Hackclaw — Abilities, Tactical Gear & Trait

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Hackclaw is a Assault operator in Delta Force. This page records every ability the operator carries, what each one does, its cooldown, and the source each figure was read from. Read on October 9, 2026.

Where this comes from: ability names are the English client's, read from Liquipedia's operator pages. Cooldowns, charges, durations, ranges and damage figures are the Chinese community wiki's record of the operator, read on October 9, 2026 and translated here. The two are cross-checked against each other; where they disagree this page says so. The English codename is the rendering used by the community databases — Liquipedia, the Delta Force Fandom wiki and Delta Force Database — rather than a publisher statement: the publisher's own English operator list was not machine-readable when this page was written. The Chinese client files this operator as Assault; the English client lists Recon.

Operator Record

OperatorHackclawas recorded by the wiki

ClassAssaultone of four

CharacterMai Xiaowenname as recorded by the sources

FactionG.T.I.as recorded by the wiki

Tactical GearSignal Decodersee the ability table

Class, faction, codename and birth date: the community wiki's operator infobox, read October 9, 2026. Fields the wiki marks as unpublished are omitted rather than shown empty.

Illustration of a female operator with a silver-white chin-length bob and a black face covering, kneeling behind a concrete block and aiming a suppressed rifle, with an olive chest rig over a black top and a dark cloth over her shoulder — Original illustrationOur own composition of the operator, drawn from the character art the wiki publishes for her: the silver-white chin-length bob with its fringe, the black face covering, the olive chest rig over a black top, the tattooed forearm and the black cloth over her shoulder. The collapsed cover she is kneeling behind is our own scene rather than a location in the game. This is drawn artwork, not a screenshot of the actual game, and not a photograph of a real person.

Abilities

Assault operator who fights by taking enemy equipment offline. Her data knife silences gadgets, vehicles and sights, and her trait makes her the quietest operator on the roster.

The Chinese client labels the signature ability as the ultimate. The English client calls that slot Tactical Gear, and it is the same ability — across all sixteen operators the wiki's ultimate row and Liquipedia's Tactical Gear row are always the same one. These pages use the English client's slot names.

Ability	Slot	Cooldown	Effect, as recorded by the sources
Signal Decoder	Tactical Gear	Charge on the ability	Scans a 140-degree, 60 m fan twice, six seconds apart. The first sweep shows the class, armour level and number of enemy operators inside, up to six; the second shows only how many. Tracking lines appear on the ground — red for the nearest, yellow for the tracked line, which a flash drone aimed at it will follow, and white for the further ones. Scanned enemies get screen distortion, worst when she is close. The wiki notes the activation is loud, that the lines are unreliable across different floors, and that an enemy can throw a data knife at their own feet to jam the scan.
Flash Drone	Gadget	45 s / 2 charges	A drone that flies forward, detecting and blinding enemies within 20 m automatically. Each enemy only takes one full blind — if they get back behind cover mid-flight, a later flash will not blind them fully. The drone has a physical model and can be destroyed, though it has no collision. A damage marker on hit means the enemy was facing the flash; no marker means they had turned away.
Data Knife	Gadget	40 s / 2 charges	A thrown knife that deals damage and silences every electronic device within 10 m for 10 seconds — reaching 15 to 19.5 m against vehicles. Damage is 140 to the head, 125 to the torso and 62 elsewhere, penetrating four-plate armour fully, five-plate at 85% and six-plate at 45%, so a headshot kills every operator except Sineva inside his EOD set. It silences Vyron's dash, D-Wolf's exoskeleton, Nox's jammers, Uluru's missile, Shepherd's drone, Luna's arrow, smoke machines and drills, and disables vehicle active protection, sights and lasers. Stuck into a wall it marks nearby enemies; stuck into a person it tracks that whole squad in real time, downed bodies included. A kill refunds the cooldown, fully for an operator and 75% for a bot.
Silent Step	Trait	—	Moving while crouched or in stealth is faster and quieter. Crouched footsteps carry only 5 m, against 3 m to react, with no soundprint — the same as Nox with his jammers up. Her stealth walk is about 30% faster than other operators'. The wiki notes it reduces footstep range only, not the sound of walking while aiming down sights.

Ability names and one-line roles: Liquipedia. Cooldowns, charges and damage figures: the Chinese community wiki's record, translated. Those numbers are the wiki's, not verified in game by us.

The Tactical Gear

Signal Decoder is this operator's tactical gear. The wiki's own table gives this ability's cooldown as ultimate charge — and records the two sweeps as six seconds apart.

Cosmetics

The community wiki's skin section for this operator lists the default look and nothing further as of October 9, 2026. Where the publisher's own store page or patch notes name a skin for this operator, that is where the official name should be read from.

Sources

the Hackclaw page on the Chinese community wiki — cooldowns, charges, durations, ranges, damage figures, class, faction and birth date.
Hackclaw on Liquipedia — the English client's ability names and one-line role tags.
Delta Force Fandom — Operators and Delta Force Database — Operators — cross-check for the operator's roster entry and English codename.
Delta Force — official wiki (English) — the publisher's own reference, linked without nofollow because we stand behind it.

Update Rule

Ability figures change with balance patches, and this page tracks the two sources' record rather than trying to keep pace with every adjustment. The date at the top records when those sources were read, not when the game last changed. If a figure here disagrees with the publisher's own wiki, the publisher's figure is correct and this page is out of date.