Dishonored 2

Woot! Grats! 

I'm currently in 2nd PT, mission 5, still playing as Emily. I don't think I'd want to play Corvo, I'd rather be playing Emily. Deadly when needed, brave, gracious, sympathetic and empathetic.   I'm grabbing all the runes and bones this time. I also discovered I missed a rune in mission 2 because I didn't think there would be any in the beginning. You have to jump off the ship and swim for it before heading for the city. 

Yeah, same here. I feel that the first game is Corvo's story, but the second one is Emily's. I've also started my second PT, this time with the goal of remaining undetected and killing no one throughout the game, and getting the achievement for finding 60% of the loot. I already failed in my secondary objective of "no bodies detected" - there's always one, damn it. maybe I'll have to wait for that until I do a "full ghost" playthrough. That means: no knockouts, no killings, no detections, no alerts for any other reason - no idea if that's even possible, but I'll have to try. Most likely it's possible for some missions but not for others.

As for runes, yeah, I also missed that rune in PT1. I'll be more efficient in their usage this time thnough, since have a much better knowledge of what powers are useful. I'll probably leave Shadow Form alone, it wasn't very useful, and concentrate on Far Reach, Domino and Mesmerize. Runes beyond that go into Bonecharm Crafting, Jump Upgrade and Dark Vision. Unfortunately, Bonecharm crafting isn't that useful unless you take the expensive multiple-use upgrade, but then I suspect it'll almost be OP.

One thing I'll also do is buy all springrazor upgrades before entering the Clockwork Mansion. That means one springrazor = 1 destroyed clockwork soldier (without the double-trigger upgrade you need 2), and I'll be able to destroy 5 before I run out of them. Destroying one doesn't count as a kill btw..


 

*nods* Agree. Dishonored II is Emily's story.

Good luck on the ghost achievement. The best bet is domino and meserize, If you get the max for domino and get more than four, you might have to resort to sleep darts. Too bad bodies can't be shoved into cupboards.

Using long reach to pull doesn't necessarily caused detections; I checked. I've only managed to make a four-in-one rune without any corruption. I didn't try for more after that since I did not bother to research to lower the possibility. 

I usually knock off the clockwork soldiers' heads if there're two and nobody around.   Watch them rail at each other. Clockwork soldiers aren't even living things, it would be ridiculous if they're counted as kills. 

I got mad with the witches in mission 5. I knocked out all the guards successfully. When I returned with Sokolov, I found three in my way and they had killed all the guards. grrr.....that did it. I killed all three. I'd bet they killed the civilians too because I didn't see anybody walking around. I also found that domino need LOS. One of the witches was sitting on top of the guardhouse, the other two were walking around. I shot the witch sitting at the top, yammering away, aiming at her head with the crossbow...my mouth dropped because her head was completely shot off. It was eerie because she was still sitting upright.   The other two below didn't notice anything fortunately.

Even though I can't see Emily, I like how they animated her gestures when she talked. In this image, I get the feeling she's sitting with a leg crossed over the other because you can only see the top of her right hand. 




I managed to land this servant the right way up. 

I had a funny thing happen. Haha.

What a hard head. He didn't even know it bounced off and struck his pal.

That was good, finished the game with Emily as a ghost and non-lethal intact.
I'll give it a rest now, but I reckon this game has a Corvo run at some point in the future as well...

Ah, that's right. I mis-remembered.  

That is odd. I never have problems with that. Two observations:

(1) If the target point of Far Reach, aimed anywhere else but steeply down, has an animation of several open triangles pointed upwards, likes several of this: ^  on top of each other, it is a place where you can stand or crouch. Usually, you get this targeting a corner or an edge of a platform, or a fence, rather than the center of a platform. I use this rule almost all of the time and I never need to reload if the target is animated like that. If you target a non-edge or corner, you need to rely on sight. I'll post a screenshot later this day.

(2) If your hand(s) or carried item(s) block your view, put them away. On standard PC settings, you do that by holding the F key with nothing else in your view with which the F key might interact.

As for the Clockwork Mansion, I have all paintings, but I never raised the first two rooms because there are three clockwork soldiers in there, and I can't fight them. My usual method is to use Springrazors, but since the double-trigger upgrade isn't available yet and they take two apiece to destroy, I don't have springrazors for more than two. I might be able to avoid the single one in the first room but not the two in the second one.

Oh #1 is very clear. #2, I tried. I cleared away combat stance and then tried to grab, the stance popped back up. *gives up* I was grabbing from two storeys up btw.

In my first PT, I never tried to do any great changes in the time translating mission. In this PT, I did because it occurred to me I should put somebody to sleep. I was trying to figure out to get a bonecharm initially and decided to put it off until I almost gained the major objective. So after I put this guy to sleep, I went back to the bonecharm location and moved times. I was completely confused by what I saw until I realised that in changing the past drastically, I changed the present. Whatever it was I saw initially had been changed.   The important clue item was no longer there! I wandered for the better part of an hour, trying to figure out where the clue went to before I gave up.

I ended that mission and wondered if Emily would mention to Meagan what she had been like but no dialogue about it popped up.

NRieh , it's definitely LOS. I usually can grab an item if it's like, say ten metres away. But perching two storeys above and trying to grab a guard is a lot of guesswork since I cannot see him due to the right arm.

P.S. Omg, this is so freaking funny! On the grand palace mission, I decided to take out the two guards squatting at the pier. One was sitting at the edge of the pier, the other was standing. I pulled the standing guard, knocked him out and waited for the other guy to come running. Nothing. I looked over the rail.  A helmet and a sword bobbed on the surface of the water. Wait....wut??!   He panicked and fell into the water and drowned? I checked stats. Sure enough, a kill. How is it my fault he tumbled into the water?! 


 

Oops, bad phrasing.    Regards the scenario I described, I didn't have a choice of perch. There was only the double floor balcony. There was a platform but not high enough to cover what I was doing. 

Yes, there is such a bonecharm. I found it in the first PT but didn't equip it because it has a corrupt trait. I don't think I have it this PT. Weird.

Some of the gameplay mechanics do not reset when I reload. I accidentally walked into a security beam when I thought it was aimed away and got rocketed for my pains. I reset and made sure I didn't walk out. Made no difference. The security watcher was on the alert and so were the guards. I translocated to a high ledge to observe the situation. For some reason, two nearby Howlers were also alerted, went on the prowl and got into a melee with the guards!   They were killed and fortunately, the deaths did not blemish the no kill tally.

I'm at the last stage of this second PT. I think I'll go a third. I'm definitely entertained by the game combat features and the differences in outcome of my choices, especially the Dust District. There is a note that bloodflies didn't take hold which I'm not sure appeared in my first PT. Not certain if it's connected to the doc or the miner turned noble. 

That's a playstyle I'll probably never try. I like my superpowers. I would try a game with only Far Reach available, but Far Reach is just too much fun.

BTW, did you get that achievement for taking out six or more enemies in 1.5 seconds? I tried by using the Oraculum to knock out all the witches in the Conservatory. I had knocked out just three by that time, so there were at least eleven of them left - the four near the Oraculum on the second floor, the two sitting on the chandelier, the three inside on the first floor and the two gate guards outside. Still, I got nothing after taking them all out with the Oraculum. What went wrong?