Transmissionary Achievement

Criteria of this achievement is: Answer all calls from Otis.

There are total of 39 calls from Otis.
There are total of 2 calls from Isabella.
To be confirmed you need to receive all the 41 calls uninterrupted.

In this guide calls are received by the order the Cases and Scoops starts sequentially. For more info. check my other guide of Full Missions List. To receive calls as default you must be in the other places in time than the Security Room or the Rooftop and as specified in the guide. However, the time of call will vary depending on the place you will be. You must try to receive the calls uninterrupted. If you get interrupted then leave and load your last save and try again.

Imp:
1. You must complete all the cases at least before "The Facts"
2. You must complete at least all these scoops...

• Restaurant Man
  
• Antique Lover
  
• Dressed for Action (Unmarked)
  
• A Strange Group
  
• Long Haired Punk
  
• A Woman in Despair

Note: If you don't want to complete other scoops then you must kill the survivors of those scoops as according rule there will not be more than 8 survivors at a time. But that is not suggested till you are not out of time to escort them to the Security Room. Some survivor activity needs other survivors around them and the call will come depending on that whom you had saved.

After you rescue the survivors they are placed in the 4 rooms. So here are survivors by room...

Room	Survivors
Blue Room	Bill, Burt, Aaron, Sophie, Heather, Pamela, Ronald, Ray, Nathan, Michelle, Beth, and Cheryl
Green Room	Jeff, Natalie, Leah, Josh, Barbara, Rich, Gordon, Jennifer, Wayne, Kindell, and Gil.
Purple Room	Yuu, Shinji, David, Kay, Lilly, Kelly, Janet, Brett, Jonathan, Alyssa, Leroy, and Tad.
Yellow Room	Tonya, Ross, Sally, Nick, Jolie, Rachel, Floyd, Paul, Mindy, Debbie, Susan, and Simone.

September 19 [Day 1] Calls

Call Numbers	Desired place to receive the call	Reason of the call	Time
Otis Call: 1	Warehouse	Warehouse Intro.(First time you enter Warehouse before starting Case 1-1)	Around 12:45 PM
Otis Call: 2	Entrance Plaza	Entrance Plaza Intro. (Right after starting Case 1-4)	Around 1:50 PM
Otis Call: 3	Anywhere other than Paradise Plaza	Call for the scoop: Cut From the Same Cloth	2 PM
Otis Call: 4	Food Court	Food Court Intro. (First time you enter Food Court)	Around 3 PM
Otis Call: 5	Anywhere other than Al Fresca Plaza	Call for the scoop: Barricade Pair - A & B	4 PM
Otis Call: 6	Anywhere other than Al Fresca Plaza	Call for the scoop: A Mother's Lament	5 PM
Otis Call: 7	Anywhere other than Wonderland Plaza	Call for the scoop: Out of Control	9 PM
Otis Call: 8	Wonderland Plaza	Wonderland Plaza Intro. (First time you enter Wonderland Plaza)	Around 9:05 PM
Otis Call: 9	Anywhere other than Wonderland Plaza	Call for the scoop: Japanese Tourist - A & B	10 PM
Otis Call: 10	Anywhere other than North Plaza	Call for the Scoop: Shadows in North Plaza	11 PM
Otis Call: 11	North Plaza	North Plaza Intro (First time you enter North Plaza). Note that if you had entered in North Plaze before for the unmarked scoop The Gun Shop at 3pm then you would received this call at around 3:05pm	11:05 PM

September 20 [Day 2] Calls

Call Numbers	Desired place to receive the call	Reason of the call	Time
Otis Call: 12	Warehouse	Waiting for the call before Case 2-1	6 AM
Otis Call: 13	Warehouse	Once the Case 2-2 has been started	Around 6:05 AM
Otis Call: 14	Anywhere other than Wonderland Plaza	Call for the Scoop: Lovers - A & B	7 AM
Otis Call: 15	Supermarket Intro. in the North Plaza	Once you enter in the supermarket in North Plaza during Case 2-3	Around 7:20 AM
Otis Call: 16	Anywhere other than North Plaza	Call for the Scoop: The Hatchet Man	8 AM
Otis Call: 17	Anywhere other than Al Fresca Plaza	Call for the Scoop: The Coward	9 AM
Otis Call: 18	Anywhere other than Security Room	Before the start of Case 3-1	11 AM
Otis Call: 19	Anywhere other than Paradise Plaza	Call for the Scoop: Restaurant Man	11:05 AM
Otis Call: 20	Anywhere other than Wonderland Plaza	Call for the Scoop: Above the Law	12:00 Noon
Otis Call: 21	Anywhere other than Security Room	Call before Case 4-1	3:00 PM
Otis Call: 22	Anywhere other than Entrance Plaza	Call for the Scoop: Antique Lover	5 PM
Otis Call: 23	Anywhere other than Entrance Plaza	Call for the Scoop: The Woman Who Didn't Make it	5:05 PM
Otis Call: 24	Anywhere other than Entrance Plaza	Call for the Scoop: Mark of the Sniper	5:10 PM
Otis Call: 25	Anywhere other than Security Room	Call for the Scoop: Ronald's Apetite	7:00 PM
Otis Call: 26	Maintenance Tunnel	Maintenance Tunnel Intro (Visit it for the first time to get Tunnel Key)	Around 10:00 PM

