How to use briefcase?

[Mastersurvivals]

So I feel like I must be doing something wrong. I got a mission to photograph someone, okay great! I was given a briefcase and told that it had the info I needed to get started and when I opened the briefcase... nothing happened. I can open the briefcase, close it, throw it on the ground (only while closed) and interacting/scanning it doesn't do anything beyond give me the description of the briefcase.

Am I missing something super obvious? I'm not seeing any special button prompt to "read" the briefcase documents so I'm unsure how I'm supposed to progress with the side mission.

[Jarlim]

you just hold it in your hands and the left click option is 'open' its pretty unneccessary and little fanfare about it honestly and the case is mostly useless after doing it, it just updates the cases goals by giving you a few tidbits about the target/victim

[densley]

I got confused by this at first too As soon as you open the briefcase the first time It adds the profile/picture to your cases. In my case I had a picture but no name so I asked around if someone had seen the person and got put on the right track.

[Bluehawk]

All I got from the briefcase was a building and an eye colour. Virtually useless.

[sean.campbell]

Yeah we could do with adding more information about how to use the briefcases in game for the first time. Hope you got what you needed from it!

[Wang Thorpeeener]

I've just taken a photography mission and the briefcase only contained, age, hair and eye colour, and blood type. Is that normal? I'm not sure which area to even begin looking and the staff at the diner are tight-lipped.

[Niras]

Originally posted by sean.campbell:

Yeah we could do with adding more information about how to use the briefcases in game for the first time. Hope you got what you needed from it!

Tbh the most confussing part about briefcases it's the part after you obtain information from them. What are you supposed to do with them afterwards ?

[Mastersurvivals]

Originally posted by sean.campbell:

Yeah we could do with adding more information about how to use the briefcases in game for the first time. Hope you got what you needed from it!

Kind of? I've taken two side missions that had brief cases. One told me the suspect had a red and white envelope and that was it (impossible from my perspective) and the other did lead me to a room but the only person there wasn't the one I needed a picture of.

[t@ngent]

Originally posted by Nir4s:

Tbh the most confussing part about briefcases it's the part after you obtain information from them. What are you supposed to do with them afterwards ?

This. I've been throwing them in the sea, but I'd like a more professional option for tying up that loose end

[Mastersurvivals]

Originally posted by t@ngent:

Originally posted by Nir4s:

Tbh the most confussing part about briefcases it's the part after you obtain information from them. What are you supposed to do with them afterwards ?

This. I've been throwing them in the sea, but I'd like a more professional option for tying up that loose end

Agreed. What if after you've opened and read through the case you get bonus points for either delivering the dead drop with the case (or inside it) or for destroying the case. Depends on what the client wants.

[Lastie]

Originally posted by Bluehawk:

All I got from the briefcase was a building and an eye colour. Virtually useless.

Yeah, that should be enough if they work there. Employee information being generfally quite informative. A photo will coroborate eye colour

[Niras]

Originally posted by t@ngent:

Originally posted by Nir4s:

Tbh the most confussing part about briefcases it's the part after you obtain information from them. What are you supposed to do with them afterwards ?

This. I've been throwing them in the sea, but I'd like a more professional option for tying up that loose end

Me too
Sometimes I dispose them in Dumpster since it's a thing apparently.
The game doesn't tell you a lot of things, like you can ask City hall stuff for advice, murders are written in newspappers etc.

[AshGir]

I have the same problem, they gave me a briefcase, told me to steal a document, there is only information about some person on the board, there is not even a place to steal from.
Is this a bug?

[Kyle]

no

the person is who you steal it from
can be at their work place

i typically only do these ones if i have 'works at x building' then i just blaze through all the offices and read employee stuff till the hints name updates

i've never been able to complete one though because it never registers the document as found even if i'm holding it

[t@ngent]

I've found it super reliable to use City Hall for the start of my inquiries. For instance, I got a phone number, height, and "Likes plants" in my dossier. I called the number until I got an answer (Hello, this is Zhun."), then went into one of the enforcer lobbies (1 on each floor of City Hall). Nearly _all_ of them have a password available for an employee account. I logged in and searched the gov't database for "Zhun" and picked up my leads from there. Addresses + general information

[JordanU]

Originally posted by Wang Thorpeeener:

I've just taken a photography mission and the briefcase only contained, age, hair and eye colour, and blood type. Is that normal? I'm not sure which area to even begin looking and the staff at the diner are tight-lipped.

Wanted to ask, since I was having trouble with getting information ( only had an envelope, the case board was too zoomed in for me to notice info was added) I scanned the briefcase and it had a set of prints. In-game, do NPCs actually drop the briefcase and leave a set of prints behind? Because I think it could be a neat way to add an extra investigation element to these jobs.