Are items random?

[Darkreaver1980]

Is there anything in a prison that is randomised? like items?

[Darkreaver1980]

Anyone knows?

[invokeVoid]

Looks like some items on some maps (especially PvP) are not random, but most of the loot, most notably drawers of other prisoners, are random.

[morph113]

Yeah the item distribution in drawers should be pretty much random. Even your starting cell seems to be random. I only played briefly yesterday but I watched a stream and the guy was given a different cell than me in the same prison, so some randomness is there.

[Der Falscher]

What about the customisable items that you sometimes unlock? There are some for getting keys or achievement I'm guessing specific to certain tasks, but I did unlock a pink hairdo for no apparent reason.

On top of that, is there a reason why some of the customisation items have a small star next to them? I couldn't find the information in the game.

[BlahBlah]

So the game is still just a tedious grind of going drawer to drawer, praying to the RNG gods you get what you want?
Guess I'll be skipping this sequel.

[Darkfiro]

Originally posted by BlahBlah:

So the game is still just a tedious grind of going drawer to drawer, praying to the RNG gods you get what you want?
Guess I'll be skipping this sequel.

Depend on the prison actually but it's not as random as you think.the 2nd Prison (a train), that prison will have all the escape stuff you will need the randominess is it location but the Desk are always at the same spot. Also some escape Method are Multiplayer only and those are pretty straight foward. And some Escape are Single player only, the payphone in the pretty much tell how you can escape.

[Darkreaver1980]

can you actualy kill people?

[Darkfiro]

Originally posted by Darkreaver1980:

can you actualy kill people?

No you just knock them out (i'm not sure if you can tie them up)

[Antiga]

Depending on which object you try to loot where, or which person, you'll get a randomized selection of items from a specific pool of items for that location or person. So, for example, you may find crowbars in the desks in Cougar Creek Railroad. These look similar to the desks in Center Perks 2.0 prison cells, but here they won't be able to give you a crowbar.
Also note there's some difference in crafting recipes available depending on which map you're on.

[BlahBlah]

Originally posted by Antiga:

Depending on which object you try to loot where, or which person, you'll get a randomized selection of items from a specific pool of items for that location or person. So, for example, you may find crowbars in the desks in Cougar Creek Railroad. These look similar to the desks in Center Perks 2.0 prison cells, but here they won't be able to give you a crowbar.
Also note there's some difference in crafting recipes available depending on which map you're on.

So, the gameplay is still literally just playing red light green light with patrolling guards, stealing from other inmate's desks and praying for good items.
A shame. I was really hoping they would fix this problem in the sequel.

[morph113]

Originally posted by BlahBlah:

Originally posted by Antiga:

Depending on which object you try to loot where, or which person, you'll get a randomized selection of items from a specific pool of items for that location or person. So, for example, you may find crowbars in the desks in Cougar Creek Railroad. These look similar to the desks in Center Perks 2.0 prison cells, but here they won't be able to give you a crowbar.
Also note there's some difference in crafting recipes available depending on which map you're on.

So, the gameplay is still literally just playing red light green light with patrolling guards, stealing from other inmate's desks and praying for good items.
A shame. I was really hoping they would fix this problem in the sequel.

I can't speak for the other maps since I have only played the first one so far, but the first one has a method to escape within just a few minutes requiring (almost) no loot luck. Some other methods of course require you to get a constant supply of good items like shoveling your way to the exit.

But generally you are correct, the core gameplay hasn't changed much.

[The Chrom And Only]

Some items are always in the same place, like the civi outfit in center parks, whilst in others, there are a limited amount of chests and a set amount of items are garenteed to spawn in said chests (pens for my little phoney on the train and grapple hook) but everything else is usually randomised.