yready #331 - Players are shocked: the wandering gameplay is addictive! The battle between the treasure che
#331 - Players are shocked: the wandering gameplay is addictive! The battle between the treasure che
After that, Wang Hanzhe started walking towards the city's outskirts, looking for a place to establish a shelter.
"There are many abandoned factories, residential houses, and unfinished buildings in the suburbs, which are very suitable for building a home."
He walked for a while and entered a weedy group of abandoned houses in the wilderness.
Soon after approaching this place, Wang Hanzhe was startled by a huge human-shaped stone.
[Startled, SAN value lost 3 points]
[Rest, meditation, and reading can slowly restore SAN value]
He quickly turned up the brightness of the flashlight.
"Damn it, it's scary to see anything in the dark."
The audience in the live stream laughed: "Hahaha, does Peach Garden Paradise have to make the environment so realistic?"
Wang Hanzhe:
"Also, we have a more serious matter now. We have food, and we can get water from the sinks in public restrooms.
But now we don't have a pot for cooking, so we have to find a pot."
Entering the abandoned residential area, Wang Hanzhe walked through the weedy courtyards, feeling a chill down his spine.
The outer walls of the houses were mottled and peeling, covered with vines and spiderwebs. The window glass was broken, and the window paper rustled in the breeze, telling the ancient history of this abandoned residential area.
The inside of the house was dark. Wang Hanzhe held a flashlight and peered into the room, revealing deep shadows. The corners exuded a decaying smell.
Graffiti on the walls and dilapidated furniture reflected the faint light. Every corner exuded a strange atmosphere, making people shiver involuntarily.
Wang Hanzhe: "Brothers, I have to say, this place looks really scary."
He walked to a corner, and suddenly, a withered old tree appeared in front of him, resembling a human figure with a ferocious face.
"Oh my god, is this a tree demon?"
[Startled, SAN value lost 5 points]
The audience in the live stream couldn't stop laughing: "Hahaha, waiting for the streamer's SAN value to return to 0."
Wang Hanzhe calmed down and continued to explore.
[Obtained a broken enamel basin]
"This place is too strange. There's a tree demon at the door and a dog bowl in the corner."
[Obtained a red old bucket]
"This old bucket can hold a lot of water and store a lot of water. Let's take it."
[Obtained a bundle of dry firewood]
"Good news, everyone, the firewood is of good quality and very dry. We can use it for cooking later. But this kind of porcelain bowl in my hand can't be put directly on the fire, it will explode. Let's see if we can find an iron pot."
After entering the house, Wang Hanzhe was shocked. There were folded bedding and some daily necessities inside.
"Bad news, I found that although this house has collapsed, it seems to have an owner."
Wang Hanzhe held up the flashlight and searched back and forth.
In the corner of the house, there were piles of faded sports lottery tickets, betting on the outcome of ball games, starting from the last World Cup. But judging from the results, the old brother living here had bet wrong on all of them.
On the bedside, there was a logbook of this old brother:
July 11: Although I've lost everything gambling, I want to find a way to cheer up. Don't underestimate a young man!
July 12: Jerk off in the suburbs.
July 13: Jerk off in the suburbs.
July 14: How can I be so depraved? I want to find a job, I want to get ashore!
July 15: I saw a pretty girl on Bilibili, jerk off in the suburbs (﹃).
……
"Hopeless, just wait to die."
Wang Hanzhe threw the logbook back without expression.
The live stream was filled with comments:
"Hahahahaha, I'm dying of laughter, this old brother is disciplined enough."
"Reverse self-discipline!"
"It is recommended that the old brother seize the opportunity to enter the factory."
Wang Hanzhe:
"Since this place has an owner, we won't live here. If it's a member of the Great Beggar Gang, it will be troublesome.
Of course, we'll just take the things we got earlier as dropped items."
The audience in the live stream complained: "Trespassing on private property, Open world, Gift from nature"
After that, Wang Hanzhe found another broken house nearby.
"Brothers, this place is more suitable as a base.
It's more spacious inside, and it's windy during the day. It's suitable for us in the summer, it's cool."
