Chapter 176 : The Center of the Topic
Chapter 176: The Center of the Topic
A long time has passed since the development of virtual reality technology.
Now, after the technology once used in utmost secrecy has become so mainstream that it’s even applied to games, those who have advanced virtual reality-related technology have had only one goal.
That was to create ‘a virtual reality with an even more perfect sense of reality’! A virtual reality that is completely indistinguishable from reality itself.
One can imagine how difficult that is without it even needing to be said. It wasn’t just virtual reality-related technologies that were needed, but countless technologies beyond that.
‘Perfect virtual reality’ could only be completed by establishing human-like AI on the foundation of virtual reality, supported by various systems.
It was a level of difficulty where only after hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of technologies harmoniously came together could you even see a glimpse of a clue.
Therefore.
✪ The fact is that RePla is doing it all
They gave us a Fully Responsive AI, didn’t they?
They gave us a Fully Responsive Story System, didn’t they?
They gave us new boss content updates, didn’t they?
Just, damn it all! They just did it all!
-Fact) Damn right.
-They’re really doing it all, holy shit.
-But how the hell did they actually do it? You crazy bastards;
-King La… no, God S…
└Godgodgod, he’s a godgod; use it well.
└Not a single letter from the original name is left?
└God: Hello. This is Planet Earth.
-The normalization of virtual reality games.
└That is… the realization of virtual reality!
-The scariest thing is that it’s no joke.
-“I am the god of virtual reality development.”
-I don’t know about the boss, but the first two are definitely insane;; Even overseas, things are starting to get crazy because of this.
✪ ???: I don’t want to make you happy with RePla.
(Planet Earth logo)
……I want to drive you crazy.
-Just godgodgod godgod.
-The world is divided into before and after the establishment of Planet Earth. We call it B.E. and A.E. (Before Earth / After Earth).
-A superstar who drives both users and developers crazy.
-Pure Fun Goat.
-All development companies before Planet Earth were just ordinary fools.
-Hmm… is that so?
└You, get out.
└Saying “is that so” about this? Nonsense lolololol.
└Even overseas is going crazy right now.
└Fr?
└Yep, after Chloe’s video went up, it blew up as a trending issue in the Western sphere too.
-All it does is ‘No Correction’, what’s the point??
└We’re expecting what will be unveiled in the future.
At first, such topics within the ‘Reverse Planet’ community, topics that were just a storm in a teacup, didn’t take long to spread outward.
From ordinary internet sites completely unrelated to ‘Reverse Planet’, to Western sites, and even to the most influential platform, iTube.
The entire Hypernet literally began chattering about Planet Earth, the leader in ‘the realization of virtual reality’, and ‘Reverse Planet’.
✪ A picture of the game development company causing a commotion on Hypernet right now.jpg
[Interest Explosion] The current state of the game development industry is fuckedㄷㄷ.
▷WTF? This is really, truly unbelievable!
〔iTube〕 This is really amazing!│Reverse Planet│Mr.Cheaters
As mentioned before, since virtual reality technology was developed and popularized, countless people have dreamed of a more perfect virtual reality, one indistinguishable from reality.
And those who benefit from virtual reality technology were no exception. In a sense, they were as eager as the developers.
Because the ones who would benefit the most from perfect virtual reality were themselves. Perhaps even more than the developers.
Especially in this incredibly rapid spread, the influence of ‘Reverse Planet’ firmly holding the position of a national game not only in Korea but in many countries was also significant.
It’s a topic derived from a popular game that ranks 1st, or within the top 5, in the countries where it’s serviced?
Even those not interested in perfect virtual reality would still take a look if it’s ‘Reverse Planet’ related content, so the topic’s transmission power couldn’t help but be explosive.
“……”
“……”
Because of this, the conference room of the Planet Earth development company was plunged into a terribly heavy silence, but there was nothing they could do about it.
After all, all of this happened because the core developer ‘Isaac’ pushed through various updates including the Fully Responsive AI and Fully Responsive Story System.
All they could do was curse at the ‘Isaac’ who hadn’t returned, or revere him, and desperately search for ways to deal with problems they couldn’t handle.
