She shouldn't. I was able to sneak behind her and choke her out. Couldn't figure out how to take care of her non lethally though :/
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Dishonored 2 |OT| The Edge of the World
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Y'all should play Styx: Master of Shadows.
The love-letter-to Thief came out last year already.
Best stealth game level design I've ever seen in the past three generations. I thought Dishonored was it when that came out but Styx is a whole other level. It's sublime.
I wholeheartedly agree...
Unfortunately, I have no self control and will save scum when available. I've been slowly and steadily weeding it out and living with what happens but sometimes unfamiliarity with the system and boundaries will just make me want to reload.
I sorta wish there was a no-save mode or something just so it can be taken out of my hands. Have checkpoints at very defined and safe spots but otherwise it'll just reload at the start of the level or said checkpoint.
You can. Just do what you'd normally do. Nothing has changed.
Just started in Karnaca.
Is there any way to turn off the "rune or bone charm is nearby, equip heart" notification?
I've disabled every single notification in the Gameplay Hud section in Options and I'm still getting it. I'm finding it so annoying that I just had to quit playing.
So far the game really isn't making a great impression (first it was the awful immersion-breaking dialogue) and I have no idea why they thought they needed to change things that weren't broken in the first game.
I really want to love this game (and again, the gameplay itself, the controls, the graphics are all great) and really get into it, but stupid decisions like seemingly being unable to disable those notifications are really sapping my enjoyment.
Is there any way to turn off the "rune or bone charm is nearby, equip heart" notification?
I've disabled every single notification in the Gameplay Hud section in Options and I'm still getting it. I'm finding it so annoying that I just had to quit playing.
So far the game really isn't making a great impression (first it was the awful immersion-breaking dialogue) and I have no idea why they thought they needed to change things that weren't broken in the first game.
I really want to love this game (and again, the gameplay itself, the controls, the graphics are all great) and really get into it, but stupid decisions like seemingly being unable to disable those notifications are really sapping my enjoyment.
Fahzgoolin
Banned
I felt the same at first too, but just stick with it. The game gets better with every chapter. The gameplay really opens up in a way that feels fresh for Dishonored.
The first Dishonored really grabbed me immediately with it's writing and story. This game didn't unfortunately. It gets better though.
Do the bone charm notifications ever go away? Are they like just in the first Karnaca level?
Fahzgoolin
Banned
The charm notifications pop up for me still. Not sure if you can disable them =/
They don't bother me much, but I can understand why it would.
edit: looking into it now as I would like that too.
Crap. If that's the case I might actually wait for someone to release a mod to fix it.
Like, it bothers me that much. It feels like it's ruining the game for me because 1. it's essentially a super obvious "win button" as far as hunting bone charms/runes is concerned, and 2. I just find it unbelievably annoying receiving these notifications constantly, every single time I walk past a spot that makes the heart beat.
I mean it gave me pause when it did that for the very first one right by the whale at the start of the level, but I shrugged and figured "Oh it's just part of the tutorial, they're just gonna get you started with the first one and they're using the whale to attract players to this spot."
Damn, I really hope there's a way to disable it.
Like, it bothers me that much. It feels like it's ruining the game for me because 1. it's essentially a super obvious "win button" as far as hunting bone charms/runes is concerned, and 2. I just find it unbelievably annoying receiving these notifications constantly, every single time I walk past a spot that makes the heart beat.
I mean it gave me pause when it did that for the very first one right by the whale at the start of the level, but I shrugged and figured "Oh it's just part of the tutorial, they're just gonna get you started with the first one and they're using the whale to attract players to this spot."
Damn, I really hope there's a way to disable it.
Fahzgoolin
Banned
Figured it out. Turn off "Information Messages." Just tested it and it works great. If you are near a rune/bone charm you will still hear the heart make an audible thump but with no pop up message.
Glad you mentioned it because I prefer it off for sure.
User 479360
Banned
Just about to leave the boat and start missiin five.
According to the travel journal's open slots I'm halfway?
According to the travel journal's open slots I'm halfway?
THANK YOU!
Fahzgoolin
Banned
^_^
Lord of Castamere
Member
Arcane is insane, like actually fucking insane. You might not ever notice this unless you play a no supernatural power run, but almost every high point can be reached without blink or reach. They designed it that way. The amount of work that must of taken, compared to the number of people that will likely do that run is pretty ridiculous to think about.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
I finished my first ever 'Psycho' run of D1 last night (I've only ever ghosted it sans powers) and my copy of D2 arrived today. All is well.
Only question is: How am I going to tackle my first run?
Only question is: How am I going to tackle my first run?
Savantcore
Unconfirmed Member
I'm getting this exact same thing with Dishonored 1 on PS4. Started a new game and it still breaks every time I try loading a save. Did you manage to get this sorted?
Pretty much, yes.
PeskyToaster
Member
I'm on the last DLC in my playthrough of D1 before D2. I've been doing it low chaos but I've kinda accidentally managed to ghost/clean hands most of it as well. I'm on the second mission of Brigmore Witches now so almost done. I've really enjoyed the DLC missions. I did the Overseer favor when breaking out Lizzie Stride or whoever and I found at a certain point I could just walk on out carrying her lol. I walked right past a guard too, it was pretty funny. Excited to see the jump when I boot up Dishonored 2 though.
