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Pre-patch, players started in prison with nothing (which made sense, really.) In the present build, the easier prison levels start you off with a collection of sturdy tools and a grappling hook.

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Strangely enough, there’s been more of an emphasis on concealing escape items than crafting them since a recent patch to the press build I’ve been playing. You need to be smart about keeping your items, and your actions, hidden from view with things like handy posters or fake, papier maché vent covers. Digging holes, chipping through walls and other obvious signs of trying to leave will get you a spell in solitary confinement. Keeping everything in your prison desk risks discovery (and confiscation) in a daily, random cell search. Since you’re in prison, it’s vital to conceal what you’re getting up to. Stats have to be maintained to some degree as well, because they degrade over time if you don’t put the effort in with the weights.īut scraping together enough items to create a nice little escape-stash is only half the game. Strength and speed are pretty self-explanatory, while intellect determines the type of objects you’re able to craft and the jobs you can hold. The Escapists has three main player stats: strength, speed and intellect, all of which can be boosted at either the prison gym or library. To do that, you’ll need a high enough intellect. It’s even possible to engineer prison job vacancies by disrupting the inmate holding the position, then take the post for yourself. In the first, easiest prison, the laundry service job is the perfect way to get hold of a freebie guard uniform extremely useful for wearing outside of your cell after hours. Individual components of more important objects (like cutting devices to get through fences, or a screwdriver to get you up into a vent) can be found in fellow prisoner’s cells, on their person (if you, or someone else beats them up,) on guards (likewise,) or can be purchased from willing contraband vendors.Ĭrafted weapons will give you a greater chance of holding your own in a fight with an inmate or guard, and money can either be earned through prison labour or doing favours for others (providing certain items, distracting the guards during lunch, and so on.) Prison jobs can also be a sneaky shortcut to useful objects.

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The Escapists is employing a similarly oblique approach, hoping players will figure out the more logical items (comb plus razor blade equals a dangerous comb-blade,) find rare-ish crafting notes, and put together cheat-sheet community wikis for the confused or impatient.

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It seems unbelievable now, but there was a time when nobody was quite sure how to craft some of the Minecraft objects. To aid in your daring escape plans, there’s a crafting system in the style of early Minecraft. It’s fair to say that the first prison is pretty low security. You have a limited amount of freedom within certain designated prison areas, and can technically work towards your escape at any time (it’s just much more likely to fail during active, daylight hours,) but are also expected to follow a looping, linear schedule. It’s an interesting and unusual structure for a medium which tends to opt either for linearity with a distinct forward momentum, or an ‘open’ area where the player is the only actor not following a set routine.

There also seem to be a few nods, intentional or not, to the isometric POW camp break-out title, The Great Escape. The Escapists even shares that series’ option to rename all the inmates (pupils) and guards (teachers) before starting a level.

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This means any devious plans you wish to carry out have to either be done pretty sharpish (before anybody knows you’re missing,) during a free period, or after dark (but only if you can keep your activities secret.)Īnybody who played the Skool Daze / Bak 2 Skool series (which forced a similar routine upon players, but in a school setting) should find the need to juggle goals with the demands of a set timetable somewhat familiar. You’re at the mercy of a schedule, expected to show up for rollcalls, lunches and planned exercise periods. Hey man, that’s a real invasion of privacy.įellow players of a pensionable videogame age (ie over 30) may recognise echoes of a pair of old ZX Spectrum games in The Escapists’ prison routines and cunning plotting.