How to choke out Jindosh without alerting the clockwork soldiers?

[Wu]

Obvious spoilers

Having a bit of trouble with this. I blinked up the elevator and on to the second floor, but those damn clockwork soldiers make it almost impossible to choke out Jindosh. I'm doing the non-lethal approach. Any pro tips?

[TealSpark]

Assuming you are playing corvo(and have the powers unlocked), you could stop time and choke him out. another option might be to sleep dart him then use stop time to retrieve him. I suppose you could use posession on him instead to take him elsewhere before knocking him out.

If you're doing some kind of challenge run which doesnt allow those, then if you got to the lab without using one of the mechanisms in the mansion(thereby not alerting jindosh to your presence at all) then one of the clockworks might be inactive, allowing you to maybe approach from the far side from the entrance.

If both clockworks are active, then i cant really see anyway of knocking him out without his body being seen, short of destroying one or both of the clockworks using stun mines or bolts.

Not sure about distracting the clockworks though.

[Harukage]

As an alternative. They can't see you if you are above them. There are plenty of high spots there. Just crouch there, wait fot an apropriate moment and knock their heads off with crossbow. That won't kill them and they will try to find you, but they can't see ♥♥♥♥ without heads. Once they go into standby, just sneak behind Jindosh and choke him. Try to not make too much noise around blind clockwork soldiers though.

[Wu]

Originally posted by TealSpark:

Assuming you are playing corvo(and have the powers unlocked), you could stop time and choke him out. another option might be to sleep dart him then use stop time to retrieve him. I suppose you could use posession on him instead to take him elsewhere before knocking him out.

If you're doing some kind of challenge run which doesnt allow those, then if you got to the lab without using one of the mechanisms in the mansion(thereby not alerting jindosh to your presence at all) then one of the clockworks might be inactive, allowing you to maybe approach from the far side from the entrance.

If both clockworks are active, then i cant really see anyway of knocking him out without his body being seen, short of destroying one or both of the clockworks using stun mines or bolts.

Not sure about distracting the clockworks though.

I'm doing a speed run pretty much. Only power I have unlocked is blink. Seems like I'll just have to time it right

Originally posted by Harukage:

As an alternative. They can't see you if you are above them. There are plenty of high spots there. Just crouch there, wait fot an apropriate moment and knock their heads off with crossbow. That won't kill them and they will try to find you, but they can't see ♥♥♥♥ without heads. Once they go into standby, just sneak behind Jindosh and choke him. Try to not make too much noise around blind clockwork soldiers though.

Do their heads come off with one bolt? The problem is once their heads are off, they attack anyone. I did that, and one of the soldiers sliced up Jindosh.

[Harukage]

Originally posted by Porco Rosso:

Do their heads come off with one bolt? The problem is once their heads are off, they attack anyone. I did that, and one of the soldiers sliced up Jindosh.

As far as i remember you need a couple bolts. There shoould be 2 clockwork soldiers there. One patroling and one standing guard. The one patroling is not a problem. The guarding one you should draw away from Jindosh. Afaik you can do that with crossbow too. Not sure though, since i had played the game at the time of it's release.

[Zekiran]

Hardened bolts will do it in one, but you have to aim carefully.

[Wu]

Thanks for the tips guys. I'll see if I can make do with what I have.

[bigbootybossbaby]

Just throw a nade to attract clockwork's attention and then another to kill em both. Then proceed to choke out Jindosh, I did this and wasn't detected

[Zekiran]

Yeah the responses to noise in this game is a lot of fun, but you have to be really careful with the clockwork because they can see behind them in addition to front.

[WinterMutation]

I did it by accident by destroying a clockwork with a couple grenades, before it collapsed into pieces it electrified and Jindosh, startled by the explosions ran past it and was shocked unconscious. The other soldier was facing the other way and I quickly used a rewire tool on it.

[Zoekirk]

You can probably get underneath them, when they are standing next to eachother and throw a bottle at the ceiling. The Clockworks will likely jump down to your floor soon after, leaving Jindosh exposed. This will alert him too, but he can't take the lift down and there are no stairs.

[Nyshade]

If you went undetected you can just jump up and to the left, there's a path right up to Jindosh because there's a ledge there and the clockwork soldiers won't see you. Blink behind him, choke him out, grab the paiting and blink back to the ledge. That's what I did anyways.