Twilight Zone

Twilight Zone (debug zone)
Region	!
Unlocked by	Save file editing (see below).

Accesss

This area has various dev tools for testing the game. You cannot access it except by editing your save file. Find your save file in:

• C:\Users\username\AppData\LocalLow\Asymmetric Games, LLC\Shadows Over Loathing\ (Windows)
• ~/Library/Application Support/com.AsymmetricGamesLLC.ShadowsOverLoathing (Mac)

Edit the current "WAA_ID" to "aaa_twilightzone" (normally the last line in the save file). (WAA is a Walking Around Area, i.e. the current location of your character)

Interactions

Testing tools

• Jump to the start of day 1/2/3/4 and change your class.
• Weapon dispenser (delete current weapon, give and autoequip a new one) [specify a weapon ID name such as weapon_baseballbat]

• Fight a monster by ID [such as 1_doughboy_loafer]
• Run aaa_fight (always fight Big Liz?)
• Give me all my class combat skills
• Crafting (gimme a bunch of materials / 3 random basic materials / nuke all / make potions/food/combat items).
• Go to the Scriptorium (no return to the Twilight Zone without editing save file again)
• An air conditioner that changes your starting perk: altruism/family/checkeredpast1/checkeredpast2/checkeredpast3/lostsoul/findself/shadow/meat/fame/items/hard/chaos.
• A black hole to wipe your entire inventory.
• A phone which will give you a random ring.
• A lab bench/arcane oven/workbench.
• A floating table which will run test_boring_interest script, which takes you to a test_boring_interest location area (WAA)
• A mirror to the fight Arena (see below).
• A dummy you can fight with 500 HP.

The front of this control doohickey features three meters, three buttons, and no instructions. Oh, wait, someone's graffitoed the top of the console: "11 (3x)."

Various items the devs seem have tested

• A Shadow pouch
• A plant which toggles the light source in the room.
• A pile of rocks that say FART.
• A light post that shoots lightning.
• A cabinet with "It's a bug node": Insectologist: gather powerful grit.
• A large blocky metal golem.
• A hovering robot.
• Test SIT Misc: find one of: S.I.T. sports drink, pocket battery, disposable razor blade, pocket chemical handwarmer, roll of duct tape, drum rollerskates, foo bar, Möbius cookie, S.I.T. barometer necklace, binder clip, ultracondensed soup, unidentified chemicals, S.I.T. portable radio, S.I.T. sports letter, S.I.T. puzzle ring.
• 3 levels/3 buttons puzzle (zoomed in). Takes you to S.I.T. (Meta-Acoustics Classroom) on exit.
• Lightning will strike when you approach.
• Some rats will scurry away when you approach.
• A large tree.
• A mirror.
• A coatrack which "gives you some of every crafted item. Huge inventory bloat. You want it?" "Yes! Bloat me up, baby!"
• A procgen cave with various procgen toilets.
• A hoard of testing monsters.
• Find a delicious hot dog, mustard-drenched hot dog (if you don't have them).
• Various other gators, fishmen, ducks, etc.
• more

Scriptorium

• A tutorial for new people learning to write scripts in SoL.

Arena

Enemy combat testing:

• Quickie rando
• Step 1: choose class
• Step 2: choose skills/xp
• Step 3: choose gear level
• Region 1 fights (easy/moderate/difficult/EXTREME)
• Region 2 fights (easy/moderate/difficult/EXTREME)
• Region 3 fights (easy/moderate/difficult/EXTREME)
• Region 4 fights (easy/moderate/difficult/EXTREME)
• Region 5 fights (easy/moderate/difficult/EXTREME)
• Region 6 fights (easy/moderate/difficult/EXTREME)
• Region 999 fights (easy/moderate/difficult/EXTREME)

Other testing stuff

Other areas you can try visiting include:

• aaa_coldstorage (lots of misc stuff)
• aaa_danbobtest (empty)
• aaa_duncantest (pretty empty)
• aaa_hilbertstorage (Hilbert House furniture, including 6 different radios playing different songs at the same time)
• aaa_islandtest (an empty island in the sea)
• aaa_kevintest
• aaa_photostudio (controls move the camera instead of the character)
• aaa_rifftest
• aaa_test_combat (cannot exit to menu from here)
• aaa_weatherfactory (rain)
• aaa_windycity (empty road, no wind)