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We @老boy游戏Box are here to dig into the casual game "Swallowing the World 2: The Legend of Zhuge Kongming" again. Today we are going to write about something that many players have never noticed. content.
Let me say that the game "Swallowing World 2" was released in 1991 and has a history of more than 30 years. When I was playing games when I was young, there were not so many strategies to check out like now. Many lineups and routines are based on I came up with it through continuous practical exploration.
We have published a lot of research articles on the formations of "Swallowing World 2" before. According to the feedback from the "friendly" discussion in the comment area, there is still a lot of controversy over who has the strongest and weakest formations, but participating Almost all parties to the debate can mention one consensus - that is, the White Horse Formation is really, really strong! In the early and mid-term, he is the god of clearing the jungle. Some players will even deploy a white horse formation for a general attack even in siege battles.
As we all know, the White Horse Formation is a formation that only increases speed and will not have any positive or negative impact on our attack power and defense power. In "Swallowing Heaven and Earth 2", there should be only three formations: White Horse Formation, Silence Formation, and Bagua Formation that theoretically will not increase attack power. Other formations, even the fish scale formation dedicated to siege, will also give three forwards The attack power is increased by 1.5 times, not to mention pure attack formations such as Crane Wing Formation . The entire team's attack power is increased by 1.1~1.3 times. In theory, it should be able to crush the White Horse Formation.
However, after more than thirty years of exploration by many Devouring players, everyone finally abandoned the attack formations such as the Crane Wing Formation and the Rushing Square Formation, and instead chose a White Horse Formation with no attack power bonus. Over the years, Don’t the many die-hard fans of “Swallowing the World” find it strange? Everyone prefers the White Horse Formation. Is it really because of the speed that the White Horse Formation adds?
Today we are going to reveal to you the secrets hidden behind the White Horse Formation in "Swallowing World 2"!
Let me talk about the conclusion first. The reason for this strange phenomenon is not because of how strong the White Horse Formation is or what hidden attributes it has, but because other formations have been hacked by the system! Although many formations can completely crush the White Horse Formation in terms of numerical values, in actual games, they cannot fully demonstrate their numerical advantages.
Let’s take the Crane Wing Formation as an example. This formation will increase the attack of the four generals in the team by 1.1 times, and the general in the middle will increase the attack by 1.3 times. Theoretically, the attack power is much stronger than that of the White Horse Formation. In order to facilitate testing and verification, we used golden fingers to call up five identical generals and took off their weapons and equipment for easy comparison.
We tested on plain terrain, and the flat-A damage of the scattered array and the white horse array fluctuated between 25 and 33 points.
After changing to the Crane Wing Formation, the average damage of a flat A is greater than 30 points. Even generals in ordinary positions can get 39 points of damage in a flat attack. It can be seen that the Crane Wing Formation is indeed better than the White Horse Formation in terms of attack power bonus. .
But is this really the case? Everyone noticed that our test was conducted on a plain terrain like Qingqing Prairie. When we changed to another terrain and tested again, a magical phenomenon happened:
In mountainous terrain, the damage of the White Horse Formation still fluctuated below 30 points.
However, the damage of the Crane Wing Formation has been greatly weakened. Even the general can only deal 29 points of damage, and the damage of other positions has been weakened to more than 20 points. In theory, there should be a 1.1~1.3 times attack power bonus, but the actual attack power has become even lower.
The reason for this phenomenon is very simple, because "Swallowing World 2" has terrain elements, and the terrain will affect the attack power bonus of various formations. This hidden attribute has been rarely discovered by domestic players for many years - In "Swallowing Heaven and Earth 2", except for the Scattering Formation, White Horse Formation, Silence Formation, and Bagua Formation, other formations have a DEBUFF that will weaken the attack power and defense power by 20% outside the plain terrain. Please pay attention to what is said here. The plains only refer to the green grassland-like plains in the picture below, which are the battles triggered by the green grids standing in the wild.
Everyone who has played "Swallowing World 2" for so long should know that this green plain is not the difficulty of the game. Most of the time we are either walking through cave mazes or fighting head-shaking siege battles, so you can This 20% attack weakening is understood to be permanent.
A formation like the Crane Wing Formation at the beginning of the game has limited attack power plus cost. Coupled with the 20% weakening, the attack power will be even worse than not forming the formation. This is why many players will abandon the Crane Wing in the early stage of the game. formation, the reason for choosing the spread formation or the white horse formation.
As for the phalanx, although its maximum 1.6x bonus can offset 20% of the weakening, due to the disadvantage of the weakening speed, it is difficult for ordinary players to tolerate having to act behind the scenes every round.
In the era of Arrow Front Formation and Fish Scale Formation, these two formations were focused on attacking cities and were not suitable for clearing the wild. It was not until the emergence of the One-Word Formation that the combined influence of the above factors highlighted the god-like status of the White Horse Formation in the early game. .
The 20% DEBUFF outside the plains of many formations in "Eating Heaven and Earth 2" will be more obvious in the later stages of the game. Take the battle against Zhang Liao in the picture below as an example. Using the White Horse Formation, you can probably do 700 to 800 damage.
After setting up the Crane Wing Formation, the damage of others except the generals was significantly weakened. Some generals could only deal more than 600 points of damage. It was really better to set up a dispersing formation and charge!
Therefore, if you see a fan of "Swallowing Heaven and Earth 2" praising the white horse formation because of its speed in the future, please tell him the truth: At that time, other formations will have a DEBUFF that is weakened by 20% due to terrain factors.
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Author of this article: Xiaolei
Editor: Xiaolei
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