Chapter 1407 A Car Accident Full of Educational and Warning Significance

After chatting with the viewers in the live stream for a while, the game finished downloading.

Zhang Yan didn't have a lot of viewers in her live stream, but most of them were old fans who were quite active in the chat, so the popularity of the stream seemed pretty good.

What's more, thanks to the traffic brought by the GOG Global Invitational Tournament viewing system, Rabbit Tail Live's traffic had increased significantly compared to before. And the viewers who persisted in checking in every day using the learning mode and focus mode were generally more friendly. There were far fewer instances of trolling and arguing in the live stream compared to other live streaming platforms.

So, Zhang Yan particularly liked the current atmosphere of her live stream. It would be even better if there were more viewers.

"Today, I'm going to stream Tenda's new game, *Safe and Civilized Driving*."

"Huh? Someone's already played it? What? This game isn't very friendly to keyboard and mouse or controllers? Uh..."

"It's okay, as a professional racing game player, I've already bought a steering wheel, and it's the deluxe package."

"What? Saying I'm a female driver?"

"I can tell you're a new viewer. I'm clearly a female racing god, okay! The old viewers all know that I'm very good at racing games."

Seeing the number of viewers in the live stream steadily increasing, and the old viewers she expected were almost all here, Zhang Yan officially started the game.

After entering the game, the first thing she saw was the logo on a black screen, including Tenda Games, Shang Yang Games, and Outu Technology.

Then, the camera zoomed out, and the content on the black screen gradually shrank, turning into a huge screen. The camera, meanwhile, moved into the car, becoming the driver's first-person perspective.

The black screen logo on the giant screen disappeared. A white line in the middle of the black screen unfolded up and down, as if a door was opening, and beautiful city scenery came into view.

Prosperous high-rise buildings, traffic flowing on city roads, highways stretching in all directions, national roads with golden wheat fields on both sides, professional race tracks in the suburbs, rally race tracks... many scenes were presented one by one.

Judging from these scenes, the graphics of *Safe and Civilized Driving* were definitely top-notch, and the optimization wasn't bad either.

Most importantly, it seemed to be somewhat different from other racing games.

Other racing games basically piled up a lot of beautiful scenery, with only two lanes, and very few cars on the road. Basically, you only occasionally encountered one car, partly to slightly increase the difficulty for the player, so it wouldn't become purely running a line, and partly to prevent the player from feeling too lonely.

But in general, the impact of the vehicles encountered on the road on the player's normal driving was definitely minimized.

However, in the scenes presented by the opening CG of *Safe and Civilized Driving*, the traffic flow was much denser than in other games, and the road layout was also the same as in reality, with many lanes.

The vehicles running on the city roads were of all kinds, but the overall focus was on family cars, and the high-rise buildings on both sides looked very realistic.

It felt like the art team had put as much effort into the city scenery as they had into the beautiful environments in the wild.

"Are there so many cars? That should just be a show effect made by the opening CG, to make it look lively."

"A racing game with so many cars, it'll be a miracle if there isn't a traffic jam. How are you supposed to race?"

"This initial car... what kind of car is it? I've never seen this interior, it might be a car original to the game."

"That's normal. The licensing fees for many real-world cars are too high. Buy them if it's cost-effective, modify them if it's not. That's all normal."

"But a racing game without many classic real-world cars, I have to say it's a bit of a shame."

Anyway, she was just watching the opening CG and hadn't really entered the game yet, so Zhang Yan just made a few casual comments.

Many excellent racing games would cooperate with real-world car manufacturers to buy the licenses for these models. For players, they might not be able to afford luxury cars in real life, but couldn't they afford them in the game? Even if it cost money, it would be worth it to spend a few bucks to experience the driving feel of a luxury car.

Therefore, real-world luxury cars were precisely an important factor in attracting players to many racing games.

But there were also some games that couldn't afford or couldn't buy the licenses for various real-world models, so the only way was to modify them.

Change the brand name of the car, and slightly modify the appearance and interior, but as long as the players who know cars could still roughly identify which car it was based on, it could achieve almost the same effect.

But this was ultimately a bit of a gray area, not the optimal solution.

The only reason for not being able to afford the license was insufficient funding, while the reasons for not wanting to buy the license could be varied.

For example: Feeling that the license price was too expensive and not cost-effective;

Feeling that their game was so awesome that buying the license would be advertising for the car company and not worth it;

The car company might not be willing to sell because the cars might be repeatedly abused in the game, causing a certain negative impact;

Being able to buy the license, but wanting to create a completely virtual game world, and so on.

Zhang Yan didn't pay too much attention to this matter, because she noticed that there seemed to be some real-world brands in the CG, but most of the cars were modified versions.

