Chapter 265: Chapter 157: [Normandy Landing] The Comprehensive Collapse of the Axis Powers (6.2k Double-Length)
I’ve been playing "World War II: Empire’s Rise" for so long, and now there’s the official Polestar forum.
There are all kinds of battle analysis posts, even novice players have seen quite a few, so they have some understanding of the current World War II situation on ’Earth’.
[Normandy Landing] has also long been analyzed as the counter-offensive campaign on the Allies’ side.
But ever since France was occupied and up until the storyline is now in 1943, there hasn’t been any news, and many people almost forgot about this.
Didn’t expect to see this news now of the leaders of the U.S., U.K., and Soviet Union meeting, preparing to open up a second front.
That must undoubtedly be the [Normandy Landing].
Never thought the starting battlefield by Polestar had its timeline set so far back.
All of a sudden.
Many players began discussing when it would start.
After all, as the first permanent multiplayer battlefield, every player will experience the [Normandy Landing] at least once, which holds a bit of nostalgia.
And looking at the situation now, the Imperial side seems finished.
The news of opening a second front is like adding insult to injury.
The full retreat on the Eastern Front, and now a new front to be opened on the Western Front, with Italy publicly defecting among the European allies, it’s uncertain how it will end.
All of a sudden.
Many streamers and players, in order to experience the authentic [Normandy Landing] storyline,
began skipping through the storyline continuously.
From skipping a few days and nights in the game in one real day to skipping over ten days in one real day.
Many players and streamers basically stopped doing tasks and storylines.
Just stayed indoors, skipped when a prompt popped up; night turned to day, day turned to night.
There’s no way to stop it, they’re all for the hype.
Given the popularity of "World War II: Empire’s Rise", whoever triggers the storyline first will definitely attract a large wave of players to the platform.
Zhao Ming saw this and couldn’t stall time.
Because the time in the storyline is only a few months faster than the big battlefield, if they skip like this, they’ll get stuck in a few days, so they opened up the timeline by half a year.
Just enough to trigger the [Normandy Landing] storyline.
The players naturally didn’t know this and continued to skip; however, even skipping like this... they skipped more than half a month.
Only then did people start to trigger the [Normandy Landing] storyline one after another.
....
At this time.
In Yu Feng’s live stream room.
After skipping for more than half a month, they finally triggered the [Normandy Landing] storyline.
At the same time.
Yu Feng also brought Fang Ming over, although he wasn’t the first streamer to trigger the [Normandy Landing] storyline, but with his own popularity, plus Fang Ming’s popularity.
Both of them were in the first batch to challenge the [Normandy Landing] speed run leaderboard.
Now the two are teaming up, and many in the live chat are posting comments like ’Childhood revisited!’
Although Yu Feng triggered the [Normandy] storyline, he is currently still at sea, not yet attacking, and there’s still a stretch to Omaha Beach.
Fang Ming is also chatting with the live audience:
"Why haven’t you been streaming ’World War II: Empire’s Rise’?"
"It’s not that I’m not streaming it, but the new game by Polestar Company offers a change of pace, the historical game of [Huaxia], is really interesting."
"Killing in ’World War II’ all day gets a bit monotonous; going to [Huaxia] and being a second-generation, teasing official families is quite amusing~"
"What?"
"Why not tease virtuous families? That’s something beasts do!"
"If you’re going to tease, of course, tease official families~"
"It’s mostly about competing with your family background, but I’m starting as a Prince, who can compete with me?"
Fang Ming is chatting with some viewers, some of whom aren’t interested in history games, so they don’t continue watching Fang Ming’s stream.
But now that Fang Ming is back streaming [Normandy Landing], hearing the various gameplay he mentions, they can’t help but get curious, thinking of downloading the game later.
See what identity they can start with.
It’s said that there are thousands of identities to choose from, and adding up all the identity branches, there are tens of thousands.
The freedom of choice is much higher than "World War II: Empire’s Rise", after all, the start here is entirely random, except for the camp....
As they chat, Yu Feng nudges him, gesturing to look ahead:
"Look at the beach, we’re about to land."
Fang Ming also looks up, a familiar feeling comes over him, still the familiar landing craft, still the familiar beach, he couldn’t help but smack his lips:
"This damned place."
"How many times did we die back then?"
During that time, he and Yu Feng, along with a large group of streamers, were constantly challenging the [Normandy Landing] speed run leaderboard.
They finally gave up after federated forces across the board came in and thrashed them.
But they also died a lot during that time, to the point where even now, with closed eyes, he knows where on the beach there are steel caltrops, where there are mines.
Yu Feng laughed, saying:
"I forgot."
"But back then, we died at least three or four dozen times a day, right?"
Fang Ming shook his head:
"More than that."
"I estimate we died at least 50 times a day."
"Died too many times to keep track."
As he spoke, Fang Ming looked around:
"Hmm?"
Yu Feng also looked around and didn’t notice anything unusual:
"What is it?"
Fang Ming said:
"Nothing."
"It’s just that besides us, it’s all NPCs now."
"The sense of urgency and oppression is stronger."
Yu Feng, upon hearing this, took another look and it was indeed so.
In the [Normandy Landing] battlefield, many players will be assigned to the same boat.