LOL: Can’t I play other games professionally?

Chapter 399 If you don't understand, just ask: How do you play StarCraft 2?
"Alright, that concludes today's championship skin showdown. Congratulations to EDG for defeating the streamer team 2-0 and securing the final victory."

Zhanqi platform live stream room.

After announcing all the procedures, the two commentators responsible for the BO3 broadcast switched the camera to the training room at EDG's base.

At this point, the original six-man EDG team was already lifting the trophy.

Yes, the championship skin competition will also have an awards ceremony at the end, emphasizing professionalism.

This left the viewers in the live stream somewhat bewildered.

[Lin Geng won another championship? Is Lin Geng the MVP again?]

This should be the most prestigious championship in Lin's professional career, far more important than any Spring Split title or World Championship title.

[I agree. After all, not everyone can compete with Lu Benwei, Piao Laoshi, or even Wei Shen. You tell me, isn't this championship win truly unique?]

"Is there still a championship trophy?" In the Douyu live stream, Lu Benwei watched the golden rain fall, his mind inexplicably a little confused.

He only realized that winning the championship skin contest would earn him a trophy after seeing this scene. So the question is, why didn't he know about this before the contest?

and…

"Why don't we have a trophy here? What if our broadcasting team wins?"

After thinking for a moment, Lu Benwei seemed to understand the reason. Lin Ruo thought that they had no chance of winning at all, which was why she did not place the trophy at the anchor team's location.

That's outrageous! That's too much!

But when he thought about the fact that he had more than 20 deaths in the two games, Lu Benwei silently chose to end the broadcast and run away.

Damn, Lin Gou has a really good eye for people.

Before PDD also ended his stream and ran away, he elegantly expressed his most sincere greeting to his good brother Lu Benwei, who was the worst player in the team: "Lu Benwei, you piece of trash, I'll beat you up with your banana boat."

Before the match, he said he would carry their team, but during the match he seemed completely out of it, and afterwards he remained silent.

PDD had originally planned to get revenge for being brutally defeated by Lin Ruo in a Dota 2 1v1 match years ago, but who knew that because of Lu Benwei, he was beaten even worse today than last time.

They were almost knocked out of the Linglong Tower in both games. Although it's supposed to be a championship skin showdown, this was really too ruthless.

It's all Lu Benwei's fault. PDD is going to go down and have a live chat with that damn Lu Benwei to argue with him.

The promised showdown was to take down Lin Ruo, and EDG would definitely not have an easy victory.

The final answer was indeed that EDG didn't win comfortably, but rather won quite comfortably.

...

After finishing the championship skin showcase and comforting and seeing off Lu Benwei and the others, Lin Ruo turned around, sat down, and deleted the League of Legends client.

I've downloaded a lot of games lately, so I need to delete some to free up space for the other games.

In this respect, League of Legends has made a significant contribution, more so than any other game.

Lin Ruo then started searching for downloads of other popular games. With more than ten days until the start of the MSI, she needed to find something to relax with.

Of course, the main reason was that Lin Ruo discovered another very certain fact.

That is, although the traffic in his live broadcast room has remained at the top of Zhanqi's rankings from beginning to end, the so-called top rankings have also fluctuated.

Whenever he streams a new type of game, the number of viewers in the live stream reaches its peak.

For example, when I first played Dota 2 last month, Zhanqi TV's active user traffic reached its highest level in the first three months of the year. As time went by, it returned to normal, but it still played a significant role in attracting new users to Zhanqi.

Then came the PUBG Mobile livestream in April, which brought the livestream's popularity back to an unprecedented high.

It turns out that audiences really enjoy the fun of the new and the unknown.

Well, so Lin Ruo has made up his mind. He wants to continue developing new games, not to boost traffic to his live stream and make more money, but simply to bring joy to his true fans.

That's how great it is, no further explanation needed.

"What game should I play next?" Lin Ruo pondered, flipping through the pages, unable to make up her mind. She then looked up at the live stream chat.

Sure enough, as soon as people saw him selecting games, all sorts of recommendations came flooding in.

Some are serious, such as CrossFire, World of Warcraft, and StarCraft, which are all classic games that have been put on the table.

Are you serious?

For example, someone might recommend that he play a fantasy game to find a partner, team up with someone to complete story missions, and form a romantic relationship. Isn't that what Scout used to play?

