[size=5][b]BlackICE - Lethal Netrunners[/b][/size] Night City's netrunners went to the same school you did. Enemy netrunners are more common on the street, hack you relentlessly, and elite runners cha
[size=5][b]BlackICE - Lethal Netrunners[/b][/size]
Night City's netrunners went to the same school you did. Enemy netrunners are more common on the street, hack you relentlessly, and elite runners chain-upload hack after hack - just like your own quickhack queue, pointed back at you.
[size=4][b]Features[/b][/size]
[b]More street netrunners[/b]
A configurable share of regular ranged gang, corpo and NCPD enemies become full netrunners - real netrunner combat AI, not just a scanner tag. Fully compatible with Random Netrunners: NPCs it already converted are skipped, the two mods stack.
[b]They actually hack you[/b]
Vanilla netrunners wait 12 seconds between hacks and each hack has a 40-120s cooldown - that's why you barely notice them. BlackICE drops the global cooldown to 4s (configurable to 0) and scales per-hack cooldowns to 35% (configurable 10-100%).
[b]Faster uploads[/b]
Enemy upload times scale to 60% of vanilla by default (Overheat 8s -> 4.8s, System Collapse 20s -> 12s). Slider goes down to 30% if you hate yourself.
[b]Chained uploads[/b]
Vanilla forbids any netrunner from starting an upload while you're already being hacked. BlackICE removes that rule: the next upload starts the moment one lands. An EXPERIMENTAL toggle goes further and allows fully simultaneous uploads from multiple runners.
[b]Elite netrunners[/b]
MaxTac, NCPD, bounty-hunter, NetWatch and Arasaka netrunners (Voodoo Boys / Militech / Kang Tao optional) carry the MaxTac hack kit - including System Collapse - on a dedicated high-aggression AI selector that ignores the "player is already being hacked" check entirely.
[size=4][b]Configuration[/b][/size]
Everything above is adjustable in-game: Settings -> Mods -> BlackICE. Settings changes apply on the next save load.
[size=4][b]Requirements[/b][/size]
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[*]redscript[/*]
[*]RED4ext[/*]
[*]TweakXL[/*]
[*]Mod Settings[/*]
[*]Cyber Engine Tweaks (optional - only used for a diagnostic log)[/*]
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[size=4][b]Installation[/b][/size]
Install with Vortex or extract to the game folder. To fully disable, uninstall and restart the game (tweaks live until the game process exits).
[size=4][b]Compatibility[/b][/size]
[list]
[*][url=https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/16475]Random Netrunners[/url]: fully compatible, features stack - NPCs it already converted are skipped by BlackICE.[/*]
[*][url=https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/8467]Enemies of Night City[/url]: detected automatically; BlackICE leaves action-map management to ENC.[/*]
[*]Mods touching netrunner AI cooldowns/conditions may conflict (last writer wins).[/*]
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[size=4][b]Known limitations[/b][/size]
[list]
[*]Netrunners still stop moving during the upload itself - this is rooted in native engine code around the upload channel, not in game data. Every data-side override was tested and verified applied; the engine pins them regardless.[/*]
[*]"Parallel uploads" is experimental; the HUD shows a single upload bar.[/*]
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