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Dishonored 2 |OT| The Edge of the World
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SJRB
Gold Member
Crack in the Slab:
that was an amazing change of pace. Very, VERY well-crafted mission.
However, I was under the assumption that I could take insane Stilton back to the ship but unfortunately that's not the case.
I realise what I should have done, but the seance is over and it's too late. This is the second time now I realise I can save a character when it's already too late. I'm not sure if it's just my fault for not thinking "outside the box" enough or of the game doesn't give enough hints.
O well, I'll save you on my next playthrough, Stilton. You kinda got what you deserved though by being part of the seance in the first place.
However, I was under the assumption that I could take insane Stilton back to the ship but unfortunately that's not the case.
I realise what I should have done, but the seance is over and it's too late. This is the second time now I realise I can save a character when it's already too late. I'm not sure if it's just my fault for not thinking "outside the box" enough or of the game doesn't give enough hints.
O well, I'll save you on my next playthrough, Stilton. You kinda got what you deserved though by being part of the seance in the first place.
Pretty sure to save the prisoner you have to rotate one of the rooms.
Laurentius
Member
Those street singer songs are really really good.
I restarted before doing that because I wanted to hear all of the dialogue, but I'm fairly certain you should be able to get their without any rotations (except for using the panels in the maze).
I restarted before doing that because I wanted to hear all of the dialogue, but I'm fairly certain you should be able to get their without any rotations (except for using the panels in the maze).
OmegaTreeFish
Banned
Well i finished it today. Really good game overall. Two really clever unique levels are its high point. Its lowest being (end game spoilers)
Overall though, its a great sequel.
Delilah fight. Stealthing the clones was ok but the rest felt kinda badly done. Saying that there are prob other ways to beat her that play out differently. I put her soul back in stealthily (but you immediately get teleported infront of her, then she ran through the painting, then i added the corrupt rune, then went in painting, then stealthed the clones and finally murdered her crazy ass.
Overall though, its a great sequel.
technically pulling the lever to enter the maze is a lever. So that's what I meant.
Nope!
Unless you're talking about the maze-area where Sokolov is. Otherwise, you never have to touch a single lever.
SJRB
Gold Member
Just finished it, low chaos Corvo.
That was amazing. Excellent game, overall. Some low points, but I've had a great deal of fun playing this one. Took me about 26 hours for this playthrough, really took my time and explored as much as I could.
The greatest compliment I can give the game is that its level and gameplay design makes me feel smart. By using chandeleers, edges along roofs and all sorts of routes I feel like I'm outsmarting the game. Even though of course those things were placed there for obvious reasons. Another moment that made me think I was super clever [until I noticed there was an actual trophy for doing this so everyone and their mom did it was in Crack in the Slab:
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Crack in the Slab and the Jindosh Mansion were the highlights because of their non-traditional level design and clever use of the game's mechanics.
Mission 8 was surprisingly anticlimactic, unfortunately. Up until this point the game "tricked" me several times, so I was totally expecting a
, but alas. The game basically hands you the solution to everything as soon as you enter because there are two NPCs who explain who's who. I even used the heart several times on both to make 100% sure I wasn't being punked.
Another anticlimax is the final boss, but I'm not sure how I'd change it to make it more interesting. I wasn't detected once, so it made the entire fight moot. But still, the way the final boss is dealt with in low chaos is kinda okay, in a twisted way.
Final point: I cannot believe that all we get as an epilogue/outro is a 15-second sequence of freeze frames. It's just like the first game. I really wish they would've just shown some of Karnaca's areas we visited being all better now. But alas, can't have everything I suppose.
9/10, no doubt in my top 3 favourite games of 2016. Excellent experience. Can't wait to replay as Emily and try out her powers. After holding back so much as Corvo, can't wait to kill some of the scumbags in this game.
That was amazing. Excellent game, overall. Some low points, but I've had a great deal of fun playing this one. Took me about 26 hours for this playthrough, really took my time and explored as much as I could.
