Android Netrunner General

Curses Dan stop playing non-interactive netrunner it forces a weird situation of who has the less interactive games.

Dan has no idea the kind of responsability he has on his shoulders.

>>43523983
Well dan is also a hug Phallus so it fits.

Semi-related, but what's with the antipathy towards Shut Up and Sit Down? I've only read their two netrunner articles, and his tournament review was adorably whiny, but neither was wretched by any stretch of the imagination.

>>43524071
People is mad because they don't want girls playing Netrunner, while Leigh and Quinns are trying to close the gap.

>>43524071
His fiance is Leigh Alexander. SO it is gamergate stuff.

>>43524220
Oh yeah, the chick behind the Sunset game marketing? She couldn't sell water to a fish, she's harmless.

>>43523906

As much as I don't dig the competitive scene, I find it unfair to put it all on players when the format itself helps foster this.

And let's not give any one player more weight than deserved. If an issue it is (and to some of us it is indeed), it is a collective one.

>>43524054

I'm having a weird mental image of a dick with shoulders now.

I did not need this.

Anyone else having some fun with Spark right now ?

>>43524483
When you are the former world champion, you know there will be a lot of eyes set upon you. Newbie eyes too, who will see a world champion playing a non-interactive deck and think "Wow, this is really boring", and then drift to a different, more interactive, game.

>>43524568

He didn't start the trend, and I would argue any newbie looking at a significant portion - I won't say the majority outright, but I do think so - of the top competitive decks will be looking at decks that are trying to be as non-interactive as possible.

Maybe this has been discussed before, but is anyone worried about rotation and what it means to balance? Since the Core+big expansions are always going to be in play, it seems like HB, NBN, and Shapers are always safe in being strong, whereas Jinteki, Anarchs, and especially Weyland and Criminals will be entirely reliant on expansions if they want to be competitive.

>>43524718
>Anarchs
O&C was pretty amazing for Anarchs - they will always have strengths in Ice-trashing, Viruses and AI, and there's a good bit of the econ and draw that helps make them the powerful faction that they are in that box as well

>>43524671
Not looking at decks. New players look at plays and Worlds is, arguably of course, particulary a strong selling point for those who are looking to get into the hobby.
I'll give you an example. If you didn't know chess and you were considering to get into it. Wouldn't you watch some high ranked masters playing in a big tournament to see what's the deal is about?

>>43524793
Okay, fair point, but that still leaves Crim, Jinteki and Weyland living form expansion to expansion.

>>43524718

Come on, crims are not in a *bad* spot.

Desperado, Bank Job, Special Order, Forged Activation Orders, Account Siphon, Inside Job, Femme Fatale, Legwork, Security Testing, Sneakdoor Beta, Crash Space.

That's a solid base shell right there. And I'm probably forgetting a few.

Anarch had some pretty nice toys in O&C too, I agree with >>43524793.

But yeah that fixation with no errata, no rotation of core (which has some of the most glaring micro design issues we've been forced to deal with up to this day) means some issues aren't leaving.

>>43524878

I don't know about Jinteki.

I do think the cycling out of some econ options especially has the potential to hurt it a lot. But then, that probably holds just as true, if not more, for NBN. Unless I'm missing an obvious option that will stay in the pool in faction.

But the average package for Core+H&P Jinteki seems fairly manageable to me. A bit more on some respects than the NBN Core+D&D one really.

HB has it best, no disputing this. Some guy at the local club nicknamed them he "Ultramarines of Netrunner: constant second best at everything" I don't know how true that statement holds Warhammer, but I do understand where he's coming from on that one) - though C&C wasn't really that great for them.

>>43524870

Not really, but then I have a strong aversion to competitive play in general and avoid it like the plague.

If I'm interested in a game, I'm looking at the rules and what kind of design space they open, and whether that interests me. Maybe the fluff stuff worked out into it. The competitive scene I couldn't care less, I will barely have any significant direct interaction with it.

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>>43524878
HnP actually made Jinteki work by providing lots of ambushes, pretty good taxing ICE and amazing agendas, Weyland never worked but their deluxe at least gave them a pretty good boost.

Criminals... I'll say what I always say: Criminals are supposed to set up and snipe agendas from scoring servers, this threat will create a flood of agendas in HQ, ready to steal with Legwork.

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>>43525211
That's one criminal archetype - there's also run all day, erry day and in doing so keep the corp poor

In theory

>>43525376

Which is a bit weird because, while I'll personally argue in some respects it is more of an Anarch thing, it *is* a playstyle that I do think is situated in that part of the Venn diagram where Crim and Anarch connect.

>>43525376
It's the same archetype. You can either sit back and setup, or run Siphon recursion so he can't do anything.
Either way you pressure to Corp by threatening the scoring server and forcing him to flood HQ with agendas.

>>43524718

Now if you want to look at a significant reshaping of the landscape, let's take a closer look at the runner side of things:

Andromeda, Whizzard, Chaos Theory and Reina Roja are out.

Emergency Shutdown, Indexing, Quality Time, Test Run, Vamp, Blackmail, Lucky Find, Queen's Gambit, out.

Crescentus, Deus Ex, Faerie, Imp, Nerve Agent, Snitch, Keyhole, Sharpshooter, out.

Data Leak Reversal, Kati Jones, Personal Workshop, Scrubber, Xanadu, Underworld Contact, Fall Guy, John Masanori, out.

E3 Feedback Implant, HQ Interface, R&D Interface, Plascrete Carapace, the three factions stealth hardware, Prepaid VoicePAD , out.

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>>43526436
I'm going to miss all these bastards. In 3 years those of us who will still be playing are going to say "remember when we used to Vamp and then Emergency Shutdown scoring remotes to snatch the agendas? Or Keyhole all day every day? Remember pic related?

Ok, in the category totally stupid BUT:

Testing Grounds to derez pop up windows/Product Placement to rerezz them in Spark. Advance with Matrix Analyzer/Pop Up credits. The Runner is welcome to come trash the Testing Grounds anytime.

The jank is real ladies and gentlemen !

>>43526825
God bless the Niche!

>>43524547
I love Spark Agency ANd NEw Angeles

>>43526825

On that front, how is Test Ground TWO influence when team sponsorship is only one ?

FFG better have something *big* in the pipeline.

What's the Corp and Runner spread at Worlds look like?

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>>43527434
Here is posting of most popular runners

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>>43527598
Here most popular corps

>>43527598
>>43527614

Don't know whether to be depressed at the overall stagnation or joyful that we at least got some new stuff in there.

>>43527755
Valencia and Haarpsichord? I'll go with sad.