One question, how easy is it to maintain low chaos while also using your powers and items? I find the biggest problem with D1 is that they gave you all these amazing powers but really and truly using them is punished story-wise. Maybe that's the point though.
One question, how easy is it to maintain low chaos while also using your powers and items? I find the biggest problem with D1 is that they gave you all these amazing powers but really and truly using them is punished story-wise. Maybe that's the point though.
Playing as Emily I found most of her powers well suited for a non lethal playthrough: shadow walk to quickly cross undetected a room filled with enemies, domino and mesmerize for the obvious reasons... It's clear that Arkane was aware of this problem in the first game and tried to come up with powers that would fit both playstyles.
PeskyToaster
Member
wild wild rice
Member
Agreed. I fail more often than not which shouldn't be the case after 9 hours of playing.
mercenar1e
Member
i did it another way.
i choked out the clones until they detect me.. jumping out the picture and going back in resets them to the non detection status. rinse and repeat. it even works for her
Lord of Castamere
Member
Oh so high chaos and low chaos does pretty much nothing. That's how they "fixed it". Good going.
GinoFelino
Member
It basically determines the ending right? Nothing wrong with that imo.
Lord of Castamere
Member
Like the cutscenes? Yeah, I think. I'm halfway through the final mission on my 2nd run. The mission itself is exactly the same though. I was hoping it'd just be the same as Dishonored, but with more things, not less.
That was, personally, one of my most memorable things about the first game. Replaying it a second time, and seeing how drastically the world changed when you didn't give a fuck. The effects in this are equivalent to a Telltale game.
GinoFelino
Member
Well I can't say for sure because I haven't finished it twice, but I really wouldn't care if it stays the same.
So much care has been put into level design and world building already.
BossDarkseid
Member
Honestly apart from there being more of the Weepers if you went High Chaos I don't remember D1 changing THAT much from a gameplay perspective. I guess the difference is in D2 they've actually done a really good job of having the level design accommodate High Chaos/Low Chaos/No Powers and providing multiple paths, while the original D1 didn't reaaally do this (imo)...so yeah....
Edit: Actually now I remember the last mission being fairly different.
Shoot one bolt to head when they are up, then another bolt to the skull to kill them. It doesn't count as kill tho.
If you see glowing skulls on the floor shoot them to prevent the dogs from popping up.
You don't have to engage the dogs.
You can use an alternate method to draw out the target without the dogs, and you can shoot the little statues to prevent the other dogs from popping up at all. There is also an alternate place to get the info that you are sent to her office for, although I stumbled on that by accident.
You can bypass nearly everyone in the building, take out the target without killing her, and
everyone left falls unconscious and the dogs disappear. Now you have complete run of the place.
I just figured this out
Time to loot the place. Does anyone know if
talking to the statue counts as an alert??
Also is anyone having a graphical glitch of white lines on doors? (I'm on a pro)
wild wild rice
Member
This game is so god damn immersive. Can't wait for a second play through on high chaos.
RealityPales
Member
I was running a no-kill playthorugh, then fucked up big time.
I knocked a guy out, then dropped him into a wooden door that shattered and subsequently killed him.
Noticed too late, and all my saves have a "1 Kill".
Was on Chapter 2 though, so maybe I'll start over tonight.
Such a great game!!!
I knocked a guy out, then dropped him into a wooden door that shattered and subsequently killed him.
Noticed too late, and all my saves have a "1 Kill".
Was on Chapter 2 though, so maybe I'll start over tonight.
Such a great game!!!
Don't drop anyone near a bloodfly (they get infected and die) or anywhere close to a whale oil tank (for some reason it makes the tank explode).
RealityPales
Member
Doing a no-kill, no-alert, no-power playthrough is going to be rough.
But the subsequent playthrough with a killing, powered Corvo should be amusing.
Yep, I noticed that too. Not just on doors but on walls also. The game also managed to hard crash my Pro once.
Lord of Castamere
Member
Whelp. I started using the heart more. Turns out 3 quarters of the civies are serial killers. Guess it's up to me to bring justice to Karnaca. The heart judges, I execute. No time for a Jury.
Enjoying the game a bit more now, maybe got a better handle on the systems. I feel like the catalyst for revenge plot is way weaker than the first game so I don't really give a hoot about any of the targets. Like I just don't care one way or the other about Jindosh or Delilah.
LOL
Playing this game without powers is completely different to Dishonored 1, way different...
Mission 2 spoilers
Playing this game without powers is completely different to Dishonored 1, way different...
Mission 2 spoilers
On the secondary mission about stealing a corpse, never figured out how to cross the streets without alerting all the civilians, i can't knock 'em out 1 by 1 because there's so many people out there that the alert is impossible to avoid, using blink in this area would be perfect to cross the streets without alerting the NPCs but again, i'm playing without powers...
So...i said fuck it, threw the corpse from the roof of the bulding from a parallel street, in an area without any NPC...then go down, cross the street without anybody suspecting, i picked up the corpse again and i gave it to the woman on the basement
10/10
So...i said fuck it, threw the corpse from the roof of the bulding from a parallel street, in an area without any NPC...then go down, cross the street without anybody suspecting, i picked up the corpse again and i gave it to the woman on the basement
10/10
Don Friday
Member
There is a Black Bone Charm called
Familiar Scent
Perfect Blue
Banned
Got the Eureka trophy. That was fun.