I strongly believe that when hacking a boss, or doing any kind of hacking anywhere in the game that time must be stopped while inside the hacking process. I can't imagine ever getting an opportunity to hack a boss during a fight or hack during something dangerous happening because I will get killed if I'm in the middle of a hack and not paying attention to my surroundings and hacking would probably take too long to ever making it worth risking it and using it. This isn't a lazy or cowardly cop-out and I will explain why I believe it fits canon.
I am interested in very fun and deep and complex hacking that is challenging, but not frustratingly impossible, and that type of hacking probably takes a good amount of time and effort to complete. Simultaneously, I also want to be able to hack everything, even in the moment. I think that time-stopping during hacking (relatively speaking) for V (main character) would thematically and canonically make sense because if the hacking process is going on inside of the computer parts of V's brain and chips, high speed computing and the perception of that effort and information processing would make the rest of the world appear to slow down considerably or stop, Just like the Kereznikov power that when activated allows V to enter something similar to "bullet time". So we already know that it is well within the realm of canonical possibility that time can be perceptually slowed or frozen. To me this would strongly and in an undebatable way of presenting that evidence confirm that this must be this way for hacking. I can't speak for CDProjektRed since this is only my very strong opinion(and I admit that), but I suggest this because I feel beyond 100% confident that time must freeze during hacking, because it would break the game if it didn't, and take a large amount of enjoyment out of hacker playthroughs.
Thank you for reading and taking what I said into consideration, even if you disagree.
I am interested in very fun and deep and complex hacking that is challenging, but not frustratingly impossible, and that type of hacking probably takes a good amount of time and effort to complete. Simultaneously, I also want to be able to hack everything, even in the moment. I think that time-stopping during hacking (relatively speaking) for V (main character) would thematically and canonically make sense because if the hacking process is going on inside of the computer parts of V's brain and chips, high speed computing and the perception of that effort and information processing would make the rest of the world appear to slow down considerably or stop, Just like the Kereznikov power that when activated allows V to enter something similar to "bullet time". So we already know that it is well within the realm of canonical possibility that time can be perceptually slowed or frozen. To me this would strongly and in an undebatable way of presenting that evidence confirm that this must be this way for hacking. I can't speak for CDProjektRed since this is only my very strong opinion(and I admit that), but I suggest this because I feel beyond 100% confident that time must freeze during hacking, because it would break the game if it didn't, and take a large amount of enjoyment out of hacker playthroughs.
Thank you for reading and taking what I said into consideration, even if you disagree.