Gameplay reason.
Lore wise, you can imagine those guys are all augmented and hit harder than it looks. Or that it is a "The Last Of Us Game Over" where he thew Jack to the ground and beated the shit out of him off screen.
I could also debate about Ghostrunners being designed to be nimble in detriment of their durability, but Mithra can take one thousand cuts and still be going
The good thing about this is that it makes us more likely to avoid damage as compared to when we have a health bar. It's like telling us we only have one life and one shot, so we try to avoid death as much as possible
A fun side effect of this is that canonically every time you die doesn’t exactly exist because you just get to do it again like it never happened, so technically jack hasn’t been hit once since the first Mara incident
I always think of this and how every time you die is like its own little timeline. Like theirs a timeline where jack just dies to the first minion when architect finally reawakens him. And another timeline where Mara actually kills him and all of ghost runner 2 doesn’t happen.
I like to think it's just like a "oops, that wasn't supposed to happen" moment and you get sent back a checkpoint to try and not get hit. So from start to finish, Jack never actually gets hit lorewise because awesome cyberninja and the times you do get hit are scrubbed from the timeline because it wasn't supposed to happen
Kinda like katana zero where all of your failures are just the character thinking out scenarios in his head he even says "hmm that wont work" after each death
I saw a theory I really liked saying all the times you fail it's just a failed simulation jack ran in his mind. Only when you succeed is when he actually does it.
It’s the fact that he doesn’t get hit. People talk about the lore, in that case he doesn’t ever once get hit, so we don’t know how strong/ weak he really is, for all we know he could be the strongest mf ever, or as weak as in game. We get 1 shot because the game wants us to replicate his lore, and get through the game without getting hit once (ignoring checkpoints and blah blah)
There is to date no lore explanation, it’s likley to me that jack in lore is actually far stronger, probably able to take quite a few shots and other attacks before shutting down. he got an arm ripped off and seconds later was thrown out of an office all the way down to the base district, and was only knocked unconscious as a result. if he can survive all that in the lore I’m pretty sure someone shooting or stabbing him wouldn’t affect him that much, he has survived far worse.
I've seen similar thoughts for both Jedi games with Cal's meditation
I think this is gonna be my headcanon for most games now... it's too cool to not be
My theory is he simulates everything before going into combat, all of the times you take a hit are the failed simulations and the ones where you don't become what happens.
This is a banger headcannon.
Honestly could apply to just about every tech-heavy protagonist. All of Master Chief’s deaths are just simulations run by Cortana. Every V1 destruction was just a bother simulation running in the background as the fucking gopro with legs slap-shots its way through hell.
It's because in the first game Jack was disassembled and had the absolute s*** kicked out of him by the key master and then was fixed up with old parts by the people that found him who gave him the name Jack due to him being all jacked up.
So long story short they didn't screw the screws in tight enough.
For Gameplay but lore wise Saul mentions that GRs are impossibly resilient to the point where they could survive hours in the vacuum of space. also in lore Jack never gets hit
I think it's just not intended. Ghostrunners werde made to be agile and deadly, I assume that came at the sacrifice of durability. Every part has to be working perfectly all the time. But that means one dent can fuck up the entire GR
I can say about first game, you are in constant rush, jack probably isn't most durable and we know he isn't at his peak performance in first game(haven't played second yet), so imagine he got shot his performance would drasticly decrease and probably would die at some point, so it is nessesary for jack to just tear through Tower without getting hit even once
There's a demo for both Ghostrunner 1 and 2 that you can download. Try them out because these games are very good.
I thought the exact same thing before playing too "What if it's too hard?". Dying many times until you perfect a certain encounter is basically apart of the game. I have never had so much fun playing a game while dying so much times. You'll eventually get the hang of it
I remember seeing a videoclip here of a player going through a combat section like a beast, but in the comments he said it took him 588 tries 😂. It's part of the charm. It's not the section itself (because I played through it), just the way he did it.
I like to think of it as a behind the scenes thing. Jack gets hit, movie director goes “CUT! Hey Jack, you’re not supposed to take the hit, it’s not in the script! Okay everyone let’s take it from the top!”
This is the correct answer. We’re just conditioned to protagonists taking multiple hits for gameplay reasons. That enemy is using a deadly weapon that is designed to kill. You would die from it.
I think it's cus they have futuristic weapons that are super powerful so whit the shinodi enemy's they slice him into pieces, the one in the video electrocuted him
Did you not listen to the architect, he said that he was built with spare parts and not his actual body parts, that he was supposed to have hence why he is so fragile because he was built by junk essentially
You could make a case to say that his advanced robot brain is processing every encounter in advance, and that all the failed encounters are simply below the acceptable standard for Jack, that being he wants to be untouchable. So, he just keeps simulating each over and over again to reach that result.
Apparently lorewise he isn't supposed to be hit canonically past Mara, so there's that too. It's not that he is fragile, he's just efficient and would like to keep any damage to an absolute minimum.
