Technological power starts with upgrading lenses

As early as more than six days ago, the online preliminary round of "Battle in the Sky" had already begun in full swing.

The competition adopts a three-round points system.

There is one round a week, with 20 rounds in each round. In the first two rounds, 50% of the teams are eliminated. In the last round, the top 100 teams are selected to enter the offline competition based on the team's total points ranking.

For all online competitions, the system will automatically match different teams. Each team can flexibly choose the time to match their opponents.

With the start of online competitions, the popularity of "Battle in the Sky" suddenly began to rise rapidly.

A few days before the start of the game, the number of people online exceeded the number before the game update. After five days of competition, the number has skyrocketed to 100,000.

For a hard-core unpopular game, having 100,000 people online at the same time is definitely a hit.

The surge in the number of players has also directly increased the intensity of the competition.

Even Cui Zhifeng is starting to feel the pressure.

At first, he thought that with his experience of flying airplanes in real life and playing "DCS World" all the time, playing "Battle in the Sky" would be a complete waste of time.

In addition, the four team members he recruited are all hardcore players of "DCS World". Although their theoretical and operational skills are not as high as his, they are basically not holding back.

So entering the offline competition is definitely no problem.

But I didn’t expect that with the surge in the number of players and the official introduction of introductory video tutorials, which were gradually integrated into the game’s novice tutorials, the overall level of the players suddenly began to rise rapidly.

Although they haven't lost so far, the pressure is starting to mount.

In the first game, they were able to completely defeat their opponents with 0:5 and zero losses.

But after the 12th game, they could only suffer a loss of 5:1 or even 5:2.

You know, this is only the first round!

Who are these new players? !

"This official dog must have deliberately matched the winning team with us!"

"Isn't this nonsense? If I were the official of the game, I would definitely not let anyone continue to abuse people."

"..."

Due to the matching mechanism, the waiting time for each official match is usually 10-60 minutes.

Fortunately, players don’t have to wait during the matching process and can play and practice normally.

So during this process, the teammates chatted relatively relaxedly.

Cui Zhifeng, as before, still broadcast the game live.

Anyway, if he doesn't broadcast live, there will be official game replays, so there is no need to worry about leaking tactics and the like. It is better to increase the popularity of the live broadcast room through live broadcast.

And to be honest, this game so far doesn’t have much strategy at all.

After all, everyone is not even very skilled at flying airplanes. If you tell them tactics, they can't execute them.

So in the current way of playing the game, everyone sees each other on the radar from a distance, and then starts working on their own operations and team coordination, even if the opponent eavesdrops on their conversations throughout the whole process, and they can't beat them.

On the contrary, by switching to "Battle in the Sky", Cui Zhifeng's number of fans has grown at a rate that even he himself feels a little stunned.

With more than 500,000 fans and more than 50,000 real viewers in the live broadcast room, it feels a bit like the live broadcast brother of "Battle in the Sky".

""Battle in the Sky" suddenly became so popular, what do you think is the reason?" Cui Zhifeng suddenly chatted about this topic with fans in the live broadcast room.

[The bonus is high, they are all attracted by the bonus. 】

[Agree +1, anyway, I just came here to try my luck. 】

[This kind of popularity will definitely not last long. After the game is over, players will definitely plummet. 】

[It's normal, but as long as some people can be retained, this wave of marketing can actually be considered a success. Isn't the "Ace Flying" next door also learning from "Battle in the Sky", and wants to hold a wave of competitions to increase the popularity? It's just that the bonus is much less than in "Battle in the Sky". 】

[I came from "Flying Ace". I don't know if you have noticed. Although when I first came to "Battle in the Sky", I felt that it was impossible to adapt to this kind of hardcore gameplay. But after you study hard, you can successfully fly the plane. The moment I flew up, it was so exhilarating. This feeling was not something you would get from playing "Flying Ace" at all. 】

[+1, I feel the same way! When I got the first drop of blood in my life yesterday, I jumped up with excitement]

[In fact, even if there is no competition, I think "Battle in the Sky" is much more fun than brainless games like "Ace Flight". Anyway, I plan to keep playing. 】

【……】

Cui Zhifeng watched the barrage while playing the game.

He has turned off the barrage broadcast.

There is no way, if there are more viewers, there will naturally be more barrages, and it is impossible for the voice to respond.

After seeing everyone's speeches, Cui Zhifeng suddenly felt that "Battle in the Sky" really had a powerful combination this time.