The greatest compliment I can give the game is that its level and gameplay design makes me feel smart. By using chandeleers, edges along roofs and all sorts of routes I feel like I'm outsmarting the game. Even though of course those things were placed there for obvious reasons. Another moment that made me think I was super clever [until I noticed there was an actual trophy for doing this so everyone and their mom did it was in Crack in the Slab:
hide under the table, warp to the past, pickpocket the soldier's keys, warp back to the present
Crack in the Slab and the Jindosh Mansion were the highlights because of their non-traditional level design and clever use of the game's mechanics.
Mission 8 was surprisingly anticlimactic, unfortunately. Up until this point the game "tricked" me several times, so I was totally expecting a
body double doublecross or something [the body double IS the actual Duke
Another anticlimax is the final boss, but I'm not sure how I'd change it to make it more interesting. I wasn't detected once, so it made the entire fight moot. But still, the way the final boss is dealt with in low chaos is kinda okay, in a twisted way.
Final point: I cannot believe that all we get as an epilogue/outro is a 15-second sequence of freeze frames. It's just like the first game. I really wish they would've just shown some of Karnaca's areas we visited being all better now. But alas, can't have everything I suppose.
9/10, no doubt in my top 3 favourite games of 2016. Excellent experience. Can't wait to replay as Emily and try out her powers. After holding back so much as Corvo, can't wait to kill some of the scumbags in this game.
Hank Scorpio
Member
Yup. I just started my replay as Emily. In mission one
I initially knocked out Ramsey and left him in the safe room. I then repassed the dead body of the female bodyguard he brutally murdered. Said fuk that so picked him up, opened the window in the adjoining bedroom, and threw him into the sea below.
Also regarding mission 8
I talked to Luca thinking he was the double and he played along with Corvo's plan. We walked downstairs together but he pulled the alarm nearby alerting the guards outside who rushed in and smoked me. Was a cool touch that.
I hadn't gathered any intel in the mission on the double as I blinked up to the Duke's roof and dropped right into his chamber.
I hadn't gathered any intel in the mission on the double as I blinked up to the Duke's roof and dropped right into his chamber.
The weakest mission for me was probably the final one. Felt very anticlimactic but it was really dark.
The Dear Leader
Banned
"Corvo" - Anton Sokolov
There's a great one of Delilah that I wish I got a screenshot of, all these paintings are so good.
Emily offhandedly mentions samuel in mission 8 or 9, but it's just like a one second dialogue quip.
"If samuel could see me now" iirc
Laurentius
Member
There's a couple of references to both of them.
(Also, the S&J Elixirs are a reference to Piero and Sokolov: Sokolov & Joplin, as they worked together to end the rat plague.)
RadioactiveLobster
Member
Nope, I got it on my no kill run.
Laurentius
Member
Could it have been from dogs and Clockwork Soldiers? Because I definitely did not get it on my no kill run, and I would drop attack people all the time.
I didn't figure it out, but I blame that on the fact that it's been 3 or 4 years since I played D1 and its DLC. I honestly pretty much forgot who Billie Lurk was until the end. If I had played it recently I think it would have been more obvious to me.
I did but thats mostly because
Billie makes a surprise appearance right at the end of the tie-in comic series that makes it obvious she's Meagan
SJRB
Gold Member
O my fucking god, end of chapter 2 and according to the stats I got spotted once. This is absolutely 100% not true. There goes my ghost playthrough. There's no way I'm restarting the game, even though I'm only in chapter 2.
I don't like this.
edit: great, it also didn't unlock the trophy for saving the guy from getting pushed into the wall of light, even though I did. I disabled the windmill and the guy ran away. Damnit.
I don't like this.
edit: great, it also didn't unlock the trophy for saving the guy from getting pushed into the wall of light, even though I did. I disabled the windmill and the guy ran away. Damnit.
Did you get spotted by a civilian maybe? They were a pain in the butt in that chapter - trying to get the body to Mindy was awful because they would all freak out.
CrichtonKicks
Member
There is a reference to Samuel in the first mission in Emily's Panic Room.
RadioactiveLobster
Member
Possibly as I did drop attach dogs and clockwork soldiers at times.
