Hacking is immensely hit or miss, it's very easy to both end up incapable of ever hacking anything and to have hacks be unavoidable, with enough range it's impossible to counteract or trace a hack and if you don't have enough space to give distance traces will instantly detect and counteract any hack attempts.
Most hacking abilities are worthless but some are utterly game breaking or extremely annoying.
You will constantly be spammed with notifications about being hacked, your hacks being traced and when you have idle hacks.

The umbral choir are neat, their theme track is superb and they look amazing but they're hobbled by how clunky hacking is since it's core to their faction mechanics.
Hacking should have been unique to them and less impactful.

Hacking is immensely hit or miss, it's very easy to both end up incapable of ever hacking anything and to have hacks be unavoidable, with enough range it's impossible to counteract or trace a hack and if you don't have enough space to give distance traces will instantly detect and counteract any hack attempts. Most hacking abilities are worthless but some are utterly game breaking or extremely annoying. You will constantly be spammed with notifications about being hacked, your hacks being traced and when you have idle hacks. The umbral choir are neat, their theme track is superb and they look amazing but they're hobbled by how clunky hacking is since it's core to their faction mechanics. Hacking should have been unique to them and less impactful.