Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 665: Chapter 632: One Day and One Night? Ten Seconds!

How difficult is Terraria?

So difficult that Camille Victoria starts to doubt her life.

In the first two days, she was indeed frightened, especially when the Wall of Flesh appeared, those overwhelming fleshes and eyeballs pressed over like a landslide. That night, she had a nightmare.

In her dream, she fell into a big pot of boiling red soup with rolling fleshes. The pot was boiling and bubbling, and she struggled frantically inside.

Waking up in the middle of the night, drenched in cold sweat.

It took her most of the next day to recover. After watching videos of other players killing the Wall of Flesh with various methods, she gathered her courage and logged in the game again.

After a few failures, she finally managed to defeat the Wall of Flesh.

After these bitter battles, Camille Victoria suddenly felt that those things weren’t that scary once she had defeated it by her own hands.

“It’s not that bad!”

At that time, Camille Victoria felt that she had already crossed the most challenging hurdle in the game.

But then, she was abused by the Mechanical Skeleton King, the Demon Eye Twins, and the Destroyer in turns.

She painfully discovered that the game might not scare her anymore, but the sheer difficulty was enough to make her vomit blood.

She just couldn’t win!

The Mechanical Skeleton King with its four arms and four weapons constantly changing, the Demon Eye Twins with their overwhelming demonic fire, the Destroyer with its rain-like lasers…

All were nightmares!

Even the Slime Queen, who was called a “dish chicken” by the experts, abused Camille Victoria to the point of questioning her life.

The BOSS’s teleport and ground slam were relatively easy to dodge, but the dense barrage of little slimes, Camille Victoria just couldn’t figure out how others dodged those attacks.

In any case, she couldn’t dodge them!

In the past few days, whenever she logged into Terraria, most of her time was spent on mining and farming souls.

She wasn’t going to challenge the Mechanical Trio without the best armor and the most powerful weapons.

After the broadcast the day before yesterday, she couldn’t help but send a message to Lincoln: “Are you really not going to nerf this terrifying difficulty? Many players must be discouraged, right?”

Lincoln replied, “It’s actually not that difficult, really. The key is the method.”

Camille Victoria asked with surprise, “What method?”

“You guess.” Lincoln replied.

“…”

Of course, Lincoln would not spoil the gameplay of the game, especially if it involved “cheating.”

In the Virtual Reality version of Terraria, many cheating methods are no longer useful, but as long as the “creation” power is given to the players, it’s impossible to prevent players from “cheating.”

Or rather, “cheating” itself is an important part of this type of game.

Now many people are struggling due to the short time since the game’s release, and most of them are still researching and exploring.

It is normal for some people to be discouraged before then.

This game isn’t suitable for everyone anyway…

Camille Victoria was not sure how many players were discouraged, or more specifically, “stuck in progress.”

In contrast, Warehouse Bird knew much more.

True to his hardcore gamer nature, Warehouse Bird spends every day online with high-intensity gameplay, live streaming battles, and is tireless.

When he reached the new trio in expert mode, he finally couldn’t keep up with the attrition of his character, so he opened two new maps and created a normal mode character to practice BOSS battles.

At this point, the survival time of ordinary players is still a concern, but these core players no longer care about it.

What all the powerful players around the world care about is the “Special Progress Reward.”

That is: Expert mode character BOSS first kill!

Although Warehouse Bird didn’t get many first kills, his ordinary character had successfully overturned the Mechanical Trio in the expert mode map.

After that, he didn’t stop at all, and went straight into the underground jungle to search for Life Fruit to further increase his health limit.

During this process, he found a strange glowing fan-shaped bud, curious, he picked it, and directly triggered the next BOSS:

The Flower of the Century.

At that time, Warehouse Bird’s only reaction was:

“What the fuck??”

Because the environment he was in was a narrow underground cave that was no more than 3 meters high and 6 meters wide…

When the BOSS appeared, it filled the entire cave, and Warehouse Bird didn’t even have a place to stand. He had to run desperately along the narrow cave that he had dug into.

