Discussion on the mechanics as explored in the lore
Posted: Thu May 16, 2019 9:37 pm
After rewatching KonoSuba and being reminded about .hack/SAO death battle scenarios again, I began to wonder about how these game breaking mechanics would work outside the original setting, which led to me wondering about them within the lore. So I decided I'd ask my fellow compatriots for their thoughts. If anyone has their own discussion points, feel free to share as well.
Sorry for the rambling wall of text to follow, but had to get all this off my chest.
First thing to come to mind was that there seemed to be differences between the protection of Kite's bracelet and the epitaphs. Something that was explicitly said in IMOQ was that with the bracelet, Kite's PC data is protected from tampering or even deletion within the game. We see this also via the admin's failed attempts to dupe Kite with new installation books.
Phases seem to one shot anything without protection. Silver Knight, Sora and Orca are all incapacitated to varying levels by DD. Even without DD, we see characters get one shot throughout the series. Only characters with a certain level of protection can withstand those attacks.
Kite and his party are able to take data drains to the face and keep going, whereas even Aura was dissected by Skeith's data drain. The only time Kite's party is completely vulnerable to a phase is after Kite loses the bracelet.
On the other hand, we have Haseo and the other avatar-users, who seemed to have a similar protection. However, Haseo's data was tampered with on multiple occasions (not going to count Harold because he's Harold).
Azure Kite's data drain: I wondered if either Skeith wasn't around when Haseo was DD'd or if it was, could dormancy have left Haseo's PC data vulnerable to corruption? He wasn't outright derezzed, but his character was completely reformatted.
After awakening, Haseo is able to survive attacks and DDs during avatar segments in one piece and only after taking the re-initialization of the internet to the face did his data get wrecked again.
Zelkova: After that incident, he was subject to tampering in order to rebuild him and unlock new job extensions. Zelkova is a different entity from normal admins, so I wonder about it.
Kite's party is protected, but are able to break down the phases' data and destroy them. However, Kite's party is never shown being protect broken, which was the difference between them and the phases when they battled.
The reverse happens to Azure Kite, despite being modeled after the original Kite's data. He's imperfect, but could Aura not have given him the same protections the original bracelet had? Could it be the same, but those old protections just aren't as effective during the R:2 era? Was Kite's bracelet more powerful than that of the phases back in R:1?
I also wonder about the way the phases move between fields. They have bracelet similar enough to Kite's and shares its core abilities. However, the phases can get around a lot more effortlessly compared to Kite gate-hacking ability. Are they the same, but the phases are just more adept? Is it a separate ability innate to the phases? Could Kite learn to move between fields like the phases? Could you go to an area and find Skeith farming for virus cores?
Sorry for the rambling wall of text to follow, but had to get all this off my chest.
First thing to come to mind was that there seemed to be differences between the protection of Kite's bracelet and the epitaphs. Something that was explicitly said in IMOQ was that with the bracelet, Kite's PC data is protected from tampering or even deletion within the game. We see this also via the admin's failed attempts to dupe Kite with new installation books.
Phases seem to one shot anything without protection. Silver Knight, Sora and Orca are all incapacitated to varying levels by DD. Even without DD, we see characters get one shot throughout the series. Only characters with a certain level of protection can withstand those attacks.
Kite and his party are able to take data drains to the face and keep going, whereas even Aura was dissected by Skeith's data drain. The only time Kite's party is completely vulnerable to a phase is after Kite loses the bracelet.
On the other hand, we have Haseo and the other avatar-users, who seemed to have a similar protection. However, Haseo's data was tampered with on multiple occasions (not going to count Harold because he's Harold).
Azure Kite's data drain: I wondered if either Skeith wasn't around when Haseo was DD'd or if it was, could dormancy have left Haseo's PC data vulnerable to corruption? He wasn't outright derezzed, but his character was completely reformatted.
After awakening, Haseo is able to survive attacks and DDs during avatar segments in one piece and only after taking the re-initialization of the internet to the face did his data get wrecked again.
Zelkova: After that incident, he was subject to tampering in order to rebuild him and unlock new job extensions. Zelkova is a different entity from normal admins, so I wonder about it.
Kite's party is protected, but are able to break down the phases' data and destroy them. However, Kite's party is never shown being protect broken, which was the difference between them and the phases when they battled.
The reverse happens to Azure Kite, despite being modeled after the original Kite's data. He's imperfect, but could Aura not have given him the same protections the original bracelet had? Could it be the same, but those old protections just aren't as effective during the R:2 era? Was Kite's bracelet more powerful than that of the phases back in R:1?
I also wonder about the way the phases move between fields. They have bracelet similar enough to Kite's and shares its core abilities. However, the phases can get around a lot more effortlessly compared to Kite gate-hacking ability. Are they the same, but the phases are just more adept? Is it a separate ability innate to the phases? Could Kite learn to move between fields like the phases? Could you go to an area and find Skeith farming for virus cores?