The audience in the live stream complained:
"Windy... Streamer, are you sure you didn't use the wrong word?"
"There is a bit of illiteracy in the roar."
After determining the base location, Wang Hanzhe began to search around the house. He quickly found a stainless steel lunch box at the bottom of a deep pit filled with discarded items.
"This thing can be used as a pot. Let me go down and get it."
However, this deep pit looked extremely steep. The game prompted:
[When you explore dangerous terrain, you will be checked at intervals based on your health and SAN value. If the check fails, a landslide will occur.]
"Steady, steady..."
He took a deep breath, waved the VR sensing glove, grabbed a protruding tree root on the edge of the pit, and carefully stepped onto the steep slope.
As his body gradually sank, the surrounding light became darker and darker. Only the faint light of the flashlight illuminated the road ahead.
The steepness of the deep pit made Wang Hanzhe feel unprecedented pressure. Every step was accompanied by cliff-like danger. If he was not careful, he might fall into the bottomless abyss.
[Check successful, landslide did not occur]
Gradually, he approached the location of the lunch box, but at this time the slope had reached its limit. He had to make a decision, whether to continue forward or return to the original path?
Wang Hanzhe hesitated for a moment, but gritted his teeth to maintain his balance, slowed down, and moved forward.
Just as he was about to grab the lunch box,
Suddenly!
The soil under his feet loosened, his body lost its balance, and he fell forward.
[Check failed, soil landslide occurred]
His heart almost stopped beating, fear and despair surged in his heart, and he subconsciously grabbed a branch next to him, barely stabilizing his figure.
On the edge of the cliff, Wang Hanzhe faced the abyss, sweat dripped down, and then he stretched out his body and reached the stainless steel lunch box.
Moreover, a box of matches was found under the lunch box!
[Obtained additional reward: a box of matches.]
Wang Hanzhe was overjoyed: "Great, I was penniless, I thought I would have to rely on drilling wood to make fire."
The live stream was filled with comments:
"Streamer is awesome, I didn't dare to breathe, I almost thought you were going to restart."
"Good guy, no matter what the theme of the game, Peach Garden Paradise can add enough interesting level challenges. Their designers, do they never run out of ideas?"
"This is the awesomeness of Peach Garden Paradise!"
"I won't say anything, after seeing it now, I also want to be a wanderer myself, I'm going to buy the game now!"
After returning to the cabin, Wang Hanzhe started cooking. The game popped up a prompt:
[The workbench has been unlocked. You can build a stove, prepare for cooking, and make water purifiers, self-defense equipment, and other equipment]
After that, the holographic display of the workbench interface appeared in front of him.
Wang Hanzhe waved the sensing glove, first used six bricks to build a circle, and then placed the lunch box in the middle. A simple earthen stove was built.
After spreading the dry firewood and lighting it, he took out the mineral water bottle he had picked up earlier.
"Brothers, do you know why I picked up water from the sink in the public restroom?
With tap water, it's very convenient to cook.
And I'll teach you, when boiling water, the flame should use the tip of the flame, the temperature is the highest."
Put the noodles into the pot.
"I read the description on the cooking interface. Oil and salt in food can increase a lot of satiety, but now we are in the early stage of wandering, and our strength is not enough. These things are too extravagant for us.
Let's just put the noodles in, eat two meals a day, half a portion of noodles for each meal."
A progress bar similar to the game's cooking interface popped up in front of him.
[Please stir according to the rhythm prompts of the stirring strength bar, otherwise the food may be overcooked]
Wang Hanzhe:
"I don't think the noodles need to be cooked for too long, two or three minutes is enough, too long and it will become a pot of paste.
But the noodles can be soaked for a while after cooking, so that it can absorb more water and be filling.
Then throw in the two eggs that the beauty gave earlier. Although there is no oil and salt, it is a serious fried egg, it's great!"
A viewer sent a comment: "Salt can be bought later, there is a small amount of salt in the noodles, so you don't need to add salt."
Someone replied: "The old brother upstairs seems to be an experienced person, he understands it very well."
Because there were no chopsticks, Wang Hanzhe picked up two twigs as chopsticks.
