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00:00:00 – 00:15:51
The video provides a comprehensive guide to gameplay strategies and tips for improving the player experience in the game "Shadows" or "Shadows of Doubt." Key themes include efficient methods for tracking phone calls, locating spare keys and lock picks, using blueprints and fingerprints for investigation, and leveraging various in-game mechanics like surveillance cameras, trash cans, and distractions with coins. Players can enhance evidence board organization, utilize City Hall resources, and understand tactics such as light bulb manipulation, door peeking, and using bloodhound trackers.
The video also delves into advanced features like accessing the government database, using a bloodhound tracker, decrypting graffiti for black market access, and modifying game files to rename businesses or adjust game settings. The lore of the game, including its altered historical timeline and dystopian elements, is briefly mentioned. Suggestions for improving energy and warmth, utilizing mods, and dealing with consequences like owing debts to a loan shark are provided.
Additionally, the host encourages interaction from viewers, inviting them to share their own tips and feedback while promoting engagement through likes, comments, and subscriptions.
00:00:00
In this segment, Wags goes over various helpful tips and features for the game “Shadows.” Key points include:
1. **Tracking Phone Calls**: By placing a call from an apartment and accessing the basement’s off-limits area to view call records.
2. **Finding Spare Keys**: Searching under doormats to avoid lock-picking.
3. **Using Building Blueprints**: Checking security rooms for blueprints to understand ventilation systems for planning routes.
4. **Locating Lock Picks**: Finding them behind restaurant counters and laundromat washers and dryers if you run out early in the game.
5. **Fingerprint Scanner Uses**: Doubling as a shoe size scanner to compare with suspect footwear.
6. **Surveillance Cameras**: Discovering cameras above streets that can be accessed for suspect searches.
7. **Camera Footage Time Limit**: A 24-hour window to check camera footage relevant to your investigation.
8. **Employee Fingerprints**: Scanning key codes to work lockers or employee photos for fingerprints.
9. **Unscrewing Light Bulbs**: Preventing NPCs from turning on lights for better sneaking opportunities.
Wags offers these insights to help improve gameplay and solves investigative tasks in “Shadows.”
00:03:00
In this part of the video, the speaker provides various tips and tricks for the game. They highlight how using trash cans can instantly knock out NPCs due to their abundance and fun use. Players can create custom color strings for their evidence and name them, enhancing the evidence board’s organization by minimizing or crossing out items to highlight dead ends. Homeless civilians in the city directory are often missed and can be found near fires or small shelters. Players can peek under doors to check for movement, and they can play pool at bars, even though it’s not well-received. For job boards, unwanted tasks can be accepted and then closed to clear space without penalty. At City Hall, a side room offers access to the government database via a computer with a nearby password, allowing for in-depth searches of citizen files. Moreover, a more efficient search method using single letters and a space is explained. The tutorial mission hints at a deeper storyline involving a character named Sam. Players can pass time by sitting and setting a timer. A quirky tip involves taking a picture of someone to learn their name by asking them if they recognize themselves. Finally, items can be dropped to decorate spaces in the game.
00:06:00
In this part of the video, the speaker provides a series of tips and tricks for gameplay. They mention setting up a buffet for workers unexpectedly, encountering a situation where the lights were turned off in a supposed 24-hour diner, and various tactical maneuvers like hiding inside cupboards, bashing doors, running undetected, and using a bloodhound tracker to mark suspects. Other tips include using showers in random houses to clean up, seeking advice from enforcers, deciphering graffiti passwords to access black market dealers, checking sales ledgers for recent weapon purchases, noting boarded-up windows, bribing employees for door codes, and creating makeshift staircases with boxes. Finally, they describe how bodies need to be reported by an NPC before being announced on the radio.
00:09:00
In this part of the video, various gameplay tips and features of “Shadows of Doubt” are discussed. Key points include:
– Possible delays in murder notifications due to no reports.
– Using coins or objects to distract NPCs.
– Options when picking open electrical boxes such as shutting off surveillance, lights, or closing security doors.
– Changing security settings on management room computers to target anyone, though it may cause chaos.
– Insights when taking side jobs indicating connections between the job poster and the suspect.
– An outline of the game’s lore, including a timeline stretching to the altered history of 1979 with radioactive fallout and Mega Corporation rule.
– Newspapers providing additional clues post-announcement of a murder.
– Fire providing warmth for the player when cold.
– The functionality of sync discs and syringes for character perks, installed at a sync clinic.
– Instructions on renaming businesses by modifying specific game files.
00:12:00
In this part of the video, the host demonstrates using Ctrl H for find and replace in a text document to rename a business in a game, advising to save the document and reload the game to see changes. They also explain transferring evidence items between case boards by unpinning and re-pinning them and reference using mods like the density mod and configuration mods to enhance the game experience, directing viewers to another video for installation instructions. Additionally, door wedges from City Hall are mentioned, which are supposed to block entries but currently malfunction against enforcers. Drinking coffee in the game removes the cold debuff and provides energy. The host also shares a tip for reusing a code breaker by removing it before an unlock is completed, allowing retention of the breaker and acquisition of the password. Finally, the existence of a loan shark in the game is revealed, warning players about the consequences of not repaying loans.
00:15:00
In this part of the video, the creator thanks the viewers for their support and encourages them to watch their other videos on “Shadows of Doubt.” They invite viewers to share any additional tips, information, features, or bugs in the comments and assure them that they will try to respond to everyone. The creator reminds the audience that liking, commenting, and subscribing greatly supports the channel and concludes with a farewell and promise to see them in the next video.