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ROOTKIT://死 (ROOTKIT PROTOCOL DEATH)

Cyberpunk extraction runner with bhop movement. Speed determines whether enemies can hit you. Race your own ghost through gauntlet levels, slide under barriers, chain crouch-bhops on ramps, and extract before the system catches up.

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Phiality, BREAKDEATH Games
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Phiality
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About the Game

The system caught you mid-intrusion. PMC contractors are sweeping your memory address. The corridors are collapsing behind you.

You're faster than all of it.

ROOTKIT://死 is a cyberpunk extraction runner on Quake's air acceleration model. Speed is your armor

Every level is a gauntlet. Get from the start to the extraction point. Kill what's in the way or outrun it. Your best run records a ghost that races you on your next attempt.

You are...

You are a rootkit named << 死 >> (Death). You broke into the system and the system noticed. Now every process it owns is trying to kill yours. Armed contractors are patrolling the memory blocks. The corridors rearrange to box you in. Firewalls slam shut behind you. You run. You shoot what gets in the way. You extract before the system wipes the address you're standing on. And you most importantly consume every byte of data

  • Bhop, air strafe, crouch-slide, crouch-bhop at 100-tick physics. Hit a ramp right and you can multiply your speed tenfold.

  • Enemy accuracy degrades on a curve from your velocity. They call it out on comms as it happens.

  • Every run records a ghost. Race it on your next attempt. Watch any run back in first person with full bullet tracers.

  • Reactive skybox tracks kills, shots fired, and ghost position live. Music intensity driven by a heat system.

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