Pain in the ass hacking

[triplekalle1]

Anyone else the novice lvl is the hardest one to hack? XD i swear i´ve spent so much time with them...

[Preacher403]

Nope, usually extremely easy on all levels really. Just more time consuming on the higher ones.

[Dreamer]

Agree. Sometimes i need 4 to 5 trys to get it. Expert seems to be simple upon that

[bugdacious]

I don't think it's the hardest, but it's definitely harder than Advanced.

[MacGyver]

it's all about the first choice, if you get 0 of how many letters then you have a low percentage to get the others, process of elimination

[Shrapnel]

hacking is just a terrible mini game, just let us add points to the perk then insta-unlock the terminals based on difficulty - such a waste of time and doesnt resemble hacking in any real form at all

[Curious Duck]

Just take some of the duds first...

[Longhaul]

This..

http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/266/?

i hate wasting time hacking so this mod shows the only answer.......no messing around.

[joshua22]

No it's easy really, once you get it. I always start with the first word; five letters say; bored = likeness is 1. So then you know one letter but only one is correct. So the you go from top to bottom searching for the first word that has one and *only* one letter similar. Say; broom. Now it says likeness is 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or five in the last case you already solved it. Now then you proceed again from where you selected the second word to the bottom searching for a word that has one and only one letter similar with the first word; bored...and 1-2-3-4 similar (depending on your last likeness result) with the second word.
Man I hope I made myself clear, very easy once you grasp it, but very hard to explain for a non english speaking guy.

[Junker-2047-]

Seems like hacking is just there to waste your time. The idea behind it seems fun but the experience degrades into a "guess until you have to dig through junk to reset your tries", which is the opposite of fun. To me it seems like it is impossible to fail any skill level and I never have.

It's definitely not something Bethesda should have copied+pasted from Fallout 3.

[Morrandir]

sometimes novice is more difficult to hack than higher level terminals because some of the options are too close to each other, i.e too many options containing the same letters in the same place.

[Mook]

Press 3 random words, then find the brackets to give you resets, when you get a reset press another random 3. Takes 20 seconds, ez

[Junker-2047-]

My idea to make it better:

A Tetris clone that takes about 30 seconds on average to break. The difficulty of the terminal determines how much "junk" is at the bottom of the field and additional perk levels reduces this amount of "junk" and the speed at which your block falls. Like Tetris, you use your blocks to clear away the junk and when it's clear, you're in.

[joshua22]

Originally posted by MacGyver:

it's all about the first choice, if you get 0 of how many letters then you have a low percentage to get the others, process of elimination

I respectfully disagree. It's even easier to have 0 likeness with your first word. Which should always be the top first word on the hackingscreen. If the word is say; doves and the likeness is 0 then the next word should have zero similarities. Works pretty fast.

[triplekalle1]

Originally posted by Morrandir:

sometimes novice is more difficult to hack than higher level terminals because some of the options are too close to each other, i.e too many options containing the same letters in the same place.

thats what i ment.

[Mook]

Originally posted by Junkhead:

My idea to make it better:

A Tetris clone that takes about 30 seconds on average to break. The difficulty of the terminal determines how much "junk" is at the bottom of the field and additional perk levels reduces this amount of "junk". Like Tetris, you use your blocks to clear away the junk and when it's clear, you're in.

Doesn't make too much sense though, the original idea was to make it simple but look realistic. Tetris to hack doesn't look realistic at first glance like a wall of text does