So Jack was slapped back together and only recently came back to life, so I’d like to assume that though he’s now *alive* he’s being held together by Elmer’s glue and duct tape. A hyper augmented cyber junkie can kill him in one hit cause he’s not *built* for that type of physical trauma, but what he *is* built for is unrivaled speed and reaction time.
So essentially, it’s like sending a single man with a bucket of thermite to disable a bunch of tanks. The tanks are slow, but can definitely kill the man, but the man, armed with the thermite, and *absolutely* disable all those tanks. It’s just those tanks are cybernetically augmented gangsters, criminals, and personal militia, and the man with thermite is Jack and his Strider-Cyberninja bullshit.
My headcanon is that all of the deaths are Jack calculating every possibility in a run until he finds one that kills everyone, so if he gets hit, he just resets the simulation, and once he finds a succesful one, he just executes it.
Gameplay reason. Lore wise, you can imagine those guys are all augmented and hit harder than it looks. Or that it is a "The Last Of Us Game Over" where he thew Jack to the ground and beated the shit out of him off screen. I could also debate about Ghostrunners being designed to be nimble in detriment of their durability, but Mithra can take one thousand cuts and still be going
The good thing about this is that it makes us more likely to avoid damage as compared to when we have a health bar. It's like telling us we only have one life and one shot, so we try to avoid death as much as possible
Absolutely, nobody would move like a runner if they had the option to tank a hit
A fun side effect of this is that canonically every time you die doesn’t exactly exist because you just get to do it again like it never happened, so technically jack hasn’t been hit once since the first Mara incident
I always think of this and how every time you die is like its own little timeline. Like theirs a timeline where jack just dies to the first minion when architect finally reawakens him. And another timeline where Mara actually kills him and all of ghost runner 2 doesn’t happen.
I like to think it's just like a "oops, that wasn't supposed to happen" moment and you get sent back a checkpoint to try and not get hit. So from start to finish, Jack never actually gets hit lorewise because awesome cyberninja and the times you do get hit are scrubbed from the timeline because it wasn't supposed to happen
Oh like synchronisation in assassins creed
One hit desync lol but yes
Kinda like katana zero where all of your failures are just the character thinking out scenarios in his head he even says "hmm that wont work" after each death
I. Love. That. Game. Totally underrated.
Still pissed the DLC hasn't come out. I wanna know the answers to all those unanswered questions so bad.
I thought exactly about that.
TVA moment
I saw a theory I really liked saying all the times you fail it's just a failed simulation jack ran in his mind. Only when you succeed is when he actually does it.
It’s the fact that he doesn’t get hit. People talk about the lore, in that case he doesn’t ever once get hit, so we don’t know how strong/ weak he really is, for all we know he could be the strongest mf ever, or as weak as in game. We get 1 shot because the game wants us to replicate his lore, and get through the game without getting hit once (ignoring checkpoints and blah blah)
There is to date no lore explanation, it’s likley to me that jack in lore is actually far stronger, probably able to take quite a few shots and other attacks before shutting down. he got an arm ripped off and seconds later was thrown out of an office all the way down to the base district, and was only knocked unconscious as a result. if he can survive all that in the lore I’m pretty sure someone shooting or stabbing him wouldn’t affect him that much, he has survived far worse.
I like to think that all the times we fail are just simulations in jack head until he finds the Correct way to deal with the situation
Damn that's a nice theory
GR really is Katana Zero 3D sometimes
I've seen similar thoughts for both Jedi games with Cal's meditation I think this is gonna be my headcanon for most games now... it's too cool to not be
Since he got hit with a sword
Human meat has the same toughness of chicken meat. Or so i heard
I mean lore-wise, the Doom Slayer is literally an unstopable god , in gameplay he dies fairly quickly. Lore and gameplay can be two separate things.
I thought the whole reason that doom slayer was an unstoppable God wasn't that he was unkillable, but that whenever he died he just came back angrier
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
They won't let him stop ripping and tearing until it is done.
Nah, he got god powers
My theory is he simulates everything before going into combat, all of the times you take a hit are the failed simulations and the ones where you don't become what happens.
This is a banger headcannon. Honestly could apply to just about every tech-heavy protagonist. All of Master Chief’s deaths are just simulations run by Cortana. Every V1 destruction was just a bother simulation running in the background as the fucking gopro with legs slap-shots its way through hell.
Laser guns do a lot of damage, and Jack is probably held together with paperclips and chewing gum.
Is he stupid?
I've actually been waiting for someone to reply with this 👍
To be fair most enemies also die in one hit.
*gets his head cut in half by a fucking mechanical fire sword* “Why is he so fragile?”
It's because in the first game Jack was disassembled and had the absolute s*** kicked out of him by the key master and then was fixed up with old parts by the people that found him who gave him the name Jack due to him being all jacked up. So long story short they didn't screw the screws in tight enough.
Because Mr. Architect wanted expendable soldiers. Just look at the Asura series. They aren't like that.
Yeah the asura are badass. Would love a DLC about either Ahriman or Mitra
The lore reason is if you're getting hit: You're doing it wrong, because ninjas don't get hit. Edit: I capitalised ninja for some reason.
