Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 513

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 233
80. The Developer’s Combat Power (3)
Jetpumped prides itself on being a simple and easy game.
The genre itself is a casual comic fighting game.
It’s a fighting game you can enjoy casually.
Under this philosophy, Jetpumped never incorporates difficult techniques.
With the simplest structure, it maximizes the number of possible combos.
Players only need to calculate timing, distance, and angle correctly.
It’s a fighting game where judgment is just as important as combat ability.
But here arises one question.
Why were the special moves made so difficult?
“Using special moves… it’s not easy. It’s not easy at all for someone experiencing it for the first time.”
Iseok Kim was now excitedly explaining from the commentary booth, teasing the waiting players.
“Why did you make it so difficult? It wasn’t intentional. Rather, we adopted the simplest basic move as the special move. Because it needs to be usable immediately in critical moments.”
Regardless of which Jet you use, the special move operates as the simplest basic attack.
That way, you can respond and use it most quickly.
However, unintentionally, that very point raises the difficulty of the special move.
“But because this is a basic move, this problem arises. You can’t distinguish between the special move and just a kick or punch. You just throw a punch and suddenly the special move goes off!”
Sigh. There’s that sound again.
Sighs from players could be heard everywhere.
“So? A very precise straight punch! A textbook spinning kick! The special move only activates when you execute the basic moves perfectly in this way!”
This was a masterstroke for this game.
Skilled players can use special moves very quickly and easily, while unskilled players can barely pull it off once after calculating the angle.
In other words, they built skill differentiation in a very simple way.
This later became the driving force that could maintain this game’s balance even when cash items poured in like a flood.
Because the skill factor was clear.
“So! Jetpumped is really a skill-based game, right? No matter how much cash items or gacha or broken balance or whatever you complain about… what?”
Iseok Kim, who had been enthusiastically explaining, tilted his head in confusion.
Most players who had been covering their ears with earphones or staring at their phones began to look up.
“Huh? What’s wrong?”
“What is it.”
“Finally stopped. Phew.”
They realized that Iseok Kim had stopped talking.
But they didn’t know why he had stopped.
“…The tutorial ended!?”
Beeeep.
He spoke so loudly that the microphone feedback screeched.
It was a painful noise.
“!”
The players’ eyes widened with joy.
“Already?”
“What? Insane. For real?”
“Wow!”
The average was thirty minutes. Even if I cut it down by ten minutes since the person who went in was skilled, I figured it would take at least twenty minutes.
Seven minutes to finish the tutorial?
‘What is this….’
It’s a record that borders on a glitch.
“This is insane. We’ve got a prodigy here.”
“What? Is he some kind of expert martial artist?”
“No, apparently he came from doing archery.”
“Does an archery character even appear at the start?”
“There’s no archery character, man.”
Usually when someone who worked in combat sports picks their own combat sport character, they clear it in ten minutes.
But someone who only did archery showing these kinds of times?
The players couldn’t help but be bewildered.
And then, a spark of hope quietly began to ignite.
“Hey. Could it be… he actually wins?”
The absurd hope that Almond, who started the game today for the first time, might actually beat the game’s developers.
Even the person saying it knew it was ridiculous, but people believe what they want to believe.
Ahem!
A loud cough echoes from the commentary booth.
“The tutorial is just the tutorial! It’s far from actual skill, you know?!”
The voice sounds strangely urgent.
“Of course it’s an incredible record, but… let’s run some bug checks on this.”
“Yes.”
The employee next to him heads down.
“Almond. Or rather, ‘Almondeu’… is the nickname you created? Are you ready to start the challenge?”
Almondeu.
It’s the nickname Almond created after finishing the tutorial. Someone had already claimed the nickname ‘Almond’ first.
-Almondeu lol
-eu lmao
-hahahaha
-wait, Aamond existed too? lol
-what a hilarious nickname lol
Almondeu waved his hand to indicate he was ready for the challenge.
