For maximal effect, read this while listening to the Animated Series theme. It’s like the TOS theme played sideways.
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There were a lot of details about netrunner builds that were not present in the New Ways to Play video.
Overall, hacking is intended to be easier and more useful in the early game, and to have more depth and challenge as you advance.
It’s now possible to queue multiple hacks against an enemy. These will then be applied one by one. Managing the queue and hack combinations will be a key part of advanced netrunner play.
It’s now possible to hack enemies using the monowire. There are multiple perks related to hacking with monowire.
A new Overclock perk allows you to use health instead of RAM for hacking.
A new perk will unlock vehicle hacks. Besides the hacks already demonstrated, it will be possible to take remote control of a vehicle.
Smart guns will get bonuses for points spent on Intelligence.
The key reason why this failed is that it was prohibitively expensive to run. They had to maintain a cast of professional actors, and even minor hotel staff had to maintain story and character.
There’s a very small audience that’s willing to pay thousands of dollars for a Star Wars LARP, no matter how professionally it’s produced.
The LotR version of the There Was Only One Bed trope is There Was Only One Horse