2018 Mode

**2018 Mode** (also known in-game as **2018**) is an alternative game mode you play in Five Nights at Wario's: Origins. This game mode features a new character, VIRUS and its many forms, as the enemies in this game mode.

## Synopsis

The year is 2018, an unknown company reopens Wario's Café to ease stress and fear in the public, an unknown employee of said company hires Winslow to guard the café from any thieves or burglars from breaking in and spend the nights watching over, Winslow accepts the job and heads over there. His phone rings saying announcing that the company owning this café will have cameras everywhere for the cost of manual power charging. He heads to the Lounge and uses the cameras for a bit before seeing VIRUS Wario on the Attic camera with it breaking moments later. A bit after, Winslow gets dizzy and passes out for a bit. When he wakes up, he finds out that an entity is trying to kill him. On the 5 nights of being stuck in this café without any food or water, staving and dehydrated from all the movement he had done, Winslow couldn't handle it and the VIRUS killed him.

## Gameplay

2018 Mode is a bit more complex than 1988 Mode. There are less mechanics.

### Mechanics

* Cameras function similarly to the previous game mode, however, they can be used in any room, at the cost of this, manual charging is required in the Office to keep it going. If the camera power runs out, you cannot use it and you cannot charge it. This is only used to track VIRUS Wario and not anyone else as you cannot see them on the cameras.
* Night 3 and onward, there is a cabinet in the Basement with items you can swap out for an item you currently have, on Night 3, a portable light switch is added, on Night 4, a record player is added.
* The portable light switch can be used only in the Attic to make VIRUS Waluigi backtrack, this will prevent you from using the map and cameras until you turn the lights back on and it has a cooldown before use.
* The record player can be used in any room, if VIRUS Mario hasn't got out in the mirror, using the record player in the Bathroom pushes him back. If he has escaped and he appears, you can use the record player to get him away, if you don't have it then, it's over.
* The phone that you start the night with has some usefulness to it, it can notify you of where VIRUS Luigi is, whether he is at the Lounge, Office or Backdoor, you'll be notified of where he is whenever he moves.

### Characters

The original 5 characters from 1988 Mode returns in this mode in their VIRUS forms, which make their first appearance in the series here.

* VIRUS Wario first appears on Night 1 and will start from either the Storage or the Backdoor, depending on where you are and where he is, he'll take the shortest path to you. If you are in the same room as him, you will instantly die.
* VIRUS Waluigi first appears on Night 3, he resides in the Attic and will climb through the window. You can enter the Attic 9 times without him attacking you however on the 10th he will emerge and jumpscare you the next time you enter. If you use the light switch in the Attic anytime before then, he will retreat and allow you more trips into the attic. On All Max Mode or Setting his AI to 2 it will cut your times you can enter in half, which means you can enter only 4 times instead of 9.
* VIRUS Luigi first appears on Night 2, at the beginning of Night 2, he will spawn immediately, on other nights, it will take a bit for him to appear. He can appear in one of 3 locations: Lounge, Office or the Backdoor. The phone will notify you which room he's in now if you have it equipped. If you come into the same room as him, you will be forced into a sequence where ads will pop up. Close these ads as fast as you can to prevent VIRUS Luigi from fading in too much. If you manage to close all of the ads he will fade away a bit and allow you to move again, however on the next encounter, it'll get harder. If VIRUS Luigi fully fades in due to you not closing ads quickly enough, it's game over.
* VIRUS Peach appears on Night 5, she will randomly fade in and obscure your screen if you have been in a room for some time. You have a short period of time before she fully fades in, go into another room before she does so otherwise she'll jumpscare you.
* VIRUS Mario first appears on Night 4, his arm will be seen slowly come out of the mirror in the Bathroom, use the record player to push him back. If he escapes, your game will not be over however VIRUS Mario will now be following you. If you put down the camera there's a high chance that he'll be standing there, stunning you and preventing you from moving. The only way to survive is to play the record player which will make him disappear. If you don't have the record player or just don't play it, he will jumpscare you.

### Custom Night

In Custom Night, you can set VIRUS Wario's, VIRUS Luigi's, VIRUS Mario's, and VIRUS Peach's AI Levels on a scale of 1-20, for VIRUS Waluigi, he can be set on either 1 or 2.

You can also set everyone to max which is 20/20/20/2/20. Beating this rewards you with a ribbon on v2.0 and upwards.

You cannot set anyone to 0.

## Trivia

* In the intro, whenever you spot VIRUS Wario in the cameras, a part of sound plays. This sound comes from an ARG known as The Wyoming Incident.
* It's possible to not encounter VIRUS Waluigi at all using a certain strategy that's referred to as the 'No Attic Strat', it's very useful in All Max mode and it involves luring Wario around the building and exploiting a bug in his 'shortest path' mechanic. (Strat itself simplified: If VIRUS Wario is in the Kitchen and you're in the Bathroom, he will go through the Attic to get to you instead of heading straight towards you, which will provide the player the ability to move around him and thus avoid the attic.)
* The VIRUS Mario design in this mode was made by BRIE.
* It is recommended to keep VIRUS Mario contained in the mirror as him stunning the player can result in VIRUS Wario getting to them.
* VIRUS Luigi will actually pause time and stop the other viruses from moving when you're dealing with the ads, you don't need to worry about VIRUS Wario moving.
* There's a small grace period where VIRUS Wario will not move at the start of every night. This can give players chances to perhaps swap their item to something else or just move around the building.
* Originally, the mode was called 2016 Mode.
	+ This was changed possibly due to how 2016 is when most of FNaW2 takes place.