>>43527755
>>43527780
>be joyful
Mind that these are the runners with highest quantity.

>>43527614
Frankly, I'm surprised RP is still so represented. Doesn't it get rekt super hard by Faust Noise?

Who won? With what IDs?

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>>43527838
It's Andy I'm surprised to still see, but I guess consistency is always going to be gold

>>43528097
Dan is not running Andy he is runnign Valencia.

>>43528140
Why do you care so much about Dan? We're talking in general and you're trying to focus on Dan. What gives?

>>43528420

Can love bloom on the server fields ?

I just got back from my first ever netrunner event, had a ton of fun and now have a cool alt art swordsman to show for it.

I came in fifth overall and in four rounds of swiss. my Geist deck went 2-2 and my Spark deck went 3-1. it was a really cool event and significantly more fun and organized than most MTG events ive been to in 10 years of playing.

thanks to the anons on here who have offered advice on my decklists in the past few days, im excited and ready to tryhard when we do the first winter kit at my FLGS so i can try to win an alt art corroder

>>43528773

Nice, very glad to hear.

And congrats on that alt.

>>43526436
>Data Leak Reversal [...] out
So... we only need to deal with these boring DLR/Fall Guy/Wireless decks for... 3? 4? more cycles. Grrrreat.

>>43524071
>Read the tournament report.
Did he seriously crash after on 7 rounds? That's hilarious.

>>43529461
It was so cringy. The article was him trying to channel his outrage and gain the moral high ground about being a scrub, mostly. Boo hoo, you lost. Everyone loses. You're not as good as you thought you were, suck it up.

Also in general he's just a condescending bastard, that's why I don't like him.

>>43530356
I don't know if I agree with you, it just seemed like he was performing the gaming equivalent of complaining about a 2K "marathon"

Here is the list of the top after 8 rounds. Cut is top 16

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>>43531341
Sorrry forgot image

>>43531364
>Bunch of Trans make it to the top.
Thanks SJWs

>>43531487
I kek'd.

>>43531364
Do we know what they're all playing? I'm more interested in that than the players. Though good on Minh! Hope he gets his deserved victory.

>>43531533
No idea on what they are palying sorry. I think there is a fair number of vals and neh

Can some one local there post the rest of the list I want to see where everyone fell on this thing.

What does everyone think about the spoiled Mumbad cards so far? I like the looks of Run amok quite a bit.

>>43531364
Minty Fresh better win this time.
If Thorin Oakenshield wins again I will be outraged.

>>43532600
I think my favourites so far are Waiver, RecStudio and the turning wheels.
Those are gonna be used for sure.

Had my first tournament today and I placed 8th out of 22!
Very pleased with this since I've only been playing since september.
>Ian Stirling/Jinteki PE
>The two who beat me placed 2nd and 3rd

A question, if I had the same match points and SoS as another player, what's the tie breaker?

>>43531364

After that awesome butcher shop game on stream today, I gotta root for Timmy Wong to take it. The dude has style.

>>43533392
Coin toss. Yeah, FFG have no idea what they are doing.

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Some pics and transcripts

Haas Arcology
In a world where android labor is becoming increasingly pervasive, the Haas Arcology towers as the symbol of the modern workforce and state-of-the-art engineering.
Levy University
Levy University accepts a hundred thousand new students every year. Its research programs are heavily subsidized by the megacorps, but this puts the campus ahead of the cutting edge in many fields.
City Hall
The seat of power for the most influential megacity in the world. While the corporate arcologies tend to govern themselves, the rest of the city looks to City Hall and Mayor Wells.
Broadcast Square
The beating heart of New Angeles is also the site of NBN's corporate headquarters. The buildings themselves shimmer with colorful holograms broadcasting the latest newsfeeds and hottest content streams.
The Root
The Root is the base of the Beanstalk and home to Earth Station. Thousands of passengers and tends of thousands of tons of cargo pass through this massive structure every day on their way to Luna or Mars.
NAPD Headquarters
The New Angeles Police Departmnet has the best quipped police force in the world. Its brave officers are at the front lines of the city's battle against corporation and crime.
New Angeles
Official Name: Special Economic Zone of Ecuadorian New Los Angeles
Legal Status: Unincorporated territory of the United States of America
Population: Over 500 million; census data out of date
Land area: 62,000 km2
Demographics: 22% Latino, 19% white, 14% black, 9% Amerindian and Mantubio, 9% Asian, 23% two or more races, 5% other
Android Population: Estimated 5 - 10 million
Government: City Council and Mayor
Current Mayor: Ignacio Wells

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Pages 16 - 17 "Personal Evolution" Transcription:
When you need the human touch, Jinteki is there. In contrast to the stiff, mechanical, and unfeeling androids produced by Haas-Bioroid, Jinteki's clones look and feel human while representing the best that humanity has to offer. Clones are Jinteki's answer to the labor solutions market, one that will ultimately lead to the better of mankind as a whole.
Jinteki started as a biotechnology firm in NeoTokyo focused on developing life in all its myriad forms. Its earliest products included replacement and augmentative tissues and organs that could save lives and enhance quality of life for millions of individuals, a mission that is continued at Harmony Medtech branches across the globe today. Jinteki's roots in traditional Japanese management culture and business practices enabled the company to grow and suceed in its first phase of development. At the same time, Jinteki's leadership recognized that the world continues to rapidly change and that evolution is necessary for progress.
In its second phase of development, comprising the last thirty years or so, Jinteki has continued to be at the forefront of scientific breakthroughs; its genegineers found ways to leverage nature's own processes at an accelerated pace, developing materials and techniques in a matter of years, not eons. Jinteki outcompeted many rival companies and was the first to create a fully functional, organic android. As a lab technician at Jinteki's Osaka division, a young Satoshi Hiro had a hand in the breakthrough that enabled clones to be grown in vats in a fraction of the time it took for normal humans to mature. Iterations on this technology have unlocked manifold possibilities beyond mere humans or animals, including the Hachi-Inu K8 model employed by the New Angeles Police Department.

