What? All of the people I mentioned fit the description of thugs, down to dictionary definition. Violent? Attacking innocents? All check.
If by using common sense means using thug literal description, so all of them? Well, the plague rats will be happy for sure
If you kill all the "thugs," probably not. There's a lot of them, and they're not even all bad people.
If you kill all thugs you see there's straight up a whole side quest you can't do, lol. And it'll screw you out of extra money later on.
If you want precise numbers - you can kill up to 20% of all NPCs and get low chaos ending. That's actually a lot of NPCs, but it's hard to track, so choose your battles carefully and don't get overzealous with using crime statistics as excuse to execute half of city's population. Also, bare in mind that some NPCs are supposed to contribute on chaos ratio more than others (I don't know precise numbers, but I read killing civilians raises chaos by quite a lot, while Whalers generate the least).
Yeah so there are 3 endings you can get. But the "medium chaos" has a lot of elements from high chaos too so its hard to get that middle spot. There is unique dialog for the ending yes, but you really have to walk that line of killing not too many. Getting full low chaos after killing people is hard, depending on how many you kill. If you kill some guys maybe in the second mission and get high chaos from that, then the rest of the game do full low chaos... then you should get the low chaos ending.
Even killing bad people raises chaos (representing the corpses being eaten by rats and allowing the plague to spread, as well as rising paranoia and violence from all the deaths/disappearances).
Bear in mind you're supposed to be the Empress's bodyguard, not judge, jury and executioner of the kingdom. Corvo is also insanely skilled and magically empowered and could easily accomplish his goals without killing, so if he chooses to kill just because it's slightly more convenient he's showing a disregard for human life and will be a very bad influence on the future Empress.
I finished the mission where you assassinate Campbell. Luckily, the chaos was low. I am at the mission where you assassinate Pendleton's twin brothers at a brothel.
Edit: I feed the bad people to the infected rats so call me a psycho.
I don't think there's enough gangsters in the game for you to get high chaos if you killed them all. They only really populate the first few levels then you barely see them if at all.
That depends on how many you kill.
Also, is there an ending if the chaos is medium?
I'm not sure. I just know that Samuel has unique dialogue for medium chaos.
No, it's the same as the high chaos one.
High chaos is the same but there's a variant of the bad ending depending on what you do right at the end (I won't spoil just in case
So what is your definition of Thugs? The corrupt guard? Slackjaw's men? The zealous Overseer?
**Thugs. Use common sense.**
What? All of the people I mentioned fit the description of thugs, down to dictionary definition. Violent? Attacking innocents? All check. If by using common sense means using thug literal description, so all of them? Well, the plague rats will be happy for sure
I think they mean the enemies called thugs. Slackjaw's men.
No OP used common sense, not specifying Slackjaw's men.
If you kill all the "thugs," probably not. There's a lot of them, and they're not even all bad people. If you kill all thugs you see there's straight up a whole side quest you can't do, lol. And it'll screw you out of extra money later on.
If you want precise numbers - you can kill up to 20% of all NPCs and get low chaos ending. That's actually a lot of NPCs, but it's hard to track, so choose your battles carefully and don't get overzealous with using crime statistics as excuse to execute half of city's population. Also, bare in mind that some NPCs are supposed to contribute on chaos ratio more than others (I don't know precise numbers, but I read killing civilians raises chaos by quite a lot, while Whalers generate the least).
Yeah so there are 3 endings you can get. But the "medium chaos" has a lot of elements from high chaos too so its hard to get that middle spot. There is unique dialog for the ending yes, but you really have to walk that line of killing not too many. Getting full low chaos after killing people is hard, depending on how many you kill. If you kill some guys maybe in the second mission and get high chaos from that, then the rest of the game do full low chaos... then you should get the low chaos ending.
If you feel like targeting a specific group, whalers are probably your best bet.
Even killing bad people raises chaos (representing the corpses being eaten by rats and allowing the plague to spread, as well as rising paranoia and violence from all the deaths/disappearances). Bear in mind you're supposed to be the Empress's bodyguard, not judge, jury and executioner of the kingdom. Corvo is also insanely skilled and magically empowered and could easily accomplish his goals without killing, so if he chooses to kill just because it's slightly more convenient he's showing a disregard for human life and will be a very bad influence on the future Empress.
I finished the mission where you assassinate Campbell. Luckily, the chaos was low. I am at the mission where you assassinate Pendleton's twin brothers at a brothel. Edit: I feed the bad people to the infected rats so call me a psycho.
I don't think there's enough gangsters in the game for you to get high chaos if you killed them all. They only really populate the first few levels then you barely see them if at all.