Dishonored 2’s New Game Plus Is Really Good
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I finished Dishonored 2 last weekend and immediately jumped into a New Game Plus. Turns out it’s a fantastic, downright essential addition to the game.
New Game Plus (NG+) was added to the PC version in a beta patch late last week, and the update just went live for everyone today. Provided you’ve finished at least once, NG+ lets you start a new game at any difficulty with either of the two main characters while carrying over the runes, learned bonecharm traits and blueprints from your completed first playthrough. Crucially, it also gives you access to all of the character-specific powers, letting you build one ur-character with every ability in the game.
How it works: Your learned bonecharm traits, assigned runes, and available blueprints all carry over. Coins, held bone charms, inventory items, upgrades and whale bones do not. Here, let’s do a little guide.
Assign all of your runes before ending the game. At the start of mission 2 in NG+, you get access to every rune you had assigned when you saved at the end of your last playthrough. You don’t, however, carry over any unassigned runes. So assign every rune you have before ending the game.
Break down all of your bonecharms, too. Learned bonecharm traits carry over, but held bonecharms and raw whale bones do not. Break down every single bonecharm you have before you end your game.
Craft runes out of all your extra whale bones. It’s worth buying the runecrafting ability just so that you can craft a few spare runes out of your leftover whale bones. If you got all the bonecharms in the game, it should more than balance out. Use those runes to buy powers (any powers) and the runes themselves will carry over to NG+.
My first time through the game I played as Emily and focused on nonlethal stealth. It took me about 25 hours to finish, and on the whole I very much enjoyed myself. My second playthrough has been a totally different ballgame—I’m playing as Corvo and not giving a single fuck about stealth or about how many people I kill. My only rule is that I never reload a save unless I die. It has been a REALLY good time, and a perfect complement to my first playthrough.
Because I have access to any combination of abilities, I can fully explore what this game can do. Turns out just like its predecessor, it can do a lot. I have Corvo’s Blink ability, which, thanks to its time-freezing perk, is superior to Emily’s Far Reach if you’re engaging in combat. His Slow Time ability is also crucial for setting up wild takedowns of multiple guards. However, Emily’s Domino effect is amazing to use on a lethal playthrough, and really fun to break out in the thick of combat. With each of those (and more) unlocked and combined from the start, I’ve been able to make a more specific, powerful build.
I’ve also been able to take a more focused approach to bonecharm crafting, which has already made my character hilariously powerful. I’ve learned the majority of bonecharm abilities in the game at this point, and my approach in NG+ has been to methodically craft four-way charms of the best abilities. For example, I now move faster in stealth than I do when standing, and half the abilities I use don’t consume mana. When I put my weapons away, I move almost as fast as the guy from Doom. I also appreciate how Dishonored 2 NG+ stacks on top of itself—you can start a third NG+, or a fourth, or a fifth. That means you can keep playing until you’ve maxed out every ability, which will hopefully pair well with the custom difficulty settings Arkane has said they’re adding in an upcoming second game update.
My time with Dishonored 2 has been a steady crescendo: I was initially frustrated by the issues I had with the PC version, and even when I got it running decently was a bit underwhelmed by the first few levels.
I came to like the game more and more the further I got, and now that I’m in NG+ and really cutting loose, I’m having a straight-up blast. If you really want to see Dishonored 2 at its best, I highly recommend giving New Game Plus a go.
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Arkane Studios made the game a better experience the second time around.
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Nicholas Bashore
Dishonored 2 is built on choice. Every single ability you unlock, upgrade you purchase, and takedown you perform is a decision which shapes Emily Kaldwin or Corvo Attano into a master assassin of your own choosing. Regardless of who you end up playing, the game eventually introduces resource-enforced restrictions. Runes become more difficult to come by, and upgrades start to rely more heavily on money instead of blueprints too. Because of these restrictions, you’ll find routes to your objective that fall a little short of your character’s reach thanks to a missing power or upgrade.
Now with New Game Plus, those restrictions have been lifted provided you want to go through again — and damn does it make for a great experience.
Introduced to the PC version of the game through a beta patch, which was later released to every platform via a free update on December 19, New Game Plus is a free feature that allows you to tackle a second playthrough with a previous character. Once you’ve completed the game on any difficulty, the character (either Emily or Corvo) can then be carried into a new game on any difficulty. You retain any runes assigned to abilities, bonecharm traits, and blueprints. Money earned, inventory items, upgrades unlocked, and whale bones won’t be joining you, though, so make sure to prepare yourself by breaking down all your bonecharms, creating extra runes out of the scraps, and spending them all on abilities before you begin.
Nicholas Bashore
New Game Plus begins in roughly the same fashion as your original game of Dishonored 2.
