Talk:Upgrades/@comment-17194369-20160822151424/@comment-16533050-20160823055216

@ DEO

I hope I am not coming across as disparaging of your view in this matter, either. I get what you are saying, and the finding of the ingredients in The Dead Eels was okay, I had no problem with that. But that was more of an interesting divergent side-thing, as opposed to something that reacted with my character for the rest of the game.

As for having the mechanic well-formulated and not overdone, I trust Harvey and the devs to make sure that happens. :)

However, I don't wish to have but one instance of that in the entire game. I wouldn't have an issue if like everything else, there were multiple ways of doing something.

Say, for instance, a flower is needed (like in the Dead Eels). Well, info is gathered that a perfect specimen is under lock and key at so-and-so noble's house. You'd need to infiltrate the house and then discover the flower is in a special case requiring a key. The case is glass and you could break it, but it also damages the flower unfortunately... so the key is a requirement.

But, the key is kept on the noble's person who is actually at a DIFFERENT noble's house for a party or something, so technically you have to infiltrate TWO houses to successfully get the one item.

Or.... there is another rumor floating about that the flower given to said noble is actually the SECOND specimen to arrive. The first was lost on a ship-wreck out by (insert weird name) beach, and may still be viable enough to use as a component.

However the beach area has a small thug group that patrols the area (though they are ignorant of the wreck's location), and the wreck itself has settled inside a partially submerged cave which has several Bloodfly hives within it as well as numerous hagfish swimming the area.

I mean, I know these are like EXTREME examples, but it gives you a choice to do either to obtain the item through different means. Everything else about Dishonored gives you a choice. I hope there isn't a time when you are railroaded to do one thing to obtain what you want.

@ W&S

Yes, I agree. Multiple chances would be nice to do something.