Chapter 40 : Community Domination
Chapter 40: Community Domination
“Today’s broadcast ends here! Thank you so much for watching the long broadcast!”
“We’ll see you at the next broadcast!”
—See ya
—Jeongba~ Chaba~
—ㅂㅇㅂㅇ
—Good work
Jeong Nayeon and Cha Seongcheol smiled toward the broadcast camera and bid farewell. It was a greeting announcing the end of a broadcast spanning several hours.
Soon as the broadcast camera’s light went out, the two simultaneously let out long breaths and leaned back against their chair backs as if promised.
Both of them were veterans with fairly long broadcasting careers, but they couldn’t help being subtly nervous before over ten thousand viewers.
Moreover, since the Nuclear Tourism content brought a new format called observational variety that hadn’t been mainly used in personal broadcasts until now, they’d exerted more mental effort.
Therefore, it wasn’t particularly strange to show exhausted appearances as soon as the broadcast ended.
“”……””
But that was only for a moment.
Soon Jeong Nayeon and Cha Seongcheol looked at each other with gleaming eyes.
“It’s a hit, right?”
“It’s a hit. No, it’s a super-hit.”
A hit, no, a super-hit.
Dare say, the evaluation of this Nuclear Tourism content ended with that single short word.
First, starting from viewer count, a representative indicator of broadcast success, averaging ten thousand and exceeding even twenty thousand at peak, plus the content itself was tremendously buzzy.
“Thirty wins in a row against fully adaptive AI. Even I who was broadcasting was greatly surprised, so aren’t viewers’ reactions and those who’ll hear about it later obvious?”
“The community will only talk about that for a while.”
“Ninety percent chance that’ll be the case.”
Cha Seongcheol nodded as if it were natural.
Because the record of 30 wins in a row, adding to the Easter egg—though he didn’t know if it could be expressed that way, anyway—called fully adaptive AI, was worth that.
Surely there would be attempts to recreate fully adaptive AI, and normal game 10 wins · placement matches 10 wins · ranked game 10 wins would also receive tremendous attention.
“Still, won’t the 30 win streak record die down pretty quickly?”
Jeong Nayeon’s question seemed somewhat reasonable at a glance.
The highest tier obtainable through placement matches was Gold 4.
Perhaps because of that, even after 10 additional wins, Baek Woohyun still hadn’t escaped Gold.
No matter how much the actual MMR was Diamond~Master range, and that level could be called amateur master, wasn’t Gold tier too low?
However, Cha Seongcheol who heard such talk firmly shook his head.
“No. It’s the opposite. Actually, tier or MMR don’t really matter. That’s just a byproduct that naturally follows from winning.”
Cha Seongcheol smiled and continued.
“Hackphysical set a 30 win streak record, and it hasn’t been broken yet—that point matters.”
Thirty wins in a row was a record that could truly be expressed as a devastating win streak itself. It was also a record any Reverse Planet user would express interest in at least once.
What was more terrifying was that the win streak hadn’t ended yet.
Since imagining Baek Woohyun losing before Challenger range was impossible, he could continue building win streaks afterward too.
“Currently, the ‘Duel’ content highest win streak record is Battler player’s 76 wins. It’s a record set when a Battler player was raising a sub-account in the past.”
“Ah, I’ve heard! Didn’t it break when continuously meeting other pros upon entering Diamond tier?”
“Correct. Well, some said pros sniped him, but that’s just a vicious rumor without particular basis. Sniping isn’t easy either.”
Cha Seongcheol shrugged.
“Anyway, if Hackphysical wins just 46 more times, he can tie the current highest win streak record, and depending on how it goes, he could go beyond that.”
“You mean that possibility matters.”
“Exactly. Will a new record be set in Reverse Planet or not? Can Hackphysical write history or not? Curiosity is inevitable.”
As the win streak record continued, people’s interest would grow.
First, whether he could truly set a record comparable to the existing one, then how far he’d build the win streak record.
At worst, they’d come to the broadcast curious about the person called Hackphysical building win streak records.
The Nuclear Tourism content could practically be seen as having confirmed long-term success.
