8 Tips To Help You FIGHT CRIME In Shadows Of Doubt
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- Опубликовано: 3 май 2023
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Today I'm bringing you 8 Tips to help you get the hang of Shadows of Doubt and become a better crime solving Detective!
Stay until the end to enjoy a funny bonus tip from @Puggpu
/ @calebspittman
Shadows of Doubt takes place in a procedurally generated city with NPCs that have their own routines, workplaces, and homes - murder is on the rise, and it is up to us to solve the case and bring justice to the city.
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Another cool tip: If you are doing a side job that gives a phone number, you can call the phone number in your appartment, check the call logs from your building to see where the call went, then check the call logs in the building where you call went to to further narrow down which appartment.
Wow that's actually pretty clutch. I knew about being able to track the address down from a phone number, but to use them all together like that.. thats genius!
ive checked so many call logs and that is insane i never thought of that
Wow thanks !
how do you check call logs
@@nationsxd Basement of the buildings often have a secured room with a couple of cameras and a mechanical looking box. Open it up, and you got the call logs.
The "Vic Mackey" maneuver in the bonus tip seems brilliant! Just another example of why the NPCs should be glad that all the Detective's violence is thus far magically non-lethal.
"Good cop and bad cop left for the day. I'm a different kind of cop."
*throws garbage can*
A few tips for filling out profiles efficiently: You will be able to fill out most of a person's profile by visiting their workplaces. Somewhere in the workplace, there will be a drawer or cabinet with employee files, this will give you most information, but not all.
Another fun tip, if you want to investigate a workplace during the day, speak to the receptionist and ask for a guest pass. Sure, you'll have to pay a bit, but the information is worth it.
Thirdly, relevant to above, if you want to access a room with a lock while you have a pass, or if you want to sidetrack anyone inside and sneak in there, just knock on the door. It will make the an NPC stop what they are doing, after a bit, and open it for you. Useful for getting into security rooms of businesses.
Fourth tip: Keep an eye out for pass codes, and if you ever find one, don't be afraid to use it where you can. If you fill out a pass code at least once, it will automatically fill any time after.
And, finally, my favourite little trick. If you see someone working on their computer, you can disrespect their personal space, sit on their lap, and use it yourself. They don't actually care, they just let you do your own thing, but from the computers, you can access their profiles, which gives a bit of bonus information compared to the employee records, specifically address and passcode. Feel free to use the passcode on their locker if they have one, or even log them out and log them back in.
I hope my wall of tips helps any would-be detectives out there.
And here I was always waiting for the NPCs to stand up from their desks. I suppose I'll be sitting in a lot more laps from now on 😂
Thanks for watching and dropping the tips!
@@thatboywags No worries. I was admittedly amused when I discovered that little trick myself.
@@thatboywags once I knew that was a thing I've been doing that all the time 😂
As an alternative to selling stuff at pawn shops, you can also simply drop your pilfered goods on the floor of your apartment and sell them in the Decor menu.
Good to know. Sadly I have yet to mess with decor mode but I've been really impressed with the nice apartments people have been designing.
Not intended and will be removed in future updates. Its only supposed to work for ur own decore I don't recommend this because. If you like put allot of random stuff. Like food from fridges in ur apartment and sell. It glitches out and you can sell unlimitetly. Making the game less fun
THANK YOU FOR THIS, I had so many different games where the shop owners just vanish, especially the pawnshops, they never get replaced so I can never sell anything.
If you must fight, find something heavy and made of metal and throw it. You’ll do a lot of damage. Metal buckets, metal barrels, even a wrench will work.
Don’t forget to pick up the weapon from your unconscious enemy - that way if they wake up they don’t just blast you again.
My go-to is a hammer 🔨 😎
If I remember rightly, the strongest melee weapon are swords. Return to medieval era.
