Need Hacking / Matrix Help?

[Trese Brothers]

The hacking specific tutorial is now life -
https://steamcommunity.com/games/1021210/announcements/detail/6992487606087801602?snr=2___

Or, if you'd rather watch a video, we posted a short piece to the matrix on YouTube recently:
https://youtu.be/HXn6OSRzvIQ

Ahab's Guide to Hacking:
https://cyberknightswiki.tresebrothers.com/Ahab's_Guide_to_Hacking

The wiki page on Hacking has a lot of great content:
https://cyberknightswiki.tresebrothers.com/Matrix

[Pogobear]

"resets the sec level", the one in the matrix or outside the matrix? If it's outside, it definitely didn't work. I did it on node dump (where you are searching the basement/surgery stations) and I still had level 8/9 and 3 person guard teams spawning.

[Trese Brothers]

引用自 Pogobear：

"resets the sec level", the one in the matrix or outside the matrix? If it's outside, it definitely didn't work. I did it on node dump (where you are searching the basement/surgery stations) and I still had level 8/9 and 3 person guard teams spawning.

Ok, will take a look. We've had a few players report it, its on the semi-low priority list to fix as it isn't supposed to work that way. Maybe it doesn't :D

[pkingstone]

I am confronting the same problem as Zarquon. I'm an older (and very much part time AND amateurish) player with a very time consuming job. I loved the Shadowrun games and the demo for this game so purchased it. I'm on a medical leave so I had time to watch videos and read long documents and I am finding hacking so confusing that I'm close to giving up on the game. I get the basic concepts, but am completely flabbergasted by my first hacking effort (Breakneck Event). I'm not sure what I'm missing or whether it's simply too hard for my hacker. It doesn't help that I can't find buyers for any of the high value items I've found in earlier raids so I can't make any money on the market and can't upgrade my deck. I appreciate that there are really good gamerswho may not have any issues but I have to imagine there are other casual and/or old guy gamers who are just as confused as me.

[Jetwolf]

I totally get why it's hacking is set up to take multiple turns. Excellent tension building.

[Trese Brothers]

引用自 pkingstone：

I am confronting the same problem as Zarquon. I'm an older (and very much part time AND amateurish) player with a very time consuming job. I loved the Shadowrun games and the demo for this game so purchased it. I'm on a medical leave so I had time to watch videos and read long documents and I am finding hacking so confusing that I'm close to giving up on the game. I get the basic concepts, but am completely flabbergasted by my first hacking effort (Breakneck Event). I'm not sure what I'm missing or whether it's simply too hard for my hacker. It doesn't help that I can't find buyers for any of the high value items I've found in earlier raids so I can't make any money on the market and can't upgrade my deck. I appreciate that there are really good gamerswho may not have any issues but I have to imagine there are other casual and/or old guy gamers who are just as confused as me.

Sorry for missing a reply to this in December. A ton of economic changes have been made that should agreed your concern there. You still can't sell blueprints, they will be coming pretty soon, but you can make good money now in raid missions and others .

It is possible you're hacker is out of his league but it's very it's just familiarity with the systemb first.

The most basic instructions you can loop:
1. Connect and load all your programs from left to right. Your deck's IO (input/output) determined how many programs you can load.
2. Each program had charge count. When charges are exhausted, it unloads and needs to be loaded again.
3. For your turn, always scan every node to full scan 2/2 by using scan.
3. Use your other programs to deal with the IC.
4. Move deeper into the matrix host when your current node is scanned 2/2 and all IC disabled or dead.
5. If you're out of program charges and out of IO to load them again, end your turn.
6. Repeat.

[Trese Brothers]

引用自 Jetwolf：

I totally get why it's hacking is set up to take multiple turns. Excellent tension building.

Huzzah! Love missions playing with that tension, more are coming.

[Arctuhris]

I just wanted to say, now that I understand how to hack in the matrix, I absolutely love it. The complexity and actual tactical options, like ignoring connection loss and then trunk booting, or scapegoating before nuking a connection with 4 heavy IC's makes me feel like my hacker is just as much of a bad-ass as my sniper-soldier when he drops three enemies in a turn at 45 meters. Please don't ever simplify hacking; it's fantastic as is.

[Trese Brothers]

引用自 Bankipriel：

I just wanted to say, now that I understand how to hack in the matrix, I absolutely love it. The complexity and actual tactical options, like ignoring connection loss and then trunk booting, or scapegoating before nuking a connection with 4 heavy IC's makes me feel like my hacker is just as much of a bad-ass as my sniper-soldier when he drops three enemies in a turn at 45 meters. Please don't ever simplify hacking; it's fantastic as is.

We have no plans to simplify, we're pretty sure a good tutorial will help most players get into the system and enjoy it. On our, we only plan to deep the higher-level hacking play, challenges, IC bosses, program types and more.

[Trese Brothers]

引用自 John：

Introducing a very obscure third of the game without any official documentation is not good. I don't see how you can pretend it is.
I absolutely love every aspect of the game but hate, yes hate, the hacking. I'm a grunt that loves the battlefield and I'm good at it so let me pay off a hacker to do that key fiddling business.

Completely agree, releasing anything without a good doc or tutorial is bad. We'll work to improve.

We're about 33% if the way done with the integrated tutorial.

Sorry that hacking section of the game isn't working for you. In a lot of missions, it's completely optional and/it you can avoid hack only missions completely. Still, some hacking is required to complete some missions, so like fighting or stealth, it is considered aain pillar of the tactical experience.

[John]

Ok, now that I've calmed down (the obscure hacking was such a detractor from the beautiful stealth portion that I got... disapointed) and figured out the hacking, it's kinda cool.
Also, not having full documentation is part of early access. After replaying Marathon Robbery and saving before hacking, I figured it out and now I like the hacking part haha.
Time to change my review back to a positive one.

[Duskmare]

Is scramble busted? It unloads a program on any action, including on loading a program. So you can't load an attack program to destroy it and you can't load any of your other programs to continue hacking.
Is the only option to basically always have attack programs loaded with enough power to destroy them without needing a reload?

[Trese Brothers]

If a Scramble gets the jump on you, often you might want to leave the node.

[Duskmare]

引用自 Trese Brothers：

If a Scramble gets the jump on you, often you might want to leave the node.

Yeah, I didn't realise the debuffs were node specific. I thought it was just anywhere on the network, since it seems like scramble infects the nodes next to the one you were on too. Thanks!

[Trese Brothers]

As a stopgap until the tutorial is finished, we recorded this tutorial video -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXn6OSRzvIQ

[Phantasm]

Since there is controversy, I would like to add that I'm a new player (only have 1 extra building completed) and I really like the hacking. It's completely alien with what's in game but I found Ahab's guide and haven't even finished that, it just got me the start I needed. In my first mission that I did a hack on, I was left defending my hacker from reinforcement waves for 2 turns and then frog jumping my guys to egress and it was great!

Question: the idea of hacking was so cool that on game start I made my cyber knight's background good for hacking with the intention of making them my hacker, but so far it isn't possible because they don't have the deep brain implant. Is it possible in the game's current state to get that eventually? Also at creation with the background and stuff I selected, I would have much rather had a cyberdeck than dermal plating. I think that should either be an option, or based sensibly on your background. My background reads like a hacker but I can't hack and my CK feels gimped as a result.