Damonta Tinker battle computer hacking

[Yaro97]

Stumbled on the hangar and when the fight started I noticed how swarmy it was and assumed there must have been an alternative. Finding the computers I shamelessly reloaded and tried hacking them. Except, they did nothing to the fight. I looked it up and apparently one shuts off a kill switch, and the other kills the robots. My party is all damaged and likely underleveled so I opted for the shorting out by hacking into the computer away from the wall after hacking the mainframe. This still did jack all, so I tried again with the computer on the wall. That prompted a voice intervention from Tinker but the add ons were still alive. Is there something I am missing or is it just a bug? (Using Rose to hack)

[Nebhead]

To use the computers in Tinkers workshop, you must switch on the big computer first, then use the others. These require the Computer Science skill, i.e. it's not just a button for any character to press.

If you use Perception on them, it'll give you some descriptions of what the smaller terminals do.

One says "Disable Wireless Communication", and the other I think says "Instigate Capacitor Overload"

To save Binh, you must disable Tinker's wireless network. This makes it so Tinker cannot turn Binh's synthetic heart off during the fight with you.

Although Tinker only threatens this if you continue to ask it questions after it warns you to leave, it is quite possible to disable Tinker's wireless network before you even start combat.

Simply observe the patrolling robots - one goes near the terminals, but then moves elsewhere as part of it's patrol route.

When it does this, your hacker (in this case, Rose) is free to hack the terminals before the robot comes back.

Disabling the wireless network is key for this fight anyways - it hampers the other robots by quite a bit - I think it inflicts a penalty of -3 Action Points and a marginal Combat Speed penalty too.

[Yaro97]

Ive done all that, and could activate the terminals at will without getting caught, its just that the overload terminal doesnt seem to do anything when activated.