Text: Yan Jinyan

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This year has passed CJ, and if you want to talk about the most popular new game on the scene that has not yet been launched, I would probably vote for Operation Delta.

Yesterday, we have already talked about the packed crowd in Tencent's N4 hall, among which the shootout game booth of TiMi J3 is also surrounded by three floors inside and three layers outside.

From day one of CJ, there has been a long queue in the trial area of Operation Delta. On the weekend, after Chen Ze and Sun Liangxuan, two big anchors and KOLs, came to the booth, the scene was even more exaggerated. When many players and fans heard about the event, they came to squat at 9 o'clock in the morning, and in the afternoon, the security guards also came to pull up the human wall to control the flow of people.

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The layout of the exhibition area of "Operation Delta" this time is also quite interesting, and the focus is to restore the characteristics of the game.

Take the necessary coser of the booth as an example, others are either looking for professional or part-time cosers, or looking for some Internet celebrities, it is different, and directly invited the actors of the two game characters to the scene.

If you are a veteran of Operation Delta or have watched IP movies, you must know Black Hawk Down. And above this year's booth, they made a model of a Black Hawk helicopter.

At the same time, they also moved the tactical withdrawal gameplay to the offline. After entering the interactive experience area, you will follow the instructor into the field to shoot, search for supplies, open the safe, and finally complete the evacuation.

Douyin head expert Sun Liangxuan incarnated as an instructor of the dangerous operation experience in the exhibition area, looking like the new version of the operator Uluru, and brought his repertoire "Grab the Gold Brick Challenge". This challenge was once the most experienced event at the booth, where everyone won the grand prize with pure "strength".

So, having said all that, is Operation Delta fun or not? I also caught two players on the spot and asked them how they felt.

Just by looking at the tactical equipment of the little brother on the left, you can feel that they are hardcore FPS players.

It is understood that they have been following "Operation Delta" for a long time, and have participated in the test before, and this time they came to the site to experience the content of the new version.

One of the players said, "It looks like Operation Delta has more potential than any of Tencent's previous games, and even has the opportunity to go overseas."

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Since the first exposure, I have been writing reports with "Operation Delta". My biggest feeling before was that this product was really learning and exploring, trying to challenge the upper limit of the shooting category.

First of all, if nothing else, "Operation Delta" should be Tencent's first multi-terminal cross-platform product, landing on PC, mobile phones, and consoles.

This not only illustrates their ambition to expand their audience, but more importantly, they also want to touch up with top FPS overseas.

Yao Yuan, general manager of J3 Studio, said that in the process of research and development, they found that if they want to conquer overseas players, they still have to be PC hosts. In other words, this is to challenge others in a place that they are good at.

The difficulty can be imagined. Let's not say that Tencent has not had similar mature experience before, in terms of the whole country, this kind of realistic style, the pursuit of smooth competition of multi-end products, is also the first.

Secondly, they also want and want in the selection of gameplay.

The most intuitive point is to do a single-player story campaign.

According to the route of domestic F2P shooting games in the past, everyone will pay attention to what content, as long as the most popular chicken, group competition, and blasting are stacked.

But "Operation Delta" not only bought the game IP, but also took the movie copyright, and wanted to use UE5 to restore the classic characters, scenes and plots for the movie.

The other two modes, tactical evacuation and full-scale battlefield, are also a truth. These two were not the most mainstream gameplay in shooting games before, and domestic manufacturers rarely set foot in this track.

The meaning of Operation Delta is also very simple. In the past, both TiMi and Tencent as a whole have launched the most successful products in the mainstream gameplay, and now they are trying to complete the puzzle pieces in other fields and dig out new products that may become popular or popular next.

But the more things no one has ever done, the harder it is to do. Tactical evacuation involves hardcore realism, and players are playing the game with a magnifying glass. The challenges faced by the big battlefield are even more complex, with the technical difficulties of multiplayer on the same screen, battlefield design, and offensive and defensive balance...... There are too many pits to go through.

Therefore, from the very beginning, I felt that "Operation Delta" was very big, and what I wanted to challenge was a field that no one in China had ever done. In a way, this echoes the theme of the Delta Action IP: "Challenging the Impossible".

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I also thought that with such a big ambition and this is the first time to try, "Operation Delta" is likely to show a lack of concentration, or repeatedly wear out the project.

But as a result, from last year to now, the product feels that it has been steadily advancing and the direction is clear.

