1. Important Information about the Latest Patch

# Note for speedrunners

This message is very important for all runners out there who run with the latest patch. With Adam being able to mess with someone's game, a run could be invalidated if it seems like something magical happened (for example, Adam could have given you 300 DOS coins to end the game without you even noticing).

It is strongly recommended that you download the mod that disables the DevTools described in the third section of this guide before speedrunning using the latest patch. (Although I would not recommend using the latest patch for speedruns)

# Clearing the confusion

Yesterday, there was a lot of confusion regarding the last patch and what Adam has added to the game. Please read this carefully as I will try to explain everything that he can do and what he cannot do.

First of all: **No, what he is doing is not illegal. It is not a spyware, malware, or anything like that.** Yes he is getting IP addresses, but any server gets IP addresses from people that visit it. The chances that Adam ever tries to launch a denial-of-service attack (DOS) on someone's private IP address is basically 0 since it will never have any impact in the world and will just get him in trouble. If he wants to get you in trouble while you are streaming or something, he'll just trigger nasty stuff to your game like writing notes or playing music, he won't try to do anything to your IP. So, stop worrying. I played the last patch and I have no issues, and I have not used a proxy/VPN of any kind. If you are really that worried and don't want to download older patches, then download my mod that removes the Dev Tool entirely (available below). Steam does not care about such functionality in games, so it won't be possible to report it.

Second: **Adam can't see what you are doing in the game unless you are streaming it**. The code is simple: when you start a game (Normal or 1337 mode) the game pings Adam's server with a unique identifier. The game is then registered in his server. 
Then, every 3 minutes, the game will contact the server again with the same identifier to check if Adam has requested something. **The only things that Adam can request are the following**: UnPause, AddDosCoin(qty), RemoveDosCoin(qty), TripPower, ForceHack(god difficulty or not), ForceVisitSite, TriggerDollMaker, TriggerHitman, WriteNote. He can also request that your game contacts the server more often. (He can request that your game checks the server every 5 seconds so that his trolls are more instant). So, no he can't kill you instantly, he can't force buy the lolpy disk, etc... He can only do these 9 actions.

Third: **Adam cannot remove the ability to delete old patches unless Steam changes its main core code**. While you can't download old patches/manifests of the game from the Steam Console or SteamCMD, it is **still possible to do with another method**. Follow the corresponding guide in https://www.speedrun.com/wttg2/guides .
The only way we won't be able to download old patches is if Steam decides to change their whole system of manifests which is probably never going to happen. So, stop saying that Adam removed old patches or made it impossible to get them, he has no control over the old manifests since it's how Steam can handle game updates efficiently.

# How to play the latest patch without this "feature"

I have made two mods which both change how the game handles Adam's actions. One mod will remove the Dev Tool entirely, so your game won't even try to connect to Adam's server. The other mod will still connect to Adam's server, but it will prevent any action that Adam is trying to send to your game and it will show an alert to troll Adam instead. 

The two mods are available here: https://www.speedrun.com/wttg2/resources
Make sure that you read the README.txt included in the archive for install instructions.

2. Updated Guide to Download Old Patches

# Full version

The full guide is available here: [click](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/572088008723922954/694213846826483772/wttg_II_depot_download_guide.pdf).

# Short version
In January 2020, Valve removed the possibility to download old depot manifests from their client library. Which outdated most guides available out there. Here is how you can download the old patches for WTTG II, but this also applies to other games available on Steam.

First, we need the Game ID, Depot ID and the Manifest ID for the patch we are trying to download. Read the full guide to know how to get those from [SteamDB](https://steamdb.info/). 

For the Windows version of WTTG II, the Game ID is always 720250 and the Depot ID is always 720251.

Here is a list of the current speedrunning categories for WTTG II and their corresponding Manifest ID. The other Manifest are available in the full version or SteamDB.

* Old Patch: 5874631687768504692
* Old Patch / No Hack Cooldown: 6788389228187769585
* Old Patch / With Hack Cooldown: 7851970317935229589

We now have all of the IDs we need. Let's download the manifest. For this, we will need the tool SteamRE/DepotDownloader available here: https://github.com/SteamRE/DepotDownloader/releases/latest. Extract the ZIP archive to a folder and copy its location.

