Shadows of Doubt

1. #1Empty, lol I forgorselective

   Keys: Empty
2. #2selective

   Keys: Lazarus-5 8mm pistol

   The Lazarus-5 8mm pistol is a firearm that fires 8mm cartridges. It is used by enforcers. Civilians can own them and use them for murders.

3. #3selective

   Keys: SyncDisk

   SyncDisks are items that grant permanent upgrades to the player character. They can be found randomly in the world, Safes, be given as a Case reward, or may be sold at a Sync Clinic. They permit the player to choose between 2-3 upgrades for their character, which may be further amplified by Sync Disk Upgrade Vials. Selecting one upgrade blocks the player from using the other upgrade path. Certain SyncDisks come with side effects that apply a negative effect to the player.

   There are some amount of different types of SyncDisks in the game, and all can be installed. SyncDisks can be installed at Sync Clinics without fee. The employee at the Sync Clinic will always sell one SyncDisk, and the available disk changes type each ingame day.

4. #4selective

   Keys: SyncDisk Ambassador Scheme

   Base 'Case Flow': Passive income of ¢r10 per 2 hours 1st Upgrade: Increase passive income by ¢r5 2nd Upgrade: Increase passive income by additional ¢r5 3rd Upgrade: Increase passive income by additional ¢r5

   Base 'Competitor Data Mining': Gain ¢r50 by installing data mining software on Crunchers 1st Upgrade: Double reward for installing data mining software on Crunchers located in offices of Business Owners 2nd Upgrade: Increase reward by ¢r10 for all installations of data mining software, ¢r20 for Business Owners' Crunchers 3rd Upgrade: Increase reward by additional ¢r10 for all installations of data mining software, ¢r20 for Business Owners' Crunchers

5. #5selective

   Keys: SyncDisk Beauty

   Base 'Allure': Gain a 10% discount on all purchases 1st Upgrade: Increase discount to 20% on all purchases 2nd Upgrade: Increase discount to 35% on all purchases 3rd Upgrade: Increase discount to 55% on all purchases

   Base 'Charm': Citizens are 10% more likely to share information without payment 1st Upgrade: Increase likelihood of free information to 20% 2nd Upgrade: Increase likelihood of free information to 35% 3rd Upgrade: Increase likelihood of free information to 55%

6. #6selective

   Keys: SyncDisk Constitution

   Base 'Chemistry': You can no longer get Cold 1st Upgrade: You can no longer get Stinky 2nd Upgrade: You can no longer get Tired

7. #7selective

   Keys: SyncDisk Dove +

   Base 'Physiological Perception': Learn a Citizen's Height from Photo data Side Effect: Citizens are 25% less likely to share information without cost 1st Upgrade: Learn a Citizen's Age from Photo Data 2nd Upgrade: Learn a Citizen's shoe size from Photo Data 3rd Upgrade: Remove Side Effect

   Base Effect 'Socioeconomic Perception': Learn a Citizen's salary from Photo data Side Effect(always): Citizens are 25% less likely to share information without cost 1st Upgrade: Learn a Citizen's Relationship Status by looking at them 2nd Upgrade: Learn how much money a citizen is carrying by looking at them 3rd Upgrade: Remove Side Effect

8. #8selective

   Keys: SyncDisk Frame

   Base 'Statuesque': Become 15% Taller 1st Upgrade: Become an additional 15% 2nd Upgrade: Become an additional 15%

   Base 'Compact': Become 15% Shorter 1st Upgrade: Become an additional 15% Shorter 2nd Upgrade: Become an additional 15% Shorter

9. #9selective

   Keys: SyncDisk Community

   Base 'Care in the Community': Increase Task monetary rewards by 10% 1st Upgrade: Increase Task monetary rewards by additional 10%

10. #10selective

    Keys: SyncDisk Infiltrator

    Base 'Rogue': Increase the time that Citizens are unconscious by 100% 1st Upgrade: Increase the time that Citizens are unconscious by an additional 50%

    Base 'Chemistry': Increase the time that Security Systems are disabled by Security Box breakers by 100% 1st Upgrade: Increase the time that Security Systems are disabled by Security Box breakers by an additional 50%

11. #11selective

    Keys: SyncDisk Physique

    Base 'Chemistry': Increase Maximum Health by 20% 1st Upgrade: Increase Health Regeneration by 10%

12. #12selective

    Keys: SyncDisk Public Service

    Base 'Food Hygiene Inspector': Earn a maximum of ¢r40 per day taking pictures of dirty Restaurant Kitchens. Credits gained per picture depends on level of mess in the picture. 1st Upgrade: Increase maximum money earnable per day by ¢r20 2nd Upgrade: Increase maximum money earnable per day by ¢r20 3rd Upgrade: Increase maximum money earnable per day by ¢r20