Lin Ruo decisively refused; he wasn't really into virtual romance.

Then he turned to Scout and asked if he had any good recommendations for related types of games, only to be told to get lost by his own mid laner.

After thinking it over, Lin Ruo opened her browser, typed in "StarCraft 2", went to the official website to confirm, and then began downloading the game.

He had never played StarCraft before, but he had heard of its reputation; it was said to be the most difficult of all competitive video games, including fighting games.

The only game that can rival StarCraft 2 in terms of difficulty ceiling is its predecessor, StarCraft 1.

Without a doubt, they are at the top of the gaming hierarchy. Even League of Legends and Dota 2 players have to stay silent and obediently bow their heads to be disciplined.

Since the evaluation is so high, Lin Ruo definitely has to give it a try and see what it's really like.

This really excited all the viewers in the live stream.

[Is Lin Gou going to play StarCraft 2? Holy crap, I've finally waited for this day.]

It seems like Lin Gou (Lin Gou) picks up almost any game easily these days; I guess only StarCraft can really challenge him.

[He's at it again. Every time there's a major tournament, Lin Gou (Lin Gou) has to play a new game. Is he already planning to pre-order the MSI championship?]

[Damn, I can barely understand Dota 2, how could I possibly understand StarCraft 2?]

No problem, Lin Gou will guide you through the basics step by step. I learned to play Dota 2 by watching Lin Gou's streams.

I feel like I want to learn how to play, but I guess my brain can't keep up.

...

After the download was complete, two new software icons appeared on my computer desktop: one for Blizzard Battle.net and the other for StarCraft II.

Regardless of which one you click on, after registering an account, you can directly start playing StarCraft 2.

So Lin Ruo randomly clicked to register, and after completing the registration, clicked to enter the game. Then she waited for the so-called game loading screen. From left to right, there were three character types, each representing a different race in the game. From left to right, they were the Zerg, Human, and Protoss.

Lin Ruo, who was not very familiar with this, specifically went to Baidu to look up the background of the StarCraft game.

The story is set in the early 26th century and focuses on the struggle for supremacy among three races in the Koprulu Sector, located at the center of the Milky Way.

These three races are: humans, descendants of Earthlings; the insectoid race, a rapidly evolving biological group; and the gods, an ancient race with a highly civilized civilization and psychic powers.

The game will provide a corresponding battlefield for players to fight against each other, which is the core content of StarCraft 2.

In this game's battlefield, players can control any race, gather resources on a specific map, produce troops, and destroy all of the opponent's buildings to achieve victory.

After understanding the situation, Lin Ruo returned to the computer. The game had now reached the main interface, where there was a monitor icon in the lower right corner. Clicking on it would reveal a menu bar.

The first column of options allows players to modify and configure screen settings and mouse/keyboard usage according to their personal preferences.

Lin Ruo went in, changed the language, and exited after confirming the Chinese interface.

The core content of the menu bar interface is in the help option, where you can find a complete explanation of the operation controls and game mechanics.

The operation mechanism seems to contain a lot of information, but most of it can be solved by simply moving the mouse and clicking. Since that's the case, there's not much need to focus on reading it.

As for the game mechanics, it's basically just a series of introductions to the various buildings in the game, such as crystal mines, rocks, and gas weather.

Lin Ruo felt sleepy after looking at the screen, so she decided to give up and go to the office interface.

The units are still divided into three types: human, god, and insect. Each unit contains many smaller units, which can also be called minor characters. Their job nature and role are all different.

In short, after watching so much, what Lin Ruo really wanted to know was how to play this game. So, she chose to watch a beginner's video tutorial to better understand the game content and gameplay.

After watching it, I roughly understood how the game works: build people, mine resources, build troops and buildings, and then you can go and wreak havoc.

Ok.

The game has four corresponding modes. To start the game, you can choose the corresponding campaign mode, which is mainly divided into three chapters, including the first chapter Wings of Liberty, the next two chapters Heart of the Zerg and Legacy of the Void, and the last and special Nova Covert Operation.

Starting with the Wings of Liberty campaign, players can learn about the story of warrior Jim Raynor and build their own army, completing a series of missions and gameplay content.

The following three chapters are also playable, but require actual purchases.

After viewing the first campaign mode, the next part is the most practical cooperative mission mode. In this mode, you can choose a commander role, use his skills and the small units that can be produced, and cooperate with an ally to complete various mission objectives.

