AKheon | Deadly Premonition (PS3) - escort section break-out (Chapters 8 & 9) @AKheon | Uploaded July 2023 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
A few of the game's chapters feature an escort section where the game expects you to tag along with Emily and/or George to drive to the next location together. These sections are optional, and can be easily ended once started since simply leaving the car in the middle of one automatically ends the escort section and returns York to adventuring solo.
0:00 - However, much like you can escape a forced ride during the Sigourney side quest by driving to Psychic Spot A, you can also break out of a forced ride with NPCs. The Psychic Spot A removes York from his car without activating the code that also ends the escort section; this has the potential to cause some discrepancies inside the game.
If you enter any car after this point, the escort section becomes active again and the break-out is over. So, it's better to have the Radio for moving around if you want to mess around with this glitch.
0:20 - all normal escort sections have a deadline at which point the NPCs get fed up with York's slow progress and leave on their own. If you've already broken out of the escort section, you can overlap this deadline cutscene with many other actions around the game, with some buggy results.
Indeed, I would say that the opportunity to do unique deadline break-outs is basically the single biggest utility of breaking out of escort sections. This is because Sigourney break-outs are a bit slow to set up. Sigourney can appear at random locations and you always have to wait 5 minutes in real time afterwards for her pot to get cold... A deadline break-out is more predictable and faster to set up too. At least in speedruns, you'd rather use a deadline break-out rather than a Sigourney break-out if possible.
0:57 - it's already been covered in the video about deadline break-outs, but at least the following actions are possible to overlap with a deadline cutscene: binoculars, fishing, dumpster. Basically any action during which time runs, which admittedly aren't all that many. Still, binoculars break-out is possibly the single most powerful glitch in the game, so having access to new and more convenient ways to start it is always welcome.
1:34 - Here's Chapter 8 deadline overlapped with dumpster. York's investigative methods are getting more and more bizarre...
2:07 - I noticed this mild bug with the A&G Diner cutscene in Chapter 9 if you've broken out of the escort mission and try to enter it when it's closed. York will be on foot while Emily is sitting in the car that's parked nearby. Emily says that they'll meet there again tomorrow, but this doesn't actually end the escort section and Emily makes no attempt to leave York's car.
3:00 - For completion's sake, I included the major deadline cutscene overlaps from Chapter 8 as well. Here's fishing plus Chapter 8 deadline cutscene.
3:56 - Dumpster plus Chapter 8 deadline cutscene.
A few of the game's chapters feature an escort section where the game expects you to tag along with Emily and/or George to drive to the next location together. These sections are optional, and can be easily ended once started since simply leaving the car in the middle of one automatically ends the escort section and returns York to adventuring solo.
0:00 - However, much like you can escape a forced ride during the Sigourney side quest by driving to Psychic Spot A, you can also break out of a forced ride with NPCs. The Psychic Spot A removes York from his car without activating the code that also ends the escort section; this has the potential to cause some discrepancies inside the game.
If you enter any car after this point, the escort section becomes active again and the break-out is over. So, it's better to have the Radio for moving around if you want to mess around with this glitch.
0:20 - all normal escort sections have a deadline at which point the NPCs get fed up with York's slow progress and leave on their own. If you've already broken out of the escort section, you can overlap this deadline cutscene with many other actions around the game, with some buggy results.
Indeed, I would say that the opportunity to do unique deadline break-outs is basically the single biggest utility of breaking out of escort sections. This is because Sigourney break-outs are a bit slow to set up. Sigourney can appear at random locations and you always have to wait 5 minutes in real time afterwards for her pot to get cold... A deadline break-out is more predictable and faster to set up too. At least in speedruns, you'd rather use a deadline break-out rather than a Sigourney break-out if possible.
0:57 - it's already been covered in the video about deadline break-outs, but at least the following actions are possible to overlap with a deadline cutscene: binoculars, fishing, dumpster. Basically any action during which time runs, which admittedly aren't all that many. Still, binoculars break-out is possibly the single most powerful glitch in the game, so having access to new and more convenient ways to start it is always welcome.
1:34 - Here's Chapter 8 deadline overlapped with dumpster. York's investigative methods are getting more and more bizarre...
2:07 - I noticed this mild bug with the A&G Diner cutscene in Chapter 9 if you've broken out of the escort mission and try to enter it when it's closed. York will be on foot while Emily is sitting in the car that's parked nearby. Emily says that they'll meet there again tomorrow, but this doesn't actually end the escort section and Emily makes no attempt to leave York's car.
3:00 - For completion's sake, I included the major deadline cutscene overlaps from Chapter 8 as well. Here's fishing plus Chapter 8 deadline cutscene.
3:56 - Dumpster plus Chapter 8 deadline cutscene.
