STATIC is here. Keep your exits clean and a handler you have never heard of will write to you. They know how ColdWire really treats its agents, and they want your help taking it down. Five chapters: break into ColdWire's own relay, frame the agent who sold three of theirs, reach the director's private network, follow the money, and steal the ledger that was never meant to exist. Story jobs pay nothing and cost heat. What you choose decides whether STATIC protects you. Also in this update: • A run that fills your last file slot now settles properly. • Job steps say exactly what to do. • The file inspector scrolls. • Heat updates the moment you hand over a file.

You are getting two updates in one. Version 1.7 never escaped the server room, so everything from that update is included here too. - The machines have learned to talk Every machine now runs real services on real ports. You will see things like 22/SSH, 5432/PostgreSQL and 3389/RDP in the console. Not sure what any of that means? Your Field Manual fills itself in as you discover new services and explains them in normal human language. Give it a few jobs and you will be spotting PostgreSQL from across the room. - Some machines are hidden Not every target is sitting out in the open anymore. Break into the company’s edge gateway and steal its proxy configuration. It will reveal the internal machine you can reach and the port the firewall has left open. Get the details wrong and they will change both, just to keep you busy. You can also take the messier route. Infect the deployment share, spread through the network and wipe the nightly backup. If everything is back online by breakfast, did you really hack it? - Password correct. Access denied. Some high-security gateways now use two-factor authentication. Cracking the password is only step one. Generate a valid code from the target’s token seed, or hijack a session belonging to someone who already logged in. If you plant your toolkit near the token seeds, that server can keep generating fresh codes for you for the next five hours. - This time, someone else broke in A client was attacked last week, and they have no idea how it happened. For once, you are invited inside. There is no countdown, no need to hide and no wall to break through. Read the access logs, find the intruder among the legitimate users and identify the service that should never have been exposed to the internet. - The more of the mystery you solve, the more you get paid. Helps reduce your notoriety level. - The job board has stopped repeating itself - Tokens do not upgrade your hacking tools, your credits do. - Tokens can be spent on a hardened shield, one extra chance when you are down to your final life and a calling card to leave behind on every machine you raid. Because if you are going to cause trouble, you might as well sign your work. Also included: - Raids now take 30% of the target’s funds with no upper limit. - Raid money is spread across multiple accounts, so you can grab a couple of quick transfers or stay longer and risk taking the lot. - Defences can now be upgraded from Mk I to Mk V. - Every tool can now reach level 6. - Every machine has two weak defences. Recon tells you which ones. - Clients now open the file you return, so sending them the wrong one will not get you paid. Good luck out there. Read the logs, check the ports and try not to lock yourself out.

Jobs that wouldn't close: If you ever finished a contract and watched it sit on the board unpaid, that was real and it was our fault. The server replays every run to work out what actually happened, and it was rebuilding a different version of the box than the one you played. Same job, different filenames. So every file you touched pointed at something that wasn't there and the contract never closed. Fixed, with a test that locks the generated boxes down so it can't happen again. The map never grew up: Meridian, Cobalt, the university, the criminal index. All of them were still built at the difficulty you first met them at, no matter how far you'd come. That's why a federal job paid 88k for ten seconds of work. They scale with you now. Pay is weighted by the job too, so editing one field on a student record no longer pays what emptying a bank pays. Wire jobs leave a trail: Send a bank's balance to your own account and their ledger has it, with your account on the far end. You can't delete that row. The money actually moved, and a hole in the books is worse than a wrong number. Go back, forge the entry, burn the copies in /ledger. Send it to the client instead and there's nothing to clean up. That's the point of the choice. The wire desk is a drawdown now. Open an account, send what's in it, open the next one. Every route shows what you keep and what they get, so keeping the lot is something you decide to do rather than something you do by accident. Credentials work differently: Breaking any cipher used to hand you a key for the box you were already in, which made it the automatic reward for doing the job. Now there's one source: a keyring.enc sitting on a machine that doesn't know it's carrying it. Nothing on the board asks for it. It names a system you haven't been to, and you have to get out alive with it. Loose ends hold your heat: If your address is in someone's log, clean jobs won't bring the number back down and neither will waiting. Clear it or burn. Bailing out mid break-in isn't free either. Their log still has you in it, so wipe before you go. Savings: You can shelter 30% of what you're worth. The rest sits out in the open where a raid can reach it. Balances also stopped showing up as 2.4e+55, which turned out to be a seven day deposit compounding fifty six years of interest. Smaller stuff: Now named systems keep the same name and address between visits. Active contracts fold away. The stat panels have tabs, so you can see why your heat is climbing without reading an essay first. Mid-run interrupts are capped at two and the left option isn't always the safe one any more. Oh and also, we have a new logo and launch screen. Have fun! Happy hacking.

