"My condolences, Annie..." a girl said on the video call while making a sad expression.
In the chat of the livestreams of all the people who were in this video call, there were only comments with one letter.
[Press F for respect!]
[F]
[F]
[F]
[...]
Just like the livestream that Amoura had previously participated in where streamers gathered to comment on how their adventure in Residual Devil was going, this time the meeting was only for streamers who were also Rank E Players.
There were no F Rank Players not because these streamers didn't like low Rank Players, but because only E Rank Players were crazy enough to try to play Chapter 02 in 'Insane' mode without any spoilers.
Even though they were all Rank E players playing a Rank F game, they were still shocked at how common it was for someone to die while playing, even though they only had to deal with Peak Rank F monsters!
Every day, at least one Player among them died and lost the game, having to start over from scratch. When that Player died, everyone acted as if that person had really died and removed the person from the group. Of course, they still kept in touch with the person, but because of the viewers' fun and entertainment, this way was much more serious and interesting to watch.
When Chapter 02 launched there were 13 Streamers in the group. Now, 2 days later, there were only 9 Streamers left, with 3 Streamers dying on the first day and 1 dying today. But even though only 1 streamer died today, several Streamers came very close to death while playing today and they were just lucky they didn't die.
"In memory of Annie, when I log in I will burn a flower," JustBronze suggested while pretending to be sad.
"Good idea JB! I'll do that too!" Another girl said, pretending to also be sad.
After pretending a little more, everyone started laughing as they went back to talking about the game.
"I'm glad I didn't try to do anything stupid with the giant woman's daughters," one boy commented.
"Annie is crazy! We know how dangerous these monsters are in the game and she decided to try to kiss that blonde daughter of the giant woman!" one girl commented in disbelief.
"Haha, I have to admit that I also thought she was pretty..." JB commented a little shyly.
"Pretty? I guess... But I doubt even you really wanted to kiss that bloody mouth..." The girl was even more shocked.
"Hehe..." JB just chuckled as he scratched the back of his head, causing the other guys in the video call to burst out laughing as the girls looked at him in astonishment.
"It's not possible..." the girls all said in disbelief.
"JB, you're my hero, man! I also thought that blonde was really hot, but those bugs made me really sick..." one of the guys on the call commented.
"Yes, imagine if you go to kiss her mouth and a cockroach crawls out of her mouth into your mouth?" another boy on the call commented with a laugh.
"Ewww, gross!" one of the girls yelled angrily, "Stop talking about it! I'm starting to want to throw up!"
"Just starting to get sick? I had to pause the game 2 times to throw up with those bugs crawling all over me!" another girl commented.
"Really? You can't do quests that involve bugs?" JB asked curiously.
The girl was a little shy, but answered, "Normally I avoid quests that involve bugs... even if they pay more. But I can handle killing other monsters: quadrupeds, humanoids, or whatever. But bugs are my weakness..."
"Haha, you would hate the last mission I went on. Me and my group had to kill a giant centipede! But I got $1,400 for that mission," one of the boys commented, making the insect-phobic girl get goosebumps imagining the scene.
"Did you hear about what Amoura did?" one of the girls commented.
"Amoura? What did she do?" JB asked in surprise.
Although Amoura had become a Rank E Player not long ago, she was already well known among Rank E Players, since she was the biggest Streamer of Residual Devil. And since most of the Players in the game were Rank F Players, it was normal that they knew her.
Her fame was even greater among Rank F Players, as practically everyone had watched her playing Residual Devil at some point, while among Rank E Players, although her fame had grown, it still wasn't as great as among Rank F Players.
"She was able to replicate the idea of ​​the Army Lieutenant who learned the Upgrade. Apparently she used several Rank F Mana Stones to stay in the game as long as possible and learn the skill quickly. She was so confident that she even did a livestream testing the skill and shocked everyone in the chat when it worked!" the girl explained, since everyone was playing while Amoura was doing the livestream training the Upgrade ability.
"Woah! How cool! Can she upgrade a weapon for me?" JB asked excitedly.
"Perhaps. Apparently she hasn't ruled out upgrading weapons for other Players, but for now she still wants to perfect her ability so that it generates a significant improvement." The girl explained.
"Very cool! Too bad I don't have the money to buy enough Mana Stones to study that trick. Maybe I should save some, though, and learn," another girl commented.
"Yes, it looks like it will be useful, at least while we are Rank E Players. As for Rank D Players, maybe it wouldn't be so useful besides earning money, as I doubt that the upgrades can make a weapon deal practically any damage to Rank D monsters." A boy explained his point of view.
[Check out the Residual Devil page!]