The VR device quickly simulated the aroma of the noodles.
Wang Hanzhe sniffed: "The aroma of noodles combined with the aroma of eggs is really good, but I can still smell a bitter taste. The quality of these noodles is not very good."
The audience in the live stream laughed: "Is there a possibility that this is the bitter taste of the branches?"
After a meal, Wang Hanzhe restored his satiety to 61 points.
"I've eaten almost enough, we should also think about ways to sleep, and get something delicious tomorrow."
At night, lying on the prepared hay pile, the game protagonist looked at the withered grass swaying in the wind on the beams.
Thinking back to the life of having a car, a house, and eating and drinking well, and then thinking about the failure of leveraged stock trading, now being penniless, and his wife and children all running away,
He suddenly felt emotional:
"This life is like the duckweed on this wooden frame, no matter how much you yearn for freedom, you are always bound and constantly rising and falling."
The audience in the live stream: "Good guy, is the protagonist starting to feel life?"
After the character fell asleep, the game popped up the first day's settlement interface:
[Congratulations, you have successfully survived the first day of wandering]
[Evaluating your satiety, health value, and SAN value remaining]
[Evaluating your harvest today]
[Evaluating your shelter]
[Evaluation completed, your first day's survival score is 69 points, overall rating C]
[Your global ranking for this season is 1586]
Wang Hanzhe was stunned:
"Damn, what's the situation?
I bought the game as soon as it came out, and I've fallen to over 1,000th place?
Didn't you say that not many players play this game?
Are you all so hardcore?"
After closing the game, Wang Hanzhe continued to summarize:
"This game is a bit anti-routine. I thought it was an ordinary tourism simulator. Peach Garden Paradise's publicity methods have deceived us all, but I think it's quite fun.
I haven't encountered other players yet. It seems that this game is in single-player mode in the early stage. Everyone is wandering in their own randomly generated small world.
I guess there will be online activities later?"
……
After the live broadcast ended that day,
Many players wrote purchase reviews in the purchase store of the Peach Garden Illusion platform, expressing their shock at the hobo gameplay and giving praise:
"Seriously, I have never played such a weird game. I started with nothing. At that time, I was thinking, what was Peach Garden Paradise thinking, making this kind of game is not looking for abuse?
Later, I found out that it was really good!"
"Indeed, once you get into it, you can't stop!"
"I sat in the room and played yesterday after get off work, and played until the early hours of the morning. Whether it's opening treasure chests or exploring abandoned old houses, every hobo gameplay is quite interesting. Damn it, I have to ask for leave today."
"Every collection of food and cooking is a challenge! Follow the prompts, stir the food, master the heat, and you can't waste a single noodle. You are always on the verge of starvation, it's exciting!"
……
Of course, some players are also questioning, because they found that the original city design of this game is very similar to a tourism simulator!
Aren't the shops on the street for players to buy, buy, buy?
Starting with nothing, isn't this a complete BUG in the economic system?
However, when everyone ran to Peach Garden Paradise's Weibo to ask questions, the official clearly replied:
"Dear players, this is not a BUG, it is a game feature.
The wandering gameplay is the core gameplay of our game. Designing so many city facilities and street shops... is to give everyone more stage to show their talents."
Some players laughed below:
"What talent? The talent of begging? Hahaha."
"You hesitated when you were perfunctorily answering us, didn't you?"
Because of Peach Garden Paradise's reply, more and more curious players poured into the game.
After all, if you say it's a driving simulation, travel simulation, or street scene simulation, there are already many similar games on the market,
But if you say it's a wandering simulation, this is the only one, there is no other place!
In the strategy area of the NGA forum, players quickly began to share wandering experiences:
Some players posted and shared:
"It's best to open treasure chests in high-end communities. I was very lucky yesterday. I picked up unopened milk tea, only ate half of the takeaway fries, almost brand new clothes, and even had a chance to find some digital products.
But be careful of those guard NPCs, some security guards will drive you away with sticks.
Also, don't easily touch the territories of some big beggar gangs, those grandsons don't know how to hold back."
