This hacking minigame is incredibly frustrating and unfair. They only give you four attempts to randomly guess the correct password from a pool of around twenty words. It's practically a game of pure chance, relying entirely on RNG, which makes the whole process feel utterly ridiculous and infuriating.
>>714959914 (OP)You Fallout fans are beyond retarded
>>714960125It could also be housing or getting
>>714959914 (OP)The funniest thing is that this game gets easier with longer words, which actually makes the 'easy' terminals generally harder than the 'very hard' terminals.
>>714961185Heh, that actually is pretty funny.
It's been a long time since I've played it, but looking at it now, it seems to be solvable every time (given that you can halve the possible options with each guess, and looking at word choices, it's been deliberately designed such that you CAN). Essentially you do a modified binary search, guessing words that halve the number of remaining possibilities. Usually binary search with 4 guesses would let you narrow it down from 16 possibilities (2^4), but you also get to utilize 3 guesses for confirming or denying specific words (because unlike in standard binary search, you know the list of options), so actually you actually have enough information to uniquely identify the password from among 19 options... and looking at it there are 19 plain-text words there.
For example, when you are guessing FARMING and get 4/7 correct, you know FARMING isn't the correct password, and that the remaining candidates are
ROAMING (MING correct)
GAINING (A correct, ING correct)
HEARING (A correct, ING correct)
MORNING (R correct, ING correct)
and a couple of other options.
MANKIND is a useless guess because it matches to FARMING in only 3 places (A, I, N) and was already ruled out.
I just find it funny how the higher difficulties are actually easier than the easy ones.
But nah, you get more than 4 tries and it literally gives you wordle style hints. If that's not enough then it's a skill issue.
>>714959914 (OP)The answer is Roaming you moron.
>>714959914 (OP)retards like OP are why so many games have
>hold X to pick lockmechanics now. i wish we could just euthanize stupid people instead of dumbing the world down to their lowest common denominator status.
>>714961324Heh, that actually is pretty funny.
>>714959914 (OP)You can select bracketed parts "[....]" or "<...>" etc to reset your attempts and remove words, making the minigame way easier.
it's basically just Wordle, anon
>>714959914 (OP)I couldn't figure it out as a kid but then I looked up a guide and it's probably one of the most fun things in the game
>>714961197>>714961269I read the 4 as a 3, fuck maybe I AM retarded
>>714959914 (OP)so many words just to say you got filtered
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What compels someone to do this?
>>714961991The only ones who start threads are autists.
>>714961458Honestly, it's a waste of time. The best way to play this mini-game is to click 3 words, if you don't get it, exit, re-enter, and hit 3 more words straight away. More often than not, it's faster to brute force it than to bother playing it properly.
It's a bad minigame, but it's whatever desu.
>>714961991>>714962057Daily reminder OP is literally vid related, and the posts/"infographs" being read were actually posted by him spelling errors and all, from before he switched to grok to spam his dogshit threads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxvxVS8RGJY
>not doing the Lockpick+ hacking double XP combo
you were never ment to play Fallout 3 anyways, lil zoomie