    Base 'Sanitary Hygiene Inspector': Earn a maximum of ¢r40 per day taking pictures of dirty Business Bathrooms. Credits gained per picture depends on level of mess in the picture. 1st Upgrade: Increase maximum money earnable per day by ¢r20 2nd Upgrade: Increase maximum money earnable per day by ¢r20 3rd Upgrade: Increase maximum money earnable per day by ¢r20

13. #13selective

    Keys: SyncDisk Spartan Insurance

    Base 'Gold Medical Cover': Reduce medical costs from hospital visits by 50% 1st Upgrade: Hospital care is now free 2nd Upgrade: Upon being knocked Unconscious, you will awake in your own bed, if possible

    Base 'Gold Legal Cover': If Detained, you will not lose any stolen item with a value equal to or less than ¢r500 1st Upgrade: Applies to stolen items with a value of equal to or less than ¢r1,000 2nd Upgrade: Applies to stolen items with a value of equal to or less than ¢r10,000

    Base 'Gold Accident Cover': No medical costs and ¢r100 deposit on hospital visits. Once per day. 1st Upgrade: Increased payout gained from accidents 2nd Upgrade: Increased payout gained from accidents

14. #14selective

    Keys: SyncDisk Starch Brand Ambassador

    Base 'Spread the Word': Unlocks dialogue option to promote Kola products to Citizens. Receive ¢r2 if they respond positively 1st Upgrade: Increase reward for positive response by ¢r1 2nd Upgrade: Increase reward for positive response by ¢r1

    Base 'Put Some Life Into It': Unlocks option to give Citizens Kola-brand products for ¢r6 1st Upgrade: Increase reward for gifting Kola-brand products by ¢r2 2nd Upgrade: Increase reward for gifting Kola-brand products by ¢r2

15. #15selective

    Keys: SyncDisk Sugar Daddy

    Base 'Chemistry': Immediately receive ¢r5000 upon installation. Removing this installation costs ¢r6000. Removal cost is reduced by ¢r6 per Kola-based product consumed, and increased by ¢r1 consuming competitor's products. Side Effect: Consuming non-Kola products causes blurred vision and Health damage 1st Upgrade: Reduces uninstall cost by ¢r1000 Side Effect: Consuming non-Kola products causes blurred vision and Health damage 2nd Upgrade: Reduces uninstall cost by ¢r1000 Side Effect: Consuming non-Kola products causes blurred vision and Health damage 3rd Upgrade: Reduces uninstall cost by ¢r1000 Side Effect: Consuming non-Kola products causes blurred vision and Health damage

16. #16selective

    Keys: SyncDisk Tenacity

    Base 'Clout': Increases damage dealt by Fists by 20% 1st Upgrade: Further increases Fists damage by 10% 2nd Upgrade: Further increases Fists damage by 10% 3rd Upgrade: Increases threat of raising Fists in combat by 100%

    Base 'Brawn': Increase throwing power by 20% 1st Upgrade: Improve reach by 10% 2nd Upgrade: Further increase throwing power by 10% 3rd Upgrade: Holding objects in front of you can block 90% of damage from incoming bullets

    Base 'Reflexes': The first attack against you is negated 1st Upgrade: Taking damage gives you the Focused 2nd Upgrade: You no longer become Bruised or suffer from a Broken Leg 3rd Upgrade: Take 100% less damage from all sources

17. #17selective

    Keys: SyncDisk Trespasser

    Base 'Lockpicker': Lockpicking is 50% faster

    Base 'Resourceful': Lockpicks become 50% more efficient, requiring half as many lockpicks per lock

    Base 'Invisible': Lockpicking is no longer an illegal action

18. #18selective

    Keys: SyncDisk Vigor

    Base 'Power': Barging doors always succeeds on the first attempt

    Base 'Stability': Covering 99% of the fall damage

19. #19selective

    Keys: liquids, coffee, Drinks, kola, cola

    Consuming non-alcoholic drinks cause the Status Effects Hydrated and Focused.

    Coffee: 'A brewed beverage prepared from roasted coffee beans.' Kola: 'The most popular soft drink in the world. Founded by Eden Krueger, the Starch-Kola company became the first mega-corporation in 1900, and have had a storied history ever since.'

