Chapter 54:
Psychic Watch: Game Mechanics and First Match
Psychic Watch would later go through a dark period, but it was a game that became famous enough to have its own professional league.
The game's genre is team-based shooting game.
"Psychic Watch has different game modes such as Capture the Point, Payload, and Elimination. Characters are divided into Assault, Attack, and Support roles. You can think of Attack as Damage Dealers, Assault as Tanks, and Support as Healers or Buffers."
Even though it's called a shooting game, character variety is diverse enough that some characters use swords and others use fists.
"Since this is our first match, I'll show you each mode one by one."
-Psychic Watch has quite a different genre from regular FPS.
-The character Ken doesn't even use guns from the start ㅋㅋㅋ He swings swords around ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-He throws shurikens ㅎㅎ
-But wait, the room owner is a woman, right? Why is she playing?
└ She's the account owner.
└ First play by the original owner is unavoidable ㅋㅋㅋ
The character Seo Juhwan selected was 'Soldier: 69,' which could be considered the most basic character.
After selecting his character, he looked at his teammates' picks and sighed.
'Six damage dealers? That's not right...'
All the users wanted to play as damage dealers. Since there were only five damage dealer characters, one person had to inevitably pick something else, and they picked ShadowSniper, which was the closest to a damage dealer among the defensive heroes. It was practically the same as six damage dealers.
'Well, it's quick play anyway.'
In quick play, team compositions often don't match up. Actually, in a way, six damage dealers was also a viable tactic. Of course, it wasn't a tactically planned composition, but still.
"The first round is Capture the Point."
The map was Hanamura.
Seo Juhwan's team was attacking, and the enemy team was defending.
[3, 2, 1.]
[Game Start!]
As the game started, the sealed gates of the base opened.
Seo Juhwan and his teammates didn't hesitate as they rushed out the moment the gates opened. And as they headed toward the enemy base, they came to a halt in front of a massive corridor.
Enemies had appeared.
This was the first checkpoint they had to break through to capture the first objective.
Rat-a-tat-a-tat!
Boom!
Zzzzzzing!
Seo Juhwan and his teammates began their attack. Bullets and cannons fired toward the enemies.
However, one of the enemy team's large characters stepped forward and deployed a massive energy shield. All attacks were rendered useless.
-Wow, that's incredibly durable.
-Does that even make sense? Multiple people attacked and it blocked all of it? Is that an unbalanced character?
└ No, it's not unbalanced. Looks like a lot of people haven't seen the first closed beta.
As one viewer said, it absolutely wasn't unbalanced. The shield could be broken if you kept attacking it.
However, Seo Juhwan's teammates seemed to be unaware of this fact.
= Wait, what? Everything's being blocked?
= What character is that?
= How is the shield that big?! It won't disappear!
Psychic Watch supports voice chat. His teammates' confused voices came through.
Seo Juhwan calmly listened to those voices while explaining to the viewers and Han Soo-ah.
"Psychic Watch is a game that supports voice chat built-in. What this means is that orders and communication are quite important. Gomi, do you understand?"
"Yeah, oppa. This is really interesting!"
Han Soo-ah answered with sparkling eyes. It seemed her interest was piqued.
Well, Han Soo-ah had never played games before. Since she was experiencing online games for the first time, she must be feeling like she was seeing a whole new world. And the graphics on Psychic Watch were so flashy.
"I think I'll need to give orders to break through that. I'll turn on voice chat. Sorry if I can't answer in chat right away."
-Oh, what. So if you give orders, you can win? ㅋㅋ?
-Crazy confidence!
-If you mess up after saying that, it's gonna be rough. Even a mistaken order ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
The mention of a "mistaken order" made him chuckle.
Seo Juhwan's original gaming talent was C+. Currently it had been upgraded one tier to B through a system upgrade.
Of course, he had also purchased the special ability for gaming talent.
[Multitasking]
▶ Effect: Your consciousness splits into a form suited for multitasking. You can do many things simultaneously.
※ Only applies when playing games.
Multitasking improvement.
Compared to the Stenographer's Keyboard, a special ability of his writing talent, this was a very plain ability. But for games, there was no ability as reliable as this one.
Seo Juhwan activated team voice chat.
"That shield will break if you keep attacking it. If you look closely, you can see it's slightly cracked, right? Don't worry about the others. Let's all focus fire on it once."
The hero blocking the attack was Reinhardt.
A hero wearing full plate armor like a medieval knight, who looked sturdy at first glance.
In reality, Reinhardt's position was Tank. He held a giant hammer in one hand and a shield that could deploy an energy barrier in the other hand.
= Wait, is this an order?
= Why are you asking questions? The shield is actually cracking, so let's just attack it!
= Yeah. Let's focus fire and melt it!
= Let me try following the order for now.
= My cannon pierces the heavens!
= What, this weeb?
There was some initial resistance, but his teammates soon began unleashing concentrated fire on the shield.
An unplanned composition of six damage dealers.
Their firepower proved effective.
Crackle!
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