In reply to TheGM (msg # 191):
As i dont have cyberware, it does not affect, me, but cyberware that is wireless off, or on an internal router can only be hacked using induction: IE touching it with a deck with the induction add on.
If they can get a mark, They could data spike it, but that only does matrix damage which is 'fairly' easy to repair.
Obviously your game and you can rule 0 what ever you want.
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I'm trying to wrap my head around the AROs and commlinks everywhere. As I understand it, if you don't have a datajack, and I wouldn't think those are everywhere, you have to use something else to even see AROs.
Yes
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Trodes will get you the full experience, and I'm guessing they let you interact with AROs as well. Basically it's a datajack that's just not drilled into your head.
Sort of, data jack gives 1 noise reduction and cant just be removed
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If you don't have trodes, you need goggles, glasses or wireless contacts to see; you need earbuds or headphones or something to hear, plus you need AR gloves to be able to interact. That seems like a lot of gear; am I missing something somewhere?
Yep sounds right
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What do most people use? School kids? Soccer moms? Normal saririmen? The guy behind the counter at the Stuffer Shack? What do people use who live in the Barrens, and aren't shadowrunners? Like with cellphones today, do you have people 'zombie-walking' the streets and possibly out into traffic? (With a side issue of how does Grid Guide deal with wandering pedestrians?) Does the gear you use to interact with your commlink and AROs say something about you, socially? Do people laugh at goggle wearers?
Well mages are a thing and they will always (#rarely) not even get even a data port, so there are always people who would just use other means. Installation of cyberware in children generally is not done because they grow up and would need additional surgeries.
As far as other people, sure some people look down on those with less/without.
If you are just doing something light weight, i would assume you can hold up your comm, and just look on the screen for advertising and such.
Well as my kids VR goggles have a visual safety ring, i would assume that AR rigs would all have a safety system to prevent/alert for obvious danger.
As far as how much people are lost in AR? GM call on how prevalent it is.
Right now Miyako i guess can see because she has data link in her helmet. but she uses it more for the camera aspect then AR.