Suicide quickhack questions.

[TheFrosty101]

I'm trying to do an "humiliate Adam Smasher" netrunner build for one of my playthroughs of the game. and I got the idea to give suicide a whirl at the boss fight with him. does anyone know if this will even work? Is he immune to ultimate quickhacks? I cannot find a single straight answer and i've recently come across a thug that is immune to the suicide quickhack.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Bosses are generally immune to ultimates so doubt it would work, especially something like suicide.

[TheFrosty101]

It doesn't appear that anyone has tried. Or rather, noone has done so and documented their success or failure either way. And google and the wiki offers little to no help on the subject, as well.

[serker31]

Originally posted by TheFrosty101:

I'm trying to do an "humiliate Adam Smasher" netrunner build for one of my playthroughs of the game. and I got the idea to give suicide a whirl at the boss fight with him. does anyone know if this will even work? Is he immune to ultimate quickhacks? I cannot find a single straight answer and i've recently come across a thug that is immune to the suicide quickhack.

You can get Short Circuit to zero and spam him with it. Or use a fast shooter along with legendary Short Circuit to make Adam disappear, should be humiliating enough.
EDIT: I meant "get Short Circuit cooldown to zero". Bruh.

[TheFrosty101]

How do you do that? short circut to zero?

[serker31]

Originally posted by TheFrosty101:

How do you do that? short circut to zero?

I meant get Short Circuit cooldown to zero. You should level Quickhacking, use Tetratronic Rippler Mk.4 as cyberdeck and get perks in Cold Blood for more stacks and quickhack cooldown reduction, and preferably whatever else in Cold Blood for getting maximum stacks and keeping them. It will not reduce cooldown to zero, but bring it very close to it - I got cooldown on Suicide to something like 1.2 seconds with this setup, which is just a little bit broken. Should bring Short Circuit cooldown to 0.1 second, which is enough for practical purposes.
Legendary Short Circuit have additional effect: it will zap your target with Short Circuit when you crit it with anything. If your crit chance is high enough and quickhack cooldown is almost zero, well, you get the idea. Even if it won't proc off proc, damage will stack to stupid levels with fast firing weapons or Contagion crits.
Technically you can pull it off with zero points in Intelligence, but then your Short Circuit will not do meaningful damage. 16 Intelligence is good number to get most important perks like Bloodware and Critical Error. Back that up with dumping a ton of points into Cold Blood ultimate perk to completely break the game. Although leveling Cold Blood to 20 will take some serious grinding.