Image 1: Main Menu
A key ingredient to Silencer is a
certain object placed throughout all of the levels. They are called terminals.
There are two different sizes, a small and a super terminal. The goal of
Silencer is to hack these terminals (by pressing your action key). You must hold
still for a few seconds while hacking the terminal. When hacking a terminal, two
things happen: You slowly begin to chip through the computer security, leading
you towards obtaining a government secret. This is the main goal of the game.
The other benefit is your file count increases, which can be turned in for credits.
Credits can be used in the store to buy equipment. I'll go more into detail about equipment and
where you buy it later on.
Image 2: Agent by two civilians
To win a game in Silencer, you must successfully obtain three secrets through hacking or stealing,
and bring them back to your base. More details about the base will be covered later. You might be wondering what a government secret is, and what do you do with it. Well, once you hack enough terminals, a secret will begin to be downloaded somewhere on the level. This is indicated by a shrinking circle on your radar/minimap in the middle portion of your
HUD. The circle will indicate the location of a super terminal. This
super terminal will contain the secret which you need to pick up. Any other
players in the game will be able to see what super terminal your secret will be
at, so you will need to be careful. Only players on your team can pick up your
team's secret, but once you actually have it, anyone can kill you and take it from your corpse. The objective is to bring the secret to a specific location in your base. You have to be careful though, because whoever has a secret is a prime target for
everyone else to kill. It doesn't really help that you move slower with the
secret, either! Once the secret is returned to base, everyone on that team will be rewarded with 1000 credits.
Image 3: Agent carrying a secret (Notice the white glow)
Now to explain the concept of hacking in more detail. The focus of
Silencer is to obtain secrets, which you do by hacking terminals. An indicator is shown on the left hand side of your screen that shows
how close you are to obtaining the location of a secret, which will be at one of
the few super terminals in the given level. Super terminals take a bit longer to
hack, but they give you more credits and help you find the location of the next
secret much quicker. Whereas a regular terminal might only get you 10% closer, a
super terminal might get you 25% closer. As this is the main concept of the game
up until someone has a secret, a common tactic by many people is to disrupt
people while they are hacking by trying to kill them. Don't worry though,
if you die you promptly respawn in your base with all the progress towards your secret intact. You will lose your files and any inventory you were carrying.
Image 4: Hacking a small terminal
Image 5: Hacking a big terminal
Image 6: Notice the indicator on the left showing you how close you are to obtaining the location of the secret
Now onto your base. It is NOT a fixed position in the level. In the beginning of the
game you can choose where to put the entrance of your base. All you are doing is
placing a warp door to your base. When you press your action key on the base door, you will enter your base, which is completely
separate from the level. Your enemies can't see the entrance to your base and vice-versa.
The only way to gain entrance to an enemy's base is to catch them entering or
leaving it. Knowing the location of an enemy base is useful in trying to sabotage
their store, or hiding in their base to kill them as they carry a secret.
In your base, there are a multitude of things to do.
At the very end of your base there is a terminal for you to return a secret you
may have. Return three secrets to the terminal at the end of your base and you
win the game. You also respawn at a designated location in your base. If you are
ever hurt, you can go into your base and run past the machine that you respawn
at and it will promptly heal both your health and your shield to capacity. More about that
later. Files can be deposited in the same machine. The final important aspect of your base is that is store, where you can buy equipment. More about that later
also.
Image 7:Base Door for the blue team
Image 8:Inside Base - Respawn/heal area
Image 9:Inside Base - Equipment Purchase area
Image 10:Inside Base - Terminal where you return secrets
While you can run, jump, climb latters, and climb onto the edges of platforms to pull
yourself up, there is another way of get around, via the jetpack.
With it, you can go places you normally wouldn't be able to reach, and it can give you
safety in times where you would otherwise die, by getting you off the ground. Once you
activate it, you can fly for a limited amount of time, until you run out of fuel.
Please note that it's energy will continue to drain even if you stop using it. Once it's fully drained, it will begin to recharge.
Inertia is a big deal here as it is heavily accounted for while you are using your jetpack.
The force of an explosion will send you flying if you are using your
jetpack (and assuming you weren't killed.)
Image 11: Jetpack!
Now about saving your own skin. You have health and you have shield. If your health
reaches zero, you will die. Please see the weapons page for more information about weapons and inventory items.
There are five different agencies that you can work for when you create your character. Each agency has
their own special abilities. Please see the Agencies Page for more information about agencies.
While you are playing, not only will you have to deal
with other player agents, but you will also have to deal with NPCs. Here is a
quick overview of them.
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