It's about winning your way 100% - and there's another reason you'll want to grab them all. To find all the notes you will need to complete an in-game challenge and unlock points for the store. If you're aiming to unlock all the best things, you'll want to complete as many challenges as possible.
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All Files Collection Locations
Files are notes, brochures and documents that you will find throughout. For finding them all, you will earn points for the store and get the "Bookworm" achievement / trophy.
Prologue
- Jill's Report: Apartment - In Jill's apartment, pinned to the plot corkboard.
- Investigation Notes: Apartment - On the same cork in the prologue.
- Unsealed envelope: Apartment - On the chest of drawers, to the left of the cork.
- Message from a colleague: Apartment - On the dinner table.
Downtown
- UBCS Ammunition Manufacturing Guide: Redstone Street Station - On the bench on the subway platform.
- Front page of the tabloid: Redstone Street Station - At the lighted kiosk.
- UBCS Grass Fields Handbook: Metro station - On the table in the entrance hall.
- Pharmacy owner's journal: Downtown - On the second floor of the building opposite the Redstone Pharmacy, take the path to access the upper warehouse with the safe.
- Memo from metro employees: Metro Office - Located in the office by the door near the (fire hose).
- Kite Bros. Railway Manual: Metro control room - On a chair in the control room.
- Training log: Garage - Upstairs, next to the dead UBCS soldier.
- UBCS Suicide Note: Garage Alley - On the ground in a dead end outside the garage, next to a dead soldier.
- Electrician's Note: Garage Alley - Pinned to the wall in the driveway outside the garage.
- Fax from the substation master: Subway Power Station - On the desk in front of the control panel.
- Green herbs: They're working !: Subway station - Outside the backup room, downstairs on a worktable near some green grasses.
- Internal substation memo: Subway Power Station - Pinned to the wall near a simple lock door.
- Notes from Chad: Subway Power Station - On metal scaffolding at the top of the ladder after the first breaker.
- Your Charlie doll: Downtown Toy Uncle - Inside the Toy Uncle store. Use the hook to access and grab the file on the wall.
Sewers
- Loyalty card: Office of the Sewer Director - On the wall.
- Increased security: Sewer Director's Office - On the wall near the North Waterway Electric Lock.
- Research Assistant's Journal: Sewer office - In the south economy room, on the desk.
- Gun Shop Kendo Invoice: Sewer office - On the stepladder next to the grenade launcher.
- A love letter?: Lab - On the desk near the single-lock locker.
- Sewer Worker Note: Footbridge Lower Sewers - under the shortcut to the ladder, at the top of the lab path.
- Delayed Demolition Notice: Demolition Site - On the upper level Save Room, find this note on a table near the typewriter.
- Raccoon Reader Column: RPD Exterior Downtown - Past the Kendo Gate, find this in the second floor bedroom.
Police station
- Email outbox: Police Station Exterior - Before entering the Police Station, turn around and return to the courtyard to the underground tunnel. Look inside the room to find this note.
- ID card security protocols: Reception - On the bench near the locked box.
- Internal memo: Dark room - Near the central office.
- Note to a friend: Shower room 2F - On the bench in the center of the locker room.
- Locker 3F: Security deposit room - Glued to the board near the door.
- Mansion Incident Report: STARS Office - Inside the small interior office of the STARS Office.
Raccoon City Outskirts
- UBCS New weapon notice: Dilapidated shelter - found in the bedroom (dilapidated shelter). The first when you take back control of Jill.
- Clock Tower Brochure: Clock Tower Plaza - On a bench facing the waterfront.
Hôpital
- Spencer Memorial Flyer: Reception - Next to the padlocked door.
- Nurse's diary: Laboratory reception - On the large desk.
- Nurse's diaryl: Records room - On the right shelf.
- Loyalty card: 2F - On the wall just in front of the (record room).
- Nurse's diary: Staff room - On a desk in the center of the room.
- Administration memos: Staff Room - Pinned to the wall near the interior door.
- Note on a tape recording: Nurse's Station - At the reception.
- Banquet invitation: Hospital 1F - Found next to Bard's body in his locked lab.
- Email from Nathaniel Bard: Hospital 1F - In the same room as the invitation. Interact with the computer at the back of the room.
Hospital Pt. 2
- Elevator Notice: Underground Storage Office - In the backup room, next to the typewriter.
- Employee Memo: Underground Storage - Found in the room with two regular zombies and a naked Whitehead. Connected to (Office) Save Room.
- Unfinished activity log: Surveillance room - Check the brightly lit computer screen.
NEST 2
- NEST 2 Employee Rules: Storage - In the first backup room of (NEST 2).
- Vaccine synthesis assay: NEST 2 2F - Found in the room with the (vaccination equipment).
- Isaac Graves Diary: Nest 2 2F - In the dead end corridor, kill the zombie to find this file at the end of the corridor.
- Message from the dying scientist: Nest 2 - In the stairwell leading to B1, there is a corpse with a note on the catwalk.
- Expression of concern: Incubation room - located on the desk in the room where you will collect the (test tube filled with liquid).
- Weapons authorization request: Lab 1 - On the desktop.
- Disposal center: Worker's Rest Room - Pinned to the wall near the exit door.
- Weapon datasheet: Staff Break Room - In the save room after fighting Nemesis in NEST 2.