20. #20selective

    Keys: wine, Ruby Choice, alcohol, beer, Bobbin Hard Cider, Gemsteader, Noire Vodka, Old Wheel Bourbon

    Consuming alcoholic beverages causes the Status effects Hydrated and Inebriated. Empty bottles can often be found in trash containers, or in the streets. Finding many empty bottles in a residents apartment can hint towards that resident having a drinking habit. Residents that are drunk will stagger and sometimes slip and fall to the ground.

    Bobbin Hard Cider: 'Alcoholic beverage made from Apples. Popular in Europe, especially Britain. Bobbin is manufactured by the Starch-Kola British Branch. 18-Proof, drink responsibly' Gemsteader: 'Gemsteader is a popular brand of beer brewed by the Starch Kola corporation. 12-Proof, drink responsibly' Noire Vodka: 'A clear distilled alcoholic beverage orginating from Poland, Russia and Sweden. 84-Proof, drink responsibly' Old Wheel Bourbon: 'Distilled alcoholic beverage made from fermented grain mash. Bourbon is popular liquor, named after the old French Bourbon dynasty. Old Wheel is the most popular brand in the world, manufactured by the Starch-Kola company. 80-Proof, drink responsibly' Ruby Choice: 'An everyday red wine. Notorious for giving people headaches'

21. #21selective

    Keys: Enforcers, police

    Enforcers are the main policing body ingame. Enforcers are privatized and owned by Starch Kola. Enforcers sometimes may be actively hostile to attempts at conversation, unlike citizens. Enforcers can be valuable sources of information if approached at the right time. All enforcer members are listed at their office in city hall. Enforcers carry the Lazarus-5 8mm pistol.

    Enforcers can be seen around and inside crime scenes, making them a major obstacle during investigation. They also respond to house alarms.

22. #22selective

    Keys: Job, work, stuff member

    'Job': 'Salary'

    Unemployed/None: None Shop Assistant (Pawn Shop/Hardware Store): cr11700 Janitor: cr15000 Laundry Worker: cr15000 Nurse: cr15000 Receptionist: cr15000 Kitchen Hand (Canteen): cr15400 Shopkeeper (Pawn/Hardware Shop): cr16900 Kitchen Hand (Restaurant): cr17200 Security Guard (Industrial Plant): cr17500 Kitchen Hand (Bar): cr19100 Head Chef (Canteen): cr20000 Street Stall Vendor: cr20000 Bar Staff (Bar): cr24000 Wait Staff: cr24000 Shop Assistant (Pharmacy/Supermarket): cr24600 Bar Staff (Restaurant): cr24800 Building Janitor: cr25000 Retail Owner (Pawn/Hardware Shop): cr25000 Security Guard (Apartment): cr25000 Supervisor: cr25000 Machinist: cr26200 Sous Chef (Bar): cr29400 Sous Chef (Restaurant): cr30900 Engineer: cr36200 QA Technician: cr37900 Head Chef (Bar): cr42000 Head Chef (Restaurant): cr42900 Enforcer: cr49000 Medical Officer: cr49000 Foreman: cr49100 Floor Manager: cr60000 Retail Owner (Bar/Restaurant): cr60000 Debt Collector: cr64000 El Gen Representative: cr93300 Shopkeeper (Pharmacy/Supermarket): cr93300 HR Administrator: cr96200 Black Market Doctor: cr100000 Black Market Trader: cr100000 Chief Medical Officer: cr100000 Enforcer Captain: cr100000 Gambling Den Owner: cr100000 Retail Owner (Launderette): cr100000 Weapons Dealer: cr100000 Marketing Executive: cr109900 Safety Officer: cr113100 Accountant (Office): cr125400 Shipping Manager: cr126200 R&D Manager: cr148700 Head of HR: cr167800 Office Manager: cr169700 Accountant (Loan Shark): cr200000 Company Director: cr200000 El Gen Manager: cr200000 Retail Owner (Pharmacy/Supermarket): cr200000 Site Manager: cr200000 Landlord: cr1000000

23. #23selective

    Keys: Status effects

    Focused: While this status effect is active, concentration and movement speed is increased. Can be achieved by consuming non-alcoholic drinks, such as Coffee or Kola.

    Energized: While this status effect is active, maximum health and health regeneration is increased. Can be achieved by consuming food.

    Hydrated: While this status effect is active, maximum health and health regeneration is increased. Can be achieved by consuming non-alcoholic drinks, such as Coffee or Kola.

    Well-rested: While this status effect is active, movement speed is increased, as well as health regeneration and maximum health. Can be achieved by sleeping in a bed at the player apartment.

    Wet: While this status effect is active, the player can slip and fall while sprinting, taking damage upon impact. Will occur when in rain or while standing in a shower. Can be ended by using a towel or a hand dryer in any restroom.

