Quick Look: Hacknet

What they require hackers to wear at work nowadays.

I still watch Hackers at least once a year. It never gets old.

Well, I see SEPHIROTH_SMOKEWEED in the thumbnail, so this is already great.

I have played multiple games where "Don't forget to delete your logs" is the number one golden rule, and I have loved all of them.

So I am intrigue by this game, but was kinda lost with the commands used to interact with the game's DOS-like interface. Is Hacknet pretty good at teaching you these things?

Watch out for the Cookie Monster virus.

Obligatory Will Smith reference!

@ghost_cat: It's UNIX, not DOS. I think if you have experience, obviously the commands are second nature. Otherwise, it'll take a bit of a rampup. It's why they've added a visual component to browse the directories, etc. You can type faster than you can click (at least I can), so this is kind of a cool way to get into command line stuff if it does pique your interest.

It seems the progression bug was fixed. Just in case anyone else got stuck on the last quest like I did.

@dragonbomb: Cool, thanks! This stuff have always been interesting to me, but never sure why I find them intimidating. I'll give Hacknet a shot.

Reference overflow!!!

"Look at you, Hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone."

I really like this game's interface. Easy on the eyes and those faux progress sequences are slick.

Just started watching Mr Robot.

How convenient, I've been binging on the show Mr. Robot (which is fantastic) and thinking to myself, "I kind of want to play a hacking game now, but what is there besides Uplink?"

"The Underscore" is a siiiiiick nickname!

Dammit Austin, as if we all didn't love you enough already...

<3

go to giantbomb.com

Fun quicklook of a neat looking game. Mac and linux ports are coming out some time soon, so on to the steam wishlist this thing goes.

Copy the garbage file.

The .exe is making me twitch.

I was disappointed that not deleting the log files did not cause any issue for me. Although the transitions when big events happen are pretty epic!

I fancy myself a... script kiddy.

@matthewgm: Exzécutable?

Mr Robot told me everyone hacks in Linux!

Obviously this is the right way to hack, quick-styyyyle.

This seems pretty cool but the mix of mouse control and typing is a bit odd and super weird to see a hacking game based on MS DOS because I grew up learning and using DOS.

ssshhhhhh crack

Austin laying down clinch Netrunner knowledge.

What....are....you...saaaaaayyyyiiiinnnnngggg?!?!?!

"They didn't expect people to have this kind of access." "They shouldn't have had this kind of access!"

Austin's indignant response to fake-Apple's security measures got a good chuckle from me.

Also it's irritating to me how having notes open takes up vast amounts of memory for each note. I know that there's substantial amounts of fakery going on in this game, but the notes memory stands out to me as the most egregious example because of just how contrived it is to reduce the memory you have available.

First Dell Dude Commercial

Hearing that @austin_walker likes Netrunner just makes him even more rad.

THAT'S. NOT. A. WORD!!!

What can I get for $22.00 at Giantbomb.com?

I'm pretty sure this is an okay pronunciation.

Fuck you, no!

I loved Uplink and have also been interested in this since it popped up on Steam. Only thing stopping me from purchasing is wondering how linear/replayable the progression is. Uplink is a sandbox that keeps the story on hold until you trigger an event. Also I really liked the program and gateway upgrades in Uplink.

Having watched Mr. Robot this season has me itching for a new hacker game.

Jinteki and Weyland are the best corporation decks.

This game looks super interesting, I'm just not sure if it's something I'd get that deep into.

Played this for a while but didn't get this far, kinda makes me wanna dive back in again.

The one thing I'll say is that Uplink had the whole aspect of doing missions for money so you upgrade your own equipment. These cyber-heists were really exciting in that you got to spend that money. Hacknet doesn't have that which is both a good and a bad thing.

I'm not a command prompt expert, but the lack of directories is driving me a bit crazy, it's like every file is floating on the surface including system files, speaking of which does the hacker you're playing as not have his system files backed up somewhere, like on a cd?
It would be cool if they found a way for you to perform your own hack instead of running someone elses software, maybe it does that later on, i haven't found the hacker game for me but i'll try this one out.

xXxWALKER_HAXIS_RANGER_531xXx

Oh wow, some Netrunner love going around here, huh?!

You guys are pretty great...

*Reads "Hacknet", reads "Posted by Vinny Caravella", reads "duration of video 1h7m"*

My body is ready.

I finally bought an indie game before Giant Bomb told me about it!

Is the twist that you were working for The TLA all along?

Who made this game? It looks like a better tutorialized Hacker Evolution.

@ghost_cat: no, it's close, but not perfect. If you wanna learn bash, codecademy's just got a new course for that available

Yes, all my time in the terminal is about to pay off!

This looks like the Uplink 2 I always wanted.