How many endings and requirements?

[Monchey]

So I apparently accidentally killed someone during the Campbell mission, and I cant bring myself to restart the whole playthrough. So I was wondering, how do the endings scale? Is the pacifist ending same as if you only kill one person? I was trying to be pacifist for the good ending. No spoilers please

[Pafti]

There are three major endings, that fall into two categories. Low Chaos, and High Chaos. Your Chaos rating rises as you get discovered by hostiles, kill people and generally cause problems for Dunwall, take the term literally. You have a chaos rating for individual missions, and as you go through the game, things change depending on whether or not you're in low or high chaos. Enemy placements, how you're treated by people and so on. By the end of the game, you'll get either a High Chaos or a Low Chaos ending depending on how you've played until that point, and some individual choices you've made will be reflected in it.
There is no ending for never being spotted, and/or never killing anyone, so if you just want "the best" ending, you're still eligible for that. There are however achievements you'd be locked out of with your current playtrhough if you just continue playing. Just in case you care about that.
There is no need to restart the whole playthrough, simply loading a save from before you first killed someone, and continuing from there would be good enough to get back on track.

[Monchey]

Originally posted by SentoX:

There are three major endings, that fall into two categories. Low Chaos, and High Chaos. Your Chaos rating rises as you get discovered by hostiles, kill people and generally cause problems for Dunwall, take the term literally. You have a chaos rating for individual missions, and as you go through the game, things change depending on whether or not you're in low or high chaos. Enemy placements, how you're treated by people and so on. By the end of the game, you'll get either a High Chaos or a Low Chaos ending depending on how you've played until that point, and some individual choices you've made will be reflected in it.
There is no ending for never being spotted, and/or never killing anyone, so if you just want "the best" ending, you're still eligible for that. There are however achievements you'd be locked out of with your current playtrhough if you just continue playing. Just in case you care about that.
There is no need to restart the whole playthrough, simply loading a save from before you first killed someone, and continuing from there would be good enough to get back on track.

thanks, thing is i did some looking around in my oldest save, and it turns out i just choked a guy who was above some stairs, he fell and died. i dont have saves before that. thanks anyways

[Talon]

Originally posted by Wingus:

Originally posted by SentoX:

There are three major endings, that fall into two categories. Low Chaos, and High Chaos. Your Chaos rating rises as you get discovered by hostiles, kill people and generally cause problems for Dunwall, take the term literally. You have a chaos rating for individual missions, and as you go through the game, things change depending on whether or not you're in low or high chaos. Enemy placements, how you're treated by people and so on. By the end of the game, you'll get either a High Chaos or a Low Chaos ending depending on how you've played until that point, and some individual choices you've made will be reflected in it.
There is no ending for never being spotted, and/or never killing anyone, so if you just want "the best" ending, you're still eligible for that. There are however achievements you'd be locked out of with your current playtrhough if you just continue playing. Just in case you care about that.
There is no need to restart the whole playthrough, simply loading a save from before you first killed someone, and continuing from there would be good enough to get back on track.

thanks, thing is i did some looking around in my oldest save, and it turns out i just choked a guy who was above some stairs, he fell and died. i dont have saves before that. thanks anyways

I once put one of Daud's assassins to sleep who then fell off their perch and into the drink. XD
Just looked at it and shrugged.

[John Webfishing]

3 endings, 2 with high chaos and 1 with low chaos. The only extra thing you have to do to get both endings is save emily or let havelock kill her.