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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 1769582" data-attributes="member: 710">I think the enhancement achieved a good mix between the science and the fiction part of science fiction. And it should also prove very playable, even if the computer expert is the only one to reasonably fight in the cyberspace.(The only rule mechanic I really don´t like is for the single use programs. Self degrading hacker programs seem unlikely ...)The Shadowrun Matrix is not only very clunky from a rules point perspective, it is also a very fictive, and has little scientific reasoning. I can easily imagine that there will be a time where we will have virtual worlds that are very similar to the real world, and might be fully immersive.But a decker or hacker will certainly never fight with virtual guns against Intrusion Countermeasures (ICEs) or Firewalls. He will most likely attempt to avoid the whole immersion thing and look behind the code for the graphic engine and attempt to manipulate on a relatively low level. Maybe the graphic engine could prove a way to find the loopholes of the system (that´s how many hacker tricks today seem to work: find a weakness in the Internet Browser / HTML Interpreter that allows to execute illegal code), but it will probably not look like he is swinging a sword at an samurai ICE. Well, that is true unless the hackers of the future want to impress the "audience" with their skills and create a visual representation of their work - but that´s unlikely for professionals that do it for a living (albeit an illegal one) - that might be something the current "script kiddies" might want to do... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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