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>>43537503
Cont

Different markets require specialized approached, and Jinteki encourages its local divisions to customize their product offerings to suit every region and capitalize upon all opportunities. In biotech Valley, Jinteki continues its research and development objectives at the Garden by harvesting the best and brightest minds from the University of California campuses. Palana Foods in Mumbad feeds one of the largest countries on Earth with its g-modded superfoods and towering agroplexes. Unique environmental conditions in the Heinlein colony domes permit extraordinary advances in radiation- and vacuum-resistant life-forms, including the impressive Turtleback line. Regardless of whether they work on Earth, Luna or Mars, Jinteki employees remain steadfastly loyal to the company's leaders, its principles, and its bottom line.
Jinteki promotes positive business relationships with any other corps in need of a more human android. NBN and Jinteki continue to work together to produce the next batch of super-models, celebrities, and associated merchandise. The Miranda Rhapsody-dronted brand Re-Water is enhanced with a special blend of patented nutrients to give anyone a little extra glitz and glamour like the youthful sensie star. Out of this world, the Weyland Consortium has licensed specialized clone models to service and maintain the Beanstalk, and the Henry line is ubiquitous at Melange Mining operations across the lunar surface. Jinteki's rivalry with Haas-Bioroid has taken center stage within the NAPD, where detectives Caprice Nisei and Floyd 2X3A7C compete to become the agency's next line of defense in reducing crime in the largest city in the solar system.

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>>43537511
Cont

Even after the massive restructuring within the company some years ago, Chairman Hiro continues to revitalize Jinteki. His vision has transformed the company into a megacorporation and a global leader. When Jinteki relocated its headquarters from NeoTokyo to New Angeles, it symbolized a commitment to dwell at the epicenter of global innovation so that Jinteki could be a driving force in the new age. Soon to enter its third phase of development, Jinteki is bringing the world a step closer to perfection with every advance in genomics, medicine and neuroscience.

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Pages 12 - 13 Transcription:
The crime scene was chaotic a riot of blood, street trash, and bodies. Floyd 2X3A7C's sensor suite swept the scene, parsing all at once the individual blood spatter patterns, the cooling IR traces drifting from the corpses, and the distinct chemical formula of human sweat, urine and pheromones that combined to spell fear and death. His quantum computer instantly tracked the disparate sources and cross-referenced them with the central database back at NAPD headquarters.

Three victims, two male and one female, various races; ages vary from late teens to midthirties. Preliminary examination suggest blunt force trauma as cause of death. Low-spec vidcam mounted on wall, broken, no debris in vicinity suggests it was broken prior to the events under investigation. Witnesses unlikely, given neighborhood; check with attending officers for confirmation.

"Hey, Floyd."
Floyd shifted a portion of his processing power, bringing the source of the voice into focus.
Detective Matea(?) Jimenez, New Angeles Police Department, homicide division two years, patrol officer four years prior. Adequate arrest and case close record. No disciplinary charges or internal investigations. A "good cop" by human standards. Elevated heart rate, nervous disposition. He is uncomfortable with my presence-likely uncomfortable around all bioroids. Add to personnel files.

"Forspec is still thirty minutes away, but I figure now that you're here we could do a prelim. What d'you think?"

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>>43537535
"It would be my pleasure, Detective Jimenez," said Floyd, stepping through the blinking yellow holo crime scene barrier. He approached the nearest body, which was splayed out on the ground with its limbs twisted into unnatural angels. This man must have died in great pain. Floyd stepped carefully around the blood pool as his sensor suite picked out the low-velocity impact spatter and cast-off patterns around the body. Floyd initiated a reconstruction subroutine, instantly framing a picture of the impact points from the blood spatter. All signs pointed to a single assailant.
Victim is Robert Wong, employed by Gwangju as a sales associate, showroom address on file. Numerous arrests; assault, possession with intent to supply, destruction of property-
Destruction of property was the charge given to any attack against an android, a reminder that bioroids and clones are, at best, legally property. Floyd ran the name against the NAPD database of known Human First activists and found a match in seconds. Floyd's sensors had already pinpointed the location of several small pieces of bioroird chassis and a moderate amount of bright blue coolant ha dpooled near the location where Floyd believed the altercation had begun. Worringly, the coolant lacked any of the normal radioactive tracing agent used by HB to identify its bioroids.
During the three of four seconds that passed while Floyd considered the possibilities, Jimenez's eyes didn't leave his.
"Something wrong, Floyd?" he asked.
"Have either you or any of the attending officers removed anything from the scene, Detective?"
Jimenez made a face. "Shit Floyd, of course not. We're not yellow jacket amateurs. No one's even crossed the perimeter except you and me. Why? What makes you think something's missing?"
"There is evidence to suggest a bioroid was damaged here, possibly even destroyed here. Perhaps you or your men removed the remains in an effort to 'spare my feelings.' I assure you, no such effort is necessary."

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>>43537545
Detective Jimenez scowled. "No, there was no bioroid here when we secured the scene, and even if there had been, I wouldn't be so stupid as to contaminate an active crime scene because I thought a golem might have feelings! Give me some credit, Floyd."
"I apologize, detective."
Floyd crossed the crime scene and knelt beside a sledgehammer that lay in the middle of the alley.

"Preliminary analysis suggests this is the murder weapon. Although a more thorough test would be required for confirmation, my software shows all three victims' blood on the hammerhead. Furthermore, the spatter, wounds and placement of the bodies indicate a struggle with a single assailant."

Jimenez gave a low whistle. "You're saying one guy did all this? One guys takes out three Human First pendejos with their own sledgehammer? these guys aren't exactly noted for their pleasant demeanor and willingness to lie down in a fight"

Floyd crossed the crime scene to stand next to a particularly pronounced splash of blood.
"The assailant was clearly heavily augmented," he said. "Most likely he possessed one or more cybernetic limbs, boosted reflexes and subdermal armor. Although I cannot be certain at this juncture, the evidence suggests all the blood at the scene comes from two dead males and one female."
"What about the bioroid parts? Could a golem have done this?" asked Jimenez.
Floyd looked at him, "The First Directive prohibits a bioroid from harming a human. That protocol overrides all other subroutines, including those for self-defense or carrying out instructions. This is most likely the work of an augmented human."

Floyd's sensors scanned the blood pool again during the exchange. Something contradicted his theory, and now a lingering doubt was worming its way into his logic processes.

"Fine, fine," said Jimenez. "So, three Human First members pick a fight with a 'borg who proceeds to beat them to death with their sledgehammer, all the while not taking even a single hit."

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>>43537564
n the center of the blood pool lay a piece of twisted plastic; Floyd recognized it immediately as part of a bioroid torso. A support strut, found between the shoulder and base of th eneck to be precise, equivalent to a human collarbone.
"Floyd? Is that what happened? Floyd!"
The plastic lay on top of the blood; other than a little splash back, the piece was clean, which meant it must have fallen onto the blood pool. An unexpected subroutine blossomed in Floyd's mind, and he was immediately connected to Director Haas' private terminal.
"Floyd? Are you even listening to me? Are you saying this was a cyborg or not?"
Floyd turned to look at Detective Jimenez. "I apologize, detective. I am unable to adequately process your query."

