Bring up the actions wheel. (Default key: C)
Select the gear at the bottom.
Select the icon in the middle of the leftmost selection titled "My Actions"
Hacking can be bound to the actions wheel with a right click over the icon.

Select which target you want to hack from the Target List menu.

List of enemies and objects that can be hacked.
- Looters
- Federal Police, Soldiers and Special Forces
- Jian and Culter soldiers
- Interceptors
- Bank Dispensers(Usually only contain 200-1,000 Brouzouf each, not really worth it)
- Standing turrets
- Ceiling turrets
- Scrabouillors
- Other players

Metastreumonic Force creatures can not be hacked.

What each action will do if successful

>[POSSESS]
Allows you to directly control a target, this will be covered in depth later in the guide. Don't even think about using it on doors or computers, you will be very disappointed. This type also increases the speed of your attacks.
>[HACK]
Incredibly useful at all times; turns enemies into allies that can be issued commands, opens doors, hacks transcoms and computers.
>[DESTROY]
Directly attacks the target, damaging it heavily and in some cases killing it. Doors and computers will just be hacked as they regularly would.
>[STEAL]
Steals energy/stamina from the target, not very useful unless your Endurance is under 20 for some reason. This does not steal Brouzouf from bank dispensers, but Hack does.

Quick summary of each action

>[ATTACK]
Attacks the enemy targets Cyber HP directly, the enemy's shielding will lower the effect of this.
>[MASK]
A useful action that lowers enemy attack points and can trick them into performing excessive overflows.
>[SCAN]
Lowers enemy shielding
>[SHIELD]
Increases your shielding.
>[OVERFLOW]
Exchanges your shielding for attack points; it will still work with 0 shield points and is very useful.

Wait until you hear the beep and see the action bar fill up to perform another hacking action, you can only perform one at a time.

Overflow is most useful around enemies with low Cyber HP and defense/attack, 2-3 Overflows with 2-3 attacks will overwhelm most enemies with ~170 or lower Cyber HP. Overflow can also be timed with enemy passive actions to steamroll their Cyber HP in a few attacks.

Masking will, 9 times out of 10, force the enemy to perform a series of overflows that will lower its shielding and can help you overcome an HP gap by making the enemy take a large amount of time performing passive actions(Shield/Overflow).

Select yourself from the hack targets list after removing bleeding/hallucinations with maintenance and hack yourself as you would a normal target. Your stats will be lower than they usually are on the enemy side, so it will go by quickly.

Once an enemy is possessed you can control them by moving them forward by clicking the top arrow, rotating them with the side arrows, getting them to aim at a nearby target with the crosshair and attack that target by clicking the skull in the middle. You can exit the possession screen at any time with the X in the corner, but enemies will return to being hostile after being freed from possession if they aren't occupied with a target.

Select the bottom icon from the drone section of the actions menu and use it with your crosshairs over a hacked NPC.


Hacked NPCs have two modes; one lets them patrol on their own, the other allows them to travel with the player.