With any luck, the writers will have actually paid attention to the Technomancer Feedback thread and include at least some of the better suggestions in there.
(Like my own 
... and much of 忍's)
I'd like to say I was hopeful, but I doubt there's the complete structural overhaul that TMs need. And given the way the book was started, stopped, restarted, and then rolled into a chapter of a bigger book...
Well, we're probably looking at a patch job, like using duct tape on a leaking dam.
Eh, I don't really think technos need a complete rewrite... at least no more so than the Matrix in general. It'd suffice to just to fix the bugs and give them more ways to actually be cool.
You know, free Skinlink, the ability to make a PAN with your living persona, submerge once for a
Suite of Resonance Programs, etc.
Edit: More options for sustaining CFs, echoes that scale with submersion grade, (mages get all of that; why can't TMs?
),
free smartlink compatibility...
Ooh! I just thought of another cool techno ability. Here's the gist of it:
Targeting Detection
Technomancers with this echo can passively detect when any kind of targeting sensors focus on their own bodies (or any device they have a direct connection with, or are currently jumped in to), and may even observe some of the calculations being made. This applies to the targeting systems of drones and other vehicles, as well as to all manner of smartguns. Your living persona must be online in order to use this passive ability.
Make a Resonance + Submersion Grade test for each device targeting you. Your hits determine how much information you detect.
. . .
- Alternatively, this could use Res + E-War for the test....
. . .
Smartlink Appropriation
Target: Device
Duration: P
Fading: L-2
. . .
+1 defense / net hit...
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