Taking all of this into consideration, it seems as if Arkane Studios is experimenting as much as possible in order to give gamers a unique stealth-action experience with Dishonored 2 upon its release date this fall. 'Someone at Arkane came to me a while back with a question: 'Should spring razormines be triggered by your doppelganger?' Usually I don't answer those questions except to say, 'Why do you ask?' And he said, 'I summoned my doppelganger and I tried to place a mine nearby because I wanted to do a trap, but I actually put the mine on the doppelganger.' So when the enemy arrives they run after her and-bam! When they catch up, they explode in gibs.' As a matter of fact, Arkane Studios will embrace such finds, for as Dishonored 2's lead designer Dinga Bakaba explained, whenever it occurs, 'We absolutely love it.' To illustrate his point, Bakaba detailed an innovative way one developer approached the game, saying: Interestingly enough, the tester's combination of Domino and Doppleganger wasn't the only time that the company was taken aback by the discovery of a fresh way for players to assassinate enemies in the game. It's just one of those systemic game mechanic interactions that clever, creative players figure out as they start to experiment.' We had no idea this was possible, we never planned this. Regarding the instance of Emily nonchalantly taking out her own doppleganger to eliminate all of the bad guys, Smith said: In combining the two, Emily linked several enemies to the doppleganger and then killed it to take out everyone in one fell swoop.Īs far as the Dishonored 2 director was concerned, not only was he surprised, but he also seemed excited at the possibility of more unanticipated gameplay details cropping up during testing. In order to do so, the character's ability of Domino, which lets gamers link enemies together to polish them all off with just one kill, was paired with Doppleganger, which allows players to create a copy of themselves as a distraction or as bait. Giving an example of what is new in terms of combat features, Smith used a couple of Emily's powers to describe how a player linked two powers together to make a single assassination of multiple targets look effortless.

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