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A |     在今日（8月26日）凌晨举行的科隆游戏展开幕之夜直播中，由成都日蚀边缘工作室开发的国产骑士幻想动作冒险游戏《湮灭之潮》公布了全新剧情预告片。    Exxon Mobil is buying Pioneer Natural Resources in an all-stock deal valued at $59.5 billion, its largest buyout since acquiring Mobil two decades ago, creating a colossal fracking operator in West Texas. Including debt, Exxon is committing about $64.5 billion to the acquisition, leaving no doubt of the Texas energy company's commitment to fossil fuels as energy prices surge. Pioneer shareholders will receive 2.32 shares of Exxon for each Pioneer share they own.“I think fossil fuels, as the world looks to transition and find lower sources of affordable energy with lower emissions, fossil fuels oil and gas are going to continue to play a role over time,” Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods said during an interview with CNBC. “ That may diminish with time. The rate of that is, I think, not very clear at this stage. But it will be around for a long time.” Woods explained that Exxon and Pioneer will be able to use their combined capabilities to drive down emissions and produce lower carbon intensity oil and gas. Exxon purchased XTO Energy in 2009 for approximately $36 billion. In the late 1990s, the merger between Exxon and Mobil was valued around $80 billion.The deal with Pioneer Natural vastly expands Exxon's presence in the Permian basin, a massive oilfield that straddles the border between Texas and New Mexico. Drilling the Permian accounted for 18% of all U.S. natural gas production last year, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.Pioneer's more than 850,000 net acres in the Midland Basin will be combined with Exxon’s 570,000 net acres in the Delaware and Midland Basin, nearly contiguous fields that will allow the combined company to trim costs. That is a big driver of the deal. Natural gas rigs in operation have declined over 26% in the U.S. since the start of the year, according to government data, largely due to the rising costs for drilling materials and labor over the past two years. “Their tier-one acreage is highly contiguous, allowing for greater opportunities to deploy our technologies, delivering operating and capital efficiency as well as significantly increasing production,” Woods said of Pioneer in a prepared statement. The company will have an estimated 16 billion barrels of oil equivalent in the Permian.Once the deal closes, Exxon Permian production volume will more than double to 1.3 million barrels of oil equivalent per day, based on 2023 volumes. It's expected to climb to about 2 million barrels of oil equivalent per day in 2027. “The combination of ExxonMobil and Pioneer creates a diversified energy company with the largest footprint of high-return wells in the Permian Basin,” Pioneer CEO Scott Sheffield said in a prepared statement. Citi's Alastair Syme wrote that the transaction could provide multiple benefits to Exxon. “Across the industry, the logic of consolidation in the highly fragmented Permian shale remains compelling with significant gains to be achieved from economies of scale by minimizing facilities spend, optimizing drilling and reducing" general spending, Syme wrote. Exxon is flush with cash. The company posted unprecedented profits last year of $55.7 billion, breezing past its previous record of $45.22 billion in 2008 when oil prices hit record highs.Exxon Mobil Corp. has been using some of that cash on acquisitions. In July the company announced that it was buying pipeline operator Denbury in an all-stock deal valued at $4.9 billion.Pioneer Natural has been making similar maneuvers. In 2020 the company said it was buying Parsley Energy in an all-stock deal valued at approximately $4.5 billion. It then purchased DoublePoint Energy in a cash-and-stock deal worth about $6.4 billion in 2021.The boards of both companies have approved the transaction, which is expected to close in the first half of next year. It still needs approval from Pioneer shareholders. Shares of Exxon fell more than 4% in Wednesday morning trading.。视频欣赏：此前引发玩家争议的女主角脸模问题也在新预告中有了变化。有玩家发现，预告片中的格雯德琳面部形象与此前线下试玩版中的“新版”外观有所不同，似乎部分回调了早期宣传中的面部特征。

B | 此前，游戏在8月的线下试玩中因女主面部形象发生变化而引发玩家讨论。制作人付坤曾回应称，角色模型本身并未修改，观感差异来自光照与渲染系统的迭代优化。官方表示后续会继续优化面部表现。    上次的对比：有玩家发现了一个更让人困惑的细节：不同渠道发布的预告片，女主角格雯德琳的脸竟然不一样，科隆开幕之夜直播中展示的预告片与《湮灭之潮》官方YouTube频道上传的版本，在女主角的面部呈现上存在明显差异：最新截图欣赏：这一发现让此前关于女主角“脸模改回原样”的说法变得更加扑朔迷离。

C | 有玩家推测，官方YouTube频道上传的版本可能使用了更接近初版的脸模，而科隆直播版本则保留了此前引发争议的“新版”外观。也有观点认为，这可能只是不同渠道上传了不同渲染版本的预告片，并非有意为之。本文由游民星空制作发布，未经允许禁止转载。

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