Dishonored 2

The story of how she came back from death and came to power would be interesting, even if it's in the past.

I made a discovery and a glitch happened during the Addermire mission. The glitch was mild; I shot a sleep dart at a overseer ransacking someone's home and ducked out of sight. I expected him to slump down. Instead, I heard a loud thump, as if he had fallen off something which was impossible. I looked and he wasn't there! Really? He fell through the floor? I looked around and found him snoring away at the other side of the room. The floor he had been standing on had apparently rejected his landing and kicked him aside.

The discovery. Saving the prisoner who would have been shot by the elite guard. This happened on my first PT. I saved him in the second PT. In the current PT, I was going to do the same again but I decided to try a different way than outright confrontation. Stun mine, I decided. The results varied; planted too late or too slow, he died. Or the second guard spotted the unconscious body of the elite guard; he didn't go in with her which was surprising.

Looking around, I found the voice recorder in the other room. Distraction? Turned it on, the two guards come to investigate and they get zapped by the stun mine. I carried it out speedily and waited. To my surprise, music was heard rather than a voice. Nothing happened. The prisoner wasn't shot because the elite guard had apparently changed her mind and walked away. In disbelief, I reloaded and did the same thing. Again, the two guards just walked away. Ok, that is some music that turned the elite guard's murderous intentions. It made my task easier, I just KO-ed them separately.

I got a accomplishment from saving the merchant who would have been pushed into the wall of light by the guard in the first part of Addermire. I have never tried it because I didn't think of it. I decided to see if I couldn't save the merchant. It required fast porting the minute the script started rolling and a fast grab of the guard before he could push. He landed neatly through the window above and none of his pals saw me. Merchant was saved.

I like the item mechanics and random reaction in this game.

Swords
They don't just lie there inert like harmless objects after their owners went down. A sword is equally deadly even if no one is wielding it. I've guards that fell on dropped swords on the ground and killed by them when the impact angled the swords up or spun them in arcs. Or guards that staggered and fell at a really bad angle, skewering themselves on their own swords.

Long Reach
Just because the target is on level ground, he can still be killed when pulled. If the distance is long enough, the potential energy is deadly.

Reaction
Guards on search who stupidly opened a dumpster full of bloodflies and dying to them.

Murderous intent overturned by music.

A overseer 30 metres away was about to shoot a trio of civilians for breaking taboo and eating rats was attacked by one when his comrades raised the alarm over missing pals and either ended up shooting himself or was shot by the civilian. I never saw the event, I heard the shot.

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I know why I get the vibes that Wyman could be a female. In the reply to Emily's note that she is safe, there're sentences like ;

I'm in tears that he won't tell me the location or take me along.

I do not know if it's fair to be this angry with you or if I should instead cry tears of joy that you're still alive.

I hate that the whole world should be between you and me when we should be holding hands. Please be safe or I won't know what to do.

If it's a guy, wouldn't he be saying he'd be fighting at Emily's side, or be there to lend his support in her endeavors? Or if he couldn't be at her side, find other ways to help her battle? Wouldn't he perhaps be saying things like he had never believed she was behind the spate of killings, that she would find the evidence to vindicate herself? Wouldn't he be encouraging her to fight for her throne, he would support her decisions? If he gets emotional, I doubt he would be talking about holding hands, crying, and not knowing what to do.

The reply seemed to be couched in hysterical relief I'd expect from a woman. If it's not a woman, then he's probably one of those who wring their hands at home while their wives go to war.

If it's a woman, I'm rather mixed. I'd prefer that Emily get a good BF. Unfortunately, there are no credible specimens that presented themselves in the story.   If anyone is fighting against the Duke, they're women.   And the ones fighting Delilah and her witches is the High Overseer and his troops. The regular army, if there's one, do not seem to exist. Unless it's the Grand Guard but they seem more like the local cops and not so educated at that. The empire seem to be empty of a few infrastructures. 

I find it pretty amusing how defenceless Delilah is when she spawns in. Yeah you can leave a stun mine or in the case of my high chaos run I was just standing there waiting and immediately lopped off her head once she arrived.

One of my cousins just surprised me with this game for Christmas and I can't wait to fire it up.

Ended up getting this as it was 50% off on Steam recently. Having quite a bit of fun so far, but right now I'm just 1000% mad. I was well over 20 hours in on my 100% non-lethal playthrough (doing a full ghost run was already fucked at Jindosh's mansion even though I've still stayed undetected ever since) , over 3 hours spent on Mission 7 and about to head back to the Dreadful Wale, when I just on a whim opened up the stats menu. 1 kill. Ok, that's...

Wait, WHAT?



Of course any quicksave and autosave I had was within minutes of my current position and whatever happened to somehow register as a kill had already happened by then, even if I did reload. The only option to salvage it would be to restart the mission from the beginning, but FUCK RIGHT OFF, Dishonored 2, if you think I'm going through that mission again for 3-4 hours to try to get it done without somehow accidentally killing someone again. I checked every goddamn guard I choked out or sleep darted, and made sure to tuck them in super gently if I moved their sleeping bodies somewhere. The only thing I can think of is that I missed a Nest Keeper somewhere and he ended up standing too close to a Bloodfly nest as I torched it with an incendiary bolt without even realizing he was there.

an NPC randomly dying happened to me with a witch so had to redo a mission but thankfully there is a counter for it to check at least. amazing game overall.

Similar happened to me, too.
A witch was killed by a sleep dart headshot. I don't even know why, as she didn't fell or anything.
And at least one of those (forgot their names) mosquito filled walking dead was registered as kill, when I knocked him out.

Ok folks, how many sleeping beauties are there?



I like the little detail they put in when NPCs are unconscious; their eyes are closed, not staring blankly.

Wow, that's a very generous demo. I'm not seeing any low textures in my game. Maybe that's only for the demo? That's a furnace btw. 
Glad you're enjoying the demo. When you finally get the game, I hope you'll enjoy it as much as you did the demo. I know I am. I'm not bored of it because I haven't tried all the crazy combat stuff nor have I gone full chaos.

I just started another PT, as Emily this time. I finished the one with Corvo so I unlocked that achievement. This time, I went head on with Ramsey instead of assassinating him. In an earlier PT, I choked him and then chucked him down to the bottom floor. There're two finishes for him which I find interesting. 

One was to lose the sword to him, Emily dropped to the floor and grabbed another sword to kill him.
The other was to deflect his blow, grabbed him in a choke, kicked him away, then finish him off as he scrambled to get to his feet.

I supposed I could prolong the fight.