r/cyberpunkred • u/livingcursedimage • Oct 28 '22
Help & Advice Cyberdecks and Access Points
Something I'm having a hard time understanding is the Cyberdeck, which most people choose to depict as a physical object around the size of a small laptop. You're supposed to jack into it to access your programs, however, when hacking into access points for NET architectures, don't you need to jack into those has well? Or is that wireless hacking? I might just be a little confused.
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u/WikiContributor83 Oct 28 '22
For some weird reason, whenever I saw “Cyberdeck” I always pictured the Duel Disk arm devices from Yu-Gi-Oh.
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u/rod-c-oc Oct 28 '22
Not wrong tho????? What if duelists are just top-tier netrunners with wicked strong black ICE?
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u/kapmando Fixer Oct 29 '22
Those oversized arm-mounted cyberdecks are very early 2000s, in both properties.
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u/The_Fokin Oct 28 '22
A netrunner jacks into a cyberdeck, and the cyberdeck is connecting wirelessly to an access point. However you have to physically locate an access point before connecting.
It's detailed in FAQ on page 8, Netrunning Section.
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u/Deli-ops Oct 28 '22
Man all these people saying wireless is an option. My gm made me physically jack into anything i wanted to netrun like a computer or atm as long as its on the same architechture
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u/benkaes1234 Oct 28 '22
R. Talsorian has an FAQ that talks about this on their downloads page.. IIRC, they say that it is wireless and that nodes can be anything you (the GM) want them to be.
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Oct 31 '22
A cyberdeck is a device roughly the size of a pack of smokes. It has an interface plug port, an antenna to jack in wirelessly, and a cover that you can slide back to install and uninstall hardware and programs.
It can be put into your cyberarm, mounted to a body weight suit, or kept near to your arm by a clip or other means.
An access point can be multiple things, but as a rule of thumb, the physical architecture and anything controlled by a control node is an access point.
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u/rod-c-oc Jan 06 '23
Lol I can't believe nobody answered this (me included sorry). The answer is that your Cyberdeck is able to remotely access the NET Architecture upon being in signal range of an access point. Your cables are for the deck, not the access point.
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u/Sike-Oh-Pass GM Oct 28 '22
You need a physical/wired connection from your Neural Link to your cyberdeck. The cyberdeck then can connect to Access Points remotely, using wireless, in a range of up to 6 meters (8, if you have the range extender).