Chapter 281
Chapter 281: Popular Clip
- The win streak just won't break lol
- When does this person ever lose?
- fyi Hackphysical once swept stream snipers who were teaming against him
- A few more games and Survival is gonna hit rank 1 too;
Baek Woohyun continued to rack up consecutive wins in the Survival mode ranked game, just like any other time. He had added a streak of no fewer than ten consecutive wins.
In the process, his tier—which had started at Gold 4—had inevitably reached Platinum 2 by the time it was over. Still with a 100% win rate and an average placement of 1st.
Considering that a win rate of just over 60% and an average placement within the top 5 was enough to dominate the upper rankings, it was a truly remarkable record.
That held true even accounting for the fact that he had already gone from start to finish without a single loss in Duel mode—217 consecutive wins—to claim Challenger Rank 1.
Unlike Duel mode, which was entirely determined by individual skill in a one-on-one, Survival mode had a hundred participants and was overflowing with all manner of variables.
Survival mode was the kind of mode where even those called elite players could occasionally get unluckily caught up in a chaotic skirmish and die a miserable death.
"Phew— Thank you all for watching again today! We'll see you next time!"
"Thank you for tuning in to the broadcast!"
"Good Bye! See you later!"
- OBNAL!
- Cha-bye Jeong-bye Chloe-bye
- I just got here and it's already ending;;
- Late arrivals cut! lol
That said, compared to Duel and Struggle modes, Survival mode involved more participants, making games longer—so tier gains at a blistering pace were impossible.
Asking whether jumping from Gold 4 to Platinum 2 in one go was very fast was a meaningless question. In Struggle mode, he would probably be at Diamond tier by now.
Had the broadcast run a bit longer, Diamond might have been possible too—but the Nuclear Tourism content ended precisely at the ten-game mark.
Viewers were disappointed, but there was nothing to be done. When added to the time spent on PVE, the broadcast time was already substantial.
Enough that traces of fatigue showed on the faces of all three panelists—Jeong Nayeon, Cha Seongcheol, and Chloe. Baek Woohyun, who had actually been playing 'Reverse Planet,' looked completely fine, but.
Anyway, this was not the last day it would ever air—so the broadcast wrapped up as a resounding success, as it always had.
- Alright time to export clips
- What I just saw, you all need to see too!!
- Off to flood everywhere with the best screenshots
- Someone recommend the highlights from today's broadcast··· I got here late and missed it···
And the end of the Nuclear Tourism content meant tens of thousands of viewers spreading out across Hypernet in every direction.
Naturally, all manner of commotion followed. People have a psychological drive to share what they have seen.
Even a few thousand—a mere tenth of that—would have caused significant waves; tens of thousands needed no further commentary. It was as if a meteor had fallen onto a previously quiet Hypernet.
One of the places affected was the popular clips board provided by the broadcast platform Tricky.
In truth, this was arguably the place that had seen the most change of all since Nuclear Tourism content began.
It was the place that compiled clips—short videos cut from segments of broadcasts—and ranked them by play count.
---[Popular Clips Board]---
① Beau-tiful Twins │ 'A teacher's grace is as vast as the sky'
② Dodo │ Has Hackphysical's doping worn off??
③ Kang Soyul │ Brings another hipster game from somewhere lol
④ Bekt │ Bekt getting slapped with facts
⑤ Astra │ Shocking) Hackphysical is a bubble, he claims
- Wait the bubble claim? Is Astra trashing Hackphysical?
- No no it's clickbait
- I fell for it too smh, said 'unbelievable' apparently
- Shocking) lmao someone needs their skull rotated
Naturally, the popular clips board was full of clips that were either highly entertaining, very interesting, or otherwise extraordinarily impressive.
Baek Woohyun was someone who possessed—and was still producing—a great many clips representing the third category: extraordinarily impressive.
It was only natural, given that a single broadcast produced an abundance of highlights and highlight reels that others would need dozens of attempts to squeeze out even one of.
Right then, about half of the top 10 monthly popular clips were already dominated by his clips. Even expanding to the top 100, a 30% share was maintained.
What's more, this was only counting Nuclear Tourism content clips—when clips featuring related figures or mentioning him were included, the ratio went even higher.
It had gotten to the point that complaints were heard about it being the Hackphysical clip board rather than the popular clips board.
- It was already called the RePla clip board back then, what's new
- Fr lol why didn't anyone say anything at the time?
- View counts don't lie
- Honestly you were all watching going 'damn that's insane' so that's why it's ranked like that
It was a complaint that didn't gain much traction. Because it was only a small minority voicing it in the first place.
Getting onto the popular clips board required the corresponding view counts—and the vast majority of people were simply watching the clips and thinking they were incredible.
As someone had said, there had been a time a while back when 'Reverse Planet'-related clips overflowed to the point it was called the RePla clip board.
Had Baek Woohyun shown this kind of performance in some other niche game rather than 'Reverse Planet,' it wouldn't have reached this level of impact.
But 'Reverse Planet' was the national game. Other broadcasters turned on 'Reverse Planet' first if they had no prepared content—that said it all.
Naturally, this meant dozens of clips created from this Nuclear Tourism content had no choice but to once again dominate the popular clips board.
---[Popular Clips Board]---
① Nuclear Tourism │ The unseen blade is the most fearsome!
② Nuclear Tourism │ Breaker fanning again lmaooo
③ Nuclear Tourism │ A cigarette after five kills owo
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⑨ Nuclear Tourism │ The process of an assassination bug being born.avi
⑩ Nuclear Tourism │ Isn't the transformation build completely broken??
