If your own character escapes the prison, is knocked unconscious or killed, you will switch over to playing any other prisoner in your squad.

Prisoners in your crew can help with gathering contraband, tunnel progress and aid in causing trouble. elevate 'strong to 'very strong' and 'tough' to 'extremely tough') along with using them to recruit other prisoners to join your crew and follow you around, and to gather reputations for them as well. damaging and destroying things, fighting and murdering guards, prisoners and staff), you will build up reputation points, with which you can use to obtain reputation traits (like 'strong', 'tough', etc.) or improve existing ones (e.g. You also do not participate in Gangs (Gang leaders can still recruit your prisoner, but apart from the cosmetic changes for the gang, nothing will change for them) but you can recruit your own prisoner squad.īy causing trouble (e.g. You cannot, however, participate in any Programs, Work or the Contraband Trade.

This has no impact on actual gameplay, but is worth noting nonetheless.Īs a prisoner, you are able to walk around in the prison, obtain contraband items, dig tunnels from your cell and also attack and fight other prisoners and staff. So, for example, playing in a male prison with a female prisoner will result in the game switching over the body shape and sound effects to their male equivalents, with only the face and name remaining the same. After that, the player will always begin Escape Mode as that prisoner, unless they change it to another one later.ĭo be mindful, however, of the fact that the chosen prisoner's gender does not actually really matter, as the game will force-switch you over to the correct gender for the prison upon start. However, it is possible to pick and choose a more specific prisoner by going to the 'Names in the game' tab under the 'Extras' section, and choosing a desired prisoner from that list and checking the box that says 'This is me'. Be aware that this random prisoner can be a death row inmate (should the prison be setup to receive them), which would necessitate an instant restart as death row inmates cannot attack any object or leave their cell (thus soft locking you from ever escaping). Normally when starting up Escape Mode, the player will be put in control of a randomly generated prisoner with a random name and random body type.

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