As a result, he was chased and bitten by the BOSS, spitting seeds, dying miserably.

Late that night, Warehouse Bird spent his time searching for new buds.

After finding it, he made up his mind and used Thunder Tube to blast a huge underground hollow the size of a football field and stacked six layers of uneven stone platforms on top of each other.

It took Warehouse Bird almost an hour just to build the battleground.

In comparison, the battle didn’t take much longer, and it was over in 5 minutes.

After defeating the BOSS, Warehouse Bird received a [Jungle Temple Key].

Although the system prompt told him: [Screams echo through the dungeon…]

Hinting that he should explore the dungeon, Warehouse Bird ignored it and rushed straight to the Jungle Temple.

And then there was no more progress.

This is his current progress – being tormented by various traps and jungle lizards in the temple, caught between life and death.

This is also the current main storyline progress for heavy-duty players.

The other part is focused on the unrelated [Duke Fishron] and [Empress of Light], who are working hard on their battles.

As one of the top players in terms of progress, Warehouse Bird has shown the audience the achievement rate of defeating the BOSS in his live streaming.

Before hard mode, Eye of Cthulhu has a player kill rate of 88%.

[Eater of Worlds] – 84%

[King of Skeletons] – 81%

[King Slime] – 80%

[Queen Bee] – 75%

[Wall of Flesh] – 66%

As we can see, although the kill rate is declining before [Wall of Flesh], the decline is very stable, and it is a relatively healthy number.

But after the [Wall of Flesh], the data suddenly takes a terrifying plunge:

[Destroyer] – 33%

[Demon Eye Twins] – 25%

[Mechanical Skeleton King] – 17%

[Flower of the Century] – 8%

It’s not to say that the number of players has dropped to less than 8% by now, and 92% of the players have been discouraged from continuing.

— Many players are just stuck in their progress, no longer rushing to defeat the BOSS, either starting the “farming” business or finding ways to upgrade their equipment and make potions to reduce the difficulty of the BOSS battle indirectly.

But this dropping data is enough to show how terrifying the increase in the difficulty of the game is in hard mode.

The good news is that on this particular evening, an expert finally released a strategy for skipping the BOSS:

“13 seconds to annihilate the Destroyer! Universal skipping technique for all professions, you can do it too!”

In the video, the expert uses a “Fairy Rope” to pull himself to the top of the map.

Then he builds a small house in space and places an explosion-resistant dungeon brick directly below the house.

Standing in the house, he keeps throwing Thunder Tubes down one after another.

As the first Thunder Tube falls freely onto the explosion-resistant brick, he uses an item to summon the upgraded version of [Eater of Worlds] – [Destroyer], while continuing to throw more Thunder Tubes without stopping.

Because of the monster spawning mechanism in Terraria, the BOSS won’t spawn right on the player’s face, so [Destroyer] won’t appear in the room.

But because there are no other blocks in space, the [Destroyer] can only spawn on that one and only explosion-resistant brick below the house.

And it’s all 82 segments of its body coiled up on this one brick!

That means, during the explosion of the Thunder Tube, it almost hits all 82 segments of the [Destroyer], causing 82 times damage!

Later, as the [Destroyer] stretches its body, the damage efficiency of the Thunder Tube gradually decreases.

But it takes time for the BOSS to stretch its body, and during this time, the Thunder Tubes falling from the sky are more than enough to deplete its health!

…

The entire video is less than 30 seconds long, and the BOSS battle takes even less than half of that time.

The moment when the [Destroyer] dies, dense question marks instantly fill the screen!

Then, a barrage of comments follows: “Switch to this technique!”

Being able to defeat the [Destroyer] easily means gaining a large number of [Hallowed Bars].

A large number of [Hallowed Bars] can be used to make more advanced [Hallowed Armor].

With Hallowed Armor, other BOSS battles will be much easier and the issue of being stuck in progress is instantly resolved!

After watching the video in the live broadcast room, Super Tomato’s eyes widened: “The BOSS that took me a whole day and night to defeat is gone in 10 seconds?!”

“Is this fair?”