![]() Or Chet might’ve had just about enough of Bill’s crap, and he wants you to teach Bill a lesson: the kind of lesson that’ll put Bill out of commission for an hour or so. Joseph could want something simple, like a paperclip, and he’d be willing to give you $25 for your troubles. Sometimes money-making schemes come your way. Upset enough people, inmates or guards, and you could find yourself running a lot. If you can outrun somebody that’s got your number, they might just give up if they can't catch you. You’ll have to hit the gym again to get your stats back up. All the speed and strength training you beefcaked yourself up with are now lower. In those three days, all the stats you’ve built up begin to atrophy. If the guards do catch you with contraband, like the soap-sock combo you came up with earlier, then you’ve earned yourself some time in solitary. That way, when the guards inform the group that so-and-so is going to have their cell tossed, then you’ll break ranks and get the contraband out of your possession before it's too late. ![]() In other words, during evening muster, when everyone’s getting into formation in the central courtyard, you might want to give your inmate your real name. It’s also helpful if you give your inmate a name that you’ll respond to as a player. Customization gives you lighter or darker skin, a few simple hairstyles, and a couple face modifiers. You have seemingly fewer pixels than an 8-bit Space Invader. Do I free up some space by giving a watch to Officer Serpico, or do I drop it on the ground in favor of this set of kitchen utensils? Do I make a padded inmate outfit out of a blue book, duct tape, and my orange-is-the-new-black coveralls, or do I not risk getting caught with it during a shakedown? Decisions. You’ll be doing the inventory-shuffle dance step that’s familiar to anyone who’s played a traditional role-playing game. Point being: The inventory goes deep.Your pockets aren’t bottomless, though. The incredibly quick tutorial shows you how to take a screwdriver and get up into the ventilation shafts, but I have yet to come across a screwdriver in my game, or even have the knowhow and components to build one. I even learned how to make a fake fence cover, but I didn’t learn how to make fence cutters until much later. I know, for instance, that I can tie two bedsheets together to make a sheet rope, but that doesn’t mean I know how to plan an escape with one. Then, the next time some inmate decides he’s not taking anymore of your lip-or, perhaps, if another inmate has paid someone else to take you down a peg-then the ol' soap-in-a-sock gives you something with a little more oomph than your bare fists.īuy enough tips, and you’ll soon have more recipes than you’ll know what to do with. Throw a bar of soap into a sock for a classic “soap party” weapon. You’ll likely have to head to the payphone, purchase a tip from whoever’s on the other end of the line, and learn crafting recipes that way.Ĭrafting starts off easy enough. Sure, you could start slapping together random items, but good luck on actually crafting anything useful that way. You won’t know how to make anything at first. Anything and everything you pick up is something that can be combined with something else, or is at least useful on its own merits. The Escapists is a game predicated on inventory and crafting. I thought prisons would be stark places without much in the way of inventory items, but I was wrong. Give a guard a “Do-Do Donut” and see if he’s amused even in the slightest. Give an inmate a porn magazine and you’ll likely see his opinion of you go up. You can give items to any character you want, guards and inmates alike. The boys in blue aren’t beyond a bribe or two, though. Follow the few simple rules and everything will be just fine. ![]() It’s not hard to stay on the guards’ good side, though. Rack up too much heat and you could find yourself on the business end of a nightstick. LOLing at cats on the internet when you should be turning in for the night? Heat. Leave the dining hall early in order to scope the electric fence? Heat from the guards. Late for roll call? You get heat from the guards. The guards expect you to be where you’re supposed to be, when you’re supposed to be there. Sometime between breakfast and dinner, they fit in free periods where you can do want you want (within reason, of course), a workout period (gettin’ swole), a group shower (fun with soap!), and job time (if you have the competence to hold down a job in lockdown). There’s the wake up, the morning roll call, then breakfast.
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