“For now, respond to all inquiries with ‘no comment’. If it’s someone in a position where information really must be given, redirect them to me first.”
“”Yes, understood!””
“In addition, for the time being, stop the work on opening the black box and focus all efforts on the upcoming boss content update. Damn it.”
The Development Team Leader giving the instructions finally let out a curse, but the other developers in the conference room pretended not to hear and turned their heads away.
It was obvious what kind of hell she was going through in a situation where almost all operations were paralyzed by the flood of contacts.
Not wanting to touch a bomb that might explode if poked, they left their seats as quickly as possible.
‘There, that should be enough, right? That bastard Isaac. Just you wait until you come back.’
In fact, the Development Team Leader’s true feelings were calm, having made contact with ‘Isaac’ not long ago, but the regular developers couldn’t possibly know that.
Regardless of what she was thinking inside, her outward appearance seemed to be that of someone suffering due to the missing main developer ‘Isaac’.
They even tried to deceive her, thinking that revealing the fact that she had successfully contacted ‘Isaac’ at this point would cause an even bigger uproar.
─[Reverse Planet Gallery]─
✪ If ‘No Correction’ is bullshit, then upvote lololol.
✪ SSR Cup Participating Teams Complete Summary (Continuously Updated)
✪ After participating in the Hack Tour, my life really changed.
✪ Aren’t these bastards the real championship contenders?
─[Reverse Time]─
[General] 67th attempt at breaking through the forest.
[General] [Hack Tour] Current status of Golgol who participated in the Hack Tour.jpg
[Info] Let’s find out the benefits of No Correction.
[General] 71st attempt at breaking through the forest.
One interesting fact was that in the ‘Reverse Planet’ related communities, which were the actual starting point of the topic, it was being overshadowed by things like Hack Tour content reviews.
It was likely because they hadn’t grasped the situation yet, as the ‘perfect virtual reality’ topic was slowly spreading across the entire Hypernet at the time.
Although a few people were still talking about how amazing this was, it was a farcical situation since they were people who had already experienced the Fully Responsive AI and Story System.
✪ After participating in the Hack Tour, my life really changed.
Originally, in high school, I couldn’t even make eye contact with bullies,
I threw trash anywhere and kept spitting everywhere,
But after becoming a Hack Tour participant, I’m trying to make an effort to maintain dignity myself.
Just now, there was a snack bag thrown on the street, so I picked it up and threw it in the trash can.
No matter what shitty thing happens,
While showering, I ask myself, who am I?
A “Hack Tour” participant.
And when I laugh, I feel better.
I guess this is where the saying “the position makes the person” comes from.
-Is this a templar?
└Pamphlet, you idiot.
└Ugh, templar pamphlet nonsense, it’s a Templestay.
└The humor is that even this is a template.
-Surprisingly, it’s really amazingㅇㅇ They broke through odds of one in tens of thousands, right?
└How did you do it, damn;
-I got rejected too…
└Actually, me too.
└Rejected all ten times.
└The competition is insane;*
-Opposing team? Or same team?
└[Author] Same team.
└Then you must have received it? How was the effect?
└[Author] Amazing. Right after it ended, I went straight to ranked and played, and won every match.
└Fr??
└[Author] It’s just unbelievable. It’s a legal hack and legal doping, damn. The effect has worn off now, but if I could get it again, I’d definitely get it again.
Especially since it was the first viewer participation game opened within the Hack Tour content, which held the strongest topicality among current ‘Reverse Planet’ related content.
It was unavoidable that ‘Reverse Planet’ users, whose minds hadn’t yet reached ‘perfect virtual reality’, would focus on that.
Even more so because it was bundled with the utterly unbelievable combat buff: Hackphysical, which makes your PVP skills skyrocket just by receiving it once.
[General] [Hack Tour] Current status of Golgol who participated in the Hack Tour.jpg
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(Picture of match history of ‘GoldIsGroaningInPain’ on a 20-win streak)
Was a pure-blooded Gold idiot but tore through Gold tier.
Went straight to Platinum and is wreaking havoc there too.
Shows the power of Hackphysical doping as it isㅇㅇ;
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─Is this for real?
└<Author> Surprisingly, it’s real.
