Irene's main mission copy is "Alien VS Predator".
As the title of the game suggests, the entire background story of the game revolves around the Alien and Sangvishes, and the "hatching pool" and "hunting ground" chosen by both sides are the Earth where humans live.
Players play the roles of human warriors and iron-blooded warriors in a temporary collaborative team, and the enemy is naturally the aliens.
As a classic horror image that has been in film and television for more than 40 years, the Alien's terrifying appearance and signature acidic blood have become deeply rooted in people's minds. Anyone who pays a little attention to the film and television industry cannot be unaware of it.
Naturally, the Alien IP cannot escape various game adaptations.
Regardless of whether they are good or bad, there are quite a lot of them, and the platforms range from 8-bit machines to PC.
As a side-scrolling arcade game produced by Capcom during its peak period, "Alien vs. Predator" is naturally impeccable in quality, and the performance of the characters controlled by the players is also quite excellent. They can shoot, fight in close combat, and perform moves similar to those in fighting games.
As for the reason why Irene failed in this copy, Cheng Tian guessed the reason after just listening to the beginning.
Typically, most side-scrolling games have a fixed number of enemies in each scene. As long as you kill these enemies, you can theoretically gain at least a brief period of safety and corresponding breathing time.
However, the game Alien vs. Predator has a fundamentally different setting in this regard.
The enemy alien units in this game are infinitely refreshed.
Rather than destroying all aliens, players are racing against time and rushing forward despite the endless stream of aliens blocking their way, searching for various alien bosses and sources.
Of course, since it is a replica, the so-called "infinity" will most likely be limited, just like the Demon Village that Cheng Tian experienced. Those zombie units that are infinitely refreshed in the game are limited by the number of tombstones in the cemetery itself after being replicated.
"I can't kill them all! I can't kill them all! I kill five or six, and the next second, a dozen more pounce on me! This thing can walk and climb trees almost silently! Its assassination instincts are more professional than many thieves and assassins! If I hadn't smelled that sour smell on the wind, I wouldn't have known it could get so close to me!
...and my infinite quiver has been empty more than a dozen times, can you believe it!?"
Probably recalling her experience in the dungeon, Irene changed her previous decadent and dead eyes, and started banging the floor and hitting the pillow. In short, she reacted with great anger, and her lips rattled like a machine gun, and she began to pour out all her experiences in the dungeon.
Since Irene failed in the main quest and escaped from the dungeon via the evacuation route, there is no specific information about the alien units in her monster manual. She can only see their hideous bodies and a series of unsealed panels filled with question marks.
Based on Irene's description, Cheng Tian simulated the combat power of the aliens with a series of monsters he encountered, such as zombies, mummies, walking carnivorous plants, giant locusts, and acidic bugs, and then found that these monsters he encountered were probably not at the same level of difficulty as the aliens.
A lightweight yet rigid exoskeleton, a streamlined body that cuts through the wind silently, claws that tear through flesh like taking something from a sack, a tail that can lash or pierce other creatures, highly corrosive blood that guarantees a chance of escape in any situation, and a biological instinct that can genetically acquire special genes that serve as a breeding ground...
These characteristics put together constitute the Alien, a unique biological weapon that combines killing, reproduction and order.
At the same time, the alien population will also give birth to "queens" who are like queen ants and queen bees, and are responsible for breeding a large number of offspring. The vast number of aliens that Irene and the others face are all produced by the alien queen, just like worker ants and worker bees.
It was just as Irene said, they could never be killed, they could never be killed at all. They occupied human cities and abducted countless unfortunate humans as incubation beds and meat. The number of these ordinary aliens like worker bees was endless.
Irene's quest copy entry is a pure PVE copy, with no faction confrontation. In other words, if the player is thrown into the alien camp, it is no different from throwing a meat bun at a dog, and there is no doubt that he will die.
Players were in the same faction as humans and Iron Warriors, in a typical ten-player dungeon. However, because it was a ten-player dungeon, their quests were inevitably longer and their objectives were more difficult.
They need to kill the Alien Queen, the source of the massive number of aliens hiding in the city.
"It seems you didn't get to see the Queen."
"Well... thanks to a teammate who could clear the area with fireballs, we managed to defeat the new species of Carapace and the Royal Guards despite the alien army. However, by the time we reached the alien nest, we were practically out of ammunition and food.
We counted the supplies and the number of survivors and decided there was no hope, so we all ran away."
When she said this, Irene's eyes dimmed a little, because the despair of having enemies rushing towards her no matter how hard she tried was already too strong. But when she saw a "familiar" face among the special aliens chasing her while she was escaping, she really began to break down emotionally.
Hearing Irene mention the new species of pupae and the Royal Guards, Cheng Tian did a quick calculation and found that according to the original game process, their main quest probably corresponds to the content of the first three levels of the game combined.
However, considering that this is a ten-person dungeon with no branches, the length of this process is reasonable. In total, you only need to kill 1 elite, 1 champion, and 1 leader.
Cheng Tian himself has defeated 6 champions and 2 leaders!
However, the difficulty of this dungeon for Irene and the others actually lies in the monsters and the Alien Queen who serves as the leader unit.
From the moment they were dropped into the city that had been completely overrun by the aliens, they were immediately faced with a battle of far greater intensity than they had imagined.
In terms of individual combat power, the aliens are naturally inferior to the players. Irene's Storm Power Attack can even take out more than a dozen aliens in a straight line with one shot. The others also have good combat power. In the early stage, there was a one-sided gap in combat power between the players and the aliens, and the ground was littered with alien corpses.
But the number of aliens didn't show any decrease at all. Aliens came from all directions, leaving no time for people to breathe.
As time went on, the players grew tired, their mana bars reached the bottom, their supplies were used up, and their equipment and props were corroded by the alien blood. Finally, someone was injured and dragged away due to negligence.
And this is the real beginning of the nightmare.
Because the player who was dragged away directly became a breeding ground for the Alien Queen to hatch special offspring. The special aliens hatched can even inherit the various passive characteristics of this player!
I am losing ground!
And not only the players, but even the Iron-Blooded Warriors in the same camp were parasitized by alien larvae, namely facehuggers, which eventually led to the appearance of the terrible Iron-Blooded Alien in front of the players.
"You guys are quite decisive. Even when the boss is right in front of you, you still choose to run away."
Cheng Tian was surprised but also admired her. Most people might not be able to resist the temptation.
"Nonsense! Only when you're alive can you have hope. I don't want to use my death to make others successful!"
After reviewing and venting her anger, Irene seemed to have stopped feeling sorry for herself, but when she heard Cheng Tian's question, she still kicked him directly with a look of annoyance on her face.
Cheng Tian caught the opponent's smelly foot attack with one hand and simulated it in his mind at the same time.
If I were directly thrown into a copy of the same intensity... forget about clearing it, I'd better find a way to drive the Batmobile and escape!