>>43537490
>>43537503
>>43537535

Oh wow, the book is actually out already?

Thanks for the pics!

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>>43537883
I don't know, they're from some screencaps, but I think it's more that it's pretty close to being done - they may have the master copies or something, because the images on the announcements and product pages

https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2015/10/21/the-worlds-of-android/
https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/products/the-worlds-of-android/
https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/worlds-android-showcase/
All look pretty far along

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The Weyland Consortium is synonymous with the construction of the Beanstalk, but the megacorporation is as diverse as it is mysterious, with major stakes in financial, construction, defense and even energy markets. The true scope of its portfolio is unknown. Nevertheless, the holding(?) company continues to dominate the NASX index, and it can be counted on to continue doing so for the next several decades at least, so long as the Beanstalk royalties continue to pour in.
Jack Weyland began his company as a vehicle to put his transformative ideas into motion. The most famous of these was the New Angeles Space Elevator [nicknamed "Jack's Beanstalk"], which was finally complete in '35. Its completion heralded the realization of a true space age and paved the way for humankind to colonize the Moon and Mars. Although he was ultimately pushed out of the company by his own board of directors, Weyland was also responsible for many of the first arcologies built in New Angeles, NeoTokyo and Mumbad. The megacorp's subsidiary contractors continue to lead the field of architectural design and produce countless advancements in structural engineering, with executive Elizabeth Mills steering Weyland's lucrative construction holdings in New Angeles.

The megacorp's governing board of directors comprises a handful of permanent members as well as several rotating directors collected from its diverse portfolio of companies. The Consortium deals in smaller corps like a normal company deals in product - by buying low, restructuring or realizing the company's potential, and then turning it around to be sold [or liquidated] at a massive profit. In addition, its financing start-up corporations and investing in innovation, Weyland's Titan Transnational is one of the leading central banks and a major player in the risk management and insurance industry.

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>>43538137
Titan Transnational Bank is perhaps best known for issuing and backing the ubiquitous "credit" currency, formally known as the Titan Transnational Trade Credit, that is used by megacorps and individuals alike to partially insulate international and interplanetary corporations from variations(?) in the foreign exchange markets.
Just before the War broke out, Weyland began investing heavily in weapons technology and the defense industry. Argus Security matured into one of the "best price"(?) concerns in the solar system and rented out its mercenaries to help quell the rebellions on Luna and Mars. Argus also researched and developed its own brands of mass driver weaponry and caseless ammunition, which found their way onto both sides of the conflict. When the fighting was over, Weyland was able to quickly snap up reconstruction contracts to rebuild countries that were devastated by Argus' own forces in the War, including the colonies on Luna.
Weyland has profited immensely by investing in the technology behind fusion power fueled by helium-3. Its Blue Sun reactor on the Moon powers much of the Heinlein colony, including its myriad life support systems. The Consortium's specialty research projects at locations such as the Geothermal Research and Neo-theormal Development Laboratories will guard against fluctuations in the helium-3 market. Such volatility has been known to occur intermittently due to strikes by Space Elevator Authority workers but the price spikes were most keenly felt during the Lunar Insurrection that precipitated the War.
In the coming years, Weyland has a number of ambitious projects slated for development on Mars that will transform Bradbury Colony into a true megapolis with a space elevator of its own. The company knows humanity's future lies among the stars, and pioneering projects like Gagarin Deep Space will take human civilization the farthest it's ever been past the asteroid belt to the moons of Jupiter and beyond.

-Worlds of Android

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>>43524188
please...

>>43533392

Good to see some more Stirling. Hopefully you bring it to the top.

>>43532600

Still not enthused about what we've seen of the Mumbad cycle as a whole.

Between the Alliance cards, the neutral with conditional influence cost cards, and to a lesser degree the consumer grade cards (or other Limit 6 per deck cards), there's an addition of deck-building complexity that is rewarded by very little more depth, I think.

Sprinkle hints of power creep here and there (some I guess would argue it was needed... and maybe on some respects they'd have a point), and some interesting cards with weird design issues from where I stand, and that's probably the cycle I'm liking the less at first glance since the start of the game line.

Still, a few interesting design space opened.

Do you think the next cycle will be NeoTokyo or Mars?

If a runner steals global food initiative and I play punitive counterstrike, does he only take 2 damage?

>>43540013
No, they take 3, GFI is just worth less in the runner's score area than the corps, but it's still a 3 point agenda.

>>43536723
>coin toss
Oh damn.
I lucked out this time then.

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This plus Blackmail is a great way to waltz through a scoring server which finally has an agenda in it, right?

>>43540268

Seems so yeah. Even more reason to play tools that rez on the corp's turn.

>>43539949

I'll vote Mars. Though Tokyo would fit after TheWhiz being attack by tentacles.

>>43540085
Wrong, the runner takes 2 because those are the AP. Review the The Board vs Punitive rules.

>>43539949
Plot twist: ChiLo

It's the second Region we had (after San San), beating the Amazon Industrial Zone from the same pack by a whole 2 cards - though (Android-opposing) Brazil would also be cool, though it's bit close to New Angeles.

I'd actually prefer the cycle after Mumbad to be event/globally focussed, rather than in one location - the Net allows for worldswide reach, and one of the clear flaws in going with a specific location is over-specific flavour (looking at you, Old Hollywood)

>>43540331

Thematically could be a nice fit: new war on Mars and each new data pack follows the events there and repercussions everywhere else.

Maybe I'm just thick, but I can't understand why 24/7 news cycle is meant to be so good. Can anyone explain it for me?

>>43540461
Score 2 breaking news, play 24/7, name breaking news, for a single click you now autotag the runner, ready for scorched. No traces, no leaving it installed. Just tag and bag.

>>43540461
There are some very powerful "when scored" abilities made better by being repeatable at the cost of an agenda. ABT for example.

>>43540461

Who wouldn't want to sacrifice a Hostile Takeover for the sheer joy of adding two more power counter off a scored Helium3 Deposit ?

I'm all bothered and shit just thinking about it.

Is it over? Who won?

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Brackets

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And they said I was crazy when I said EtH was a design problem.

>>43542732

Stupid typo.

You know what I meant.

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>>43542690
>Dan won against Timmy Wong

Noooo not agaaaain

>>43542885

Congrats if true (haven't checked anything pertaining to the games myself).

Mongoose: trying to fix Mimic being too heavily borrowed in crim by magnifying the Datasucker issue, as if it needed it.

