place, and the latecomers can only get the recognition of the players unless they can greatly surpass the former. However, smart game makers often choose to compete in a wrong place, explore the key to Genshin Impact's success, and then innovate the content and expand the gameplay. Among them, the most striking is Netease's "Cold Water" mobile game.

The mobile game "Sailing Against the Current" is the most important game product of Netease in recent years. In order to build this game, Netease specially set up the largest team in the company's history to make it. There are only 4 12 employees, and the R&D expenditure is astronomical. After burning 640 million yuan, the R&D progress of the mobile game "Sailing Against the Current" is only 76%. It is estimated that the game will cost at least 650 yuan.

Such a large investment naturally has its particularity. The mobile game "Dui Leng Shui" evaded the popular "secondary element" attribute in the market, but deeply cultivated traditional culture and explored the theme of martial arts, and made the first martial arts game in China that opened the world, combining Jianghu adventures, magic skills and street culture, forming its own unique "big rivers and lakes". In this Jianghu, there are no fixed shackles of daily tasks, and there are no rigid and old-fashioned numerical routines. Players can freely choose the game mode in this world, get most of the game rewards and define their own core gameplay.

Ultra-high freedom and fireworks in the city are the biggest features of the mobile game "Sailing Against the Current". The game reproduces the mega-cities such as Hangzhou and Bianjing thousands of years ago. There are many interactive contents between nature and humanity. In the game, flowers, trees, birds, insects and fish are all interactive, and the scene is completely "visible and tangible". As long as you can see the scene, you can climb the wall and fly over. By taking risks, exploring and triggering adventures everywhere in the Jianghu, players can write their own martial arts adventures.

Jianghu is not just fighting and killing, but also living. There are hundreds of Jianghu identities in the game, covering clothing, food, housing, transportation, arts, medicine, martial arts, officialdom and other different categories, which constitute various businesses in the Song Dynasty. Players can participate in every link of every industry ecological chain, not only as a fortune teller who divines for others, but also as a happy fisherman who fishes by the river, and promote the development of the game world according to his own identity characteristics. Maybe after treating an incurable disease for others, you can master the mystery of human meridians and realize a magical power.

More importantly, the NPC intelligent system built by top scientists in the mobile game "Sailing Against the Current" is hard to distinguish between true and false. The NPC in the game has a deep learning mechanism, which will gradually cultivate its own exclusive personality when it comes into contact with players, and the player's game behavior and choice will also affect the NPC's attitude towards itself. Therefore, it is also very important to have a good relationship with NPC in the game. If you can chat, you can not only easily complete many tasks and goals in the game, but also ask NPC to send you another martial arts secret book handed down from family.

Due to the high degree of freedom of mobile games and the unique charm of the real martial arts open world, this game attracted the attention of many players as soon as it was exposed. In just a few months, more than 9 million players have booked the first test of the game. Faced with the strong expectations of players, Netease also worked overtime to recommend the game version, and finally decided to officially open the whole platform "blind box test" on September 30.

Interestingly, players in this test need to fill out a questionnaire. According to the questionnaire survey results, five lines of gossip, time constellations and other realistic factors, through strict geomantic omen theory and black technology AI algorithm recommendation, every 100 players will form a corresponding initial Jianghu identity, making this Jianghu "various" from the beginning. In this game test full of "fate" ceremony, players are naturally looking forward to it.

A few days ago, the application for the first blind box test of the "Sailing Against the Current" mobile game has been officially opened. If you are looking forward to Netease's first open-world martial arts game, why not see which Jianghu identity you are more suitable for?