My friend convinced me to get this. Very good decision. But now I’m 3 murders in, 2 solved and the third one is well, it seems impossible. No prints at the scene, nor footprints. No murder weapon in sight, only an unreadable message scrawled across the wall. No sign of anyone near the apartment at the time of the murder. I’m stumped! I feel like I’m going to have to wait until another victim ends up dead 😭
Hmm, that's a tough one. Do you have a murder weapon or know the cause of death? The wall messages are also always unreadable on my end too, but usually a little bit after the murder, you can pick up a newspaper and it'll might tell you what was written on the wall, as well as some other information that might help.
If the cause of death was a gun of some sorts, try to look up in the city directory, places that have "tools" or "hardware" in their name. These are usually fronts for underground gunsmiths. They tend to have sales records and you can track down people who have bought weapons around the time of your victims death.
I hope some of this helps you!
get a screenshot of the message on the wall and try to trace each letter with a different color. select what you wrote and squish the letters with the select tool to make it more readable
I have one of those cases right now. XD The singular print that's out of place is on a syringe floating in midair... But the game has told me that it's NOT the murder weapon...
Also, it seems like the killer is a stalker and not anyone the victim knew. All I have to go on is a VERY iffy description and one unknown fingerprint. XD
Hope this helps anyone in the future. By snapping a picture of the writing on the wall with a camera, then accessing the details of the picture, the game reads out the writing. You can also check newspaper, most times it is written there
@@greeksilversheep1603 The Connections on the picture of Graffiti actually tell you what's written there?! :o
Oh boy oh boy, thank you! :D
For the cameras seemingly missing a control room, sometimes that's at another address (commercial) in a private surveillance company.
Ah! Noted! Thank you very much!
This is so helpful I had a murder where the security camera was literally at the door but there was no control room
Is there a way to find this other address? Like an invoice?
Or is it an unreachable company off the map?
That bonus tip had me ROLLING that is absolutely hilarious
😂 I know, I've been using it way too much
@@thatboywags I will be too from now on, my god thats funny.
"to help fight crime"? Bro, I am the criminal 😎
To fight crime.. you must first, BECOME THE CRIME!
Random tip which I don't think a lot of people know is that if you have a number on a sheet of paper (safe codes, phone number, etc)
if you open the thing you need to type into and click the number on the page it auto types it. I don't see people do that but its very useful.
A great bug is when you inspect people and pin them you get the chance to ask the people if they know themselves. So if they are not willing to share their name with you but do share if they know someone you can ask them if they know themselves revealing their name to you.
Haha yeah I'm pretty sure you can do a similar thing by printing your own picture at the gov database and then showing it to people. They'll just say, "they're right here!"
you can walk through a door during its opening and closing animation, nobody can see you when your inside the door allowing you to just walk into special areas without people seeing you go in.
Man I just discovered this game and I am absolutely addicted to it lol
Same here! I've been having a blast.
I'll have some more content on it posted soon if you're interested!
Hopefully some of the tips helped!
Inside the apartments dont tend to have a camera instead they have a laser detector that works in the dark. Side note turning off the lights will obscure you from cameras.
Ah so that's what it was! To be fair they look a lot like cameras lol
@@thatboywags they do and I thought the same until it started running due to a bug
One thing I think I ran into that I've seen no one mention, is that the gov database ONLY seems to work for people 'in the system'.
People who are homeless don't seem to show up even if you know their name properly. Same goes for the phone directory, if they are homeless they aren't listed at all there.
Oh wow I didn't even know it was possible for some of the NPCs to be homeless. Ik sometimes if someone's murdered, their partner or roommate will sometimes go into hiding and not come home. But I didn't know that some are just totally homeless. Hmm.
@@thatboywags I recommend checking the basement areas, a handful of homeless hang there, or on the outer circle of a city/near factories. But as far as I can tell I've run into 2-3 people who weren't in the phone book and the one I did check wasn't in the gov database.