>>43542885
Who is Dan and why do you hate him?

>>43543256
Last year wworld champ we hates him because he is giant phallus that does not wear sleeves.

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>>43543359
> we hates him

We do ?

>>43543028

Might help if I posted it.

>>43543599
That's pretty cool, but Mimic is still a fair bit better.

I reckon crims could do with some strength boosting - sure, we've seen it mainly in shaper so far, but criminals seem like they could fit it okay.
Or maybe give them more Bypasses, seeing as that's meant to be their thing, but that's hard to do without making them OP/too expensive to play

>>43543599
You'll find that hating Dan is pretty popular on 4chan and a grievous sin on Stimhack (which makes sense, he's a mod there).

>>43543599
I like it. It gives me a reason to play 3 moongoses at the same time.

>>43543876

I've been here since the dawn of /anr*.

I understand that some people don't like him. I even understand why - I certainly don't agree with the man's stance on the game, though I don't take it personally myself.

But that use of "we" kinda weirds me.

*: sorry, just live that sentence turn, couldn't resist.

>>43543897

Isn't it lovely when the designers give us new ways to be inefficient ?.

>>43543599
>Mimic/Mongoose
Breaks:
Architect 2/3
Komainu ~4/~2-3
Tsurugi 4 / 4
Ichi1.0 X or 2-3 / 5-6 (ouch)
Archer X or 4 / 8

Doesn't seem to be screaming for Datasucker support like Mimic or Ninja.

Honestly seems like it wants Fairy more. Looks like a great breaker permanent killer for the breaking and entering suite.

>>43544062

Doh! Read that as two credits to boost up one str.

Ok, much better than I thought at first.

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I'm sorting the Mumbad spoilers by card number, but this one is a blurry mess. Can somebody take a better guess?

>>43544121
Since Mimic needs Datasucker to work it actually ends up being a big influence sink for a killer in criminals.

Mongoose requires less running and setup to protect a rig, doesn't require you have access to central servers to break large sentries, and isn't having its vital virus support card hated on by a really relevant silver bullet right now.

It's not earth shattering amazeballs as a breaker, but it sure seems to beat Ninja, 2nd Femme or Alias in the same slot.

>>43544355
No way to tell for sure, but I think that's 10, 19, 40, or 49.

>>43544355

My guess is 80, which seems to fit:
https://boardgamegeek.com/blog/2866


Wouldn't bet my hand on it though.

>>43544548
>10, 19, 40, or 49.
10 is Neutral (Chatterjee university)
19 is Neutral Corp
40 is Nero
49 is more likely a HB card.
Thank you though!

>>43544587
Yeah, 80 fits, criminals are right before shaper and we have ample space between 75 and 82 for both anarch and criminal cards.

I'll check Four is Flatline, completely forgot about it.

yo where to watch netrunner instead of this starwars shit

>>43544776
>tfw you hear the netrunner players cheering in the background, but you're forced to watch this weird star wars drinking game because they want to sell it to netrunner players

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>>43544776
Tweet: "The #Netrunner finals will be back on twitch tv/FFGLive shortly."
Well, at least we are going to see the finals. David vs Dan.
If the match is Dave's Leela vs HB is going to be pretty exciting.
If the match is Dan's Valencia vs HB is going to be quite uninteresting.

pic is Noah McKee (Jinteki) vs. David Hoyland (Leela Patel), Dave wins by stealing a Future Perfect from HQ after stealing 2 more agendas from R&D.

Top 4 at 4:20 cst

>>43544992
Oh, there's still one match before finals. Dave vs Timmy. It's a rematch.

>>43543599
You know I look at mongoose and I am instantly in love simply from the flavor text. I enjoy a good quote from Rudyard Kippling.

Really cool illustration too.

Noob here.
Can I as a runner trash one of my resources without using a card that specifically lets me do that?
I kinda got screwed by my own wyldside last game since I thought I could just trash it when installing a card.

>>43545486

Nope, can't do that. Corp prerogative.

And you've figured one reason why so many people don't really like Wyldside (love it myself, but hey).

>>43545486
No, you need a card to trash it. As a runner the only cards you can trash at will are programs, and only before installing another program.

"You're going to cry trying to steal a NAPD from that Spark deck."

>Power to the People.

"Why do you always play shitty cards damn it ?!"

>>43546038
Also Film Critic really.

This David vs Timmy should have been finals. Jesus christ, this is exciting.

>>43546110

Yeah, but I told before the game started I wasn't sporting any.

Gave false confidence I guess.

THE TOPDECK

>>43546412
RIGHT RIGHT OH MY HEART

INTENSE

>>43546412
I support our new Wong overlord!

This Final is ridiculous. 6-3 in the 4 turn.

THIS IS BEYOND TENSE, JESUS CHRIST

ITS OGRE

FUCK NETRUNNER AND FUCK DAN D'ARGENIO

SWITCHING TO THRONES

ONE CREDIT TO FEW
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOÔOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Timmy should have trashed DLR, jesus christ, why would you leave it on the table.

I N T E N S E

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Dan wins again out of bullshit RNG.

Val DLR is such a dumb uninteractive deck. He Dan did nothing but click to mill and hope he got lucky to win the title of world champ.

Now we have to deal with another year of people taking his word as the word of god for netrunner.

I am honestly thinking of selling me shit if this is what top level netrunner looks like.

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Is Apex any good?

>>43547737
Yeah, pretty amazing, and fast too.

>>43547737
Only Val DLR is good.

>>43547654

Haven't looked at the games, not interested enough, but this comment >>43547617 makes me think that if he won, it's at least partly because his opponent made a mistake.

Saddened about the state of DLR decks post Wireless's release. I love those, played them extensively, but I do think significantly reducing to removing the-risk taking of playing the card is really bad.
Fits the competitive tournament format though.

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>>43547767
Thanks, I was looking forward to its release

>>43547737

I like to describe it as an Anarch that plays like a crim.

You get the heavy destruction from first, and you get the dancing around toward targets of the later.

I do like how him and Adam changes the logic of playing your matches.

>>43547788
Trashing DLR will have had no effect. He knew he had AS in hand and the ability to use it. There was zero chance for him to win with 0 credits on that turn.

DLR is just the best deck since it is strong in the bracket system and a monster in the Swiss rounds since it has no weak matches.

More or less he just got fucked by the combo of constant mill and unblockable Account Siphons.
I am slowly starting to feel more and more like FFG does not know how to manage a LCG as a high level tournament game.

Like I have never been one to say the game is fucked but DLR Val feels broken. Like even more so then RP Caprice broken. There are just no real counters to it.

