Is there a point to knocking people out ?

[cire87]

a few times i have knocked people unconscious with 1hp but then quickly finish them off , if i left them alive do they eventually wake back up ?

[Akela]

No. For practical purposes it is like killing. This mechanic is related to certain classes having a no kill vow.

[cire87]

interesting

[Cryptic]

It doesn't really work in essence though. There are several situations where my friend and I decided to go non-lethal and knock our opponents out but it still had negative impacts as if we killed them outright so there was definitely some weird situations

[cire87]

so weird

[MASTERCHIEF]

it works in scripted content. apart from that no. maybe some roleplay purposes. btw. if it says someone is temporarily hostile you can knock them out leave and come back I guess and they would be alive.

[Chaosolous]

Originally posted by Akela:

No. For practical purposes it is like killing. This mechanic is related to certain classes having a no kill vow.

[cire87]

such a weird feature

[Ka-mai19]

Originally posted by MASTERCHIEF:

it works in scripted content. apart from that no. maybe some roleplay purposes. btw. if it says someone is temporarily hostile you can knock them out leave and come back I guess and they would be alive.

This. There are some situations where an NPC will tell you not to kill someone and that's your cue to switch to knockout mode. In anything else it seems like knockout=killing.

[HumanNinjaToo]

The only thing I have noticed about this so far, is that your dialogue slightly changes when you tell Mayrina about 'knocking out' her brothers instead of killing them, but then she screams and spits same dialogue like you killed them. I was hoping for some kind of reunion after you kill the hag, but no such luck.

[Amogus]

Originally posted by HumanNinjaToo:

The only thing I have noticed about this so far, is that your dialogue slightly changes when you tell Mayrina about 'knocking out' her brothers instead of killing them, but then she screams and spits same dialogue like you killed them. I was hoping for some kind of reunion after you kill the hag, but no such luck.

it's because they die regardless which side you help.

[Chaosolous]

Originally posted by cire87:

such a weird feature

No. Some Paladin classes have a Vow to not kill.

Paladins must use this feature.

It's specifically for that.

Like, only specifically exactly for that.

[HumanNinjaToo]

Originally posted by WAFFLE:

it's because they die regardless which side you help.

boo to that

[cire87]

Originally posted by Chaosolous:

Originally posted by cire87:

such a weird feature

No. Some Paladin classes have a Vow to not kill.

Paladins must use this feature.

It's specifically for that.

Like, only specifically exactly for that.

yea that makes sense but does it matter if a companion kill the knocked out person or thing ?

[Kevin Ryan]

Originally posted by cire87:

so weird

It's not. It's useful if you've accidentally started a fight and want to come back later.
It's also for role-play purposes whereas maybe you don't actually want to kill someone but you need them out of the way.

Then there's the different oaths that require you don't kill the innocent which can link back to the aforementioned situations where you've accidentally pissed someone off who isn't evil or an enemy.

It's a seldom used feature, but I wouldn't call it weird.

It's situational, is what it is.

[Cryptic]

Originally posted by HumanNinjaToo:

The only thing I have noticed about this so far, is that your dialogue slightly changes when you tell Mayrina about 'knocking out' her brothers instead of killing them, but then she screams and spits same dialogue like you killed them. I was hoping for some kind of reunion after you kill the hag, but no such luck.

That's exactly what my friend and I did the first time we played and it pretty much panned out the exact same way as if we killed them but we didn't know who to trust at first and in our defense, the lady hadn't done anything weird so we just decided we were going to knock the boys out instead of kill them