WCG left this world silently. When he left, no one even paid much attention to him. Netizens were still madly insulting Jiangnan Cup on the Internet, but at the same time, a group of people who firmly defended Jiangnan Cup were also created.

Players of the Jiangnan Cup, the two sides have launched a war without gunpowder on the Internet around the Jiangnan Cup. During this war, the Jiangnan Cup continues to occupy the hot spots of all online news, and various news and competitions related to the Jiangnan Cup

The message also became a hot search topic.

On the 12th day of the Jiangnan Cup, which is March 4th, the closing day of the Jiangnan Cup will also usher in the most important schedule of the Jiangnan Cup, which is the finals of Warcraft 4.

At this time, as one of the most profitable competitions in the entire e-sports circle, after 12 days of fermentation and the excitement of various fierce battles, as well as competitions such as the China-South Korea war that are always full of gimmicks and incentives,

Warcraft 4 finally ushered in its finals. At the same time, this was also the last battle of the entire Jiangnan Cup. It came to the finale and brought a perfect end to the Jiangnan Cup.

As for the two sides fighting this time, one of them is the Chinese super e-sports star Tian Tian, ​​who has won the WCG world championship twice in a row and is known as the undefeated emperor. This man has once again embarked on his own road to become the king, winning all the way.

A perfect record of victory and a seat in the finals.

Sitting opposite him was European rookie Guapi.

This European player, who was originally planned by WCG to take Sky's place and play the opening match with South Korea's greatest World of Warcraft player Luna Moon, now took Moon's place and sat opposite Sky.

The finals of the first Jiangnan Cup Warcraft 4 project started.

Guapi was by no means lucky in his journey. During the qualifying round, because his mentality was not stable, he picked up two veteran players in a row and suffered two consecutive defeats. As a result, he almost did not even qualify for the semi-finals. If it were not for the last round,

He had a thrilling victory over a Korean player in a game, and he had already returned home.

Although the rematch was not as thrilling, it was still exciting enough. All six games ended at 2:1, and none of them could be easily won 2:0.

However, after entering the quarter-finals, Guapi, who was in the state, began his own path to becoming a super god, defeating his opponents 3:0 all the way. Even when facing the Moon God in the semi-finals, he was an unceremonious three-hand lead.

Go away without giving this last hope of Korea any hope.

Finally, he sat on the opposite side of the sky and began the best-of-seven game.

Well, the 7-game best-of-7 system is probably an innovation of the Jiangnan Cup in the competition itself. After all, the most it could do before was the 5-game best-of-3 game.

But this is understandable, after all, this is the final, and according to the data released by the Jiangnan Cup, on the day of the final, more than 40 million players around the world watched the live broadcast.

A Warcraft 4 game usually ends in about 20 minutes.

Compared with the previous Warcraft 3, Warcraft 4 greatly reduces the time required for the battle mode.

Generally speaking, at the beginning of the game, it usually takes about 3 to 5 minutes to run your own base, although there will be some peasant scouts or small-scale battles during this period.

But unless there are some early-stage fast-attack tactics, the first 3 to 5 minutes of the entire game must be a very boring time, which is still slightly bad for the viewing experience of the game.

After discovering that e-sports is the most important element for the longevity of a stand-alone game, Blizzard began to do its best to increase the viewing value of the game when developing Warcraft 4.

And how to improve the viewing value of the game?

Of course, it eliminates a lot of boring time and increases the intensity of the battle between the two sides in terms of intelligence, strategy, combat, restraint, etc.

However, Warcraft 3 has already perfected the latter aspect. Warcraft 3 has a large number of tactics, and there are various tactics around different races. As long as the balance is optimized, it is enough.

Warcraft 4 does not need drastic cuts in this regard.

Therefore, the biggest optimization point of Warcraft 4 is to do everything possible to shorten the boring time. There are two main ways to shorten the boring time, which is to shorten the early development time and allow as many battles as possible to break out in the early stage of the game.

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The second is to reduce the game idea of ​​stable operation, enhance the benefits of fighting, and let all players choose to fight as much as possible, instead of trying hard to avoid fighting and relying on delaying time to win.

Therefore, changes were made to the game in Warcraft 4, the core of which was the addition of the Altar of God's Prayer building.

This building incorporates the Hero Altar from Warcraft 3, but has more powerful functions.

The Hero Altar of Warcraft 3, of course, has different names for each race, but the overall function is to summon heroes. In the early stage, you can recruit a hero for free, and then you can resurrect the hero and pay to summon more heroes.

