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Originally Posted by Clarste
It doesn't mean they have real battle experience.
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I'd say your rather doing them a disservice by saying they don't have real battle experience, seeing as they were fighting for their lives in a very realistic manner, saw friends die, and killed people. They're going to be plenty of people traumatized, and displaying the sort of PTSD, and reluctance to discuss parts of their experience that you see in war veterans.
What they don't have is real world battle experience. The main differences being that what is physical possible for a given body frame will be very different, the lack of pain and accumulated injury in VR, and blows that would cripple or kill them iin the real world would merely drastically decrease their HP in the game.
The last being the least important given the high priority of not taking such hits in the game due to the risk.
The bottom line being that they've accumulated lots of combat experience, but it's not a one to one transfer as we saw this episode. It's immensely helpful, but they'd still need to train in the real world to adjust to the differences.
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Originally Posted by kyp275
Bingo, remember, SAO was still a video game, albeit with a novel interface, it was NOT a combat simulator.
SAO can no more train sword masters then Microsoft Flight Simulator can train combat pilots
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Um, Microsoft Flight Simulator, no. Microsoft Full Dive VR Flight Simulator, assuming it's properly made to match real planes, pretty much could. The military has a long history of using
flight simulators as part of training, and a VR one could be the best flight simulator ever. Even assuming they make some trade offs to make it more of a game, it could still be immensely helpful in training.