Where buy a deck asap?

[Dorok]

Made a custom character with more decking and only a bit of rigger (drones) and the game decided give a me a drone but no deck, quite irritating.

But ok where can I buy a deck asap? At first I didn't notice I hadn't a deck, had forgot this point, and when I need one later I realized the problem.

[Terra]

You can buy one after the first foray into the Walled City.

There is a matrix section with paydata in that mission that you're going to miss due to your lack of a deck though, unless you want to bring Is0bel.

[vred]

you need to be accepted in Heoi, then visit Maximum Law. Can't miss his boat, big blue bright letters on it, behind the Mah Jong parlor

[Elegant Caveman]

Pretty sure the first time you can buy one is when you come back from giving a message to Strangler Bao (which is also the first mission that has a matrix run, so you might want to bring Is0bel on that one).

[vred]

you definitely should bringe Is0bel because you don't have decking and she used to live in the walled city

[Dorok]

Thanks all for answers.

Originally posted by Vred:

you definitely should bringe Is0bel because you don't have decking and she used to live in the walled city

Sigh so I'm screwed up with my level 4 decking, I wish I could bash some designers faces, not that I'll have the balls to ever do it, but imagine it temper a bit the frustration.

How the hell I would take Isobel when my character is firstly a decker??? Yeah I didn't noticed he had no deck.

[vred]

Those are the risks of messing with custom characters...

[Dorok]

I don't think Dragonfall or even SRR had this specific design bug.

[Wizu]

Its better to make a custom character, those premade ones have silly points spent in silly places.

You can circumvent the first mission by taking Is0bel along and making her do the decking bit, and you can still get the +1 karma if you put the code 5465 onto the smugglers door that you'd get if you had assensing or brought Gobblet.

In total theres four extra karma checks in the Strangler mission;

Charisma 3 and Etiquette Gang to convince the guards to let you pass +1 karma
Repair the feng shui +1 karma
Either know code, have spirit summoning or bring Gobblet to get through the animal smugglers door +1 karma
Etiquette Shadowrunner, unarmed 4 or strenght 4 to get the homeless guy back his nuyen +1 karma

And then the bonus for not killing anyone.

You dont get extra karma for going through the decking phase, but you do get paydata worth 300 nuyen.

[Phat Pidjin]

To start the game with a deck, you need to take ESP Control 1

[Terra]

Originally posted by Isaios:

To start the game with a deck, you need to take ESP Control 1

That would explain it, since nobody who min/maxes ever takes ESP control.

There was no point in doing so back when the Matrix was a combat-slog, why would you do it when it's a stealth game?

[Talon]

Originally posted by Isaios:

To start the game with a deck, you need to take ESP Control 1

This is not true. I created a custom character, only put points into Decking without any ESP Control and got a cyberdeck with my starting equipment. However, I didn't put any points into drones so I don't know if that makes a difference or not.

[Daliena]

Originally posted by Talon:

Originally posted by Isaios:

To start the game with a deck, you need to take ESP Control 1

This is not true. I created a custom character, only put points into Decking without any ESP Control and got a cyberdeck with my starting equipment. However, I didn't put any points into drones so I don't know if that makes a difference or not.

I can verify that ESP control is -not- needed to receive a deck. I've made a decker twice (Restarting once, see) with 0 ESP control but a good chunk of decking to start with, and received my crappy Sony both times.

[cooperlooper]

@Dorok, the bug existed in DFDC. Creating a character with points in decking and drone control results in the character only receiving a drone. I hadn't put any points in ESP control, but I don't think that changes anything.

[Dorok]

I had ESP Control > 1.

I don't agree I don't remind this bug in either DF or SRR, but it's possible I started with no weapon and instead a deck and a drone. But eventually it's been changed.

For my HK character, I had Deck 4, Drone 3, Shotgun 4, and get a drone and a shotgun.

[76561197974247947]

You get a drone instead of a deck if you have points in decking and drone control. You can save the points, and start the game, and then put them in drone control. But there is no way to start the game with both a deck and a drone.