They'd benefit just as much from a drone instead of a weapon mount, too. Like cramming a Cyberarm Gryomount in both arms for the same total Capacity as a single perma-drone. They're little better than duct-taping a small drone to your arm or back, slapping on a Skinlink, and calling it a day! Except, again, the whole "drones can do everything plus a whole lot more, for a cheaper price to boot!" bit.

Runners, security, cyberzombies of death; it's equally "useless" to all of them compared to their alternatives.

If they offered something at least interesting, that fact might be different. But not only are they more boring than a drone, they have a limited arc of fire, too.

That should include the TCS - because you need 2 Hits to stabilize someone, and TCS Level 1 has 1 die. Perhaps, it should extend to all medically used nanite ratings.

What book were these from?

It's worse than that; a Rating 2 TCS is worse than a Rating 1. The Rating 1 glitches one time in six, but the Rating 2 glitches almost twice as often. True, all Rating 1 glitches are critical glitches, but your mileage with regards to this fact may vary with the cruelty of your GM.

Hey, if it's a Junta from Java...

There is a junta in Java.

-Frank

Yakashima spends a lot of time murdering metahumans in Oceania, so it's possible.

-Frank

It was intended to possess a CAST interface - honestly don't know how that slipped by.

It should say:

Seriously, I don't know what the thinking was there - but since Essence Costs are dynamic, and the costs of implants can be halved or normal and flip back and forth during additional surgeries the whole idea of segregated Essence holes is an accounting nightmare and actually way more prone to loop holes than just leaving things dynamic.

-Frank

As it currently is written, it actually jumps from 2.95 to 3.0 when that .2 of cyberware is removed (.2 Essence holw, plus half of 1.8 plus all of 1.9). The really exciting thing is that if you remove the entire 2.0 worth of Cyber the total cost shoots up to 3.9 (2.0 in Essence hole and the entire 1.9 in Bio Essence goes full price).

And no, I'm damned certain this wasn't intentional. Someone at some point in playtesting had an abstract thought about how it would all be easier or loop-hole closing opr something if Essence holes just sat around in the slot they were originally cut for. But this is not true, and that's ot even what the final Augmentation version says.

It's just a FUBAR situation. I still haven't seen even a single piece of evidence that doing things the intuitive way with just a single hole is either difficult or broken.

-Frank

actually, there's 3 levels of gills... the ones that give -2 in water, the ones that give -1 everywhere, and the ones that give -2 out of the water.

Wrong. That symbiot thingie, is a like a medkit right, kinda sleep deprive, makes evy argument plausible.

No. Neither by rules nor by effects. But htat doesn't matter: A Nanite Hive is allowed to support any kind of Nanites. So after injecting those of the Saviour Medkit, you are good to go.

It's meant to be janky old thing. But also you have to take into consideration that aside from implantation at chargen Genetech has another big downside compared to bio and cyberenhancement - time in the vat. Yeah you get comparatively cheaper bonii but it costs you not only time to install but the income you're missing out on while out of commission...

Huh?

When you go in for to have an implant and you have the choice between bioware and cyberware, one deciding factor in your choice is affordability, the other is Essence, and a final (and often very minor) factor is implantation and recovery time. Though it often goes unnoticed in play, even if you have the cash and the Essence, that final element will be the one that generally stops you from getting wired reflexes or synaptic boosters implanted during an adventure (since you'll be recovering from surgical damage for at least 3-4 days).

Compared to the other comparable types of implantation, genetech is slightly more expensive in terms of nuyen cost (especially if you consider the treatment cost includes the vat/hospitalization time), it is much less expensive in terms of Essence cost, but its main drawback is that you are put out of commission for several weeks (as opposed to several days) - which is why it's suggested that you get multiple treatments done at once since therapy times are not cumulative.

If you chose to have your character undertake PuSHeD therapy during a campaign, you know going in that the character will be in a vat for a couple of weeks at least and that should factor in to your decision to get geneware or not - the GM has nothing to do with it.