Hacking

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By Paul (vhayste)

Last Updated: Jun 25th, 2014

Phone

This skill branch will improve your phone's battery capacity and enhance its ability to hack bank accounts. Hacking city structures like blockers, bridges and traffic lights will require one or two battery slots. Battery slots will recover over time but having more battery slots will allow you to hack more infrastructures that you can use especially in car chases.

Tier 1

Skill	SP Cost	Description
Hacker's Tool Kit	Default	Hack into people's bank accounts control cameras and objects remotely, and hack to mobile devices to intercept messages or eavesdrop conversations.
Extra Battery I	1	Adds one battery slot to your smartphone
ATM Hack Boost	3	Increases the amount of money hacked from people's bank accounts

Tier 2

Skill	SP Cost	Description
Extra Battery II	3	Adds one battery slot to your smartphone
Extra Battery III	5	Adds one battery slot to your smartphone
Profiler Optimization	4	Automatically highlights citizens with valuable loot like rich bank accounts, new vehicles or System Keys.
ATM Hack Boost+	5	Greatly increases the amount of money hacked from people's bank accounts

Utility Hacks

This branch focuses on your phone's ability to hack and take control of various objects and city structures. This branch also gives you access to take over other utilities like overloading transformers to cause temporary blackouts, stopping trains, disrupt enemy coms, and disable their ability to call in reinforcements.

Tier 1

Skill	SP Cost	Description
Utilities	Default	Ability to overload basic building utilities like junction boxes or fuses.
L-Train Control	1	Ability to stop any trains
Transformers	3	Deliberately overload a transformer that can cause a block-wide blackout. You can do this to distract enemies or escape them.

Tier 2

Skill	SP Cost	Description
Disrupt Enemy Comms	3	Distract enemies by sending loud static on their earphones.
Disable Reinforcement Calls	5	Disable an enemy's ability to call in reinforcements during Combat.

Infrastructure Hacks

This branch will allow Aiden to take control of various city infrastructures that can help during missions and to increase your chances of losing your pursuers during car chases.

Tier 1

Skill	SP Cost	Description
Traffic Lights	1	Change traffic signals to deliberately cause accidents, practically to take down pursuers.
Garage and Gates	1	Remotely open gates, parking lot doors and garage doors. Very useful as shortcuts or escaping / trapping pursuers
Bridges	1	Take control of various bridges in the city. Most of the district-connecting bridges rise up and down while the others swivel around. One of the good methods for escaping pursuers since they won't jump over a raised bridge.
Blockers	1	Useful for taking down pursuers. You can remotely activate any of the blocker installations in the city.

Tier 2

Skill	SP Cost	Description
Steam Pipes	3	Overload underground steam pipes to cause a massive explosion that will throw off any vehicles within the blast radius. One of the most effective way of taking out several enemy vehicles in an instant.
Road Spikes	2	Activate spike strips that will blow up tires of any vehicles crossing them (including yours), disabling the vehicle.
Disable Helicopter	2	Disable an enemy chopper for 15 seconds. Very useful if you want to get a chopper off your back during a pursuit.
Improved Disable Helicopter	3	Disable an enemy chopper for 30 seconds.