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[Cthulhu]

Yeah, as bad as the Overseers are, and as cool as I think the Outsider is, I definitely think he's a bad dude on the grander scale.  I've made it a point not to act on anything the heart tells me, it's giving me that Monkey's Paw vibe.

[Pnx]

They can blink through walls if they know what's on the other side, so it should be easy enough to blink through a pair of bars and escape.

Isn't the "blink" thing more like instant movement? I can't say where i got it from but i understood it as you move the distance between A & B rather than dematerialize and appear at your destination.

Well it seems to work that way for Corvo, but the assassins seem to have powers that work slightly differently. There's a scene where they talk about how you don't need to be able to see where you're blinking to and only need to see it in your mind. Then one of the assassins blinks to his "place of resting", there's also something that happens shortly later when one of the assassins blinks through a blocked doorway, so yes I'm pretty sure the assassins can blink through things.

[Aklyon]

From what I've seen, Corvo's blink is more like you moved really damn fast, since it doesn't seem to slow you down if you jump.
The assasins basically warp in, warp out.

[Cthulhu]

YOu know what bugs the hell out of me, and is common to most games but seems especially bad in this one?

Bad inflection.  I don't know if they're just giving the actors a set of lines and having them read with nothing else to go on, or if the actors are just awful, but seriously.  These people inflect so fucking weird.

"You people need the citywatch."

[Pnx]

It's a common problem with a lot of games, it's at it's worst when the voice actor has to recite a couple hundred lines for the various things generic mooks say in one sitting. After a certain point even the guy in the sound booth will just be like, "Sure, that one's good enough."

[foil]

IS there a bug with enemies disappearing?  Im sure thats the 3rd time ive seen an enemy vanish while i take out another one.  2 or 3 enemy in an area and after dropping one of them they either all disappear or 1 goes missing by himself. 

Its not rats or moving to another area or etc etc, just vanish without a trace leaving no bodies or anything.

[anzki4]

Yes, the bodies seem to disappear (at least somewhat) randomly when you are not looking at them.

[Mictlantecuhtli]

Yes, the bodies seem to disappear (at least somewhat) randomly when you are not looking at them.

Only ever happened to me if I killed a lot of people in one area, such as when I got caught by a Tallboy in the

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Fort's courtyard below the Lighthouse

. I killed about ten of them one by one in that alleyway off to the right. By the time I'd killed the last ones [before reloading; that's how I got the action part out of the game, heh] the first ones I'd killed were gone, just blood and a sword leftover. Just seems like maybe the game doesn't accept piles of bodies?

Oh, and I beat the game.

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Is there a (No Chaos) version of the lighthouse level? I got low chaos since I'd killed about 20 or so people along the game, just wondering if anything changes in a pacifist/ghost run. If not I don't feel like playing it again.

But the game did inspire me to play Arx Fatalis again. God I love this game.

[forsaken1111]

Yes, the bodies seem to disappear (at least somewhat) randomly when you are not looking at them.

I think they clip through the floor due to the squirrely ragdoll physics. This screwed me out of a 'no-deaths' playthrough too because an unconscious guard clipped through into the void and 'died' from the fall.

[ukulele]

I mosltly found bodies disapearing if i "stack" all of them on one place, if i keep a good space between them they tend to stay (?)-

EDIT: i dont think its clipping becouse i get no kill achivments even when uncouncious guards banish.

[forsaken1111]

No... I mean I -saw- one unconscious guard fall through the floor after he died. And then I heard a splash like he landed in water somewhere and the snoring sound stopped.

[fenrif]

I've no doubt taht dodgey clipping can cause that to happen, but when I played unconscious people would literally vanish if you tried to put more than one in a room.

Which meant that my need to put all unconscious guards in the same room meant that by the end of the level i'd vanished at least 10 people out of existance, but none of them counted as deaths.

[MorleyDev]

Corvo's blink seems to be a different power to the assassins, instantaneous transportation over a short distance where he needs to still be able to cross the distance physically. He can't blink through something he couldn't fit through normally.

Sorry, I should have been more clear on that, I don't mind the Outsider as a concept, I just dislike that he's some dude that speaks to you directly and choses you for some task.

Except you aren't a "Chosen One" in the typical sense.

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He definitely doesn't choose you for any special tasks. He's just bored and thinks "Hey, if I give this dude in the right time and place magical powers, it'd be entertaining to see what he does".

Think of The Outsider as being less as god or devil, and more a bored child poking the ants to see how they react. Dishonored takes a lot of inspiration from Cosmic Horror Stories, and so the closest think to a "god" in the setting you encounter is fittingly a lovecraftian monster that chooses to appear to you as a human but is so removed from humanity that you can't think about him in those terms.  A scary and fascinating character because he doesn't *have* an end-game, any goal in mind. That's why I like the Outsider, I'm a big cosmic horror fan.

He's an agent of fate who gives those who can have enough choices and a big enough effect on the world powers purely to see what they do with them, because he knows everything they *could* do but is fascinated by seeing which decisions they make. It's just this is a crapsack world where humanity are bastards so the majority of them, when given real power, do horrible things.

So much of all those paragraphs appeals to what I find I like in stories and characters ^^

[Ibid Straydrink]

Spoilers, please.

[Peewee]

Oh, and I beat the game.

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Is there a (No Chaos) version of the lighthouse level? I got low chaos since I'd killed about 20 or so people along the game, just wondering if anything changes in a pacifist/ghost run. If not I don't feel like playing it again.

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I did a 0 kills run. It said (low chaos), but if there were any plague rats or weepers at all in your lighthouse, there weren't any in mine.