Need some help with the last? mission [Heavy Spoilers]

[Lorgres]

Hi guys so I just played a bit and now I'm at the fight with styx at the heart of the tree. He just summoned 3 clones and they pretty much butt♥♥♥♥ me as if I was at a gay orgy. I havn't killed a single person using the QTE thingy except for the guy in the turorial since Golbin (highest) difficulty pretty much disables that. Anyone got idears/easy ways on how to go about it? I can kill one of them if I get lucky but 2 hits already kill me... also I have no points in the two combat skill trees (the one allowing you to kill people from ledges etc. and the one that increases the window for parrys)


edit: ok so I just trowing knifed the first 3 but he summons another 3 which are invis... I can summon a clone myself which turns me invisible while I controll him but he can't fight em :/

[hrudgar]

The easiest method is to whittle down one or two, stay where they can't throw knives at you, and parry kill them one by one if you can.

It is also quite possible to stealth kill every single one of them, but it can be very frustrating and you'll find yourself reloading quite a bit. Make sure you watch the path of their patrols and you should be able to sneak up on the faster guy that patrols around the whole circle, hide from the other two, then off one - then pick up the couple throwing knives in the corpses around the area, then kill the other two. For the three invisible clones, use your throwing knives (carefully), and sneak up on the last enemy.

[Lorgres]

Originally posted by |SW| Ever, Greatest:

The easiest method is to whittle down one or two, stay where they can't throw knives at you, and parry kill them one by one if you can.

It is also quite possible to stealth kill every single one of them, but it can be very frustrating and you'll find yourself reloading quite a bit. Make sure you watch the path of their patrols and you should be able to sneak up on the faster guy that patrols around the whole circle, hide from the other two, then off one - then pick up the couple throwing knives in the corpses around the area, then kill the other two. For the three invisible clones, use your throwing knives (carefully), and sneak up on the last enemy.

sounds super complicated, they used to see me already after loading or at least get orange

[ed]

Originally posted by Lorgres:

sounds super complicated, they used to see me already after loading or at least get orange

That's why you have an invisibility spell. :) But yes it's also why you really shouldn't save in the room itself. Ideally you should have saved right before the *entrance* to the last room. Better to watch the short cutscene a couple times than have a save point where you're already in combat.

EDIT: Also, the skill where your invisbility spell lasts as long as you don't move is really good.

[Lorgres]

Originally posted by ed:

Originally posted by Lorgres:

sounds super complicated, they used to see me already after loading or at least get orange

That's why you have an invisibility spell. :) But yes it's also why you really shouldn't save in the room itself. Ideally you should have saved right before the *entrance* to the last room. Better to watch the short cutscene a couple times than have a save point where you're already in combat.

EDIT: Also, the skill where your invisbility spell lasts as long as you don't move is really good.

I got that skill... I used all my ember in the 3 previous areas though and have no flasks left QQ I have a save in the hideout before the last chapter though so I could replay from there if need be.

I do have the skill where I turn invisible while I have a clone under controll though

[BioGenx2b]

Run backwards to the door, then lean against the invisible wall from the left. Once you're flattened against it, lean right and pass over to the other side. You'll be invisible from almost any angle. Now use Ember Sight periodically and wait for one to path past you, then strike, run back, rinse and repeat.

[Lorgres]

Ok just managed to beat the game thanks for the help guys, a combination of what BioGen said and fully stealthing the first 3 worked out, just 3 quick throwing knifes for the last 3 and it was over. God but the ending has me so confused soo styx fell down and lost his memory and the destruction of the heart led to hundrets of styx shells spawn. What happened to rakesh the guy we were playing all along? did he just leave for his own life or did both fall down but only rakesh survived now callimg himself styx.

[hrudgar]

"Rakash" either died, or he's the Styx talking at the end, with his memories reset to an extent.

[ed]

Originally posted by Lorgres:

God but the ending has me so confused soo styx fell down and lost his memory and the destruction of the heart led to hundrets of styx shells spawn. What happened to rakesh the guy we were playing all along? did he just leave for his own life or did both fall down but only rakesh survived now callimg himself styx.

This game is a prequel to Of Orcs and Men, which you should really check out if you haven't. Master of Shadows tends to assume that you've played the main game first.

As far as I can tell "our" Styx is always the same in both games (even if he doesn't remember it). He was already a special/unique clone before the tree died, a clone that the original put far more care into making than all the other goblins that had few or no powers and often a lot less intelligence. He continues to be unique among goblins; the "goblin race" (all male clones) that was born at the end of this game is nothing but an infinite wave of mindless animals.

The ghost in Styx's memories in OOAM is, in hindsight, probably the ghost of original/MOS antagonist Styx, who was killed and eaten by goblin clones.

Also, original Styx has glowing eyes in cutscenes while "our" Styx's eyes in cutscenes are identical to his model in Of Orcs and Men. Meanwhile the past life ghost in OOAM has - you guessed it - glowing eyes like original Styx does in MOS. :)