Driving is a complicated matter in My Winter Car. Especially if we talk about your first vehicle, the Sorbett.This is not a car well-equipped for the snow, so you can lose control of your car pretty easily and… murder someone. You didn’t want to do it, of course, but now it’s too late, and the NPC is gone. Hopefully, nothing else will happen, right?
Wrong! My Winter Car features a prison system, and in this guide, we will explore everything you need to know about how it works and what you have to do to get out of jail.
My Winter Car is still on Early Access, so anything in this guide is subject to change.
How The Prison System Works
The game has an invisible Wanted system that will trigger once you do certain actions. You’ll never know that you’re being wanted, until it’s too late: you went to sleep at your home, and when you wake up, someone is knocking on your door: the police.
You open the main door, and you will see two officers. They will give you an arrest warrant, which you need to read and sign. Then puff, you’re locked down in a cell.
Once you’re wanted, it’s impossible to escape: there will be officers on the front door and the back door, blocking all exits.
So, how did this happen? It turns out there are a handful actions that can put you behind bars:
- Punching an unconscious NPC.
- Not stopping at police traffic checks.
- Crashing your vehicle into another one and killing the driver.
- Killing a pedestrian with your car.
- Not paying accumulated fines.
These are all reported and documented in the game’s wiki, but I tried triggering some of these and I couldn’t. It’s not that easy to kill someone with your car, and most NPCs don’t react to your punches.
How To Get Out Of Jail
After signing the warrant, you’ll spawn in a cell. You’ll see, on the upper left side of the screen, below all the usual attributes, a new one: Jail Days. So what can you do to get out of jail? Well… you need to pass those days behind bars.
An in-game day is equivalent to two real hours, so that’s all you need to know. Your sentence will depend on the severity of your crime, and you can be arrested for more than one crime, adding all the days to one total.
If you get more than ten days, you can consider that a kind of game over.
There isn’t much to do in your cell. You have a radio, a TV with bad programming, and that’s it. You can go to bed and sleep, but that’s about it. Maybe you will consider starting a new game.
Use MWC CheatBox
Okay, so if you have been playing for a while and have made a lot of progress that you don’t want to lose, don’t worry, there’s another solution: mods. Install the mod MWC CheatBox, and you’ll have a setting that will let you get out of jail immediately.
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