DOT EXE

DOT EXE is one of several rival crews in Bomb Rush Cyberfunk. These cyberhead breakdancers have control of Millennium Mall.
== Role in the Story ==
After beating Eclipse, BRC decide to go after DOT EXE's turf at the mall, to continue their plan of going All City. Bel describes them as "cyberhead b-boys" who keep upgrading their own bodies to win breakdancing battles.
With help from Vinyl, BRC reach the main area of the mall with the red fish statues, where DOT EXE can be found hanging out. Each of them will have a challenge for BRC to compete as they get their REP up in the mall:
* The five ball member near the entrance into the main area challenges you to do 50 tricks in one combo after getting 54 REP.
* The two ball member near the back of the main area challenges you to slide under a nearby grating and get all of the boost charges in one sliding combo after getting about 62 REP.
* The four ball member on the higher floors challenges you to get to the other side's balcony without breaking your combo after getting 70 REP.
* The DOT EXE leader, Eight Ball, can be found in the middle of the main area, on the benches next to the mall's taxi stop. He challenges you to get 100,000 points in a minute and a half. He also mentions how the cue ball member has been trying to reach 100,000 points himself for the past 4 hours. Said member has been stuck on 98,000 points so far, despite continuing to try for a higher score.
File:DotExeMission1.jpg|Near the entrance to the main area
File:DotExeMission2.jpg|Towards the back of the main area
File:DotExeMission3.jpg|On one of the higher floors of the main area
File:DotExeMission4.jpg|Right near the mall's taxi stop
When those challenges are complete, Eight Ball warns BRC that they have intel saying that something bad is coming. DOT EXE will head further into the mall while the police arrive to confront BRC. This leads into a boss battle with a walking tank.
Once the tank is destroyed, if the player goes after DOT EXE without more than 111 REP, the breakdancers can all be found dancing behind a closed gate. They'll taunt BRC for still not having enough REP to challenge them. Coming back with enough REP, the grating will be open and DOT EXE will be found on the stage of the amphitheater further into the mall. There, BRC finally get to challenge them to a crew battle for control of the mall.
After beating them in the crew battle, DOT EXE warns BRC to give up on All City. They explain how they've been picking up signals on a new police operation call Project Algo that will catch writers like them. Shortly afterwards, Eight Ball is killed, presumably by the police for knowing too much about their new project.
The shock of this ends up sending Red into another dream stage, where he actually sees the DOT EXE leader again. Eight Ball asks Red to use his cyberhead to check on the police radio signals to see who shot him. Red responds that he thinks he's "too human" to be able to do something like that, and Eight Ball is not seen again after this.
== Optional Challenges ==
There is also a nine ball member that appears in a side section of the mall. This area is guarded by one of the Oldheads' speaker barriers in the main area with the red fish statues. You will need at least 150 REP to access this side area.
The nine ball member mentions how the rest of DOT EXE can't keep up up with his score involving the sliding paths here, and that he is thinking of starting his own crew because of it. This member will then give you an optional challenge where you have to race him while sliding along the tracks here, to spray a particular wall before him.
If you beat him, he will give you an additional challenge to hit all the ROBO-Post mascots in that area while sliding. Whether you accept the challenge or not, he then leaves.
== How to Unlock == 
During the postgame, you can unlock DOT EXE by finding the cue ball member hanging out in Millennium Mall. He will specifically be riding around the main room of the mall with the red fish statues. You need to beat his score of 4 million in under 5 minutes to get him to join BRC.
== Gallery ==
DOT EXE Gallery	
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File:DOT EXE (black) ref.png|Spring palette for the playable DOT EXE
File:DOT EXE (blue) ref.png|Reference of Eight Ball, the DOT EXE leader
File:DotEXE Idle.gif|Idle dance
File:DotExeBreaking.gif|Breaking dance
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File:DOTEXE Graffiti S.png|S graffiti
File:DOTEXE Graffiti M.png|M graffiti
File:DOTEXE Graffiti L.png|L graffiti
File:DOTEXE Graffiti XL.png|XL graffiti
File:0CueBallTexture.png|Texture for the cue ball member
File:2BallTexture.png|Texture for the 2-ball member
File:4BallTexture.png|Texture for the 4-ball member
File:5BallTexture.png|Texture for the 5-ball member
File:8BallTexture.png|Texture for the leader Eight Ball
File:8BallDeadheadTexture.png|Texture for Eight Ball once he's been killed
File:9BallTexture.png|Texture for the 9-ball member
File:14BallTexture.png|Unused DOT EXE texture for a 14-ball member
File:10BallTexture.png|Unused DOT EXE texture for a 10-ball member	
== Trivia ==
* They share the same voice actor as Candyman from Lethal League Blaze, another game by Team Reptile.
* While the crew names tend to be in all caps in most of the game's dialog, DOT EXE and FUTURISM are the only ones that are consistently written in all caps. This includes a texture file which lists the crews together, used in some parts of the police bureau.
* The playable DOT EXE member only has outfits corresponding to the cue ball, two ball, four ball, and five ball members of their crew.
* There are 6 members shown in the game, but only three of them (the two ball, four ball, and five ball members) compete against BRC in the crew battle.
* The nine ball member is only seen during the cutscene introducing DOT EXE in general, as well as to give BRC the optional sliding challenge. After completing the challenge, he is never seen again and isn't playable in the game without mods.
* thumb|DOT EXE falling sound effectTheir voice clip when falling into a bottomless pit or water sounds like a game over sound effect.
* The DOT EXE leader is the only one referred to with a specific name in the game, being called "Eight Ball" by the cue ball member during the postgame.
* Given that he gets killed in the middle of the game, Eight Ball is only playable via mods.
* The model for the playable DOT EXE member is apparently labeled "eightBall" in the files. Meanwhile, the model for the actual DOT EXE leader is labeled "eightBallBoss". There is also a separate model for the leader with his helmet shattered, labeled "eightBallDeadhead". However, for certain mods, the playable model may be renamed to "DotExeMember".
===Lore-related Trivia===
* One of the Oldheads in the mall describes DOT EXE as having given up their humanity over the years, but also that they still have a "human heart" despite it all. In addition, when spoken to in the entrance area of the mall after just arriving, Red wonders what the DOT EXE crew members are "made of, looking all mechanical like that". These bits of dialog could imply that DOT EXE are what's known in fiction as "full-conversion cyborgs" or otherwise something close to it. This fits with how they supposedly keep "upgrading" their own bodies in order to win dance battles.
* The same Oldhead also mentions how DOT EXE are about as old as her, and presumably the rest of the Oldheads.
* The DOT EXE leader refers to the cue ball member as his bro, which could be taken as bro in a friend way, or otherwise that they are actual brothers.
===Texture-related Trivia===
* In the texture files of the game, there are textures for a 14-ball and 10-ball member for this crew, as seen in the gallery above. These are both unused in the actual game. The names of the files ("eightBallBossTex2" and "eightBallBossTex3" respectively) imply they would have been alternate palettes for the leader of the crew if he had been playable.
* On that note, the texture file for the nine ball member is called "eightBallBossTex1", implying he would have been yet another alternate palette for the leader.
* For some reason, the four ball member's texture in the game files is named "sixBallTex". It is unknown if this was just a mistake, or if it implies that there was going to be a six ball member of the crew at some point.
* The rest of the crew's texture files are labeled accordingly: "cueBallTex" for the cue ball member, "twoBallTex" for the 2-ball member, "fiveBallTex" for the 5-ball member, "eightBallBossTex" for Eight Ball himself, and "eightBallDeadheadTex" for Eight Ball with his helmet broken. 
Category:Rival Crews