New Blackwall Quickhack sucks?

[beat]

So you can now get a new cyberdeck with the DLC that lets you upload a special quickhack to enemies, the blackwall gateway.

It sounded very cool on paper, but in practice, it's just extremely bad. In my experience, it's just a way worse Contagion.

Long-ass upload time, doesn't spread as much (even though it's supposed to spread to 5 enemies in 20m), and it's traceable. Am I a gonk, or is this quickhack really ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bad?

[Das Trojanische Pferd]

if you`r planning to stealth quickhack then spread hacks are the worst just go full combat hacks or singeltarget with sonic boom

[meredith999]

is the update out 2.0 on ps4

[Mysterious Stranger]

Blackwall gateway isn't meant to be stealth. I've been using it frequently, and with a proper timed overclock and a few points in body, you can outright obliterate a group of 5 no matter how much HP they have. Every spread is faster and faster, and I'm pretty sure overall, it can hit 5 people before contagion hits its 4, and its costs can be halved by overclocking.

I think the issue with the spread is that it cannot jump networks, so if a cop and a gang member are standing next to eachother and you hit one with the blackwall, it wont jump to the other. However 2 gang members or 2 cops it will happily spread.

[Ssin]

This is the best quickhack in the game. Generally the best weapon.

[drunk dandere]

its good for groups but personally i still use contagion+overheat to deal with any mobs. destroys them with ease.

[Grilled Cheese Fan]

Anyone know if it can spread to maxtac? You can't outright hack maxtac troopers with it but I'm curious if it can spread to them

[PanPan]

Does blackwall gateway benefits from damage bonus ? Like critical or Cyber Malfunction ?

[Chair Force One]

Originally posted by KuzunohaXIV:

Anyone know if it can spread to maxtac? You can't outright hack maxtac troopers with it but I'm curious if it can spread to them

In 2.0 my pastime was killing all but one beat cop so I could infect and murder maxtac with the blackwall hack.

2.11 however seems to have made it so that maxtac and most bosses are immune to death by blackwall, and they take less damage than short circuit which is infuriating for the amount effort it takes to actually get the blackwall quickhack, not to mention the fact you get it so close to the end of the game it makes it nearly pointless.

[우울한 천사]

Yeah just tried to play with it and it's useless, doesn't oneshooting maxtac and eats whole RAM+HP with overclock, don't know why CDPR made this thing, because it's a high-end content/cyberware and now this deck with quickhack at the bottom of cyberdecks, even Arasaka's is better now, lol

[PanPan]

RAM cost has been reduce to 12 and not being able to OS Boss is normal.
But sure 30 RAM against MaxTac is bad.

Still having fun with Synpase Burnout to get longer OC :
https://youtu.be/fujW397OYDM

[Xengre]

Originally posted by We're screwed.:

Originally posted by KuzunohaXIV:

Anyone know if it can spread to maxtac? You can't outright hack maxtac troopers with it but I'm curious if it can spread to them

In 2.0 my pastime was killing all but one beat cop so I could infect and murder maxtac with the blackwall hack.

2.11 however seems to have made it so that maxtac and most bosses are immune to death by blackwall, and they take less damage than short circuit which is infuriating for the amount effort it takes to actually get the blackwall quickhack, not to mention the fact you get it so close to the end of the game it makes it nearly pointless.

Maybe a bug? I know System Collapse is supposed to work on Cyberpsychos and some other enemies but ever since a fairly recent patch (not sure which one it was) it stopped working despite being usuable and having an animation.

[PanPan]

Most iconic hacks are bugged.

Blackwall gateway do decent damage on bosses (critical are working) but sometimes it does 0 damage.

https://youtu.be/2WiWaC-O3TE