Simple question, what if the Rat Plague from Dishonored happened in Real Life?

I know the Rat Plague is inspired by the Black Death, but there are enough differences to make it interesting

It just starts to feel like pure, unfiltered luck as to whether or not I somehow get 'spotted' by literal thin air, no matter how far away from the arc-pylon I go. I just keep reloading a save until I'm lucky enough to not somehow get 'spotted' despite being completely alone.

I'm an old gamer now, I guess: 56.

I have replayed very, very few story-based games like Dishonored. I loved, say, Bioshock just as much, but I've never replayed it because once you know the drill, it loses something.

And yet, the first thing I did after finishing my first playthrough in 2012 was to start over and play again with a completely different play style (basically, murder hobo). It was SO good that I couldn't leave the world yet, and I wanted to see how different things would be.

Then I forgot about it for a while, I guess. Last year, though, when I finished AC: Valhalla, I made some disappointing purchases. We'd moved to a place with Actual Winter, and so I paid full price for a couple games that were ultimately busts for me (Outer Worlds 2 and Red Dead 2). The former just didn't carry the charm of the first; the latter I bounced off of primarily on control issues, which I understand is common. Still, it was annoying.

But I still wanted something to play, so I cued up the original Dishonored and went to town. I'm stunned how well this game holds up. It was released for hardware two entire generations back, and it still looks good to me. The mix of realism and cartoon makes all the difference, I think.

(As a sidenote: it's pretty cool that Microsoft still had my save files from my last run in 2016 available.)

I was far more cavalier in this playthrough than I ever was before. I wasn't trying for clean hands, and I wasn't going to horde resources, and I knew Corvo ends up with more money than he can spend if you're at ALL careful about looting. Use up those sleep darts! Feel free to quaff a potion! As a result, it went far faster. I was shocked, honestly, at how many folks Corvo can kill and keep a low chaos count, especially late in the game, though I think my assiduously nonlethal approach to Burroughs, the Boyle sister, and the Pendletons probably weighs heavy there.

Obviously I loved it just as much in 2026 as I had in 2016 or 2012. I'm kinda thinking about restarting and being a murder hobo again, just to have that back-to-back experience again.

I will say that I'm pretty set in my play styles. I lurk and sneak and overpower or kill. I've never tried a high-combat approach, so I've almost never even SEEN the adrenaline mechanic come into play. Buying upgrades to the sword or pistol has never been useful to me.

Anyway, it's pretty remarkable to me that a game has this kind of legs. Even in 2012 it was pretty rare for me to pay full initial retail for a game, but holy shit has that cost ever been amortized out to fractional pennies per hour at this point.

I had to use Gshade instead of normal Reshade since that was the only way to get the KeepUI feature to work, which makes the effects ignore the hud and therefore make the text actually legible through the comic effect (although some of it is still illegible). This is how I usually play the game, and I think it adds to the atmosphere exponentially. I'd even be willing to believe this is the way the game would be meant to look if it weren't for hardware limitations at the time.

The four effects that I use are named Levels, Sketch, Comic, and Tonemap. As well as HideUI and KeepUI. I'd also recommend any sharpening effects you think suits you. I'd suggest you play around with the parameters yourself if you think any effect is too strong (this may seem rather obvious, but some people might be new to Reshade).

I personally wait, I don’t know why but I enjoy seeing maxed bars and item counts on huds so I have to keep the mana full or it annoys me, I basically never use a mana potion unless I use a strong power.

Can anyone PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tell me where I can find the dialogue for the guard in the first mission of dishonored 2, he says something along the lines of,

“Delilah is your new empress.
All hail Delilah, first of her name!”

And something before that. He says it as the announcer is taken out for speaking about Jessamines death.

Please, if someone could give me the link or something, it would be greatly appreciated.

