NetEase 1 billion R&D! Open beta in the first half of the year! Big World Martial Arts RPG 'The Condor Shooting' Officially Announced

Recently, the 21-day "three-terminal roaming" paid test of NetEase's "The Condor" came to a perfect conclusion, and the "Condor" project team also announced on this occasion: they are increasingly convinced that they are taking the right path. the way.

Since the establishment of the "Condor Shooting" project, both themselves and the players have fully understood that the path of "The Condor Shooting" is different from the paths they have taken before.

Whether it is the "one world server" that can accommodate all players, or the industrial system that permanently affects the main city of the world, they are all new areas of development.

While crossing the river by feeling the stones, the "Condor Shooting" project team is still forging ahead, and at the end of this test, they also officially announced a news - "The Condor Shooting" 》Striving to officially meet all players in the first half of this year! And "The Condor Shooting" is now available for pre-order on the App Store!

In this test, "The Condor", the wonderful world written by Jin Yong, has shown an initial prosperous ecosystem based on the "World One Server" architecture.

There are 2219 young heroes and Huang Rong who have become "friends of life and death"

"The Condor" invests in creating the characters written by Mr. Jin Yong regardless of cost, just to present players with a vivid and real three-dimensional world. In the game, players can live with Jin Yong's knights, accompany them on their adventures, compete with them, and ask for martial arts lessons.

According to official data: In this test, there were a total of 2,219 young heroes who had a "life-and-death friendship" with Huang Rong, and a total of 1,182 young heroes who had a "life-and-death friendship" with Guo Jing.

Three days into the beta, players and NPCs built a city together

The ultimate goal of the "Condor" industrial system is a Peach Blossom Spring-style "Jianghu Community" created by the collective. After all industries are generated, they will permanently appear on the big map and can be seen and interacted with by everyone.

In this test, a total of 14,957 players owned their own industries, of which 1,859 players opened their own stores. Thanks to the enthusiasm of all players, There are several commercial streets of different styles around Wudingfang, the main city of "The Condor", making it more prosperous and lively.

70% of the young heroes chose to change the endings of Yang Tiexin and Bao Xiruo (30% of the young heroes chose to respect the fate of the original characters)

"The Condor" is based on the three original works Qu’s plot designed the main line of the game, restoring all the content of the original work 1:1, but also leaving certain variables and possibilities.

Under the multi-branch network structure of the plot setting, it is also possible to save the "difficulty of feeling" in the original work.

In this test, 70% of the players successfully changed the endings of Yang Tiexin and Bao Xiruo and helped them retreat to the countryside and mountains.

The Jianghu Working Eagle took everyone to fly around the equator for two and a half weeks

The implementation of the "Introducing the Eagle" function this time has greatly facilitated players' travel in the Jianghu. From the top of the mountain in the suburbs, you can fly directly to the bustling main city of Wudingfang, and running pictures has become the ultimate visual and experiential pleasure.

In 21 days, players across the server attracted eagles a total of 5,368,331 times. The white eagle took players to fly 91,035,068 meters, which is enough to circle the equator 2.27 times.

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Experience Optimization: It has been changed, please rest assured

The "Three-Terminal Roaming" test is the first time that "The Condor" is equipped with a three-terminal interoperability function, realizing PC, mobile The large-scale open test of interoperability with cloud data is not only a challenge for the "Condor" project team, but also a very valuable opportunity to listen to player feedback and suggestions.

The sincerity of the project team is obviously very sufficient. In just 21 days of testing, it responded directly to players' concerns three times.

1. Mobile terminal adaptation, lagging and operation issues

"The Condor" promises to comprehensively optimize the overall adaptation of the mobile terminal hardware and reduce the required configuration requirements , and optimized and jointly debugged the UI, finally presenting players with a "Condor Shooting" that is smooth and easy to operate whether on PC, mobile or in the cloud.

2. Game play issues of the industrial system

In terms of basic operations, the industry will add new co-living blueprints and load existing functions to simplify operations and reduce complexity; at the same time, it will also open more Multiple creative functions, increase the number of interesting furniture, and create a scalable city that fully supports players' free creation.

3. The problem of unsmooth combat experience such as dungeons and world bosses

"The Condor" will comprehensively optimize combat operations, improve the sensitivity, stability and intelligence of camera movement, adjust smart combos and other aspects, further optimize the loading smoothness of copies, and adjust the lag of wild BOSS. situation, and adjust the problems such as the lack of teaching in the Purgatory dungeon, difficulty in forming a team, and unreasonable auction dividends.

4. The model optimization of the protagonist and NPC is in the process of implementation

After several tests, the modeling aspect of "The Condor" has been continuously iteratively optimized. Currently, the modeling of adult women has been optimized. It is basically completed, and the optimization of the body shapes of adults, boys, and girls is also ongoing. Regarding NPCs, all modeling is currently being optimized and replaced, and will be completely iterated during the public beta.

It can be seen that the feedback from all players has been recorded one by one by the "Condor Shooting" project team and included in the subsequent tuning plan, as they said That said, "The Condor" really wants to make this IP a success.

Since the goal is to make "the top Jin Yong game", "The Condor" will definitely do its best to create a comfortable and smooth experience for all young heroes.

The open beta of "The Condor" has been officially announced for the first half of the year, and the App Store is now open for pre-order. We look forward to their official meeting with all players.

About "The Condor"

NetEase's flagship big-world martial arts RPG "The Condor" has been officially scheduled for public testing in the first half of the year. It is the first martial arts open world game developed based on the UE4.27 version. , "The Condor" has achieved a series of technological innovations such as the world's first server, native multi-terminal interoperability, and public scene UGC, and invested in NetEase's latest AI cutting-edge technology and applied it to the creation of intelligent NPCs, truly realizing the agility and liveliness of the aborigines in the rivers and lakes, thousands of people Thousand Faces.

The game will be based on the Southern Song Dynasty in which the original trilogy is set, and build a big world with both natural scenery and humanistic feelings. With the yearning of the project team, Jin Yong fans, and martial arts fans for Jin Yong's world, Jin Yong The trilogy of "The Condor" gradually builds a "wonderful world described by Jin Yong" as a world view and timeline.

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