>>43547788
With a single agenda left in R&D, Timmy went all in for winning next turn or losing all.

>>43547939
Also if he had trashed the DLR he'd have not had the credits to score next turn. It'd have cost 4 and he only had 5. He'd have had 1 credit left and needed to have at least 2 at the start of his turn to win.

>>43547895
>There are just no real counters to it.

SYNC ?

>>43548007

I see.

>>43547895
I still think trashing DLR would be the right play. Yeah, Dan could Siphon next turn, but with 2 cards in Stack, no way to levy, and Wraparound protecting HQ he would be unable to get in again. And that would be it. Tim would get his credits back during 2 turns, Dan would just get credits to pay for the Popup Windows. Install, psycho, score. The End.

>>43548342
Sync only lowers the trash cost be 2 and the smaller deck size makes it faster to mill.

Leigh Alexander doing things with FFG

>>43547895
>FFG does not know how to manage a LCG as a high level tournament game.

I've been feeling the same way. The balance of Netrunner has been heavy handed to say the least. It relies on specific silver bullets to bring things into balance. But it seems they have overlooked a few this time around.

>>43548390
>Sync only lowers the trash cost be 2

That's a *fucking* lot.
I've played a lot of games using DLR/denial, and it's almost always a matter of one credit or one click when your opponent is good.

>the smaller deck size makes it faster to mill.

Just because you can make the deck smaller doesn't mean you have to.

Anyway, I'm not saying it's going to be the definitive answer, but that's certainly one of the first venues I'd explore from past experience.

>>43548390
>and the smaller deck size
Is not mandatory - if you're worried about DLR, go to 49 like all the other corps

I just can't believe how little econ Tim had though the whole game - sure, dude got siphoned (just about the only real bit of skill in Dan's deck), but even for NBN that shouldn't be the killer

This DLR deck is more or less Mono Blue Counter Spell and Mill. Account Siphon is counter spell as it denies play. DLR is well you can guess what.

>>43548692
With Faust AS is hardly any skill. You will never fail it unless they happen to tech a Swordsman out of nowhere.

>>43548949
It's not a counterspell, it's econ denial. Like cards that trash lands.
Clot is a counterspell.

>>43549225
So it is like a land hate mill deck that has no mana issues since it's land hate also gives you land?

I mean AS KIND of reads in MTG terms "Trash 2 Lands opened by another player and search your deck for a land and put it into play untapped". for like 0 CMC.

How do we tech against DLR Valencia? There's a big tournament coming up in a month's time, and I'd like to be prepared.

>can't get to netrunner night at FLGS
>play with two friends
>friends only run anarchy and both play almost exactly the same
>losing desire to play corps because it's the same damn game every time

Help.

>>43550597
Freelancer.

>>43550597

Foxfire ?

>>43550630

What, they don't want to try any over kind of decks ?

>>43550597
Screw Valencia (49 cards)
Haarpsichord Studios

-- Agenda (10 cards)
1 15 Minutes
3 AstroScript Pilot Program
1 Breaking News
2 Global Food Initiative
3 Project Beale

-- Asset (9 cards)
2 Corporate Town
1 Elizabeth Mills
1 Executive Boot Camp
3 Jackson Howard
2 Marked Accounts

-- ICE (16 cards)
1 Archangel
3 Data Raven
2 Gutenberg
2 Little Engine
2 Tollbooth
3 Turnpike
3 Wraparound

-- Operation (8 cards)
3 Hedge Fund
3 Sweeps Week
2 The All-Seeing I

-- Upgrade (6 cards)
2 Ash 2X3ZB9CY
2 Crisium Grid
2 SanSan City Grid

ihatedlrval.dec

>>43550630
Tell them that's not how you play Netrunner, you play runner, then swap for Corp. This is not Magic, you have to play both sides.

Why is no one talking about the fact that Dan did not really win the final game? There was a credit counting error after people looked at the video and Timmy did have the credits to win.
Dan saw the error and interrupted Timmy when he was about to recount his credits.

Also if you watch closely you can see Dan grab 2 cards in one draw from time to time to fill up his hand. He took at least 5 extra clicks that game without anyone accounting for them.

I really hope once the VOD is released they rewatch it and strip him of his title.

>>43551181
>>43551664

They play corps, but on the runner side they have zero interest in running anything but anarchs.

http://netrunnerdb.com/en/decklist/27469/tanktop-haarp-butchershop-2nd-place-psi-games-oct-11-

This fucking deck.
This is what should have won worlds, not ETF.

>>43551865
So? Is that offensive to your sensibilities somehow?

>>43552313

It's more just that neither really changes their decks or anything different. One guy found a surfer deck that he at found, hasn't changed at all in past 5-6 weeks, and just keeps playing it. Other guy is newer and at least trying stuff.

It's more just the fact that I'm getting bored playing the corporation when I'm never seeing anything new.

Hey /anrg/, I'm trying to build Geist and having a shitty time of it because I can't figure out how heavily in I should go on TRASH ALL THE THINGS FOR DRAWS. Anyone have any insight on how many trash-myself things it takes to make him work?

>>43552466
I would love to give you advice, but right now I am way too depressed about Thoring winning worlds twice in a row.

>>43552284
Just looks like a bog-standard NBN kill deck with all the regular goodstuff, what's got you so excited about it?

>>43552452
You realize that surfer decks are jank? They are slow, expensive, and easily disrupted.

>>43552452
So build a deck that shits all over the surfer deck and run it until he tries something new to get the cycle going.

>>43552567

I realize that. Hell, I have a pretty good winrate against it. It's more that I just don't find it fun.

>>43552516
It's a fucking annoying deck and it deserves way more attention.
The ID ability is immune to R&D lock and Data Raven into QPM is just broken.

>>43552684
QPM + Raven is cool and all, but you just need to file it under "beaten by Film Critic"

>>43553109
I don't think you actually can Film Critic QPM.
I think they should errata QPM's text to make it possible though.

>>43553283
Why not? When you access an agenda, the runner's triggered abilities go first, so you host it on FC and that's the end of it; QPM's "if" clause never gets to fire.

Look at my runner deck!
I'm a noob so don't be afraid to point out the stupid shit I've done.


