you may have to place one of those hack boxes on the objective before you can remote hack it, then the Engineer would just have to disable the box.

So place hack box, BS engineer then go hide, then hack the turret with my IPhone. Turret minigame, what a wonderful App.

maybe something like in bioshock 2 when you have to stop the needle in the green zone in order to be successful. that was alot better than the way they did it in the first bioshock.

blackberries are better anyway

You might want to BS the engineer first. It's not TF2, and the sentry won't turn around to shoot you once you lose your disguise. In ET:QW, you weren't able to use anything (including the hacking tool) except the knife while you were disguised, although you could hold a non-functional replica of the enemy's gun to make it less obvious you were a spy.

A beep or many beeps? Also will be beep from the turret or my Iphone? Kind of hard to hide when you are beeping loudly.



Maybe also will BS cause you to lose your disguise?

your "iphone" will continue to beep while you remote hack, so on top of remote hacking being slower, it can give away your position as well.

I don't know about Wolfenstein: ET, but in ET:QW you only lost your disguise if you were in the field of view of another hostile. If you backstabbed and no one saw it, you kept your disguise.

will the turret beep too or is it just the hacking device

I hope it stops when the hack is complete.

why wouldnt it

idk - I think just the device beeps. There may be other indicatyors on the turret, like a hack box or a blinking light. Remote hacking may also be limited to objectives, I'm not sure.


I think it does.

Hard to be hidden when you are beeping. Another idea to point out is will the turret be deactivated while it is being hacked? So you can disable it so your teammates can make it through or cap the objective.

I wouldn't think it would - the whole point of hacking it is to disable it, aka, gain control of it. I think it remains active until you successfully hack it.

It would be the same as ETQW i think - when the hacking is complete, its 'hacked' but during the process, its still functional.

What H0RSE and PKB said.

My expectation is that when hacking is complete, you'll have the option to disable the turret instead of taking control, since there will be circumstances under which controlling it won't be that useful or wise. In ET:QW, you could either hack a deployable to disable it for one minute (and there was nothing the other team could do to fix it but wait the full 60 seconds for it to come back on its own) or to bring it down to 50% health, which not only disabled it but made it easy for your teammates to destroy it, with the caveat that once you dealt that damage to it the enemy could simply repair it without having to wait. (Technically, this was done by giving the turret hacking process two "stages": hack for three seconds or so in order to shut it down, then hack it again for maybe six seconds to actually physically damage it.) So, I think SD is likely to give you a choice between merely disabling the turret and taking control of the turret.

The other method of disabling a turret was, with the use of the EMP nade.
Maybe Operatives also have that option, or maybe the Soldier now has access to those nades. Who knows but its good to speculate.

they said that if a turret takes enough damage it will be disabled

Not sure on the turret part (I'll ask), but the you're pretty much spot on on the wireless hack.

If you get an answer, are you allowed to actually tell us?

I hope so lol I want to know now.

As do I.

EMP is an efficient way of disabling something, at the cost of it not being damaged.
You dont have to run up to a defended turret and hack it, you dont have to throw 3 normal nades to damage it,
and you dont have to waste an entire clip shooting at it.

Ofcourse this is all speculation that it would even exist in Brink, but given its functionality in etqw, it wouldnt surprise me.

It would surprise me, a bit, simply because of the narrow utility of an EMP grenade in Brink. ET:QW had vehicles, and three different classes were able to deploy emplacements, which made the EMP grenade really useful. In Brink, the only thing we know about that would be affected would be Engineer's sentry guns.

if it is shot enough it will be disabled for a short period of time. if it is shot even more it will be completely destroyed

As certain CP gives bonus hitting those with an EMP grenade should short it out for a bit.