RoleplayNovel Chapter 354 The foreign servers are so sour, even if you can't play, you still have to choose s
Chapter 354 The foreign servers are so sour, even if you can't play, you still have to choose s
While the domestic public opinion arena was locked in a fierce battle, the international internet was also active.
Due to the previously mentioned policy review process, the Chinese server has made a significant leap into the S3 era.
The international version, however, remains stuck in the lifeless Season 2.
This means that tens of millions of overseas players who were eagerly anticipating the new content of S3 are now forced to become "armchair gamers".
But this doesn't diminish the chilling effect of such a comparison.
Chinese players are trying to draw the M14 Tianlong.
Chinese players are testing their guns in the expanded shooting range.
Chinese players are drawing for charms and doing level 33 quests.
Meanwhile, players on foreign servers are still mired in the quagmire of late Season 2, continuing their desperate struggle against rampant DMA cheats and a completely collapsed economic system.
They can't play.
But they can see it.
From the moment Season 3 officially launched on the Chinese server, discussions about the new season on the Reddit forum exploded.
Countless highlight videos from the Chinese server were uploaded to foreign websites, and a massive number of foreign players flocked to Jiang Feng's live stream recordings to frantically "pay homage".
Jiang Feng's peak concurrent viewership on overseas TikTok livestreams exceeded 500 million in an astonishing fashion!
On the Twitch platform, the total number of real-time viewers for the Delta Force has soared to a staggering 1300 million!
Top-ranked international streamers have pulled out all the stops, acquiring Chinese server accounts at exorbitant prices and bracing themselves for extremely high latency to forcefully conquer the Chinese server.
Even though the lag affected their gaming experience, they still had happy, silly smiles on their faces when they experienced the new content of S3.
In particular, there was a foreign FPS blogger who used a rented Chinese server account to try his luck at drawing Gauss bricks. He got lucky on his first try, and the screen suddenly showed the incredibly cool black jade-colored special template Tianlong!
The live stream chat exploded with excitement.
But the streamer himself broke down on the spot, clutching his head and wailing in his gaming chair, "Why?! Why isn't this my own account?!"
The comedic effect of this dramatic loss of the grand prize directly propelled the topic to its peak on the international internet.
It not only features comedy, but also shockingly terrifying numerical values.
Zack, a top FPS streamer in North America, sat in front of his computer, watching the video clips of Anke's "800 Million Pink Dragon" and the Chinese server's "4 Billion Bankruptcy," and was so shocked that he covered his head with his hands:
"Oh my god! 40 billion Haf coins vanished instantly? Just for a gun skin?!"
His live stream chat was also filled with a dense barrage of "WTF".
[280 million in a single draw? That's practically a cyber money-shredding machine!]
This is insane! Chinese gamers are so rich!
[But that hidden M14 Tianlong is so cool! It even breathes fire when it kills! Why doesn't the official update let us play it simultaneously?! I'm fed up with Season 2, I want to play Season 3 now!]
The screen was filled with comments overflowing with envy, jealousy, and resentment. New guns, new skins, a new shooting range, a smoother ranking system—they couldn't play any of these things; they could only watch from afar as Chinese players enjoyed themselves.
However, the jubilation and envy on the internet did not last long, and the tone quickly changed.
On the Delta subreddit on Reddit, a highlighted and pinned hot post quickly caught the attention of all overseas players.
The post title is highly dramatic and inflammatory: "Civil War Erupts! A Cyber War Between Elite Clubs and Lower-Ranked Players in the Chinese Server! Jiang Feng's Utopia is Collapsing!"
The poster was an international student. He translated the "battle of ideas" that broke out on the Chinese server forum into English in great detail.
From the initial intention behind the establishment of the [Trading Bridge] and [Life-Saving Station]; to those fully equipped veterans who went to the bridge to carry out a massacre; to those elite high-level players with club prefixes who criticized Jiang Feng on the forum for "damaging the hardcore ecosystem of the game" and "exploiting system loopholes"... the whole story is crystal clear.
The moment this post was published, gamers on foreign websites perked up instantly.
Since we can't play the new version, we can at least watch the drama unfold and take sides, right?
Foreigners love watching these dramas of ordinary people fighting against the privileged elites! They even argue more fiercely on the internet abroad than in China because they can't play games and have nowhere to vent their frustrations!
In no time, various controversies surrounding Delta S3 dominated global trending topics.
But as the overseas players argued, they quickly shifted all their focus back to the man at the center of the storm. They were shocked to discover that the earliest source of information about everything—whether it was the S3 preview that sparked a nationwide frenzy, the trading bridge that benefited newcomers, or the life-saving station that established the rules—was the same person.
Feng. River wind.
The man who single-handedly confronted the project team and saved the game during the preview livestream.
The person who, on the first day of Season 3's release in the Chinese server, miraculously cleared 3x3 in twelve hours.
After watching all the clips, a streamer from a foreign server remained silent in the live stream for a long time before finally saying:
"Feng is not just the best player."
"He is the person who understands why players suffer."
Just then, the pinned, inflammatory hot post on Reddit was suddenly updated.
The original poster added a glaring red title at the end of the main post:
Counterattack! Jiang Feng's followers have joined the battle!
Below is a practical editing video that I just uploaded from Bilibili in China.
Countless foreign onlookers clicked on the video with a mixture of curiosity and apprehension.
The video footage still shows the Chaoxing Bridge in Changgong Valley.
The lines were drawn sharply, and in the end, someone even took a knife to fight back, which was quite moving.
Foreign players realized that, in any case, they were just spectators in this spectacle.
………………
In the conference room, the massive screen displayed the terrifying statistics from the first day of S3's launch.
Holding a laser pointer, the operations manager's voice trembled with barely suppressed excitement: "Mr. Yi, after 24 hours of S3's launch, the daily active user data has completely exploded! The number of concurrent online users has broken the historical high since the server opened!"
He pressed the page turner and cut out a series of green growth charts.
"The feedback on all the new features has been extremely positive."
According to feedback from social media platforms, the Sweet Potato Nest has been very popular since its launch, with the average time spent in the expanded shooting range tripling. The ranked and random match systems are operating stably; however, since it has just launched, some data still requires further feedback from stable operation.
"The most successful thing is our promised open problem feedback mechanism."
Players discovered that we responded to every bug report within two hours, and the hostility in the community visibly decreased, with trust in the official team reaching an unprecedented level.
The screen flickered again, and the scene switched to a giant gold coin funnel model.
"In addition, the 【Haffcoin Ultimate Recycling Program】of Gaussian Bricks and Turing Bricks is exceptionally effective."
Players across the server plunged headlong into the lottery pool. In just one day, the system successfully consumed tens of trillions of Haff coins, averaging over a million Haff coins per player. In-game inflation was perfectly suppressed, and the M14 Heavenly Dragon even became a hot topic on international websites.
The operations manager suppressed a laugh:
"We detected hundreds of thousands more bankrupt accounts."