Current WR Route

These are my current notes for the route.Note: "X: Y; Z" means roughly "with target person X, under Y, upload Z", but not all lines strictly follow that guideline.

DAY 1
- Read new headline
- Select new target person
- Arrest record, get name, portrait, arrest
- Go back to headline, get plaza and artist
- Go to homepage, uTell, day job, forgotten daughter
- On listener, mark relationship
- Read article, lack of evidence
- Back in listener, grab big pharma
- In company, jobs, then people
- In company people, COO, then back
- In jobs, COO
- On timeline, activist group and open listener
- On timeline, Cassarthis
- On listener, catch a bus, and Thought
- Go to Thought, newest entry, peaceful
- Also open Thought page 1 from link
- On listener, get violence
- Open listener
- Open article through ticker


Day 2
- Goldfels: Thought 1; Created blog + song
- Open entry 8
- Listener
- Goldfels: Thought 8; Recruiting students + students
- Goldfels: Stelligan, courses, Goldfels; Abraham, Professor
- Goldfels: Stelligan, attendees, summer 2016, media, Goldfels: Juliet, Harrison
- Juliet: Timeline; PR assistant
- Juliet: Rhosen, get in touch: Phone
- Listener: Juliet call
- Juliet: Harrison timeline; Old photo
- Band page: Albums -> Gigs -> 2nd gig (right)
- Juliet: Band, gigs 2; organized
- Back button twice to band
- Harrison: Band; Hancock
- Forward button to albums
- Harrison: Band, albums; Email
- Goldfels: Listener; Gone
- Harrison: Listener; Initiate
- Harrison: Listener; Blog
- Harrison: Harrison blog; Occupy
- Goldfels: Harrison blog, message; Debate club
- Harrison: Debate club; Nina invitation
- Nina: Debate club; concerned1
- Harrison: Thought 5; Government building
- Listener: Interrogation, switch to Nina during


Day 3
- Nina: Listener; Safety Bill
- Nina: Thought 6, profile; concernedone
- Listener; Start conversation
- Nina: Listener; Angry outburst Nina
- Nina: Listener; Singular
- Nina: Singular, messages, WiseSam; Name, temp work, son
- Nina: Agency, profile, feedback; Days worked
- Listener; Start initiate and get initiate name chunk
- Nina: Agency, profile; Back button and email
- Listener; Start call and continue initiate when possible, get UID
- Nina: Listener; Maternova, patient number
- Nina: Medical database; Address
- Nina: Insider;
--- Sys -> Browser -> CCTV
--- Trash -> Request -> Plaza
--- Trash -> Mechanic -> Number
--- Private -> Do not read -> Schwartz
--- Private -> Squad -> Photo
--- Goldfels: Private -> Apology -> Email
- Nina: Army; Platoon, combat engineer and AWOL
- Nina: Army, memorial; Desmond
- Nina: Missions, Parges; Mines
- Nina: Listener, Sylv; Address
- Open government projects
- Nina: Agency, ratings; Circle Mall
- Nina: Government projects, safety bill; Felony
- Nina: Insider; Fail viewing
- Nina: Listener, initiate; Escaping
- Nina: Listener, Juliet; Armed, back door, picking up son
- Nina: Listener, Goldfels; Cooperation

Day 4
- Headlines; Open Nina
- Listener; Start Juliet, open alumni on reader meanwhile
- Goldfels: Listener, Juliet; Goldfels knew Josef
- Josef: University, alumni; Law office
- Josef: Office, contact; Email and phone
- Josef: Office, profile; Minister
- Harrison: Listener, initiate; Invitation
- Juliet: Listener, Juliet; julesy_ker
- Listener: Start Josef
- Josef: Listener, Josef; Favour for Abraham
- Josef: Listener, email; Unlock
- Initiate: Listener, email; Timeline link
- Initiate: Timeline; rhosen, handle
- Initiate: Listener; Start
- Josef: Insider
--- Mails -> Private; indubio, Nina, counsel
--- Mails -> Office; Meeting -> bank
- Josef: Bank; Recurring donation
- Josef: Mails, office; Feedback -> Donation
- Initiate: Listener; Orwell
- Goldfels: Case; Breach, medical
- Goldfels: Medical; Cancer, expectancy
- Ticker: Thought leak
- Listener: Juliet conversations, start con call
- Juliet: Met Goldfels online
- Juliet: Repair; UID
- Open Stelligan letter, switch to Goldfels during crash
- Goldfels: Insider -> Stelligan, re. course -> Immigrated
- Goldfels: Missing; Aarons
- Goldfels: Obituaries; Aarons
- Initiate: Listener; Attacked Orwell?
- Harrison: Thought, Overview, new; Benjamin
- Benjamin: Facts

