Anti-War Game: Starting from Normandy Campaign
Chapter 139 - 120: The Design of the 【Battle of Stalingrad】, Not Being Human (3.1k)
CHAPTER 139: CHAPTER 120: THE DESIGN OF THE 【BATTLE OF STALINGRAD】, NOT BEING HUMAN (3.1K)
Zhao Ming has actually exchanged a complete Battle of Stalingrad through the Earth Database.
The photon supercomputer has already rendered it, but there are still too many players. Under the current circumstances, quite a few players will surely gather three medals.
So Zhao Ming can only choose to ’not play nice’ and continue increasing the difficulty.
Using AI to filter all the rooms, then depending on the situation, stuffing Imperial Soldiers or Soviet Union soldiers into these rooms.
After all, there are only a handful of famous people in the Hall of Fame.
The people from ’Earth’ can’t even be fully included; if the completion for the Stalingrad Medal matches the Moscow Defenders Medal’s.
You can’t just throw in introductions for thousands of Blue Star players into the Hall of Fame.
Who would be interested in Blue Star players?
Having a few people with the Stalingrad Medal is enough.
Besides, once selected for the Hall of Fame, it continuously displays in the Hall of Fame, serving as permanent free advertising.
If new players enter the game, they’ll notice there are Blue Star players in the Hall of Fame, they’ll definitely search it up. As long as the game doesn’t collapse, it will always exist.
Permanent free advertising spots aren’t suitable for too many to be given out.
More importantly.
If it’s a bit harder, the Emotion Value can still be gained significantly.
Zhao Ming wanders within the Battle of Stalingrad dungeon, fills up a batch of rooms, lets AI selectively fill soldiers in remaining rooms based on his previous thinking, only a very few areas are left empty, so players can also rely on luck.
Then he exits the database and opens the Polestar Official Website.
Zhao Ming starts editing a new announcement.
Mainly talking about the effects of collecting three medals, entering the Hall of Fame, and more importantly... using this generous condition.
To attract a wave of players, while the Battle of Moscow is not over yet, work hard and hurry to challenge so as to contribute some Emotion Value.
After all, the Moscow Defenders Medal is one of the necessary medals for the Hall of Fame.
Without this medal, obtaining the Stalingrad Medal is useless.
And now there’s so much online showcasing of medals, so many players have gotten them, based on luck mentality, quite a few players will choose to charge forward.
Little do they know these are a series of traps dug by Zhao Ming.
And the biggest trap... is the upcoming Battle of Stalingrad.
...
The announcement on the Polestar Official Website quickly skyrockets to trending topics.
Players now understand the role of the Hall of Fame, surprisingly it’s a permanent display of introduction once you’re in?!
It’s like when a new player clicks into the Hall of Fame.
Among the unlit World War II celebrity photos, being able to immediately see a permanently lit Blue Star player’s photo, and clicking into it shows an introduction.
Permanent advertisement.
Given Polestar Game Company’s development, whoever enters the Hall of Fame.
Won’t have to worry for the rest of their life.
Start a live stream playing World War II: Empire’s Rise, every day new players will come to search due to the Hall of Fame introduction and enter your stream.
For a moment, the Celestial Shark Live Platform was in chaos.
Even in some lifestyle, entertainment, and singing sections, clicking in enters a live stream showing World War II: Empire’s Rise gameplay.
Celestial Shark Live Platform transformed into a ’World War II Live’ platform within a few hours.
Startling the headquarters of Celestial Shark Live Platform, they quickly gathered manpower, contacted each anchor, and urged them to switch back to normal content.
That Hall of Fame isn’t so easy to enter.
So many professional FPS players have died miserably, why are you all who sing and dance getting involved? Hurry and switch back!
However....
"What if?"
This might be the words Celestial Shark Live Platform staff found most blood-pressure spiking, they just can’t be persuaded.
Upon seeing this, Celestial Shark Live quickly contacts Polestar Company.
Zhao Ming from Polestar Company is also helpless, since the announcement has been sent out, it definitely can’t be changed, he can only tell the Celestial Shark Live side manager:
"Wait."
"Wait for two months until the Battle of Moscow is over, without the Moscow Defenders Medal, you can’t enter the Hall of Fame."
This left the Celestial Shark Live manager feeling their temples throb.
Are you kidding?
Still have to wait two months???
But fortunately, they got a guarantee from Zhao Ming’s side that the difficulty would be temporarily adjusted, which finally allowed Celestial Shark Live to breathe a sigh of relief, they had no other choice, they had to endure a while longer.
Wait until no one can pass and switch back.
Meanwhile.
At night.
In Fang Ming’s stream.
Having slept the whole day, Fang Ming energetically appears in the live room, unaware of the afternoon event, he watches the Celestial Shark Live Platform while talking to viewers:
"Did the platform get stuck?"
"Why is every section solely streaming World War II: Empire’s Rise, when I opened the page earlier, I was completely baffled."
"This fire caught on in one afternoon?"
Viewers in the live room comment.
