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[Execute/Dumbo.exe]

I must comment on how different the stealth feels when you aren't on auto speed walk all the time.
I mean, once when I actually used 'Beached whale' movement speed, it was a lot less 'Hope to god they don't hear you before you can sneak attack them' and more skill based, though it still was easy, if a touch boring.
I say this with having the quicksave keys In Deus Ex mapped to Q and E and every other game with them burned into my muscle memory, so take that how you will.

Actually, I'm kinda curious, does the game go into insta-kill mode when you normal sneak attack someone from behind? Because there are a lot fo situations in which I've killed humanoids far above my damage level.

[forsaken1111]

Sneak attacks aren't insta-kill but they have a very hefty multiplier so you can often one hit kill things that would normally be very hard.

[Execute/Dumbo.exe]

Not just the multiplier, I mean it goes into Kill Cam mode, and my dude slits an enemy humanoids neck, only if I am directly behind them, with a normal sneak attack.

[Gentlefish]

Daggers can get that with their stupid-high x12. I've gotten a kill-cam out of them on a successful backstab.

[forsaken1111]

Not just the multiplier, I mean it goes into Kill Cam mode, and my dude slits an enemy humanoids neck, only if I am directly behind them, with a normal sneak attack.

I believe the killmove camera is triggered when the damage you're doing exceeds the remaining HP on the target.

[Reudh]

Daggers can get that with their stupid-high x12. I've gotten a kill-cam out of them on a successful backstab.

x15, and dark brotherhood gloves give another x2 for x30 damage backstab.

[Mech#4]

Not just the multiplier, I mean it goes into Kill Cam mode, and my dude slits an enemy humanoids neck, only if I am directly behind them, with a normal sneak attack.

I believe the killmove camera is triggered when the damage you're doing exceeds the remaining HP on the target.

I also believe this is the case. I will add though that there does seem to be a bit of an additional part that goes by percentage of health left as well. Since it is difficult to determine exact numbers of health left, however, I cannot be sure. It's more something that happens when you've got like 1/10 of their health left or similar.

It's something I've seen when I've been chipping someone's health away with many hits and a power attack seems to deliver more damage than it has before, finishing the enemy off a little early.

[forsaken1111]

I think the conditions of it occuring are something like

Your damage > target's remaining HP

and

Target HP < 35% or somesuch

[SOLDIER First]

Like how dragons have that instakill bite attack, or how we have that instakill head-stab attack on them.

Also I find sometimes it's more efficient to use two weapons at once for sneak attacks at low levels, so you have a better chance to kill them the first time.

[forsaken1111]

Reminds me of the time I played an orc rogue. My 'stealth' weapon was a big fucking warhammer.

[Xantalos]

Reminds me of the time I played an orc rogue. My 'stealth' weapon was a big fucking warhammer.

_{sneakysneakysneakysneakysneakysneaky}SMASHYSMASHYSMAAAAASH_{sneakitysneakysneaky}

[forsaken1111]

By the end I was wielding a daedric warhammer with some ridiculous enchantment and could OHK most things if I got the sneak attack. It got really silly.

Also by then I was high enough in sneak that I could stealth around in heavy armor.

[Mech#4]

Reminds me of the time I played an orc rogue. My 'stealth' weapon was a big fucking warhammer.

_{sneakysneakysneakysneakysneakysneaky}SMASHYSMASHYSMAAAAASH_{sneakitysneakysneaky}

What was that Dark Brotherhood member? Something about how an two handed axe, everyone ending up dead, no witnesses.


Tangently related, I remember an oversight in the rules for one edition of Warhammer 40,000 allowing commanders in terminator armour to be attached to infiltrating squads of scouts.

[forsaken1111]

Tangently related, I remember an oversight in the rules for one edition of Warhammer 40,000 allowing commanders in terminator armour to be attached to infiltrating squads of scouts.

_CLANKCLANKCLANKCLANKCLANK_

Yelled at top of lungs to fellow infiltration squaddies with VOX amplified voice: "WE MUST TAKE THEM BY SURPRISE. THEY WILL NEVER HEAR US COMING. FOR THE EMPRAH!"

[Sergius]

Bonus points if each soldier yells "SNEAK ATTACK!" every time they swing their giant axes/hammers.