This Is Not a Bug but a Game Feature-Chapter 288 - 190: No-Damage Boss Speedrun? No-Damage Speedrunner!
A player mysteriously turned into a game Boss during a live stream of "Global Evolution" and interacted with other players.
This caught Chen Ba’s attention.
Even though it was after work hours, he immediately called Lu, Dong, and others back to the studio to replicate and identify the root cause of the issue.
"Let’s not worry about turning into a game Boss for now; I just want to know how he managed to interact with other players."
Chen Ba was curious about this.
Because turning into a storyline Boss was still within understanding. But interacting with other players in a single-player game, turning it into a multiplayer experience, was quite absurd.
How was this achieved?
To explore the mystery, Chen Ba contacted Pan Yang, who had ended the live stream in humiliation, and with his consent, logged into his account for testing.
"Hey!" 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺
Lu was using another test account and soon noticed something unusual during the testing process.
"Ba, look at this..."
"In this logical framework, the protagonist Chen Yun hasn’t disappeared. It’s just that due to an evolution Bug, the game system recognized him as a Fierce Beast rather than a human."
"Indeed!"
Chen Ba saw it too.
After logging into Pan Yang’s account, the Golden Eagle Boss he controlled roamed the wilderness without being attacked by any Fierce Beasts or spirit monsters.
This was illogical.
Because the character controlled by the player, according to the game’s underlying code, has a strong taunting ability that would inevitably cause any encountered Fierce Beasts or spirit monsters to attack.
But now, the taunting was gone.
The Fierce Beasts and spirit monsters were treating the "Chen Yun" controlled by Chen Ba as one of their own. Although Fierce Beasts of the same kind would still kill each other, the Golden Eagle Boss’s power was enough to intimidate them and prevent attacks.
He looked into the underlying code and discovered.
After the protagonist Chen Yun evolved into the Golden Eagle Boss, the "Chen Yun" character hadn’t vanished into thin air but had replaced the Golden Eagle Boss template in the storyline.
"Global Evolution" is a single-player game.
As is well known, although single-player games these days claim to be single-player, they are basically online all the time and require a server connection to function properly.
So, after Pan Yang evolved into a storyline Boss, his data was backed up on the server side.
During this process, when another player advanced the storyline and was about to face the Golden Eagle Boss, code execution would conflict with the server.
Why would there be a conflict?
Because on the server side, the cloud backup has the data information of Pan Yang’s transformation into the Golden Eagle Boss, while other players’ clients do not have this data.
When server and client data are mismatched, according to game logic, the backup will be overwritten, relying primarily on the server side.
The game will also perform file repair!
"Because of the conflict between the client and server, the system will determine that the player has altered or replaced client files, and will automatically perform an online repair."
Lu explained, "During the file repair process, the Golden Eagle Boss information on other players’ clients was inexplicably replaced with Pan Yang’s character data."
In fact, Lu was also puzzled.
What kind of code did Ba write for this absurd event, where a Bug affecting one person caused a widespread impact on all players?
Chen Ba: "..."
He knew what Lu was wondering about, and he actually already knew the answer. But knowing was one thing, and dealing with it was another!
Damn, he should have known the Iron Fool System had no good intentions.
No matter how many precautions were taken, they still couldn’t prevent it. If he’d known that the optimized code of the Iron Fool System could spread like a virus to all players, he wouldn’t have optimized it.
The problem had been identified.
The root cause was simple: Pan Yang indeed discovered a game Bug.
This Bug stemmed from the stacking of values within the evolution mechanism. A single Bloodline Power can reach a concentration of up to 5%, so what about 20 Bloodline Powers?
Even an elementary school student can do this math.
But in the game, there is no such thing as 100% Alien Race Bloodline Power, and no relevant game mechanisms had been designed around it.
Therefore, when Pan Yang stacked the values to 100% through more than 20 Bloodline Powers, an evolution mechanism Bug appeared.
"The game mechanisms we designed are surely for the players. And the protagonist Chen Yun, controlled by the players, is a real human being."
"Since Pan Yang was stuck in the Bug, he was recognized as a Fierce Beast, so his evolution path turned into various game Bosses..."
At this point, Chen Ba gasped.
My goodness!
Who would’ve thought this?
When the evolution mechanism previously encountered a Bug that stopped evolution at 100% Evolution Level, he and Lu ran countless tests on the system.
Like ordering fried rice at the bar, pooping at the bar, plowing fields with a tractor at the bar...
The testing was already comprehensive!
But who would’ve guessed that the problem would arise from "the customers not being human" in this bar where you can order fried rice, poop, and farm with a tractor?
It can only be said that Chen Ba did his best.
He put a lot of effort into opening a bar to tackle various challenges and meet the quirky requests of different customers, making it flawless.
But upon opening, a Kobold customer came in who didn’t order fried rice or operate a tractor, only requiring a glass of whisky...
Pan Yang was the first to discover and trigger this Bug. As "Global Evolution" is an always-online game providing cloud save services, the data was uploaded to the server side.
Okay, here’s the combo move!
