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So Uplink is a pretty fun game
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It's the best game that's only about hacking ever made, and you can get it for ten dollars on steam in a pack with some other bullshit game that no one wants to play.
Seriously, it's a 16 meg download, will run on a calculator and is one of the few unique gaming experiences out there. You play as a freelance hacker, going around all hacking shit and junk in order to upgrade your computer to hack more and better shit. Essentially the whole game is a series of logic puzzles to work out the most effective ways of solving various problems, like how to transfer money from someone's bank account into yours without getting your shit ruined by the bank. You should definitely play it!
Tip: always route through InterNC or whatever first, because it has no security and you can easily go back and delete your logs. The obvious traces aren't the only ones, the people you're hacking always try and trace you through your various IP bounces, if you delete your logs properly they'll eventually hit a brick wall. There's another trick to it but I'M NOT TELLING.
Seriously, it's a 16 meg download, will run on a calculator and is one of the few unique gaming experiences out there. You play as a freelance hacker, going around all hacking shit and junk in order to upgrade your computer to hack more and better shit. Essentially the whole game is a series of logic puzzles to work out the most effective ways of solving various problems, like how to transfer money from someone's bank account into yours without getting your shit ruined by the bank. You should definitely play it!
Tip: always route through InterNC or whatever first, because it has no security and you can easily go back and delete your logs. The obvious traces aren't the only ones, the people you're hacking always try and trace you through your various IP bounces, if you delete your logs properly they'll eventually hit a brick wall. There's another trick to it but I'M NOT TELLING.
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I start out and I'm all hacking shit and feeling badass.
Then things go terribly wrong.
seriously though, I thought when I played this on gametap they would remove the copy protection
I remember when they added LAN hacking. It's a pretty good rush, too, when the Sysadmin starts tracking you - but unfortunately some of the randomly generated LAN setups are uncrackable without brute forcing.
Overall, one of my favorite games ever. I simply can't wait for Subversion.
You need to reach the terminal that toggles the locked node(s).
Also, check all the workstations, many a LAN has a wireless access point you need to find the number for to be able to finish it.
Warframe/Steam: NFyt
Hahaha, does it ask for stuff off of the back of the jewel cover?
I've robbed banks before years ago, but this time I can never figure out which fucking log to delete. Do you get more time if you move the account to a proxy instead of your uplink account?
Using a proxy account is always a safety measure I took, but I don't know how necessary it is. In order to crack the bank, the steps I usually take to get more time are to (1) Bounce off InterNIC first, and the Uplink Test Server second, (2) Break into the bank, bypass all security, transfer all the money you want to whatever accounts you want to, (3) IMMEDIATELY delete the transfer statement (showing how much money you transfered) from the account (Note that this isn't in the typical administrator section where you delete access logs, but actually the transaction section of the account), and (4) delete any and all access logs. You can try to nuke your activity logs on the bank, but if you want more time, just disconnect after nuking the statement logs. Then hit the Uplink Test machine and InterNIC to delete your bounces there.
You might need the level 5 log deleter for this to be successful. I think the Feds can track/undelete logs otherwise. Also, always be sure to just delete the 'routing' logs and 'admin access' logs at the bounce points, instead of 'connection/disconnection' logs. If you delete the connetion logs, then when you log out it will show a disconnection without a corresponding connection.
It's a fun feature, because if you pull it off you're set up for the rest of the game, but if you don't it nukes your game within 3 minutes.
It's been a while since I played, but after rooting around, I think you can stay logged in as the account holder. Just go to the 'View Statement' menu, between 'View Account' and 'Transfer funds'.
Crap! I forgot this last, very important part! Once you finish doing that on the account from which you stole the money, you have to do it again on the account you deposited the money to. Log in to the bank account where you stashed the money, hit the 'View Statement' menu, and delete the money transfer log. If either log is intact, they'll pinch you.
Thanks for the help!
1300: tum te tum
13:02: BIG GAP IN LOGS THAT COINCIDES WITH CRIME
13:03: A log out log from you without a corresponding log on log. Log. Log log.
13:04: They figure your shit out.
That little detail tripped me up for the longest time until I read about it somewhere. That's when I began to realize just how in depth Uplink was. Sure, there's not a whole lot going on graphically (though I think that's part of the appeal), but there's so much going on under the hood that it's really amazing.
I still start to sweat suddenly when I hear this noise:
Beep
Beep
Beep Beep Beep Beep
BeepBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEE!!!!
ARRGGHHH!
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On some missions irretrievably borking the computers is required.
It doesn't necessarily hinder you, but if you hack into a computer and remove all traces of your activity, leaving it up is always a plus. Any machine you have an account on (dotted square outline on the bounce map) will buy you time during an active trace, and take longer to get through on a passive trace, too. If you've got Admin access (solid square line on the bounce map), you'll get even more time. If you've got either on a government or academic database, the red tape involved with a passive trace buys you a whole lot of time. They cycle passwords every so often, though.
Edit: Heck, I just remembered The Ultimate Uplink Guide. Lots of good info in there.
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I'm also looking eagerly forward to Subversion.
I don't think you lose moral points for stealing files rather than destroying them, that's standard hacker fare. You lose moral points for ruining lives and fucking with the government.
I just want to know what the game is about. Like what you do.
Aside from, breaking into buildings and blowing things up.
I'm positive you get points for destroying files, though - I remember because I did a whole bunch and got a new rating, then took a whole bunch of stealing and lost it.
But there is one little thing I never understood about this game: why the hell isn't there a command line interface for doing everything? Maybe not everything everything, but having to click on different things here and there chews up so much more time than just being able to command line most of it.
I seem to remember a game like Uplink, only you were a newly self-aware AI. The premise was that you had to slowly build yourself in to a Skynet like entity while staying under Humanity's radar. IIRC it was like Uplink with all the hacking and everything. However, you had to expand your capabilities, control, and over all influence in the world without raising Mankind's suspicion.
Or maybe that game was just a fever dream. :?
That was a good fever dream. Probably not as a good as the one dream where I was Captain America, but definitely a good dream nonetheless.
So what happened?
Yes, early on I started the
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so i robbed a couple of banks for millions and bought stock, set the speed to max, went away for an hour and suddenly had more money than i could spend
i actually modded in a gateway with room for 100 CPU's and an equally ridiculous amount of RAM just so i had something to buy
Are you sure you're not thinking of the let's play of Uplink featuring Enkidu?
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Just played that, fun times. Gets a bit easy near the end though when you have millions in computational power and almost undetectable lunar bases.