Does every Apartment Building Type have a Control Room

[Chuck Ironstag]

I'm stuck on a case pretty bad with all leads dead, but I still have a chance to access cameras for relevant footage, but I can't find the building's control rooms There's camera's, but I swear no control room. Where does the feed go? The landlord's apartment or something? A separate building?

It's one of those apartment buildings with two staircases on the opposite sides of the building, generally 2 apartments per floor with one door on each staircase, except they finally join at a hallway on the 4th floor and one staircase has a penthouse on the 5th, Basement is also conjoined with some black market shops.

[[E] Caladus]

I had a murder case in one of those building types was annoying that I had to rely on the street CCTV to capture an image of the suspect. After that all I had was a fingerprint and an MO plus physical data

[Isabelle]

Originally posted by Chuck Ironstag:

I'm stuck on a case pretty bad with all leads dead, but I still have a chance to access cameras for relevant footage, but I can't find the building's control rooms There's camera's, but I swear no control room. Where does the feed go? The landlord's apartment or something? A separate building?

It's one of those apartment buildings with two staircases on the opposite sides of the building, generally 2 apartments per floor with one door on each staircase, except they finally join at a hallway on the 4th floor and one staircase has a penthouse on the 5th, Basement is also conjoined with some black market shops.

I actually want to know this too. This wouldve been relevant to me

[Esca]

As far as I can tell, there isn't a proper camera room for the two-staircase apartment type yet. In testing just now, I noticed the landlord's personal PC has Security and Surveillance apps, but they aren't linked to any actual cameras.

Maybe in a future update, there'll be more than one landlord in the city, and they'll actually have relevant security access...more likely they'll just add a security room for that building layout, though.

[Isabelle]

Originally posted by Esca:

As far as I can tell, there isn't a proper camera room for the two-staircase apartment type yet. In testing just now, I noticed the landlord's personal PC has Security and Surveillance apps, but they aren't linked to any actual cameras.

Maybe in a future update, there'll be more than one landlord in the city, and they'll actually have relevant security access...more likely they'll just add a security room for that building layout, though.

the fact that they have surveillance leads me to believe that they were intended to have camera records of the building, and the only reason they don't is because the terminal isn't linked to the building cams because of a bug. I've experienced this a few times in other places; a few CCTV cams have had no PC connected to them. Probably a world gen bug in that case.

[Psyringe]

I've noticed a building without a general security room in my city (very large, randomly generated) as well. There are two security rooms on the ground floor, but they both belong to businesses on the sides of the building and don't show footage from the security cameras in the residential areas. I haven't found a security room on any of the other floors either.

I had one murder case where I couldn't find any leads except a V-mail in which the victim talked about being followed by a man with short black hair. Checking security footage would have been the logical way to go (since you can't just ask random people "have you seen a man with short black hair here around this time"), but there was no security room for the residential area in that building. The only way to find the perp was to check records in the government database until I found the match for a fingerprint I got. Afterward, I checked if there was any link between the perp and the victim that I might have overlooked, but I didn't find one. So my guess is that the case was designed to rely on camera footage, which I could not access for that building.

Looks like a bug to me as well. If there are cameras, then there should be a way to access their footage.

[Isabelle]

Originally posted by Psyringe:

I've noticed a building without a general security room in my city (very large, randomly generated) as well. There are two security rooms on the ground floor, but they both belong to businesses on the sides of the building and don't show footage from the security cameras in the residential areas. I haven't found a security room on any of the other floors either.

I had one murder case where I couldn't find any leads except a V-mail in which the victim talked about being followed by a man with short black hair. Checking security footage would have been the logical way to go (since you can't just ask random people "have you seen a man with short black hair here around this time"), but there was no security room for the residential area in that building. The only way to find the perp was to check records in the government database until I found the match for a fingerprint I got. Afterward, I checked if there was any link between the perp and the victim that I might have overlooked, but I didn't find one. So my guess is that the case was designed to rely on camera footage, which I could not access for that building.

Looks like a bug to me as well. If there are cameras, then there should be a way to access their footage.

what it looks like is the game generates the cameras and the control room for them, but somehow fails to connect the two, making you incapable of reviewing footage.

I've only seen this once in my save, with a pawn shop. The backroom camera was there, and active, but for whatever reason it wasn't connected to the nearby computer.

[Vlesh]

I had this happen recently. Crime scene, all I could find was fingerprints that weren't supposed to be there. No CCTV station in the apartment, although they have cameras everywhere.

What I ended up doing was scanning the doorknobs of the victims neighbors that were in their address book and found the guy with the fingerprints. I haven't completed the case yet, because of a bug but I'm pretty sure that was the guy. Give that a shot sometime if all you got to go on is a fingerprint that shouldn't be in that apartment.

Another thing to attempt in that situation, go to the victims place of work, if they got a board up showing all the employees, scan fingerprints on the pictures, you will probably get a match and have your perp.