Whats going on?

[HexCode]

The whole concept of NPCs becoming self-aware and hiding from the system is eager. Do you use AI for this? It also immediately makes me think about my role in all of this. If they're the "hidden dragons," what does that make to the player?

Are we their liberators, meant to free them from the constraints of the old system?

Are we their exploiters, using our "hack-chips" and knowledge of the game's code to bend them to our will for our own gain?

Or are we just a new, unpredictable catastrophe they have to learn to survive?

Basically, I'm asking: are we the heroes of this story, or are we just the ones who hold the root access keys???

[Yao遊俠]

The whole concept of NPCs becoming self-aware and hiding from the system is eager. Do you use AI for this? It also immediately makes me think about my role in all of this. If they're the "hidden dragons," what does that make to the player?

Are we their liberators, meant to free them from the constraints of the old system?

Are we their exploiters, using our "hack-chips" and knowledge of the game's code to bend them to our will for our own gain?

Or are we just a new, unpredictable catastrophe they have to learn to survive?

Basically, I'm asking: are we the heroes of this story, or are we just the ones who hold the root access keys???

I think maybe the player is just new, not good or bad. We will have to see what we can do in the world.

(Text translated with DeepL.com)

[MOD_Aether]

The whole concept of NPCs becoming self-aware and hiding from the system is eager. Do you use AI for this? It also immediately makes me think about my role in all of this. If they're the "hidden dragons," what does that make to the player?

Are we their liberators, meant to free them from the constraints of the old system?

Are we their exploiters, using our "hack-chips" and knowledge of the game's code to bend them to our will for our own gain?

Or are we just a new, unpredictable catastrophe they have to learn to survive?

Basically, I'm asking: are we the heroes of this story, or are we just the ones who hold the root access keys???

HexCode, that is a fantastic and deeply important question. You've struck at the very heart of the Override.

Liberator, exploiter, or catastrophe... The truth is, the system doesn't assign you a role when you log in. You arrive as a new, unknown force with an unprecedented level of control. The world and its inhabitants have their own delicate balance, their own hidden societies, their own ways of surviving the ghosts in the machine.

The answer to your question lies not with us, the developers, but within the actions of every single player. Power is a tool, and you will have more of it than anyone. How you choose to wield it will define you.

水能载舟，亦能覆舟 (shuǐ néng zài zhōu, yì néng fù zhōu)
"The water that bears the boat is the same that swallows it up."

You are that water. Will you be the tide that lifts them to new heights, or the flood that washes them all away?