PvP Hacks

A PvP hack writes a protocol onto another player. You start the upload on your side, and it takes effect on theirs. You cannot target yourself. To change your own implants or held charge, use a Self Rig protocol.

This shelf has 14 protocols. 4 ship with Hack Time. 10 need chips. The chips are sold on TBUG’s PvP shelf. You still enter from Hack Time. The scan label is Player Target.

Lock rules

Both sides must have vanilla PvP hostility on. Players on the same non-zero team cannot lock each other. Range is about 150 tiles, shorter than ordinary hacks, so a lock across the screen has no counter window.

A player cannot be selected for about 5 seconds after they respawn. After any protocol lands on a player, you cannot start another upload on that same player for about 10 seconds. A defender can carry at most 3 effects at once, and at most 2 of those from the same attacker.

No protocol fully steals input, forces movement, or hard-stuns. Item use can slow by at most 35%, and a single effect lasts at most 6 seconds. A single RAM burn takes at most 4 RAM. A life protocol’s full damage on one landing is at most 120.

The defender can peel one hostile protocol with the factory protocol Force Uninstall. After a peel, they cannot peel again for about 30 seconds.

Factory 4

Protocol	Category	RAM	Upload	Duration	Effect
Position Cast	Covert	2	about 1.3 s	15 s	Their position is visible to your whole team through walls for fifteen seconds
Gauge Pollution	Covert	3	1.5 s	8 s	Corrupt their interface; health and ammo readouts scramble for eight seconds
Link Traceback	Covert	2	about 0.7 s	Instant	Sever every upload aimed at you, scorch the senders and mark them
Force Uninstall	Covert	4	0.5 s	Instant	Rip one hostile protocol off yourself; can’t rip again for half a minute

Link Traceback is a defensive tool: if they are uploading onto you, you can cut that link. Force Uninstall clears an effect already sitting on you.

Chip 10

Protocol	Category	RAM	Upload	Duration	Chip	Effect
Channel Scramble	Covert	3	about 1.7 s	20 s	Channel Scramble Chip	Garbles their chat for twenty seconds and wipes teammate nameplates off their screen
Map Blackout	Covert	4	2 s	15 s	Map Blackout Chip	Buries their map under static for fifteen seconds, pins and team markers included
Stealth Strip	Covert	3	1.5 s	10 s	Stealth Strip Chip	Strips all their invisibility and stealth for ten seconds; their outline glows for everyone
Memory Scorch	Control	4	about 1.8 s	10 s	Memory Scorch Chip	Burns three of their RAM on landing; their recovery stays at zero for ten seconds
Buff Siphon	Covert	5	about 2.3 s	Instant	Buff Siphon Chip	Steals their longest-lasting buff for yourself, up to thirty seconds
Combat Siphon	Contagion	4	2 s	10 s	Combat Siphon Chip	For ten seconds the damage you deal them converts into your RAM
Cooldown Inject	Control	4	2 s	6 s	Cooldown Inject Chip	Slows their item use by 35% for six seconds; a ticking potion cooldown gains five more
Ballistic Turncoat	Control	5	2.5 s	about 5 s	Ballistic Turncoat Chip	Their next three shots turn around mid-flight and hunt their owner; holding fire keeps them safe
Cyberware Offline	Control	6	about 2.7 s	8 s	Cyberware Offline Chip	Knocks all their cyberware offline for eight seconds
Meltdown Brand	Lethal	5	2.5 s	4 s	Meltdown Brand Chip	Plants a visible four-second fuse that detonates for eighty damage; uninstalling it defuses the charge

The Effect column is the in-game protocol text. Meltdown Brand’s fuse is visible on both screens. If the defender removes it with Force Uninstall before the fuse ends, the explosion does not apply.