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Infiltration

Infiltration is a gameplay mechanic that allows you to infiltrate a Company's facility to try and steal the Company's classified secrets. These secrets can be sold for money or for Reputation with a Faction.

Overview

Many companies have facilities that you can attempt to infiltrate. By infiltrating, you can steal classified Company secrets and then sell these for money or for Faction Reputation. To try and infiltrate a Company, visit a Company through the World menu. There will be an option that says 'Infiltrate Company'.

When infiltrating a Company, you will be presented with short active challenges.

  • None of the challenges uses the mouse.
  • Most challenges use spacebar as the action.
  • Some challenges use WASD or arrows interchangeably.
  • A few others use the rest of the keyboard.

Each location that can be infiltrated has 3 important values:

  • Difficulty: It affects how difficult the challenges are. This value depends on your "common" stats (combat stats and charisma). It's reduced when you improve your stats. It is not recommended to attempt infiltrations when the difficulty is above normal.
  • Max clearance level: It is the number of challenges you need to pass to receive the infiltration reward.
  • Starting security level: It affects the difficulty and rewards.

Every time you successfully complete an infiltration challenge and go to the higher clearance level, the "effective" difficulty is increased. The difficulty value in the introduction screen is the initial value for the first clearance level. When you go to higher levels, this value will be increased, so the challenges will become harder.

Every time you fail an infiltration challenge, you will take damage based on the starting security level of the location. If your HP is reduced to 0, you will be hospitalized, and the infiltration will immediately end.

Infiltration rewards depend on:

  • Max clearance level. Higher max clearance level = Higher rewards.
  • Starting security level. Higher starting security level = Higher rewards.
  • Your stats' multipliers (NOT skill levels). Lower multipliers = Higher rewards.
  • "SoA - phyzical WKS harmonizer" augmentation.
  • An endgame stat [1]. You will know what it is when you reach the endgame.
  • An endgame multiplier [2]. You will know what it is when you reach the endgame.

The most common misconception of infiltration rewards is that they depend on skill levels. This is wrong. The rewards do NOT depend on skill levels. They depend on stats' multipliers. When you install augmentations that improve stats' multipliers, the rewards are reduced.

In some special cases, you may observe this behavior: When you install augmentations or soft reset, your skill levels drop to 1 and infiltration rewards are increased. Some players mistakenly think that this is why infiltrations should be done with low stats to optimize the rewards. This is totally wrong. Again, infiltration rewards do NOT depend on skill levels. In these special cases, the rewards are increased because stats' multipliers are reduced due to losing bonuses from other mechanics (IPvGO and some endgame mechanics).

Raising raw values of stats (skill levels) is one of the proper ways to optimize the infiltration. Having higher stats does not increase the rewards, but it allows you to infiltrate harder locations (higher max clearance level, higher starting security level, easier to complete more infiltrations in the same time frame, etc.).

Proper ways to optimize the infiltration (with the same [2] and the same stats' multipliers) are:

  • Raise stats. Do NOT purposely keep them low. Having higher stats does not increase the rewards, but it allows you to infiltrate harder locations. Training at gyms, committing crimes, and working for companies/factions are good and easy ways to raise stats without changing stats' multipliers.
  • Infiltrate harder locations after getting higher stats (higher max clearance level, higher starting security level, easier to complete more infiltrations in the same time frame, etc.).
  • Increase [1].
  • Buy SoA augmentations (especially "SoA - phyzical WKS harmonizer").

Challenge list

Attack the distracted sentinel

Press space bar to attack when the sentinel drops his guard and is distracted. Do not alert him!

There are 3 phases:

  1. Guarding - The sentinel is guarding. Attacking will result in a failure.
  2. Distracted - The sentinel is distracted. Attacking will result in a victory.
  3. Alerted - The sentinel is alerted. Attacking will result in a failure.

Close the brackets

Enter all the matching brackets in reverse order.

Type it backward

Type the words that are written backward.

Say something nice about the guard.

Use the arrows to find a compliment for the guard.

Enter the Code!

Match the arrows as they appear.

Match the symbols!

Move the cursor to the matching symbol and press space to confirm.

Remember all the mines!

At first, the cursor cannot be moved - remember the positions of the mines.
Next, move the cursor and press space to mark the mines on the board.

Cut the wires

Follow the instructions and press the numbers 1 through 9 to cut the appropriate wires.