bruh is car hacking useless?

[Asian Potato]

its like everytime i find a need to hack a car the damn thing is unhackable like wtf

[Mr_Blank]

Your doing the build wrong then. I’m on level 33 atm, 20 intelligence, and the only cars I haven’t been able to hack are the quest related ones.

[carnie2]

Whenever i see a gang car chasing and shooting at a Mox car, i blow up the gangs car, so the sweet little ladies can continue their cuteness.

[Vexillarius]

I moved the point into something else on my netrunner playthrough. It was just a dead point. Doesn't scale well either. The explosion wont kill guys with more than one health bar on higher difficulty. Your netdeck down the bottom has the quick hacks you can use on cars. Maybe your too low atm to have them on your netdeck.

[adema066]

Originally posted by Mr_Blank:

Your doing the build wrong then. I’m on level 33 atm, 20 intelligence, and the only cars I haven’t been able to hack are the quest related ones.

I think the point being made is that you would WANT to use it during a mission involving cars and can't... at least that was my take.

[adema066]

Originally posted by Vexillarius:

I moved the point into something else on my netrunner playthrough. It was just a dead point. Doesn't scale well either. The explosion wont kill guys with more than one health bar on higher difficulty.

Yeah, tons of the perks are just plain not useful and it sucks that some of them need points to get to other, more useful skills.

[Bobucles]

Many of the scripted vehicles are immune to hacking. Vehicle hacking is a fairly recent addon and the devs didn't want to rewrite a ton of major missions.

When gangs hide behind vehicles, go blow them up. The other hacks are a bit too expensive and situational to be useful.

[adema066]

Originally posted by Bobucles:

Many of the scripted vehicles are immune to hacking. Vehicle hacking is a fairly recent addon and the devs didn't want to rewrite a ton of major missions.

When gangs hide behind vehicles, go blow them up. The other hacks are a bit too expensive and situational to be useful.

Yeah, that's what happens when you change a 3 year old game with established systems to be compatible with a small DLC and not the other way around. They broke the main game at the expense of the expansion and couldn't bother doing it the other way around (tailor the expansion for the main game as it was).

[Asian Potato]

Originally posted by adema066:

Originally posted by Mr_Blank:

Your doing the build wrong then. I’m on level 33 atm, 20 intelligence, and the only cars I haven’t been able to hack are the quest related ones.

I think the point being made is that you would WANT to use it during a mission involving cars and can't... at least that was my take.

this exactly... doing the spider and the fly quest finally and holy ♥♥♥♥ are the patrols aggresive af, thought having the ability to hack cars would be perfect to have but nope, all of the cars are unhackable... like wtf then whats the point of being able to hack cars if when i really need the ability i cant use it

[Willow Rivers]

Hacking cars comes in handy for the car theft missions. Self Destruct and emergency brake I use all the time to get rid of people chasing me.

[carnie2]

One scumbag i had chocked, but left alive on the ground, fell in a way, so that the rear wheel of a motorbike were on his throat, i hacked the bike, and made it wheelspin off his throat. Lol. i have soo much fun with this game :-D

[XelNigma]

From what I can tell, if a car is parked. it cant be hacked. for some reason. And thats the main time you want to hack one to run some people over!

[Potential Legend]

I just had a play session where I was stealing a car and had gang members chasing me, I managed to hack some of their cars to slam on the brakes to get away. I couldn't hack cars for a while but now I'm at 20 INT with Overclock unlocked and a Tier 4 Cyberdeck with a bunch of RAM upgrades it's really easy. Also was having a shoot out and one of the enemies was hiding behind a car so I used the Floor It hack and it ran them over xD

[CaptainChaos]

Car hacking is one of my favorite techniques. I'm Level 30, with 15 Int and still can do all kinds of stuff. My only irritation is that they AUTOMATICALLY know where you are if you do that. They don't even have to trace you.7

You can blow up cars which does excellent AOE damage even on Very Hard, or you can have it take off and leave them without cover. But the best thing, and it's not that expensive, is just to take control of the car and run over everyone.

[Air]

Originally posted by Mr_Blank:

Your doing the build wrong then. I’m on level 33 atm, 20 intelligence, and the only cars I haven’t been able to hack are the quest related ones.

That is the issue we're having I believe. it makes no sense other than "We didn't want to think of better balance and don't want these quest trivialized by one build." well ♥♥♥♥ us for building for it.

[CHARLIEMIKEMIKE]

Agreed. It's so costly I rarely use any of the car quickhacks. The only time I find them useful is when I am trying to shake enemy vehicles. Even running over people isn't useful unless the player is in the car. You get more bang for your buck with the "detonate grenade" quickhack.

Just my two cents.