And if you do, there is no need at all to enter the Dust District. With application of logic and maybe a lot of Post-It notes, you can divine the correct configuration of names and symbols from the riddle and open it. If you can present the body of the leader of one side to the leader of the other, you’ll be rewarded with access to the code.īut the thing is, the puzzle is not unsolvable. But you’re told at the mission’s outset that you can use their mutual enmity to your advantage. The Overseers are a fascistic hyper-orthodox religious sect who have heard of the Howlers’ use of black magic and aim to crush it. The Howlers is a gang of thieves led by a boss called Paolo who’s rumoured to be able to survive being killed and wishes to wrest control of the city for the people.

The puzzle is called the Jindosh Riddle, and getting its code means going deep into the district to take it, by force or otherwise, from one of two hostile factions. The entry to it stands just after the level’s beginning, but it’s locked behind a puzzle which you’re told is impossible to solve without a code. Your mission in the Dust District is to enter the house of a mining magnate called Aramis Stilton, which lies, apparently abandoned, behind unassailably high windbreaks. (Light-ish spoilers for both the Dust District and subsequent level naturally follow.) In fact, the entire level is designed around an idea that speaks to Dishonored’s deepest design principles.

Its people are spent and the mines so overexploited that dust from them has been billowing out and falling over the streets and squares, the heavy wind whipping it up into storms and engulfing entire buildings.ĭust District is one of Dishonored 2’s largest levels, a dense network of byways, apartments and compounds peopled by downtrodden miners and two warring factions. Home to the labourers of the silver mines, Batista has been worked into exhaustion.

In the city of Karnaca is a district that lies under mounds of encroaching dust. I want to thank everyone who’s read The Mechanic, and all the amazing designers it has given me the opportunity to speak to. Holy heck! I hope you’ve been enjoying it. Taking a dive into Dishonored 2 with Harvey Smith, it marks the first anniversary of the column.

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