Chapter 1374 (1/2)
The latest version of ”plant vs. zombie online” was released at 10 a.m. Yanjing time the next day after the completion of the comprehensive internal test.
This update adopts the hot update technology. Players don't need to download and install the whole game again. After starting the game, the game directly downloads the new game materials and updated content online. This ensures that all players connected to the network must complete this update, unless they have been playing in the stand-alone mode offline Play.
For users in the game, the background will automatically complete the update when the player plays the game, and automatically load when the authority game ends, then users can experience the latest version of the game content.
From this period of time, players around the world have successively experienced the new ”plant vs. zombie online”, a new map, a new plant, a new zombie, a new system, which brings a huge surprise to the players.
Chinese players are surprised to find that in the latest ”plant vs. zombie online”, there are Chinese style maps and unique zombies in Chinese folklore! This is really surprising, because up to now, no one has ever integrated the zombies of Chinese folklore into the game, and the cartoon zombies are not only not terrible at all, but also give people a particularly lovely feeling.
Even for Chinese players, they haven't seen the new elements of ”Chinese zombies” for a long time. After all, Hong Kong zombie movies have passed the golden age, and so far there are no new movies produced.
Seeing familiar scenes, familiar and unique zombie shapes, Chinese players are almost all praised. To some extent, there is a special cultural complex. After all, this is our own folklore. Just like the Western zombies and vampires, zombies and vampires can be game elements. Chinese zombies should be able to be, and Makino Technology can realize it That's it.
Familiar and already some strange zombie elements come back again, which makes many netizens rekindle their love for zombie movies. In the disc rental shop on the street, zombie movies are almost all rented out, and all kinds of zombie movies are playing on TV, and the ratings are very high. Even Lin Zhengying, who used to be cold and clear, posted it because of the nostalgic heat, But now it has become a big hit in the Star Post Bar. People's love for zombie movies seems to return to more than ten years ago
When foreign users, i.e. players who use non Chinese language version, update the game, the game has a simple prompt in Huaxia map checkpoint, telling them that the map design comes from the unique architectural style of Huaxia, and the zombie in the game is a kind of Chinese folklore, collectively known as China zombie.
Regardless of the eastern and Western cultures, only in the game ”plant vs. zombie online”, the modeling design of Chinese zombies is much better than that of the original western zombies. Although the original western zombies are not horrible in visual modeling, they are not cute at all, but at most they make people feel stupid. But the modeling design of Chinese zombies can really brighten the eyes of overseas players Their clothes are very special, and their posture is very special. Their skin color is not gray black of Western zombies, but light yellow. The runes on their foreheads float with the zombies jumping. Overseas players don't understand its use, but they always have a sense of mystery.
For overseas users, on the whole, they will not reject the Chinese elements. On the contrary, these special ethnic designs also bring them a full sense of exotic customs. Most of these people didn't know that there were Chinese zombies before updating the game today, but only a few hours later, people all over the world knew about them The modeling of Chinese zombies and their unique setting of walking and jumping.
The most important thing is that they don't hate this element. On the contrary, they gradually like these very special and interesting images and settings. Even many overseas users openly discuss Chinese zombies on the Internet. They search for and collect all kinds of Chinese zombie legends, and translate them into the Chinese language, so as to popularize them to their own netizens on the Internet platform.
Why do they wear special robes? Because they wear the official clothes of the Chinese and Qing Dynasties, which actually have a lot of attention. Officials from the first grade to the ninth grade have strict requirements on the clothes they wear;
why is there a strange yellow paper on their forehead? That's because there is a profession in Chinese legend that specializes in dealing with such zombies. They are called Taoist priests. This yellow paper is called runzhuan, which is a weapon of them. It has a very special effect. Of course, in this game, it's plants that attack zombies rather than Taoist priests, so the runzhuan may only be a design element;
Why do they walk and jump? This is not the case of zombies in Chinese legends, but because there were many zombie films in Hong Kong in those years. In the setting of Hong Kong films, zombies are all jumping forward, so in China, people's impression of zombies is that they are jumping up and down;
in addition, many people find screenshots of various Hong Kong zombie films and put them on the Internet to feed the net You do science popularization, which further attracts users' curiosity about Chinese zombies. Many people say on the Internet that if you can get one or two Hong Kong zombie movies to watch, it will be great.The whole western world, even Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia, have set off a wave of discussion about Chinese zombies because of the revision of ”plant vs zombie online”.
No one expected that Hong Kong zombie movies did their best to rush out of the Chinese area, and even in Southeast Asia did not bring any repercussions. But ”plant vs. zombie online”, a popular global game, only took a few hours to send the concept of Chinese zombies to the global players.