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| blackburst [2025/06/03 08:32] – [Threshold Logoff] anachromancer | blackburst [2025/07/12 02:28] (current) – [Redirection] anachromancer | ||
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| You are an ace decker who have swiped countless paydata from the Matrix.\\ | You are an ace decker who have swiped countless paydata from the Matrix.\\ | ||
| - | You are a mundane world-class in decking, if you are anything but, expect the difficulty | + | You are a mundane world-class in decking, if you are anything but, expect the difficulty |
| Finally finished your custom R12 cyberdeck, drunken in its infinite power.\\ | Finally finished your custom R12 cyberdeck, drunken in its infinite power.\\ | ||
| Found your first black node, can connect straight to it, and now eager to burst it.\\ | Found your first black node, can connect straight to it, and now eager to burst it.\\ | ||
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| First thing first, right after connected to the matrix, you should set your hack dice <max> = total dice / 3, this will give you 3 turns of using dice before they are depleted.\\ | First thing first, right after connected to the matrix, you should set your hack dice <max> = total dice / 3, this will give you 3 turns of using dice before they are depleted.\\ | ||
| - | Example: 10 hack dices should <max 3> 11 hack dices should <max 4>, 12 hack dices should <max 4> | + | Example: 10 hack dices should <max 3>, 11 hack dices should <max 4>, 12 hack dices should <max 4> |
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| + | ===== Redirection ===== | ||
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| + | Once you reached an RTG, don't forget to run < | ||
| + | Thus, it is not recommended to jack-in the same LTG of your target. Example: Your target is Shoe-Fly and you jack-in at Syberspace.\\ | ||
| + | It is recommended that you read more about <help alerts> and <help tally> topics on Shadowlands BBS. | ||
| ===== Follow-up Attack ===== | ===== Follow-up Attack ===== | ||
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| ===== Chunking Paydata ===== | ===== Chunking Paydata ===== | ||
| - | We are not here risking our tofu get fried to destroy some black IC, we are here for paydata. Many of us are used to bulk decrypt and disarm, then download everything at once, this is no longer the case. After you have accumulated enough paydata by a threshold that you will soon learn, you have 2 classical choices here: Bulk or Manual. For manual you will decrypt, disarm then download each paydata one by one. Otherwise, beware of black ICs sneak up on you, while you are depleted of hack dice looting your booty. | + | We are not here risking our tofu get fried to destroy some black IC, we are here for paydata. Many of us are used to bulk decrypt and disarm, then download everything at once, this is no longer the case. After you have accumulated enough paydata by a threshold that you will soon learn, you have 2 classical choices here: Bulk or Manual. For manual you will decrypt, disarm then download each paydata one by one. Otherwise, beware of black ICs sneak up on you, while you are depleted of hack dice looting your booty.\\ |
| + | It is never a bad idea either, to take what is offered by harmless ICs in the beginning, avoid the black ICs that come later completely, disconnect and try again, this is possible for certain nodes.\\ | ||
| There is the obvious time trade-off between serial and parallel download, the choice is yours, omae.\\ | There is the obvious time trade-off between serial and parallel download, the choice is yours, omae.\\ | ||
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| On the left of the table: locate paydata and destroy ICs.\\ | On the left of the table: locate paydata and destroy ICs.\\ | ||
| - | Once reached your paydata threshold, unload Analyze and Evaluate. Then load Defuse and Read/ | + | Once reached your paydata threshold, unload Analyze and Evaluate, then load Decrypt, |
| On the right of the table: download paydata and fending off ICs then logoff.\\ | On the right of the table: download paydata and fending off ICs then logoff.\\ | ||
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| ^ **Software** ^ **Rating** ^ ^ **Software** ^ **Rating** ^ | ^ **Software** ^ **Rating** ^ ^ **Software** ^ **Rating** ^ | ||
| | Deception | | Deception | ||
| | Sleaze | | Sleaze | ||
| - | | Attack | + | | Attack |
| | Armor | 12 | | Armor | 12 | ||
| - | | Medic | 9 | | + | | Shield |
| - | | Decrypt | + | | Medic | 8 |
| - | | Analyze | + | |
| - | | Evaluate | + | |
| - | + | ||
| - | Alternatively, | + | |
| - | However, the inconsistency in one-off black IC, which is crucial for avoiding more damage, have resulted in many fried tofus.\\ | + | |
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| - | ^ **Software** ^ **Rating** ^ ^ **Software** ^ **Rating** ^ | + | |
| - | | Deception | + | |
| - | | Sleaze | + | |
| - | | Attack | + | |
| - | | Armor | 12 | | + | |
| - | | Medic | 9 | | + | |
| - | | Shield | + | |
| | Analyze | | Analyze | ||
| | Evaluate | | Evaluate | ||
| | | | | Read/ | | | | | Read/ | ||
| + | The Attack 10 allows one shotting any black ICs, which prevent further damage.\\ | ||
| + | The Shield 10 reduces damage if successfully activate, minimizes your chance of getting dump-shock, may need reload.\\ | ||
| + | The Medic 8 recovers your icon from inevitable damage, may need reload.\\ | ||
| + | After much experimentation, | ||
| ==== Jackpoint ==== | ==== Jackpoint ==== | ||
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| And now your icon has been logged.\\ | And now your icon has been logged.\\ | ||
| - | And your counter... Is plus plus... Dreker.\\ | + | And your counter... Is plus plus...\\ |
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