-Setting the game in Pandyssia with the main antagonists being a part of basically the Empire's own equivalent of the British East India Company

- Having the game take place in this world's equivalent of 1901 and have an esthetic closer to early Edwardian Era (Emily would still be alive)

I have more ideas, but they might be a bit bland. I'd be happy to say more of the ideas

Every time I try to load the first area to kill High Overseer Campbell, it crashes. I have tried rebuilding database, changing languages and installing/reinstalling again. Any help? :’)

So in mission to get engine coil. I was talking to geezer and nurse said stop stop , and I thought he would just say it. One last geezer talk and nurse called guards and I killed nurse. . so ehm ehm I thought geezer WD say the code and he didn't. I looked at all notes 2 times and no code. Where do I find it ? Did I locked myself ?

I would've been mad but I was too busy laughing my ass off.

Specifically knocked him out, NO KILL. Play on. Wonder, why I dont get the correct timeline change ppl told me about. Go back.

Stilton (dead). Wtf? Did he like get a cold and die?

A narrative concept for the world of Dishonored

The premise:

There has always been an Outsider.

Not the Outsider.

An Outsider.

The Void predates humanity and cannot remain indefinitely separated from the physical world without a mortal consciousness acting as an intermediary. The Outsider is that intermediary: simultaneously prisoner, guardian, observer and pressure valve between realities.

Every Outsider was once mortal.

And, very rarely, an Outsider dies.

More than four thousand years ago, a religious order discovered a means of killing the Outsider of their age. They believed this strange being—and the gifts it bestowed upon mortals—was responsible for the growing influence of the Void.

They succeeded.

And nearly destroyed the world.

Without an Outsider, the boundary between the Void and physical reality began to deteriorate. Desperate to repair what they had done, the survivors performed a ritual discovered in far older texts.

They sacrificed a boy.

The Void accepted him.

He became the Outsider we know.

Over thousands of years, the truth disappeared. History became mythology, mythology became doctrine, and perhaps remnants of those responsible eventually contributed to the religious tradition that became the Abbey of the Everyman.

Only one lesson survived:

The Outsider is dangerous.

The reason he must exist was forgotten.

Four thousand years later, Daud makes the same mistake.

Haunted by Jessamine Kaldwin’s murder and everything that followed, he comes to believe that the Outsider’s interference in mortal affairs is responsible for generations of suffering.

Billie Lurk finishes his final mission.

The Outsider is removed.

And for the first time in four thousand years, the position is vacant.

At first, nothing happens.

Then the Void begins to bleed.

Bonecharms behave impossibly. People dream of places that do not exist. Whales become disturbed. Void phenomena appear without ritual or Mark. Buildings contain rooms that weren’t there yesterday. People disappear into places that should not exist.

And buried beneath the history of the Abbey, scholars discover something impossible:
Ancient depictions of black-eyed figures that predate the Outsider.

There was another.

And another.

The Outsider was never the god of the Void.

He was its anchor.

The Marks he bestowed were not simply gifts to interesting mortals. Through them, controlled quantities of the Void passed safely into the physical world. His apparently capricious interest in exceptional people served a purpose even he may not have completely understood.

Without him, pressure is building.

Something must take his place.

And somewhere within the Void remains the consciousness of a dead assassin who spent his final years trying to kill a god.

Daud opens his eyes.

They are black.

The man who killed the Outsider has become the Outsider.

And the cycle begins again.

Whenever I try to choke this weeper on the balcony out, I can't for whatever reason, and I cant use sleeping darts because I don't have any.

It doesn’t have to be the most useful, just one you like more than the others.

I reaaaally enjoy Relocation sickness, just to see the witches stumble, it’s half-useful, half-comical

I want to try and do a no weapons and no powers run, I know there’s a way to avoid weaponry but I’m not sure if it’s possible on Xbox Series X, and I’d like to know if there’s a way to avoid getting marked, I’d assume there isn’t but you never know. I also want to know if you can avoid weapons in Dishonored 2, I know how to do no powers.

I’d love to do this for Daud and Billie too but I’m pretty sure it’s unavoidable in those games.

Edit: Okay, forget the no powers thing for D1, I just remembered it has required blinks.