Does killing bandits affect morality?

[Elder Drake]

I am currently in the desert and the bandits are a pita. Other areas it was a lot easier to knock them out but I am curious if I shoot guys shooting at me, do I take a hit to morality? I get that there are points where it is obvious that the game will reward you for being less than lethal, and dialogue backs that up, but having a hard time justifying not shooting dudes lighting me up. If they surrender, sure I'll knock them out but what am I supposed to do when cornered? Take my fist out to a a gun fight (talking about say an ambush at a range where I can not close without eating a lot of lead).

That also leads me to the whole "nice guy" for not killing bandits thing. Zealots, sure let them be. Slaves, neutral npcs, and those surrendering makes sense. Think about it though, if someone shoots at you and is absolutely on the "kill them all and take their stuff" page is not knocking them out oddly a bad karma thing? Here you are a trained spec ops soldier, you get the drop on a bad guy doing bad stuff, and you...let him go? So he can what, prey on someone that can not defend themselves later on? It kind of makes no sense to let killers go free in a world like this. You are just enabling someone else to be a victim down the road and is that not "Bad Karma" and skewed morality?

Anyhoot I am trapped in a damn hanger and wondering if I can just go all scorched earth on these bandit idiots as even beyond this damn ambush their little outpost are pissing me off. Tired of being the Care Bear player with these idiots though.

[LazyAmerican]

Don't know honestly....if it's like Last Light then yea killing pretty much anyone detracts from the morality meter. Or at least it seemed that way.....I've heard others claim you can kill to your hearts content except for key points where there is obviously a morality decision.

[Freed]

Bandits are humans too

[Maia]

i killed every bandit in the autumn forests and got good ending

[*D4rKsKy*]

Escrito originalmente por Lolozaur:

i killed every bandit in the autumn forests and got good ending

This bandits doesnt matter just dont kill slaves tree huggers and evil tree huggers then us hould be fine, also find hermit in the dessert for good karma.

[Jig McGalliger]

You can kill bandits so long as they aren't surrendered.

[Elder Drake]

Thanks everyone, so laying waste to all the damn bandits out here is cool then it sounds. About to go all Mad Max on these guys.

Then I will help some tree huggers and a hermit out to make amends. Literally had my game paused at a hangar door while I spent some time with my wife. Time to try out the shiny new sniper rifle :)

[Fudz]

If you kill slaves it will be a negative effect, you need to differentiate between them.

[Elder Drake]

Escrito originalmente por Fudz:

If you kill slaves it will be a negative effect, you need to differentiate between them.

Thanks for the reply. I plan on only shooting people shooting at me and shouting things like "time to die" or the like. Making me smile already :)

[ItsGillan]

People start shooting at me so I defend myself and then next thing I know people are pissed that I killed people trying to kill me.