Chapter 196 - 196: 194: Not Revealing * is 16+


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    As soon as Fred blurted out, he immediately realized that he seemed to be speaking too quickly.


    “Nightlife, Vice City, such ces are inevitable… right?” He tried to make up for it.


    Lincoln nodded approvingly and then asked an unrted question, “Fred, how’s your… matchmaking going?”


    Fred attended matchmaking events every three days, which wasmon knowledge among the old employees.


    “Not…” Fred had only said a word when he swallowed the rest of his sentence, “Not bad, it’s going well, steadily improving.”<div>


    “That’s good, that’s good.” Lincoln nodded.


    It would be strange if things were going very smoothly instead of not going well.


    It’s not that being a pervert is bad, but who doesn’t have some perverted moments nowadays? The key is to keep it hidden!


    The old employees were used to it, while the new employees stared at Fred curiously, not knowing whether they were looking down on him or admiring him more.


    Fred tried to ignore these gazes, “Boss, how should we handle the rating of this game?”


    As soon as this question was raised, everyone immediately focused.


    “Try to keep it at 16+ as much as possible.” Lincoln didn’t hesitate and gave a direct answer.


    Frankly, he really wanted to go big and change it to 18+, and the possibilities of developing the game would be huge.


    However, because the possibilities were too vast, it would be difficult to control, and it could end up being an adult game inadvertently.


    Adult content in virtual reality games ispletely different from traditional adult content, and it’s easy to cross the line.


    Activities like visiting brothels in “The Witcher 3” are okay on traditional tforms, at most it just means a higher age rating.


    But doing that in virtual reality games could easily lead to an anti-vice operation in the virtual world, making history.


    Don’t even try arguing that your game world isn’t in your own country, it’s just sophistry!


    Lincoln is still cautiously evaluating whether to lift the intimacy activity restrictions for real-life couples in the virtual world, not yet making a decision.


    And plus, it’s Vice City! Gambling King! Night Club! Dancing! Racing!


    With so many things for yers to do, do they really need adult content?


    “Understood.” Fred nodded, “No nudity required for a 16+ rating, it won’t be affected, the strip club can still operate.”


    “???” Lincoln was a bit confused, so you exined, and then you just understood a non-nude strip dance?


    “Whatever!” Lincoln waved his hand, “Next up is thebat system.”


    Since they decided to let Fred take on this project as much as possible, they couldn’t restrict his performance too much and needed to give him ample creative freedom and space.


    Besides, Lincoln was also looking forward to what kind of tricks Fred coulde up with..


    Anyway, as long as he absolutely restricts yers from taking off their pants, and Fred’s design doesn’t have nudity, it doesn’t vite the rating rules, so there shouldn’t be any problems.


    “About thebat system, we can basically follow the framework of ‘Assassins’ Alliance’, but the core needs to be changed, [Assassin Bloodline] needs to be deleted and changed to [Combat Sensing], and [Curved Shot] also needs to be deleted and changed to [Gunfighting Technique].”


    “If we delete [Assassin Bloodline], should the increase in physical fitness brought about by level advancement be reduced?” Someone worriedly asked, “Will yersin?”


    “No need to reduce it.” Lincoln shook his head, “When not activating [Assassin Bloodline], yers’ physical fitness is less than twice that of normal people, far from Superman level, and it doesn’t affect the bigger picture.”


    “As for [Combat Sensing], it mainly relies on the suggestion of nerve signals, allowing yers to have more sensitivebat intuition, sensing the direction of danger, seizing opportunities, and even dodging bullets in advance.”


    Lincoln thought about it and gave an easy-to-understand example: “You can think of it as the QTE function in virtual reality games.”


    “Oh, oh, oh!” The employees suddenly understood, making a series of rooster-crowing sounds.


    “So, what about [Gunfighting Technique]?” Randall asked on behalf of everyone, “I saw in the movie that the protagonist performs specific moves, and the bullets can’t hit him. What’s the logic behind that?”


    What logic?


    Lincoln thought about it. In “Speed Chase,” he only changed somebat expressions to make the protagonist’s fights more magnificent and cool, but he didn’t bring the logic over as well.


    However, since someone asked, there was no harm in exining.


    “Gunfighting Technique is a skill that integrates physical techniques, gun techniques, sword techniques, and more. It precisely calctes actions, initiating an attack with the least amount of self-harm while inflicting the most considerable damage. It can shoot at any blind spot around you, increasing bullet power by 20%. It’s a shooting technique that can be used for both attack and defense.”


    After hearing this, the employees were a bit confused.


    Only Randall nodded with understanding, feeling a sense of familiarity.


    This kind of serious nonsense that somehow sounded reasonable was not the first time Lincoln had done it.


    “So how do we implement it? With a buff effect? Or with QTE?”


    “Neither.” Lincoln waved his hand, “Just understand the meaning, no need to follow the standard step by step. You can think of it as an alternative [Dodge] skill.


    “[Dodge] skill?”


    Everyone immediately felt that the [Gunfighting Technique] skill hadpletely lost its cool factor.


    “Of course, what else can we do? We can’t let the yers dance while shooting, can we? Or should they dance before the fight for a buff? This isn’t an ancient


    African theme.”


    “And there’s one crucial point to making gunfighting techniques look cool – the actions have to be cool. To make the yers feel that the actions are cool, the starting pose and ending pose must be stylish and eye-catching!”


    “As for the actions in between, there are too many things for the yer to do, like shooting, running, and using the environment. Giving a general idea is enough; yers won’t care too much.”


    “In other words…” Fred summarized, “Strike a cool pose before fighting, then rush into the enemies and go wild. After all the enemies are down, strike another cool pose on the spot.”


    “Right on!” Lincoln praised him.


    After Lincoln’s exnation of the essence and Fred’s simple summary of the presentation form, everyone had a clearer understanding of the new game’sbat mode.


    When they began the actual developmentter, they would have direction and not be lost in confusion.


    At this point, Randall raised a new question: “Do we need to add more foreshadowing to ‘Assassins’ Alliance’?”.


    Lincoln nodded, “Yes, we do. In my imagination, when the protagonist of


    ‘Speed Chase’ smashes the floor and retrieves the buried weapons and coins, if there’s a save file in ‘Assassins’ Alliance,’ they will inherit the [Assassin’s Gold] and most-used sidearms. If they haven’t yed ‘Assassins’ Alliance,’ they’ll only have basic gold and weapons.”


    “Before that, we can design some tasks in the Continental Hotel in ‘Assassins’ Alliance,’ revealing some of John Wick’s deeds and character features. Don’t go overboard, but try to leave some impressions on the yers.”


    “We can release tasks ording to the game’s development progress, at appropriate times,” Randall immediately thought, “Let yers indirectly understand John Wick’s legendary exploits. When the game is about to be released, we canunch another task, letting yers know that the legendary killer John Wick has retired for unknown reasons.”


    “That’s perfect! Completely doable!”


    “So, what about the publicity milestones? Do we need to prepare them in advance?” asked an employee in charge of operations.


    “You guys don’t have to worry about that for now; I already have an idea.” Lincoln was considering: Should he release a dog growth documentary first?