Remote Hacking

[Fekin]

I have the first level of hacking. I get as close as possible to use the bino's on the robots, switch to tech view, it says for runners 80% chance and Hunters 40%, I press Q and the 10 second times counts down.... then nothing. Tried it dozens of times and there seems to be no change.

Am I doing this wrong or is hacking broken?

[🤪CrazyWolf🐺]

One thing I think missing is you did not activate Hacking as your specialization, which will force hacked bots, say runners, to attack other bots. Without the Hacking specialization, hacked bots (you can tell due to their blue halo) will not attack its own kind so they will just walked around hacked. From your point of view it will appear nothing has changed. I am not saying your case is not bugged, but try what I mentioned.

Also after activating the spiacialization, instigate the fight in case you temporary ally do not attack.

[Schtroumpf]

If it's not bugged(so not often), you will hear a particular sound and see a kind of "blue halo" around the target(atleast the for little ones as runners/hunters)when your hack is successful.

But if you don't have the luck with stat, sometimes, you will feel like 80% is 1% chance....

[DedZedNub]

Sounds like the last two replies combine beautifully as a solid primer on how to hack and what to do. I'm going to try hacking with this character when I get enough points, and although I had read or viewed most of this somewhere before, I completely forgot the two when thinking of the original post here.

So thanks for the helpful primer to those replying in this post. And good question, Fekin, I can now just refer to this thread before I go out hacking, which I have not done on any character yet.

Level 1 is confuse, Level 2 allows a chance at actual conversion to Friendly, and blue halo for success. Makes sense now.

Oh, and can you hack from a scope or does it have to be with Binoculars in hand when you do it??

[Fekin]

Originally posted by 🦷 CrazyWolf 💊:

One thing I think missing is you did not activate Hacking as your specialization,

Ahh, I need to figure out how to actually activate the specialisation.

[DedZedNub]

I know that you have to pick it at the bottom of the Skill Tree. If the Skill is picked, you then need to activate it. It should say on either the Skill Menu in-game or off the Log in the Tutorials.

You can only have one of the Lines active, and you have to have gone all the way down the line so it is complete.

I have not got there yet on any character, I keep restarting campaigns. If I do get there, and find out, I'll let you know.

Sure someone else will say exactly how.

[Fekin]

Do I need to fully unlock the entire left hand side tech line that ends in Hacking to gain the specialisation, as I have only unlocked the first of 2 Remote Hacking ability for 50 seconds?

[Fekin]

Looks like I do :)

[DedZedNub]

I think so. You do have to get to the bottom of the skill line and have that icon operational.

The Hacking Skill earlier above it somewhere has 2 levels to it. Level One will only confuse or disable them. You can also get Level 2, and that will allow your active Hack at the Bottom to actually Convert them to Friendly for that time period.

So, yes, looks like you have to do that. :)

[🤪CrazyWolf🐺]

Originally posted by Fekin:

Originally posted by 🦷 CrazyWolf 💊:

One thing I think missing is you did not activate Hacking as your specialization,

Ahh, I need to figure out how to actually activate the specialisation.

Placing 1 point on each up to the bottom will suffice. See image\guide.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2661251412

[Mr. Fibble]

Doesn't the remote hack stun robots if you don't have the specialisation active. One in remote and one in hacker will make it fight for 50 secs, if the hack works. Enough time to see it destroy things, get destroyed or cause enough of a distraction that you can scoot off to somewhere quiet.

The %'s don't really seem to mean much since I've been able to hack rivals who are in the 10% range. No downside to trying since there's no limit to the number of failed attempts other than your own patience.