A question on the Hacking. Would it be possible to get a thing in game to repeat the explanation on how it works?
As is, While I like the puzzle aspect of it, I end up having to brute force the puzzle cause I'm not sure what I'm not understanding about it.
You can practice on Wrench's notebook - just ask him about it after finishing the club part of the tutorial. You can read about hacking in the FAQ.
Depending on the device’s protection strength, the number of said options increases. Regardless, one of them is the correct password and you need to find out which one it is by checking how many symbols match between the right answer and the one you picked. Planning ahead is the key.
So, as an example, the notebook has simple and sample in the options. Picking one of them will tell you that only 3 symbols match with the correct password while both words have more in common. This means both are wrong and you need to check other possibilities. This time it's quite easy but you can encounter trickier situations. Just separate options by "look-alike" groups and check them one by one.
Reading the Faq cleared it up enough, but I did initially try Wrenches notebook refresher, except that since it was the same puzzle answer I could pass it by using the same option every time (which I did like three times since I sometimes misclicked into it) and thus really didn't understand anything.
I'm not sure how hard it is to do, but if you added in like one or two test puzzles, I think it'd help a lot for helping folks understand better.*
*Probably something for far later, but It'd actually be kinda neat to see an extended hacking sidemission/game thing. Break Codes for cash or something. Probably wouldn't be tenable repeatable like unless you had some kind of randomizing thing, and as mentioned I have no idea how hard it is to put these puzzles together.