Goonhub
06-15-2014, 08:28 AM
I think big problem with DWAINE and packet hacking in general is that there just aren't enough real trailheads to get you started.
For example, there's no (obvious, if any) way to find out what kinds of things you can do when you connect to things, or the commands things accept. There's no way to find out what broadcasts on a frequency, because many things generally don't respond to pings at long range (and even then there's probably 50+ frequencies to go through)...
I mean, sure, you can connect to an IR sensor, but it isn't very exciting if you can't trigger it remotely and make the AI think something's up, or send everyone off to the armory thinking someone broke in. Remote-tripping fire alarms doesn't really seem to work, either.
There's also no real guides to doing any of it outside of piecing together some disjointed information on the forums, whereas there's probably at least 3 different detailed guides to making gigantic TTBs or Fun Poisons.
For example, there's no (obvious, if any) way to find out what kinds of things you can do when you connect to things, or the commands things accept. There's no way to find out what broadcasts on a frequency, because many things generally don't respond to pings at long range (and even then there's probably 50+ frequencies to go through)...
I mean, sure, you can connect to an IR sensor, but it isn't very exciting if you can't trigger it remotely and make the AI think something's up, or send everyone off to the armory thinking someone broke in. Remote-tripping fire alarms doesn't really seem to work, either.
There's also no real guides to doing any of it outside of piecing together some disjointed information on the forums, whereas there's probably at least 3 different detailed guides to making gigantic TTBs or Fun Poisons.