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- For the cipher minigame, see Hacking.
A Cipher is a gear item used during Hacking to automatically line up sections or insert the dials of the hack to automatically solve the puzzle. One blueprint will produce 1 or 10 cipher(s), depending on the blueprint.
Acquisition
- Its 1x and 10x blueprints can be bought from the market at the Gear tab for
500 and 250,000, respectively. Neither blueprint will be consumed on use.
+1x Cipher
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 100 |
 400 |
 400 |
Time: 1 min | ||
Rush:  1
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 Market Price: N/A
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 Blueprints Price:  500
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+10x Cipher
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9,000 |
3,600 |
 3,600 |
Time: 1 min | ||
| Rush: 1
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| Market Price: N/A
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Blueprints Price: 250,000
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Notes
- Ciphers, among other consumables, changed from credit buyable to blueprint only in Update 10.0 (2013-09-13).
- A maximum of 200 Ciphers may be taken into any single mission.
- This item can help when attempting the Mastery Rank 4 Test (advancing from Rank 4 to 5), in which you have to hack terminals against a time limit. Terminals will have up to 9 panels (more than the normal ones you encounter in game). 10 Ciphers are enough to pass the test with ease.
- While hacking, the Cipher can be quickly used by pressing Y . Currently, this will function regardless of which slot the ciphers are equipped into, and even if the player no longer has default key bindings for using items.
- Ciphers cannot be used during Sorties or Nightmare Trials.
- If the player is quick enough they can use the cipher before the puzzle appears
Trivia
- A Cipher is an algorithm for decryption or encryption.
- Using a Cipher is the only way to not trigger the intrusion detection on complex Corpus consoles.
Patch History
“I was expecting... I don't know. More.”
No patch history is available for this item (none documented in patch notes).