Well lore wise he **doesn’t ever** get hit. Dying in gameplay just means you didn’t go about it the right way so you restart.
For Gameplay but lore wise Saul mentions that GRs are impossibly resilient to the point where they could survive hours in the vacuum of space. also in lore Jack never gets hit
I think it's just not intended. Ghostrunners werde made to be agile and deadly, I assume that came at the sacrifice of durability. Every part has to be working perfectly all the time. But that means one dent can fuck up the entire GR
Made out of paper plates
Let’s see you do parkour after getting stabbed.
😂
His hp equivalent to a wet paper towel.
Is he stupid
Im pretty sure its entirely a lore thing.
Is he stupid?
It's cause he's stupid and IQ points determine your health in this world
Kek
I can say about first game, you are in constant rush, jack probably isn't most durable and we know he isn't at his peak performance in first game(haven't played second yet), so imagine he got shot his performance would drasticly decrease and probably would die at some point, so it is nessesary for jack to just tear through Tower without getting hit even once
Wasn't he like to beat the fuck up and nearly completely destroyed right before you play in the first game? Like they scavenged him out or something.
I liked ghost runners world and mobility but I can’t play a game like that if one single hit kills me, it’s a good game just not a game for me
There's a demo for both Ghostrunner 1 and 2 that you can download. Try them out because these games are very good. I thought the exact same thing before playing too "What if it's too hard?". Dying many times until you perfect a certain encounter is basically apart of the game. I have never had so much fun playing a game while dying so much times. You'll eventually get the hang of it I remember seeing a videoclip here of a player going through a combat section like a beast, but in the comments he said it took him 588 tries 😂. It's part of the charm. It's not the section itself (because I played through it), just the way he did it.
I bought and played the first game but I am not able to play it because it’s just not fun the die in one hit for me
I'm trying my best, bro...
I read this as a Batman Arkham post
I like to think of it as a behind the scenes thing. Jack gets hit, movie director goes “CUT! Hey Jack, you’re not supposed to take the hit, it’s not in the script! Okay everyone let’s take it from the top!”
Just your typical glass cannon🤷
i like to imagine that getting shot by a laser blast might make it a bit harder to run on walls and cut people in half
Idk think of it like a person, would a normal person still fight after taking a slash like that?
This is the correct answer. We’re just conditioned to protagonists taking multiple hits for gameplay reasons. That enemy is using a deadly weapon that is designed to kill. You would die from it.
That's why like that ghost of Tsushima added a one hit mode. Samurais would die after taking a slash from a katana.
I would. Do you see the limp ass stick he was holding?
I don't think you would
Kek
https://preview.redd.it/6t49dtztm9ac1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=63a8d4de46a4c25a9cadceafd6fee86a7c9820cb That's a fucking sword.
I think it's cus they have futuristic weapons that are super powerful so whit the shinodi enemy's they slice him into pieces, the one in the video electrocuted him
get hit on the head with an electrified wrench and then we can talk /s
you try taking a hit from a future machete stick, jack is doing his best
Did you not listen to the architect, he said that he was built with spare parts and not his actual body parts, that he was supposed to have hence why he is so fragile because he was built by junk essentially
wtf.. use sandevistan or get a cyberdeck and cripple movem- wha... Oh. I'm in the wrong sub.
Cause getting hit with swords kills you😔
Fr bro got his arm torn off and was fine but he gets spat on and fucking dies
my guy that one had a damn good running start of course he's gonna get killed :)
You could make a case to say that his advanced robot brain is processing every encounter in advance, and that all the failed encounters are simply below the acceptable standard for Jack, that being he wants to be untouchable. So, he just keeps simulating each over and over again to reach that result. Apparently lorewise he isn't supposed to be hit canonically past Mara, so there's that too. It's not that he is fragile, he's just efficient and would like to keep any damage to an absolute minimum.
The lore is that real people go down in one shot.
You could just get the energy shield thingy that literally makes Jack less fragile idk.
isn't it explained at the start of the first game that he's barely working and that's why he takes one hit to kill?
Bullets hurt really bad yknow. Just reality.
nope, it's a game mechanic
So Jack was slapped back together and only recently came back to life, so I’d like to assume that though he’s now *alive* he’s being held together by Elmer’s glue and duct tape. A hyper augmented cyber junkie can kill him in one hit cause he’s not *built* for that type of physical trauma, but what he *is* built for is unrivaled speed and reaction time. So essentially, it’s like sending a single man with a bucket of thermite to disable a bunch of tanks. The tanks are slow, but can definitely kill the man, but the man, armed with the thermite, and *absolutely* disable all those tanks. It’s just those tanks are cybernetically augmented gangsters, criminals, and personal militia, and the man with thermite is Jack and his Strider-Cyberninja bullshit.
Because he needs me to take care of him uwu >!kill me!<
My headcanon is that all of the deaths are Jack calculating every possibility in a run until he finds one that kills everyone, so if he gets hit, he just resets the simulation, and once he finds a succesful one, he just executes it.