PDAs are dead, long live PDAs. All trace of old PDAs has been scoured from the codebase, and in its place are modular computer PDAs that are feature-equivalent. Essentially every PDA function except the Syndicate detonation feature and Notepad has been ported over, and battery life for handheld computers has been boosted alongside the addition of charging cables to make things easier.
- rscadd: "Incompatible applications are no longer downloaded via the presets."
- tweak: "Reduced/Adapted the size of various applications."
- tweak: "The investigations / generic wristbounds are now enrolled aswell."
- tweak: "Selecting a unenrolled device in the loadout no longer gives you the advanced version of it."
- tweak: "Adapts the modular computer news browser to work with our news system"
Newscaster stories can now be multiple lines long and contain pencode formatting.
You can now post and view comments on individual newscaster stories.
Newscaster stories have slightly neater styling.
You can now like and dislike newscaster stories, and these are tracked per-story.
Journalists are now their own role, with a Security Correspondent alt-title.
The merchandise store (when has it ever been used?) has been replaced with a journalist's office.
The journalist has a pet spiderling in a jar, named Peter. He's harmless. Probably.
Converts the news network into a subsystem
Loads news from a database at the start of the round
No longer ties the PDAs to the tcoms system to access the news (which was broken anyway)
Removes the trivial news event
Adds the already existing virology / xenobiology containment events to the rotation
