While this may not be the best option for straight melee danage, it does open up some interesting options...
2nd or 3th story window access...
Touch atracks at MUCH longer ranges
Getting a beer from the mini fridge with moving your ass off the sofa.
.... That last one is probably the best one
Agreed!
In one of my home 1-player + recurring NPCs games, we have a would-be urban brawler with a cyber arm with a couple of points of telescoping (she’s a pretty strong orc and has max strength added to the arm, so even with it extended has pretty good strength). A few of the things I can remember it being used for so far:
- Mage put gecko crawl on her, and she was waiting on the ceiling to punch or grab someone coming by on the floor (fairly high ceilings in the building in question)
- Aid in climbing (just grab something at full extension and pull herself up)
- Hoisting someone well up into the air as part of intimidation tactics
- Getting opponents to reveal their firing positions by reaching out a gun to shoot around a corner (was low grade construction where shooting through the walls was easy enough, but she wasn’t where they expected her to be). Same general idea for opening a door when expecting hostiles.
- Punching into a sustained spell zone without being in it fully herself
- Boosting less athletic team mates up to windows or over fences
- Grabbing the steering wheel from the back seat when the person driving had to go hot-sim or astral
- Just using the reach factor when dealing with foes who were high-skill but not excessively tough
- Helping to start a fight in a bar by making one person think that the person behind them had punched them
