Upload Labs: Optimized Hack

What you need to know

To optimize your hack in Upload Labs, you'll need to understand how to allocate points to upgrades effectively. The upgrades that directly affect your progress are Sneak Attack, Infection Specialist, Infection Damage, and Breach Speed. Infection Damage and Breach Speed have different scaling effects on your damage per second.

Step by step

1. Determine the total number of points you have to distribute between Infection Damage and Breach Speed upgrades.
2. Use a quadratic formula to find the optimal distribution of points between these two upgrades, or use a provided code to calculate the optimal allocation.
3. Calculate the roots of the quadratic equation 0.00048x² + (0.0128 − 0.00032N)x + (0.02 − 0.008N) = 0, where N is the total number of points.
4. Test the rounded-up and rounded-down values of the positive root to confirm which gives the better damage per second.
5. Allocate points to Speed upgrades based on the optimal value found, and allocate the remaining points to Damage upgrades.

Tips

• Investing fully into Infection Damage gives an early advantage, with higher damage per second until around the 12th upgrade.
• At the 13th Breach Speed upgrade, Speed-based damage per second surpasses Damage-based damage per second.
• Consider purchasing Sneak Attack and Infection Specialist upgrades, as they provide significant benefits.
• The Spoil upgrade is optional, but it can increase gains by about 4 times, similar to reaching the next threat level.
• Use the provided code or create your own to simplify the calculation process and find the optimal allocation of points.