Hacking / Control of Robots ?

[Hellrazer001]

I dont get it I have never ever reached the 3rd option in Hacking anything, I have a Specialist that has 150 Hack and another around 130, the Best I can ever do is Shut a Unit down, even after they have been damaged from attacks from others in my Party.

[Explodium]

You have to select the 3rd hack option in order to actually try it.

[Cake]

You would hope that wouldn't be the case with his 400 hours in XCOM 2

[Incunabulum]

Originally posted by Hellrazer001:

I dont get it I have never ever reached the 3rd option in Hacking anything, I have a Specialist that has 150 Hack and another around 130, the Best I can ever do is Shut a Unit down, even after they have been damaged from attacks from others in my Party.

You have to *choose those options manually. Its not 'the third option', it one of two you choose, the very first 'option' is what happens when you fail.

[All talk and no fight]

Originally posted by Hellrazer001:

I dont get it I have never ever reached the 3rd option in Hacking anything, I have a Specialist that has 150 Hack and another around 130, the Best I can ever do is Shut a Unit down, even after they have been damaged from attacks from others in my Party.

The ways you'd be able to help affect ur chances in trying to take control of an enemy robot is to have your specialist have best gremlin (obviously) and pray to rngesus that when hacking stuff you get some +20 hack permanently. If you get someone to shoot the robot with bluescreen rounds that will also than lower their hack, so best thing to do is prob get a sniper to shoot the robot with his pistol than go for the hack.

If you have the dlc wotc, things are much easier, you can get extra hacking points on your specialist by sending them on some covert ops.

[Artek [General]]

Bluescreen Protocol (also known as EMP bullets) is your helper then.

Bluescreen Protocol not only increases damage against robotic enemies, but also decreases their hacking defense.

That's how i got control of sectopod long ago - someone shot the thing with BP and then my hacker got him with like 80-90% chance to take control.

The only "but" is that i never used bluescreen rounds again, because i cant imagine what soldier of mine can just waste his turn to lower sectopod's defenses for hacker while there are better options out there considering thst gatekeepers are the #1 threat and bluescreen doesn't help against them.

Maybe a gunslinger. I heard they can anihilate mechanical enemies with bluescreen protocol... Which is perfect.
Lighting Hands to lower defenses, if hack will fail - anihilate it with fan fire.

[Hellrazer001]

Lol now I feel Dumb, I stopped playing about a year ago and just started playing again when WOTC came out, I actually new about choosing the option before but completely forgot about it since I started playing again.

Duh :)