Sneak has that advantage over Concealment, then. Hyperspeed can remain active while you're in Sneak, thereby boosting your speed while you're out of sight. However, that's for a different thread. Personally, I don't feel it causes an imbalance. I could care less about moving faster while I'm using Escape and Evasion.

But all of those abilities do, in fact, take precedence in your buffer over the Awakened ones. In Broin's defense, although he didn't bring this up, Hackers get the short end of the stick in that you can load Hyper-Deflect always in conjunction with one other Hyper-Ability. You're always defending against Viral and one other type of damage. Similarly, the Resistance abilities cancel each other out with the exception of the Viral resistance ability, Empty Mind. I feel that when I am being gunned, kicked, knifed, and hacked I should be able to activate all of the resistance buffs for an increased chance of survival as opposed to only being able to reduce damage from viral and one other damage type at a time.

Played around with Combat Hacking last night, and I have to say, this would be a great ab for hackers in IL. It might actually help us survive longer than a couple of turns in IL.

And, it is one of the only abs that makes use of the Vitality influences.

But a 298 sec reuse timer? So I can only use this for one fight every five minutes? Talk about relegating something to absolute uselessness!

In my opinion, this is one of the few things that would help balance hackers for IL. Yes, most of the Hacker tree is meant for free-fire attacks, but there are a couple of builds that could be considered for 1v1 IL combat.

However, a five minute reuse timer makes Combat Hacking much lower in importance than, say, an extra hyper or a DOT attack. Unless the devs reduce the timer, this ab will likely stay moth-balled.

Can we get some feedback? lol, does anyone else even care at this point?

Zerotolerance wrote:

broin wrote:

If it doesn't stack then it should... I can't think of another ability that takes of a basic awakened ability out there.  If they think it is overpowered and that is why they have it not stacking then they need to bump it down a bit and let it stack so it can be a useful ability to throw into a build.

- Desperate Speed - only one speed buff can be active at once
Deactivates Hyperspeed

- Enhanced Dodge - points are the same as those in the awakened tree If self-buffed with hyperdodge, yes.  If someone else buffs you, points are different.
Deactivates Hyper-Block, Hyper-Dodge, Hyper-Sense

- Concealment - you have to stand still hyperspeed would just show the enemy where you are (besides it doesn't boost speed)
Deactivates Hyperspeed

- Serene Calm - here we got a problem because not only is the time duration much less than in enchanced dodge but the points are less and the IS cost is sky high ergo useless
Deactivates Hyper-Block, Hyper-Dodge, Hyper-Sense, Hyper-Deflect

- Iron Body - it has points in both adrenaline booster and consistent technique so...
Deactivates Adrenaline Booster, Consistent Technique - Wrong.  Iron body stacks with consistent technique.  It also stacks with adrenaline booster.  Adrenaline booster and consistent techique don't stack together.

I also tried using them in different orders.  Iron body first, then the awakened abilities and visa versa.  Both awakened stacks with Iron Body, just not with each other.