“……Huhu.”
“……Heuhe.”
There’s no broadcaster who wouldn’t be excited that ambitiously prepared content was hitting.
Jeong Nayeon and Cha Seongcheol smiled from deep within their hearts. They thought the entire community would now be noisy with Nuclear Tourism content.
And that thought was correct.
Currently, Reverse Planet-related communities were in a state of being completely dominated by Nuclear Tourism content.
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—[Reverse Planet Gallery]—
✪ Easter egg class from world’s best developer revealed today [999+]
✪ Foreign developer reactions so funnyㅋㅋㅋㅋ [729]
✪ Real-time match search site top current status.jpg [512]
✪ Bug who sniped Hackphysical current status.jpg [471]
—[Reverse Time]—
[General] Today’s insane 30 win streak record (+21 wins)
[General] Snipers really disgustingㅋㅋ
[Strategy] 1 broadcast=30 wins so 2 broadcasts=60 wins ㅅㄱ
[General] If Hackphysical goes pro, minimum Battler level
There’s a saying “Famous feast has nothing to eat.”
It’s an adage often used when something doesn’t live up to expectations or lacks substance compared to the commotion, also containing the meaning that hype brings nothing good.
However, the Nuclear Tourism content—starting from hack controversy, proceeding with clarification broadcast even making the strong move of operator invitation, where someone who gained the nickname Hackphysical would appear—was exactly the opposite case.
The famous feast had too much to eat. Way too much. Fully adaptive AI, 30 win streak record, plus minor things like sniper-related.
After the feast ended, what more needed saying when any community was bustling with Nuclear Tourism content talk.
✪ Easter egg class from world’s best developer revealed today
(Video of Cha Seongcheol saying fully adaptive AI)
Surprisingly, it’s confirmed that Reverse Planet has fully adaptive AI inserted as an Easter egg
Not official. Easter egg. Hidden element
(Picture containing explanation of fully adaptive AI)
Fully adaptive AI is also that one you guys know ㅇㅇ
Technology other game companies gave up on saying they can’t insert it because lacking technical capability
That’s entered not even officially but as an Easter egg
Ah, just… greatest in history, GOAT.
“Planet Earth”
—Fuck Easter egg is unprecedented new technologyㅋㅋㅋㅋ
—Even told to insert they can’t, but as Easter egg? ㄹㅇ Crazy bastards ㅋㅋ
└Seems like they hid it because couldn’t insert properly
└Where is that; Inserting it itself is a miracle
└Does technology that can’t even be inserted in solo games look like shit to you?
—Sur pri se wor ship
└This deserves worship ㅇㅇ
—It’s you again, GOAT
—Development capability seems several times superior to other developers
What first gathered people’s attention was as expected fully adaptive AI.
If natural, it was natural, because as Cha Seongcheol said during Nuclear Tourism content, fully adaptive AI was technology that completely changed the experience obtainable from games itself.
It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say it was technology where practically the game’s grade upgraded one level, no, two or three levels.
Because they hid such tremendous thing as an Easter egg, words had to come out.
✪ Foreign developer reactions so funnyㅋㅋㅋㅋ
News that fully adaptive AI entered Reverse Planet spreads overseas in real-time too
Developers who learned about it go crazy with WTF as basic, kneeling and begging please tell just one line of coding
Meanwhile several create a religion called Planet Earth Church and say they’ll worship ㅋㅋ
—Planet Earth Church bullshitㅋㅋㅋㅋ It’s not even Flying Spaghetti Monster Church ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
—Sur pri se wor ship
└Religion even created so really will be worshipped ㄷㄷ
└To developers they’re gods
—Even if I were a developer I’d cling asking please tell
—Who knew they’d suddenly shove technology they said absolutely couldn’t be inserted as Easter egg
—ㄹㅇ Major developers all seem to have gone crazy
└For fully adaptive AI, going crazy makes sense
└Because it’s game changer-level technology ㅇㅇ
This wasn’t just Reverse Planet community’s story.
Fully adaptive AI was a very hot topic in the game industry, and technology many developers worried about how to somehow insert in their games then ultimately gave up.
