Players Invade Cyberpunk

Over fifty players, that's a whopping 1.5 times increase compared to before!

Lin Miao felt rather emotional about this, though not entirely happy, since it's thirty more mouths to feed.

With the increase in numbers, the difficulty in management rises exponentially, not to mention a split later on, with some staying in Evil Land and others in the city, which makes things even more troublesome.

Fortunately, Lin Miao isn't alone right now, he has some help.

He pushed open the door on the second floor and walked out, bringing the initially noisy hall to sudden silence.

But the silence lasted only two seconds before the players got rowdy again, asking them to stay quiet was like dreaming.

Whether it's a fully immersive game or even a pixel game, players would circle around NPCs like hyperactive kids.

"How come he looks even more handsome than the reference image on the official site, is your company's programmer available? Is your photo beauty editing reverse developing?"

"This is unfair, why isn't there a charisma stat on the attribute panel? I suspect he stole my looks!"

"Hurry and send out the modeling data, I want to use his model as my skin tomorrow to rake in rich lady's gold."

The more Lin Miao learned, the more he realized the uncontrollable nature of the player group, now he could only pray they wouldn't end up blowing Night City up.

He leaned on the railing, looking down at the players below.

"Today there's a special mission to select a batch of skilled operators to transport our goods to Night City, assisting our office employees stationed in the city to complete a transaction with the Sixth Street Gang."

[Main Mission: Initial Exploration of Night City]

[Mission Type: Exploration]

[Mission Description: We have successfully repelled Night Wanderers in Evil Land, establishing a foothold in the area, but for our endeavor this doesn't even count as the beginning. Only by carving out our own space in Night City do we take the true first step. Now is the optimal moment to acquaint ourselves with Night City.]

[Santo Domingo's Sixth Street Gang learned about our battle with Night Wanderers, they are interested in our exoskeletons and ordered 20 sets of light and heavy exoskeletons, marking them as our first clients. But this group has always been restless, possibly not completing the transaction honestly, or in fact, all gangs in Night City are alike. Protect our employee Gloria at all costs, ensuring she completes the transaction.]

[Mission Acceptance Requirements: Combat-related skills LV5 and Level 5 or higher, limited to 8 people]

[Mission Rewards: 2500-5000 Euro bucks, 500 GP points, open activity time in parts of Night City]

[Mission Failure Assessment and Penalty: Gloria's death, office-related NPC friendship drops to -50]

Lin Miao originally wanted to set the penalty as game disqualification, but that would've been too blatant and absurd, causing players to refuse the mission, so he opted for an NPC friendship reset penalty.

Though it seemed ambiguous, anyone who played strategy games would know what it implied.

Unless their brains were scrambled, they'd disregard everything to ensure Gloria got out of Santo Domingo.

Brother Dao: "Huh? Why didn't you say earlier that there's a main mission, and with limited time and slots?"

He had just taken a patrolling task, rented a car, even signed up newbies; couldn't just ditch them to take on a new task, that'd be too tasteless, plus this game doesn't have a task abandonment option, only transferring tasks to others.

The issue being such mentorship, did he transfer tasks to newbies?

This group might just drive the car out and end up wolf fodder, then he'd have to pay for a new car.

Red Barrel, feeling like crying: "I just took the tunnel reconstruction task, can't I cancel it..."

Jianxue the Anonymous: "You talk nonsense, I am in the same boat, just took a BOSS order and now can't get away."

New players full of interest, and they could tell Night City was a high-level map, but they weren't rushing; they hadn't even seen what Evil Land was like, a bunch of level-one newbies would enter the high-level map not knowing how they died.

They weren't keen on receiving a three-day cooldown gift pack upon entering the game.

Only the veteran players sighed with regret, since many had already taken newbies under their wing for tasks, could only watch as the eight spots were snatched by others.

Titan: "Haha~ Let you guys mess around with newbies, then we'll just move ahead first! See you all."

Potato: "Brothers, we'll definitely bring you back Night City specialties okay, and leave you some memorable moments. Don't thank us, alright."

Wildman: "Hey, a new NPC, Gloria, why haven't we heard BOSS and Lucy mention before? Not even on the official character guide."

Brother Ni: "New version, new characters, just like Lucy in the last version. Maybe there'll be numerous NPCs later on, just like that team... Mann's group, who did a mission with us last time. I suppose sooner or later they'll join too, otherwise why give them so much attention. Maybe these NPCs have hidden missions."

Titan: "Don't speculate, bro. Last time we thought there was a hidden mission, but the NPC died, making us depressed for a long while, and this mission also has a failure penalty—the friendship negative 50. Damn, we can't even see the friendship level now, negative 50 is what?"

Brother Ni: "I'd guess at least indifferent to hostile. This freaking punishment feels so severe, it's worse than directly deducting currency.

Who knows how tough it is to enhance friendship in this game.