Curfew at 2 AM: find a shelter instead of buying another apartment

Choose between home and emergency shelter

The 2 AM restriction is described in the current curfew guide. Older players also report the clock pausing during curfew, so merely wandering or waiting is not a reliable end-of-night method. Sleep is the practical next action when you have reached a safe usable room.

Meridian Market: check the taxi-side residential doors

1. Open the current Curfew objective and confirm it asks for sleep at home or in a shelter.
2. Use the nearby-place scan. C is the reported launch-PC key; check bindings if it does not activate.
3. Return your search toward the taxi area and the hardware/furniture-side residential doors.
4. Inspect more than the first home-style icon. The original poster had found a rental and assumed the next icon was another rental.
5. Read the door action and use the accessible sleeping room rather than paying for a property by mistake.
6. Once inside, use the bed and check the day transition.

This is an attributed landmark route from a player thread, not surveyed coordinates for every patched save. Several replies describe the same taxi-side area and the original poster reports success. That is more useful than promising a universal compass bearing from any starting position.

A house-shaped marker does not tell you ownership

Your apartment, an available rental and a temporary shelter can all lead you toward residential-looking entrances. The interaction prompt and interior are the useful distinction. A shelter solves the immediate night without becoming your owned home or adding its address to a property catalogue.

Players in the Meridian thread disagree on whether shelter markers appear only after curfew or can also be scanned during daytime. Do not depend on a guaranteed daytime visibility rule. If a marker is absent, check the active objective, nearby scan range and actual door prompts.

Make the night route deliberate

Surveillance and patrols make aimless late-night searching risky. Watch the current camera/drone situation and choose a nearby sleeping destination before adding another detour. This page does not assign one universal fine or promise that every route is safe at every suspicion level.

For a fishing trip, plan fuel, return and sleep before following another offshore signal. The player thread mentions the unlocked boat as another sleep option, but check the boat’s own accessible interaction; do not assume a first-night player already has it.

Success is reaching an appropriate room and completing sleep, not buying a home icon. If sleep or scanning still fails with the correct objective and interaction, record district, build, time, door prompt and journal stage. A missing marker and an unusable bed are different issues.