Call of Duty’s Chinese garbled bug is learning human nature

Within three days of its release, “Call of Duty 19” has surpassed $800 million in worldwide sales, making it the fastest-selling title in the franchise’s history, even better than any film released this year, according to publisher Activision. . Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Caldick said: “Thank you to the global player community for finding joy and connection through Call of Duty. This milestone belongs to them.”

However, in contrast to the excellent commercial performance, the evaluation of “Call of Duty 19” among players is mixed. Taking the Steam platform as an example, the game’s praise rate has dropped to 55%.

Share the blessings and share the difficulties. Caudik says “players all over the world share the joy” and in fact they are also sharing the same bugs and optimization issues.

For example, a bug in a report system will highlight the marked enemies throughout the game, and the effect is comparable to a perspective plug-in. The official had to temporarily remove the report system. The weapon accessory adjustment system that was supposed to be implemented in the game is also currently disabled, as it will cause the game to crash.

There are also a number of picture failures that have no cause at all and have different performance results. There are too many cases and limited space, so I won’t go into details here.

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However, Chinese players are also enjoying some issues that are only seen in the Chinese version.

Such as simplified Chinese translation. When translating the dialogue of the plot battle, the translators used a batch of popular Internet terms. Although they were in line with the context, they caused a lot of controversy on the Internet. word.

Original: “Thanks for the tip”

A homonym of a swear word in English

In the multiplayer mode, there are also a small number of translation errors, such as the description of weapon accessories, or the completion conditions of challenge tasks, which seem to be the result of no post-translation correction.

Post it @ tsk – don’t come here

Translation issues at least don’t affect the game running properly. In contrast, another bug has a more fatal impact on the game experience: garbled text.

In short, the text in the game will be overwritten with garbled characters. This “gibberish” may be any character the player sees in the game, sometimes a number, sometimes a punctuation mark.

In more cases, it is the Chinese characters in the character dialogue or the background UI, which replace most of the characters that the player sees in the game. The Chinese characters that pop up each time are different, and no one can guess what Chinese characters will pop up next time.

“Play Mobile Games”

This garbled bug is common in Call of Duty 19 on PS4 and PS5 platforms; there are also a few unverified reports on PC platforms. Regardless of whether you choose Simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese, the game may have garbled characters. The form of garbled characters is very similar to the classic “Kunjinkuo hot hot hot”, but it is still uncertain whether the bug is related to the character encoding error.

“Score”

According to player feedback, entering the two game modes “Conquest” or “Invasion” that engage in large battlefields, or using certain killstreak rewards, will trigger this bug.

“area”

Since not all texts will be replaced, the random arrangement and combination of these garbled characters and original texts often make up some humorous sentences that break the serious atmosphere of the battlefield, as well as redundant words that are suspected to be deliberately cute.

“Cheerleader”

“Guided Missile” Photo Source B Station @是多多娜

However, on the consoles of some players, the garbled characters are not static, but will produce violent fluctuations similar to electromagnetic interference, and the garbled characters that appear must be replaced several times every second. Especially in the fierce exchange of fire, every time before the player and the enemy face each other, the speed of garbled code changes faster than the pattern change on the casino slot machine.

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Perhaps this bug is using one of the easiest and most noticeable ways to rate the player’s performance and even provide suggestions and countermeasures to the player.

“Hit here”

In the main menu interface, the bug will urge players who are eager to “rush and rush” to join an exciting battle immediately.

Bug has been analyzing the battlefield situation in front of him, and after calculation, it gives the most suitable garbled characters. If it detects someone outside the bunker, it advises the player to “try” to shoot out of the bunker; if the player fails to spot the enemy in time and is unfortunately shot and falls to the ground before retreating to the bunker, the bug will also sigh in its own unique way. :Too late.

Even if the original UI is covered, the bug does not hide his preference for weapon selection.

If the player still loses the battle after listening to the bug’s suggestion, the bug will give a “group” word, as if to encourage the player to find a few friends to “group” the team to open the black, and then fight again, and finally win.

To say that this bug has human nature is somewhat feudal superstition. However, this bug is indeed trying to make the player believe in himself, telling the player with garbled characters that he has “heart” and believes that it is quasi “spirit”.

In fact, most “Call of Duty” players are not necessarily more polite than this bug, because this bug at least knows how to type “GG” (short for Good Game, mostly used for farewell greetings at the end of the game).

