Inside the Making of Dishonored 2's Best Level: A Crack in the Slab 

seriously, absolutely brilliant application.

Fervently yea from all the games that Bethesda made/published it's one of the best

No, not at all, it's from a huge company and considered a tripple A game. What are you on about?

lol its not underrated

jodawgsup it's not from a huge company it's from Arkane studios it's publish by a huge company Bethesda and it is a lot of people know nothing about it and a lot of my friends that are diehard fans of Bethesda were really surprised about this I discovered it some years ago expecting nothing from it thinking this look nice maybe will keep me for some time and I was amazed by the depth of the story the replay value the level design

Freeformrulz you will be surprised how much it is

8Paul7 I agree those are my favorites of last year, love me some stealth action games

8Paul7 this is a great time for stealth games and fans of those I didn't get my hands on deus ex yet but soon I will. Mgs v and platinuming dishonored 2 take time

Yeah MSG5 was great too. All that is missing is new Splinter Cell and quality new Thief. But unfortunately since both Dishonored and Deus Ex sold less than expected, I am bit worried if we are going to get high quality sequels or new stealth IPs.

8Paul7 we will get I am sure of it

8Paul7 now we need a new splinter cell

SolarEXtract why what's so satisfying about it? Full of clockwork soldiers which are just annoying and hard to stealth kill and the assassination target is in the dumbest area surrounded clockwork soldiers, no real varying ways to approach him, it's crap

Maybe I'm an exception, I dunno, but I can easily get around the entire mansion without ever even being spotted and kill everything. You can approach Jindosh from above or below, though admittedly it's a bit cramped once you get to the top of the rotunda where he resides, so I'll give you that. Would be really cool if Dishonored had the same AI as Left 4 Dead, where the enemies are placed randomly, including the main boss. That way, you have to search for and hunt them down every time you replay a level.

You are right. Placing them randomly does make it harder, but It doesn't make sense, because some people will get very easy targets (the target is the first person you encounter), others will get an impossible one. Also, the targets appear where they feel the safest from you. The Duke won't wonder around the mansion when he knows you are coming for him. he is most likely to stay in the two most secure places (His room or the throne room), while Jindosh will stay in his lab, surrounded by 2 of his best fighter creations where, to his knowledge, there is only one entrance to.

It's actually not that hard to stealth kill the clockwork soldiers once you know how. Stun mines/spring razors are effective (though you'll need to use two charges to actually kill the soldier) - simply place the trap, and then throw an item to lure the soldier over to the mine. If that's too item-intensive, you can also shoot off their heads with hardened crossbow bolts (note: the bolts MUST be hardened - i.e. this will only work if you get the hardened bolts upgrade), which blinds them and makes them really easy to sneak up on/avoid (or you can just let them kill other enemies for you). Considering you can have up to 20 bolts, this is really quite inexpensive - particularly given the fact that rendering them headless makes it possible to kill them via a single drop assassination. There's really a tonne of ways to dealing with them.

Don't need two stun mines if you upgrade the mines to have double or triple charges! :)

Maybe the rift in the void mentioned accelerated the effect.

it makes sense

Same dude

If you liked the Dishonored games, you should check out Prey from 2017, which is another game made by Arkane Studios (the developers who made Dishonored 1&2). I'll warn you right now that the first 2-3 hours can be kind of rough and you might die a lot. But once you get a few upgrades and powers it becomes super awesome and addicting

it just needs a writer that can make the game story at the same level of the gameplay or game desing

​@@Felix-ee2ob Would love to see Ken Levine work with them but that won't happen.

Jacob H. Really? You can't even use your powers it's fucking the worst level

You must not have played through the game very much. Not only is playing without powers an extremely fun challenge (the Flesh and Steel achievement), but the design of the level is so innovative and fun and creative. You should really play through the game again and give it another chance, I don't think you'll regret it.

No i have completed it and was a little disappointed with the level design and enemy placement compared to the first game. You call it a fun challenge, i call it boring. Some of the levels are way too story focused for me as well compared to the first which, if you dont care about the story only serves to frustrate you.

@@jdawg86 Wow its the worst level because u cant use ur powers for once in the game? That was one of the things that made this game even better. A challenge and some party where u had to use ur brain. All while having amazing gameplay mechanics

@@th9667 sorry dude, I bought the game because I enjoy running around on a level with supernatural powers. I’d go play a different game if that’s not what I wanted. You wanna use your brain for a challenge. That’s not what I’m interested in. That’s not why I loved the first game.

i was so pissed, i had worked out what each of the ladies had, but thought you had to input the code in seating order, so spent an extra 30+ minutes playing musical chairs; this was made incredibly more difficult by how stoned i was.

