That's … wow. I think this underhand way of sneaking in your character's history is a perfect fit for this game. Man, that's disturbing though.
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I don't think that an inferior neural link overrides a superior in all cases. With immersive visor and TZR chipdeck, I got:
You slot the study chip and wait for the emotions to start rolling in.
Your vision narrows down, almost obsessively, on the details around you. You feel like a blank slate, everything ready to soak in.
You've gained 15 energy of Studious Nature.
No Ease involved.
I equipped a black market chipdeck while having entertainment visor in inventory (which gives 10). I got 5 energy of the buffs, which is in line with the black market quality.
Granted, this was a while ago. (Almost right after the PvP update)
After trying to get the hidden neural recording for over two years now without success, I finally got one last night. I had used 1 Matsuo yesterday, 2 more today. Using the third one gave the following. Using the forth one gives the normal Matsuo effect. I'm assuming that it's total coincidence new chips were released yesterday.
You slot the Matsuo finale and wait for the emotions to start rolling in.
You remember… an executive office. It's vivid… far too vivid for one of these chips. It feels like a memory, but that might just be the chip talking to your brain.
Still, you can feel the gentle comfort and alien smell of the real leather chair. A waterfall tumbles past the windows, sending wavering shafts of light through the room. The man across the mahogany desk from you is wearing a monocle, as though to emphasize the old world comforts.
He's looking you over passively, like the engagement is a game of chess he intends to win. He speaks slowly, letting no emotion enter into his voice. "So, have you considered my offer?"
You struggle to stay polite. "I've told you before. I have no intention of being your guinea pig." A corner of his mouth twitches up, somehow encapsulating more malice than any mere dictator or serial killer could muster.
"Well," he starts flatly, "I guess that decides that, doesn't it. If you change your mind, you know where to find me."
EDIT:
More data points as I get them:
(Jan 29/2012) used 2 matusos today, one by one. On the second one, got:
You slot the Matsuo finale and wait for the emotions to start rolling in.
You remember… a filthy alley. It's far too vivid for one of those chips. It's difficult to keep yourself outside the stream of memory.
Your eyes water as the alley's scent hits you. It's nothing compared to the pain in your right side, though, or the fear of the drones chasing you.
You pull at your bandages, then discard them. When you started running, there was a terrible mess under there. Skin, bone, muscle, and blood were mixed into an incoherent mass.
Now, it's covered with a fresh layer of skin that's smoother than the highest class spas. It still hurts, but like you were hit by a baseball bat, not like needler rounds had shattered your rib cage.
This page claims that once you get a chip headache, you can't use any more chips that day without getting more headaches - but you can get around that by buffing your will. I had 26 (19) will and used 4 or 5 and got a headache, but when I buffed my will to (51), I could use several more.
(I also don't think the Will/3 is right, but I'll double check tomorrow.)
74(77) Will, put away 1 study chip and 20 unformatted memory cores. No headache.
Writing for the long-neglected GOC Casefiles canon.
Spading memories-
It seems no matter how many icy chips and numbing I use, I never get chip flashbacks from them. I've gone through about forty icy and thirty numbing. Nothing.
Unformatted memory cores seem to regularly trigger flashbacks with every single batch of 10 I use, and most batches of five. Of the wide selection of memories putting away maybe 200 of these cores so far, I got
-a diner x4
-an executive office x1
-an office x3
-a filthy alley x3
-a containment suit x 1
-a room x0
From pulling out about thirty matsuo cores in total, I only got executive office x1 so far.
EDIT: Valmo says he jacks flower chips 15 at a time, and he doesn't get flashbacks. I suspect only the XP-giving cores give flashbacks. Which, incidentally, are also the ones that have memory core icons rather than microchips.
Writing for the long-neglected GOC Casefiles canon.
As another (probably biased) data point, I've used about 30 unformatted chips over the past couple weeks (to purposely get the chip headache's negative perception bonus) and haven't gotten any chip memories so far.
How many did you use at a time? Maybe it only triggers on a multiuse.
Writing for the long-neglected GOC Casefiles canon.
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