8 Tips To Help You FIGHT CRIME In Shadows Of Doubt 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 😭

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.

That bonus tip had me ROLLING that is absolutely hilarious

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.

For the cameras seemingly missing a control room, sometimes that's at another address (commercial) in a private surveillance company.

"to help fight crime"? Bro, I am the criminal 😎

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.

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.

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."

Good tip: in most apartment buildings there is a call manager in the basement to manage any calls going in and out the building

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.

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.

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.

Man I just discovered this game and I am absolutely addicted to it lol

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

That person opened their door for half a second and got sent to the afterlife 😮

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.

If your pawn shop is glitched you can drop them in your appartment and then sell trough the edit decor menu

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 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.

Very informative! I appreciate the high quality videos, keep it up man!

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!

The bathing in the door tip was so helpful

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.

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

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

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

Thank you for your tips! It's really helpful!

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

Great video!

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Detective: "Knock! Knock!" Resident: "Who's there?" Detective: "The Door!" *Bashes the door*

Thanks so much!

Thanks for the tips, I'm sure they'll be helpful for me . . . couldn't make me any worse than I already am!!

took me 14 hrs over 2 days to solve the tutorial and it was under my nose the whole damn time lol.

I really just want to knock out people who annoy me with stupid cases now. Thank 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.

Was that a police station lobby from David Fincher's se7en? 3:15

Imagine if this game let you become a hitman 🥺

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?

Do all cameras have a room to get the recording? I cant find one that will make me find the assasin

i was in a building with alot of cameras but i can not find the camera room xD

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.

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

My scanner doesn't say anything about fingerprint types. How do I get it to do that??

I didnt realize you could zoom out the notsominimap.

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 RU-vidr you are. I really hope they make it so multiple serial killers kill at the same time 🤣🤣

Very usefull thanks

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 😂

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

Being ignorant makes this game blissful

How do you uncuff someome, I keep trying to look at the cuffs but it only focuses on the person

Noice

Any idea how to sell completely legally gathered items to the pawn shop?

Been playing for a while, haven't seen any serial killers. Do you know the difference or am I missing something?

Comment for the algorithm.

How do I get an apartment?

Do you know how to get Pawn shop Password ??