Day 5
- Goldfels: Listener; Thought gathers
- Harrison: Listener, ghosting; Cyber cafe and breakup
- Harrison: Cyber cafe, hosts; Photo and former admin
- Harrison: Cyber cafe, hosts, Hancock; UID
- Harrison: Insider -> Sys, browser; Phone and Costigan
- Harrison: Insider -> Personal, right invoice; Insurance
- Harrison: Phone, map; Orchard
- Harrison: Phone, mails; Goldfels
- Harrison: Phone, skychat 2; Lives with mom
- Harrison: Phone, gallery; Photo
- Juliet: Harrison phone, gallery 2; Photo
- Juliet: Harrison phone, contacts; Number
- Juliet: Start listener
- Juliet: Harrison PC, personal, message; Email and Dixon
- Juliet: Listener, Rhosen; Weekend + UID
- Juliet: Phone, tracking; Rhosen
- Juliet: Phone, gallery; Picture

- Goldfels: Listener -> Initiate -> Saved protocol

IL Timing Guidelines

MiphaSR and I seemed to agree on these:
- On day 1, start timing when you cancel the cutscene at the start
- Days 4-5, start timing when you click to dismiss the intro summary
- Days 1-4, stop timing when you click logout
- Day 5, stop timing when you get the ending fade

Orwell Routing Basics and Rationales

Some of the biggest ways to save time in this game:
- Do not upload anything that isn't strictly necessary to the basic route you want to pursue
- If you need to pick between two conflicts and they don't matter, consider which one fits better with optimizing
- Minimize the time spent on switching characters, and when you do need to switch characters, do so during conversations with nothing else going on
- Trigger necessary conversations as quickly as possible and try to get their required chunks as soon as they appear
- Consider the effects down the line across the whole run
- When you can, use your downtime to prepare other menus (eg. When you're waiting for Juliet to say Abraham knew Josef, spend the time opening the notable alumni page and scrolling so you can upload the chunk and immediately go to the reader to have the law office chunk visible and ready)
- There is a small amount of time between an upload and the advisors' reactions. If you were TAS you could possibly upload another chunk in that time, but what is humanly possible is to send single-click events like changing target person or switching between reader/listener/insider

Notable choices:
- To prevent Cassandra from being in the final phone call, incriminate her with the "confession" to Juliet. You could also flag her as dangerous by uploading her Metharin prescription and its uses, but that makes the interrogation a bit longer as she resists the officer injury accusation and Symes uses the dangerous flag as a backup.
- Falsely implicate Harrison for the Stelligan occupation. You have to pass by his blog anyway, which is faster than visiting Juliet's timeline to get the real story.
- Falsely claim a government building is targeted. The interrogation takes some 5-10 seconds longer, but saves time because you skip the phone call where Juliet's mother tells her to evacuate.
- Let Initiate hack the party web pages. His failure takes longer to get through, and Harrison takes much longer to push Nina into escaping.
- Flag Nina as dangerous and get her shot as soon as possible. The escape sequence is extremely long.
- Falsely implicate Josef as supporting Nina. He will be absent from the final conversation.
- Upload absolutely whatever on day 5, as long as you supply the address, and only the correct address, for Harrison. Day 5 has a lot of data all over the place, so stick to garbage data with as few switches around and character changes as possible to quickly exhaust the 20-chunk limit. Remember the limit does not start until you upload "Thought must gather".
- After the final phone call, switch to listener, bust into Initiate's PC, and perform the most immoral action of the game by quoting Abraham out of context in the saved protocol. This is by far the fastest ending to get regardless of how you got to the end of the conversation.

Nome	Autore
Current WR Route	Archmagus 6 years ago
IL Timing Guidelines	Archmagus 6 years ago
Orwell Routing Basics and Rationales	Archmagus 6 years ago