Broken jailbreak missions?

[sarge945]

Hi!

I dont know if this is a bug or a feature, but I was on a jailbreak mission and was unable to open any cells. I did the mission with a team of rookies, no specialist. The mission was literally impossible

Was this a bug, or are specialists required for these missions? I know in the original you could hack a door by standing next to it.

Long War Version: 1.0
Platform: Windows 7 x64, Steam version
Xcom 2 Mods: Perfect information, some music kits, additional icons, and a few soldier customisation mods
Save Game: This was in an ironman run, sorry, but I already finished the mission(s)

[sarge945]

I just did a "hack terminal" mission and wasn't able to hack the terminal either

[Arcalane]

I've been able to hack things using the standard pad (my stealth team's super-fast Shinobi actually did a lot of the hacking until I assigned them a dedicated Specialist) so it sounds like a bug of a different flavour.

Is the game not showing the green-star-on-floor and red-padlock graphics when you tell a soldier to move next to or near a hackable object? Chests and cell doors should be hackable from any adjacent tile. Terminals are slightly more picky about their locations.

[sarge945]

I've been able to hack things using the standard pad (my stealth team's super-fast Shinobi actually did a lot of the hacking until I assigned them a dedicated Specialist) so it sounds like a bug of a different flavour.

Is the game not showing the green-star-on-floor and red-padlock graphics when you tell a soldier to move next to or near a hackable object? Chests and cell doors should be hackable from any adjacent tile. Terminals are slightly more picky about their locations.

There is no green pad at all.

I probably should have followed the proper bug reporting guidelines. I will edit my OP

[sarge945]

Just an update. ChristopherOdd has the same issue, as seen in this video

https://youtu.be/LLqJQNyjRkM?t=13m56s

His Gremlin is able to hack the jail door, but there are no green squares for anyone else, and no Amber objective hack ability.

[Arcalane]

Sounds like people need to check their soldier hack stats. According to a couple of posts I've seen, you need a Hacking stat of at least 1 to hack things. NCE can result in 0 (or negative) hacking, preventing your soldiers from doing that kinda thing.

Fortunately this has been identified and fixed in the upcoming 1.1 patch.