“Hello, and welcome to your introductory tour of Jinteki: PE’s Mars-based R&D operations! We look forward to having you on the team. Now, I know you’re eager to get started on your assignment with Project Obokata, but until you’re 100% up to speed, I’m going to have to ask that you refrain from touching anything.”
“Anything?”
“Anything.”
“So the security measures–”
“–Are traps that will kill you, yes.”
“I suppose that makes sense. That’s just the ICE, right?”
“No.”
“What?”
“Our databases are seeded with switches that will trigger a catastrophic depressurization of your biodome, among other possibilities”
“Um… okay. But once I’m on the actual project I’m good to go, right?”
There is a LOT of spoilers for the big W to be excited about.
I don’t think I have ever been so excited for Weyland. I am really, really pleased by these. My excitement for the next cycle went from lukewarm to stoked.
Ahh, sorry, forgot about that bit. Thanks for the clarification.
And no advanceable ice jank in sight either.
I seriously wonder if this will be the cycle where scoring a Government Takeover from hand becomes something more than an insane pipe dream, even if only slightly.
I really love meteor mining! Hunter Seeker looks insane too, and the Jinteki stuff. It looks like Weyland will have its time, and do it with some big splashy effects.
I really love Standoff too!
Slightly concerned about Tithonium, for 2 influence I can see a lot of decks trashing stuff with barriers now. I guess a barrier breaker is often your first install vs Weyland though.
Heck, it’s incredible as a run event counter, and that’s not even its main purpose.
Yeah, I was a little worried about the proliferation of big scary barriers too (especially that one), but as long as the rez cost of Barrier-Destroyers doesn’t stray much lower than 10, I think they’re fair game.
Doesn’t it? FAQ p. 8: “If the Runner ends up running successfully on another server than HQ, the ‘If successful…’ effect on Account Siphon cannot be triggered”
I’m happy something like Kakugo goes out. It’s been 2 years I’m proposing a small barrier that gives net here or on R4G. I’d rather have an etr / net / etr sub version but this will do the job.
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