Fallout Hacking Secret Revealed! You’ve Been Doing It Wrong

We have all been playing Fallout games for years and we all love them, but a new recent discovery by a player has everyone shocked. Everyone has been using the terminals in the Fallout wrong.

The Fallout franchise has been enjoying the limelight these days, thanks to the new Amazon web series. And because of this, many people are flocking back to the game in droves. With so many people picking up the Fallout game for the first time in a while, a lot of players have been discovering new things about the game that they previously missed.

In Fallout games, certain sections are locked behind a terminal console and you need to hack into those consoles to access the private documents, learn more about the lore, and disable defenses behind these locks.

Hacking in the game involves a small logic game that can get pretty tricky. You basically need to crack the password of the terminal and you can work out how close you are to the password after every guess by working out which letters and their specific placement are consistent across each guess.

For example, an attempt at hacking in Fallout might go: Dead (1/4) – Dune (3/4) – Dude (success).

If you make four guesses and don’t succeed, the terminal locks. In some Fallout games, this means you’re permanently locked out unless you manage to find a password written down somewhere, while in Fallout 4 you can just wait a while and try again.

But in all Fallout games, there’s an easier way. As pointed out by Jamie Moran on Twitter, not only can you remove “dud” words, but you can also reset your attempts if you close the terminal after your third guess.