That makes a lot more sense. Thank you and relieved to hear that.

My choice of words was poor in describing the mana so I apologize for that. viziroth explained it better than I did.

No worries. I'm just relieved that's not the case or I'd be tip-toeing around experimentation and that would make no sense lol.

Now I understand it! Thanks, Strifecross!

Wait, you do? FINALLY! At long last who can read my gibberish! No, thank you good sir!

And that's exactly how our system of spiritual essence works!

Thank you for confirming it!

Is that the offical name? Spiritual essence? (I'm asking for wiki purposes)

I think they mentioned it in the recent interviews that Spiritual Essence=mana

Yes, but what about health? Is there any health regen? Even a little?

It works like this:

• In all difficulty but easy, you have have basically no regen.
  
• In easy difficulty, a portion of your health regenerates (around half)
  
• The Vitality level 2 passive power (that we call Enhancements) allows a portion of your health bar to regenerates (in easy difficulty, it's added to the base regen).

This is mentionned in this (french, sorry) preview : http://www.jeuxvideo.com/articles/0001/00017132-dishonored-e3-2012-preview.htm where they explain some of the level 1 vs level 2 power effects.

Also, note that enemies inflict a LOT of damage in Dishonored, so even with the Vitality power, you can never be a tank, and you will definetly want to be able to heal yourself in combat with Elixirs.

thx for confirming this, it made my day finally a challenge and almost no regen over easy difficulty

Well, I am a little disappointed about this. I guess I will be making my stealth approach on Easy then.

Why?

You wanted health regen?

No, I didn't. That's the problem. So my aggressive approach is going to have to be on the higher difficulties. I will try to be a ghost on Easy. Btw, Sneaky Basterds said that they tried ghosting the demo on E3 and it's really hard. Looking forward to that.

wait, I don't follow your logic either. Why do you have to stealth on easy? Do you just need to play easy? Why couldn't you just play stealthy on normal/hard?

Because I don't want to have health regeneration and I always play on all difficulties. So the best way for ME to play on easy would be as a ghost. Trying to not get hit at all and being stealthy. That's it, it's stupid I know but I don't approve of automatic HP regen.

Ok, so there's the answer, you need to play on easy... I, and I guess other people... don't even touch the easy difficulty.

Normally I don't either but since companies insist on having an easy mode, might as well try it. Deus Ex:Human Revolution had the right idea by calling their easy more: Tell Me a Story. Because basically you are playing mainly for the story. If you want the TRUE gameplay experience you would go for normal and if you want a challenge you would play on hard.

So I tried to read the article as accurately as possible via Google Translate. I think I read something about an enhancement that lowers mana cost of the abilities. Can you please confirm if this is true or is my french+google's translations really that bad?

I would also like to know as what other interesting enhancements are there. I find Shadow Kill (or Ash we are not quite clear on the name yet) to be a really good enhancement that I will definitely get at least on one of my playthroughs. It not only sounds good but it gives you a lot of speed and momentum to the assassinations. And like makatak7 mentioned in one of his comments it would be really fun to stop time and assassinate one of two guards standing near one another. There where two guards in The Golden Cat level that where talking to each other. Imagine if you stopped time and assassinated one of them with the Shadow Kill enhancement. That would be so funny.

Guard A:So how's the wife and kids Joseph?
Guard B:Oh, you know?! Same old same old. You going to that party over at Garry's place tomorrow or do you have a shift again?
Guard A:Probably not. The twins want to go to a different party...HEY! Where did you go?

Thanks! Another chance to practice my French skills. I was able to read in French until the end of the description of the mission... then I had to translate it. If I read it right, you don't have a visible health bar until you get Vitality 1... or do you always have Vitality 1?

Maybe you always have it. In Deus Ex:HR you had pre-selected augmentations like regenerating health and a mini map so it can show it on your HUD.

Hmm, I think he proposes this as a theoritical Bone Charm effect example so people get the idea.


The name is Shadow Kill, and yes, it's an interesting ability for fast assassinations.


Actually it would translate as "Vitality level 1 gives you an extended health bar".

Thank you for the clarification and your quick responses.

I really like this health system, sounds very similar to the first Deus Ex, but presumably you won't be able to become a complete and utter god by getting the health regen augs. (combined with the Dragon's Tooth, that game became totally broken and easy by the halfway mark)

Also, I like the idea of having health regen just for easy mode.