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If you want to win, then put some strong AI opponents on your team, or put some weak AI opponents on the other side.

If they want you to lose, they'll put a few "idiot teammates" in your team.

Using this mechanism, even if you play five-player ranked matches every time, there is no way to guarantee that your victory will not be affected.

Because a five-player team can only ensure that there are no bots on your side, but it cannot prevent the system from arranging super bots for your opponents.

However, Honor of Kings does indeed use this method.

Lower the barrier to entry for the game again, to the point where there is no bottom line.

As long as you have hands, you can play Honor of Kings.

To some extent, it did allow everyone to "enjoy" a fake MOBA experience.

In Lin Li's opinion, the person who created this system was a true genius.

He avoids the biggest frustration for newbies in PVP competitive games, no matter how bad you are.

This system can also let you dominate the battlefield.

Therefore, in business, even with numerous options, it must be acknowledged that this is indeed a viable path.

However, from the perspective of game development, Lin Li scoffed at this idea.

What is false will always remain false.

If there are no competitors, that's fine; relying on traffic entry points, you can make money no matter what.

However, if there are competing products that also have traffic entry points...

These things will become a sharp blade.

It will become the best point of attack for the opponent.

Lin Li was well aware of these things, so the adjustments to FGO would not be arbitrary or compromised on core content.

However, making some appropriate adjustments is still possible.

Moreover, FGO is, after all, a single-player game, so it is inherently easier to make adjustments.

When Saito Asuka started playing, FGO had already undergone several rounds of optimization.

First, the card pool has been significantly streamlined, and a large number of useless cards have been removed.

In its previous version, FGO, in 2018, had a total of 223 Servants that players could summon.

This number isn't actually that many, considering the quality of the original version.

However, in the new version of Starfire, the recreation of the Heroic Spirits is a comprehensive recreation, plus the chibi system in the battle system.

Creating each Servant requires effort, so in the Starfire Remastered version, the current number of Servants is limited to around 130.

It mainly features Servants who appear in the main storyline, supplemented by popular Servants.

With fewer characters, the quality of the Heroic Spirits has been improved, with clearer illustrations, more exquisite battle figures, and more battle effects compared to before.

With the addition of numerous and constantly updated battle modes, FGO's battle system has finally become a little more interesting.

There are now more guides in the FGO community discussing team compositions, strategies, and tips for using Servants than in the previous game.

However, these improvements, including the streamlined and less demanding progression system, are merely optimizations.

The core reason why FGO is more popular in this world than in its previous life.

It's still about the plot.

The scriptwriting team is centered around Mushroom and Gen Urobuchi, and there is also a script rating incentive system.

In other words, after the story is updated, Spark will give the author up to three times the royalties based on the player's rating of the story.

These methods make the storyline of FGO more stable than its predecessor, while also enhancing the presentation.

Especially since April of this year.

The most exciting parts of the main storyline have already been adapted into animation.

It's not just the main storyline.

The storyline of this Summer Spark Singularity is also very interesting.

Compared to the main storyline.

The storyline of this singularity is relatively lighthearted.

It basically means that the player closes their eyes and then opens them again.

We arrived at a small island with a unique style. It had modern buildings, but the island's residents didn't seem to fit the architectural style of the island.

They still maintain the lifestyle of the classical era.

Throughout the celebration, players discovered that some merchants on the island possessed numerous relics of Heroic Spirits.

The way these relics were discovered is also quite interesting.

in the plot.

The system will notify you when you arrive at a store.

Something feels off here.

Then players will be asked to select strange dots, somewhat like spot the difference, which is a very boring gameplay mode.

But when the player finds Saber's scabbard hanging among a bunch of wood carvings in the wood carving shop...

For example, the Joan of Arc ring sold in jewelry stores.

If all of this was still acceptable, then when Saito Asuka discovered that a corner of Alexander's cloak had been used as a rag, she really couldn't hold back anymore.

When players click on these artifacts, the main story of the summer event will be triggered.

Players need to exchange certain items with the shopkeeper for these artifacts.

To tell the truth.

This part of the plot isn't complicated, but Saito Asuka is having a lot of fun because it's part of the main storyline.

