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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 radius must be centered on a tile within the facility's boundary which has been revealed, by exploration or for any other reason, and only breaks firewalls of devices on revealed tiles. Devices on unrevealed tiles are not affected even if they are within Data Blast's radius.

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.

It is usually possible to position Data Blast's radius to avoid hacking a device with a daemon, though this may mean breaking firewalls on fewer other devices than you would like. In rare situations there may be no way to avoid hitting a daemon, in which case you must either use a different breaker or trigger the daemon.

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.