whale number 0x8

[Jinx]

Am I the only one who has noticed that throughout dishonored 1 you can see a whale labeled 0x8 in nearly every mission where the main river is visible? And the same goes for some of the dlc missions.

[Zekiran]

That's because it's part of the texture. They're all that one, unfortunately, rather like almost all the guards are basically the same guy.

[Jinx]

that's the thing though, in the void there's another wale number and at various points in the daud dlc also. On top of that this whale almost always drifts by at the start or end of a mission often when your locked in a dialogue and wont be likely to notice. Not to mention the fact that the game has enough detail to believably claim that if this was an accident then they would have made the wale have no mark and had a font to assign as many marks as they wanted. (similarly to how they randomize many safe codes)

[Zekiran]

Assigning a number on a safe code is far, far easier than loading as many texture assets as they'd need for multiple numbers. I think it's just a sad side-effect of the compact nature of the game's file system, and not much more than that.

I do choose to believe that many of the whales we see have different numbers, or are random whales, but... since there aren't other numbers, and a lot of other things also indicate that (like crate numbers and signage, all those things which would be different in real life, just can't be done in a game with such ease) it's just texture limitations.

It specifically also appears in Dishonored 2, drifting past the entrance to the Tutorial section, on a whaling ship all trussed up and ready to be squeezed. ... :(

It may also be a brand, (in paint) like you'd put on cattle. That whales may be hunted by specific outfits and that one just... is most successful.

[Cowskier]

0x8 is the outsider's physical form when hes spying on you IRL

[Zekiran]

heeee.



You have not yet played the sequels.

[Cowskier]

the outsider in the sequels is a 13 year old hacker with a voice changer that he uses to sound menacing