Anyone ever find an actual need for the codebreaker?

[Teirdalin]

Feels like literally everyone writes down their passwords or stays logged into their admin account.

[Cryptic]

Nope. There are numerous ways to deal with codes and the codebreaker is a waste of an inv slot imo

[LordBlade]

There's only been a few situations where there was no way to get a code beyond a codebreaker. But it's rare. There's usually SOMETHING to give you a clue, either at their home or work.

[Danielle]

I like to keep one on me when I've got an upgraded inventory, because having to leave and check out their office if I get unlucky with the code spawning in the apartment/it not just being their birthday or something is annoying. I'm not sure I've ever hit a situation where I was sure one was *necessary*, though.
My favourite thing is when I do get the safe open and, sure enough, the code is written on a note inside it.

[LordBlade]

Yeah, I've had a couple of places where they don't have a note.
There's no home or work computer that can be conveniently left on with their profile showing.
And trying all the usual variants (birthday, partner's birthday, 9876, 8765, etc...) doesn't get you anything. So you know it's a random code. But there's no way of getting it without a codebreaker.

[Teirdalin]

Thanks, maybe my world generation was just very lucky as so far everyone always had their code. Maybe I'll run into one that's codeless eventually.

[LordBlade]

Originally posted by Teirdalin:

Thanks, maybe my world generation was just very lucky as so far everyone always had their code. Maybe I'll run into one that's codeless eventually.

I had one person where the only location for their code, was a note INSIDE the safe that I couldn't get a code for without a codebreaker. lol

[joridiculous]

Originally posted by LordBlade:

Originally posted by Teirdalin:

Thanks, maybe my world generation was just very lucky as so far everyone always had their code. Maybe I'll run into one that's codeless eventually.

I had one person where the only location for their code, was a note INSIDE the safe that I couldn't get a code for without a codebreaker. lol

Yea, got a couple of those safes. Damned annoying running around town looking up their data to get the code, and all that is in the safe is the bloody code

[Cryptic]

I only found the upgraded inventory sync disk once. Man I miss it. If I had the extra space, I think I'd have the code breaker on me as backup.

[Rusty One Two]

I like the code breaker for getting into apartment management office computers, if I can get in there when nobody is on shift it's often a lot less likely to have the code lying around than in other places. Obviously could get the workers names and track down their apartments and look for their codes but I'm, uhh, lazy.

[Nova225]

There's rare situations where the only possible code location is inside their own safe. Usually you can go to their work and figure it out that way because the AI likes to leave work crunchers running overnight so you can check their profiles. I was unfortunate enough to have a guy who didn't have his note outside of the safe and, by some grace of world generation, was the only person at his work who didn't have a cruncher at his desk.

The other big one is surveillance computers in apartment buildings. You could probably figure out the passcode from the actual office the management room falls under, but it's much faster to slap a codebreaker on cruncher, be a use the janitors code =\= the administrator code

[LoneWolfLegend]

ive had to a couple times, and the code was in the safe...... this needs to be fixed...

[Retsu Kaioh]

You need one for the government database and you're good to go.

[JSAVGA]

Originally posted by animefan232:

ive had to a couple times, and the code was in the safe...... this needs to be fixed...

Why? In real life some people store their safe codes either in their safe or in their head.

[Corrupt Kot]

My personal two usages for the codebreaker are as follows:

City hall effectively has them on tap, meaning all of their vaults, computers and surveillance can be hijacked for a profit by using the dispensers in quick succession.

Breaking birthday codes. You can manually spam out counting codes with your keyboard (ngl there is part of me that's says setting up a macro for breaking codes could be funny) but I find sometimes there is allusion to someone's birthday that I would rather have faster than finding the actual details. So I chuck a code breaker on there and then use that to get whats needed.

[Settings]

Originally posted by animefan232:

ive had to a couple times, and the code was in the safe...... this needs to be fixed...

I've also ran into this once or twice.