Items similar to relics are actually very rare.

However, the concept of artifacts is actually quite interesting.

Summoning heroic spirits through the artifacts of ancient heroes is a romantic notion that resonates with many people, especially those who are drawn to FTAE (Film Theory of the End).

This Spark event revolves around this storyline.

A mini Holy Grail War on a small island.

Although it is the Holy Grail War.

However, the first two-thirds of the event's storyline does not involve combat, and players can choose one artifact from several available.

Summon heroic spirits to become your own.

Then?

Then, naturally, you'll explore the island's mysteries and stroll through the festival with the Heroic Spirits.

The story that Saito Asuka is currently experiencing is one of those segments.

The player and the heroic spirit, while following clues, arrive at a strange inn. According to the clues, the hot spring in the inn's backyard has peculiar effects.

Thus, Saito Asuka entered the most highly praised part of the entire FGO Summer Spark storyline.

Hot spring incident.

There was no dramatic reversal or conspiracy involved in this incident.

In addition to the benefits of hot springs.

In terms of plot, while soaking in a hot spring, the player and the Heroic Spirit they chose simultaneously recall their memories of various singularities.

In the original FGO version 1.0, Servants recruited by players in Singularities were limited-time Servants.

This means that when they meet again in a singularity, they will not have the memory of their previous interaction in the singularity.

However, in the remake of FGO by Spark, the settings that were only added in the previous FGO 2.0 version were directly adopted.

In other words, Chaldea can accept Heroic Spirits who reside there long-term.

Furthermore, based on this setting, Spark also features a "dormitory" storyline for heroic spirits.

Furthermore, in late 17, the concept of a dormitory was brought to life.

A complete dormitory system was created.

In this summer's sparkle.

The dormitory system also includes the option to unlock dormitory mini-games.

Players can play chess and cards with Heroic Spirits in the dormitory.

Although this feature is only available to a select group of Servants due to the use of the new LIVE2D interactive technology.

But for FATE players, this is already a milestone update.

This feature of interacting with characters in the next event not only appears in FGO, but also in other games under the Spark brand.

In Battlefront Girls, a special mini-game called "Battlefront Chess" was created specifically for this chess-playing interaction.

FGO also features a chess game where players use different classes as pieces.

Azur Lane also has a [Naval Chess] mode.

Chapter 464 Pilgrimage to the Holy Land

Player reviews of these updates have been almost unanimously positive, even though many players may only play them for a short time before putting them aside once the novelty wears off.

However, this kind of function is typical.

I may not need it, but you can't live without it.

Many players have even started spending real money to buy different dormitory furniture.

The purpose is simply to unlock more mini-games, and the game boards with skins within those mini-games.

Saito Asuka didn't spend money on this.

However, in the hot spring storyline, she and the Heroic Spirit regain their memories at the same time, and then soak in the hot spring together to reminisce about the "past".

I am very satisfied.

"Hey, Mizuki, do you play FGO? How about we choose this for the event story later... I want to see some other hot spring stories."

Why not go online and watch videos posted by others?

"Oh right, you can do it that way too."

Mizuki Yamashita sighed, somewhat speechless.

"Alright, stop playing and let's go. The people ahead have already gone far ahead."

Saito Asuka clearly wanted to play a little longer.

But since it's work time now, it's okay to sneak in some fun.

If you can play it continuously.

It would be too embarrassing if the staff found out.

So Saito Asuka made the difficult decision to turn off her phone.

While thinking about the plot, I was also admiring the scenery.

After getting off the bus, there was a parking lot that seemed to stretch as far as the eye could see; it was clearly a temporary parking lot.

The ground was not paved; it was all continuous stretches of wild grass, with only the weeds roughly trimmed by hand.

However, because the grassland is quite large, it looks rather impressive.

It was around 7:1 in the morning. Although the sky was already bright, there was still an hour before the event started.

There weren't many cars in the parking lot yet.

Furthermore, under the guidance of staff, buses were parked on the side closest to the door, while Nogizaka's buses were parked on the side further inside.

Visually, one can even faintly feel the curvature of the earth.