No. Just got the general overview in the history section. And after that, I'm not sure I want to.

Don’t worry, the mainstream operating systems in SR 4 has just as many security holes as WindowsXP so hackers can still have fun. ^__^

It's spelled carpal btw...

You'd probably be surprised how many XP users run with with the pristine OS. My friend spent many a day "borrowing" bandwith from his neightbor with an unsecured wireless network. Heck, I'm running with the straight install of XP; I have no idea how to encrypt anything.

Honestly, all the terminology changes did was rob Shadowrun of some of its uniqueness. Pretty much, only computer geeks will really dig the new terms, and they're probably smart enough to figure out unique terms as well.

bwhahaha... modern wireless encryption is a joke.

almost all of them. it's quite sad.

you don't need encryption, it's really a second line of defense. what you need is a decent firewall (EG, not a windows one.)

or they'll hate them for being totally lame...


anyway... reading through the combat rules, I see they simplified them a bit, (especially shotguns, thank god. You needed calculus for that in 3rd)
Dead man's trigger is kind of nifty...

Why does your radio get worse reception when I put it next to an active Microwave Oven? They both run on electromagnetic waves!

Technomancers have wireless communications that are generated and received by their entire body. If you chop pieces out of their body and replace it with something else, the device doesn't work as well. You're lucky it works at all.

-Frank

Well, with levels of submersion they can increase their maximum resonance, so actually they can learn to adapt to having parts of their body replaced, it just requires Karma. And learning.

Having their body interact with remote devices is something that in many cases "just happens" to a technomancer. They get up one morning and "just know" that the toaster is set to 11. Then they turn on the trid. Then they notice that the remote is still on the table.

So they don't necessarily know what parts they need to interact with what parts of the electronic world. And they don't need to know as long as they leave it alone. But once they break open the remote and start putting things in it, it stops working as well, and to fix it they need to get an understanding of how it works.

As long as the system is functioning at 100%, they don't need to have any understanding at all to keep it working. Even your grnadmother can run a Windows box if it doesn't have any spyware on it. Once there's stuff on the machine that isn't supposed to be there, it takes a deeper understanding of the whole process to get it working again.

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Of course, it might also just be Magic, there's no way to know at this point. But the basic concept that replacing parts of your body makes your resonance work poorly until you spend a whole lot of effort researching your own resonance abilities actually makes a lot more sense for Technomancers than it ever did for magicians.

-Frank

Well, in a way. Implants still reduce the resonance attribute, no matter how many submersion grades the technomancer has.

So, yes a technomancer can regain the lost "power", but his ability still suffers. He could be far stronger, if he hadn't had to "relearn" stuff he'd already known.
But that may just be another pov.

at least, until you try to explain the basic premise of technomancers even existing that is (how long did that thread on technomancers generating a signal that strong get to be again?)

Far too long, no one has a good answer in game or in real life.