PACKET — Changelog

v0.11.0latest

2026-06-25

New — a real UI

Terminal + live sidebars. A fixed terminal pane with a specialized sidebar: system/connection readouts, a network map, and an always-on decrypt strip.
Network topology + the hunter. Jacked into a target, the sidebar draws the network as a node graph and a counter-intrusion daemon stalks you along it — it's your TRACE made visible. bounce/quiet/pivoting visibly move it; it reaching your node is the bust.
Context-aware HUD. A calm green status bar at the shell that turns into a hot red JACKED IN bar in a breach — live TRACE/HEAT, daemon distance, and an alarm — so the meters can't be buried.
“Jacking in” sequence. Connecting plays a full-screen CARRIER dive.

New — steal it now, crack it later

Exfil is encrypted. Grabbing a host's payload nets an encrypted file instead of instant cash — smash-and-grab under the trace clock, decrypt back home.
Background cracking. crack decrypts a file over minutes while you keep hacking — it runs on shared compute cores (buy more to go faster). Watch the hex decode live in the decrypt strip.
Key shortcuts. Tough locks brute slowly — or loot the sibling host that holds the keyfile to skip them, pulling you deeper into a network.
Spoilage. Stolen data loses value while it waits in your backlog, so you can't hoard — triage what you crack first (the file you're actively cracking is safe).

Feel

Trace spikes are telegraphed — a warning fires before the hit lands, so you can bounce (dodge) or quiet (duck) it instead of eating a random spike.
Trace rebalanced so a clean breach is tense but survivable.

2026-06-04

Balance — heat is now a real meta-meter

Heat builds while you're jacked into a host you don't own (~0.5%/sec, any access level) — idle at the shell or mid-op alike. It's the cost of time spent on foreign systems: get in, loot, get out — lingering is what burns you.
Backdoored hosts are safe harbors — sitting on a host you've implanted adds no heat, giving your beachheads a real second use as a place to pause.
Off-target heat decay slowed ~5× (2.0 → 0.4%/sec) so heat persists between jobs and trends upward across a session instead of evaporating in seconds.

2026-06-04

New

DDoS your marks. ddos <host> floods a target from your relay botnet, knocking it offline for ~45s. While it's down its defenses are soft — breaches run at roughly half trace with IDS spikes suppressed — the way to crack an otherwise-brutal high-tier target. Costs botnet charges and a big slug of heat, so it's a real expenditure of the botnet you've built.

Balance

Loot and contract payouts cut ~40% and the steep reward curve flattened, so buying out the black market now takes ~5–6 strong marks instead of ~2.

Fixes

Saves corrupted by duplicate target ids — which could mis-route an attack to the wrong mark and strand a fully-looted target as un-owned — now self-repair on load. Fully-stripped targets correctly read as looted.

2026-06-02

Fixes

Fixed target id collisions that could lose a target's “owned” state when a contract completed.

Distribution

First public download — Windows installer, portable zip, and this download site.

2026-06-02

New

Living BBS. Completed jobs ripple out as board chatter, and boards restock with fresh leads and contracts as you play.

2026-06-01 … 02

Initial development: an HTML/JS prototype ported to Godot 4 / C#. The core loop took shape — dial BBS systems, extract leads, breach targets (foothold → privesc → pivot → exfil), the trace vs. heat meters, the gear & 0-day market, fixer contracts, and the reputation / access-tier ladder.