Hi there,
I have loads of basic questions regarding Autosofts (not Autopilot), if you guys please help me, I'll be so happy. I tried to find the information in SR4 book (french ones) for quite a long time but couldn't find.
Any help to provide canon answers, or links to official FAQs, or links to similar discussions here or there would do me a great favor.
- Are Rigger's autosofts some software/hardware chips like in SR3 or software only ?
- Are they to be used by individual drone, by drone model, by type of drone gear/propulsion/weapon/whatever ?
- Regarding Autosoft, can you plug the chips/run the software in your Commlink to use these on your drones via VR (cold or hot), but not when the drone is moving by himself via Autopilot with or without orders ? (just guessing like in SR3 maybe).
- Let's extend that last question : can a Commlink or any other node remote-execute an Autosoft for a drone ?
- Autosoft does not comes with the Limitation option presented in UN, does that really mean I can remove that autosoft from a drone and put it on another one of the same model/kind/gear/weapon/whatever ?
- Can you buy them online ? If yes and if that's chips, do you flash a chip with your commlink ? How many nuyen cost a free chip ?
- If they are software only, how many actions to upload on a drone / to remove an autosoft / what kind of dice throwing involves changing an autosoft of a drone by another one ?
- Why the archetypes in SR4A have Autosoft in their gear and not on drones ?