- Dishonored 2 takes place 15 years after the finale of the original game.

- The game starts with a day in the life of Empress Emily Kaldwin, a character that Arkane was intent on exploring more after the first game. "By the end of Dishonored, Emily was a very interesting character to us," Colantonio says. "She was the only thing good in the world actually worth saving. She was also a reflection of Corvo's actions, and some players figured out that (Dishonored 1 spoiler) |||Spoiler||| she was Corvo's daughter |||Spoiler|||."

- After another otherworldy usurper seizes the throne, Emily is driven out of Dunwall and becomes an outlaw. After a dramatic sequence players are then given the choice to continue to play as Emily or Corvo Attano, the hero from the first game.

- The game takes place in Karnaca, the capital city of Serkonos, which is known as the jewel of the south. Fans will remember that this Empire of the Isles country is also the birthplace of Corvo. The region is known for its warm weather, beachfronts, and spicy cuisine.

- Like Dunwall before it, Karnaca is in the midst of an epidemic. You may have seen the blood flies in the trailer. Like the plague rats in Dishonored, these can be a natural hazard. This species lays insects in corpses and hatches out of them. If they get into a certain distance of their lifespan they become harmless like a dung beetle, but if there are too many of them at one point in adolescence they become hostile. The more bodies you heap, better chance these hostile outbreaks happen. This can be used to harass guards.

- Each character plays through the same series of missions, but each has different perspectives on the world. By playing through the campaign with both characters you will learn different things. There is no swapping between characters; once you choose one you stick with it until a second playthrough.

- Emily and Corvo each have unique powers granted to them by The Outsider.

- Emily's powers include Far Reach (which allows her reach out and pull herself to another building like a grapple), Shadow Walk, and Mesmerize. She is also capable of crafting bone charms, and there are more than 400,000 combinations in the game.

- Corvo retains familiar powers like Devouring Swarm, Bend Time, Possession, and Blink.

- For Dishonored 2, Arkane is taking a new approach to upgrades. The last game offered upgrades that strengthened your powers. Dishonored 2 has powers, but from there it offers a bunch of skill trees that allow you to upgrade in asymmetrical ways. For instance, you could upgrade Far Reach to yank guys to you and assassinate them mid-air, grab objects with it, or pull objects.

- All powers have extensions like Daud's Blink that let you use powers in different ways

- Arkane believes this new approach to upgrades offers a lot of replayability. You could go really deep with three specific powers in one playthrough, then switch it up for another.

- If you've seen videos like this on the web, you know that talented gamers have found ingenious ways to string together powers to become unstoppable killing machines. Arkane says it's preserving the systems that allow for experimentation with the special abilities. "When we put an element in the game, we don't put it in the game and attach it to something," Smith says. "We make it general purpose work so you can attach it anywhere. The worst thing in the world would be if Blink had attach points. That would be the dumbest idea because it means you can only go if we want you to go. Of course it's better for the level designers, the producers, and the tech guys that think it's safer [if we took that approach]. For us, we say it is a power and it has a range. It's a squashed sphere, and you can shoot at a spot or empty air or a mantle climb icon or jump in midair and do it and the point is it's recombinant because it's general purpose."

- What you see in the announce trailer you can do in the game. This particular mission is called (die man van Dishonored 2 trailer)|||Spoiler||| the Clockwork Mansion. Here you must kill the grand inventor of Serkonos or find another way to eliminate him in his moving house |||Spoiler|||.

- Arkane isn't going into details yet, but it says that its technology base has dramatically improved. "You know how last time we had really strong art direction and okay technology? Now we have really strong art direction and really strong rendering tech," Smith says.

- For Dishonored 2, Arkane has enhanced the A.I. in a couple of ways. First off, guard search patterns have been revamped. In the first game they would follow bread crumbs but there were opportunities to trick them. Now they search for real. Several A.I. characters will get together and split up the territory to canvas the entire space. They will not recheck a spot another soldier has already investigated.

- The A.I also have increased situational awareness. For instance, if two grunts realize they are with an officer who has a ranged weapon, they understand that he should hang back and they should move forward.

- Dishonored 2 has a modified high/low chaos system that offers more granular, direct consequences.

- Some people said Dishonored wasn't hard enough, so Arkane is scaling the game to offer more of a challenge to these players.

- Both the Lyon and Austin and studios are collaborating on the game.

- Arkane says there is one new game mode that it plans to share details on at a later date.

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Letterlijk vanwege een glitch voor een achievement? Als het een game breaking glitch was waardoor je niet verder kon, dan kon ik je begrijpen, maar voor achievements of trophies vind ik dat eerlijk gezegd wel heel erg overdreven...

Maar welke glitch had je precies dan? Misschien heb je iets over het hoofd gezien of iets onbewust gedaan (zoals een bewusteloos lichaam laten vallen in een plas water of te dicht bij een explosie, of een rand van het dak waar hij vanaf kan glijden), zoiets is mij ook ooit overkomen en toen dacht ik ook dat het om een glitch ging.

