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Updates

v.0.9.85

Added a scrolling information ticker to the terminal that shows each nation's control and current saturation level, as well as a list of forming collectives and the website URL for the new Black Market.

Added a Black Market website that sells each exploit at a 4x markup from the crafting price.  Each fragment you own reduces the cost by 1x.  Resources can be held in escrow until an order is complete.  

Expanded the bypass system logic to provide a more robust experience and prevent easy pattern recognition.  Practice and repetition are still primary factors increasing skill level.  

Rebalanced Resource Infrastructure networks for probability of trapped files, storage placement and type, and changed exploit storages to a probability roll for full exploits instead of exploit fragments.

About the Game

FREE TO PLAY. NEVER PAY-TO-WIN.

ANYONE WHO CAN TYPE ON A KEYBOARD CAN BE FORMIDABLE AT THIS GAME.

AS//0 is not a hacking sim. It’s a PvP strategy game that mimics hacking. You need zero prior knowledge to play. Anyone can learn the commands in 15 minutes - but problem solving, pattern recognition, and strategy are what turn a Lamer thief into a legendary Ghost.

AUTONOMOUS SYSTEM ZERO

AS//0 is a persistent multiplayer cyberwar strategy game where networks are territory, information is power, and the players create the war.

You begin with a single network and very little knowledge of the world around you. Scan unknown addresses. Map the network around you. Infiltrate hostile systems. Steal resources. Build new infrastructure. Expand into other nations. Form collectives, trade intelligence, defend your territory, and decide who you can trust.

There are no character classes and no hidden combat bonuses. Your power is what you have learned, remembered, and actually built: your networks, infrastructure, exploits, routes, resources, knowledge, and the people willing to stand beside you.

DISCOVER AN UNKNOWN INTERNET

Every server is its own persistent digital world.

You are not handed a complete map. IP addresses must be discovered and investigated, and knowing an address does not necessarily tell you who—or what—is behind it.

Useful intelligence can be shared, traded, hidden, stolen, or deliberately falsified.

BUILD YOUR OWN NETWORK

Your network is your character.

Expand it from a small Host and Firewall into a specialized infrastructure of storage, trace systems, alarms, ICE, monitoring, defenses, crafting systems, VPNs, web servers, gateways, and more.

Eventually, one network becomes several.

Every new system gives you more capability - and gives your enemies something else to discover, attack, steal, or capture.

INFILTRATE REAL PLAYER NETWORKS

Break through firewalls and move layer by layer through hostile infrastructure while an active trace works to identify you. During every infiltration someone is trying to identify you.

Search filesystems for credentials and metadata. Defeat ICE. Steal resources and exploits. Sabotage infrastructure. Recon deeper layers, attempt to take the network for yourself, or disconnect before the defender learns too much about where you came from.

Every extra action costs time.

Sometimes the smartest hack is knowing when to get out. 

CREATE OR JOIN A COLLECTIVE

Collectives are player-run organizations with actual infrastructure in the game world.

Recruit members. Establish branches in other nations. Pool resources. Operate shared vaults. Coordinate attacks. Monitor territory. Fight over national control.  Affect an entire nation with an exploit, route signals around your borders, or lock them down completely. 

But collective strength comes with a price: the more information you share with allies, the more information a traitor could someday possess.

Trust is a mechanic whether you like it or not.

CRAFT, STEAL, AND TRADE EXPLOITS

Build offensive and defensive exploits, bring them with you on infiltrations, store them inside your networks, transfer them to other players, or steal them directly from somebody else's infrastructure.  

No auction house is required to create an economy when players have something valuable and somebody else wants it.

ROUTE AROUND THE WAR

Distance matters.

Signals travel across the world and cross national routers, and you pay for every one you send out. VPN infrastructure can bypass border challenges and make distant operations easier and cheaper, while control of territory can turn entire nations into strategically important parts of the network.

The shortest route is not always the safest one.

BUILD PART OF THE INTERNET

Players can publish websites directly inside AS//0.

Use them for recruitment, propaganda, information, guides, threats, or whatever else the server community invents.

Just remember: a public service is also an attack surface.

THE SERVER REMEMBERS

Networks change hands. Collectives rise and collapse. Nations change control. Exploits move between players. Messages, attacks, betrayals, and alliances create a history unique to that server.

Eventually, Netfall begins.

NPC infrastructure disappears. Collective membership locks. The protections of normal play begin to collapse, and the remaining players and collectives fight over what is left.

Only one collective can emerge victorious.

Build the network. Learn the world. Trust carefully.

Netfall is imminent.