I'm currently playing this hella-cool video game called Dishonored, recommended to me by my brother Bo. He's played it all the way through four times, so when I get stuck or puzzled, I consult him. It is extremely fun, a great mix of stealth and fighting, although I am discovering that I'm far better at one than the other. Text exchange between me and Bo:
Did you find out in Dishonored that if you hit a thug right at the base of the neck with a crossbow bolt, it will decrapitate him?
(That's not a typo or me being ignorant - I prefer 'decrapitate'.)
LOL, Just finished my third playthrough - got ghost and clean hands achievements!
(Clean hands is when you don't kill anyone - you incapacitate them or hit them with a sleep dart.)
I am discovering that I'm not so good at stealth. 'Swath Of Rampant Destruction' is more my forte. This is presenting problems.
That's how I'd recommend it - play through once violent and uncovering everything, then play again all sneaky like. Also, I didn't know this, but you're only detected if the attention icons turn red. That's kind of helpful.
Yeah, I knew that but thanks. I'm having trouble sneaking b/c I do okay, then one guard spots me, yells for the whole pack and I have to slaughter everyone and it's a big mess.
Where are you?
Assassinating High Overseer Campbell. Luckily, killing Campbells comes naturally to us. (There is a family feud between us and the Campbells dating back to 1692. We know how to hold a grudge.)
You can climb out the window and get on a ledge. I didn't know that about the red; I saved and reloaded a whole helluva lot. Eventually it just got down to a lot.
I'm not even at the meeting site. I can get past the gate guards to the stairs but someone in the courtyard always spots me and summons a dozen. Well, I say 'always' - I've tried 4 times. Once was hilarious. I tried to blink [teleport] over to the stairs, he couldn't go that far and landed RIGHT in front of a guard. As in, if it were real life the guard would have pooped his pants, that's how RIGHT IN FRONT of him I landed. Alan, watching, said, "Stealth. What you're doing is the opposite of that."
LOL. Yeah, that happened to me a lot, too. Want a hint, or want to do it sef? ["Do it sef!" is the first complete sentence I uttered as a youngster. Translation = I'll do it myself!]
I'd welcome a hint.
OK, after you free Martin, go to the right and up. Once you're into the abbey, don't go through the courtyard. You can go under. Look for the kennels.
[Time passes.]
Thanks for the tip but I couldn't go that way. I found the kennels but I kept getting demised b/c I didn't want to slay any doggies. I wound up climbing detritus to ledges to over buildings. I took the overland route.
That's something cool, there's almost always a secret way and an indirect way to do everything; it's really open-ended. And yeah, I refused to kill any dogs, too - even on my evil murderer playthrough.
I get demised an awful lot, but it is fun. Gotta go, need to kill the Pendleton twins. Don't care if they die, unlike the doggies.
Shiny.
I heart my brother.
Did you find out in Dishonored that if you hit a thug right at the base of the neck with a crossbow bolt, it will decrapitate him?
(That's not a typo or me being ignorant - I prefer 'decrapitate'.)
LOL, Just finished my third playthrough - got ghost and clean hands achievements!
(Clean hands is when you don't kill anyone - you incapacitate them or hit them with a sleep dart.)
I am discovering that I'm not so good at stealth. 'Swath Of Rampant Destruction' is more my forte. This is presenting problems.
That's how I'd recommend it - play through once violent and uncovering everything, then play again all sneaky like. Also, I didn't know this, but you're only detected if the attention icons turn red. That's kind of helpful.
Yeah, I knew that but thanks. I'm having trouble sneaking b/c I do okay, then one guard spots me, yells for the whole pack and I have to slaughter everyone and it's a big mess.
Where are you?
Assassinating High Overseer Campbell. Luckily, killing Campbells comes naturally to us. (There is a family feud between us and the Campbells dating back to 1692. We know how to hold a grudge.)
You can climb out the window and get on a ledge. I didn't know that about the red; I saved and reloaded a whole helluva lot. Eventually it just got down to a lot.
I'm not even at the meeting site. I can get past the gate guards to the stairs but someone in the courtyard always spots me and summons a dozen. Well, I say 'always' - I've tried 4 times. Once was hilarious. I tried to blink [teleport] over to the stairs, he couldn't go that far and landed RIGHT in front of a guard. As in, if it were real life the guard would have pooped his pants, that's how RIGHT IN FRONT of him I landed. Alan, watching, said, "Stealth. What you're doing is the opposite of that."
LOL. Yeah, that happened to me a lot, too. Want a hint, or want to do it sef? ["Do it sef!" is the first complete sentence I uttered as a youngster. Translation = I'll do it myself!]
I'd welcome a hint.
OK, after you free Martin, go to the right and up. Once you're into the abbey, don't go through the courtyard. You can go under. Look for the kennels.
[Time passes.]
Thanks for the tip but I couldn't go that way. I found the kennels but I kept getting demised b/c I didn't want to slay any doggies. I wound up climbing detritus to ledges to over buildings. I took the overland route.
That's something cool, there's almost always a secret way and an indirect way to do everything; it's really open-ended. And yeah, I refused to kill any dogs, too - even on my evil murderer playthrough.
I get demised an awful lot, but it is fun. Gotta go, need to kill the Pendleton twins. Don't care if they die, unlike the doggies.
Shiny.
I heart my brother.
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