└It’s exactly the same as a comment I saw on a Hack Tour related post before lol.
└But it can’t be helped; you end up asking;
─Neighbor’s review: Legal hack, legal doping.
└With a 20-win streak, you have to acknowledge it;
└After reaching Platinum, it got a bit tough though.
└But still, Platinum is something.
─Breaking) They’re also giving it to the SSR Cup team members.
└Holy shit; Bronze to Platinum? Does that make sense?
└Isn’t that tier fraud??
└Hackphysical: “The downside is only being able to reach Platinum” damn lololol.
└Some people struggle desperately trying to reach Platinumㄷㄷ.
The combat buff called a legal hack: Hackphysical.
This coaching method(?), already the subject of much talk, exploded in interest when it was said to be boosting the Bronze duo Dodo and Lee Sihu, members of an SSR Cup team, to Platinum tier.
Although for Baek Woohyun it was a ‘drawback of only being able to raise them to Platinum even after receiving his teaching’, for the majority in lower tiers, even that was something to be grateful for.
If it had been just empty boasting, many wouldn’t have believed it, but in a situation where the reputation built on the name Hackphysical and actual participant reviews were added.
It couldn’t be helped but believed because the first participant, ‘GoldIsGroaningInPain’ Kim Jichan, blasted through Gold with a win streak in a single day and went to Platinum.
─Isn’t this tier fraud??
─Two Bronzes becoming Platinum is damn unbelievable!!
─Why did you auction them off by tier if this was going to happen?
─Well, that team is confirmed to win nowㅈㅈ I’m not watching.
This naturally reached the ears of fans of other SSR Cup participating teams in the Struggle-Annihilation category, and thus the fire burned even more fiercely.
Not only had they suddenly dumped a thousand points on one person, but they also thought having Hackphysical as a coach was okay, but in the blink of an eye, a laughingstock contender had become a championship contender.
─How is it tier fraud if they were originally Bronze?
─Is getting coached and having your skills blow up a one-two day thing?
─Wow lol If it’s like this, why do scrims and team practice? You shouldn’t just get good.
─If you’re jealous, you hire Hackphysical as a coach tooㄱ.
However, the reaction to this discomfort wasn’t very good.
That’s because the SSR Cup didn’t only have the Struggle-Annihilation category. In fact, in terms of numbers, participants in other categories were far more numerous.
Additionally, there was the point that team alliances hadn’t been formed yet, so there was an angle where you could potentially use Baek Woohyun as a coach for your own team too.
While Struggle-Annihilation category participants were in a situation swept away by a natural disaster and would feel wronged, some argued that they were also at fault.
The argument was that the news of Hackphysical Baek Woohyun participating as a coach in that category and the existence of Kang Soyul, who was close to him, had been famous since before the team member auction.
If they were going to make it an issue, they should have made it an issue from the start and cut them off, or it’s ugly to make it an issue just because the opponent suddenly rose as a championship contender.
“I’m fine with it. This is also part of the competition.”
“Show them an overwhelming underdog winning. Just watch.”
“Uwaaa! If I had been just 0.1 seconds faster back then, that honey would have been mine! I’m jealous of you, Redok bastard!”
-Lolololololol
-Underdogs, let’s goㅏㅏㅏㅏ
-Well, you should have bid better back then.
-It’s just an event competition anyway, don’t overinvestㄴ
Perhaps because of this, the team leaders participating in the Struggle-Annihilation category clearly expressed that it was okay.
They cut it off clearly so there would be no room for nonsense about Baek Woohyun’s participation in the SSR Cup being unfair or whatever.
In the midst of that, there was an incident where one team leader who tried to buy Kang Soyul but missed her by a hair’s breadth rolled on the floor in frustration, but anyway.
‘If we handle this well─’
‘─Possibility of winning skyrockets?’
And for the team leaders, members, and fans supporting teams not in the Struggle-Annihilation category, the conclusion of this topic came with a different meaning.
Noting that if they became part of the same alliance, they could request official coach support, they looked for ways to somehow become part of the same alliance as Team All-In (Mad Max).
It was the moment Baek Woohyun stood once again at the center of the topic, including the SSR Cup.