However, the God Prayer Altar in Warcraft 4 can not only summon a hero for free in the early stage, but also directly summon an army worth 30 God Prayer Coins.

The God Prayer Altar contains one and two combat units of its own race. Each unit has a different God Prayer Coin price, and all players have 30 God Prayer Coins at the beginning. The value of these 30 God Prayer Coins is

It has an existence time of 1 minute and will disappear directly if it is not used within one minute.

This will force all players to use all the God Prayer Coins in the first minute of the game. With these God Prayer Coins, in the first minute of the game, you can build a team with combat power equivalent to that in the middle of the game.

The strength of the troops comes out.

In addition, in the center of the map, a wild monster named Shenqi Cult Leader will be born, and this wild monster is the only one in the entire game that will drop base equipment.

Base equipment, as the name suggests, is equipment that can be equipped on the player's main base. There are a total of 4 types of such equipment, namely "Eye of God's Prayer". The effect is that the user can disperse all the fog of war for 5 seconds.

For professional players, if the map is fully lit for 5 seconds, they can completely master all the opponent's strategies, have a huge advantage, and can use it every 5 minutes.

The second type of equipment is called "Power of God's Prayer". The effect is very overbearing. It can increase the attack power of all units by 5 points within 5 seconds. It can also be used once every 5 minutes.

This number may not seem high, but if a battle breaks out between the main forces of both sides, the special effect of increasing the attack power of all units by 5 points will be enough to completely defeat the opponent's troops.

The third type of equipment is called "God Prayer Guard". This effect can reduce the damage taken by all troops by 20% within 5 seconds.

The final fourth type of equipment is "God's Prayer Healing", which can restore 20% of the lost health of all units, and will also randomly select the corpses of two own units to resurrect, except heroes.

It can be seen from the special effects of these four types of equipment that no matter which piece of base equipment it is, it has the ability to instantly change the entire battle situation. If the player can successfully capture the base equipment, it will undoubtedly greatly increase the winning rate.

However, Shenqi cannot attack directly. There is a range circle near him. As long as your units with more than 20 people fully occupy the range circle and it lasts for more than 20 seconds, base equipment will be dropped.

Then the newly added settings surrounding the entire God Prayer series directly triggered fierce conflicts in the early stages of the game.

Most players will choose to lead their troops to capture the Shenqi Cult Leader in the early stage and obtain base equipment that can change the entire battle situation. In this way, players on both sides will start a fierce battle near the Shenqi Cult Leader, allowing the audience to

Saw a big battle.

And because players can adjust the troop allocation of each God's Prayer unit according to their own needs, guessing the opponent's troop allocation and then adjusting their own troop allocation has become the focus of many professional players' intrigues, making the early stages of the game intense.

Sex has increased a lot.

Of course, some players later took a different approach. They simply did not compete for any God's Prayer equipment in the early stage, but directly took advantage of the 20 seconds the opponent had to get the equipment to demolish their homes. As long as they could demolish half of the opponent's buildings, then they would be in a better position.

This will give you huge advantages in terms of development.

However, if you do this, you will have to face the situation where the enemy hero teleports back to the city with the God's Prayer equipment, and at the same time, the large army begins to take the back route, blocking your own troops at home.

Because the troops supported by the base equipment will almost never fail in the battle of professional players, then the players who have been dumped will have to face the main force being completely emptied, directly bearing the opponent's 30-population army, and cooperating with the base equipment to fight

Counterattack battle.

Anyway, the addition of this God Prayer series has made the early battles and games of Warcraft 4 very thrilling. All players will contribute exciting battles and games to the audience after the game starts.

Of course, if the battle for God fails, it is not inevitable. Warcraft 4 also specially designed the possibility mechanism for the weak party to launch a desperate counterattack, etc.

But in general, the settings of the God Prayer series have basically reduced the total duration of Warcraft 4 from about 20 to 30 minutes in the Warcraft III era to the point where the battle can be ended within 20 minutes. Accordingly, the game

Changing to a best-of-seven game system has become a necessary choice. After all, if the finals does not last for several hours, it will be over in more than an hour.

Not to mention that the audience is not satisfied, the sponsors are not satisfied either!

What's more, as the popularity on the Internet continues, the names of more than ten brands have appeared in the finals and in the host's oral broadcast. These are companies that temporarily sponsor the Jiangnan Cup. If you
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