Surveillance Network Control
Cameras aren't just obstacles; seize them and they become your eyes.
- Prototype complexity
- Who plays
- Solo decisions
- Design focus
- Information · Planning · Economy
No.109HITMAN World of Assassination01The core loop
Action → feedback → next choice- 01Find surveillance nodes
- 02Avoid or spend to hack
- 03Gain view or kill alarms
- 04Handle the countermeasures
↻Feedback changes the situation — the next round starts from there.
Walk through one round
A simplified design example. Situations and numbers illustrate the mechanic, not exact rules from a reference game.
- T1
Turn 1 · The situation
You have 5 power. Two hall cameras cost 2 each to hack; the vault at the end costs 3.
- T2
Turn 2 · The player chooses
You hack only the first camera (3 left) and use its view to find a path around the second.
- T3
Turn 3 · The feedback
The detour costs a turn and alert ticks up one step, but you keep the vault's points.
- T4
Turn 4 · The next decision
One more alert step spawns reinforcements, so crack the vault and leave.
How it plays
Cameras and sensors form a network; being recorded leaves evidence or raises the alert level. You can spend power, hack points or time to disable or flip nodes and borrow their view. Hacking often triggers countermeasures like global alert rises or defensive programs.
What the player weighs
- Hacking a camera eats points you may need for a safe later
- Erasing footage clears evidence, but the monitor room sits deep in enemy space
02Start small
Scope is an editorial estimate for the minimum prototype, not the reference game or a production schedule.
03One mechanic, different implementations
HITMAN World of Assassination
Cameras record evidence of you, and you can raid the security room to destroy the footage.
Invisible, Inc.
The AI Incognita spends PWR to break firewalls on cameras, turrets and devices; some carry daemons that trigger on hack, and alarm rises each turn.
The difference worth noticing
HITMAN treats cameras as an after-the-fact evidence problem; Invisible, Inc. makes them a turn-by-turn resource fight.
Case notes are Yoroll editorial summaries; rules may change between versions.
04What could you combine?
Hacked cameras feed conditional logic, like 'open this door when the guard leaves frame', so enemy sensors become your triggers.
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Disguise Access Rights
Every outfit unlocks a different map, but someone always sees through it.
- Prototype complexity
- Who plays
- Solo decisions
- 01Locate the needed outfit
- 02Subdue or steal to change
- 03Enter newly allowed zones
- 04Avoid those who see through
Peek Before You Commit
Look before you open the door, at the cost of time and a little exposure.
- Prototype complexity
- Who plays
- Solo decisions
- 01Stop at a door or corner
- 02Pay to peek
- 03Gain local intel
- 04Enter or detour
Item-Filtered Transport
A mixed item stream needs filter rules to send each thing to the right place.
- Prototype complexity
- Who plays
- Solo decisions
- 01Spot a mixed stream
- 02Set filter rules
- 03Items sort into routes
- 04Handle overflow and strays