My Players Are So Fierce

Chapter 414: After Research, The Development Team Unanimously Decided It’s Time to Buff the Human Race

The forum was in chaos.

Just 10 minutes after Lumina’s post was published, its popularity pushed it to become one of the most discussed topics on the forum, surpassing many previous strategy and decryption posts. Of course, only a small portion of people were seriously discussing the significance of race conversion and face customization features for the game’s current progress.

The majority of discussions focused on the short video Lumina included in her post.

The cunning bard recorded the entire process of her “plastic surgery” to become a female version of Lord Murphy, and once it was made public, it immediately caused an uproar.

Apart from some abnormal folks who instantly went into thirsty mode, most people were amazed at how Lord Murphy’s “natural beauty” was truly extraordinary.

Such an almost perfect androgynous face really was deadly attractive to both men and women.

Unfortunately, just when the discussion was at its peak, the suddenly appearing administrator Alpha locked the post.

This wasn’t actually a bad thing.

Because some people had started discussing plans to “collectively get plastic surgery” to look like Lord Murphy and form a “Transia Boy Band” to debut and captivate thousands of young girls and women across the continent.

Although their praise of Lord Murphy as a handsome man made him happy, the thought of them planning to use his face to do bad things didn’t make Murphy feel good at all.

Subsequently, the testing team’s official account also published a detailed explanation post about the “race conversion” and “face customization” features, officially confirming this matter after Lumina’s leak had stirred up “super high popularity”:

【Regarding the explanation of 《Reality Realm》 game auxiliary functions ‘Race Conversion’ and ‘Appearance Customization’:

Under the daily feedback pressure from our precious players, the development team’s programmers had to perform a mysterious ritual.

I heard that after an internal duel, they sacrificed the loser to the God of All Machines, finally receiving the blessing that allowed them to successfully code those wonderful lines and complete the design of these complex features.

However, precious players shouldn’t get too excited yet.

Because the ‘race conversion’ feature is still in testing, the tester ‘Lumina Yanghen’ was selected by the development team after three rounds of lottery drawing.

She will be responsible for cooperating with the development team to complete the subsequent testing and improvement of this super complex feature, and your Brother Alpha has already had detailed communication and discussions with the development team.

The programmers guarantee that this feature can be officially launched in the near future, but due to the plot progression, we must wait until after the ‘Black Plague’ event ends before Murphy can have more time and energy to focus on these matters unrelated to the main storyline.

To appease the players’ disappointment, after discussion with the decision-making team, we decided to implement the ‘appearance customization’ feature in advance.

Here we need to explain this feature in detail.

Pay attention to the blackboard, please listen carefully precious players!

First, the appearance customization feature cannot change your character attributes and racial talents, this is just a secondary application based on the ‘Spirit Energy Projection Reshaping Technique’ researched by Lady Tris.

You can obtain the permission to customize your appearance after completing an exclusive quest chain, and modify your looks and body type based on all currently recorded races.

Notice the issue here, precious players?

Your currently available appearance customization templates are all based on other races that have certain interactions with Transia through game plot progression, those races that only exist in legends are not within your options.

Secondly, performing appearance customization will have some impact on the stability of players’ spirit energy projection, so the development team recommends trying this after players reach the Black Iron rank.

A player can perform one appearance customization every 3 months, this way we can minimize your risk of encountering ‘accidents’.

Finally, emphasize once again, appearance customization only modifies your character appearance.

Changing yourself into a dwarf doesn’t mean you’ll gain dwarven racial talents, wanting to achieve deep-level talent conversion will have to wait until the ‘race conversion’ feature is implemented.

Lastly lastly lastly!

This service is currently provided with spirit energy spell support from Lady Tris’s alchemy cottage, therefore players need to pay Lady Tris a large service fee before performing appearance customization.

For the sake of your wallets, please choose carefully before experiencing this feature.

Additionally, launching together with the ‘appearance customization’ feature is the special ‘collection currency’ called ‘appearance templates’, the development team is working overtime to add new ‘appearance rewards’ to various aspects of the game.

Currently players have relatively few available appearances.

But please give the development team some time, more exclusive appearances will soon be launched in the game.

For example, rare appearance series themes like ‘Fallen Blood Servant Maxim’, ‘Nantes Ranger Kudel’ and ‘Great Explorer Dorothy’ etc. please visit the target NPCs to increase favorability and reputation to trigger quests and obtain appearances.

Oh, right!

As your most loyal friend and forum administrator, I feel I need to warn the precious players who are already getting agitated, the development team isn’t prohibiting you all from modeling your faces after NPCs, but this carries great risks.

For instance, our mischievous Miss Lumina didn’t tell you that after she transformed herself into a gender-bent version of Lord Murphy, her favorability with Lord Murphy dropped by exactly one-third.

