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The Nightfall Incident is a Spybotics Online game developed by Gamelab in 2002, formerly hosted by the LEGO official website. Currently, the game can only be found on various archive sites.
The game featured the four signature spybots from the Spybotics theme, Gigamesh G60, Snaptrax S45, Shadowstrike S70 and Technojaw T55.
Contents
Gameplay
The player character assumes the role of a "SMART" agent, whose job is to police crime on the net, using his or her personal spybot as a hacking tool. Most of the game consists of logging onto hacked corporate servers, restoring the company's access by destroying their corrupted security programs or retrieving locked files from the company's archives. In order to fight and move around within the corporate server grids, the player can purchase SMART designed hacking programs, each containing a different set of strategic abilities with which to combat rogue security software.
The player can also accept missions from various contacts on the net. Successfully restoring a corporate computer or completing a mission gains the player credits and sometimes unique or experimental programs.
Programs
In order to fight computer crime, both SMART agents and corporations use special programs that can fight against hostile software within a server. When hacking into a hostile node, the player is able to upload a certain number of programs onto the server grid, which will usually contain a number of hostile programs in waiting. Upon uploading his or her programs, the player can then control and use them to fight corrupted software and/or gather important data packages.
Most programs are acquired through Warez nodes. In exchange for credits, Warez nodes will supply agents with what software they have available.
Level 1 Warez Node: Leo Leontis
| Name | Move | Max Size | Cost | Description | |
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Hack | 2 | 4 | 500 | Basic attack program |
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Bug | 5 | 1 | 750 | Fast, cheap, and out of control |
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Slingshot | 2 | 2 | 750 | Basic ranged attack program |
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Data Doctor | 4 | 5 | 500 | Helps your programs grow |
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Bit Man | 3 | 3 | 250 | Makes sectors of the grid appear or disappear |
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Clog* | 2 | 4 | N/A | Slows down hostile programs |
*Clog is a mission reward.
Level 2 Warez Node: Tsumara285
| Name | Move | Max Size | Cost | Description | |
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Hack 2.0 | 3 | 4 | 1500 | Improved Hack: larger size and better attacks |
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Golem Mud | 1 | 5 | 1200 | Slow and steady attack program |
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Wolf Spider | 3 | 3 | 750 | Speedy and creepy little program |
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Seeker | 3 | 3 | 1000 | Solid distance attack program |
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Tower | 0 | 1 | 1000 | Immobile long-range program |
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Medic | 3 | 3 | 1000 | Grows your programs from a distance |
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Turbo | 3 | 3 | 1000 | Speeds up your programs |
Level 3 Warez Node: Kimoni Ameotung
| Name | Move | Max Size | Cost | Description | |
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Hack 3.0 | 4 | 4 | 3500 | The top of the Hack series |
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Golem Clay | 2 | 6 | 3000 | Clay is stronger than mud |
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Black Widow | 4 | 3 | 2000 | Speedier and creepier |
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Mandelbug | 5 | 1 | 3000 | It's not a bug, it's a feature |
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Buzzbomb | 8 | 2 | 3500 | Fast and annoying |
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Fiddle | 3 | 3 | 2400 | Twiddle and tweak the power of your programs |
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Seeker 2.0 | 3 | 4 | 2500 | Bigger and better than Seeker |
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Mobile Tower | 1 | 1 | 1800 | Slow-moving long-range program |
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Satellite | 1 | 1 | 3500 | Sort-range hard-hitting program |
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Ballista | 1 | 2 | 3000 | Extreme-range attack program |
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Data Doctor Pro | 5 | 8 | 1500 | Twice the expansion power of Data Doctor |
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Clog.02 | 2 | 4 | 2000 | Twice as effective as version.01 |
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Turbo Deluxe | 4 | 4 | 1750 | Slow and steady is for losers |
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Memory Hog* | 5 | 30 | N/A | Massive memory-filling bloatware |
*Memory Hog is a mission reward.
Level 4 Warez Node: Minerva
| Name | Move | Max Size | Cost | Description | |
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Golem Stone | 3 | 7 | 5000 | Nothing can stand in its way |
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Tarantula | 5 | 3 | 3500 | Fast, with a venemous bite |
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Heisenbug | 5 | 1 | 4000 | They can't kill what they can't catch |
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Logic Bomb | 3 | 6 | 3500 | Self-destructing attack program |
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Sumo | 2 | 12 | 4500 | A massive and slow-moving powerhouse |
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Seeker 3.0 | 4 | 5 | 4500 | Seeker with extra deletion power |
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Laser Satellite | 2 | 1 | 5000 | Long-range hard-hitting program |
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Catapult | 2 | 3 | 4000 | Extreme-range mobile attacker |
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Clog.03 | 2 | 4 | 3500 | Brings hostile programs to a halt |
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Guru | 2 | 3 | 4500 | Multipurpose software for the 133tist of the 133t |
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Wizard* | 3 | 4 | N/A | Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain |
*Wizard is a mission reward.
Corporate Programs
Corporate programs are unobtainable, and can only be encountered as enemies. While most of the hostile programs the player will encounter are rogue corporate programs, there are a few instances in the game where the player will also come across rogue SMART programs.
| Name | Move | Max Size | Range | Damage | Description | |
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Sentinel | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | Corporate data defender |
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Sentinel 2.0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | Improved corporate data defender |
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Sentinel 3.0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 4 | Sentinel that attacks several programs at once |
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Watchman | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | Corporate ranged attack program |
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Watchman X | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | Improved version of Watchman |
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Watchman SP | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | Watching from an even greater distance |
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Guard Pup | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | A speedy little corporate cur |
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Guard Dog | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | Who let this dog out? |
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Attack Dog | 4 | 7 | 1 | 3 | Ravenous and bloodthirsty corporate canine |
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Warden | 1 | 5 | 1 | 3 | Slow and steady corporate attack program |
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Warden+ | 2 | 6 | 1 | 5 | Get out of its way |
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Warden++ | 3 | 7 | 1 | 7 | The last word in corporate security |
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Sensor | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | Immobile program eradicator |
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Sonar | 0 | 1 | 8 | 1 | Long-range program eradicator |
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Radar | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | Deadly program eradicator |
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Fire Wall | 2 | 20 | 1 | 1 | Keeps unwanted programs out of corporate sectors |
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Boss | 6 | 25 | 5 | 5 | Prepare to be 0wned |
