I'll see your "eewww" and raise you a "yeeuuurrgghh"

Full compliment on eyes and ears (maybe just my game-style but many lives have been saved by hearing footsteps, guns cocking and the such) and as for sound dampening, in my game I re-invented the current flash bang (why FASA didn't I'll never know) so sound dampening is a must in ambush situations.
smartlinks, and optical are great (how many blocks is 60 meters? why do you need 2,000 m range?)
I prefer boosted reflexes, and I permit upgrading but the calculations are a bit convoluted.
high rating headware radios are a must. (ever run six characters in four different parts of a building?) but they need to be encrypted
as for how cyber ears look, I figure that they are common enough that people notice, but don't really care (get cosmetic mods so they look like the originals) and they don't know whats in them anyway.

I'm not a big fan of cyber-weapons, but my games usually involve players getting weapons taken away "Hey bring over the chainsaw we got us another sammie!" but the gamma and finger-tip injector, very nice. makes the pick-and-roll much easier.

oh and eye lights aren't that great. they may be polarized to that a person can only see the source of they are looking into it. by that rationale, you would only be able to see about a two inch circle of light. (and what about dust in the air?) for pitch blackness, everybody's on thermal for long range, lowlight for close range, and with as many lights on as possible. just like that post about taking the tac-nuke into the creepy mutant infested research lab. I use a modified cosmetic mod to make my eyes glow merely for intimidation purposes.

Nothing Really, I've got no problem playing a character completely unmodified by either Cyberware, Bioware, or Magic.

Salvette Gaurdian w/ silencer and extended clip

Only advantage for the SG is the built in silencer. Good for unarmored gangers though

The thing is with the Data Filter (as much as i like think it's a cool gadget) is that would you be able to increase your skills based on things you learn? (which i know is not strickly canon). Would you remember the revalation that it's always the blue wire that you cut? Or the quickest way to clear a jam that you found out?

like I said, the benefit of the built in silencer.

Yeah, the gaurdian isn't really a 'conceal' style weapon.
shop for the occasion I guess

30 rnd to I think 18 ? no book in front of me though.

Price for 2 HP's is not that big of deal, even w. index,

but yeah, that complex action is a good point.
Do flechette work ok with a Gas vent?

wasn;t this thread about cyberware? I'm still interested in the potential for the data filter (or problems/lack of potential)

Canon places no restrictions on flechette and gas vents. And the AVS has a mag capacity of 30 rounds.

Don't try and think about it too much.

I'm not (quite) on the "OMG it's so broken!!!!" bandwagon, but I do believe there's certainly nothing innately weak about the mamajama, either.

With the ability smartlink-II's give (and the "bypass armor" called shot rules), the flechette-only weakness is largely ignorable... making for something you can aim for a simple action with, and then fire a 12D armor-bypassing burst (at TN 3) with, that's quiet, concealable, and has a big enough clip you can do exactly that ten times before having to reload (and if the fight's not over after 10 12D armor bypassing +1 TN to dodge bursts, fired at TN 3, then you needed something bigger than a handgun, anyways).

Which might not be game breaking, I guess. Maybe. Quite. But is certainly not worthless.

Edit -- but, anyways. Yeah. Sorry. Off topic. I stand by my "full suite of cybereyes/cyberears" as the chrome I miss the absolute most, when I'm using a character that hasn't got it. Smartlinks are nice, dermal sheating is good to have, enhanced articulation is very very handy...but it's the eyes and ears that ache when they're missing.

A datajack. Anyone going cyber should get at least a datajack, even Mr Cyberzombie Robocop has one.

My favorite Sam PC ever has exactly this:

Boosted Reflexes III

Cyber Eyes with Low Light, Flair Comp and Magnification III

Smartlink II

Predator II w/ Concealment Holdster & Extra Clips

Cahones like Big Brass Bells

(sometimes a silencer and gel ammo)


I tried to play him like Yojimbo. He never went out looking for a fight, but he never backed down from one, either.

And if ge got into a fight and lost, I'd always ask the GM "What new scar does my character have?"

Sometimes he got the snot beat out of him, but after several runs he ended up with quite a street rep (and a face that looked like a street map).

Knowsoft Link. If you don't know why, you probably need one.

Oh man, that'd be a great NPC. Has a filter, but doesn't know it...

I should try that sometime. Thus far I've gone entirely cyberlimbless, but there's so much neat stuff to be done.

~J

So long as you keep in mind that cyberlimbs are mainly useful as mobile concealable storage units and have nothing to do with actually enhancing your body in any way cyberlimbs are dead useful. Just don't try to make your cyberlimb as strong as your meat limb, for any melee/Str-based character.

I wish they'd make those cyber skates like they did the guns, where you can finally install them outside of a cyberlimb.