So... Something I don't get.

[JoJoFan87]

So I'm not super knowledgeable about the .Hack series I remember watching Sign when I was real young and I saw some of Twighlight Bracelet so what I don't understand is when Haseo get's killed by the main character from Twighlight Bracelet (Which for all I know is a rampant AI utilizing the character from that arc or the account was hacked) why did he live? I swear that the "Tri-Edge" used a move called "Data Drain" from the Twighlight Bracelet series? That's supposed to leave you comatose and delete your character. So why was Haseao impervious?

If anyone want's to fill the gaps that'd be great.

[KarmaTheAlligator]

Data drain isn't supposed to leave you comatose, that was a side effect of who/what was doing the draining in the original series. It's only supposed to reset your data, which is exactly what happened to Haseo.

[JoJoFan87]

Originally posted by KarmaTheAlligator:

Data drain isn't supposed to leave you comatose, that was a side effect of who/what was doing the draining in the original series. It's only supposed to reset your data, which is exactly what happened to Haseo.

I just read into it and this is what a site say's about it "Data Drain is an skill acquired by monsters and characters in The World. It allows them to affect people in real life, such as make the people behind the players fall comatose in real life or make them lose their memory. It is used to rewrite information and data in an illegal manner."

[Kargor]

The story is crappy in general, so don't read too much into it. Fact is, having the main character in a coma wouldn't work, but they still wanted Haseo to be attacked by him.

[KarmaTheAlligator]

Originally posted by JoJoFan87:

Originally posted by KarmaTheAlligator:

Data drain isn't supposed to leave you comatose, that was a side effect of who/what was doing the draining in the original series. It's only supposed to reset your data, which is exactly what happened to Haseo.

I just read into it and this is what a site say's about it "Data Drain is an skill acquired by monsters and characters in The World. It allows them to affect people in real life, such as make the people behind the players fall comatose in real life or make them lose their memory. It is used to rewrite information and data in an illegal manner."

And the important point in that description is "used to rewrite information and data", the other things are possible side effects.

Originally posted by Kargor:

The story is crappy in general, so don't read too much into it. Fact is, having the main character in a coma wouldn't work, but they still wanted Haseo to be attacked by him.

They wanted him to be reset to level 1, so that's effective.

[JoJoFan87]

Originally posted by KarmaTheAlligator:

Originally posted by JoJoFan87:

I just read into it and this is what a site say's about it "Data Drain is an skill acquired by monsters and characters in The World. It allows them to affect people in real life, such as make the people behind the players fall comatose in real life or make them lose their memory. It is used to rewrite information and data in an illegal manner."

And the important point in that description is "used to rewrite information and data", the other things are possible side effects.

Originally posted by Kargor:

The story is crappy in general, so don't read too much into it. Fact is, having the main character in a coma wouldn't work, but they still wanted Haseo to be attacked by him.

They wanted him to be reset to level 1, so that's effective.

Yes but it still is used to kill people, so if he was hit by it, it should of left him comatose.

[Tierfiel]

Potential Spoilers

In the game, only those data drained by someone infected with AIDA were put into a coma. When characters who were infected with AIDA data drain you, you are not placed into a coma because they have not caused you to protect break.

What is protect break?
It was a sort of hidden status effect that you saw in the first four .Hack games that indicated when you could successfully data drain a monster/player. In .Hack//G.U., you see protect break at the end of avatar battles after you have dealt a critical amount of damage to the opponent.

Hitting the opponent with data drain successfully reverts the opponent to a previous state and/or defeats the AIDA target.

Why did Haseo revert to level 1 when he was data drained?
Most likely it is because he was data drained by someone who wasn't infected with AIDA while under the protect break status. Without AIDA being a factor, Haseo did not fall into a coma. Since Haseo seemed to have taken a severe amount of damage during the fight, he must of been in protect break status when he was data drained, causing his character to revert to a previous state.

Originally posted by JoJoFan87:

Originally posted by KarmaTheAlligator:

And the important point in that description is "used to rewrite information and data", the other things are possible side effects.


They wanted him to be reset to level 1, so that's effective.

Yes but it still is used to kill people, so if he was hit by it, it should of left him comatose.