“Uaaaaaaaaa!”
“Almond! Almond!”
“Almondeu!”
The players’ cheers burst out. A completely different reaction from before.
Meanwhile, the employee who had come down from the commentary booth earlier approaches and speaks.
“CEO… there’s no bug. Rather, that person is just bringing out a basic jet.”
“A basic jet?”
Bringing out a basic jet was, in a sense, inevitable. Almond was starting for the first time today, so he’d only have one jet.
In terms of gameplay, it wasn’t really a problem.
But in this challenge, it becomes one.
“Hmm…”
Iseok Kim’s expression grew troubled.
“If it’s like this, the cash item versus game currency item matchup won’t happen, right?”
“That’s right.”
I needed to show that game currency items could beat cash items.
But what happens if the challenger doesn’t bring any cash items in the first place?
And that’s when people started shouting at the developers.
“Hey! Isn’t this too much!? Developers, you fight with no items too!”
“No items! No items! No items!”
“Basic gear let’s go!”
Even if the developers fought with basic gear, the meaning of this challenge wouldn’t be restored.
After all, it only makes sense if the challenger brings cash items and the defender brings game currency items.
What’s the point of both fighting with no items?
Yet the players shouted relentlessly.
‘Let’s screw them over even a little.’
‘Raise the win rate by even 1%!’
‘I just want to trash them!’
As everyone started shouting with one voice.
It soon turned into a massive roar.
“Waaaaaaah! Use basic gear right now!”
“Fight with basic jets, you bastards!”
It became so loud that complaints came from other booths.
“Okay!”
Thud!
Iseok Kim slammed the desk and stood up.
“Fine. This is it. We’ve got nothing to worry about. We’ll fight with basic jets only!”
Waaaaaaah!
The crowd cheered.
“The first opponent is!”
The first round of the challenge began with so many people watching.
“The worst gamer on the dev team, Wonmu Heooooo~!”
Mixed with jeers and cheers came shouting that resembled a UFC announcement.
“Waaaaaaah!”
“Boooooo~!”
Naturally, the jeers were much louder.
“UUUUUUUUUUU!!!!”

* * *
[Iseok Kim: Fight using only basic jets]
Almond’s first opponent.
This message was delivered to Wonmu Heo inside the capsule.
“…What are you talking about? Did I suddenly go crazy?”
Wonmu Heo scratched his head and reconsidered.
“No, that’s not it. I was already crazy to begin with, so if I go crazy again, that would make me sane… Did I spin two full rotations?”
[Iseok Kim: Your opponent is someone playing for the first time today]
“?”
Wonmu Heo tilted his head in confusion.
That was right. He’d been inside the capsule just watching Ollytube, so he had no idea what was happening outside.
“…First time today?”
Wonmu Heo muttered again in disbelief, as if chewing over the words.
“You’re telling me to believe that? What is this.”
There’s no way he could hear this, but Iseok Kim answers as if he already knows what he’s about to say.
[Iseok Kim: I’m serious. They were delayed because of the tutorial. Hurry and deselect your jet, then pick one of the basic jets]
An unpleasant feeling washes over him, as if his mind has been read.
“Ugh… Fine, okay.”
He set down the Ollytube he was watching and switched his jet.
“But which one should I switch to?”
Wonmu Heo paused for a moment, deliberating among the basic jets.
“Wait. Why aren’t you giving me the opponent’s info? I need to pick a counter jet.”
He was able to find the answer himself.
“Oh right, you said they’re playing for the first time today? Man. So that was actually true.”
It bothered him a bit that he didn’t receive statistical data about the opponent’s combat style and preferred jets.
But since the opponent was playing the game for the first time today, such information would be meaningless anyway.
“First time, huh. This cocky bastard. I’ll crack their skull open.”
[Judo Jet]
His most preferred jet among the basic options.
It was the only basic jet with a counter move, and it also had considerable ring-out ability through techniques like throws.
