Chapter 31: Heros Puer (1/2)

Novis and Bill decided to head into bills room. Although Novis had a laptop where they could see the information about the character. Bill's room was just a lot nicer. He had a 30-inch monitor and gaming equipment in his room.

Novis and bill were currently on the VSW website, where they often released new information about patch changes, bug fixes and all sorts and today they had a big announcement. A new character was being added to the game. Bill was currently looking at the character model and just as he said, it looked like Novis.

To be more precise, it looked like an aged Novis. The warrior looked to be around mid-twenties. The face structure was more masculine then Novis's and had a few wrinkles here and there but everything else was nearly exactly the same. The hairstyle, the facial features. It was as if they had scanned Novis's face and used an ageing app on him.

”See, Didn't I tell you, freaky right.”

Novis couldn't help but think he knew who was behind this. It had to be Tom. Tom had stated he was a developer for the game and he often went to dojos looking for inspiration for new characters. It couldn't be a coincidence that he had seen Novis last week and a new character that looked like him was now in the game.

Although some people would be upset if someone used the facial features in a game without permission. Novis thought it was actually cool. He thought his character looked kind of a badass. The character was currently wearing a sleeveless fur hoodie. The main colour was red with a black trim and black fur. The hoodie was unzipped so it could show the characters abs. The red and black theme continued with the trousers and boots.

”So cool!” Novis said out loud.

”He might look cool but your characters lame, he's called Heros puer, it says in the bio it means ”hero boy” in Latin.”

Novis shook his head and wished Tom had better naming sense. If he was going to copy his facial features, he could have even used his name or even asked for his advice.

”What weapons does he use?” Novis asked.

”See, the whole community is in an uproar about this.” Bill scrolled down to the weapon section.

”This is the first time in VSW history that they have done something like this. The character has four different weapons. One of them is called chain sword, the other is a spear, dual swords and a long sword.”

Novis was confused. What was so bad about having multiple weapons. he himself used multiple weapons. Surely in a game, this would be advantageous as you could use the different weapons for different scenarios.”

”What's wrong with that?”

”Well at first glance people thought he was going to be overpowered because of how many weapons he could use. He's practically four characters in one, but here's the catch. The character has no skills. His skills are him changing between weapons.”

90 per cent of the population who played the game relied on using the games skill system. There were only a few who controlled the character themselves. These few were often the pros of the game. With this decision alone it would alienate most of the user's player base.