Recently, in an exclusive interview with PC Gamer magazine, Liang Qiwei, the producer of "Shadow Blade Zero", took the boss in the game "Huang Xingzi" as an example to deeply explain how to break through the soul-like game framework through the AI ​​design concept of fighting games.

Liang Qiwei said that under normal difficulty, Huang Xingzi did retain some soul-like elements: he has a fixed combo routine, and players can repeatedly try to explore the response strategies.However, in Hellwalker's high difficulty mode, the boss will adopt a completely different design logic.The development team specially borrowed the AI ​​concept of fighting games, allowing it to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of the battlefield situation in real time and dynamically adjust the attack method based on this.

"We designed a state mechanism called 'Lucky Card Draw'," Liang Qiwei explained. "If his attack hits, it will continue to combos; if it fails, it will switch to other action modes. He will decide on the subsequent behavior based on the result of the last attack." This means that the traditional soul-like game strategy - fixed attack mode by repeatedly dying memory - will lose its effect here.

He also revealed that although passing this martial arts action RPG is "completely feasible", if you want to achieve your goal in the most gorgeous way, players will need to make more efforts.

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