Source: Game Research Society
On May 11, YRRP was invited to participate in the offline trial of Netease Doomsday Shooting Game "The Broken Land", and experienced the new version of the game.
When we talk about the doomsday wasteland, we often think of elements such as nuclear radiation and shelters - survivors have to go out to pick up junk if they are free, and they also need to use a gun to defend themselves, so that they can deal with mutated creatures and rebuild their homes after the disaster.
But The Broken Land may not focus on the same content as this kind of game. In terms of what we have experienced offline, its sense of existence in "survival construction" is not very strong. The project team seems to have turned its head into the embrace of the elements of combat and RPG: the hair gun "bursts" all kinds of mutated creatures, which is the most important "battle, cool" in waste land life.
What is The Broken Land?
The game is set in the future. The war between AI and human destroyed modern civilization, and the world returned to the wilderness. Mutant creatures and intelligent weapons can be seen everywhere. Perhaps it is because of the setting of the changeful creatures. Art is realistic, but the setting and atmosphere are biased towards the fantasy world.
The countryside is very shabby, but the town is full of national style elements. There are all kinds of restaurants, plaques, benches and square tables. With this UI, I feel not so apocalyptic, even a little warm.
However, when fighting, I can still feel the cruelty of the waste earth world. The Broken Land uses the third person over the shoulder perspective, providing two modes of blind shooting and aiming. The aiming situation will change according to the type of gun: for example, the assault rifle is shoulder fired+virtual collimator, press and hold the machine aiming; Sniper rifles are direct cameras.
The battlefield will be full of bunkers such as oil drums and sandbags. Players can hide behind the bunkers, hide damage, make up status, and shoot in the bunkers. You can also use tumbling to quickly switch between several bunkers to find favorable terrain. Before building, bunker shooting should be the best idea.
After playing, there is not much shadow of survival and construction in the whole game, and the stage of searching and picking up garbage is not long. The exploration rhythm circulates between "chasing the road - clearing monsters - getting rewards".
In contrast, RPG has a strong sense of playing, that is, their main PvE challenge mode and a series of cultivation designs around genres.
PvE Copy
PvE dungeons allow online challenges, and players can form a three person team in the town to play together.
The checkpoints are assembled from small boxes, and the bunkers in each box are used to the utmost. Players can use it, and the monsters they brush out can also use it. They hide behind the bunker and fight with you. When they brush the monsters, they have assault and command, and they also play positional warfare.
In the whole level process, you can obviously feel the change of the game rhythm:
A few monsters were scattered at the beginning, but there will be pressure from a group of monsters in the future. The team members need to turn the fire in time to eliminate the close monsters, so as to prevent the sixth man from stealing his buttocks. After fighting the group of monsters, the elite monsters began to shine their blood bars. After cleaning up the elite monsters, they had to face the boss directly.
Elite monsters and close bottom bosses both have break mechanisms. When their HP drops to a certain value, they will enter a break like state, stun themselves and expose their weaknesses. The player can cause huge damage to the weak point by concentrating fire, and basically two rounds of output can send it away happily.
It is precisely because of this similar breakdown design that the boundary between the attack round and the circumvention round is very clear. You can do whatever you want in any round.
The boss does a lot of damage at the end of the pass. If he has two skills, he has to lie on the ground. Fortunately, his back is quite simple. The level 50 replica boss "abyss" we have experienced will play an illusion at one stage, and the real body must be protruding to let him enter the break state. At that time, when I was forming a team to experience, I directly incarnated as a battle doctor and frantically pulled my teammates.
The most effective part of the program is the statistical link after the game. There are data on total injuries and defeats. I only recognize total injuries.
Master of post game statistics screen shooting Schools are built into various fighting styles
The formation of The Broken Land is not so much "groundbreaking", but it also breaks the routine of "legendary club mallet beating king lobster". Character formation is a skill tree. In addition to the growth of basic values, there is also an expansion of the mechanism.
Like to assassinate, can point out the sneaking sniper playing beauty.
I like hard steel, and can take out a double holding machine gun to be a destruction fighter.
In addition to their own weapons and equipment, there are partner systems, unmanned aerial vehicles, artillery and other auxiliary combat devices. These auxiliary combat devices are sufficient for both damage and tactical purposes. The possibility is here. Players can control how to add points.
As a pve brush game, it is necessary to ensure the shooting experience of the players and not fall into a boring situation.
The way of Shattered Land is to give players various targets that need to be reached at different stages of cultivation, and ensure that these targets are sufficiently differentiated. It may be the key point of dual holding, and it may be a better quality UAV blueprint. Use them to provide a sense of freshness on the way, and finally form the player's own play style.
According to the production team, players can switch between several genres they have developed at a lower cost, which should be less painful for washing.
Everything, but a little "loose"
As a shooting adventure game, of course, you have to shoot and take risks with both hands. The Broken Land wants to build a waste earth world with three degrees of freedom: in addition to the freedom of fighting based on genre, the production team also wants to let players experience the freedom of playing and exploration.
The good news about freedom of play is that there is everything.
In addition to the three PvE replicas mentioned above, the Broken Place also supports giant guild replicas, PvP no man's land, and secret places.
Mystery solving in secret The production team said that it has developed a considerable number of copies and formed its own production pipeline. In the next operation, PVE will play as the leading role, and PVP will be added as a means of adjustment. They are confident that they can support the consumption of content, but they worry about whether it will be too serious.
For freedom of exploration, the good news is still: everything; But the bad news is: bulk waste.
In terms of world presentation, the place of fragmentation really has a lot of tricks: the human town with MMO style support for the world channel is like a real stronghold, filled with various NPCs and missions, and other players can also be seen, forming teams or establishing guilds with them.
NPC in Tangwan Town Out of town, there is a sand table type field map, which is a bit like a miniature model of the world. Players can also encounter emergencies when exploring in the field. If you choose to trigger events, players will be sent to the mini copy to fight.
The Broken Land even supports the big world, where you can climb, swim and glide. This "secret place" is a semi open world, but it is a kind of list on the map covered with question marks.
The main tasks of players are: running map and clearing monster camp. The puzzle solving and other contents are not filled enough. After typing once, you will soon be in a daze that you don't know what to do.
It can only be said that the place is broken. This time it is really broken. The whole waste earth world is brought up separately, and players are separated by several playing methods. Players watching the story may experience the main line of fragmentation.
The Broken Land is now a melting pot of games. There are a lot of things thrown in and the output is quite standard. There are many ways to play in the game, but they are all isolated islands. They do not integrate different things like Paru. They are a bunch of scattered elves, and they cannot hybridize into new Paru. After players are shunted into these game modes, they still play ancient brewing.
However, the content of the broken place is still enough. The quality of the pure play normal copy is up to standard, and the built genre is also sufficiently differentiated. It remains to be seen whether the longer term experience of developing feedback and adventure can top the list.
This plate of waste soil, how to say, is also good in bulk - just like choosing Malatang to eat what you like.
