Raijinn posts in the Development Uplink with more info:

Official Forum Link

In this Development Uplink we’re squarely focused upon the upcoming hacking update which will be an exciting new addition to PlanetSide’s gameplay.  Last week we shared the basic outline for what you will be able to harness while on the battlefield when using the Elite Hacking abilities now we’ll take a look at the T-REK in the wild….CRIKIES!

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T-REK securely in hand and you’re ready to take on the world! Head to your nearest hotspot and proceed to torment your enemy into submission!

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One of the T-REK’s strengths is its ability to help thwart the onslaught of vehicles assaulting your friendlies. Especially those pesky Mosquitoes…

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One of the T-REK’s strengths is its ability to help thwart the onslaught of vehicles assaulting your friendlies. Especially those pesky Mosquitoes…

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With the Mosquito lined up, take your crack shot at it and if you hit you’ll be rewarded with an electronic blossom of sparks. In this case its hit confirmed!

For an extra bit of satisfaction and utility while using the T-REK, head over to the Main Console of the nearest enemy base and infect it with one of these Viruses! Effects and times vary so check out what they do below!

• Unlock all base doors – 60 minutes
• Disable facility benefits – 15 minutes All linked benefits (tech, bio respawn, vehicle repair, etc.) disabled
• All vanu module benefits disabled
• Will not affect benefits gained through continent/cavern lock
• Will not disable benefits at neighboring linked bases
• Remove Radar – 15 minutes
  
• Completely disables radar of friendlies in Sphere Of Influence of the facility
• Access all base equipment terminals – 2 minutes
  
• Same effect as hacking terminals
• Terminals can still be hacked, but hack has no effect
• Double NTU drain – 60 minutes
  
• Resources drain at twice the normal rate!

Until next time,
Joel “Raijinn” Sasaki

UPDATE: February 23, 2008

Forum Link

DJBenG posted a few more details he found while testing out the new certs:

Certification Costs

• Hacking = 3 points
• Advanced Hacking = 2 points
• Expert Hacking = 2 points
• Data Corruption = 3 points
• Electronics Expert (Exp Hacking + Data Corruption) = 4 points

Check out the link above for more

Raijinn posts in the Development Uplink some interesting news:

Official Forum Link

There are a whole lot of things going on for the upcoming update featuring the 3rd tier of skills for Hacking! It’s taken a while to get all of the features, goodies, and otherwise useful skills together into an Elite Hacking update but we’ve hammered it all down and we’re excited to get this out to the public.

You’ll have some very useful new skills, abilities, and even a new piece of equipment – you can’t really call it a weapon since it’s used for blatantly evil and mischievous things. So what can you expect from this new equipment?

• 4 shots with no reload, think Decimator here folks
• Disruption shots will affect all types of vehicles, just not turrets
• You’ll be able to upload Virus’ into bases through the main terminal however only one virus can be active at any given time. There are 5 types of Virus’ that can be uploaded and they are…
  1. Unlocking all base doors
  2. Disable facility benefits
  3. Remove Radar
  4. Access all equipment terminals (you’ll be able to snag weaponry from any equipment terminal in the base)
  5. Double the NTU drain
• The ability to hack Spitfire and Wall Turrets
• Hack motion sensors. Hacked sensors will show their own friendly soldiers on the radar as enemies.
• The ability to hack the Aegis and turn it into one big, giant, pain field!
• You’ll also be treated to new eeeeevil hacking sounds, since after all this is a mischievous, evil, piece of equipment.

Enjoy folks!

Until next time,
Joel “Raijinn” Sasaki