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ConsumePant has Prison Architect

Jun 23, 2020 @ 2:44pm

Has anyone worked out how to use scanners and checkpoints

i don't know if im being stupid but i can't get them to work. i place them at entrances and use walls to make sure no one can get round them but goods are just carried through them without being scanned

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Ozymandias has Prison Architect

Jun 23, 2020 @ 6:54pm

For the scanner machine, I just dropped it in the middle of my deliveries room, and it works pretty good. You need the "scanner monitor" with a guard, otherwise it won't do anything.

I haven't used the checkpoint yet.

Last edited by Ozymandias; Jun 23, 2020 @ 6:54pm

.banana

May 13, 2021 @ 2:51pm

The checkpoint-feature seems not to be operational.
I haven't found a single video anywhere where a working version is shown.
On the PA-Wiki there is not showing a working example and it is not described how it works.
This seems to be just cosmetic unfortunately.

Scanners work as Ozymandias described even tho i haven't seen that anything was found that way... so...

Last edited by .banana; May 13, 2021 @ 2:57pm

Whirl

May 13, 2021 @ 6:20pm

The Checkpoint requires guards free to monitor it. The cool thing about checkpoints is that they will give Visitors a patdown on their way in and out of the Visitation rooms too.

Keanos

May 13, 2021 @ 11:53pm

Checkpoint are one of the few good additions from dlc. You can build 2 checkpoints in a 4 square wide corridor, each facing a different direction. The guards can detect all forms of contraband.

To this day I have never seen a scanner machine detect a single element of contraband. I just use a metal detector in the delivery door and a guard dog stationed in the room. I sometimes use the enhanced metal detector option in map creation, I don't consider it cheating since it also uses more power and compensates for the scanning machine not working

.banana

May 14, 2021 @ 9:37am

Originally posted by KS:
Checkpoint are one of the few good additions from dlc. You can build 2 checkpoints in a 4 square wide corridor, each facing a different direction. The guards can detect all forms of contraband.

Could you maybe post a screenshot of a working configuration?
I have tried so many things but visitors and prisoners are basically just ignoring them and running above/through them.

Last edited by .banana; May 14, 2021 @ 9:37am