How to change the Hack skill?

[Proky E. O. Speedwagon]

Hello. I am a dirty cheater and I would like to know if there is a way to either change a chance of success in hacking or a hacking skill of my soldier

[Scorrp10]

There are a number if mods that can do it.

I personally like the HackPlus mod which gives you a small skill increase on every hack (+1 on objective unlock, +3 on 2nd target, +5 on 3rd)
A much better system than hoping to get those +20 hack chances. (Of which I saw none in my last two campaigns)

[merccobb]

Hack the Hacks :) I like it

[The Piper [O5]]

I suggest wearing a Skulljack on your specialist will grant you some extra +hack. Try to hack mostly with the specialist(s) of your choice. I reached October in my Commander playthrough and managed to get a tech skill of 245 by now.

Addendum: I dont think you need to cheat or mod it, hacking gets OP in the endgame.

EDIT: Addendum

[gimmethegepgun]

If you want to change the amount of Hack soldiers get when they level up, you can change the numbers in DefaultClassData.ini
That won't be retroactive, however.

[Scorrp10]

Originally posted by The Piper O5:

I suggest wearing a Skulljack on your specialist will grant you some extra +hack. Try to hack mostly with the specialist(s) of your choice. I reached October in my Commander playthrough and managed to get a tech skill of 245 by now.

EDIT: Typo correction

Thats insane. You got five +20s in a single run? My colonel spec with skullmine and M3 gremlin were at 205 after 3 +20s, which is the most in one game I have seen so far...

[Hiddey]

I saw Mr Odd hack a during a supply raid and one of the possible rewards was a permanent increase to that specialist's hacking.

[The Piper [O5]]

Originally posted by Scorrp10:

Originally posted by The Piper O5:

I suggest wearing a Skulljack on your specialist will grant you some extra +hack. Try to hack mostly with the specialist(s) of your choice. I reached October in my Commander playthrough and managed to get a tech skill of 245 by now.

EDIT: Typo correction

Thats insane. You got five +20s in a single run? My colonel spec with skullmine and M3 gremlin were at 205 after 3 +20s, which is the most in one game I have seen so far...

You get plenty of random +20 opportunities in the game.

I made the hacking screenshots public, i hope you can view them.

[Scorrp10]

Got exactly 0 of those on my last two games...

[The Piper [O5]]

I will try to push it above 300 before i start the final mission. I want to know if i can achieve a 100% on controlling sectopods - which would be a nice tactic for my next playthrough.

[Mike]

ive only managed to stack 3 +20's on one character, never as many as five lol but its definitely possible.

[Scorrp10]

Originally posted by The Piper O5:

I will try to push it above 300 before i start the final mission. I want to know if i can achieve a 100% on controlling sectopods - which would be a nice tactic for my next playthrough.

FYI I don't think you can haywire same unit rwice.

[Proky E. O. Speedwagon]

nwm, I found a .ini text that does it.

[saberlost]

You can also save. If it fails, load the save, make a move with another charater and it should give you an diffrent outcome. Or did they fixed that in the latest patch?

[The Piper [O5]]

Originally posted by saberlost:

You can also save. If it fails, load the save, make a move with another charater and it should give you an diffrent outcome. Or did they fixed that in the latest patch?

As far as i remember, moving with a different character will not help you as the outcome is already rolled for this action. Maybe if you retry it in a later round, i will have to try that, but i normally avoid rerolling.

Anyway, to get a high tech skill (without modding), you should try to skulljack advents and hack security towers, sometimes you can gain a tech skill bonus randomly. Security Towers can always be hacked at the end of a mission (if the risk was too high during the mission).

[SamBC]

Taking another action that consumes a random number will potentially give you a different result.