Open the PowerShell (PS) or CMD and go to the directory where you extracted the tool. Replace Location with the one you copied in the previous step.
PS: cd "Location"
CMD: cd /d "Location"

Now, run the tool using the following command. Make sure that you replace ManifestID and SteamUsername with the corresponding values.  
PS: .\depotdownloader.bat -app 720250 -depot 720251 -manifest "ManifestID" -username "SteamUsername"
CMD: depotdownloader.bat -app 720250 -depot 720251 -manifest "ManifestID" -username "SteamUsername"

This will create a depots folder inside the directory where you extracted the tool, the old patch will be in a subfolder named with the Game ID. You can either run the game directly off of this folder, or copy it in another location because the tool will overwrite the files each time you download a new manifest.

Getting April 12th Speedrunning Version Guide

1. Open the Steam console. Do this by typing steam://open/console into the Run program.
2. Copy, paste into steam console: download_depot 720250 720251 6788389228187769585
3. Wait for it to download and check where the file is saved to.
4. Go to where the depot files were downloaded.
5. Launch the game's .exe file in depot files or drag depot folder onto desktop and launch. Doing this allows current game to update in correct folder and creates old version of game in depot files.

Obtaining version for: "old patch"

1. Activate console in steam 
Enter this in browser: steam://nav/console
2. Paste this command "download_depot 720250 720251 5874631687768504692"
3. After the download is done, Steam will show you where the files were downloaded to.
4. Go to the game's installation directory, and move the files somewhere else. Then go to where the depot files were downloaded to, and move everything over to the game folder.
5. You may have to rename the game's EXE file if the dev changed the launch options recently. You can find the current EXE name by going to the game's SteamDB page and clicking on the Configuration tab.
6. You should now be able to launch the old version through Steam.

IMPORTANT: If you are experiencing the problem where after launching the game you see no menu options this probably means that you have a current patch save file that still exists in your game files. Since these newer patch save files contain more information the old patch game gets confused and breaks. If you delete your save files it should work fine.

Obtaining version for: "old patch/no hack cooldown"

1. Activate console in steam 
Enter this in browser: steam://nav/console
2. Paste this command "download_depot 720250 720251 6788389228187769585"
3. After the download is done, Steam will show you where the files were downloaded to.
4. Go to the game's installation directory, and move the files somewhere else. Then go to where the depot files were downloaded to, and move everything over to the game folder.
5. You may have to rename the game's EXE file if the dev changed the launch options recently. You can find the current EXE name by going to the game's SteamDB page and clicking on the Configuration tab.
6. You should now be able to launch the old version through Steam.

IMPORTANT: If you are experiencing the problem where after launching the game you see no menu options this probably means that you have a current patch save file that still exists in your game files. Since these newer patch save files contain more information the old patch game gets confused and breaks. If you delete your save files it should work fine.

Obtaining version for: "Old Patch/With Hack Cooldown"

1. Activate console in steam
Enter this in browser: steam://nav/console
2. Paste this command "download_depot 720250 720251 7851970317935229589"
3. After the download is done, Steam will show you where the files were downloaded to.
4. Go to the game's installation directory, and move the files somewhere else. Then go to where the depot files were downloaded to, and move everything over to the game folder.
5. You may have to rename the game's EXE file if the dev changed the launch options recently. You can find the current EXE name by going to the game's SteamDB page and clicking on the Configuration tab.
6. You should now be able to launch the old version through Steam.

Website/key information (including open-times)

Important:
- The page on the first wiki with the link can also have a key.
- The link to the second wiki is always on the first page of a non-timed website in 
the source code.
- There are always 2 keys on the first wiki, 3 on the second
and 3 on the last.
- Not all websites are available every run.
- The sites "Forgive me" and "The Rule of Three" never contain keys (but forgive me can have the wiki link if it's on the first wiki)
- As far as we know each website on the same wiki page has the exact same probability to have a key (so a thanks for visiting key is just as likely as vacation one). If anyone wants to data mine the game to confirm/disprove this you would be a hero.