Since they suddenly inserted that in the online game Reverse Planet, not even a single player game, developers couldn’t help going crazy.
Additionally, awareness about Baek Woohyun who discovered fully adaptive AI was gradually growing overseas too, but what influence that would have was something to see later.
[General] Today’s insane 30 win streak record (+21 wins)
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(Match history picture entirely dyed blue showing victories)
That’s Hackphysical’s 30 win streak record!
But why is there +21 wins?
Actually besides the 30 wins in Duel on broadcast, he did 21 more wins alone in Survival ㅇㅇ
Calculating total it’s same as 51 wins
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—Total 51 wins ㄷㄷ This is really what different from the start means
└Isn’t Survival somewhat ambiguous since he ran it as duo
└What does duo matter, nothing would change running solo either
—Security guard breakthrough attempt 332nd try
—At this rate won’t he really break Battler player’s win streak record?
└Almost confirmed unless pro sniping
└According to Miracle Mathematician’s post, he’ll set record around broadcast after next ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└First broadcast 30 wins, second broadcast 60 wins, third broadcast 90 wins! ㅋㅋ
—Match search site banner appeared because of this
└? Something appeared?
└ㅇㅇ Suddenly showed 30 win streak ongoing
—So who is Hackphysical
└Who is that after who is that batch
└Really curious who it is to smash 30 wins
└? Don’t know Hackphysical? Stop living reality! Do some community!
If the topic about fully adaptive AI focused interest more on Planet Earth’s technical capability than Baek Woohyun personally, the 30 win streak record could be said to be exactly opposite.
Reverse Planet users who encountered that record revealed curiosity toward Baek Woohyun personally.
Meaning regardless of whether they previously knew Hackphysical or not, they wanted to know him even a little more.
[General] Hackphysical build experiment review (long warning).txt
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(Picture with Hackphysical’s build neatly organized)
If you saw Nuclear Tourism content, you’d know, but this time newly Hackphysical while broadcasting completely revealed his build from start to finish
Was already curious what build he’d use, so really grateful he readily revealed it like this
Especially grateful thinking he might not because lately so many snipers run wild so many broadcasters hesitate revealing builds
Actually Hackphysical’s build wasn’t much different from what builders predicted before
Builders thought Hackphysical would use a pure melee-only build thoroughly focused on physical ability enhancement based on [Perfect Being], and actually he did
Of course going into details there were parts different from prediction. For example, looking at fourth and fifth Core Elements…
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Three-line summary for busy people
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—Ultimately it’s a strong build if used well
└But is there any build that isn’t?
└Even crap build looks good when strong person uses it ㅋㅋ Would fake salesmen exist for nothing?
—Build’s strength=own physicality build
└Definitely a build perfect for Hackphysical ㅇㅇ;
└This build too should say don’t use under certain physicality like billiards under 300 rookie prohibition
└Old folks prohibition buildㄷㄷ
└You,, young brat,, that,, take back,, we,, peers,, also,,, good physicality,,,
—Feeling good about readily revealing build ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└ㄹㅇㅋㅋ Just blatantly showed it
└Since it’s not a build worth countering anyway, seems decided to just reveal build
—If revealing build, seems like snipers will bring counter builds… will that be okay
└You read posts before commenting ㅡㅡ
└Snipers can’t counter ㅇㅇ To beat that build gotta just press down with physicality, but Hackphysical with physicality? Then why snipe? Just go pro ㅋㅋ
└Sniping reminds me of meeting sniper from ranked start, that fucker was really stupid
Those who became curious tried to examine the monster called Hackphysical while analyzing information revealed through Nuclear Tourism content—in other words, the supernatural ability build used, combat style shown during PVP, etc.
Since Baek Woohyun had happened to reveal build information in detail by disclosing newly composing a build before PVP, such efforts seemed to obtain some results.
Only surprising that most of those results were ‘Hackphysical is a real monster.’
The more they learned about him, people could only newly feel how out of spec the existence called Hackphysical was.
Content contained in a post someone uploaded called ‘Bug who sniped Hackphysical current status.jpg’ also contributed to that.