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How many times can you hack a Prime?


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#1
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Are you limited to hacking a Prime just one time? I kept hitting these Primes with Sabotage and they kept right on attacking me. If I can only hack one time, my estimation of the value of Sabotage has plummeted into the pits.



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I believe its about 4-5 times with the effect wearing off almost instantly after the third. The hack also lasts half of the duration listed in Sabotage description. For example, on my Cryo Vanguard playthrough I hacked a Prime with Tali's Sabotage (description lists duration as 22.80 seconds) and the hack lasted for about 11 seconds: Link

Another thing to consider is that squadmate hacks count towards limit. So if Tali hacks the Prime once and you try to hack it later, your hack will last less.

For the section with three Primes, try hacking them separately. Hack one, wait for the effect to wear off, hack another. Use Spitfire while waiting ;)


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For some reason in MEU boss units are effected differently than mooks.

 

Eg. In ME1 with 1 point in Stasis the blurb was 12 second duration, but if you hit one of those big Rachni buggers with it,  it would only hold it for a couple of seconds.

 

The same with the Primes in ME3, the duration of Sabotage may say 22 seconds, but you're lucky to hack them for half that. And it get's less each successive hack. After about 3 hacks it barely does anything except make them shiny for a sec or two.

 

Although I can't remember if Sabotage is like Stasis, where the target builds up an 'immunity' to that power and said immunity can wear off over time. Not sure if Sabotage is similar, although I guess it doesn't matter as most things would be dead by then anyway.



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ME1 and ME2 there were various duration penalties, I don't recall if there was one for difficulty in ME1 but there certainly was for ME2, and units had duration penalties corresponding to tier.

 

IIRC Sabotage hack limit for Primes should be 3, as above.



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Why do you need to hack when you can shoot it?