Movement stat question

[Kanransha_Senpai]

Why does this mage I hired have twice the movement range (range of movement for 1 ap) than I do? all his stats are below mine except for body and willpower, and I didn't cast any spell on him and he has no cyberware. (I also don't have movement affecting cyberware). As far as I can tell he just straight up moves twice as fast as I do for no reason?

[Chigen Atomic]

might be body or willpower. Or the fact that he's hireable thus he gets a couple bonuses.

[steelcoresoviet]

Don't dwarf runners have a net negative for movement?

Might not be relevent, but it might.

[Kanransha_Senpai]

We're both human. Man do hirable runners really get a movement bonus? lol

[Alex]

Well its possible to get 12 movment speed passive in the game already. So maybe he has that configuration or maybe he just gets some hand waved hes fast flavor.

There are 3 different cyberwares all for body that provide +1 passive movment and 1 of thems a bioware.
The Leopard Totem Provides +1 movement.
Stride the Adept ability provides +2 passive and another +2 when activated.
THe bonded spell for stride and killing hands stacks with regular stride with an additonal +2 passive movement speed.

I assume you'd knotice if he had stride and bonded spell stride/killing hands though.

[Kanransha_Senpai]

He's a mage, not an adept. his spells are strip armor, aim boost, mana ball, chain lighting, flamethrower, and heal. as a mage, he has no cyberware/bioware. afaik he doesn't have any stats in spirit summoning so he can't have a totem.

Similarly, I'm a decker (w/ cobra totem) that has skill in rifles/shotguns. I'm cybered out the gills but nothing that provides movement. He still has twice my movement range tho. at this point I think it's probably flavor, bc I share my movement range with the rest of my team (definitely racter, Gaichu has more probably because he runs at people with a sword.)

[Adarael]

Hello, designer who made all the supplemental runners here. Couple of questions:

1) Is this Brent Shirkey? He should be the only mage you can hire.
2) Does he have enhanced run speed on all the missions you hire him on?
3) El Ducé has a pair of cyberlegs that let him move at crazy fast speeds. If you're seeing him with spells, that's pretty odd.
4) Gaichu runs fast because being a ghoul improves your movement speed.

[Kanransha_Senpai]

1) yes it's brent.
2) yes.
3) If El Duce is the dude with a shotgun and machete who hates shiawase, I hired him for the underwater sea lab run bc he was free.

My run basically went like this: Did the prologue > did the underwater sea run w/ hates shiawase man (he had huge amounts of move > decided after that to hire brent shirkley for the rest of the bonus campaign. Brent had twice as much move for my entire playthrough.