His ice and optimism: gone

Silhouette: Stealth Operative

Event (22)
2x Account Siphon
1x Dirty Laundry
3x Emergency Shutdown
3x Forged Activation Orders
3x Inside Job
2x Kraken
2x Lawyer Up
2x Legwork
2x Special Order
2x Sure Gamble

Hardware (6)
2x Blackguard
1x Clone Chip ••
3x Prepaid VoicePAD

Resource (4)
1x Kati Jones
2x Same Old Thing
1x Xanadu ••

Icebreaker (4)
1x Alpha •••
1x Omega •••
1x Overmind
1x Sharpshooter •

Program (4)
1x Gorman Drip v1
1x Parasite ••
1x Pheromones
1x Rook ••

15 influence spent (max 15)
40 cards (min 40)

Derezzing and force rezzing ice to keep the corp poor. Make or steal monies for alpha/omega and finally a blackguard.
With this, run hq and use silhouettes expose w blackguard to force rez shit and keep the corp poorer. Kraken for fun time explosions.

>>43555503
Cut the Pheromones and Gorman Drip for some sec testing or bankjob, It's much more reliable money.

Because of the constraints your rig puts on your economy (Alpha Omega is relatively expensive permanent rig) I think you'll need more money cards behind them.

You have too many things you want to do after a siphon I think, and a bit too much of an obvious HQ focus, the corp is going to make sure your tricks are expensive.

I'd cut 1 kraken 2 emergency shutdown for 1x Driveby, 1x Katie (if you're lawyering up might as well use her) and another sure gamble. I think Leela would be another good ID to run this deck in.

>>43556055
Thanks for the input, I think I'll follow most of it!

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>>43552576
This, so much this. If you're bored with someone's deck, build a deck to specifically beat that deck. It shouldn't be a good deck against anything else, in fact it needs to have pretty obvious weaknesses to further encourage your opponent to change his build. For example against the surfer deck, make a NEXT Design deck that's almost purely cheap gearcheck ice, then just stack that 5-7 deep on all servers. Use Interns and pic related to do that.

Global Food Initiative is an example of a bad designed card. Follow me on this.
Corps need to include a certain numbers of agenda points to make their decks legal, this is in order to provide a fair-game quality to the runner efforts. Correct?
Then what's the point of subverting this fair-game by reducing the amount of points he can actually get? This is different from ambushes that reduce agenda points or The Board, this is no trick. This directly changes the paradigm stablished of equality given to the game rules.
Why is this allowed?

>>43557175
I'll take a wild guess: Influence

>>43557175
>Then what's the point of subverting this fair-game by reducing the amount of points he can actually get?
The point is that 3-pointers with no defensive capabilities are shit. That's just how the mechanics work out. I much prefer GFI's design over Future Perfect's.

>>43557175
This can be answered by "why not?".

>>43557359
I won't say GFI is bad design. I'll say other three pointers are worse design, simply because they don't protect themselves. Punitive Counterstrike was a great way to make stealing them hurt, designwise, but it's still narrow. GFI, despite costing influence, is now the most popular 3 pointer out there simply because it doesn't hurt so much when stolen from R&D.

>>43557738
>>43557359
I think asking for agendas to defend themselves is lazy design for lazy players and I'm glad Film Critic is printed.

>>43557840
I don't think it's lazy design for lazy players. It's just a fact that 3-pointers make R&D accesses that much more dangerous. Being unable to make 3-pointers worth their slot means everyone will just play 2-pointers FA a la NEH. At least with GFI, non-RP glacier can do its thing.

>>43557175
Global Food and Future Perfect are not unbalanced.
Their abilities are just as strong as having the 2 clicks for 4 credits abilitily of gov contracts.
The difference is just that these have their agenda abilities active before scori g and are blank after, most other avendas are the other way around.
They are just less risky than other agendas, but that doesnt mean they are more powerful.

>>43553359
Notice how the latest faq says QPM doesnt synergise with casting call.
If the if was equivalent to a when, then shouldnt it synergise?

>>43552452

Before going into deniable aggression mode, have you tried talking the issue through ?

Just telling them that you're not having fun playing the same deck all the time and you'd enjoy a bit variety, as the monotony is killing it for you ?

And if your friends just like those decks so much, and that's why they're not changing, why not propose to make two decks, with one that varies a lot more ?

I know that's what I don so that people fed up with my current optimized build can play something else.

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>>43551694

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I've been testing this on j.net and at locals with some success but it gets destroyed by Assasin and Turing.
Trying to find space for a zu or possibly even just swapping the mimic for a FoN, turing is pretty much an instant lockout for me.

Apex: Invasive Predator

Event (16)
2x Apocalypse
3x Dirty Laundry
2x Legwork ••••
1x Levy AR Lab Access •••
3x Lucky Find ••••• •
3x Sure Gamble
2x The Maker's Eye ••••

Hardware (13)
3x Chop Bot 3000 •••
2x e3 Feedback Implants ••••
3x Heartbeat
3x Prepaid VoicePAD
2x Q-Coherence Chip

Resource (6)
3x Hunting Grounds
3x Wasteland

Icebreaker (7)
3x Crypsis
3x Endless Hunger
1x Mimic •

Program (3)
3x Harbinger

25 influence spent (max 25)
45 cards (min 45)
Cards up to Data and Destiny

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What does it thematically mean when the runner gives up bad publicity to cancel All Seeying I?
Is the corp blackmailing you?

>>43559687
I think so.
You keep your mouth shut and we won't kill all your friends, ok?

>>43559687

That card is probably my biggest power creep cry so far.

Just boggles the mind.

So I am the only one who thinks we are getting a new core set in 2017?

The only way for the rotation to go well is clear out the major problems in the Core.

>>43560048
It's certainly strong, but I also think it's easy to overestimate.
It goes in a deck that's going to tag aggressively, obviously.
But how many do you want to include? I mean, you can spend 2 to trash a resource anyways, you're just getting more efficient with ASI. It's great if they play a load of resources you can blow up in one go, but even against a deck that installs a lot, how many times do you need to blow everything up? Once? Probably never more than twice, and it gets less efficient if you spend 2 to trash anything normally in the early game, which seems likely.

And the deck it most aggressively counters, valencia DLR with wireless net pavilion, has built in defence against it.

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>>43560226
Yeah, against DLR Valencia pic related - at 0 cost to use (great after a siphon), 0 influence and with no BP-fail becomes a lot more attractive.

Fall Guys mess them both up, as does tag-dodging, but they're certainly comparable

>>43560226

As I was saying when this was being announced, issue is, if this card exist, then they're going to have to have to give ways for the runner to dish out Bad Pub much more easily, for balance purpose, which I'm not sure is a good thing either (and sure enough we got that new bad pub dishing current announced soon after).

I mean you go from Freelancer (burn two for zero and a click) to burn *everything* on the table for one credit and a click ? And this for only one influence ?
Even with the prevention clause, given how narrow it is (and I think BP should remain relatively narrow) that rasies the bar quite a bit.

