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Data Blast is a breaker program which breaks 1 firewall on all mainframe devices in a radius of 5 tiles, for a cost of 3 PWR. It has no cooldown. Data Blast can be bought from some Server Terminals for 400 credits.

Data Blast's PWR cost per firewall hacked compares favourably with other instant breakers without cooldowns. It is most efficient when there are many devices you want to hack within the same 5-tile radius, but even when you only hit two devices with Data Blast, its PWR efficiency is better than Lockpick. Data Blast is therefore considered to be quite a good program.

However, Data Blast is usually not flexible enough to meet all of your hacking needs. It is least efficient when you need to hack just one device with many firewalls, so you will usually want to pair it with another breaker better-suited for that purpose such as Dagger, Hammer, Parasite or Wrench, or perhaps Buster Chips.

Data Blast's usefulness is lower in the OMNI Mainframe mission where devices have higher firewalls and are more spread out, so it is less common to hit multiple devices in the same 5-tile radius.