Version 1.3.0 is the largest update since launch. Breaking a cipher finally gives you something to hold. The password appears character by character as the lock gives way, and it stays with the file afterwards, next to its size, its checksum, where you took it from and the date someone last touched it. Contracts for stolen data now run in two stages. You break the archive open while you are still standing on their server, carry the readable copy home, and reply to your client with it attached. The fee clears once they can open it. Emptying a bank account asks you where the money should go. Your own wallet is the quickest route and leaves your name on the transfer. Sending it to the client who hired you keeps you out of the paperwork entirely. Your crew's treasury takes a share and spreads the exposure. You see what each one pays and what it costs you before you commit to anything. An access log you leave behind will follow you home. For as long as a machine somewhere still holds your address, your heat stops cooling off, and the Firewall screen keeps a list of every one of them. You can go back and scrub the entry yourself, or let the identity burn and start again with your tools, your reputation and your name still intact. There is a soundtrack now. A ping for each relay as the route builds, a low room tone while you work, and the music shifts the moment the last layer falls away. Music and effects have separate volume controls, so you can keep the alarms without the score. Elsewhere in this release: personnel records open as photographed dossiers you can edit a field at a time, servers browse as an icon desktop rather than a list of filenames, crews carry their own emblems, raids are matched by level so newer operators face fair opponents, and the economy and trace timings have been rebalanced from top to bottom.

THE WIRE GOT MEANER — AND FAIRER. BOUNTY BOARD Put a price on a rival's head. Escrow credits, and the next operator to crack that subnet collects the whole pot on top of whatever they skim. Every grudge is now a job posting someone else can take. PICK A SIDE At level 3 you can pledge to a faction. NULLSEKT says the wire owes you nothing — take it. WIREWATCH says someone has to keep it honest. Your flag flies on your profile, and both sides fight for control of the season leaderboard. ATTACK REPLAYS "Watch replay" now does what it promised. See the break-in on your subnet play back move by move — which wall they cracked, what they bypassed, the moment they went for your credits, and whether your defenses caught them. RAIDS NOW RESPECT YOUR ROUTE The big one. Your relay bounce chain finally slows the trace during raids, exactly as it does on regular jobs. If you've invested in relays, raiding just got dramatically more survivable. BRING SOMEONE IN Your operator handle is your invite code. Anyone who redeems it gets 1,500 credits — and so do you. When they reach level 3, you both get 5,000 more. SHARE THE RUN Post your operator dossier or a clean exit as a proper image card, straight from your profile. TELL US THINGS Found a bug or have an idea? Help → About → Send us a signal. It goes directly to the people building the game, no email required. There's a Discord link in there too — the developers are in it. Plus operator portraits across mail, raids, crews and the leaderboard, and patch notes that show up when you update. Good hunting.

Your syndicate just got a voice, and raids got personal. • Crew dossiers: tap any operator on your roster to see their rank, role and season score • Burst transmissions: send encrypted one-liners to crew members, they land in their mail with a push notification • Get notified the moment a new operator joins your syndicate • Raids: crack the vault, read the accounts, and see exactly what you're about to steal • Incoming raid alerts now name the operator who hit you, revenge is a tap away • New system map: watch data flow through your rig, from gateway to background ops • Rebalanced early traces, new operators get room to learn the wire before it burns them • Faster updates: improvements now reach you without waiting for a store release

Nothing much, just a newer split-flap decrypt animations, an animated system circuit map, and a redesigned clean-exit sequence.