Laurentius
Member
Is there a bug with The Dust District blueprints? The mission success screen says I found 2/3, but every guide I've looked at only lists the two I found. Is there a hidden one all of the guides are missing?
Also:
At the start of mission 9 when Corvo is piloting the skiff by himself, he says "If only old Samuel could see me now."
VanCityGamer
Member
I realize I'm in the minority, but I hated mission 4 (clockwork mansion) so much. So frustrating and not fun. It made me turn on the game a bit, but I'm back to enjoying it again on mission 5.
SJRB
Gold Member
Just completely ghosted the Clockwork Mansion, that was awesome. And surprisingly easy to boot. Can't stop playing this game, it's so freaking good.
One weird oversight is that you can't grab someone in a chokehold when they're sitting on a chair, so when I reached
The game has a surprising amount of weirdly janky stuff, but it only happens on occasion and it's hard to reproduce. Like for example when you get spotted and soldiers go into alert. If you quickload a save, some soldiers might still go in caution mode after the load is complete, even though technically there's no reason to do so. Some AI stuff just carries over from the previous loadstate I guess? It's weird.
Anyway, how about this vistas huh? Beautiful game.
O nice, I should look into that. 50 bucks is kinda brutal though, that thing better be 800 pages or something.
One weird oversight is that you can't grab someone in a chokehold when they're sitting on a chair, so when I reached
completely unsuspecting Jindosh it resulted in a weird dance of me trying to grab him, he jumping up, I misgrab, he spots me, etc. I rendered him KO before he could alert the clockwork soldier, but still. It was a bit of an awkward anticlimactic moment.
The game has a surprising amount of weirdly janky stuff, but it only happens on occasion and it's hard to reproduce. Like for example when you get spotted and soldiers go into alert. If you quickload a save, some soldiers might still go in caution mode after the load is complete, even though technically there's no reason to do so. Some AI stuff just carries over from the previous loadstate I guess? It's weird.
Anyway, how about this vistas huh? Beautiful game.
O nice, I should look into that. 50 bucks is kinda brutal though, that thing better be 800 pages or something.
If you're going for a ghost playthrough make new unique saves often and frequently check your stats.
SJRB
Gold Member
Yeah, will definately keep a closer eye on the stats page throughout the mission next playthrough.
184.
I had it on my Amazon wishlist with the art of Deus Ex book, and my mum picked the much more expensive one to get me.
Comrade Crunch
Member
You actually can, just gotta get the right angle.
I find getting above them slightly, maybe on a table behind them, works best.
OmegaTreeFish
Banned
Nope buy its been ages since i plaued D1 and never played the DLC. That whole reveal felt really out of place to me but i guess its because of this. What i did like however is that after mission 7
she had her eye and arm back. So i guess knocking out the dude in that mission fixed what ever caused that. Or maybe it happens what ever choice you make, i dont know
SJRB
Gold Member
After the very disappointing Deus Ex artbook I'm never dishing out 40 bucks for an artbook again unless I'm 100% positive it's going to be well worth it.
From my experience this depends on the type of chair. You can snag people away from a regular chair. There are also chairs with bigger back frames and I found it impossible to grab anyone sitting on those. In mission 2 at the Overeer Outpost, the head overseer is sitting at a desk, back to the balcony. The guy is impossible to grab. I could literally grab all the loot and notes right from under his nose, but it was impossible to grab him. Same goes for Jindosh, I couldn't for the life of me get the grab prompt. Now with Jindosh I had to work kinda fast because of the patrolling Clockwork Soldier, but still.
Snacks the sober sea lion
Member
Finding the game kind of boring without powers. A big part of the fun of doing it in the first game was discovering the ways the game was built to incorporate no powers. In this game, you already know the game was designed with that in mind, so it's just a more-limited version of what I've already played.
Don't read if you want to figure it out yourself:
Don't read if you want to figure it out yourself:
Knocking Aramis Stilton out in the past creates a better present where Meagan has her eye and arm
PsychoSoldier
Banned
Gave this game a second chance after not liking it on a rental. Still not into it. I like playing as Corvo better than Emily but I just don't like it, ultimately.
