How to Unlock “About those TPS reports.”
Steam's official wordingOfficial
“Infect someone in under 3 seconds after getting the syringe in Inside Job.”
8.3% of players have unlocked it — rare.
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What the wording tells us
The three-second window starts from getting the syringe, not from the start of the round.
One target is enough — the wording says "someone", not everyone.
The v2.0 notes state that infected players, including the one carrying the syringe, move at 1.15 times the speed of the hiders; that change is listed under the Online heading.
What players report
CommunityCommunity guides, not official material.
Both guides describe searching office furniture for the syringe, with the floor going dark once the chase begins.
What the official text does not say
Community accounts do not settle these — they are gaps in the official wording, and we would rather name them than fill them in.
- The official text does not say whether the window applies only to the first infection of a round.
Worth knowing before you try
- This one depends on another player being in a particular state or being the target of your action, so it cannot be set up alone.
- Local sessions played before 2026-08-13 may not have registered this achievement — registration in Local mode was broken until v2.1.1.
- Rare is derived from the global unlock rate rather than from anyone's judgement of difficulty. How the tiers work →
The simulation
One player receives the syringe and infects the others, who are hiding among the offices.
Sources
Everything on this page traces back to one of these. Checked on 2026-08-15; we re-check after every official patch.