Perhaps it was because most of the funding was spent on the game, and they didn't deliberately purchase licenses for a large number of vehicles.

After showing the scenery in the game, the camera cut back to the big screen again, showing the full appearance of the car that the player was currently controlling.

This should also be a modified car in the game, but Zhang Yan didn't have much research on these various models, so she didn't recognize exactly which car it was based on. She only knew that it was a supercar and looked very cool.

At the same time, simple operation prompts began to appear on the screen in front.

The system had automatically detected that Zhang Yan was using a safe and civilized driving simulator, so it would automatically teach according to the simulator's buttons.

Accelerator, brake, clutch, gear shift, handbrake and other buttons were operated in sequence, and their uses were briefly explained on the screen.

For people who understood driving skills, these were all very basic concepts.

But it was also possible that some people had never touched a car in real life and knew nothing about this knowledge, and this was their first time playing this game, right?

Therefore, simple popular science was still very necessary.

Of course, for these completely ignorant players, the system would also very considerately ask whether to switch to automatic transmission. Although most of the functions of the simulator's clutch, handbrake, and gear lever would be useless, it was obviously more important for novice players to be able to get the car running normally.

Operations such as switching the camera angle were all integrated on the console of the package, which was very convenient.

Without this console, you would need to use the buttons on the keyboard or controller.

Zhang Yan had a complete set of luxury equipment, so of course she had to set it to the in-car hidden steering wheel view in order to get the best sense of immersion.

After a simple operation tutorial, the last step was to step on the accelerator and rush straight towards the game world on the big screen in front.

Zhang Yan was very excited, and directly slammed on the accelerator, crashing into the big screen!

Everything instantly crossed over, coming to the city road she had seen before, with high-rise buildings flashing by on both sides.

As soon as she entered, it was a nighttime scene. There were not many cars on the wide three-lane road, only a few other supercars were distributed in various directions around her, seemingly racing with the car that Zhang Yan was driving.

Zhang Yan instantly perked up, she was familiar with this scene!

Wasn't this the warm-up and speeding session at the beginning of the game?

This session was actually to allow players to quickly adapt to the driving feel in the game, memorize the keys they had just learned, and by the way, let players quickly immerse themselves in the game through tense and exciting races.

This segment shouldn't be very long, it should be over in a few minutes, and then she would enter the formal game session.

One sports car after another sped past, and the speed measuring probes and cameras above the road flashed.

"It's made quite realistically." Zhang Yan couldn't help but sigh, this game even made these unimportant details.

However, just as she was distracted, she subconsciously reduced her speed a bit, and saw another sports car accelerating past from the next lane, instantly overtaking her.

Could she tolerate this?

Zhang Yan directly slammed the accelerator to the floor and sped back!

It had to be said that the performance of a sports car was good, the acceleration was indeed fast, and although the g-force seat couldn't simulate the exaggerated g-force of a real car, there was still a sense of push-back, and it was tuned very consistently with the accelerator response, which made Zhang Yan even more excited.

But after all, both cars were supercars, and the speeds were very fast, so it was difficult to overtake when running in a straight line.

Zhang Yan was even more annoyed. If she hadn't been photographed by the speed measuring probe just now, which distracted her and made her subconsciously loosen the accelerator and reduce her speed, she would definitely still be in the lead now.

But as long as she kept close, she would still have a chance to overtake when cornering.

Finally, a bend appeared ahead. Zhang Yan estimated the distance of the bend and slowed down a bit, preparing to perform a beautiful drift to complete the overtake!

However, at the moment she turned the steering wheel, she suddenly realized that something was wrong.

First of all, the brake lights of the car in front lit up, and the speed dropped much faster than she had expected. Secondly, she found that the handling of this car was completely different from what she had imagined. The car didn't drift smoothly as she had expected, but instead experienced severe understeer, with the front wheels slipping, resulting in insufficient steering force!

"Bang!"

With a loud noise, Zhang Yan's car crashed solidly into the rear of the car in front. The two cars were severely deformed and parts shattered all over the ground under the huge impact force, and then crashed solidly into the guardrail on the side of the road.

This wasn't over yet. The collision between the two cars almost blocked the entire road, and the several supercars closely following behind naturally had no time to brake and react, and collided in a chain reaction one after another!

Zhang Yan was in the in-car view. She only saw the airbags pop out, felt the violent vibrations simulated by the steering wheel and the g-force seat, and then her view drifted quickly. She didn't know how many cars had crashed into her rear end in succession.

Finally, all of this stopped, but the picture didn't move either. No matter how Zhang Yan stepped on the accelerator or turned the steering wheel, there was no response.

The screen gradually went black.