Attract people first through bonuses, so that players can experience the sense of accomplishment and superiority of hard-core games after trying the game, thereby retaining users.

Although in this era of fast food culture, there are not many players who like to play hardcore games, it does not mean that this group has completely disappeared. It is just that the number is small, and then after being divided up by major games, it seems to be particularly niche.

Now, attracted by the tens of millions of prizes, they suddenly gathered in "Battle in the Sky".

"Brother Feng, we've found the match!"

Just when Cui Zhifeng was chatting with fans, his teammates suddenly reminded him, and Cui Zhifeng quickly looked at the matching results.

GIF team?

After seeing this name, Cui Zhifeng immediately cheered up.

He has seen this team in the standings!

Like their own LDW team, they have 19 wins and 0 losses so far. As long as they win one more game, they will 100% advance to the second round.

It's a powerful enemy!

On the other side, Huang Yu, the captain of the Spring City GIF team, immediately became more stressed after seeing LDW.

Although the official tutorials for novices were later released one after another, Brother Feng's live broadcast replay video at the beginning bought them at least three days of precious time, and he could be called their 'initiating teacher'.

"Come on everyone, it's the last game of the first round."

"I didn't expect to meet Brother Feng so soon."

"I feel like this game is a bit on the line..."

"It's okay, keep a good attitude. Even if we lose this round, there is a high probability that we can advance to the second round."

"Hey, I thought the competition wouldn't be fierce, but I didn't expect it to be so difficult."

Since the start of the competition, Huang Yu and the others have only played two formal games every day. The rest of the time is used for review and practice, trying to extend the game time as much as possible to give themselves time to evolve.

But after all, I am just new to this type of game. Facing Brother Feng, a big boss who has transferred from "DCS World", it is still very stressful.

As the reading ends, the game officially begins.

Teammates from both sides immediately began lining up on the runway to take off.

Because he felt that his proficiency in aerial combat was worse than that of LDW, he was worried about being defeated one by one, because Huang Yu chose the tactic of grouping together in this game.

I just want to go head-to-head, comparing operation and cooperation.

The team members who took off first chose to circle around the field. After all their teammates took off, they regrouped and directly formed a long snake formation to attack LDW.

When LDW captain Cui Zhifeng saw their formation on the radar, he immediately ordered the players to be divided into two groups and adopt a dual-machine pincer tactical attack plan.

This is a very efficient and dangerous BVR air combat tactic in modern air combat. It is often used to carry out encirclement and suppression-style suppressive charge confrontations against ground-based formations.

Its specific plan is that when the two-aircraft formation enters the Crank pre-defense line, the lead aircraft and wingman immediately separate left and right and spread into a wall formation.

After the lead aircraft and the wingman opened a distance of 5-10 nautical miles, they immediately began to close the distance again and simultaneously fired medium-range active bombs to perform cross-fire suppression.

At this time, the enemy will definitely launch missiles at them.

But they can carry out high side defense (long wingman and two aircraft hedging) actions under Notch after entering the DR decision line, using the Doppler radar principle and ground clutter interference, and at the same time releasing chaff interference or air-launched decoy assistance. Soft evasion of local missiles.

Under normal circumstances, this tactic can be detached with the help of complex interference factors.

If the enemy's missile is still tracking stably, the aircraft will immediately turn around and reorganize its formation to get out of trouble.

On the contrary, continue to take advantage of the opportunity when the enemy is still avoiding the high-throwing main bullet, and carry out a second suppressive attack, forcing the opponent to lose more escape energy.

It is equivalent to repeated cross-fire suppression and hedging with the long wingman of the DR decision line.

"Damn it, what kind of operation is this?!"

The GIF team, which had just become proficient in controlling aircraft, had never seen such air combat tactics before.

When they saw the two formations of the LDW team launching a two-machine pincer attack against them from two angles, they were immediately confused.

Apart from firing wildly, they could not think of any way to deal with it.

Bang——

Not to mention the second suppressive attack, two GIF teammates were directly bombed.

The remaining three immediately became confused and dispersed.

Fortunately, LDW had a formation at the DR decision line, and when they were performing a hedging maneuver between two long-winger aircraft, due to poor control of the distance, an operational error caused the tail fins of the two aircraft to collide, and the upper one also exploded. .

Although the other one did not explode, its maneuverability was greatly reduced after the tail was damaged.

Huang Yu immediately took advantage of the opportunity and chased him, hoping to kill him while he was sick.