In the first test, they first came up with a tactical evacuation mode to verify the basic quality and micro-innovative evacuation gameplay.

With the introduction of Operator Skills and the Mandel Bricks, the pace and strategy of tactical evacuation becomes varied. Compared to similar evacuation products, it encourages PvP and solves the problem that players can't afford to fight.

In the second test, it has opened up a full-scale battlefield mode to meet the needs of players who like fast-paced shooting.

In this mode, although the game's graphics and material performance have not yet reached the top level, multiplayer on the same screen, land, sea and air vehicles, and large maps have begun to take shape, at least they can carry players' expectations for the atmosphere of the big battlefield.

In the recent twin test, "Operation Delta" has also opened the dual-end synchronous test of mobile games, experimental data exchange, commercialization and other content.

Currently, 90 fps is available on the phone, with 120 fps and 140 fps options reserved, as well as ray tracing and ultimate image quality options. And even though the game isn't at its most perfect, you can still feel its light and shadow in extreme graphics.

In addition, this test also extended the test cycle, and made timely adjustments to the pass and season missions in response to the liver problems raised by players.

During the beta cycle, they also began to add new operators and maps in different versions. For example, the character David · Ferraire, who launched today, and the new Battlegrounds map Tipping Point, the former broadens the tactical nature of the game, and the latter tries to experiment with a more elevation map.

Moreover, as for the problems exposed by the previous tests, such as the balance of the big battlefield and the single gameplay, this test has also been adjusted one by one.

From this, you can feel that "Operation Delta" is getting closer and closer to the ideal goal. Even, they have treated the product as if it had entered the long-term operation stage in advance, and maintained face-to-face communication with players, which should require the project team to have enough self-confidence.

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However, the difficulties and challenges facing Operation Delta are still enormous.

It's going global and coming to PC and consoles, which means that gamers will put it on the same level as the top FPS games.

Some players at CJ said that they are not yet comfortable with the TTK of "Operation Delta", which is shorter than "APEX Legends" and longer than "Call of Duty", and it needs to be improved.

But then he added that as for the general direction, the game sewed everything that should be sewn, the feel of the gun has the feeling of Call of Duty, and the atmosphere of the big battlefield has the feeling of "Battlefield", and the overall expectation is still maintained.

Come to think of it, Yao Yuan said in an interview before that they don't pursue to make a full score product, because often the further back, the more difficult it is to improve, and they need cost and R&D accumulation to do superposition, but they can become an 85-point Mr. first.

However, does this mean that Operation Delta has no characteristics of its own?

Neither is it. From the very first test, they showed their understanding of the tonality of the product – Operator Tactical Shooting.

Special Operators with various class positions and skills, when added to the tactical evacuation and full-scale battlefield gameplay, bring some different chemical reactions.

In the tactical evacuation gameplay, different maps have their own gameplay tendencies. For example, some large maps emphasize field battles, and some small maps are full of indoor scenes, and different operator skills will have different coordination and performance in the corresponding scenes.

After arriving at the battlefield, the operators also strengthened the tactical coordination of multi-player cooperation again. For example, the bee doctor can directly pull up a healing smoke and directly heal dozens of teammates in groups.

For example, as mentioned above, in the tactical withdrawal, the introduction of high-rarity materials such as mandel bricks can effectively gather players and strengthen the competitive game in a single game.

And these micro-innovations in the direction of competition are also Tencent's strengths.

It's also worth mentioning that as the playtest content increases, you can also find that each map seems to be connected by a complete world view. The bosses in each map stronghold are also designed with matching settings and fragmented narrative content.

This may also show that although "Operation Delta" is a gameplay-driven product, it has not fallen behind at the content level.

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In my opinion, whether it is Tencent or the entire domestic game industry, "Operation Delta" will be a more important symbol.

It has taken the road that no one in China has challenged in the past, and it has hit the FPS field that overseas manufacturers are best at.

If it can be done well, it will become a benchmark to prove that domestic shooting can also wrestle with overseas manufacturers. For J3 Studio and the Linlang Sky team, this is a milestone, and it is a self-proof of their R&D ability that has been focusing on the field of gunplay. More importantly, it may build a barrier that no one dares to approach, further cementing Tencent's position in the field of shooting.

At present, the official has repeatedly stated that the game will be launched within the year, and in the coming August, they will also start a global test on Steam. Whether it can withstand the test of global players, "Operation Delta" will soon hand over the answer.

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