[Developer posted something!]
[Open game page!]
[I'm about to freak out!]
[Woooah!]
Adding up the number of viewers in the livestream of the 9 streamers in the call, the number exceeded 10 thousand people, reaching almost 20 thousand people watching, so when a message appeared asking them to see the game's website, thousands of other messages appeared in all the livestreams, leaving the streamers a little shocked.
"Are you guys getting this too?" a boy asked.
"Yes, someone go open the site and share the screen there for us to see!" one of the girls said excitedly.
"I'll share the screen." JB said as he shared the screen and opened the game's website.
Looking at the website, nothing new had appeared; the current update was still Chapter 02, but scrolling further down the page, JB saw the change.
[Hello Players,
I've come to thank you for the immense support you are giving to the game. I never imagined that your reception would be so great and I hope from the bottom of my heart that I continue to please everyone with my games.
All Streamers and Viewers who are following the development of Residual Devil, know that none of this would be possible without your support.
So to thank everyone, I decided to change something in Residual Devil...]
Reading this far, JB and the Streamers who were excited were a little puzzled.
"Is he going to change something? But the game is already so good..." a girl commented a little sadly.
"Maybe it's a good change?" JB suggested with a hint of uncertainty in his voice.
"Surely it's going to be a nice change! Since when did EA get anything wrong?" another girl snapped at them angrily.
"She's right. Just keep reading JB, I'm getting anxious!" Another boy said in a rush.
"Okay, okay..." JB chuckled as he continued to read.
[...
You don't have to worry about it changing the story. The storyline of the game has been ready from the moment I started development; everything you are playing or will play has already been planned with the quality just going up all the time.
The change I'm going to make might not affect rookie Rank F Players who still have low Mana Units so much, but Peak Rank F Players or even Rank E Players who are playing the game will likely be delighted by this news.
Unlike Chapter 01 or 02, where the average total base gameplay time is 3 to 5 hours, with Chapter 03 the average time to complete the entire story in 'Casual' mode will be 10 hours!
With so much Mana you are using in the game while playing, I would feel bad to just do like other Developers and absorb it without giving anything back to you. So to help you all enjoy it, I hope to finish the next chapter's story in the very near future, so enjoy it to the fullest and let me know your feedback in the comments and in the game reviews, as it helps a lot!
Love, your favorite Developer,
Electronic Arts.]
"OMG, Chapter 03 will have 10 hours of content?! That's amazing!" one of the girls commented excitedly.
"Hehe, that sounds very interesting. Look at the Chapter 3 release date. It will be released next Sunday, meaning we only have 4 more days to complete Chapter 02 before we reach Chapter 03!" one boy commented with an excited expression.
"4 days? It took me 2 days to get halfway through Chapter 02, but I think in 2 or 3 more days I can finish this Chapter!" One girl said excitedly.
"Damn it, how does EA manage to do this? Whenever he comments on something I feel so excited by whatever he brings up!" a boy said.
"Yes! It even helped me when doing quests. Before, I was so lazy to do quests, but after playing Residual Devil for so long, I get really excited to go out on quests and put into practice what I learned in the game," JB said excitedly.
"Hehe, now with the weapon upgrades I think I'll buy myself a weapon too. Being able to use the skills I received from Residual Devil in real missions will be very useful," one girl commented.
"Good luck! Since the release of Residual Devil, the price of firearms in Sandstone Bay has already gone up 50%, and now with the weapon upgrade released the probability of the price going up even more is 100%!" one girl laughed, making streamers and viewers alike feel an urge to buy a gun as soon as possible.
Only viewers who were ordinary people didn't care about this and just laughed at the situation while enjoying it. For them, watching these Players playing Residual Devil was much more interesting than watching those fake and boring movies that were on television all the time. Even older people were getting used to following these young people experiencing this new world.
--
While everyone was discussing what he had just posted, Gabe had focused again on developing Chapter 03. He wanted to finish it by Friday or Saturday, leaving plenty of time for him to rest on Sunday and enjoy the Players' reaction to this Chapter.
Of course, he was still very interested in learning their reaction to the end of Chapter 02, as that's where there would be a great Boss Fight, and it would be interesting to see the Players experience that, but Chapter 03 was where the story really started to unfold, and Gabe was very excited for this. Even though he already knew the story, the satisfaction he felt when seeing the Players' reaction to playing a game he loved so much was priceless.
"I will do my best to make this game as good as this franchise deserves!" Gabe told himself excitedly as he went back to developing.
[NunuNote : This statement from Gabe to the Players is also like a statement from me as an Author to you Readers, thank you very much!]
[Bonus Chapter: 1/5]