Cui Zhifeng, the captain of LDW, acted as a backup and commander and immediately launched a rescue operation for the team member. Unfortunately, he failed to catch up in the end. The team member was bitten by Huang Yu and taken away directly.

However, this team member gained a favorable position for Cui Zhifeng. After more than three minutes of struggle, Huang Yu still could not get rid of Cui Zhifeng's pursuit, and he was finally shot down by Cui Zhifeng with a machine cannon.

The battle situation suddenly became 3 versus 2.

After a difficult ten-minute battle, LDW finally defeated GIF with a record of 5:3, becoming the first team to enter the second round with a complete victory.

The intensity of this game completely overwhelmed all previous games.

Everyone suddenly discovered this time that "Battle in the Sky" also has tactics!

And judging from the course of this game, tactics may be more important than operations!

If the two members of LDW hadn't crashed their planes due to operational errors, they would have completely wiped out GIF with zero damage due to their sudden dual-plane pincer tactics.

And the operation of this thing can be improved through continuous training. Judging from LDW's performance today, if you give them some time, they will definitely be able to execute this dual-machine pincer tactic more perfectly.

"I didn't expect that I would be forced to use tactics in the first round." Cui Zhifeng said to his audience immediately after the game. "After tactical confrontation is added to this game, I probably won't be able to broadcast the rest of the game."

[Understand, understand, it’s the same when watching replays. 】

[Brother Feng is mighty! LDW is awesome! 】

[Today seems to have subverted the feeling of the duel. I didn’t expect that it would be such an intense and exciting fight in the first round. 】

[After all, they are all teams with 19 consecutive victories. 】

【Brother Feng 666! ! 】

【……】

Seeing LDW win again, Cui Zhifeng's fans naturally supported him with all their strength, and all kinds of 666s went crazy on the screen.

Cui Zhifeng felt reluctant to let go when he thought that the next game would not be broadcast live...

Different from the excitement in his live broadcast room, at Huang Yu's house in Spring City, the five members of the GIF team were still a little confused at this time.

After a while, Huang Yu opened the web page and searched the Internet to find out the tactics LDW had just used.

It turns out that this tactic is called the dual-plane pincer tactic. Not only does it exist in reality, it is also a must-learn tactic for fighter pilots!

"It feels like the difficulty of this game has been upgraded again..."

"It's okay. With 19 wins, we should still have a very good chance of entering the second round." Huang Yu immediately comforted the team members, "I feel that as long as we don't encounter this LDW, it will be very easy to deal with other people."

“And don’t forget our slogan of ‘the more you fight, the braver you get, and the more you evolve’.”

"Through today's game, you should have discovered that their LDW operations are actually not very good, otherwise they would not have made the mistake of crashing. As long as we make up for the tactics, there will be very big problems in the future. Chance beats them.”

Huang Yu's words immediately regained the confidence of the team members.

"Well, never give up until the last moment!"

"Think about the three million grand prize... By then we will each share six hundred thousand, and we will have the down payment for the house!"

"I don't want to buy a house. I'm going to lose money buying a house. I want to buy a car!"

"Haha, buying a car is even more of a loss."

"If I buy Master Kong's Guizhen, how can I lose tens of thousands of yuan?"

"..."

After teasing each other, they quickly adjusted their mentality and began to learn the two-machine pincer tactic that LDW used today.

Not only do they need to learn this tactic, but they are also prepared to learn any realistic air combat tactics they can find on the Internet.

Even if you can't learn them all because of time constraints, you still have to at least understand them before you can implement them in the game.

Otherwise, if we encounter each other in the future, we will definitely be as confused as today...

…

Three hours after the match between LDW and GIF ended, the officials immediately released the replay video. Not only did they release the replay video, they also re-interpreted and edited the entire battle through the official third-person perspective.

There was even re-rendering, which greatly improved the accuracy of the image quality, so that the entire short film looked like a trailer for an air combat movie.

After this video was posted on the Internet, FiberHome Network directly spent one million to cold-start the topic, so the popularity of the video quickly began to soar and began to break out of the circle.

[Fuck, this shot is so explosive]

【Burn! 】

[Is this a live game recording? What domestic game is so bad? 】

[Battle in the Sky, it seems to be quite popular these days. They held a competition, and many professional players of the game have recently gone there to compete for the million-dollar prize. 】

[Holy shit, a million dollar prize? Is it too late to play now? 】

[It’s too late. The second round is tomorrow, and this game is very hardcore. It’s too late for you now. 】

【……】