    Cold: While this status effect is active, the player will take continuous damage and shiver from the cold. Find a fire or go inside of a building to end this effect.

24. #24selective

    Keys: Air-Vent Passageway

    An option for you to get around buildings. Unlike most examples, there are some caveats to this. For one, there’s no convenient map to the vents, so it is very possible to get lost in the maze of the ducts unless you manage to track down the building blueprints. Also, crawling around the metal tunnels will eventually cause you to feel cold, slowly draining your health, making it possible to pass out in the vents, forcing you to pay a fine for trespassing (plus any other fines you accumulated beforehand) alongside your hospital bill. Finally, nearby people can hear you crawling in the vent, so it's not quite as stealthy as in other games.

25. #25selective

    Keys: cheaters, Affair Letters, love letters

    The infidelity cases added in the Cheats and Liars update have such letters, whether handwritten or digital, as a potential clue for finding out who the paramour is.

26. #26selective

    Keys: All Crimes Are Equal, player penalty

    Getting caught committing any illegal act will immediately result in the witness attacking you, no matter if they're a cop, civilian, or automated security system. The only difference between picking a lock and attacking someone with a sword is the value of the fine you'll get hit with.

27. #27selective

    Keys: world history, Alternate History

    The game is set in an alternate 1979 where the world is a heavily polluted, corporation-dominated dystopia. While world history isn't relevant to the gameplay, loading screen text and books provide some world-building: The Point of Divergence is 1610, when English inventor William Lee's stocking frame knitting machine sparked a glorious industrial revolution in France. This didn't occur in reality because King Henri IV was assassinated, causing Lee to lose the backing of the French royal court, fail to find a market for his machine, and die in poverty. After divergence, Bonnie Prince Charlie overthrew the Hanover dynasty in England in 1745 with help from a much wealthier France, cementing peace between the kingdoms. Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette presided over the union of France and England into the Anglo-French Empire, which reigns over most of western Europe and North America through the end of the 19th century. The "Old Bourbon Empire" finally collapsed in 1901 after a decade of civil conflicts that involved chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, and was reorganized into the United Atlantic States in 1902. The UAS decided to recognize corporate personhood to revitalize its struggling economy in 1909, and this opened the door for the corporation Starch Kola, producer of the world's most popular beverages and snack foods, to be elected president in 1965. By 1973, sea levels had risen so high that cities were cut off from each other, rendering automobiles obsolete. The reduction of farmland caused a global famine between 1976 and 1979, which was solved by Starch Kola inventing synthetic meat and making the technology public.

28. #28selective

    Keys: Anonymous Public Phone Call, phone booth

    Classic red telephone boxes can be found throughout the city, and cost one crow to use. Many businesses, especially restaurants and bars, also have public phones; these usually have job offers posted next to them.

29. #29selective

    Keys: help, helpfull stuff, Anti-Frustration Features, player assistance

    You can't ever lose your flashlight, watch, fingerprint scanner, codes, and keys, even if all your other items are taken away. Likewise, you can't lose your case notes; once you've seen a piece of information, you know it forever, though it may be a challenge to find it again to pin it to your case board afterward.

    The detective doesn't leave fingerprints on things they touch outside of their own apartment, preventing you from wasting time investigating your own prints. The player can't die, just pass out from their injuries. If the authorities take you down, you wake up in the city hall medical ward fully healed, but with the medical costs and fines for your crimes automatically deducted from your wallet. If you get mugged, you wake up in a random basement room.

    As with the Grand Theft Auto games, should you break the law yourself (deliberately or not), the Enforcers will give up and forget everything if you can evade them... or you'll fail and, as above, end up in the hospital with only a hit to your wallet. Criminal records aren't a thing, and there's no way you can screw up so badly that the law takes you off the streets for good.

30. #30selective

    Keys: killers, targets, Serial killer

    There can only be one Serial Killer in the city at a time, ensuring the player doesn't get mixed up trying to figure out which murder belongs to which case.

    Most killers target people they know, so even if all your other leads turn up blank, you still have a chance of being able to brute-force the case using the victim's address book and coworkers' info.

31. #31selective

    Keys: Pass, codes

    Citizens reuse passcodes for all safes, door keypads, and computers in their possession. If you find a note with a code for a person's safe, you now also have access to the rest of their secure devices.

32. #32selective

    Keys: Artificial Meat

    Artificial animal meat, invented by Starch Kola, is the norm everywhere, and is sometimes blended with "reconstituted" real meat to make things like burgers and fried chicken.