And when the bug starts to recognize the player in front of the screen as its own brother, and prepares to be a brother to the player, it may have really completed some kind of ridiculous but terrifying awakening and evolution.

It is a pity that human beings have not learned much about the good behavior bugs, but the bad crime bugs can be learned in a flash. In the process of learning human nature and “quality of character”, Bug is inevitably contaminated with the seven original sins of human beings, resulting in unprovoked desires.

After losing the battle, the bug began to discredit other players as “stinky brothers” who didn’t deserve to fight with him. This is the sin of arrogance.

In the settlement interface, Bug showed excessive admiration for players whose “level” was much higher than himself, such as characters or weapons, and looked at the weapons, equipment or accessories that only they were qualified to enjoy, and was particularly jealous. This is the sin of jealousy.

After all, “Call of Duty 19” is an FPS game that fights to kill.

Therefore, in the eyes of players, this bug is like the “Khorne” evil god in the world view of the “Warhammer” series, eager to make the battlefield blood flow into rivers and corpses everywhere. That’s enough of a sin of anger.

Bug also found such a Chinese character in the text library – “Yes”, so he responded to any questions from the player in the most perfunctory way. This is the sin of laziness.

“Ah yes yes”

The “Call of Duty” series has always had a tradition of designing luxurious skins for weapons. Using a certain weapon to complete various kill challenges can unlock gold, platinum, and even more cool skins for the weapon. These skins fascinate players, but they also provoke the garbled Bug’s desire to pursue supreme “luxury” luxury. This is the sin of greed.

Station B@I-Stark-I

Bug will occasionally ask the player for “rice” or “rice” at the beginning of the game, although what it really needs is not rice but electricity. This can probably be regarded as the crime of gluttony, but some people think that this bug is just a friendly reminder to players to eat on time.

If the above six deadly sins are a bit far-fetched, the last kind of desire is definitely the real crime of garbled bugs – lust.

Probably due to the depression of contemporary players in a certain aspect for a long time, bugs have also been subtly affected, and their minds (memory) are full of strange things and cannot extricate themselves, not to mention the garbled characters that are easy to cause countless misunderstandings. any shame. When the players in front of the screen see this situation, they can’t help but wonder what kind of “FPS game” they are playing.

Station B@I-Stark-I

In addition to dozens of garbled screenshots and videos provided by players, the above content about Bug awakening self-awareness is pure nonsense, and this article does not take any responsibility for supernatural events such as PS4 or PS5 long legs. This bug itself is not something players should be happy about. Once the garbled characters appear on the screen, the game is not far from freezing and crashing.

“Predict future”

Careful players may have noticed the word “trial” in a few screenshots. As early as the beta test (hereinafter referred to as the B test) period a month before the game was officially released, garbled bugs already existed in the game. The bug of the beta test was left over to the official version, which may be the embodiment of the official “lazy” crime.

However, this can also be explained that the influence of Chinese players is relatively low, and bugs that exist only in the Chinese version are not enough to attract official attention. Although a garbled bug feedback video on station B has reached hundreds of thousands of views, as of the deadline of this article, there is no report that can verify that the garbled bug has been officially repaired.

In the final analysis, the excellent commercial performance of “Call of Duty 19” is due to the overall weakness of FPS competitors since the epidemic. In recent years, from “Call of Duty” to “Battlefield” and “Halo”, the new works of each series have been repeatedly criticized by players because of the relatively poor game content, endless bugs and loopholes, and repeated delays in updates and optimizations.

Therefore, “Call of Duty 19”, which is known as “three-year construction period” and “continuous operation for two years”, should become a booster for FPS competitive players. “Call of Duty 19” is indeed well-prepared, and has shown a certain degree of completion in terms of game content. Even if this work also fails to escape the fate of being plagued by a large number of bugs and loopholes that affect the game experience, players will not hesitate to empty their wallets and “rush” again – they really have no choice.

The thick past and the present have always been the fuse of the “Call of Duty” community at home and abroad. However, when I think of the B-test version of “Call of Duty” three years ago, it can almost be sold directly as a finished product; the quality of the finished product three years later barely catches up, or even not as good as the previous B-test version of “Call of Duty”, and then impulsive The players couldn’t help but sigh.