what's up guys JB 2017 here and I am
bringing you a new fallout 4 tips and
tricks video this time I thought it
would be nice to make a more beginners
friendly video on hacking and just a
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tricks videos today I'm going to show
you how hacking works in this game now
you may be wondering JV why are you
making this video I've been hacking
terminals and fallout for years I know
what I'm doing I've been seeing a few
comments on my videos and requests for
me to explain how to hack terminals
people seem to be confused or just want
to learn more so this video is mainly
for beginners or people that haven't
bothered with hacking in the past you
know maybe just looked at and said I'm
just not dealing with that and maybe
want to learn more I think the best way
to teach you guys how to hack and show
you how to hack is to actually do it
with you you know live recording and
that's what I'm doing right now
so really the purpose of hacking is to
find the correct password in order to
unlock you know the terminal for
whatever purpose and really what you're
doing is sifting through all of this
garbage to find these keywords that'll
be highlighted when you go over them so
you know we've got largest library
phishing
hissing vessels and parents I believe
yeah so we have 6 different options for
the correct password and we have to
guess this correct password in a certain
amount of attempt so you can see on the
top of the screen I've got 4 that's
standard across all terminals so you'll
have 4 attempts to guess the correct
word and really my method for you know
getting into terminals hacking terminals
is to just guess the first one I don't
think there's any other way to do this
but essentially what I do is just pick
the first word I see to guess and see if
that is the correct password so what
happened here is I chose largest that
took one of my attempts as you can see I
only have three left and in the bottom
right it returned entry denied so that's
the not the correct password and also
gave me a likeness number and I think
this is something that a lot of people
are confused about that have never done
this before so essentially I'm going to
try to explore
main likeness as clearly as possible
it's kind of hard to explain but really
what you're dealing with here is
likeness is the number of characters
that are in the correct position the
same position as the password so what
you're really doing here is guessing
different words that are on the screen
here and then you're using the likeness
number to find the correct password so
for example largest did not help us at
all it says likeness equals zero that
means that none of the letters in their
position match the correct password so
that means that our password is not
going to start with an L at all there's
no chance for that happening our
password also doesn't have an A in the
second position of that word so let's go
and find a you know another word that
will not return the correct password so
we know for sure that parents is not the
correct password because it does share a
lot or not a lot two of the same letters
in the same position so we're comparing
largest and parents right here in the
bottom right you can tell that a is in
the second position in this word in both
words that means that if parents was the
correct answer that the likeness would
have returned two because a is the
second character in both words and also
R is the second character in both words
I hope that's you know abundantly clear
for you guys so that's really how this
works so again library is not going to
be correct because L is in the same
position in both words fishing would
actually be a smart guess because there
are no you know positions no letters no
characters in the same position in that
word
same with hissing there's no you know
characters in the same position their
vassals would not be a very good guess
so just by looking at the likeness
rating for one guess I can determine
that the answer is either hissing or
fishing and if I choose the wrong one
these you know letter these sorry these
words are so similar that it will
probably give me enough of a likeness
rating that I can determine yeah it's
probably the other one actually I will
know for a fact if I choose the wrong
one the neck
guess we'll be the correct one sorry if
I'm confusing you there so essentially
that's what you're doing you know for
hacking that's how hacking works before
I actually unlock this terminal I wanted
to use it for an example to show you
guys exactly how does and resets work
and this is something I actually didn't
know before fallout 4 so that kind of
embarrassed me a little bit once but
once I found it out it's a very helpful
system so what you're doing here is
you're searching for groups of
characters that start with a parenthesis
a bracket any kind of bracket could be
squiggly or a normal bracket or that
starts with the greater than or less
than sign so really a really quick and
dirty method to use for this is to just
go and kind of just scan across every
single line of this random garbage to
try to find something that highlights up
and again this is kind of hard for me to
put into words it's easier for me to
just show you so I'm looking for groups
of these random characters and I just
