[Darksithmstr]

SO as I got through the beginner box adventure Battle Royal, it gives device rating for cameras you can hack to see their feed, but that is all they give.  How do i know the stats, what are their defense rating, defense roll, general stats??  I mean I can guess device rating x2 for a roll, but any clarifications. 

Also slightly off topic  Brute Force Matrix Action only has 1 defense set of stats, Willpower+Firewall, but if it isn't a persona and is a machine or host, it won't have a willpower, so what do I sub Device rating?  or host rating?

[Michael Chandra]

Device Rating normally equals the Firewall and Data Processing Matrix Attributes, if no explicit stats are given.

Mental attributes are NOT replaced by anything. You need active supervision from a Spider to have Mental Attributes in that test. An unsupervised Host is more vulnerable than a supervised Host as a result.

[Darksithmstr]

Where is information on spiders, core rulebook doesn't seem to have anything on them, if you were brute forcing onto comlink or PAN they yup Cally don't have a presence do they?  Sorry Gming my first game and I appreciate any details for the future!

[Michael Chandra]

The Host Hacking examples note using the Spider's Willpower. p179 notes that if you are actively defending a device or host, if two possible defense pools exist they can pick which they use.

[Banshee]

A Spoder is just a NPC decker that is working for the corp ... don’t know what they don't have a presence in the stats section with the rear of the goons and whatnot but you can just use the decker archetypes as a baseline.