
Hacking A2 ALL THE WAY During the Final Battle - NieR: Automata
It figures that the time I make A2 completely invincible and start going ham on her - which wouldn't matter because she can't take damage - is when I take absolutely no damage from her. The time where she'd be able to live the longest and should give me MORE trouble... is when I don't get hit.
I guess deliberately trying not to do any damage or trying to hold back really DOES make things harder...
Anyway, yeah... I was intrigued by that unique hacking mini game during the fight with A2 yesterday, and you know me... I had to find out what it was about!
Luckily I went to try out the debug room and noticed it kept spawning me as 2B, which I figured was because hitting "Continue" on my file instead of "Chapter Select" would start the whole game over, which has you playing as 2B, so I figured it had me last saved as 2B. I went to a chapter as 9S to save as him, and found I was actually able to open the debug menu during the main game as well.
And having looked through the debug flag tools to see all my options, I saw a way for me to hack A2 without killing her! I'm so glad I went to try out the debug menu instead of going on to do Ending C!
And man... that was such a cool and meta easter egg! And it makes sense too. OF COURSE it would be A2's menu! We were hacking INTO A2, so we were going deeper and deeper into her status/OS each time, right into her menu itself. That's where the menus are supposed to take place, and why you can just open it while in combat to pause time around you... because it's all supposed to be happening in the span of an instant - just like a very fast computer.
And yes, that really is where my EXP is at now. I have killed A LOT o machines...
Also, watching 9S and A2 duel... it shows how strong 9S has gotten. Remember, he's not meant for combat, and even then he was giving an ATTACKER model a hard time. That's... really impressive.
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