What I mean is, if you can bear similar losses, then the development team welcomes everyone to try using others’ faces to do bad things like scamming and deceiving in the game.

Please always remember, in the sky above Transia, Brother Alpha is watching you.】

Below this official explanation post, people immediately started replying.

Sword Saint Ashina: 【@Lumina Yanghen, you bad thing, come out! Why didn’t you say your favorability with Lord Murphy dropped!

Did you have bad intentions wanting to see everyone suffer with you?

Ah, how could you be so bad!

If Brother Alpha hadn’t specifically reminded me, I would have likely followed in your footsteps.】

Leading Pigeon: 【Yes yes yes! Sister Lumina’s behavior was too bad, fortunately good pigeon me held back, otherwise I would have ended up being disliked by Lord Murphy like you.】

Ah Yuen: 【What the hell are you holding back!

Show everyone your phone’s new wallpaper if you dare, who just took a screenshot of female version Lord Murphy and made it their wallpaper?

If Snail and Gugu Chicken hadn’t stopped you, you would’ve been licking your screen already, wouldn’t you?

How disgusting!】

Leading Pigeon: 【Ahem, it was just a momentary wavering of my dao heart, hmph, I’ve decided, I will model my appearance after Lord Murphy’s current wise and mighty look, to pay tribute to my honorable elder!】

Feel You Poor: 【Brother Alpha Brother Alpha @Alpha, is our appearance customization limited to in-game character models or can we import external data?

I think making myself look like Wu Yanzu would be pretty cool.】

Alpha: 【Uh, external data import isn’t available yet, and given the development team programmers’ pursuit of data security, I estimate this kind of large-scale data import probably won’t be opened up in the future.

But although there aren’t templates to reference, you can try it yourself in game, like making a ‘Wu Yanzu ingredient package’ or something.

I believe this shouldn’t be a problem for you all, right?】

Meow King: 【Psh, Little Rich Brother you’re so unambitious, why limit yourself to 3D? Why not model yourself as a Super Saiyan?

Wouldn’t that be cooler?】

Wholesale Invincible Old Fording: 【Damn! Nobody stop me, I’m going to model myself after Lord Fording’s classic look.】

Legendary Hero: 【Sigh, then I can only reluctantly be an Arthas, @Master Broken Blade, Brother Broken Blade, can I pre-order a Frostmourne?】

Master Broken Blade: 【No problem, brother! Our spirit energy alloy production is already increasing, this time I’ll make you a proper spirit energy weapon to play with, brother.】

Shrimp Catcher: 【Hey, brothers should we specially open a post to record our choices? What I mean is, wouldn’t it be even more awkward than wearing the same clothes if everyone customizes the exact same appearance?

I see there’s more than just Brother Meow wanting to make themselves into Super Saiyans here, many people are getting restless.】

Alpha: 【No need to worry about this, Lady Tris has personal template records for each player, there won’t be exactly identical faces, but the subtle adjustments aren’t enough to ensure everyone’s uniqueness, so the development team suggests players try to express ‘personal characteristics’ when customizing appearances.

Also, certain strange people among the precious players please stop private messaging me!

Furry appearances are not allowed!

And you can’t use this feature to rebuild trap characters! Don’t bring that ZZZQ stuff into Transia, don’t mess up their hard-built territory.

The development team’s XP and values haven’t deviated to that level yet.】

“Sigh”

The post was immediately filled with wails.

This made Murphy very suspicious about how many weird people were among his little players? Have young people’s XPs already become this wild?

In Secret Room No. 4, not only Murphy was paying attention to this post, Tris was also holding the computation bead and watching with interest as the “otherworlders” argued back and forth.

She found it very amusing.

However, as a Spirit Sovereign her control over emotions was still very powerful, Tris quickly pulled herself away from this simple pleasure. She turned to look at Murphy and said:

“This might be an opportunity, little Murphy, weren’t you always thinking about how to strengthen the players’ initial human race talents?

Why not take this chance to let them choose their origin groups again.

At least clarify the talents of the four human groups – Silan, Nord, Caith and Mountain Folk, in their words, implement a buff for the human race.

We’ve already seen from Lumina’s race conversion that even incomplete elven bloodline talents give her much stronger boosts than the normal human template.

Collecting spirit energy characteristics from other races is indeed more troublesome, but there’s no problem with humans in this aspect.

You yourself are Silan.

Andrei has support from his sister’s 100 Nord royal guards, all pure-blooded Nord people, just one drop of blood from each of them would be enough for us to collect a complete Nord race template.

And the witch hunters are all descendants of Caith people from Greenleaf Island, they can provide lots of racial information too, not to mention the Mountain Folk from the Ancestral Forest are clearly more willing to cooperate with your work in this aspect.

This really is a good opportunity.

If we can’t find a way to let players completely transform in a short time, then strengthening the basics based on current conditions is also a viable method.”

