To build on the Hype for .HACK//Last Recode I decide to model and animate the 'Data Drain' effect used by various characters in the .HACK//Series

 

Here is Tri-Edge's Data Drain from .HACK//G.U.

 

And here is Kite's Data Drain from the original .HACK game

 

I've also made Haseo's Data Drain (from His Avatar Awakening, not from the Avatar Skeith) but I don't have a picture to show you at the moment.

 

Just a quick explanation of what the ability 'Data drain' is, its an illegal ability owned by some characters which have transcended the rules of the online game called 'the world'. The ability cannot be deleted by moderators and can even permanently strip a moderator of their privileges. Characters with the Data Drain ability cannot have their characters deleted or account suspended...and worse of all...anybody hit by Data Drain has a chance of falling comatose.

 

Other effects of Data drain can vary from 'complete curing of all status effects on user', 'having all negative status effects cast on the user', 'glitching out the game', to 'dropping the level of it's target to Lv 1 regardless of how much EXP they have acquired'

 

When TriEdge Data Drained Haseo...he dropped from level one hundred and something to level 1....he lost all his 'in game contacts', all items etc)

 

Truly a deadly move

these are getting better and better with every post

Awesome! My hype for the return of .hack is growing each day.

Whoa, that's a scary ability! That's basically like a one hit KO, or a Heartless Angel to the face! Talk about powerful! 0.0

 

Dude, this is awesome work! Truly amazing!

Whoa, that's a scary ability! That's basically like a one hit KO, or a Heartless Angel to the face! Talk about powerful! 0.0

 

Dude, this is awesome work! Truly amazing!

 

thanks man

I love the way its animated in actual game, unfortunately I can't do it justice

 

Here is 10 mins of all the occurances of Data Drain bwahaha

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKbAOxmHbc4

thanks man

I love the way its animated in actual game, unfortunately I can't do it justice

 

Here is 10 mins of all the occurances of Data Drain bwahaha

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKbAOxmHbc4

 

You're welcome!

Dude, you're kidding me! You've done a fantastic job with the modelling! Don't sell yourself short!

 

And dang, that looks particularly painful! I wouldn't wanna get hit by that!

Massive Necro... But I have great need for these animations for a Unity project... (VRC avatar)