*glares at his GM* OK...my GM just let slip that she is putting a +12 availability on anything NOT made by a JapanaCorp for the game that she is going to be putting into Neo-Tokyo(and a -4 Availability to anything made by a Japanacorp, and no availability mod to anything that is 'generic'). So, for me, this is kind of important:

Are there any firearms that are either generic or made by a Japanacorp in there? Or is everything, as usual, H&K, Ares, Ruger, Browning, Remington, Colt, etc?

Also, just to alleviate my own curiosity: did the old HV weapons come back, and did they include more weapons like the Sakura from the main book?(I.E., using Metal Storm technology)

I think I'm in love.

http://www.battlecorps.com/catalog/images/...003_Arsenal.jpg


Now that's one classy lady. Far more orkish than the Gunslinger in the Core book, but still quite a hottie. She can run shadow ops in my undisclosed location anytime.

Seriously though, a much better cover than Augmentation, or even Corporate Enclaves, IMO. It's evocative of the best of SR3-era art IMO. I can't wait to have it on my shelf.

I believe I talked to your GM about this on another forum, actually, although I'm shocked to hear that it'd be +12, since that essentially means you can't own gaijin brand firearms at all in creation, which hits me as a bit perplexing since Neo-Tokyo is the top contender for the Unofficial Capitol of the Sixth World title. Sure, firearms are flat out illegal for civilian ownership there, but that also means that by definition just about everything will either be smuggled in somehow or acquired under thet able from the corps themselves. I would expect firearms to simply be rare across the board rathert han limited to Japanese brands, especially since the Japanacorps aren't much interested in traditional firearms design, which in many ways has been a mature technology since around the 1920s.

Anyway, there's not very many Japanese made weapons mentioned in Arsenal; I think your best bet is to hope that your GM realizes there's likely a no frills generic Japanese manufactured weapon for every standard weapon category. After all, range and damage codes tend to be uniform from weapon type to weapon type, and I know off the top of my head that there's at least one Japanese arms company, SCK (Shin Chou Kogyo) who has been supplying weapons to Japanacorp security teams like the Red Samurai as far back as least 3rd edition.

Yeah, K-10 is basically a GM tool, since it's not really suitable for use by characters who don't have a death wish since the unresisted stun is hellish even if you do resist the permanent berserk test. Still, if you desperately want to fuck somebody up and don't mind a high probability of dying in the process, I can think of worse ways to spend your nuyen.

And yeah Fortune, I know what you mean, but to each their own, I guess.

Oh, BTW, since a guy listed as the As. Line Dev is so amazed that no-one has made a big deal about the Manatech yet...um..can someone please like spill what the heck Manatech is? You do not have to give any numbers or anything(and thus make the people who decided not to give us any previews of this *glares at whoever is responsible* have fits). I just want to know what the frell it is!

Fun Facts:

Leäl is making the toughest troll forget more than Laés. (100min vs 1h)
And smoking Laés makes it more potent... at least the Laés Cigarette is better than the original.

If you fail, you turn 'Cain vs. SR4' - that is, permanent berserk.

From Corporate Enclaves Preview PDF

Knasser, I point to Stahlseele's post. He kind of pointed out the thing that had me wondering, too, though, I did not have my corporate enclaves with me here at work..Were there any Manatech Implants?

There are no manatech implants in Arsenal. The idea of them is something that's still in the early research stages and no one's said there are any that work yet.

Actually, that limit applies to chargen only.

And yes, the implementation is way better than the abomination the CC had...

Hmmm. In that case, yes, you could create a very good close combat fighter. They'd still get shot, though.

So, with Street Magic, you can have Wire-Fu(thanks to Wallrunning and Gliding), and with Arsenal, you can have Gun-Fu of two gunning?

The Firefight MA isn't that impressive... it even only features advantages good for three levels that reduce modifiers, specially for melee with guns.
Older military training stuff like Krav Maga/ROSS, on the other hand, are truely scary... that MA offers to make Ready Weapon and Take Aim Free Actions.

for the adept with multitasking...


cheers!

Max

Multitasking is non-combat-only.

lets not forget that "free actions" are not the same level of free as in some other game...

nah, but mystic/dermal/Ortho-Tech means you're pretty much for all purposes bullet proof if applied together with the armor limit based on body *g*

yeah, but they get a plus to STR too, so they would probably REALLY profit from close combat being strengthened. . and adepts in general i imagine

Ya know, that whole thing really comes down to "dang, people with high body and high armor get hurt less."

Which is sort of as it should be

*takes a jab*
the urban series and the keramic knife are right back there in arsenal . . *g*

I like how they made the Urban Series really attractive due the smuggling potential without making the silly thing instantly outperform other pistols. Same with the ol' Thunderbolt-- oh, sure, it's still better than other heavy pistols for sheer damage, but at least it doesn't blow through armor any better than other pistols or outright deal more damage than many of the game's shotguns anymore.

Any sign of rules for melee fighting with two weapons?

Yay!

No, it's not; it has less recoil compensation and can only make short bursts with a Complex Action while the Thunderbolt fires bursts normally.