Allies can be found by the player themselves or randomly matched using the game system.

The third game mode is battle, which has different types of 1v1 and 2v2.

The fourth game mode is custom.

Lin Ruo, ready to get started, calmly chose to try the single-player simulation in the game, just like the AI ​​match in League of Legends.

After the game enters the loading screen, the middle displays general map information, while the two sides display the relevant race information for the player and the computer.

Lin Ruo decided to start the game with the human race, and the opposing computer was also a human.

Once inside, you'll see a small base where machine units will continuously emerge; in the common knowledge among Chinese players, these units are called farmers.

In short, the base is a building for producing farmers. Since farmers need to work, Lin Ruo needs to continuously use farmers to build other buildings, expand the army, and improve the economy.

How do farmers produce goods?
There are many crystal mines on the outskirts of the base, which farmers can mine directly.

There is also methane gas around the crystal mine. This gas cannot be extracted directly. A corresponding methane vent must be built to achieve the mining objective.

In this game, the Terran race generally follows a common development trajectory: they first build supply depots and use them to continue producing units, but there will be corresponding supply quantity limitations.

The professional term for this number is "card population".

The so-called "population" can be called "supply capacity". For example, if your current total troops account for 100 people, then you need to build buildings that can supply 100 or more people.

Whether it's Terran supply depots, Protoss crystals, or Zerg overlords, it's all the same; otherwise, new units cannot be produced.

If the aforementioned buildings are destroyed, meaning your current supply capacity is lower than the number of troops you currently have, you will be unable to produce new troops, a situation commonly known as "population bottleneck".

In practice, once Lin Ruo had enough money, he immediately set up a supply station.

The early stages of life are like development, constantly repeating the process of building houses in the base, or moving to different locations and driving production vehicles to mine a second batch of ore outside the base.

Normal operations usually require operating three mines, meaning at least three mining farms must be opened.

During this period, besides farmers, building a few soldiers as a defensive force for your home is sufficient.

Other things require continuous technological development, such as barracks and engineering stations, building whatever is available, following the principle of continuous development from lower-level to higher-level buildings.

Before Lin Ruo could pay much attention, the opposing AI's minions launched an attack, but due to his favorable economic situation...

The robot arrived, but was immediately driven away.

Of course, the key point is that Lin Ruo set up a tank, achieving a dimensional reduction attack; the rest were basically large forces of gunners.

Lin Ruo played rather casually. After experiencing the harassment from the AI, he just kept piling up troops and technology, mainly because having more troops made him feel safer.

If there's a shortage of people, we should quickly replenish them; if there's an extra surplus in the economy, we should spend it freely; and once the mines near the base are depleted, we should replenish them promptly.

During this period, Lin Ruo didn't know how many rounds she fought against the AI. Anyway, when the opponent came, Lin Ruo didn't need to do anything. The AI's minions would naturally use their superior strength to beat up the opponent.

Lin Ruo's job is simply to give them the right to act arrogantly, and to ensure that population restrictions don't negatively impact the economy and development. That would be considered a success. As for the rest, let them be created as they see fit.

When the time is right, when Lin Ruo feels confident of winning, it will be time to take the initiative and launch an attack.

There was no way around it; the difference in numbers between the two sides was too great, and the AI ​​couldn't withstand its attacks at all.

Clearly, this "AI guy" is indeed a bot, completely unworthy of the title of "intelligent." He mines very little, resulting in a mediocre economy, so he can't withstand any of his attacks or defenses.

After playing to the end, Lin Ruo can make a proper summary and review the game process.

The strategy for this game is to first develop the economy, then shift to military power, and finally use military force to eliminate the opponent.

As for advanced tactics like strategic formation deployment, the AI ​​clearly didn't give him that opportunity.

The player reached full capacity in 11 minutes. Judging from the reactions of the viewers in the live chat, Lin Ruo roughly knew that this action was considered very fast. For a novice like him, it was even faster, which should be considered a display of considerable talent.

Finally, with the opposing AI skillfully typing the word "GG" (meaning "it's over"), the game ended with a perfect victory for Lin Ruo's team.

Yes, it's a long-standing Blizzard tradition: if you lose a game, you have to type "GG," even against bots. That's what you call professionalism.

(End of this chapter)