Vandalize perp's home?

[Not Anonymous]

How do you vandalize a room exactly? I tried weapons and throwing coffe around but doesnt seem enough

[Elegant Caveman]

Best I can figure, it's really just "pick up stuff and randomly throw it around", but it seems to be a bit finicky.

I'm probably missing/misunderstanding some key mechanic...

I did a couple of vandalism jobs where I just had to throw a couple of things around on the floor, and that step was considered "completed" pretty quickly. One was to cause 100cr of damage, the other 300cr, but both took roughly the same amount of work. I'm not clear on how "damage" is calculated...

I just had another vandalism job, though (for 100cr of damage), and that one took forever to complete. I pretty much threw everything I could find in the apartment to the ground, but it just kept refusing to register as complete.

What seemed to help, though, is when I threw some items into another room? The previous two jobs, I gathered everything in the kitchen (no particular reason; that's just where there was a bunch of stuff lying around), and I tried that again the third time, but it wasn't working.

When I threw a couple of things from the kitchen into the living room, though, that somehow did the trick... not sure why.

[Esca]

Some jobs will mention a specific way to cause damage, while others don't care. Smashing windows is the easiest option, if you have a weapon or a heavy object to throw. Desk chairs should work, among other things. (Punching windows also works, but hurts you pretty badly.) Throwing trash bags around is another option; I thought food counted too, but I don't know if I ever tried it.

[Zalugar]

I just broke their windows and throw a bunch of stuff around the windows. Be sure to take the photograph from a moderate distance away, since cameras can easily be too close.

[Kyle]

i just smash windows unless it gives me a specific method

[Elegant Caveman]

Tried breaking windows during that last job, but that didn't seem to help.

Unless maybe that's why throwing stuff into the living room finally did it...? The broken window counting for a lot.

In a previous attempt, I broke all the windows in the house, but that didn't help. When it finally worked out, I'd reloaded and only one window was broken.

Maybe you need to throw at least some stuff on the floor, but broken windows help a lot if you do?

[Kyle]

Originally posted by Elegant Caveman:

Tried breaking windows during that last job, but that didn't seem to help.

Unless maybe that's why throwing stuff into the living room finally did it...? The broken window counting for a lot.

In a previous attempt, I broke all the windows in the house, but that didn't help. When it finally worked out, I'd reloaded and only one window was broken.

Maybe you need to throw at least some stuff on the floor, but broken windows help a lot if you do?

depends on the value, i've only done two though, 'vandalize by throwing trash' and 'vandalize by breaking windows'

[Not Anonymous]

Mine was to cause 1500cr of damage. Ill try the windows!

[yeetis]

I've tried window smashing, seems to work well.

[Elegant Caveman]

Originally posted by Kyle:

depends on the value, i've only done two though, 'vandalize by throwing trash' and 'vandalize by breaking windows'

Ah, okay, I've only had a "vandalize by throwing trash". Didn't know there was a version that specified windows.

[tynian87116]

IDK if this counts because I skip out on those gigs, but, shower glass can also shatter too. I found that out when trying to escape a perps apartment, because I forgot to bring cuffs and was crippled.

[bullinshop]

Another helpful tip: you can toss the food (synth milk, synth beef, coffee, etc.) that can be found in the fridge and the apartment onto beds/couches/rugs for additional damage if there aren't a whole lot of windows to break.

And speaking of windows, it took me a while (only 10.5 hours lol) to figure out that you can raise the shades. This is particularly important because if the shades are down it's impossible to break the windows from the inside.

Happy smashing!

[Best Alice]

My problem was, that I didn't confirm a room (as clue with room and building on dashboard). Only after that game counted my "achievement of cleaning room". My ways to vandalize was throwing stuff out of a window, coloring the room with my brand-new trash, meet, alcohol and paint cans. Also, you can throw toilet paper, and it will beautifully divide into sheets (totally recommend)

[ukleon]

I've played this game for nearly 80 hours and only done a few vandalisation missions, but I learned something today.

I had a job to vandalise a place for 1500cr. I smashed every window, threw paint buckets, food on beds, smashed the shower - everything I could do. Nothing registered.

Then I had a thought, which turned out to fix it. I opened the "Resolve" window and the 1st item is to select the address where the perp lives, so I did that. As soon as I had selected that first item, the 2nd item "cause 1500cr of damage" instantly ticked as complete too and I was able to finish the job.

I think the damage was recorded by the game, but not marked as complete until I entered the 1st task of selecting the address. I'm going to find another job and see if I can replicate that happening.

Update:
I took on another mission, which was theft - someone had stolen a prop gun. The job was to find out who, get it back and vandalise the home of the perp. Again, after wrecking the place, the game did not acknowledge it and this time even selecting who the perp was right away did not trigger it. However, when I handed in the case, the game did acknowledge that I had done enough damage, so it does seem like a bug where the game isn't telling you that you've done the damage while you are doing it.

[BFishY ><>]

Just got a Vandalism job to smash windows... The guy lives in a basement apartment with ZERO windows :|

[schwarzrotes]

Originally posted by BFishY ><>:

Just got a Vandalism job to smash windows... The guy lives in a basement apartment with ZERO windows :|

if there is a shower break the shower glass