BlackICE - Lethal Netrunners

BLACK ICE

Lethal Netrunners

The netrunners learned your tricks. Now they defend against them.

"You've spent your whole career treating enemy netrunners as scenery, slow, harmless, a scanner tag that never fires. That was a courtesy. It has been revoked."

Night City's netrunners went to the same school you did. BlackICE gives them a career ladder: a rank 1-15 progression system that decides how fast they upload, how hard their hacks land, how well they shrug off yours, and which hacks they reach for. Push a quickhack into a high-rank runner and their BLACK ICE may reject it outright, wipe the queue you stacked on them, and at the very top of the ladder, send something back down the wire with your name on it.

More runners and Smarter hacks.

Every part of it is configurable in-game; from a light "the world feels more dangerous" tuning all the way to "why did I install this." Set it once and forget it, or dial the pressure to taste.

Bug reports, balance feedback, and screenshots of your death: join the Discord.

— HOW THE PRESSURE STAYS FAIR —

A mod that just makes enemies hit harder is a difficulty slider with extra steps. Everything in BlackICE 2. 0 is built so the danger is readable and answerable:

[]Every threat names its source: the red connection line, the upload HUD and the backlash warning all point at a specific runner you can go kill[/]

[]Rejection happens at a visible checkpoint: your upload runs and then fails where you can see it, instead of dying silently the instant you press the button[/]

[]The backlash warning runs on simulation time: scanner slow-time can't quietly eat your reaction window[/]

[]Native rules are left intact: upload prerequisites, interruption handling and animation ownership stay the engine's. The runners play by the same rules you do, just far better than they used to[/]

[]The exclusive threat stays exclusive: RAM Drain never stacks with another hack, so it's always one runner, one channel, one thing to break[/]