What the Resistance Notes Ask You to Do at Depot 5

Identify the writer before reporting the scrap

The photographed slip on the cutting board identifies its writers as the Resistance. It asks the worker to keep the paper and questions why he should report to the people who left him at the depot. Read both actions before the countdown finishes. Reporting sends information to the Ministry; the left-side option in the photographed layout keeps the note.

Read the comparison in the Resistance message

The slip compares soldiers dying and villages going hungry with someone in the capital getting a medal for drawing a line on a map. The two displayed replies keep or report the paper. A medal is part of the argument, with no collection prompt on the pictured screen. Answer the paper and return to the hopper rather than searching its contents for a medal.

Recognize the machine inventory still visible behind the note

In the recorded screenshot the number 91/128 is suspended over the physical hopper, while the paper presents a separate timer and two reply buttons in the center. The 37-unit difference is spare hopper capacity at that moment. It is not a count of missing notes. Handle the paper in the foreground, then top up the hopper if the production line needs raw stock.

Use the circular as story evidence rather than an exchange rate

The French ministry message urges the worker to support troops and is signed by the Department of Morale and Discipline. It offers a reading mode and a put-back action, without a choice that assigns potatoes to individual soldiers. Put the notice down and use the active shipment counter for actual production. A slogan about one soldier does not give a one-potato combat conversion.

Read the personnel appendix before advancing

In the Russian screenshot Pavel is selected for his father's firing squad, obeys and receives a promotion. The Chinese screenshot independently shows the same outcome and the pair of socks he keeps. Wait for the personal appendix after the route's public bulletin. A public death sentence for the worker alone does not name who carried it out.

Read the last sentence of the re-education appendix

The Chinese family appendix says that after the regime falls somebody proposes crediting Pavel for his father's actions. Pavel declines to sign. That is text in the ending, not a signature prompt for the player. Read through the personal appendix before comparing it with the earlier government bulletin, which covers the broader takeover.

Follow the time change between the two reports

The pictured family appendix says the warehouse worker was executed for treason and that the regime fell three weeks later. Pavel then appears on a re-education list. The preceding Western political bulletin describes the regime change. Read the personal page's time interval before deciding whether the two events happened together or whether the new authorities carried out the earlier sentence.

Read what the graduation appendix actually records

A Japanese capture describes Pavel moving to a military academy in the capital. At graduation he meets his father for fifteen minutes and the father asks about the socks. This is the account for that particular branch. Use the family appendix rather than the general Northern Front bulletin if you want to identify this brief meeting on your own route.

Read the translated body on the printed Ministry form

Compare the French morale circular with the German posting order. Both keep Cyrillic printed letterhead, a coat of arms and a year field. The typed instructions below change language, and the controls at lower left use the chosen interface language. Check the body or control legend to test the language setting. A surviving Russian stamp by itself does not indicate that the entire installation has switched back to Russian.

Use the posting order to identify the setting

Inspect the form on the desk. The Ministry is identified as the Ministry of Defence and Supply of Beruskov. The printed year field reads 1978 on the captured forms. A name and year printed on in-game stationery provide better evidence for the setting than the uniforms or winter scenery alone. They do not establish a real-world army, exact day or a specific historical battle. Use the destination names in the game when looking for the corresponding ending.

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Related field notes

• Resistance letters: when to hide the contents or report them
• Why half the potato pile disappears and what the Ministry notices mean
• Your Own Executioner: the Pavel decisions before Varenka