[Transmission Ready]
He immediately pressed ready.
[5]
[4]
The countdown began right away.
[3]
“Huh?”
Just as the game was about to start, Wonmu Heo noticed something strange.
I checked the viewing time of the Ollytube video I was watching.
The video hadn’t even progressed ten minutes in.
[2]
“I cleared the tutorial, but… how did everything get prepared in just ten minutes?”
How did I manage to complete all the preparations in under ten minutes when I’d only cleared the tutorial?
[1]
The moment I asked that question, the game had already begun.
[Transfer]
A brief blackout.
Thump. Thump.
Thump… Thump…
Only the familiar rumbling reached my ears.
Vibrations resonating with it. Unpleasant and irregular movements.
The speaker’s voice coming through clearly.
“This station is Hongdae Station. Hongdae Station. The doors opening are….”
As my vision gradually recovered from its white haze, the subway landscape came into view.
‘A subway map, then.’
Beep beep.
Along with Jetpumped’s distinctive sound effect, this message appeared.
[Collecting data…]
[Subway Line 2]
This map is Subway Line 2, one of the newly released maps.
In this challenge, realistically only newly released maps will appear.
After all, they created this provocative challenge specifically to promote this map update.
‘In other words, they never even considered the option of losing to a player and redoing a balance patch….’
That’s right.
This challenge was nothing more than Jetpumped’s update advertisement from the start.
It wasn’t some bet contingent on a balance patch.
The developers and Iseok Kim never intended to lose in the first place.
Could they make that happen at will?
‘Of course.’
Naturally, they could.
They were the ones who created this game.
Within the game, they were like gods.
That didn’t mean they cheated by manipulating the game.
They designed the game’s brainwave manipulation using their own brain data, and they engineered Jet’s cognitive behavior based on their own movements.
Like wearing a perfectly fitted suit, the world of Jetpumped was a space optimized for them.
[Searching for ‘Jetter’ within the data-formed area…]
A message appeared saying it was searching for a Jetter, but truthfully, there was no need.
Whoosh.
The enemy was sitting directly across from me.
Unlike the other subway passengers, he had a ridiculous low-polygon graphic appearance.
Beep.
[Almond]
A name appeared above his head.
Then that name turned red….
[Eliminate the Zetter!]
This message appeared prominently.
“Alright.”
Boom!
Wonmu Heo clashed his glove-shaped judo jets together and laughed with confidence.
“You did the tutorial today?”
Tap!
He kicked off and rushed forward.
“Initiation time, let’s go!”
Almond also springs up from his seat.
Crash!
As the Zetters collided with a thunderous sound, passengers screamed and fled.
The car quickly emptied out, transforming into a dueling arena.
But then─
“!?”
Crack!
Wonmu Heo’s jaw snaps 90 degrees to the side.
These words spill from his swollen lips.
“Wh, when…?”
Before he could even process what happened, the thug’s foot had already swept his jaw.
Tap!
Wonmu Heo steps back momentarily to reset his stance.
“I was hasty. This time I’ll really finish─”
Almond takes a quick step.
──Boom!
His vision spins again.
His jaw takes another hit.
“!?”
Wonmu Heo’s outstretched hand grasping for a technique swings uselessly through empty air.
“What is this!? If I could just grab him… Ugh!”
Wonmu Heo attempts another attack and even tries a counter technique.
Boom!
“If I could just grab… Argh!?”
Boom!
“Ugh!”
All I’m receiving are maximum-range strikes delivered in rapid succession through uncanny distance measurement.
I’m even missing every single counterattack window.
How is a beginner even pulling this off?
In that moment, the beginner mutters something like this.
“What is this? I thought you were lying. You really can’t play games.”
“What… what?!”
-Lmaooooooooo
I’m not lying, Kim Lee-seo, haha.
-???: Why are you being so serious about it~ lol
Stop talking like you’re dissatisfied lolololol
-He speaks his mind! Arcade cola!

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