You witness Emily’s betrayal, pick to play as either Emily or Corvo, and then proceed to sneak your way out of Dunwall into Karnaca aboard the Dreadful Whale. One you’ve arrived, however, you’ll notice a few changes have been made. For one, you’ll have access to every single ability for both characters in Dishonored 2 — complete with all your runes refunded to spend as you see fit. You’ll also be able to instantly craft a few top-tier blueprint upgrades at the first Black Market Shop you reach, allowing you to get extremely valuable benefits such as silent sprinting early.
Because you now have access to every ability in the entire game, you’re able to create a much more powerful build from the very beginning of Dishonored 2. For me, that meant putting runes into Corvo’s Blink and Bend Time capabilities while augmenting my usual approach with Emily’s Shadow Walk and Domino to further increase my non-lethal capabilities with larger groups of enemies. This allowed me to quickly roll through the Addermire Institute non-lethally, which was a completely different experience compared to my first attempt with Corvo that required me to kill a few more guards than I would have liked to.
Nicholas Bashore
Since you have access to stronger ability upgrades earlier, you’ll also be able to explore routes through each of Dishonored 2’s locations you previously couldn’t reach. While playing through the first few hours, I found myself navigating through sections of the map and using shortcuts I had never considered or noticed before, which often led to completely different experiences than those I had during my first playthrough.
What’s great is that you’re able to carry a single save through multiple games as well, which means you can go through three or four times to unlock every bonecharm trait, every upgrade blueprint, and every supernatural ability in Dishonored 2 on a single character. While I don’t have plans to do this myself, I’m assuming this is a way for players to prepare for playing through the game with the custom difficulty settings Arkane Studios has mentioned releasing in future updates this year.
Even though Dishonored 2 was met with a mixed reception due few performance and gameplay issues at launch, Arkane Studios has continued to impress with its support for the game post-launch.
With more updates like New Game Plus in the works for 2017, it looks like the development team is far from finished with Dishonored 2.
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Dishonored 2 is getting New Game+ next week!
ShowTime —
Bethesda employees announce that they are preparing a special patch
for the stealth action Dishonored 2 , which was released
a little over a month ago (and our editors awarded the game a generous score of 95 points,
by the way!). The patch will be available for download already 19December
and promises to add a special New Game+ mode to the game,
thanks to which the players, after passing the story campaign for
one of the characters will be able to transfer their progress accumulated
runes and amulets for the next journey (and also redistribute
first), and thus, is it too late to create from Corvo and Emily
universal terminators possessing literally all
the benefits of Alien’s Mark.
In addition, the patch will also bring an updated «wheel of fast
access» and traditional small changes in stability
game performance and artificial intelligence of opponents.
Later, in January, Bethesda promise to release another similar
an update that will add a menu option to select a specific
tasks (this edit, by the way, will make it much easier to get platinum in
game) and «fine» difficulty settings. nine0003
I haven’t mastered the first part yet, but I want to.
Cool it will be possible to swing all the abilities, and become a GOD!!!!
Platinum in Dishonored 2, I’m coming to you!!!
I played the first one on my computer. I’m suffering the second one. Then pass the first one.
Yes, and the second pass to pass, to get away, otherwise I missed a lot.
Upgrading is good, you can try all the skills at once.
blad4 , literate
Cooper9293: Thanks for pointing out my mistakes.
Thank God we have
smart people like you. I am 40 years old was born in the USSR. finished
school at 90x. In these young years of mine, it was possible to say not before studying.
Although that’s not the point. Most importantly, I tried to get my point across. I think that
who wanted to understand. If you are also a Russian language teacher. Then I get you
standing applause. Because with students like me it is very difficult.
Thank you for your attention.
Now I’m going for Corvo, I wonder if it will be possible to start ng + for
pumped Emily?
Who knows, but in the first part there is «ng +»? Prompt …
Kainah , No, at least in the definitive edition. nine0003
Kainah , no.
At the moment the subject is my personal «GOTI». So
that the news is perhaps glad.
Oh, how I missed this opportunity after the release of the game. And this
makes it really easy to get platinum.
Damn, they’re bullying. Last month they said that in December it will be
patch with the choice of any level in the game.
Now wait until January. Here
very such a difficult task to add a level selection to the menu. Must
have been doing this since the release of the game. I’ll keep waiting, platinum
postponed until next year. nine0003
Posted by danteqw
Damn, they’re kidding. Last month they said
that in December there will be a patch with a choice of any level in the game. Now
wait until January. Here is a very difficult task to add to the menu
level selection. Should have done this with the release of the game. I will
keep waiting, platinum is postponed until next year.
Don’t suck
Platinum is easily knocked out in 3 playthroughs.
methodx why 3 instead of 2?0
methodx , I just broke all the pictures again to collect, one
missed. And so he could just take it through the reboot of the episode.
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