useful tips and tricks for no powers playthrough

[Quickshooter]

First and for most
: -you can break doors with a single gun shot

-you can drain the whale tank from a wall of light (doesn't work with windmill powered walls of light) by throwing enemy corpses at them, 5-6 corpses and the tank should deplete, saving your rewire tool/makes a shortcut

-use power strikes (hold the attack button until your sword is in like a charge position) and then choke/throw enemy then kick really useful if you can't parry or fighting multiple opponents

-you can destroy watch towers if you shot an explosive bolt at the tank covers (the heat from the fire will make the tank explode)

-EMP bullets instantly stun enemies when fired, extremely useful when you're trying to achive low chaos but ran out of sleep darts (a make shift near lethal blinding bolt basiclly)

-explosions from clockwork soliders knock out enemies instantly (instead of killing them) -blinding bolt can be used to kill off bloodflies instantly

-blinding bolts can stun bloodflies


there are honorable mentions, such as runes on no powers give 200 each (400 in outsider shrines) and while you can't pick whalebone, you can still use bone charms

[Voltera]

Good stuff, thanks for the post.

[Quickshooter]

Originally posted by heitzigj93:

Good stuff, thanks for the post.

i'm glad someone appericiates the guide

i've also discovered you can (stealthly) steal from black markets
and he'll still sell you goods regardless, but when you steal their guys they'll notice
(funny enough i robbed a black market in the dust district and she said "one of the shops got robbed last night")

[Hraefn]

Originally posted by Quickshooter:

i'm glad someone appericiates the guide

Thread necromancy, but still - someone else appreciates the guide. Was playing my No Powers game, and because I'm a masochist I also played it ghost/nonlethal. Was having a HELL of a time figuring out what to do about the watchtower outside the Royal Conservatory (working around it in a non-lethal game is a horrible pain in the neck) until I finally found your tip about using incendiary bolts on the fuel tank covers to disable them. It wasn't quiet, but since the guards seem to have the ability to look up surgically removed, I was able to disable the tower, wait for them to stop scrambling around, and then go on about my business knocking them out. Never detected. Appreciated!

[Zekiran]

Oh also, remember that there are bottles of chloroform / ether scattered around. Those work on bloodflies at least knocking them out a while, as well as rendering guards/civilians unconscious. They do make noise, however.

[Quickshooter]

Originally posted by Hraefn:

Originally posted by Quickshooter:

i'm glad someone appericiates the guide

Thread necromancy, but still - someone else appreciates the guide. Was playing my No Powers game, and because I'm a masochist I also played it ghost/nonlethal. Was having a HELL of a time figuring out what to do about the watchtower outside the Royal Conservatory (working around it in a non-lethal game is a horrible pain in the neck) until I finally found your tip about using incendiary bolts on the fuel tank covers to disable them. It wasn't quiet, but since the guards seem to have the ability to look up surgically removed, I was able to disable the tower, wait for them to stop scrambling around, and then go on about my business knocking them out. Never detected. Appreciated!

glad you liked it, i managed to finish the game on ghost but never was so keen on clean hands (you get the best ending when you kill the duke)

you get kudos from me for doing the "ultimate playthrough"

[Myrmidon]

Shooting guards in the leg makes them fall over and whimper. Run up and knee them in the face. It counts as non-lethal but in a pinch it'll let you non-lethally take someone down from a distance. Obviously a bolt would be preferable.

[Kentkoopa]

In some spots you can free bloodflies and have multiple guards fight them. Bloodflies for the win this wont count as you killing. I found this out when I was tring to hide a body in a dumpster.

[d985818388]

Really useful. Thanks.