[Razhul]

If a decker (or anyone with enough talent) can spot any non-hidden wireless device in 100m, does it enable them to track enemy movements in buildings with absolute precision?

P243:

You find the physical location of a device or persona in the Matrix. After succeeding with this action, you know the target’s location for as long as you have at least one mark on the target. This doesn’t work on hosts
because they generally have no physical location, or IC programs because they are confined to their hosts.

So, with enough time and Marks, guess you could!

[Xenon]

You need to logout within 45 minutes or so. losing all your marks.

But this sound as if a hacker can mark a target and it show up as AROs on the heads-up of every member in your team. Surprise and ambush time?

[Typhus]

When doing a multiple attack with two different weapons (dual wield) that have different dicepools (i.e. pistols for one, automatics for the other), which dicepool do you split?

If it was my table, I would pick the lower of the two skills, because that's the one you have the least control over, thus the most effect on the other gun.  Good question though.  Another option is to average the two and then split them.

[Xenon]

DW let you hit same target twice. Once with each weapon. Split pool.


edit; this is one way of splitting the pool if you got different skills. As far as I seen SR5 does not really state how it should be done. As others have noted the SR4 rule was to split the lowest pool and that might be the intended way in SR5 as well

If using two different weapons just split both pools individually.

Pistol 8
Automatics 4


Total Modifiers -2 (including, but not limited to, recoil and recoil compensation from both weapons)

Pistol hit with 3 dice.
Automatic hit same target with 1 die.

[Xenon]

If you have 5 magic but lose one magic/PP from essence loss.  How much of your starting karma would it cost, in SR5, to raise it back up to 5?

25 karma?
30?

[Medicineman]

When doing a multiple attack with two different weapons (dual wield) that have different dicepools (i.e. pistols for one, automatics for the other), which dicepool do you split?

in SR4A it was the lower of the two Pools that got split

He who dances in both Editions
Medicineman

[cip]

Hey guys, two questions:

- How long does the effect of "take cover" last? Until you move away, until your next action or for one combat turn?

- Does the defender know the attackers number of hits and the damage value before he decides how to defend (whether to use edge or an interrupt defense action)?

[Elathan]

• Where is the prices of Autosofts? (I can't find them)
• How many programs a RCC can run?

[Xenon]

• How many programs a RCC can run?

Cyberprograms or Autosoft programs?

p.267 Noise Reduction & Sharing

Along with all the standard features of a commlink, rigger
command consoles have Noise Reduction and Sharing
ratings that you set when you boot the console. The
Noise reduction rating is straight-up Noise Reduction (p.
230), which is cumulative with other forms of Noise Reduction.
The Sharing rating is the number of autosofts
you can run on the RCC that simultaneously run on all
slaved drones at the same time. One caveat: if a drone is
running any of its own autosofts, it cannot benefit from
the RCC’s autosofts.
The total of both ratings cannot exceed the device
rating of the RCC. You can adjust the values of these two
special ratings with a Change Device Mode action (p. 163).
Yeah, that means if your RCC has a Device Rating of 1 it can
only have one or the other feature running at a time.

Not sure your RCC can run cyberprograms. If it can, it will probably obey the same limit as Autosofts (see Noise reduction and Sharing above). Your drones, however, can:

p. 269 Autosofts

Autosofts are specialized programs designed to increase
the effectiveness of a drone’s performance. In
other words, people have skills, drones have autosofts.
An autosoft is rated between 1 and 6. A drone has a
number of slots to use for autosofts and cyberprograms
equal to half its Device Rating, rounded up. Swapping
autosofts and programs is a Complex Matrix Action.

[ZedHead]

Why are Skills like Electronic Warfare linked to Logic, but half the Matrix Actions that use Electronic Warfare pair it with Intuition for the test. Is there such a thing as doing a generic Electronic Warfare test without it being tie to a specific Matrix Action?

[Crunch]

Why are Skills like Electronic Warfare linked to Logic, but half the Matrix Actions that use Electronic Warfare pair it with Intuition for the test. Is there such a thing as doing a generic Electronic Warfare test without it being tie to a specific Matrix Action?

Sure. Remember that EW also covers non matrix communication and jamming actions.

[cip]

Can one thread the complex form "cleaner" multiple times on low levels to decrease the OS?

[Xenon]

Can one thread the complex form "cleaner" multiple times on low levels to decrease the OS?

You just need to sustain it for Level combat turns and then it will permanently reduce your OS with number of  [Level] net hits. p.252

I see no reason why you should not be able to re-thread a Level 1 Cleaner with Fade Level 2 and sustain it for one combat turn to reduce overwatch score by 1, multiple times. It would take you about two minutes of nothing but threading level 1 cleaners and sustaining them to get rid of 39 points of overwatch score.


(Not sure if you can totally remove overwatch once you triggered it).

[thinklibertarian]

Rigger Jump In:

On page 167 it says it is a complex action.

On page 266 under "Taking the Jump" it says it is Complex Action if you're in AR, or a Simple Action if you're already in VR when you make the jump.

Which is correct?

Thanks

[thinklibertarian]

Do Vehicles and Drones accumulate wound penalties like Vehicles do (every three points of damage is  a-1 penalty).

I say yes, because on page 201, the Vehicle Test Modifier Table has the line:

Piloting damaged vehicle:  –(damage modifier) Handling (minimum 1)

But I can't find where "damage modifier" is explained, so I assume it is like the wound penalties.