Me. I spent 35 minutes and I used pen and paper. It was frustrating but you get a feeling of satisfaction when you are done

thanks! Looking to do more in the future :)

Sion Hughes lots of options though. Might be tricky!

LucyJamesGames I'd say its the logical way to progress the gameplay in Dishonored 3. Might be great potential in building the story around it too.

I hope they won't do that. This was a nice gimmick, but nothing more.

It was so fun imagining what the soldiers were seeing

Same lol, just blinked up to that chandelier

Diego Silva thank you! Certainly got plans :)

Go ahead, I loved the video because it brings the vision of the developer to the fan, to those who love this work. The game is fantastic, the stages beautiful and interesting, and it's a shame that not everyone can really appreciate it.

Abandoned I also like the Dukes palace :3

Abandoned have to disagree with you there, A Crack In The Slab was my favorite

Honestly, crack in the slab is tresh.

RexSol Yea clockwork mansion is best

RexSol thought so until I slogged through the tedious dust district and got into this level.... Absolute Fucking masterpiece of game design and narrative... Easily one of my best gaming moments ever

Well the performance doesn't show it.

6o3matty Okay???

the performance is terrible even on highend rigs, they pushed it out unoptimized, the game itself is really good

Arkane, sure. Bethesda though? Noooooooo

Eric Nick no Bethesda is not pure quality with horrible games like Fallout 4 which totally abandoned the old fallout style and not giving what they promised

tawilk ha!

There is no spoon 4? I thought there are 3 the first one in the present before you get the ability to go throw time there is the one in the past and there is the one in the present that you can go to if you put Stilton to sleep in the past

Jonathan Kreitler When it comes to Stilton you could very well create two different versions of the manor. If you knock him out of course he still lives and is allied with you on the dreadful whale, but there's also people in the present time manor. However if you kill Stilton then he could not ally with you, obviously, and there would be absolutely no one in the present time. It will still look vacated and in one piece.

JaVon Bolaños I know it and did you know that if you keep him alive when you go back to Magen she have two arms and two eyes? Because she lost them when she tried to break in to the minor so if Stilton is fine she never had to get in so she never lost her eye and hand

Jonathan Kreitler oh for real? That i did not know! Now I have to go back and play it again to check that out. You still find something new when it comes to this game

JaVon Bolaños yea it's really cool when you came back to Magen she have her two eyes and two hands it's really cool they really thought about it

fitoagosto haha, it's Skype. Sorry 😅

Big Bong its in the basement in a flooded room during the present. you have to travel to the past to get into the room then grab the valve and move it to where you can grab it in present.

Felipe Queiroz ON IT

Yes, knock out Stilton.

Ar Cahyadi Indra thank you! Certainly have plans to

Tovis I knew that only because I watched every trailer 30 times so I saw that it's possible

Ground Control I wouldn't say mindless. more like mind controlled.

gamesandtings thank you :)

Omar Cervantes thank you :)

maroonroon haha, because it was recorded via Skype as Christophe was in France!

HetfieldAuditore HA!! It almost was a paving slab :)

LucyJamesGames I saw your tweet lol

Not really once you get how it works. Though you can rush it but the few hours I spent on this level alone was well worth it for a completionist :)

Sunko on the PS4 it's run good now (I have it on PS4 and not pc because my computer can't run it

Sunko uhh buy the console version

TheNegroShoddy I would if it wasn't for the FOV. Right now, I prefer bad performance over 60 FOV.

Sunko my pc has a gtx 1060 6g running max settings 60fps. Idk what your smoking

Zombie link I'm not smoking anything. The majority of people are getting really bad performance. A couple lucky people like you are having no issues. Clearly an optimization issue.

Hidirazmi Abdul Rahman Magicians?

J Dawg For me that is the second best level in the entire game. The very best level is the clockwork mansion!

So you like the missions that give you minimal options? Both levels are terrible. Disappointed with this sequel, the first game was much better.

J Dawg First game is bad compared to the second game bud.

. The second has shitty framerate, the levels give you less freedom and the enemy placement is crap. You obviously havnt played the first game and if you have you are just stupid.

Crap frame rate automatically makes it inferior, obviously.