Ultimate Hacker (Updated)

Hacking is "soft" gated. The default MCM settings make mini-games difficult without perks. Even with the perk, you need to use deductions, dud clears, and reset attempts. You will be punished for resetting the mini-game now. Terminal password count, lock time, number of guesses and mini-game reset mechanism can be customized. Requires F4SE and MCM.

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Updated on September 15th:

Version 5.0

Bugfix: Fixed adding 5 guesses from MCM. A null reference in the condition causes it to fail.

Feature Change: Removed Robco Patcher files for Mentats and made hard record edits for Mentats chemicals. This is to ensure compatibility with RobCo Patcher NG, which crashes on ingestible patches

Feature Change: Ultimate Hack initializes at game start. This is to maximize compatibility with games that do not use the original MQ102.

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General description

Hacking is "soft" gated. The default MCM settings make mini-games difficult without perks. Even with the perk, you need to use deductions, dud clears, and reset attempts. You will be punished for resetting the mini-game now. Terminal password count, lock time, number of guesses and mini-game reset mechanism can be customized. Requires F4SE and MCM.

Detailed description

By default, this mod sets up your character to be terrible at hacking. You can try to hack a computer at any level without the Perk, but you'll likely fail (5% chance of success, slightly higher if you remove duds).

Read and learn how to play hacking mini-games more efficiently here

Without the Perk, you only have to guess once and 20 possible passwords are displayed on the terminal. Intelligence no longer affects the number of possible passwords.

Perk and password number:

With Hacker (Level 1) you get one more guess and fewer passwords are displayed on all lock levels.

Newbie terminals now require far fewer skills.

Novice lock has 7 codes

Advanced lock has 15 codes

Expert Lock has 18 codes

The master lock has 19 combinations

With Hacker (Level 2) you get one more guess and fewer passwords displayed on all lock levels.

Advanced terminals now require far fewer skills.

Novice lock has 6 codes

Advanced lock has 10 codes

Expert Lock has 16 codes

The master lock has 18 combinations

With Hacker (Level 3) you get one more guess and fewer passwords are displayed on all lock levels.

Expert terminals now require far fewer skills.

Newbie lock has 5 codes

Advanced lock has 8 codes

Expert Lock has 12 codes

The master lock has 17 combinations

With Hacker (Level 4), lockout time is reduced by 98% and fewer passwords are displayed across all lock levels.

Now, having the main terminal unencrypted requires far less skills.

Novice lock has 4 codes

Advanced lock has 6 codes

Expert Lock has 8 codes

The master lock has 10 codes

Terminal security detection:

This is a new hacking mechanism (enabled by default). You will now be punished for resetting the hacking minigame (start hacking, leave the terminal, activate the terminal again to reset the minigame). When you reset the mini-game, the terminal will begin to detect that you are hacking it and implement security features. You will have to wait to get around them.

Hacking privileges help reduce the time required to bypass this feature.

Resetting the mini-game 3 times will temporarily lock you out of the terminal.

Base wait time is 60 seconds

New Hacker: 30 seconds

Advanced Hacker: 15 seconds

Expert Hacker: 10 seconds

Master Hacker: 5 seconds

Base game record changed::

• Hacker Perk (Remove Gating)
• Tutorial message on how long you are locked out (for consistency)
• Insufficient skills to unencrypt terminal conversation conditions (for consistency)
• Close to Metal Perk (Nick Valentine’s companion talent; increases the number of guesses and reduces lock time by 98%) (

If you access the Novice Terminal without the Perk, there is a new dialog (the same dialog as in vanilla when trying to unencrypt the M …