Unreadable wall messages

[Biggiox]

This needs to be fixed. How am I supposed to solve a case without even being able to read the message left by the killer on the wall? This happend me almost every time the killer left a message on the wall, it usually gets stretched or covered by furniture or even interrupted by other walls.

PS. I am doing the "Bloody Deadeye" case btw, if anyone can tell me what the message is supposed to be that would be of great help

[KDR_11k]

Yeah, IMO it should at least show a subtitle for the writing since you could assume that the killer would make sure it fits on the given geometry.
As a workaround you can buy a newspaper, those will spell out what the message is in their article on the murder.

[Esca]

In my experience, the glitchy wall messages haven't been very useful. One type of case has a ritual circle drawn around the body and "[victim's initials] PAID" on a wall. Another has a heart around the body and "[victim] & [killer's first initial] forever" wall message.

Most cases have better evidence lying around somewhere, so keep looking and take some fingerprints if you can.

[Temby]

I take screenshots and stretch them to read. But like Esca says, most aren't very useful, except for the one with an initial.

I had one say "death to the new generation" but it turned out the killer was younger than the victim. There was no interaction between them in emails or phone and I really only solved it with a fingerprint and brute force. after checking a lot of angles. If there was a reason for the wall message, I sure didn't find it.

[Binnie]

I agree with the others. You can't even get a handwriting sample off the messages. They seem to be rather useless.

You can sometimes get a fingerprint off the wall where the message is, but this could be the victim or the roomates prints as well.

[dorohn]

You may be able to buy a newspaper on the murder and read the wall message that way. So far all my murder cases of having wall messages, the newspaper would show it

[DoremianCleff]

It really depends. In my broken murder case message on a wall was "Annie & S" which is a is a name of a victim and initial of a stalker. Initial "S" is a very important clue when you need to cross reference bunch of vaguely described people. Although in my case it was a lot straight forward - there aren't many people with green hairs around.

Idk, best i can suggest is to take a screenshot and play around in a photo edit, but when i have a deformed wall writing, i just looked at it untill i can read what it say. Usually it's something not worth the time - threats or random nonsense. But on occassion it will say something useful.

[Kyle]

weirdly enough, i went to the scene and the message was fully stretched out properly

when i loaded into my save it was all squished and hard to read

[Akameka]

Originally posted by Esca:

In my experience, the glitchy wall messages haven't been very useful. One type of case has a ritual circle drawn around the body and "[victim's initials] PAID" on a wall. Another has a heart around the body and "[victim] & [killer's first initial] forever" wall message.

Most cases have better evidence lying around somewhere, so keep looking and take some fingerprints if you can.

IMO that is very usefull information.

Had this case today. [victim] & M. forever". Found the lipstick used to draw the heart, analysed it for for fingerprint. Victim was killed by a carabine, so I droped by both black markets. found a person with first name starting with M. who just bought rifle ammo the day before. Droped by city hall and searched the associated name, and the finger print was those found on the lipstick.
Droped by the house of the killer, knocked on the door, handcuffed her when she oppened, searched her and found the riffle. Case closed.

Without this wall message, I would had to investigate all people who bought rifle ammo and rifle durring the whole week. But with the initial, I only had one profile.

[Esca]

Fair. In my case, the heart murder just went by quickly and I didn't spot the graffiti until afterward. (The body was right outside city hall, they were lobby coworkers, and a bunch of people saw it happen.)