Monsters Are Coming-Chapter 1129 - 302: Update Direction, Earth Thought Units (Requesting Monthly Tickets) (2)

However, with a cautious attitude, I consulted Guidance and received a completely different answer.

Guidance explained that the test space's data man lacks setups for emotions, willpower, and intelligence, akin to a blank slate; even if it forms a battle formation with me, it would not provide any bonuses beyond attributes and Life Soul.

But it's different when opening a battle formation with other players.

Other players in the battle formation can also participate in the control, not in partial control, but as an integrated control with other players.

Real players, besides integrating Qi-Blood Strength and Spiritual Strength into the battle formation, also bring emotions, combat experience, willpower, and even subconscious combat reflexes.

These factors intertwine in the battle formation, forming not a 1-person command + N-person power supply model, but a complete integration of consciousness within the battle formation framework, forming a temporary "group consciousness."

You can understand it as after the battle formation is activated, everyone creates a new combat personality together.

The war intent, anger, calmness, and other emotions of players will influence each other, finally forming a unified "battle formation emotion."

For example, when everyone is excited, the battle formation consciousness will also be excited.

Individual weak points in willpower will be compensated by other strong-willed players; if every player in the formation has strong willpower, the willpower of the battle formation consciousness will also be very strong.

Players proficient in damage-taking will instinctively influence the battle formation's blocking tendency, while assassin-type players may make the battle formation's attacks more flexible.

This fusion is not led by a single player's will but is the result of the battle formation's autonomous adjustment.

Guidance stated that long-term collaboration among battle formation members could give birth to a unique "battle array personality."

For instance, a guild full of hot-headed players might form a battle formation with a radical aggressive combat style, and outsiders who join must adapt to this "personality."

However, such group consciousness cannot be experienced in a test space, so I can only interpret it based on the explanation from Guidance.

Final summary:

The battle formation is not about one person leading; instead, it's the brothers and friends within the formation becoming another stronger self together.

When the battle formation is fully activated, it is controlled by you, your teammates, and the unique existence of "you all" fused as one.

It is certain that the battle formation system will change future warfare models.

An army of a hundred thousand can merge into ten "ten thousand-man battle array bodies," compressing the scale.

Whether the future will primarily involve the battle formation system or the battle formation system in combination with the existing array system remains to be practically tested by the leaders of major guilds.

I believe the array mode is unlikely to be eliminated.

The battle formation mode consumes everyone's Qi-Blood and spiritual power continuously when active, making it suitable for short-term bursts and dealing with strong enemies; if the enemy forces do not possess units strong enough to break your side's defense, the battle formation will not be used as a trump card.

Thus, this concludes the strategic interpretation of this update; class dismissed!

Comments section:

Emperor's Those Years:

Brother Hei Ye's interpretation is good, additionally providing some content you didn't mention.

Firstly, the battle formation mode is not only suitable for team players; lone wolf players can also use it.

But it's only suitable for lone wolf players who follow the Control Flow route.

Pets under control, as long as they have been purified by the Purification System, can also become part of the battle formation, providing attribute bonuses after forming the array.

The downside is that non-player Life cannot provide a Star Vein Slot; lone wolf players can only play the main formation mode, and the number of Star Vein Slots is difficult to form battle array attributes.

Merely using the attribute bonus is feasible, but its strength cannot compare with other players.

With these hundred thousand sacrificial power, it's better to invest in a Rune Resonance Weapon or buy an Evolution Pill to upgrade the Life Soul Level.

Secondly, the emotional fusion in the battle formation system also has drawbacks; if there's a coward in your team who resists fighting, it will dampen the "battle formation personality" combat will, where others add water to the pool, the coward is drawing water, so when finding teammates to form a battle formation, checking the character comes first. If the whole team were cowards, the imaginative scene is frightful: cowards forming a battle formation, combining into a super coward, hahaha.

Lastly, taking advantage of this floor to recommend a battle array attribute: Demon Flame (passive, active), the strength of this battle array attribute in practical testing is explosive.

The Failed Eel: The battle formation system is quite fun; our small group is already pooling money, planning to clear out the materials in our warehouse and spend 300,000 to buy a hundred-man battle formation to test the hunting intensity of the battle formation mode. But the sustainability in active battle formation states where it feels like one must drink potions for sustain makes it only suitable for burst usage.

Spring Deep: Unable to imagine what exactly the group consciousness after forming a formation is—is it similar to the control in ancient-era movies like "Pacific Rim?" Memory sharing? Or merely fusing into a new personality, completely splitting after fusion ends, not affecting other players... I tend towards the second hypothesis.

Data Man: Divine King quickly buys several thousand-man formations, each of which can accommodate up to 9999 players—how much combat power should this increase? It must rub the Earth Thought Bully against the ground; the Newbie Village battlefield is finally about to be broken, and the good days of the Earth Thought Bully are over; it's doomed!

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After Dark Night Will Come released the interpretation post, it attracted more players to experience the battle formation mode.

And after posting, Dark Night Will Come also switched the interface to the event page.