Dishonored 2

My first run of both games has been high chaos with lots and lots of death.  
Then I can make it all better with a clean hands, shadow, ghost, flesh and steel run afterwards.  
It's lots of fun, and just going on a rampage and killing everyone is kind of cathartic tbh, especially when I then go back and work so hard to save them all.

There haven't been too many but then this is my first run so I've nothing to compare to.  There are groups of them around their nests, but other than that they'll just be the odd few hanging around.  They don't attack me unless I'm near the nests tho.

I used flesh and steel in Dishonored 1 with a ghost, shadow, clean hands run.  It made perfect sense to me as it meant I could use nothing other than basic blink, sleep darts and patience to get around the world.  I loved it, it was far more strategic.  I didn't focus on exploration as I'd already done that first time round, and instead just went for my goals with a little exploration when I felt like it.  I really enjoyed having nothing but my wits to get around, and as I never engaged anyone in combat not having good stats was irrelevant.

Now I'm guessing I won't even get basic blink in 2 if I reject the outsider.  I have noticed a few parts of the environment that seem created for that, like boxes near balconies so you can jump up instead of blink up there.  That'll be tougher than 1 but I can't wait, it's just a unique way to approach the world and have a very different playthrough.

That's a shame, it was handy in Dishonored 1 as you still had it with the Mostly Flesh and Steel Achievement.  On the other hand it makes it more hardcore.

Ok, I just saw this little bit at the loading screens. High chaos, more dead bodies = more bloodfly nests. I noticed this effect lingering even after I had Corvo not kill after the first level. Areas where low chaos Emily could just walk in was infested with bloodflies.

I'm studying the layout in the present PT. At times, I pretend Emily does not have powers and try to limit her to basic abilities. However, extra effort and time is definitely required to get to hard to reach places. Definitely more so if you're trying to be stealthy and low chaos. I think flesh and steel is more for a mid / high chaos run. 

 I did it for Delilah's altars. Worship her like a god? Nope, nope, nope. Have you finished a PT already?

I know the feeling. There's not much in the coming months.    I'm thinking of continuing Planet Coaster after this PT since I never finished it.

I think the blue puddles is leaked whale oil. I've not heard of anything about them. Maybe they could be set on fire with a bullet, a grenade or a fire dart but I never bothered to find out. 

 I doubt they consumed it though.

Had a eeeew but fun fight when a group stun attempt was mistimed. I was too busy attacking / defending to figure out everything but one officer ended up cut in half   , one guard tried to kick and I ended up grabbing that leg, chopped it off and his head was off too, the last got the deep stab at the nape and spun. Bloody, bloody. I could choose to stop time, link up everyone and just hit one but I wanted to see a fight against more than one enemy without powers.

Urgh I'm stuck, maybe you guys can give me some advice.

I started the dust district last night and was so tired I kinda missed what Sokolov was telling me to do. I just remembered 'kill one leader and bring him to the other'.
So today I'm looking around, see a puzzle on a door and get super excited because I love logic puzzles. I couldn't resist and 10 minutes later I'd solved it and had the 'do you want to leave the area' choice come up. Not remembering that solving that lock was the whole point of the quest I said yes. Mission over screen appears, 0 paintings found. 0 blueprints. 1/6 runes. Fuuuuuuck.

I don't know what to do. I'm doing a super evil high chaos run where Corvo takes no prisoners. Can I go back thru the door from mission 7? If so I could go get all the stuff belatedly. If not I have a save I can go back to.
Should I pretend I can't solve it and go thru the level, or perhaps solve it then refuse to go thru and go on a killing spree to get rid of the bad guys?
Too many choices, it's the winter palace all over again.

Question is, what is the most dastardly thing to do??

Okay, thanks for the info.  It's so hard to choose...I'll reload and see how it goes.

I like the way you think. 

I just finished Dust Town. Fun factors;

I love Long Reach. It's better than Blink because of the single and group pull choices. This skill is akin to the skill of some ME3 MP chars, lash. The lash also pulls and it's fun if done right because the mob is pulled right off the map but it can only latch on one target at a time.

So I was right outside an abandoned doc's office on the first floor of an abandoned building, just outside the Overseer's HQ, getting ready to interrupt an execution. I fired off a howler bolt, LR one of the OS in the confusion. Neat as a golf ball rolling into a hole, he went under the gap of the boarded up entrance of the doc's office without breaking a single thing. !!!! He milled around inside in confusion. Fine, he's not getting out. I pulled up two more before I heard cries of "Arrrghhhh!!!! Bloodflies!! Get away!" I peeked in. Sure enough, he was swiping frantically at the BFs. There's usually two to three BFs but because I'm playing a high chaos Emily, more BFs will appear.
To my disappointment, he didn't die. He went off to look around the office so I went in after him and had a fight.

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The guard in blue uniform in front of Aramis Stilton has an unusual animation I haven't noticed until now. He would occasionally look down at his wrist. If he has a watch, that makes sense but nobody wears watches! There're only clocks.

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P.S. Finished current PT. I passed judgment; killed every guard in the first round and every witch in the last round. It's a mixture in-between. For the more obvious crimes, I'll kill the guards. Otherwise, I just kicked all of them unconscious. I wanted to kill the howlers and hatters but I'm not sure whether they're considered civilians; I don't want a death count for civilians. To me, they're not civilians since they're armed. Anyone knows?

I got Just and Clever for Emily despite the mix of high / low chaos. It's usually Wise and Clever.



P.S. II Well shite!!!! I didn't know Emily can broadcast messages across the city.

Did you attack / disrupt Paolo's little party before bringing him the Overseer's body? I'm thinking of getting the Siding with Howler / Overseer achievement. I read both can be done in one PT but there were little details in the post. I'll try to look for more of it.