found one so I think instead see my
cursor is kind of near the bottom left
of the screen I'm just going along here
scanning and then I came across this
right here this is a group where there's
an open parenthesis and then a closed
parenthesis with just random junk in the
middle if I click this after
highlighting it it will do one of two
things it will remove a dud which means
it's just removing a you know potential
word that has no chance of being the
correct password or it could reset my
tries so this is a very helpful method
especially on more difficult terminals
you can actually go through search for
you know these duds and you know resets
on your attempts and that'll make it a
lot easier to solve some of the more
difficult terminals I'm on an advanced
terminal so this is not the easiest
terminal it's not too difficult to
figure it out but here I just found
another one I just highlighted went
through comb through you guys saw me and
I found a less than sign I don't know
what the official word is for that
character and then it's closed by a
greater than sign so if I highlight this
entire thing and activate it boom I just
removed another dud and we only have one
two
three four potential words that makes it
so much easier you know to actually hack
this terminal again I just found another
one open parentheses close parentheses I
click that that removed yet another dud
and as you can tell you couldn't kind of
stack the odds in your favor by doing
this by removing I think you can remove
almost all the duds I see another group
here that I can remove that removed
another dud and as you can tell there's
not a single other word except for
hissing so kind of going back to what I
showed you guys before if I were to
choose fishing and you know that would
have returned a lightness rating that
was not the correct password the only
one left is hissing so if I clued you
know click hissing there that was the
correct password I know that absolutely
for a fact I went ahead and reloaded the
save before doing this terminal because
I just want to show you guys another
example of what hacking looks like and
I'm not going to go as slow this time so
for example I just picked nuclear just
for an example it returned to zero
likeness I kind of like when terminals
return zero not likeness because I can
more easily you know compare to other
options so for example greeted is a very
good you know option to pick to see if
it's you know the correct password
because it doesn't match nuclear at all
which means it has a chance of being
correct
so this scenario happens to be that both
nuclear and greeted returned to likeness
of zero none of the characters in both
of these words are in the correct
position so this is actually really
helpful so now I'm comparing the word
related to both nuclear and greeted so
in the first and you can kind of line
these up if you ignore entry denied and
then both the likeness ratings on both
of those you can kind of line these up
and see if you know any of the words
match in any of the position any of the
positions in this word so I can tell
very clearly the end of greeted and the
end of related are the same so there's
no chance of that being the correct
password cleaver I can tell that the Ian
greeted the the last e and then the last
Ian cleaver are in the same position
those have zero chance of you know being
the correct password talking let's see
if talking is correct and I believe
talking is a good option because it
doesn't match any of those and it was it
was the correct password so really this
is a lot of feel you know there's a lot
of just doing it over and over and
you'll be able to
you know effectively hack pretty easily
once you know what you're doing and once
you can hack in you can do a lot of
things you know there are a lot of
advantages to hacking like disabling
turrets spotlights unlocking safes
unlocking doors gaining certain
information that you wouldn't be able to
get otherwise you know those are all the
purposes of hacking very briefly I
wanted to touch on difficulty
essentially as the difficulty in
terminal rises you know from novice to
expert or advanced to expert and then
master the passwords book will become
longer which obviously increases the
difficulty you have to worry about you
know more letters in different position
and higher likeness so obviously there's
a hacker perk in the intelligence
category that'll allow the player to
hack more difficult terminals but you
can also just bring neck Valentine along
and he can hack any terminal in the game
so you can use Nick if you don't want to
worry about hacking at all even after
watching this video you're like I don't
really want to worry about hacking or if
you want to save the points that you
would have spent in hacker Nick is a
very fine option you didn't have to
worry about hacking if you bring Nick
along it's just really your choice I'd
like to know do you guys have in this
game do you find it easy or hard I think
it's something again that you just need
to put a lot of repetition into and once
you've done it a billion times you get
the hang of it it is just like doing it
in your sleep it's just automatic and
it's very simple so let me know what you
guys think about hacking in the comments
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