How do you use remote hacking?

[MadMinstrel]

I just got the remote hacking aug and i want to try it out, but I don't understand how to use it. I'm standing right in front of a locked keypad, but the X prompt is just not showing up. Is there any special way to activate it? Is there some weird requirement?

[Gundam Sexual Ver.Nix]

I don't think you can hack keypads with that aug. You still have to play the minigame or use a password.

[Sly]

you cant hack keypads with it. it's more of an exploration aug akin to jumping and wall smashing; you can deploy otherwise inaccessible ladders, awnings, platforms etc to climb on, as well as temporarily disable cameras, turrets, and robots and permanently disable mines and lasers, but computers and keypads will still need you to get up close

[Ewell]

What he said, terminals and keypads can't be remote hacked, smaller objects, buttons and switches can he hacked. At second level bots, cameras, turrents and laser grids too.

[Draken/Eitan]

I'm trying to hack a camera, and I bring up the prompt and I see a waveform pattern similar to certain block in "The Breach" but I cant find what interacts with this. I spam whatever buttons and none react to the hack window and then the time runs out. I mean it looks like I should be inputting to match the "loud" sections of the waveform pattern but nothing works.

It also says "Breach [E]" under the little window thing but [E] does nothing!

[Josephus]

If you haven't changed your default key bindings E should do it

[Draken/Eitan]

Sadly no, whether or not I set the key to be [E], nothing happens. It doesnt seem to register the input for it at all. I have Remote Hacking maxed out which was the first thing I did when I could. xD

[Draken/Eitan]

Even connecting a control pad, which I havent used for Deus Ex before, doesnt allow this to work. Its really crappy bug!

And I even looked up how to remote hack on Youtube. Breach just does not respond to its assigned input.

[Draken/Eitan]

Oh no ignore my posts. Apparently in the Cultist place in the hypno-ray thing, you cant hack. Which is because you cant equip a weapon which seems like a bug they are calling a feature? If you are just not MEANT to be able to hack here it should give you a warning saying you cant. I still consider this a bug! (And I am likely to copy paste this into the 3 places where I have a moan about this bug).

[Josephus]

Publicado originalmente por Draken/Eitan:

Oh no ignore my posts. Apparently in the Cultist place in the hypno-ray thing, you cant hack. Which is because you cant equip a weapon which seems like a bug they are calling a feature? If you are just not MEANT to be able to hack here it should give you a warning saying you cant. I still consider this a bug! (And I am likely to copy paste this into the 3 places where I have a moan about this bug).

I actually leveled up my remote hacking for that too. Then I realized the hypno ray kept you from doing anything offensive.

[Rockn-Roll]

I actually encountered the same difficulty when remote hacking everything everywhere. I just figured out how to remote hack an awning by looking at my key binds and using the key bound to "Remote Hack". The "bug" is that the key bound to "Hack" still initiates a remote hack, but after that the key that needs to be pressed as the scan moves over a signal waveform is a different key bound to "Remote Hack".

I'd also like to point out that Breach Software is something different that I have not yet figured out...it's apparently different from Nuke & Stop! Worm software. I've only started playing the game and the only use that I see for Breach Software is to collect all of them in order to unlock something called Breach Mode.

[Vassago Rain]

Breach software unlocks trash items in the breach game mode, which few people will ever play.

Remote hack works like it does in crysis and every other game with a similar feature. When you see a smart object highlighted, press 'use' to initiate the remote hack, then use your fire key and timing to try and win. You can use stop and nuke hack software during remote hack, but this is almost always a waste, as remote hack is trivially easy to time out of combat, and impossibly hard to time in the middle of combat, and trying to use it when you're being shot at will just get you killed, anyway.

The aug only works on simple 'smart' objects (TVs, fans, shutters, car alarms, mines, radios...), but tier II lets you temporarily mess up robots, turrets, and cameras. Energy drain is tied to the complexity and security of whatever you're hacking. Fans and televisions drain virtually nothing, but trying to hack an armored turret costs almost as much as a takedown.