"Merciful" achievement - Pious

[LegendarySense]

Hey, I'm trying to do a merciful playthrough, but I'm not sure what to do about Pious. I could find the keys and blood and then he would wait for me at certain place, but he wasn't there. So I decided to fight him and let him surrender, which he did not, so I knocked him out. But that didn't kill him, right? It looks like it did, but there's still "0 people killed" in the stats. So, will I be able to get the achievement, or should I load an older save and deal with him some other way?

[breversa]

You're fine.

There's only ONE person that you can't avoid kiiling (it will raise your kill rate by 1), so as long as you finish the main quest with no more than 1 kill, you'll get the achievement.

I actually caused tens of people to die in my Merciful playthrough : poisonning bandits/cumans food with Bane potion, or inficting bleeding wounds to enemies then letting them bleed out but NOT give them the killing blow will NOT count as kills ! :-)

Actually yeah, that's that : as long as you don't deal the killing blow, your kill count won't increase. So have fun finding more way for them to die while keeping your hands clean ! ;-)

[LegendarySense]

Thanks for a reply :) By that one person you probably mean Runt, but dealing with him didn't raise the kill count either, possibly because he was killed in a cutscene, not directly in gameplay.

As for Pious, I guess I really killed him, because otherwise there would be a prompt to kill him when standing/crouching next to him. Well, there wasn't such prompt, but the kill count is still on zero, so it should be OK. I just wanted to be sure, which I am now.. I guess :D

[unknown]

Originally posted by viskahc:

Thanks for a reply :) By that one person you probably mean Runt, but dealing with him didn't raise the kill count either, possibly because he was killed in a cutscene, not directly in gameplay.

As for Pious, I guess I really killed him, because otherwise there would be a prompt to kill him when standing/crouching next to him. Well, there wasn't such prompt, but the kill count is still on zero, so it should be OK. I just wanted to be sure, which I am now.. I guess :D

check the rattay dungeon you might find him there as knocking people out with fists doesn't actually kill them unless you walk up to them and kill them by holding f in which case you will curb stomp them to death. either you should be fine, however i have definitly heard of a few glitches happening with this achievement so be warned

[LegendarySense]

Originally posted by anonymous:

check the rattay dungeon you might find him there as knocking people out with fists doesn't actually kill them unless you walk up to them and kill them by holding f in which case you will curb stomp them to death. either you should be fine, however i have definitly heard of a few glitches happening with this achievement so be warned

Well, the whole game is just destroyed by bugs and glitches, if only it was just about this achievement. Like, I've completed this playthrough, should've got 3 achievements, since it was also HC with all negative perks. So I've done everything, it took me a couple of hours and then it got completely screwed up at the very end. One final dialogue and it must be bugged. Warhorse acknowledges this particular issue and they're "working so hard" to fix it.. For a couple of months now. They shouldn't make all those DLCs, which will all be mediocre at best anyway, I guess. They should concentrate on making the damn game at least a little bit playable :/ Sorry, maybe I got a little emotional here :D I mean it's probably my top game ever, but then it's also the worst game ever, in a sense. The technical issues are just killing me.

Anyway.. yeah, you can hold F, which will either finish them off, or stealth kill them. But when I beat up Pious, he should have been unconscious, and in that case, there would've been a prompt to finish him off, but there was only a prompt to loot him or grab the body.