A player on the second floor replied:
"Brothers, let me add one more point, don't open treasure chests with your bare hands, there are glass shards, small knife blades, etc. in the treasure chest, it's very dangerous,
Yesterday, I accidentally got tetanus enchantment, and I died directly after playing for a while.
I opened a new file, used branches, steel pipes, and picked up an old pair of work gloves to open the treasure chest again, it's much safer."
A player on the third floor posted a screenshot of his first day's settlement of 80 points, and said proudly:
"Are you still opening treasure chests here?
You are all OUT!"
I'll teach you all a method to rack up points. I start by going to KFC and sitting there, specifically targeting those slender girls,
especially those who constantly talk about "dieting," I pay close attention to them.
They order a table full of combo meals, pout, take pictures, and then, most likely, can't finish it all. They might leave behind chicken wings, fries, burger buns, etc.
Once they leave, before the staff clears up, I go straight over and grab it all to munch on!
Of course, if I can't find any girls, I can also scavenge leftovers from other customers who ordered a lot.
It's nutritious and filling, making it easy to rack up high scores. It's way better than cooking some broken noodles, right?
The comment section was full of admiration: "Damn, bro, you're a pro! Were you really a vagrant when you were younger?"
Of course, there were also some naysayers:
"This tactic won't last long. It's a game of endurance, seeing who can last the most days.
Starting by opening treasure chests, buying flashlights and axes, saving up for cooking utensils, and building a home is the right way to play.
Firstly, you can't guarantee you'll be lucky enough to find suitable leftovers every day. If you don't find any, you'll starve for the whole day.
Secondly, if you stay in the same block of shops for a long time, the staff will recognize you and definitely kick you out.
By then, you'll have wasted several days squatting for leftovers, while others have already figured out the distribution and drop rates of treasure chests, built their own little homes, and started living comfortably. Their scores will definitely surpass yours."
A player on the fifth floor who supported scavenging leftovers retorted:
"Can't you be a little more flexible? Who told you to only squat at KFC? I picked up a broken bowl on the first day and specifically looked for small restaurants on the street. I went inside and said auspicious words to the boss, wishing them prosperity and stuff.
Increasing the boss's favorability might get you unsold dishes. These leftovers are of extremely high quality, and I'm eating all kinds of meat dishes with a greasy mouth.
I even met a generous boss yesterday who gave me half a pig's trotter, directly boosting my score to 82 points! How many days would you treasure chest openers need to catch up to that score?"
Later, the players holding these two viewpoints became increasingly intense, eventually forming two mainstream gameplay factions:
"Treasure Chest Stream" and "Leftover Stream"
……
The next day, Wang Hanzhe started his livestream as usual.
Compared to the first day, the number of viewers in the livestream room had significantly increased, with popularity reaching 800,000.
Someone asked: "主播 主播 (zhubo zhubo - streamer streamer), have you seen the now popular stream dispute online?"
Wang Hanzhe said:
"Don't waste time switching streams. This season, we'll stick to this one path and see how many days we can survive.
If we want to build a home, the biggest problem is the lack of wood.
But wood needs an axe to chop, so we need to save money to buy an axe first."
After re-entering the downtown area, Wang Hanzhe, carrying a sack and a wooden stick, rummaged through several street-side trash cans but found nothing good.
"No, treasure chests in high-end residential areas are more likely to drop good stuff."
Wang Hanzhe went to the high-end residential area he visited yesterday and found five members of the Beggar Gang's "New Prosperity Harmony" faction rummaging through the treasure chests at the entrance of the residential area.
These vagrants looked fierce and monopolized high-quality cardboard and mineral water bottles. Even sanitation workers had to give them some respect.
The comments section: "This New Prosperity Harmony seems to be the biggest Beggar Gang in this area. Streamer, why don't you join if you can't beat them?"
Wang Hanzhe curled his lip: "I won't join. These big gangs definitely have high membership fees, and the majority of the profits have to be given as tribute."
He found an internal layout map next to the residential area.
"Brothers, fortune favors the bold. Based on my own residential area's experience, there's usually a set of trash cans arranged every three residential buildings. We'll directly bypass New Prosperity Harmony's field of vision and sneak around to steal their base!"