[Laughing, just look at the Polestar Official Website announcement, you’ll understand.]
[You’re impressive, now you’re ahead of everyone online, already possessing the Moscow Defenders Medal.]
[Tsk, a permanent Hall of Fame introduction, work hard and you won’t have to worry about food and drink for the rest of your life.]
Fang Ming was a bit confused here, and followed the streamer’s prompt to open the official website, seeing that announcement, his eyes widened more and more:
"Whoa?!"
"Whoever gets into the Hall of Fame, isn’t that invincible?!"
Just as the stream’s friends said.
If you really get in, you won’t have to worry for the rest of your life.
This is a game that’s popular in the Six Major Federations, who knows how many people play it, how many new players join every day.
And the game’s main interface has just a few options.
[Immersive Storyline] [Normandy Landing] [Multiplayer Co-op Storyline] [Medal Library] [Hall of Fame], and various [Campaigns] that are available for a limited time.
Such a simple main interface, with no recharge buttons, just imagine the click-through rates for the Hall of Fame and Medal Library.
"Hiss—"
Fang Ming took a deep breath and said:
"We must get that Stalingrad Medal."
"It’s too invincible."
While speaking, Fang Ming opened the real-time map on the Polestar Official Website:
"Let’s take a look at Stalingrad first."
Then began zooming in on the map of the Stalingrad frontline, based on the map, both sides are currently in a stalemate due to heavy snow.
Moreover, the distance between both sides is still relatively far, not like Moscow, which has already been fought to the Moscow suburbs.
Fang Ming here analyzed with the stream friends.
At least before winter ends, the Empire is unlikely to advance to Stalingrad.
Mainly the distance is still too far, unlike Moscow which is just a few kilometers, here it’s tens of kilometers, how to advance in the snow?
"Looking at it this way, the Battle of Stalingrad should not be fought in winter."
"If it’s summer...."
"The situation should be somewhat better than Moscow, because in Moscow the guerrilla warfare in minus twenty or thirty degrees is too difficult."
"Better to be hot than to freeze to death, and in summer, actions are more convenient, feels like the battle will be a lot easier than Moscow."
"Looks steady this way."
As Fang Ming analyzed, he also searched ’Stalingrad’ on Celestial Shark Live, a bunch of streams popped up.
Fang Ming clicked in to watch with the stream friends.
It’s indeed as analyzed, the battles within these streams are in a stalemate, and the front line is very far, this winter it’s hard for the Empire to advance to Stalingrad.
Fang Ming then returned to the real-time map, zoomed out.
Looked at the northern cities on the map, then searched ’Leningrad’, a bunch of streams appeared, led by Duan Yu’s stream.
Clicked in to take a look, Fang Ming had a strange expression and withdrew:
"So many different playstyles, also there’s Battle Royale."
"Why starve in the game."
"Leningrad here from the stream situation, temporarily can’t be breached either."
"On the European Battlefield, the Empire’s main attack direction currently is Moscow, other places on the front line are in a state of stalemate."
Fang Ming zoomed the map out again, into an ’Earth’ planet form, then switched to the [North African Battlefield], glanced and lost interest:
"The battle here is not as intense as on the European Battlefield."
Then looked at the map’s markings, searched some Atlantic keywords, a few streams popped up, clicked in and saw scenes on oil tankers at sea.
There’s no battle, maybe there was no encounter.
Fang Ming then looked at other battlefields [Southeast Asian Battlefield] [Pacific Theater], searched these streams.
Because they’ve just been opened recently, there are few players.
However, the [Southeast Asian Battlefield] hosts are in tropical rainforests, similar to [North African Battlefield].
Maybe due to few people, couldn’t see any battle footage in the streams.
In some streams on the [Pacific Theater], there is a leisurely vibe everywhere, the scenery on the islands is pleasant, contrasting sharply with the smoke and blood on the European Battlefield.
Looking at the same planet, with different scenery in various places, different situations, gives a surreal feel.
The biggest contrast is, on the European Battlefield it’s fight or die, in the Pacific a stream broadcast showed an airplane strapped with barrels soaring into thousands of meters altitude.
And the purpose of this is.... to make ice cream.
This is really occurring on the same planet, at the same time???
Absurd.
Fang Ming looked at the ’Earth’ current battle situation, understood the general situation, the war has spread globally, affecting many places.
But currently it doesn’t feel like anything.
At least.... looking at the Pacific Theater and Southeast Asian Battlefield, there shouldn’t be any impact on the European Battlefield, right?
After a round, Fang Ming returned to the game.
Prepared to start a game of [Battle of Moscow], as the battlefield just opened, went to the challenge medal missions, haven’t experienced commanding large troops yet.
Clicked on [Battle of Moscow].
Then the screen flashed and gradually lit up.
Fang Ming entered the game, greeted by a command post, looked at his military rank and the documents on the desk.
"Hmm? I’m a brigade commander."
"Not bad, commanding a brigade."
"Let me see now....?!"
"Didn’t I start in the Moscow Battlefield? Why am I in the Far East Region?!!!"