Just checking, I've found a person with an address of 'none' and job title of 'none' who was in the gov system so I might be partially incorrect or it might not be consistent if they started with a job and lost it or any number of reasons but I am 100% sure homeless people don't get phone numbers or anything since I can't find the person in the phone book.
Thanks for the tips, I just bought the game yesterday and was caught off guard with how in depth the game is. I ran into a couple of bugs and had some issues but this guide cleared some of it up thanks.
No problem! Thanks for checking out the vid!
Yeah I've had a few saves that ended up bugging out and I wasn't able to keep going sadly but it hasn't stopped me from wanting to keep starting over and keep playing lol.
If you have any questions, let me know! I'll try to help!
The game doesnt tell u this but you can check incoming or outgoing phonecalls through phone routers. Its usually located in basement or outside bar. I had a case where I only have the phone number and obtained their address just by checking the phonecalls.
Doesn't that only tell you the two addresses? I just call the number and do a database check for the name they say.
@@Korum211 yeah, they gave the adress of the caller and the receiver. In my case, all info I had was the phone number and since the phone owner doesnt pick up, I have to check where the call goes through.
If you need quick cash look for outsourced arrest notices. They are very easy sometimes and offer between 2k and 3k for each job. Once you figured where the sucker lives just knock, bribe them to go inside, gather clues then arrest them.
Good tip: in most apartment buildings there is a call manager in the basement to manage any calls going in and out the building
Might be mentioned in the comments somewhere, but, keep an eye on the graffiti on the walls as you wander town- There are two passwords you can acquire, one for a black market dealer, one for a gun dealer. The black market dealer is like a pawn shop, but will give you better deals on your sales, and may have useful items that you would want to buy like cameras or trackers for cheaper than city hall. Edit: Also, the gun runner password can also be acquired from victim or murderer's emails(maybe others too?), kinda rare in comparison to finding the graffiti though
That person opened their door for half a second and got sent to the afterlife 😮
Just a _little_ headache
Nothing cheesy about that computer in city hall. The first thing I do after combing the crime scene for as much evidence as possible is take that address book, march down to city hall and print a file on everyone in it. If it's a resource that helps me solve cases, and it doesn't require using a cheat code or mod first, you better believe I'm taking advantage of it.
You don't need to print the surveillance camera pictures. You can hover over the face of the person that's shown in a shot and by pressing F you open that person's profile directly.
Very informative! I appreciate the high quality videos, keep it up man!
Thank you! I'll do my best!
The tip about having the same serial killer each unsolved case really helped me, i had like 3 cases, confused on why i couldn't get their form and all that
If you have problems finding your apartment in the world:" Open a new case. Name it something like:" My apartment" Then go to a citybook. Look for your name. Put that notice into your created case. From then on, you can just tell the game to lead you there."
Thank you for your tips! It's really helpful!
No problem! I'm happy they helped!
If your pawn shop is glitched you can drop them in your appartment and then sell trough the edit decor menu
might be too late with this tip but if you wanna brute force a search of a house, just run to the bedroom, hop on the bed and stay in the middle they cant reach you and you can punch them into submission lol.
knew most of them, but some of them i didnt! that bonus tip was worth the whole video in itself ;P gonna be fun doing that
Haha yeah every time I see it, it cracks me up. Thanks for checking in on the video, enjoy the game!
I absolutely love this game but even with procedural murders on i've only gotten one murder case per new game. My way of dealing with crimes is using the government database and finding where the victim worked, then seeing if I cant find the killers fingerprints there. Regardless, thank you for the tips!
No problem! As for the one murder case per game, there's only ever one case or murderer until you turn in your files and move onto a new case/murder.
All murders that happen will only correlate to one case/one murderer until that case is finished.
@@thatboywags Thanks for the recommendation, turns out I was just being impatient, I didn't know how long it took for a new serial killer to spawn lol. Regardless, amazing video
Great video!
The bathing in the door tip was so helpful
It's gotta be one of my favorite things to do when I finally find them.
