Signal Scrambler
Effect: Every 5th hack against you hides your balance from attackers.
Recon Sweep
Effect: Reveal one extra stat on every target (last active, average wallet size, recent success rate, etc.).
Low Profile
Effect: If you have not attacked anyone for 12 hours, your next attack gains +5% success chance.
Dirty Cache
Effect: Failed attacks refund 20% of their cost.
Decoy Wallet
Effect: On breach, 10% of attackers steal from a fake balance and get nothing.
Trace Beacon
Effect: Anyone who attacks you becomes highlighted for 24 hours.
Insider Contact
Effect: Generates a random discounted item in Black Market once per day.
Push Your Luck
Effect:+15% operation reward-10% operation success chance
Burnout
Effect:+1 extra operation slotOperations take 25% longer.
Bulk Buyer
Effect: Buy item stacks for 5% cheaper.
Resource Salvage
Effect: Every failed operation has a 15% chance to generate a random low-tier item.
Vendetta
Effect: Gain +8% success chance against players who attacked you within the last 24 hours.
Predator
Effect: Gain +5% success chance against players ranked above you.
The Parasite — False Flag
Cooldown utility
Effect: Once per day, a failed operation has a small chance to avoid triggering a retaliation or detection penalty.
Upgrade: Increase the chance from 5% to 10%, maximum.
The Parasite — Salvage Protocol
Economic utility
Effect: When an operation fails, recover a tiny portion of the resources that would otherwise be lost.
Upgrade: 3 ranks, recovering 5% / 8% / 10% of eligible losses.
The Guardian — Emergency Firewall
Effect: Once every 24 hours, reduce the consequences of one incoming attack.
Upgrade: Reduce eligible losses by 5% / 8% / 10%.
The Guardian — Quick Reboot
Reduces a defensive cooldown
Maximum 5–10% reduction
The Phantom—Ghost Routing
Reduces the penalty for targeting a highly defended opponent
Does not increase base success chance
Faled attack backfire effects:
Trojan Horse
Effect: 10% chance when successfully hacked to infect the attacker.
Virus Effect:
Next hack suffers -5% success chance.
Virus clears after 1 attack.
Data Corruption
Effect: 5-10% chance when breached.
Virus Effect:
Attacker loses one random temporary buff.
Permanent skills unaffected.
Worm Protocol
Effect: Successful attackers gain a virus stack.
Virus Effect:
Each stack increases operation times by 2%.
Max 5 stacks.
Removed naturally every few hours.
Honeypot Virus
Effect: 8% chance on any attack against you.
Virus Effect:
Attacker's next target appears to have inflated wallet values.
Essentially gives them fake intel.
Backdoor Implant
Guardian Tree Ultimate
Effect: 20% chance to implant a backdoor in attackers.
Virus Effect:
Defender gains +10% success chance specifically against infected attackers for 24h.
Viral Countermeasure
THE GUARDIAN · Defensive / Retaliation
When another player successfully attacks you, there is a chance their system becomes infected with a virus.
Suggested skill ranks
Rank 1
Basic payload
3%
Rank 2
Improved payload
5%
Rank 3
Advanced payload
7%
Effect: Every 5th hack against you hides your balance from attackers.
Recon Sweep
Effect: Reveal one extra stat on every target (last active, average wallet size, recent success rate, etc.).
Low Profile
Effect: If you have not attacked anyone for 12 hours, your next attack gains +5% success chance.
Dirty Cache
Effect: Failed attacks refund 20% of their cost.
Decoy Wallet
Effect: On breach, 10% of attackers steal from a fake balance and get nothing.
Trace Beacon
Effect: Anyone who attacks you becomes highlighted for 24 hours.
Insider Contact
Effect: Generates a random discounted item in Black Market once per day.
Push Your Luck
Effect:+15% operation reward-10% operation success chance
Burnout
Effect:+1 extra operation slotOperations take 25% longer.
Bulk Buyer
Effect: Buy item stacks for 5% cheaper.
Resource Salvage
Effect: Every failed operation has a 15% chance to generate a random low-tier item.
Vendetta
Effect: Gain +8% success chance against players who attacked you within the last 24 hours.
Predator
Effect: Gain +5% success chance against players ranked above you.
The Parasite — False Flag
Cooldown utility
Effect: Once per day, a failed operation has a small chance to avoid triggering a retaliation or detection penalty.
Upgrade: Increase the chance from 5% to 10%, maximum.
The Parasite — Salvage Protocol
Economic utility
Effect: When an operation fails, recover a tiny portion of the resources that would otherwise be lost.
Upgrade: 3 ranks, recovering 5% / 8% / 10% of eligible losses.
The Guardian — Emergency Firewall
Effect: Once every 24 hours, reduce the consequences of one incoming attack.
Upgrade: Reduce eligible losses by 5% / 8% / 10%.
The Guardian — Quick Reboot
Reduces a defensive cooldown
Maximum 5–10% reduction
The Phantom—Ghost Routing
Reduces the penalty for targeting a highly defended opponent
Does not increase base success chance
Faled attack backfire effects:
Trojan Horse
Effect: 10% chance when successfully hacked to infect the attacker.
Virus Effect:
Next hack suffers -5% success chance.
Virus clears after 1 attack.
Data Corruption
Effect: 5-10% chance when breached.
Virus Effect:
Attacker loses one random temporary buff.
Permanent skills unaffected.
Worm Protocol
Effect: Successful attackers gain a virus stack.
Virus Effect:
Each stack increases operation times by 2%.
Max 5 stacks.
Removed naturally every few hours.
Honeypot Virus
Effect: 8% chance on any attack against you.
Virus Effect:
Attacker's next target appears to have inflated wallet values.
Essentially gives them fake intel.
Backdoor Implant
Guardian Tree Ultimate
Effect: 20% chance to implant a backdoor in attackers.
Virus Effect:
Defender gains +10% success chance specifically against infected attackers for 24h.
Viral Countermeasure
THE GUARDIAN · Defensive / Retaliation
When another player successfully attacks you, there is a chance their system becomes infected with a virus.
Suggested skill ranks
Rank 1
Basic payload
3%
Rank 2
Improved payload
5%
Rank 3
Advanced payload
7%
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