“Mm, your idea is great, let’s start now!”

Murphy nodded.

He looked at the information collection progress for the three human races and subspecies on his character interface, determined to complete this matter in the shortest time possible.

Lumina’s experiment proved that he could accelerate racial template information collection through vampires’ blood drain trait, apart from being slightly evil, this method was both fast and good.

At midnight, with Tris’s help Murphy had already collected enough blood from Nord people, Caith people and Mountain Folk, he kept drinking these blood samples for analysis like wine tasting, the whole process took about 4 hours, and the template information about human races on Murphy’s character interface had reached 100% completion.

And finally the racial talents of the three major races and Mountain Folk were revealed before Murphy’s eyes:

Human Template – Silan Race Talent 【Outstanding Diplomacy】:

Silan people have always been the most eloquent group among human civilizations, their judgment of situations far surpasses their peers.

Humans with this talent get +2 to Charisma checks when performing persuasion, interrogation, intimidation and deception.

Humans with this talent get 20% increased speed in reputation gain and favorability improvement with various factions.

Humans with this talent will additionally unlock special faction reputation – Silver Dwarf, after reaching certain reputation level with this faction, can obtain the opportunity to become “Gaia’s Earth Priest”.

Human Template – Nord Race Talent 【Descendant of Extreme Cold】:

Nord people were born in the icy wilderness and barbaric lands, flowing through their veins is unbreakable rock, extreme cold ice and volatile blood.

Humans with this talent get +2 to Endurance and Strength checks when performing exercise, carrying, resistance, attack and defense.

Humans with this talent gain frost resistance equal to one-third of their Endurance value.

Humans with this talent have a chance to trigger 【Power of North Wind】 state when attacking, slowing and freezing enemies or applying a weak ice shield to themselves.

Note!

This state’s trigger chance and effects depend on the owner’s level of bloodline power development, this behavior will activate after triggering Silver Trial.

Human Template – Caith Race Talent 【Nature Walker】:

Greenleaf Island has always been viewed as the second natural holy land after the Castilia Forest, humans born here have been bathed in nature’s spirit energy protection for generations, giving them talents for manipulating and serving nature.

Humans with this talent get +2 to spell and attack effect checks when casting nature spirit energy techniques.

Humans with this talent gain nature resistance equal to one-third of their Perception value.

Humans with this talent will be granted a special racial talent and skill related to nature abilities after completing bloodline development in Silver Trial.

Note!

This skill and talent awakening has high probability of being 【Nature Summon – Beast Companion】, low probability of being 【Elemental Summon – Arcane Calling】

Human Template – Human Subspecies Mountain Folk Race Talent 【Savage】:

Mountain Folk have a quite subtle relationship with humans, but even the most stubborn historians won’t deny Mountain Folk and humans share the same origin, they have many similarities, but undeniably, in all human legends, Mountain Folk have always been synonymous with strength, rudeness and wildness.

Humans with this talent will have body type changed to Mountain Folk physique, +3 to Endurance and Strength attributes, 20% increased life and spirit energy recovery speed.

Humans with this talent will have stronger limbs, +2 to physical attack and defense checks.

Humans with this talent will be viewed as “outsiders”, -50% to Charisma attribute, -2 to Charisma checks when performing persuasion and deception, +3 to Charisma checks when performing interrogation and intimidation.

This information was flashing on Murphy’s semi-transparent character card before his eyes, the complete decoding of human race templates brought him a pleasant surprise.

After racial template information was decoded to 100%, he gained a new 【Update】 option on this race template page.

This meant that when players perform “appearance customization”, they can finally choose their human racial branches and light up their unique talents.

Although these talents, except for Mountain Folk’s simple and crude direct enhancement, rarely improved combat power and strengthening, having racial talents as support was enough to cause earth-shattering changes to players’ existing profession system.

For example, players going physical routes should choose Nord or Mountain Folk, those going magical routes should choose Silan or Caith, those wanting to go dark routes naturally must be Silan.

Just the increased success rate in persuasion and deception alone is enough for them to play many tricky operations.

“Now you can’t say I’m a dog game designer anymore, saying the development team doesn’t do anything would be somewhat unreasonable.”

Murphy showed a satisfied expression.

He put down the computation bead in his hand, just about to write an additional explanation when he saw Lady Adele appear outside Secret Room No. 4.

Murphy inquired with his eyes, Adele answered in a low voice:

“Master, that special spirit body you placed in Uncle Bella’s construction room has awakened again, he wants to have a conversation with you.

About his current situation and his future in Transia, you reminded us he is a very special individual, so Uncle Bella requests you to go check on that lost one’s condition.”

“Mm, this is necessary.”

Murphy stood up to bid farewell to Tris, he said:

“It’s also time for me to have a good talk with my second warrior.”