Only thing I can think is that maybe it's actually a little too big. I always felt like I was finding places and having a hard time figuring out how it connected to the map as a whole
Also sometimes it seemed like whether or not blink worked was a bit arbitrary.
Only thing I can think is that maybe it's actually a little too big. I always felt like I was finding places and having a hard time figuring out how it connected to the map as a whole
Also sometimes it seemed like whether or not blink worked was a bit arbitrary.
Snacks the sober sea lion
Member
Do you not like stealth games?
The maps are overwhelming on the first playthrough. Some people like exploring the entire game their first time through. I prefer to just walk through it and save exploration for when I know how to not be spotted by guards every 5 seconds. There are unfortunately quite a few places that aren't necessary to go to even to collect runes or bone charms. It's good that they're fleshing out each level as a coherent and believable location at least.
RageWaffles
Member
Witches are so scared of Emily that they're killing themselves now
https://youtu.be/HfO5ZbqmNIw
(had to reload because this run is no kills, except for those caused by unavoidable bugs)
https://youtu.be/HfO5ZbqmNIw
(had to reload because this run is no kills, except for those caused by unavoidable bugs)
RoyaleDuke
Banned
This is the Thief sequel I always wanted isn't it.
How can Arkane deliver two of them in a row. Thief IV(Dishonored) and Thief V(Dishonored 2) are fantastic.
How can Arkane deliver two of them in a row. Thief IV(Dishonored) and Thief V(Dishonored 2) are fantastic.
end-game question...
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besides killing Delilah and using the corrupted rune is there another way of eliminating her?...in the Mission options there seems to be another way which got crossed out once I used the corrupted rune
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im pretty sure that self portrait that duke luca made is a reference to a portrait of putin that george w bush painted
Started it today. Looks really good graphically (OG PS4). Bit annoyed with the aiming acceleration.
And I wish developers would include a "story / exploration" mode choice so we could automatically skip all of this "are you ready?" bs.
Edit: just deleted it. Really not up to stealth atm (getting constantly spotted) and the combat is still trash. I don't get why they don't implement different heavy attacks. These guys made Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. In Dark Messiah pressing right before holding the attack button is a different strong attack than holding up, right or down. Here it's always the same forward piercing motion. How lame is that?
The writing was on the wall, because while I enjoyed the first one on the PC, I couldnt get past the first hour upon replaying it on the PS4.
And I wish developers would include a "story / exploration" mode choice so we could automatically skip all of this "are you ready?" bs.
Edit: just deleted it. Really not up to stealth atm (getting constantly spotted) and the combat is still trash. I don't get why they don't implement different heavy attacks. These guys made Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. In Dark Messiah pressing right before holding the attack button is a different strong attack than holding up, right or down. Here it's always the same forward piercing motion. How lame is that?
The writing was on the wall, because while I enjoyed the first one on the PC, I couldnt get past the first hour upon replaying it on the PS4.
SJRB
Gold Member
Even though I planned on killing way more people in my second playthrough, I find myself actually not killing anyone. Aside from the deserters and traitors in the first mission I haven't killed anyone yet.
Especially as Emily the game hands you so many powers and tools to kill people, and yet it feels "wrong". It doesn't fit Emily and it doesn't fit the narrative. I have no reason to brutally kill guard #56 just because he happens to patrol the Dust District. I guess it's the same reason I don't kill enemy soldiers in MGS games, or why I prefer the stun gun in Watchdogs 2 when fighting cops.
Wouldn't even a yes/no be a spoiler?
Especially as Emily the game hands you so many powers and tools to kill people, and yet it feels "wrong". It doesn't fit Emily and it doesn't fit the narrative. I have no reason to brutally kill guard #56 just because he happens to patrol the Dust District. I guess it's the same reason I don't kill enemy soldiers in MGS games, or why I prefer the stun gun in Watchdogs 2 when fighting cops.
Wouldn't even a yes/no be a spoiler?