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[Flying Dice]

Are there any mods that replace/remove the GODDAMN HACKING "MINIGAME"?

I'm at the point in my frustration with it that I just use the console on any computer within my science abilities, which is slow and makes me feel very slightly bad. VERY VERY SLIGHTLY.

The hacking minigame is INCREDIBLY easy though if you know what you are doing.

You locate the mistake reset AND the "eliminate a wrong choice" and you are already halfway there.

Dude, we literally just talked about how it's not the difficulty, it's the fact that it's tedious time-wasting just getting to the point where you figure out the password and entering your guesses. You can get it right the first time almost every time, but it can take a minute or more to get through all of the loading &c. I mean, I appreciate that they bothered putting in something that's vaguely puzzle-like, but it takes less time to pick a high-difficulty lock than it does to load the hacking interface to the point where you can guess the password.

[Rolan7]

But... you can click past all that.  Still takes like 5 seconds or so though, which is a bit tedious admittedly.

Its not just the startup time, its the whole minigame.

Lockpicking takes ten seconds and you can retry until it works, hacking takes ten MINUTES. and you might not get the answer and be locked out.

Its a case of simple game balance.

Also this is just ridiculous.  Hacking takes maaaybe a minute for the hardest ones, and you can retry after three guesses as many times as you need.  While lockpicking uses up bobby pins, so you can't just retry...

[Bohandas]

But... you can click past all that.  Still takes like 5 seconds or so though, which is a bit tedious admittedly.

Its not just the startup time, its the whole minigame.

Lockpicking takes ten seconds and you can retry until it works, hacking takes ten MINUTES. and you might not get the answer and be locked out.

Its a case of simple game balance.

Also this is just ridiculous.  Hacking takes maaaybe a minute for the hardest ones, and you can retry after three guesses as many times as you need.  While lockpicking uses up bobby pins, so you can't just retry...

The actual puzzle doesn't take long, but the animation that occurs between activating the terminal and the puzzle itself takes about a quarter minute each time it runs, which can add up to a significant amount for the harder puzzles.

[Darkmere]

Eh, my 2 cents is that the hacking minigame just isn't fun and it's another layer of filler on top of you already needing the skill to hack the terminal. Even with clicking past all the animations and the fact that it's not particularly difficult... If it's just not FUN in a single player game there's no reason to not to remove it if you have the option.

[Bohandas]

Eh, my 2 cents is that the hacking minigame just isn't fun and it's another layer of filler on top of you already needing the skill to hack the terminal. Even with clicking past all the animations and the fact that it's not particularly difficult... If it's just not FUN in a single player game there's no reason to not to remove it if you have the option.

Agreed. (I have the same issue with the minigames in Ratchet & Clank. In facf, I'd say that this is true of minigames in general, with the sole exception of games like WarioWare that are purely collections of minigames)

[NobodyPro]

but the animation that occurs between activating the terminal and the puzzle itself takes about a quarter minute each time it runs,

As has been pointed out earlier, you can click through these animations in ~5 seconds. Though it probably should have been designed with a shorter animation.

[Bohandas]

but the animation that occurs between activating the terminal and the puzzle itself takes about a quarter minute each time it runs,

As has been pointed out earlier, you can click through these animations in ~5 seconds. Though it probably should have been designed with a shorter animation.

Sometimes it doesn't let you click through, especially on the second or later consecutive activation of a particular terminal.

[Neonivek]

Can't you skip through the animation?

But even then I've found looting to take longer in general.

[BFEL]

The hacking minigame is easy but it's a waste of time.

Anyway there's this: http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/34829/?

For both computers and locks. 100% force lock chance, and only one password. You still need the proper skill level so it's not unbalanced.

Thankies!

[Flying Dice]

but the animation that occurs between activating the terminal and the puzzle itself takes about a quarter minute each time it runs,

As has been pointed out earlier, you can click through these animations in ~5 seconds. Though it probably should have been designed with a shorter animation.

Sometimes it doesn't let you click through, especially on the second or later consecutive activation of a particular terminal.

This has been my experience, and it doesn't even have the decency of being consistent -- sometimes it locks into the animation, sometimes it lets me skip.

[Bohandas]

But even then I've found looting to take longer in general.

That can be solved by increasing ypur carrying capacity via the console ("player.modav carryweight 5000")

[Bohandas]

Ultimately it's unrealistic that you have to unlock most of these doors anyway, given that you're usually armed with explosives and/or a chainsaw or sledgehammer

[Astral]

Resetting the terminal or reloading the game causes the terminal to go into that partially unskippable animation as a bit of an anti-cheat measure. Sure, the intention was good, but it's more of a pain in the ass than anything.

[TempAcc]

There is a mod that allows you to use explosives to unlock doors/safes/etc, but I kind of forgot its name.

[Darkmere]

There is a mod that allows you to use explosives to unlock doors/safes/etc, but I kind of forgot its name.

Explosive Entry I think. Though it can destroy whatever's in a safe you're trying to breach.