@@thatboywagssame lol. I don’t know why I wrote bathing. In the beginning it’s like you start being cautious and immersed and then after a while it’s just breaking and entering without a second thought. No real consequence for even severe crimes
@@JohnDoe-vy9oy haha I knew what you meant!
And yeah, it's almost helpful to set yourself some ground rules when playing because you can really just go over the top with some things. It's so easy to just sneak past the enforcers once you understand them.
about the 4th tip, not every place have camera room but if camera is in the someones home u can check the logs in their comuter
i'm confused
If you have a picture of the suspect and approach them but they won't tell you their name, you can ask them if they know this person and show them their picture. The name will then come up :D
Maybe more of a situational tip, but one I've figured out XD.
another tip is that if you can find out one code in a house, then the code will almost always work for everything else in the house, such as safes and computers, Its the same for businesses except for the computers, but for businesses it would work on safes and doors
Yep! Passcodes are tied to each individual NPC. The same NPC will have the same password for their safe, their computer, their workplace locker, pretty much everything they own that needs a password.
Thanks so much!
Thanks for watching!
Just bought the game and I've soo glad i found this masterpiece. I've been wanting this type of mechanic similar of detective work like Phasmophobia.
Although sadly as of now I'm struggling due to my potato pc but i might be able to enjoy this game once the dev improve the optimization or might build a PC for this
you can also sell items in your apartment when you go shopping you can sell things that are in your room just drop the items you want to sell
Everyone bragging about their apartments and here I am still homeless 😭
Thanks for the tips, I'm sure they'll be helpful for me . . . couldn't make me any worse than I already am!!
Hey everyone starts somewhere! Glad to help!
It would have been good to see a short bit about how to use the evidence board, with connections, inventory etc.
I haven't found any guide yet that has explained that mechanic and it's an important part of the game.
Im sort of locked on the case, i have a murder with mark on the ground and writing "initials paid", skull on the shelf and roommate that is missing, ive checked the crime scene and others that were related to them and didn't find anything, which would make sense, however, ive also find a paper with hangman and font fits the font of missing person but thing is that this paper is the only thing with fingerprint that is not related to anyone in their circle
Nice video & tips.
Some tips of mine:
- The game is still pretty buggy. Saving and reloading seems to fix 90% of the bugs though, so if anything weird happens like a case step won't activate, or something is behaving weirdly, try reloading before you decide to just give up the case.
- In diners and bars, there are often employee photos on display in the common area without you needing to break in anywhere or trespass, so you may as well quickly inspect all of these photos so that later on if you encounter one of these characters in a job, you'll already have some basic information.
- You can often convince people (usually for a small sum of money) to give you a guest pass to allow you to look around their home - I think this also works for offices too. This is especially handy if their home is well secured and you don't want to deal with dodging/switching off the security system. When you have a guest pass they don't seem to mind you looking through all their stuff, and they'll only complain if you steal items directly in front of them.
- Lockpicking progress remembers the bars you've already completed. So if you encounter one of those difficult locks where you need to unlock like 8 bars, and keep getting spotted, you can just keep stopping lockpicking after a bar is complete and going back to it, minimising the time window in which you're visibly doing something illegal. Super useful if there's a camera on you that you haven't turned off too, since a single lockpicking bar is AFAIK always shorter than the time for the camera to trigger an alarm.
- If you've already broken into a business, may as well look through the employee files since they have a ton of information about every single person who works there, and you can reuse this same information later in other cases.
- Employee photos usually have the person's fingerprints on them, so if you suspect the culprit is employed somewhere but don't know which employee it is, just go up to the photo board and scan each photo for fingerprints, and you can often solve the case that way.
I appreciate it! And thanks for the extra tips! Yeah, the game can definitely be a little buggy at times, like occasionally I'll sit up from a bench and be teleported into someone's apartment haha, but overall I've been having a really good time with it.