September 21 [Day 3] Calls

Call Numbers	Desired place to receive the call	Reason of the call	Time
Otis Call: 27	Anywhere other than North Plaza	Before Case 5-1	12:00 Midnight
Otis Call: 28	Anywhere other than Colby's Movieland	Call for the Scoop: A Strange Group	12:05 AM
Otis Call: 29	Anywhere other than Security Room	Call for the Scoop: Floyd the Sommelier	2 AM
Otis Call: 30	Anywhere other than the Security Room	Before Case 6-1	3 AM
Otis Call: 31	Anywhere other than Wonderland Plaza	Call for the Scoop: Long Haired Punk	5 AM
Otis Call: 32	Anywhere other than Wonderland Plaza	Call for the Scoop: A Sick Man	8 AM
Otis Call: 33	Anywhere other than the Security Room	Call before Case 7-1	11 AM
Isabella Call : 1	Warehouse	Call about the case 7-2	11:10 AM
Otis Call: 34	Anywhere other than the Security Room	Call for the Scoop: Kindell's Betrayal	12:00 Noon
Otis Call: 35	Anywhere other than Paradise Plaza	Call for the Scoop: A Woman in Dispair	12:05 PM
Isabella Call : 2	Maintenance Tunnels	After you had collected all the 5 bombs Isabella's call to confirm that you must take all the bombs out	Around 3:30 PM
Otis Call: 36	Anywhere other than the Security Room	Call before Case 8-1	5 PM
Otis Call: 37	Anywhere other than the Security Room	Call for the Scoop: Paul's Present	5:05 PM
Otis Call: 38	Anywhere other than the Security Room	Call for the Scoop: Simone the Gunslinger	7 PM
Otis Call: 39	Anywhere other than the Security Room	Call for the Scoop: Cheryl's Request	8 PM

Conclusion

Congratulation! Achievement Unlocked

Caution: Now you must continue the game and must get any one of the official ends to unlock the Mail Employee Uniform for your next play through by saving your game.


My other guides...

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1662346030
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1661684053

If you are a completionist, you may find it interesting...

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3445657955

[CGFW]

@Timerider I played long ago and exactly can't remember all but as far as I can remember, the "Isabella Call : 2" comes just after u collected the last bomb b4 taking those out.

[Timerider]

I never got the maintenance tunnel call, and I went around the time listed, before the bomb mission.

[FenecK]

Woo got it. Thankyou!!

@Pixel73 - Because you have too many survivors active out in the mall already. That call activates 4 survivors at once, so if you have more than 4 survivors active in the mall already, it won't activate as you can only ever have 8 survivors active at once. Save a couple quickly, as that Psychopath starts killing her 4 hostages if you get there late. Good luck.

[Pixel73]

The Otis Call: 20 it doesn't sound, any idea why?

[BaBingus3001]

Thanks you so much for making this, but I'm sad to say I have to start my 3RD attempt of this and the ease it is to follow this guide is like the only thing keeping me going so thank you.

[Blaster1360]

Capcom are bloody sadists for making this an achievement...

[autism prime]

D O N T C U T M E O F F L I K E T H A T I T S R U D E

[Kryzx]

Finally 100% this game.

Like @Wakko states earlier, you can be interrupted and answer Otis again, but make sure you DO NOT leave the area/trigger cutscenes before the calls are completed!

Also, you don't need any survivors for the Purple Room at all, but you do need at least 3 survivors in the other 3 rooms + Kindell, Ronald, Floyd, & Cheryl in order for Otis to call about their mutiny (Kindell & Ronald) or request (Floyd & Cheryl). Also need to save Simone & Paul because Otis will call about their requests too, but they don't require additional survivors in their rooms like Kindell, Ronald, Floyd & Cheryl.

You don't have to stop Kindell's mutiny or complete Floyd, Cheryl, Simone, or Paul's requests since we're only interested in the calls from Otis. It'd be wise to stop Ronald's mutiny though since Cheryl's request also needs 3 survivors in the same room. Otherwise, you MUST save 3 survivors + Cheryl in "A Strange Group" scoop to still get the achievement!

Now on to DR2!

[Vio]

thank you!

[Jo 🐯]

EXTRA TIPS:
I just got this myself. While I wouldn't take any chances if possible I can clear some things up. You can be interrupted and still get it. Isabella's calls do not count. If you don't receive Floyd's call at the right time it's because there aren't enough people in his room. However, later on if you have enough people in his room Otis will call with his request. I got the call for Floyd's request about 8-10 in-game hours late. I imagine this is probably how it works for the other requests too so while you should save as many people as you can, the requests aren't strictly timed like the rest.

You have to do it all in one 72-hour run because I answered a call I've answered in a previous run on the same save file and that's when I got the achievement. Sadly it's not about filling in blanks it's about doing it all in one go. Finally, remember to save often and use multiple slots. Don't forget!