Hacking is making me want to quit

[Dreamhouse]

The hacking in Hong Kong is so bad I'm not sure I even want to play this game at all. Maybe if it was optional or there was some way to avoid the stupid fov stealth with point and click controls, but no matter what I will have to do it to progress or have the Decker experience. Is there a mod that removes it, or a cheat for it? Because I've played Decker for Returns and Dragonfall, had an especially good time with it in Dragonfall, but now my class requires me to do possibly the worst minigame I've ever played in a game ever. I really really want to give this game a chance, and the start has already been pretty weak imo, but if this is what I have to go through to play my favourite class I'm just not doing it

[gnarlyhotep]

Here's what I do:
* Say out loud the numbers as they light up (this helps me remember them)
* Tap them out on the number pad (which is on the right side of my keyboard)

If you don't have a numpad on your keyboard, I can see how this is challenging.
That's the best I have, sorry.

[Shinno]

Sound advice above. Also, you could train your memory with it but yeah, I can see the displeasure.

[Dreamhouse]

Originally posted by Shinno:

Sound advice above. Also, you could train your memory with it but yeah, I can see the displeasure.:chug:

I don't even have that much of a problem with the numbers minigame because you only have to do it once really, its the stealth and trace mechanics that's getting on my nerve

[Shinno]

Originally posted by Full Print Costanza Tee:

Originally posted by Shinno:

Sound advice above. Also, you could train your memory with it but yeah, I can see the displeasure.

I don't even have that much of a problem with the numbers minigame because you only have to do it once really, its the stealth and trace mechanics that's getting on my nerve

Oh, my bad. It is indeed quite annoying.

[St. Haborym]

Everytime I try to replay this game, the hacking instantly makes me quit cause it's just so intolerably obnoxious.

[Phoenix7786]

I agree that the Decking in this game is the weakest part of it and why I keep going back to Dragonfall. I completely get they wanted a new Decking system so that Decker fights and meat fights didn't come across as exactly identical. But the option they chose killed it for me.

Honestly, feel free to use the Debug mode and just insta-kill the Decking portions of this game.

[Asuzu]

Originally posted by St. Haborym:

Everytime I just to replay this game, the hacking instantly makes me quit cause it's just so intolerably obnoxious.

Tried playing this game twice.
I loved SR and Dragonfall but I can't I just can't play Hong Kong because of this hacking system.
Whoever designed this trash hacking action minigame in a turn-based game, is an imbecile.

[Clockwork]

You can click to move your persona and open your PDA/the tab on the left. Your character will keep moving whilst the annoying tracer IC will stop moving. You'll just have to time it well to avoid walking straight into their field of view, and it won't always work (some levels have them move so fast and there's so many of them that you just gotta move synchronously with them).

It would be best for you to open the debug menu and use the Warp feature to teleport around the map entirely.

[Zmeck]

SR Unlimited mod used dragonfall matrix if you're interested. The story isn't finished yet though. Quite a bit there to do. Matrix is definitely the low point of this game.

[SCARaw]

You can get good at it and its not so bad once you do

you have 2 routes:
Sneak way:
- new method
- very hard for beginners
- annoying double minigame
- does not require to be good decker
Fight way:
- Classic method
- can fail you some mission by triggering alarms
- usually 2x faster and 2x easier
- sometimes 5x slower

[Clockwork]

Originally posted by SCARaw:

You can get good at it and its not so bad once you do

Some of my relatives simply can't sneak at all, because the sneaking requires real time clicking sometimes to dodge the spotters one after another. And to do that, you need to be able to react quickly (something you can't do when you have a physical disability).

For those who can and really want to go through the pain of doing it, you can learn to adapt, yeah. Otherwise, cheating with the debug warp is the only other way to go, as far as I know.

[SCARaw]

Originally posted by Clockwork:

Originally posted by SCARaw:

You can get good at it and its not so bad once you do

Some of my relatives simply can't sneak at all, because the sneaking requires real time clicking sometimes to dodge the spotters one after another. And to do that, you need to be able to react quickly (something you can't do when you have a physical disability).

For those who can and really want to go through the pain of doing it, you can learn to adapt, yeah. Otherwise, cheating with the debug warp is the only other way to go, as far as I know.

You can cheat
Aka
go
get seen
and than ignore everything and run to transition

you have 3 turns and if you manage to reach the transition trackers will not gain more than +20 with you