Time windows (page count for the website in brackets):

xx:00 to xx:14
IAMHERE (1) absolute trash even with key locations.

xx:00 to xx:29
Borrow My Daughter (1) 
Deep Journal (3)
YOU THERE? (1)

xx:30 to xx:44
Ave Satan (1)
Fifty Seven (1) 
Number Station (1) 
Your Data (1) 

xx:45 to xx:59
THANATOS (1) 
Little Friends (2) 

xx:30 to xx:59
Brutal Underground (2)

Always:

Bug Friendly (5)
Cleaning Services (3)
Cry ♥♥♥♥♥ (2)
Drone Spy (3)
EnCrave (2)
Evidence Locker (5)
Evil Collection (10)
Eye (1)
Father Donald (2) (Current patch only)
Foot Doctor (4)
Forgive Me (2)
Fortune Cookie (1)
Grandmas Fantasy (2) (Current patch only)
Heirloom (8)
Hidden Pleasures (10)
I Love Cats (3)
Is Evil (1) (Current patch only)
Keep Sake (1)
Kill for me (3) (Current patch only)
Milk Supply (2)
Mortal Masks (3)
Mutilation (4)
My Gut (5)
Myriad (1)
Oneless (1)
Order Of Nine (2)
Panty Sales (1)
Pay To **** (3) (Current patch only)
Red Triangle (1)
Scream B***h (1) (Current patch only)
Share Your Genitals (1)
St Louis Arch (4)
Thanks For Visiting (13)
The Black Waves (1)
The Bomb maker (1) (Current patch only)
The Doll Maker (2)
The End Of NY (1)
The Granddaddy (4)
The Grey (5)
The Hall (1)
The Light Within (2)
The Loogaroo (1) (Current patch only)
THE MAGISTRI (4)
The Prey (1) (Current patch only)
The Rule Of Three
Vacation (1)
We Rock (1)
Warehouse33 (4) (Current patch only)

Websites sorted on page count:
Thanks for visiting (13)
Evil collection (10)
Hidden pleasures (10)
Heirloom (8)
bug friendly (5)
Evidence locker (5)
my gut (5)
The grey (5)
The magistri (4)
Granddaddy (4)
St Louis Arch (4)
Mutilation (4)
Foot doctor (4)
Warehouse33 (4) (Current patch only)
I love cats (3)
Kill for me (3) (Current patch only)
Mortal masks (3)
Deep journal (3)
Drone spy (3)
Don't waste it (3)
Cleaning services (3)
Pay To **** (3) (Current patch only)
Cry bitch (2)
Brutal underground (2)
EnCrave (2)
Father Donald (2) (Current patch only)
Forgive me (2)
Grandmas Fantasy (2) (Current patch only)
Little friends (2)
Milk supply (2)
Order of Nine (2)
Doll maker (2)
The light within (2)
The end of NY (1)
The hall(1)
Black waves (1)
Thanatos (1)
Red triangle (1)
panty sales (1)
Oneless (1)
Ave satan (1)
Borrow my daughter (1)
Fifty seven (1)
Fortune cookie (1)
IAMHERE (1)
Is Evil (1) (Current patch only)
Keep sake (1)
Myriad (1)
Number station (1)
Scream B***h (1) (Current patch only)
Share your genitals (1)
Eye(1)
Vacation (1)
We rock (1)
YOU THERE? (1)
Your Data (1)
The Bomb maker (1) (Current patch only)
The Loogaroo (1) (Current patch only)
The Prey (1) (Current patch only)
The rule of three (third link)

नाम	लेखक
1. Important Information about the Latest Patch	Lutonite 5 years ago
2. Updated Guide to Download Old Patches	Lutonite 5 years ago
Getting April 12th Speedrunning Version Guide	DX23145 7 years ago
Obtaining version for: "old patch"	Insym 5 years ago
Obtaining version for: "old patch/no hack cooldown"	Distortion2 5 years ago
Obtaining version for: "Old Patch/With Hack Cooldown"	Insym 5 years ago
Website/key information (including open-times)	Insym 5 years ago
welcome to the game 2 speedrun guide (sub 30 with tutorial)	FeelixG 3 years ago