- So this is the famous chart all-kill?
- Give Nuclear Tourism clips their own separate ranking board, upvote if you agree lol
- Where did the clip I was watching go smh
- The firepower is absolutely insane
1st through 10th on the popular clips ranking—an all-kill.
That he had put up dozens more below that hardly needed to be said.
The nickname of Hackphysical clip board, which a small minority had been muttering about, found its moment to shine again the instant the Nuclear Tourism content ended.
① Nuclear Tourism │ The unseen blade is the most fearsome!
(A video of Baek Woohyun descending behind enemy players without being detected)
- How did he even do this? Why doesn't he get spotted?
- Basically you figure out their blind spots and only move through those
- But the opponent is turning their head, how does that work!!
- You watch their neck muscles and confirm which direction they'll turn before they do it
- The fact that an answer keeps coming is more annoying lol
- The unseen blade is the most fearsome (actually true)!
② Nuclear Tourism │ Breaker fanning again lmaooo
(A video of Baek Woohyun using the Breaker to fan a revolver and eliminate enemy players)
- Wasn't that a teabagging weapon, why is it so strong
- In ordinary hands it's entertainment or teabagging material
- RePla-speculation) The Breaker is a powerful weapon with a revolver's form and a shotgun's stopping power
- Revolver fanning is so stylish
- Does that on a build with no physical enhancement too
- Just thinking about how many Breaker users are about to multiply has me laughing already smh lol
That none of this was the result of manipulation was clear just from looking at the comments attached to the clips.
The hundreds, thousands of comments under each clip were all busy marveling at the content, expressing disbelief, and chattering among themselves.
Considering that a mediocre clip inflated through manipulation got nothing but hate comments and reports before being taken down, it was proof that couldn't be clearer.
---[Reverse Planet Gallery]---
✪ Where the hell did these assassination bugs keep popping out of smh
✪ Sharing the illustrations I drew
✪ Summary of today's builds used by Hackphysical.txt
✪ DH Empire scrim results insane??
---[Reverse Time]---
[General] Black Hole + White Hole definitely seems like it's real lol
[Question] What are the current top-tier supernatural ability builds?
[Guide] Simple guide to using the Shadow Assassin build
[General] No-boost corporate route summary up to now
There hadn't been anything particularly explosive in terms of content, so the reactions across other communities were somewhat quieter compared to the popular clips board.
Of course, even so, it had taken up about half the trending posts. Anyone who didn't trend at all would have protested that this could hardly be called quiet.
It was simply that by the standard of the times when a major event occurred and the majority of trending posts were all Nuclear Tourism content, it fell a bit short—because everything in the world is relative.
Moreover, even among those posts, some were less about the Nuclear Tourism content itself and more about the phenomena it had generated—such as things related to ranked games.
✪ Where the hell did these assassination bugs keep popping out of smh
Was seeing a ton of Shadow Assassins in Struggle ranked games, turns out it's because of that Nuclear Tourism
Not running ranked today smh
- You're running ranked on Nuclear Tourism PVP day? That's a natural death
└ Fr lol, can't even complain if you throw points
└ Why do I have to check the broadcast schedule before playing ranked
└ Build drug-pushing has gone off the rails, can't help it
- If you'd been in Duel mode like me you'd have been laughing, idiot
└ Running into Shadow Assassin as an opponent is a free win lol
- Got wrecked, huh lol
- I swear if all these assassination bugs just dropped dead smh
- Use it in solo games!!
- Hackphysical used it in solo Survival too, what's the mindset of people bringing it into team games
└ If I'm having fun that's enough lol
└ Where's your conscience?
└ You're expecting conscience from an assassination bug?
That Baek Woohyun routinely dominated with trash builds—commonly called 'build drug-pushing'—was already well known among PVP players.
Right then, the Phantom Swordsman build—called absolute garbage—had produced a truly overwhelming and fearsome display, generating countless casualties.
Because everyone had felt the thrill of watching him even fake his own defeat with phantoms and then backstab the opponent.
The Shadow Assassin build had effectively become a “drug-pushing” build, and the number of people who wanted to try it—like the enemy player he had encountered—increased dramatically.
The problem was that as players using the Shadow Assassin build in team games increased, ordinary players suffered.
It wasn't a fully troll build by any means, so there was nothing to say outright—but being on the same team meant suffering, hence the frustration. Made worse by the fact that there was no real solution.
[General] Black Hole + White Hole definitely seems like it's real lol
Black Hole with gravitational pull = blue
White Hole with repulsive force = red
Whatever gets created by combining them = purple
No matter how I think about it, it's definitely real lol
Honestly I think it'd be weirder if it didn't exist
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─ ???: Shall I try something a little rough?
└ At this rate we're getting domain expansion next
─ Are you saying Hackphysical is an ordinary person!!
└ Excuse me
└ Gasp
└ What?
└ Saying when will Hackphysical/physicalbecome is not a bad word no no no
─ Gubang Pyeokgang blah blah blah
└ It's Gubang Pyeokgang not what you said
└ A gap in the front and back has been spotted!
└ A gap in the front and back has been spotted!
─ Let us now begin a debate on whether King-jutsu-rotation is an in-crowd pick
"King-jutsu-rotation?"
"It's a manga that was famous a while back. A classic masterpiece, really. Reviews are all over the place, but either way it's survived this long as a meme."
"Hmm."
"But do a new technique created by combining Black Hole and White Hole actually exist?"
"...Yeah. It does."
"...I see."