Chapter 674: Speculation About the "Immortal Server"
Soon, footage of that match appeared on major video sites, with the title: "Suspected Chen Mo Player Gets 29-Kill Chicken Dinner! Three Streamers in the Same Match, First-Person Perspective in the Second Half!"
The match recording was quickly shared across various forums, causing an uproar among the "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" player base!
Moreover, the video was even reposted to other gaming forums.
As "PUBG" grew increasingly popular, the game had begun spreading to many other player groups, including fans of "League of Legends," "Overwatch," and other FPS games.
Such explosive news instantly sparked heated discussions among players!
"What the hell? 29 kills and a chicken dinner? That's gotta be hacking, right?"
"Is that Chen Mo? Any proof? Did Chen Mo admit it himself?"
"Holy crap, I watched the video. It's terrifying! I feel like he's playing a completely different game from me!"
"Watching the first half, I thought this guy was a hacker; then I saw the first-person perspective in the second half, and I was dumbfounded... From this guy's awareness, reactions, and mechanics, he's completely beyond professional player level. Someone like this has no reason to cheat..."
"True story. There were three streamers in that match. I watched it from Haimi's stream. After seeing it, I had only one word: respect! Even just the AWM spam was scary enough!"
"I can't be sure about other hacks, but I'm absolutely certain this guy was using an airplane hack! Every time he fired a shot, a plane dropped a crate. Who dares to defend that? (manual sarcasm)"
There was no way around it—just the phrase "29-kill chicken dinner" was enough to shock players, and when it was linked to Chen Mo, the topic exploded!
Players fiercely debated whether "cdx" was really Chen Mo, but the vast majority believed it was him, because there was simply no one else...
If someone else had pulled off such a feat, wouldn't they have come forward to brag by now?
Besides, Fatty's repeated shouts of "Boss" were clear enough to those in the know.
Many "PUBG" players downloaded the recording and repeatedly studied Chen Mo's movement and positioning.
Gunplay couldn't be learned, but movement could be imitated. In particular, Chen Mo's "New Year's Greeting" gun technique during close-quarters combat suddenly became a hot topic.
Many players tried to mimic Chen Mo's movements and found that mastering various techniques could indeed give them a huge advantage in firefights!
However, amid all the discussion, someone raised a question.
"Why was the skill level in this match so high?!"
After watching the match, many people had only one thought in mind: a battle of gods!
Forget about cdx—who was Haimi? He was actually taken down by random players?
Remember, Haimi was landing headshots with his M24, rock-solid and steady, yet he was killed by two unknown players. That was just absurd.
If those two were so skilled, why weren't they streaming? They could easily make a hundred thousand a month!
And even Chen Mo didn't dare to engage in direct firefights at the end, opting instead for a grenade-spamming strategy. Otherwise, who would have gotten the chicken dinner was anyone's guess.
Some said these players were matched together because of their high skill levels.
Others said Chen Mo deliberately grouped these players together to practice.
Opinions varied, but no explanation was particularly convincing. After all, while Haimi was skilled, his rank wasn't that high!
Players were left scratching their heads.
...
Meanwhile, in the custom cheat group, chaos had erupted.
"You were in that match too?"
"You were there too? There's a 300-point difference between us!"
"Right, I was using a new account with only a few games, and I think I got put into that match too."
"Wait, let me sort this out. Our ranks are vastly different, but the only thing we have in common is that we queued up around the same time and had used cheats..."
"Could it be... the system detected we were using cheats and deliberately grouped us together? The entire server was filled with cheating players?!"
"Holy crap, that can't be right... Soft aimbots don't get banned, but they're all thrown into a specific server?!"
Ordinary players didn't understand what was happening, but how could the cheat group players not know?
As soon as the match recording came out, many cheating players suddenly realized—this was exactly what their everyday games looked like!
Many had been using soft aimbots for so long that they never experienced what a normal match was like. They thought the game's brutality was just the norm. But after seeing other players' reactions, they suddenly realized something was wrong!
I'm using cheats, so the game shouldn't be this hard!
Thus, speculation about an "Immortal Server" became inevitable.
Haimi and Pallla were also following the group chat. If others were still uncertain, they were over 90% sure they had been placed into the Immortal Server!
After all, they had truly faced top-tier AI and knew how terrifying those entities were...
Haimi felt a chill of fear. As a streamer, if he were accused of cheating, it could ruin his entire streaming career.
Still, they needed to verify whether this was really the case.
The verification method was simple: buy a new account. In the cheat group, there were people selling identity documents and Thunder Game account credentials. Just switch to a new account, play a couple of games, and see.
Both Haimi and Pallla had solid FPS foundations. On their first game with new accounts, they successfully got a chicken dinner!
The second game they lost due to bad luck, but they won again on the third!
Clearly, the opponents they faced on new accounts were on a completely different level from before!
Soon, not just Haimi and Pallla, but other players in the cheat group also discovered the truth: all players who had used soft aimbots weren't being ignored by the developers—they were all being funneled into a special "Immortal Server"!
The cheat group exploded. So everyone had been happily cheating, thinking the developers didn't know, only to find out they had been played?
We were all just fooling ourselves!!!
When these cheating players thought back on their recent gaming experiences, their minds shattered. Spending thousands or even tens of thousands a month on aimbot cheats, only to get wrecked in-game? Not a single chicken dinner!
Several players demanded refunds from the cheat sellers, claiming the cheats were completely useless!
The sellers were helpless too—they had never encountered this before!
But refunds were out of the question. Cheating always carried the risk of a ban, so how could they offer refunds?
These cheating players felt like their lives had lost all meaning. Their accounts were clearly ruined, and the only option was to buy new ones.
And even with new accounts, they couldn't cheat anymore, or they'd be sent back to the Immortal Server!
Many players argued back and forth, then, out of frustration, simply left the group.
However, most players, after sighing and lamenting, calmed down and decided to buy new accounts to play "PUBG."
And after being tormented in the Immortal Server, they suddenly felt that playing on the normal server without cheats wasn't so unbearable...
Still, they wondered what to do with their old accounts.
The accounts were still usable, but only in the Immortal Server. Some had linked their real IDs, but most used bought black accounts—after all, if they were going to cheat, they didn't want their real IDs banned.
Since they were black accounts, and since most players didn't yet know about the Immortal Server...
Could they sell these accounts at a low price to recoup some losses?