How do you hack a terminal? Fallout Q&A #shorts

elite hackermans

[Dakooties]

I just barely found out you could remove duds and all that jazz. For years, no matter how long it was (I love letters), I would randomly guess the first one and then figure it out. Sometimes I'd mess up and use the three tries and have to start over but once you figured out how it worked it was a fun and easy little thing.

[zoeytheirishbottom]

I usually like, guess all of the 3 and then go through all the brackets so I don't accidentally get a "get all guesses back" when I'm already at full guesses

[gabrielbueno]

> guess
> leave with a single chance remaining
> repeat

[daddybondrewd]

Step 1: slam my head into the keyboard
Step 2: unlocked

P R O F I T

[Agent]

I've found that I have the opposite tendency: larger passwords have less common parts and are therefore easier to clear. It's pretty ironic that I find easy passwords harder; I always run into a bunch of words with 3 letters similar, which means I'll exhaust my tires before finding the right one.

[joan_of_craft]

Difficult hacks can usually be solved in the fewest guesses, although not the fewest headaches. More letters=more similarities. However, I usually pick out two words and then start running the matched pairs until I get my tries replenished or I have only one word left that makes sense.

[jugggyrd]

at this point im just choosing the first 3 words from top to bottom 😹

[theodoredaniels]

I'm the exact same way as you in 3, NV, and 4. However in 76, I always spam 3 tries and then back out. Don't want to die while using the terminal!

[robbieroberts]

I never knew how to remove duds while playing FO3 and NV for the first time so just took random guesses. Replaying NV on Xbox one (which was so much better than playing on PS3) I found out how to remove duds now that's my go to.

[TheCrypto]

Exactly what you described at the end. 3 tries sometimes actually trying to guess it proper by using the clues, reset with duds, then make sure i get all the duds to really narrow down options, and then try again.

[plankedskank]

"Do you randomly try three guesses, then back out and try again" The whole time

[HRMS_The_Proto]

Master Hacker, Always solve properly, it's so satisfying when you get it right.

[threemar]

I do them the intended way. It's surprising how many people didn't know about duds and password resets considering how the bracketed characters become highlighted unlike everything else that's an individual characters.

[TheCat_]

I try 3 guesses(sometimes trying to puzzle it out based as the in game system wants) then do the bugs so I can get that refill

[cain]

Took me dozens of Fallout 3, New Vegas, and 4 playthroughs to realize how you have to match the letter position, i had usually just guessed before exiting and reentering the terminal when i was one my last attempt

[hatake]

Funny! I was literally thinking about the hacking mechanic in FO4 a few days ago, and wondering how you did it! How wild!💞

[crimsonfoxx]

For me I try three guesses, removing duds (And hoping for a reset as it doesn't always happen) if I get a reset and remove most if not all available duds, I try and pick from the words left, if I fail to hit a reset I back out and try again

[itsmecrosby]

It only took me about 4 years to find out, but I pick a first, then a second and *meticulously* sift through the ones that match with the toothest of fine combs ever conceived

[jimmyandrews]

The first three, then back out and repeat until successful.

[XtomJamesExtra]

Hacking Fallout terminals: There is actually a very easy way to hacking any level of terminal. Just count the vowels. Virtually every word that unlocks a terminal is the word that has the odd man out number of vowels. If all of the words have an even number of vowels, except one which is odd, the password is likely the one with the odd number of vowels, and vice versa. It is extremely rare for there to be an even spread of words with variant number of vowels in the consoles in game.