Along with your tip about employee photos having their fingerprints on it, the same goes for pretty much any item the npc owns. A licence will tend to have that person's fingerprints on it, same with their work schedule, and their side of the bed and end table, etc.
Amazing tips, thank you friend
Lockpicking also saves the progress of each individual bar, so you can just stop anytime
i just played this game for about half an hour and my mind is blown. wow! the details of this as i read more comments. good bye free time.
any tips on taking pictures with the camera for side jobs? i tried turning in the case and it was incomplete. i had the picure with the guy in the photo on it too. red line was drawn to it from the original case on the pinboard too
took me 14 hrs over 2 days to solve the tutorial and it was under my nose the whole damn time lol.
😂 well at least you finally got it done! Wrapping up a case feels great, especially after you've spent so much time on it!
Hopefully it gets a little easier!
didnt even think about the shoe prints!!!! omg im a horrible detective. also i remember when i found out about the surveillance cameras it was a game changer lol
@@paydn202 me too, when I realized the cameras actually record and you can watch the footage, I was blown away.
Very usefull thanks
Glad I could help!
Yknow I think I’ve committed grand larceny in this game more than I’ve solved murders lol
the tutorial scared me when the cops where at the door of the murder. now i'm scared it will happen in my normal game after I got a message that there was a murder
Yeah if you beat them there, they definitely come running in after you.
This video saved me potentially HOURS on a side job where the only real piece if information I had was a partners first name, Donal. Before this video, I would have checked every single person with a D. before their last name in the city directory to see if they were Donal or the suspect.
Glad I could help you solve your case with ease 👌 Thanks for watching the video!
I really just want to knock out people who annoy me with stupid cases now. Thank you.
Detective: "Knock! Knock!"
Resident: "Who's there?"
Detective: "The Door!"
*Bashes the door*
I already know how to play this game, I just wanted to comment on another SoD video of yours and remind you how great of a RUclipsr you are.
I really hope they make it so multiple serial killers kill at the same time 🤣🤣
Thank you!!
It definitely has a lot of potential! Multiple serial killers would be insane 👀, I hope they do something where some killers are smarter than others and cover their tracks by deleting camera footage and such..
Plus we have a whole new reputation system coming. It's gonna be pretty cool, I'm definitely excited!
Thank you again for your support! 🙂
neat
so i have a killer im hunting has seemingly no leads besides their prints the only other lead i have is the first name of a second victims friend and i have no clue how to find them as they dont work with them or live in the same building
Yeah with the procedurally generated murders, sometimes you can end up with barely any evidence which makes it almost impossible to solve some cases.
My advice though, wherever you found the body or bodies, like if it was in an apartment.. try to go around and scan other apartment doors on that floor for the same print. Then the surrounding floors.
Check any possible camera footage if there some nearby, recordings only last for 24 hours tho I'm pretty sure.
If you have the first name, try the gov database and you can find the address and full name of that person by typing their name in the cruncher.
Good luck! Hopefully you solve it!
@@thatboywags i got em! I looked in the news papers and noticed that they left the first letter of their name and a lipstick with their print at all 3 scenes. so used the gov data base to look up every S in the city until i found a matching print. you are a king.
@@absolutescotsman9597 Ahh!! That's awesome! Good find! I have a lipstick killer I'm I'm trying to track right now and I'm pretty much in the same boat as you!
Imagine if this game let you become a hitman 🥺
Was that a police station lobby from David Fincher's se7en? 3:15
How do you obtain another mission? I want to the case tray after solving a case and could not pick another case. My clue board from previous case was still full of everything. I selected “close case” and received “unable to close case at this time”. I’m confused on what to do next.
It depends if you're playing sandbox or the story mode I think. I had the same thing playing storymode where the next part of the game refused to progress after the first case.
In sandbox however, you don't just pick up another case, you have to wait for another killer to strike and then it'll pop up on your screen.
i was in a building with alot of cameras but i can not find the camera room xD
I didnt realize you could zoom out the notsominimap.
