{"id":46357,"date":"2012-10-24T12:05:56","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T10:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=46357"},"modified":"2012-10-24T16:14:11","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T14:14:11","slug":"dishonored-chaos-system-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/46357-dishonored-chaos-system-explained","title":{"rendered":"Dishonored Chaos system explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s probably happened to you already &#8211; you crept unseen through the whole place, knocked out a bunch of guards, and eliminated your target with non-lethal force, and it took your three hours to do it what with all the saving and reloading. So <em>whyyyyyyy<\/em> did you finish the mission with a high Chaos rating, two kills, and a detection? Here&#8217;s how it works.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Chaos is a value that is adjusted according to the actions of your character during gameplay. This system is a hidden mechanic and you will only see the Chaos rating displayed during the \u2018end mission\u2019 Stats screen,&#8221; a Bethesda rep told PCGamer.<\/p>\n<p>The persistent Chaos rating affects a number of factors, including narrative outcomes and some aspects of the game&#8217;s environment.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You&#8217;ll increase your Chaos rating by killing people, whether intentionally or by accident or otherwise inadvertently. That includes, for example, leaving an unconscious person&#8217;s body in a place where plague rats can reach and consume it, or by dropping an unconscious person from any significant height or into water. Indirect kills by &#8220;Rewired&#8221; traps also count, as do Arc Pylons, Watchtowers, and Walls of Light.<\/li>\n<li>Rats and fish do not contribute to your kill count, and do not increase or decrease your Chaos rating.<\/li>\n<li>Killing fewer than 20% of the NPCs in any mission will result in a low Chaos rating, but if you&#8217;re going for the zero-kill Clean Hands achievement, you&#8217;d better be very, very careful to keep them that way.<\/li>\n<li>If you get a high Chaos rating at the end of a mission, it&#8217;s possible to decrease this overall by maintaining a much less confrontational approach in subsequent missions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_46364\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/dishonored-screenshot-fire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46364\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46364\" title=\"dishonored screenshot fire\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/dishonored-screenshot-fire.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/dishonored-screenshot-fire.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/dishonored-screenshot-fire-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/dishonored-screenshot-fire-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-46364\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maybe a <em>bit<\/em> conspicuous.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On the more subtle matter of detection, alerting just about any NPC will result in a failure. The <em>only<\/em> exceptions to this are rats, fish, Watchtowers, and allies &#8211; although attacking an ally NPC will also result in a detection. You&#8217;ll know you&#8217;ve alerted somebody when the lightning bolts around their head turn red and break apart.<\/p>\n<p>Now you get <em>back out there<\/em> and you do it <em>properly <\/em>this time, Corvo.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/2012\/10\/08\/dishonored-how-to-get-low-chaos-no-kills-and-ghost-ratings-no-spoilers\/\" target=\"_blank\">PCGamer<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/45697-dishonored-writer-slags-off-creepy-as-hell-gordon-freeman.html\">Dishonored writer slags off \u201ccreepy as hell\u201d Gordon Freeman<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/45645-dishonored-review-round-up.html\">Dishonored review round-up<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/images\/43492-dishonored-screenshots-blowout.html\">Dishonored screenshots blowout<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to get low Chaos ratings, and avoid detection and accidental kills<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":45714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[3560,165,7377,3558,7010,21,819],"class_list":["post-46357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-arkane-studios","tag-bethesda","tag-chaos-system","tag-dishonored","tag-guide","tag-headline","tag-ster-kinekor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46372,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46357\/revisions\/46372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}