In Nebula Games' project room, Lucas sat next to Hector and Marcus.
"How is Ciri and the related system coming along?"
Lucas asked Hector.
"The overall framework is basically complete," Hector reported.
"No need to rush. The Ciri and 'The Witcher: Wild Hunt' in the teasers won't use the same structure. Remember Ciri's setting?" Lucas said, looking at Hector.
Hector nodded beside him. Although he wasn't in charge of the story-related content.
But the combat system design also needed to be based on the character's setting.
So he had naturally read Ciri's background and story.
As a descendant of the Elder Blood, Ciri has many unknown magical potentials, and she cannot fully control them herself.
Her teleportation skills are more powerful and convenient than any sorcerer's or sage's portals.
While fleeing the Wild Hunt, Ciri used this power to travel to different worlds in different timelines.
"With the ability to travel to different worlds in different timelines, we can do a crossover. For example, have Ciri come to Lordran to participate in the linking of the fire."
"Ciri participated in dragon hunting in the New World. Also, some monsters from 'The Witcher: Wild Hunt' can also make random appearances," Lucas said, looking at Hector.
Hearing Lucas's words, Hector and the others nodded.
Related IP crossovers, and digging holes and burying easter eggs, this wasn't the first time they had done it.
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During this time that Nebula Games was quietly developing "The Witcher: Wild Hunt," there were various news of new games online, both domestically and abroad.
After all, not all game companies were like NetDragon, taking out their old IPs to reheat them.
Overseas, Zeus' FOW and Atari both announced some news about their new titles, and domestic game companies such as SkyNova also had some new developments.
A Swiss company called LS announced news of its latest game, a sequel to "Undercover," which was previously a huge hit on the Zeus platform.
Many Zack high-definition original paintings, and corresponding backgrounds.
This time, the timeline comes ten years after the previous story. The main character obviously looks much older, and seems more violent.
At this time, he has left the police force and even left his hometown, and has found a new job in the private security industry.
The success of the previous game made this new game highly anticipated by players.
Zeus' FOW also announced a new project, and even released a short gameplay video, revealing part of the game's combat system.
This is an FPS game. In the game, players can clearly see that the main character has various conventional skills such as shooting, stealth, and climbing, and the game's weapon system is also very rich.
Many weapons such as chainsaws, heavy machine guns, and rocket launchers. From the background, it seems to be a Wasteland world concept game.
As for Atari, they returned to their old business of adaptation, taking in a sci-fi game that was very popular last year, mainly telling the story of the butterfly effect. However, not much content was revealed.
For a time, the news of many big games, although some were still in the planning stage, made players very excited.
But many players also felt puzzled.
Because during this period, Nebula Games had been quiet.
Many players were wondering, did Lucas not have a new game development plan?
But that shouldn't be the case!
Although they brought "Hades" after the new year, compared to the scale of Nebula Games, this small game was not difficult, and it had already been released.
Why has Nebula Games been silent?
Even game companies such as FOW and Atari felt curious about Nebula Games' silence.
After all, something was abnormal!
However, as time passed day by day, FOW, which had the fastest project speed, had already started teasing.
But Nebula Games was still quiet, which made some loyal fan players of Nebula Games confused, and also relieved game companies such as FOW.
Logically speaking, if Lucas had a new project, he should have released promotional materials one after another long ago. After all, there's no point in hiding it.
But looking at it now, it seems that Nebula Games really has no plans? Or is it preparing to release something big?
But no matter what, they, FOW, will take the current attention.
With this mentality, FOW released promotional materials one after another and held online and offline press conferences.
They were just one step away from announcing the release date.
For Zeus, they obviously hoped that this new game would be a success in both sales and reputation.
However, what surprised everyone was that after Zeus had just finished its online press conference.
A new message spread online.
That is, in the Nebula World in the Nebula Games platform, there is an easter egg crossover of Lucas's new game!
Just like the previous "Bloodborne" and the "Assassin's Creed" and "Uncharted" at the beginning.
Along with this news, Zeus and FOW were instantly dumbfounded.
Were they waiting for them here?!
Were they specifically targeting them?
Deliberately waiting for their game publicity to be about to end, and about to announce the online time, and then Nebula Games started teasing.
To take the opportunity to grab all the attention after they announced the promotion date?
Thinking of the "Red Dead Redemption" and "Uncharted" in the past, Zeus couldn't help but feel a chill in their hearts.
However, many players were very excited.
Before, they always thought that Nebula Games didn't have any new projects, but now it seems that Lucas was deliberately waiting for Zeus!
Moreover, judging from the situation of this new game, the easter eggs have already come out, so the game must be almost finished, so is it far from the official release?
Players were full of excitement. Some players with CosmosVR went online one after another, preparing to see what type of new game Nebula Games had.
......
However, compared to the players thinking that the game was almost finished and the game industry sighing that Nebula Games was too tough.
In the Nebula Games office, Lucas was still communicating with David about the review of "The Witcher: Wild Hunt."
After all, this game was slightly special in some ways.
Of course, it wouldn't fail the review. The final model discussed with Game Division was this.
That is, "The Witcher: Wild Hunt" will be rated 17+. Of course, according to the player's real-name age verification, some of the larger-scale settings in the game can only be experienced after the verification is enabled.
"Everyone doesn't have to worry about the review issue. There's no problem. The corresponding scenes will not be deleted," Lucas said with a smile to everyone.
"Awesome, Boss Lucas. The honorary member is really something!" Marcus couldn't help but sigh.
"Don't talk nonsense, isn't the rating very strict? It requires age verification for players, and in 'The Witcher: Wild Hunt,' this part of the scenes is not for the sake of doing something improper, but an art," Lucas coughed lightly.
"Also, Mr. Marcus, you are responsible for the motion capture. I will review the subsequent adjustments," Lucas said, looking at Marcus.
The story performances in "The Witcher: Wild Hunt," like the previous games, use motion capture throughout.
Of course, don't think too wrong. The intimate scenes in the game are not as exciting as players think when performing motion capture.
Except for games that completely use facial expression capture, most of this type of expression is actually done by two professional actors working together.
And the professional actors for close-up motion capture are mostly male.
At the same time, including some particularly charming female character actions in the game, do you think they are all acted out by girls?
"But Boss Lucas, the online comments are a bit wrong!" At this time, Hector beside him spoke.
The players online are saying that the game is already finished.
In fact, the development work has not been going on for long at all.
There is still a long way to go before the game is officially launched.
As for why the easter egg content is out?
Isn't this a pre-tease?
"It's okay, anyway, we haven't said that the game is almost finished," Lucas said, not caring.
After thinking about it, Lucas continued: "Besides, have we taken on few blames?"
Hearing Lucas's words, Hector and Marcus were speechless.
Boss Lucas, are those blames you mentioned really blames?
(End of chapter)
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