
You may hear a distinct jingle in each of Blackreef's four districts - which will lead you to a strange terminal for a delivery service vending machine. You can even order them from a certain delivery service. Memorize the location you find them in, as they may help you in ways you may not expect. These actually have a purpose - and can be inserted into certain doors, valves, or even safes to unlock their secrets. You may sometimes stumble across a lone crank wheels in certain districts of Blackreef at certain times of the day. These panels can be destroyed (melee attacks may result in injury!) and will cause the security systems or whatever else is being operated to lose power. Try looking for wiring coming from these devices and follow the cables to blue wall panels.


Neck snapping also takes a little bit longer to perform - so don't use it if you have a lot of targets or need to move quickly, or look into trinkets that increase the speed. This can be done from behind - or even in front if the enemy is startled - but once the enemy is aware an active, you won't be able to attack like you could with a machete. If you sneak up on unaware enemies either with weapons sheathed or with a gun out, you can still press the assassinate button to perform a good ol' neck snapping. Once you see it, hit the indicated button to land safely on your opponent, killing them quickly and quietly.Īlthough you are shown from an early tutorial how to kill unaware opponents with your machete - you don't actually have to use a machete to kill at all.

Simply leap off an edge and look down at your target below, and the assassination prompt will appear as a skull icon. Not only can you perform running slides, lean around corners, and warp to distant points using magic - you can also assassinate enemies from above.

If you thought this game looked a bit like Dishonored, you'd be right, and with that comes certain mechanics that have carried over from Arkane's previous games.
