Update 0.9.7374

The latest Grey Hack update is now available on the public branch. This update brings new ways to progress as a group, manage companies, and tackle investigations, alongside improvements to the desktop and tools.

This update is effectively version 1.0, but we'll go through a stabilization period before making it official. Moving changes from nightly to the public branch can reveal bugs and regressions that slipped through testing, so we'll use this time to address any new issues that arise. Once this period is complete, we'll move directly to version 1.0 .

Guilds: Progression, Competition and New Perks

Guilds have received a major overhaul. The chat server service has been removed, and each guild now gets its own private chat channel automatically. Guilds also feature membership applications, role management, and a treasury with donation support.

Progression is also more cooperative: completing missions lets you keep your reward while your guild receives additional XP equal to 15% of the experience you earned . Leveling up unlocks access to upgrades that expand member and role limits, allow investment in more companies, provide hardware discounts, and increase mission XP rewards.

The new leaderboard introduces competition tied to company investments. Successful DDoS attacks against a guild owned company now reduce that company's contribution to its guild's leaderboard score by 20% for 24 ingame hours .

DDoS attacks also provide a way to challenge a company's defenses. By combining an outage with the Suspected DDoS social engineering message, you can trigger an administrator's network restore. This can undo configuration changes made by the owning guild and reopen potential entry points, giving coordinated attacks a role in both infiltration and leaderboard competition.

Holding first place for 15 ingame days grants the crown and unlocks the option to purchase CrownShield for one guild owned company or a server rented by the guild leader.

CrownShield protects the selected network against exploits, DDoS attacks, and social engineering. It also provides secure transport for the network administrator, protecting them from traffic accidents. This protection lasts only while the guild holds the crown.

Company Management and the Stock Market

Company management takes a bigger role with two new programs:

• ConfigCompany.exe: inspect the networks of companies you control, open reverse shells to manage their machines, and purchase different Internet speed tiers.
• HiringManager.exe: review candidates and hire staff for your companies.

Guilds can actively strengthen the defenses of the company networks they control. Through ConfigCompany's reverse shell connections, you can adjust file permissions and other system settings to close potential entry points and protect your companies against attacks from other players.

Choosing the right employees also has a direct impact on your investment. Employee work performance affects the company's share price, recruiting productive staff and filling vacancies can improve its value, while losing employees can reduce overall performance.

The stock market now also includes supermarkets, fast food restaurants, repair shops, mobile phone stores, and hardware manufacturers. Dividends depend on company value, workforce performance, and market ranking, giving your staffing decisions a direct role in the returns your company generates.

New Missions and Investigations

Police stations introduce four types of procedural investigations:

• Extortion
• Identity Theft
• Evidence Fabrication
• Access Sales

Hackshops now offer ransomware missions alongside sabotage, fraud, and corporate espionage.

New clues and investigation mechanics bring a wider variety of challenges and outcomes to procedural missions. Puzzles may involve file permissions, encryption, timestamps, and scripting, among other elements.

Expanded Window Management

The window manager introduces new options for organizing your desktop and preserving your workspace layout.

Window snapping: Windows can automatically snap to other windows and, if enabled, to the desktop edges and the top and bottom bars.

Saved window positions and sizes: The system remembers where you place windows and their dimensions. An advanced mode also preserves separate positions when you use multiple windows of the same application.

Window Zones: Create custom zones and edit their layout directly on the desktop. When you drag a window, a preview shows where it will fit when released. You can also configure zones to activate only while holding Shift during a drag.

Show Desktop: A new button, also accessible through Ctrl+D , lets you quickly hide and restore open windows.

These additions come with a reorganized Appearance window.

File and Folder Permissions

File and folder permissions now behave more like Unix, with a clearer distinction between viewing a folder's contents and accessing the files inside it. These rules are applied more consistently across desktop tools and GreyScript. Folder copies and deletions can also continue with permitted items, with a warning when something is skipped.

You can find the updated documentation on permissions in Manual > Getting Started > File and Folder Permissions

More Tools and QOL Improvements

• News.exe: follow news about companies, markets, guilds, personnel, and attacks.
• Files: modification timestamps and folder merging.
• GreyScript: new functions, batch email operations, and expanded documentation.
• Social engineering: new options for requesting suspect information and reporting DDoS attacks.
• Navigation: a revamped visit history in Map.exe and more options for copying addresses.
• Audio: configurable notification sounds and track selection for automatic playback.
• Translations: editor improvements and global keyword management for consistent highlighting.

Bug Fixes

A major focus of this update has been clearing the GreyTracker backlog. All previously reported bugs on GreyTracker have now been resolved.

The fixes span missions, network connections, rented servers, file operations, desktop applications, and GreyScript execution. This work also includes improvements to script error handling and security and also includes performance optimizations across the game.

Thank you to everyone who tested the nightly build and shared bug reports and suggestions!