Couple of quick questions.
Going through the playbooks again I’m looking over the Infiltrator and see that p77 says about the Infiltrator move “Jack in: When you’re jacked into the matrix you have access to the matrix moves: control systems, break systems, and jack out.” this is different to the Hacker Jack In move (also an advance for the Tech) and the MM list doesn’t cover control systems or break systems. Are they a hang over from an older version or is the MM list being added to?
An Infiltrator’s Infiltration deck states that they get three programs but the list is only Lockdown and Manipulate. Is it those two and any one other or is there a choce missing?
A more comprehensive discussion of the relationship between DS&I, the Matrix and jacking in would be good as it currently isn’t that clear where the DS&I integrates with a cyberdeck when accessing the Matrix. Does it go DS&I direct jack in to the Matrix in parallel to the deck or through the deck. Not using a DS&I means you are -1 to MM’s but can’t be physically damaged by ICE. But it isn’t clear if you can use a deck without a DS&I to connect.
The infiltrator’s version of jack in is a hangover from an old version. I added Identity Protection to the Infiltration Deck
I’ll add to the discussion in the Hacking section of Chapter 7. In short, if goes (Neural interface) < -> (cyberdeck) < -> (matrix), in serial.
Is this clear?
“The cyberdeck is the interface between the Matrix and the user. Every signal between the user and the Matrix passes through the cyberdeck. If the deck gets fried or destroyed, that communication route is broken and the user is disconnected.”
Yep very clear. I was having a bit of a disconnect between what I know as a old IT person, what I read in various places in the rules and how it worked in game. Explaining it to a non-techie person last week seemed to make the various bits not come together so well. Your rewritten piece above certainly now makes it crystal (and it’s how I imagined it to be from the literature).
Without a neural interface, or if it is not connected (manual mode), then the user ‘plays’ the deck like a pianoforte, pounding keys and manipulating sliders to try and keep up with the flow of information and electronic responses from the Matrix hence the -1.
Exactly!
I’m thinking Keith Emerson playing Fanfare for the Common Man in concert or perhaps the classic Tarkus in concert at the Oval in 1972.