33. #33selective

    Keys: Black Market

    A black market hides somewhere in the Fathoms of every city. They exist in the gameplay mainly to supply would-be murderers with firearms, since private gun ownership is illegal in the UAS. However, black markets also keep partial records of their customers, so if an active killer is using a gun of some kind, it's usually worth it to check the local black market for recent gun purchases.

34. #34selective

    Keys: Chekhov's Gunman

    Any random citizen you meet may eventually become important for a future case, and the game keeps any record you make of a citizen in preparation for this. If such a person does end up having a significant role, your previously collected info will provide a head start for the case.

35. #35selective

    Keys: City Noir

    The city is quite grim, with people working dead end jobs in the vague hope of obtaining retirement, large buildings with many apartments and companies, and of course, a lot of crime.

36. #36selective

    Keys: Civil War

    The Anglo-French Empire collapsed at the end of the 19th century due to a series of rebellions collectively known as the Mustard War. The name refers to the use of mustard gas by the military, as well as the four yellow fleur-de-lis on the Anglo-French flag.

37. #37selective

    Keys: Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain, Noire with hyperindustrialization

    You won't be seeing much of the sun, just overcasting clouds, which often give way to rain (or, a bit more unusually for the genre, snow).

38. #38selective

    Keys: Dynamic Entry

    It's entirely possible to knock on someone's door, wait for them to unlock it, and immediately kick it open straight into their face, knocking them out instantly.

39. #39selective

    Keys: Fictional Currency

    The currency of the UAS is the credit. Credits are nicknamed "crows" due to the coins having a bird on one face.

40. #40selective

    Keys: overflood, Flooded Future World, Global Warming

    With industrialization occurring earlier and being much more extensive in the game's timeline, Global Warming was recognized as a looming calamity as early as 1910. By 1979, so much of the world is underwater that it caused a major food shortage, and cars fell out of use and now rust in the streets because roadways between cities are submerged. Even the cities aren't completely dry, the sub-basement levels of every building are persistently flooded.

41. #41selective

    Keys: Future Slang

    Computers in this setting are called "crunchers".

42. #42selective

    Keys: Hide Your Children

    Considering the deeply noir-inspired setting and the gruesome murders happening on a regular basis, the game's decision to remove kids is probably a smart choice in that it lowers the amount of NPC 'clutter' in the world and prevents the emergent AI from generating a either child killer or a homicidal toddler.

43. #43selective

    Keys: It Leads; Details, newspapers, If It Bleeds

    In-universe newspapers usually feature details about whatever murder has recently taken place—including stuff the player may have missed, making it worthwhile to go to a newsstand to snag a copy after leaving the crime scene.

44. #44selective

    Keys: routine, Immersive Sim, simulation, peoples lives

    The city is fully simulated, and every citizen has their own routine that they will follow, and there is no set story beyond the basics, and new cases will be generated over time. Many methods of investigation require some knowledge of how the systems tie together.

45. #45selective

    Keys: Improvised Weapon

    Any weapon you can wield in-game that isn't a truncheon, sword, combat knife, or one of the various guns is this. Options range from chef's knives to hammers to syringes. You can also pick up and throw random decorative objects, which is surprisingly effective.

46. #46selective

    Keys: Key Under the Doormat

    A possible feature for apartment complexes to generate with is doormats, and there’s a small chance any given doormat will have a key hidden underneath, which you can claim if you shift the doormat away.

47. #47selective

    Keys: Laser Hallway

    Some businesses have security lasers installed that periodically sweep over the room. The beam is visible to the naked eye, so it's not too hard to get out of the way, but unlike CCTV cameras it trips the alarm instantly if it detects you.

48. #48selective

    Keys: Mega-Corp

    The backstory of the game explains that Starch Kola is a megacorporation that was elected president of the United Atlantic States, and has held the office for 14 straight years. Other megacorps include Kaizen-6, which is president of the Eastern Dynasties, investment bank Kensington Indigo, global news service Candor, and Elliot Genetics.

49. #49selective

    Keys: Omniscient Database, employee papers

    Various businesses keep databases of employees or customers, which can be a wealth of information in their own right, but the only database that includes everyone is the government database accessible from City Hall. To search for someone in a database, you must know their name; you can't search for their description or other details.

50. #50selective

    Keys: Police or an Enforcers are a bit useless

    The Enforcers are a privatized police force owned by the Starch Kola company. They don't seem interested in actually solving crimes, they just seal off crime scenes and even outsource arrests to citizen contractors. Enforcers mainly exist as obstacles to your investigation, making it tricky to collect clues.

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