Twinked weapons, What have people done with Arsenal? Options

[JoelHalpern]

Could someone comment explicitly on PlatonicPimp's question. The same thing struck me reading the rules, although I could not find a reasonable resolution.

Clearsight autosofts improve the Pilot's cognitive abilities, allowing it to better analyze and judge sensory input. A drone with this autosoft rolls Sensor + Clearsight for Sensor Tests (see p. 162)

But, as was observed, Clearsight is unlikely to be better than Pilot. If we simply substitute Sensor + Clearsight for Sensor + Pilot, the drone works no better, and possibly worses, than it did before.

Is PlatonicPimp's conclusion that one should substitute Sensor + Clearsight for Sensor in the test the right reading? It makes for odd English.

Thank you,
Joel Halpern

[Dumori]

just mount a sensor on the blade then you don't have a problem also I think its hard to hide form a blade stuck in you if the blade knows its stuck in something.

[WearzManySkins]

For a stock drone to hit a metahuman/critter will require a bit of luck. Most drones I have seen in game play have had a rigger type in full VR mode to hit metahuman/critter.

I would be simpler to just have the weapon fire when a certain point on the blade reached, you could incorporate a contact to arm the weapon.

WMS

[Larme]

Could someone comment explicitly on PlatonicPimp's question. The same thing struck me reading the rules, although I could not find a reasonable resolution.



But, as was observed, Clearsight is unlikely to be better than Pilot. If we simply substitute Sensor + Clearsight for Sensor + Pilot, the drone works no better, and possibly worses, than it did before.

Is PlatonicPimp's conclusion that one should substitute Sensor + Clearsight for Sensor in the test the right reading? It makes for odd English.

Thank you,
Joel Halpern

Pilots only go up to rating 4, while autosofts can go up to 6, n'est pas?

[JoelHalpern]

Pilots only go up to rating 4, while autosofts can go up to 6, n'est pas?

A couple of questions:
So Clearsight is only useful if it is at a grade higher than the Pilot? Then why would the GM-Nissan Doberman which has Pilot 3 also come with a Clearsight 3 (and Target 3).
Also, presumably Clearsight (like all software) is limited by the Response / System of the drone. Which at least by the BBB would seem to be the same as the Pilot? Sure, you could upgrade the Response. But the Pilot IS the OS (System) for the Drone.

So it seems that the BBB thinks that Clearsight is useful even when it does not exceed Pilot,
And a reasonable reading is that the Pilot is the System, so the Autosofts should not be able to exceed it.

Yours,
Joel Halpern

[WearzManySkins]

Pilots only go up to rating 4, while autosofts can go up to 6, n'est pas?

RAW page 321
Pilots up to Rating 6
Autosofts (Rating 1-4)

WMS

[PlatonicPimp]

Perhaps if this requires further discussion, we should move it to a different thread. In the mean time, I will simply state that the guns on my katars are as good or better at hitting their target than the standard security drone, and leave it at that. I still say that getting two additional point blank attacks on top of the melee attack is fun, fun, fun.

[Sir_Psycho]

I find a cheap Recoil comp system is a lanyard and a foregrip. Sure, there's better RC, but it's so CHEAP. And you could afford an internal smartlink mod (or hopefully it's already in the weapon).

The best example of this would be the Ingram Smartgun X. It's already got 2 (3) RC, so you throw on a cheap lanyard and a foregrip and you've got 4 (5) Recoil compensation, with a +2 DP Smartlink, and a silencer. Not elaborate, but cheap and effective.