>>43560391
>costs an influence outside NBN
>costs a credit
>can be negated
It's got enough disadvantages vs freeelancer that it doesn't completely obviate the card.
And the difference between "trash 2" and "trash all" varies a lot based on the deck you're playing against. A lot of the popular high-speed decks don't play very many resources, or play relatively temporary ones.

>>43560439
>It's got enough disadvantages vs freelancer that it doesn't completely obviate the card.

That's not really the issue at hand for me here, it's the overall cranking up in power this hints at.

Granted I tend to be pretty conservative design-wise, so I may be a bit alarmist. But what this seems to mean for the overall evolution of the game makes me wary. All the more when my first prediction came to pass so soon after.

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>>43560485
>All the more when my first prediction came to pass so soon after.
What was your prediction?

>>43560605

>>43560391
>and sure enough we got that new bad pub dishing current announced soon after

So, I have a Geist build that I never got around to testing, and it's outdated by now since it's from before Data & Destiny.
I'm already planning to replace the Gormans with Technical Writers, and possibly drop 2x Drive By for 2x Planned Assault to fish out Siphon faster, but what else should I be swapping out?

Deck Created with CardGameDB.com Android: Netrunner Deckbuilder


Total Cards: (45)

Identity:
1x Armand “Geist” Walker (The Underway)


Event: (10)
3x Account Siphon (Core)
2x Levy AR Lab Access (Creation and Control) ■■■ ■■■
1x Special Order (Core)
2x Drive By (The Underway)
2x Easy Mark (Core)

Hardware: (7)
3x Clone Chip (Creation and Control) ■■ ■■ ■■
3x Forger (The Underway)
1x E3 Feedback Implants (Trace Amount)

Program: (15)
3x Crescentus (A Study in Static)
3x Spike (The Valley)
3x Crowbar (Chrome City)
3x Shiv (The Underway)
1x Faust (The Underway) ■■
2x Gorman Drip v1 (Opening Moves)

Resource: (13)
2x Access to Globalsec (Core)
2x Crash Space (Core)
3x Fall Guy (Double Time)
2x Underworld Contact (A Study in Static)
3x Same Old Thing (Creation and Control)
1x Film Critic (Old Hollywood) ■

The plan is to burn through my deck at high speed by popping trash effects as often as possible, dig out Siphon and Crescentus, derez all the things and make the corp poor. Since all my stuff is dirt cheap (the only things that cost more than two credits are Faust's install and the 2x Levy), I can theoretically run on a shoestring budget and spend all my credits on wrecking asset econ and fending off Punitive/Midseason.

>>43560786

I *think* two Levy AR Lab Access is overkill.
That being said I don't think I had the pleasure of playing Geist against a true bona fide glacier deck yet.

Things I think I've gotten good value out of in a similar set up, your mileage may vary:
- Scheherazade
- Muertos Gang Member (very timing sensitive, which makes it all the better as far as I'm concerned)
- TriMaf Contact

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>>43561117
>TriMaf Contact
I feel that's a bit of an under-rated card, but one of the few times it was used against me led to a highly amusing flatline - I was weyland, and just managed to land a tag, but even though I had my two scorched in hand I didn't have the money to use them. However my opponent had two tri-mafs, and I had just enough credits (after landing the tag) to trash them both.
So I reduced the tri-maf presence in the area and they killed the runner for me - two birds with one stone

Quick rules query: can you use a team sponsorship to install cards trashed off an accelerated beta test?

>>43562034
Yes

>>43561769
TriMaf was fairly safe until now, I mean, there's no way it can be completely safe, but now we have people teching against DLR Valencia with cards like All Seeing I and Freelancer. So TriMaf is a huge risk now.

>>43562034
That's the whole point of the AB Team deck...

>>43562082

Good point, should have taken that into account. Just because it's worked decently for me until now doesn't mean it will just as well in the near future.

>>43559687
NBN can delete all your contacts, unfriend all your friends, close up all your favorite places to hang out, and destroy your motivation. (No violence necessary.)
Unless you publically say that that expose you did was falsified.
Good! Now be a good cyber terrorist and leave our servers alone.

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>>43559687
>>43562944
You know what makes me sad? The card is not Grey Ops, The Corp is threatening you with erasing your net existence and it's not considered the less dirty.
This makes Tallie sad.

>>43563073

Yeah, seems very weird to me, and would have made for great fluff interaction to boot.

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>>43524071
>I've only read their two netrunner articles, and his tournament review was adorably whiny, but neither was wretched by any stretch of the imagination.

Imagine this, and imagine it for 2 years of whiny articles about Netrunner. Not to mention he shits up the only two good netrunner podcasts, Term7 and Run Last Click.

I wish Quinns would leave. Not because he's "wretched" but because he's a constant itch, like herpes.

>>43563345
I watched one of his videos lately where he just randomly in the beginning says that boardgamegeek is a misogynist website.

>>43563073
Wireless Net Pavillion with Tallie, or WNP with Joshua makes for a delicious combo.

>>43563522
Which one?

>>43563543

It's really just the old "scorched earth" build, only made more secure/expensive to tax by Wireless.

>>43563563
https://vimeo.com/95541126

>>43563697
>pic of girl in low-cut shirt playing MTG is in top ten most upvoted images
>shockingly misogynistic
>if pic was in top ten downvoted it would have been just as bad
What does he want, for nerds to not notice boobs?

>>43558233
FFG is shit at normalized rules, so they're gonna have to go back and address QPM vs. Critic specifically, I guess.

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>>43563073
I'm thinking that's because of the BP offer - sure, they're blackmailing you, but there's also a get out clause

That said, I do wish there were more Black Ops and Grey Ops (there's only 15 in total), and a few more ways to make BP just a little less powerful - so that things that generate it are more playable in general

Sad thing for me is that this Worlds is going to make me a DLR hipster whenever I'm going to get my old Reina deck out of retirement.

>>43558233
There's a difference here. With casting call the QPM doesn't even fire unless the runner is already tagged at the time of access. With film critic and the runner already being tagged both the QPM and critic can fire but the ordering is what prevents QPM from working.

Was playing when this started playing from my random playlist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD85APVez40

Oddly fitting with the context change. Almost tempted to try and remix it.

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>>43567499

>>43568467

Didn't think of that, which is a shame, since that who I was playing.

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>>43567499
http://youtu.be/iIpfWORQWhU
This and the ost to drive is what I'm running to.

>>43569660
Now this has me thinking on this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpxrsEAIMT4