The Inspector - Overhaul Mod

This mod makes you an official, government employed inspector. Investigate alongside enforcers, new inventory system, your own office in city hall, and more!

Overview

Tired of operating like a vigilante? Want to begin your career as a government employed inspector? This mod overhauls Shadows of Doubt to create a new kind of gameplay loop focused more on solving crimes and less on the things that slow you down.

This is the first mod I've ever made! I made it for myself but decided to upload it for anyone else who was looking for a similar kind of gameplay change.

You're official now, inspector.

When a murder is reported, walk right in. You're the man for the job! No more fearing cameras, enforcers, and sneaking around in vents.

Need to interrogate the suspect's coworkers? Walk right in during business hours and ask away. You're an officer of the law, now! You no longer need to worry about trespassing, cameras, or turrets. Day or night, you have a warrant.

You now have legal immunity. Need to check the security cameras for the streets? Pick the lock. No one will bat an eye. You're an officer of the law!

You stop being a criminal for doing your job. Trespassing, breaking and entering, assault, theft, tampering and vandalism no longer flag you, and security cameras and sentry turrets never target, investigate or gather evidence on you.

Arresting People

Now, anytime you strike an NPC with your fists, they will get down on their knees and raise their hands. This is the beginning of my "You're under arrest" system. If you track your suspect down at work, hit them with your fists and they will get down and surrender. And there won't be a mob fight break out against you either.

When you initiate an arrest, everyone around will turn and watch until you leave the area, and some will flee.

If you catch a criminal in the act or with a weapon however, they may try to fight back or run!

Well Equipped

In my experience after many hours of gameplay, codebreaking became a chore. If you're willing to make the errand to city hall, you can always buy a codebreaker and get into any safe or computer. This means you either hope for a note nearby where people write their password, or you make a trip to city hall and back.

This gave me an idea. So I revamped the inventory system.

You now have 9 default items that work infinitely. I've also set the inventory pockets default number from 4 to 6 for the blank spots you can use to pick things up. In your default inventory you now have the following items mapped to the number hotkeys:

Key	Item
`1`	Truncheon
`2`	Fists
`3`	Print Scanner
`4`	Codebreaker
`5`	Revolver (WIP)
`6`	Camera
`7`	Door Wedge
`8`	Handcuffs
`9`	Cigarettes
`0`	Unequip

As an officer of the law, you now come equipped with a codebreaker that's reusable. (That's the in-game explanation, but it just infinitely refills the inventory slot. So old codebreakers still drop after use.)

Each of these nine items are inexhaustible. Use them on duty to your heart's content.

Your Own Office

Another thing I found myself doing was running into city hall and using the computer in the first room on the right to access the government database. So, rather than using some random receptionist's computer to search the government records — now, it's your office!

The first room inside city hall to the right is now your office. You can edit the layout just like you would an apartment, move and add furniture, and change the wallpaper and floor. To do this, open your inventory and select the Edit Decor button in between the two inventory rows.

The computer has to be a government profile, not the player's profile ownership. Otherwise you won't be able to use the government database. I don't recommend changing or moving the desk or computer to avoid bugs. If you do, be sure to save before moving them.

Configuration

This mod is configurable. Each of these settings can be changed and it should update in-game immediately without having to restart.

Settings live in BepInEx\config\CalebScott.TheInspector.cfg, created on first launch.

Section	Key	Default	Meaning
`General`	`Enabled`	`true`	Legal-status and security-system immunity
`CivilianReactions`	`Enabled`	`true`	Surrender-instead-of-fight, gawking, no bystander attacks
	`BystanderFleeChance`	`0.3`	Share of witnesses who flee rather than watch
	`RedHandedMurderException`	`true`	A murderer caught mid-murder keeps vanilla behaviour
	`SurrenderHardFreeze`	`true`	Suspend a surrendering NPC's movement so they kneel where they stand
	`SurrenderReleaseDistance`	`10`	How far you walk before a surrendered NPC gets up
	`GawkRadius`	`15`	Radius of civilians who turn to watch an arrest
	`GawkReleaseDistance`	`20`	How far you walk before they go back to normal
`Inventory`	`Enabled`	`true`	The 9-tool locked row and resized free row
	`InfiniteUseEnabled`	`true`	Locked tools can't be dropped, consumables refill
	`ModularSlotCount`	`6`	Free slots (vanilla is 4)
	`SwapInventoryRows`	`true`	Draw the free row above the locked row
`Office`	`Enabled`	`true`	The city hall office conversion
	`Title`	`Inspector`	`Inspector` or `Detective`
	`DryRun`	`false`	Pick and log the office room but change nothing
	`RoomIdOverride`	`-1`	Force a specific room by ID instead of auto-detecting

Office has ~25 further keys covering room detection, desk placement and naming — each one is documented in the generated config file itself.

If the office lands in the wrong room

The mod auto-detects city hall and the first room off its entrance, and refuses outright to convert a lobby, corridor, bathroom or stairwell. If it still picks badly:

Set Office/DryRun = true and load a save. Nothing is modified.
Open BepInEx\LogOutput.log — every building preset, every city hall room with its ID and current name, and every candidate desk preset is listed there.
Set Office/RoomIdOverride to the room ID you want (or Office/OfficeRoomNameContains to a fragment of its name), set DryRun back to false, and reload.

Compatibility

Needs BepInEx IL2CPP (the Thunderstore BepInExPack_IL2CPP). No other dependencies.
Built and tested against Shadows of Doubt Steam build 22889384.
Expect conflicts with other mods that rewrite inventory slots, player illegal status, or city hall room contents.
Safe to add to an existing save. Removing it mid-save leaves the office room converted — the furniture stays where it is, it just stops being maintained.