I just started looking for tips because the only lead I had on the murderer was they had a show size of 14... Not much to go off of 😂
Yeah sometimes they don't give you very much. But imo, if you can solve those cases with the least evidence, it feels more rewarding to me.
Frustrating, but rewarding 😂
i want to love this game so bad but i’m overwhelmed by information in the tutorial and get frustrated when idk how to do something
Yeah there's a lot to take in. My advice just take it one step at a time. You don't have to investigate everything at once.
Just take your time and work lead by lead, you'll eventually uncover stuff!
Noice
Thank ya
Do all cameras have a room to get the recording? I cant find one that will make me find the assasin
I have had times where some buildings or cameras don't have a surveillance room to check the recordings at.
I have heard that sometimes there are surveillance rooms owned by private companies that you can access, but I don't know how truthful that is.
2 quick questions, what graphics settings do you play on, the game is quite FPS heavy, Also how do you get into apartments when the cops are already their?
I've actually just been playing with the default settings except I lower the frame rate to 60 since that's all my monitor can output anyway. It reverts the settings back tho every single time I get back on.
As for the enforcers, they're pretty dumb. After they check the apartment, one will just loiter around the hall. If they turn their back at any time, you can pretty much just run in and close the door behind you and they won't care.
If you're having a lot of trouble tho, you can use the vent passages to try and find a way in. Or distract the enforcers by throwing coins from your inventory.
Usually for enforcers guarding the place I’m able to just run right through the door and hide in the apartment itself, enforcers will usually only peek through the doorway if they see u sprint in due to their “last known point” AI searching for u. I like to imagine it as the enforcers letting me pass willingly even though they aren’t legally supposed to
My scanner doesn't say anything about fingerprint types. How do I get it to do that??
Comment for the algorithm.
You know it!! 😂 Thank you!
Any idea how to sell completely legally gathered items to the pawn shop?
You should be able to sell pretty much any valuables in your inventory.. what are you trying to sell?
It confused me at first because you have to go into the "I Want To Buy" dialogue and then on the side will open up a SELL panel.
OK I have a diamond I wanted to sell thanks for the tip
Being ignorant makes this game blissful
It definitely does! The game plays best when you're still figuring things out.
How do you uncuff someome, I keep trying to look at the cuffs but it only focuses on the person
Try crouching down and getting as close as you can maybe? The controls can definitely be finicky at times.
From what I read in the in game search, the entry for arresting says the person is automatically uncuffed after an hour or two if the case hasn't been handed in to city hall. Don't know if you can manually uncuff though.
@@Eibon_of_Iqqua you definitely can because I’ve done it a few times, its just 9/10 it doesn’t work which doesn’t make sense
Been playing for a while, haven't seen any serial killers. Do you know the difference or am I missing something?
Actually, they are called "proceduraly genereted murders," and you can accidentally turn them off when you create city, lol
How do I get an apartment?
Save up some money and then they appear for sale on the side job board inside restaurants and stuff. Once you have enough, you can buy it right from the board, go visit it, and start decorating. But let me remind you, it's pretty buggy.
Do you know how to get Pawn shop Password ??
I'm pretty sure it works the same way as a business password. It'll either be on a sticky note somewhere written down, or it might be the same password as one of the NPCs who works there.
Alternatively, you could use a codebreaker from City hall
@@thatboywags no, what I mean is, I went to a Pawn Shop to buy a gun, but the guy there ask for a "Password". I don't know what that mean.
@@eatsomeice179 oh then you weren't at a pawn shop, you were at either a black market store or a black market weapon shop! The passwords for those will be hidden on the secret wall graffiti.
Honestly I haven't experimented much with buying from the black markets in game, but if you see graffiti on the walls with codewords, that's probably the password. I think the symbol on the graffiti will tell you what market it's for, weapons or not.
@@thatboywags this game really make us use our brain huh? Which is great
Bro thank you