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Inderdaad heel geniaal! Ik kan niet wachten! Ik had eerlijk gezegd misschien wel gameplay verwacht in plaats van alleen CGI, maar dat mag de pret niet derven.
Gepost door: 3bdelilah op 15-06-2015 06:29

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Je hebt toch die side-quests die je kan doen voor Granny Rags en die andere gozer. Heb beide gedaan, precies zoals het moest en kreeg eerst van beide de achievement niet. Daarna exact hetzelfde gedaan en kreeg toen 1 achievements van die gozer, niet van Granny Rags. Als ik een spel kan voltooien, oftwel op 100G/100% kan zetten en er zitten glitched achievements in, dan baal ik daar van.
Gepost door: Dexter010 op 25-06-2015 02:16

- Visually the game pretty much looks like a more detailed version of the last game.
- Before anyone asks, there's no co-op, as they weren't sure how to design that in.
- The game runs on a modified version of idtech5 they've dubbed The Void Engine.
- The game takes place 15 years after the original.
- After the events of the first game, Corvo was concerned that at some point, people would attempt to assassinate Emily. As such, he spent said 15 years training her how to be a magical assassin like him whenever she wasn't too busy being Empress.
- The game starts out with you playing as Emily during a coup d'etat and having to escape.
- Afterwards, you choose whether to play as Emily on her quest to reclaim her throne, or as Corvo with the same objective.
- "When fans found out they could play Dishonored 2 from the perspective of Emily Kaldwin, they were overwhelmingly positive. "The response was stunning for us," Smith says."
- The game starts and ends in Dunwall, but the rest of the game takes place in Karnaca, which is inspired by Mediterranean European countries and is the birthplace of Corvo. Karnaca is also where the majority of the game takes place.
- There's a bunch of stuff about their art design process in here. Let's just suffice it to say that if you liked how the first game looked and how the universe was, you should be satisfied here.
- Anton Sokolov is back.
- The plot setup for how missions works sounds pretty similar. There's some public figure doing bad things and you get information/help from other characters to help in your goal of taking them down.
- The guards are a lot smarter this time and can also do things like vault around and scale objects to chase you.
- Emily has a new set of powers. Far Reach is this giant hand grappling hook thing that pulls you around. It's like blink, except you actually physically move across spaces, so guards can notice you. Far Reach can also be used as a weapon by swinging around environment objects.
- The game is a lot more vertical so these movement abilities are especially important.
- You can do non-lethal aerial takedowns.
- Missions have various options for completion and progression throughout, much like the previous game.
- You can use guards as human shields.
- Non-lethal/stealth options have been expanded quite a bit to be more up to par with the amount of lethal options.
- Another one of Emily's abilities is Mesmerize, which stuns multiple guards temporarily.
- You can puts guards into beds to avoid suspicion.
- There's a bunch of difficulty sliders for things like how visible you are in cover.
- There's quick saving/quick load in all versions of the game now along with checkpoints so you don't risk losing much progress at any given time.
- Coy non-comment about mods. Please download Bethesda.net™.
- Another of Emily's powers is Domino. You link up to four guards together, and then whatever happens to one guard, happens to the rest. For example, if you link four guards, and then lead one into a stun mine, all four are stunned.
- This also works with Doppelganger, where you create a clone of yourself, then link it to the guards, and blow up your own clone.
- Emily also has the Shadow Walk ability which lets her slink into shadows and squeeze into tight places.
- Some of the missions have neutral areas where you can go around and talk to the various citizens to get a feel for the city and hints toward your mission.
- Your base of operations is a boat.
- Batman Detective Vision returns.
- Both Emily and Corvo have a pistol, sword, and crossbow, but they look different. Also they have different end game upgrades to the items.
- Corvo has the same powers as the last game, but they're upgraded and expanded.
- Corvo is voiced by Garrett from Thief because Harvey and Raf like Thief and this game has obviously ate its lunch.
- Corvo's Bend Time ability can now also fast forward time.
- Corvo's possession ability can now be chained between creatures.
- The abilities now unlock in a tree.
- Corvo's blink can assassinate someone through a glass window starting at level 1.
- The mansion from the trailer is an interlocking puzzle level where you pull levers and open new areas and all sorts of stuff like that.
- The clockwork soldiers are now wood instead of porcelain, though it's nice looking wood.
- They're trying to make the ending and morality systems less bad this time.

De Collector's Edition (+Definitive Edition) voor €99,99 op elk platform.
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Voor informatie: Bethesda Store (de Bethesda Store levert alleen in de US!)
Gepost door: BloodArchsage op 13-06-2016 10:19

De Collector's Edition (+Definitive Edition) voor €99,99 op elk platform.
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Voor informatie: Bethesda Store (de Bethesda Store levert alleen in de US!)
Gepost door: BloodArchsage op 13-06-2016 10:19

Dishonored 2 CE is met een aanbetaling te pre-orderen bij Game Mania. Adviesprijs is inderdaad €99,99 voor ieder platform.
Gepost door: Dynaw op 13-06-2016 22:10