Ghost Achievement in Dishonored

  • Ghost

     

    30

    You completed all missions after the prologue, alerting or killing no one but key targets

  • How to unlock Ghost

    Alerts come when the awareness meter above an enemy's head turns red and they start shooting at you. As for not killing anyone, learn to blink passed enemies, utilize your sleep bolts for your crossbow ( + to the top left), you'll know they're sleep darts because they're green. Also be sure you use knockout takedowns by holding when you're behind an enemy. One last tip would be to hold while you're knocking them out so you catch them as they collapse, otherwise they'll fall to the ground and possibly alert nearby enemies.

    Whenever you finish a mission, it shows two boxes at the bottom for killing or alerting people. You must complete the entire game with both of those boxes checked for every mission. You cannot replay them later, it must be in one playthrough. If you messed up you must replay the level (do not exit the game and try mission select, it does not work). It's obviously best to play this on easy. Some people prefer to be able to upgrade and use powers, while most people wish to stack this, Clean Hands, and Mostly Flesh and Steel together. If you are using a rune you are voiding your achievement. So do not upgrade Blink if trying to stack these achievements.

    Check here for tips on how to get Clean Hands, Mostly flesh and Steel, and Ghost all in one playthrough.

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Comments
  • Nozza

    Tuesday, August 28, 2012 @ 06:59 AM

    Did someone say Deus Ex? Did this on DE, so shouldn't be a major issue for this game!
  • Blumpenstein

    Tuesday, August 28, 2012 @ 07:02 AM

    *cough* Foxiest of the Hounds *cough*
  • GriefCatalyst

    Tuesday, August 28, 2012 @ 10:27 AM

    I think the "Shadow" achievement correlates to the Foxiest of the Hounds. I'm wondering if you'll be able to reload previous saves should you be spotted...I get the fact that this game has the whole assassin dichotomy working for it, but can we just knock off "Play the entire 25-30 hour campaign without being seen," shit?
  • GriefCatalyst

    Tuesday, August 28, 2012 @ 10:31 AM

    No, Blumpenstein had it right; I re-read the achievement list. I guess this and Shadow are two sides of the same coin, in that you could kill people to keep them from spotting you -- or, make it through the entire game without killing anyone other than the target(s) AND not being seen.
  • Spock

    Tuesday, August 28, 2012 @ 11:54 AM

    @3 I don't think the campaign will be very close to that length, and I'm pretty sure there will be chapter select.
  • SydLosttarot

    Tuesday, August 28, 2012 @ 01:09 PM

    There is a Mission tab to let you revisit missions. Unless you're exploring each area thoroughly and doing all the side-quests along with non-lethal approaches for every target you aren't going to hit 26 hours. Expect 14-18 hours first time around and a high replayable factor because targets mostly randomize in location and different difficulties make the game more or less challenging. The Chaos system also changes what you'll experience in any given playthrough. I can't wait for this game!
  • YoujiYamamoto

    Tuesday, August 28, 2012 @ 01:24 PM

    Am I the only person who thinks 30G is a lil bit small :P Got 100G for doing that shit in Deus Ex. Yeah, I know its not as large as DE in terms of mission lenght but at least gimme half of the gamerscore......50 will be decent.
  • UbisoftUntouchable

    Friday, August 31, 2012 @ 08:41 AM

    Do you think it almost requires you to kill the key targets to get this or is it just an extra option because it really is too similar to the 'Shadow' Cheevo?
  • Reddazrael

    Sunday, September 30, 2012 @ 11:03 AM

    Can anyone clarify whether this REQUIRES you to kill the targets, or if you can do it in a pacifist run?
  • XodiiacK

    Wednesday, October 10, 2012 @ 06:13 PM

    @ #3 I completed the game with 9 hours and 56 minutes being my last autosave....that's with 90% of my time sneaking, I say 11-12 hours 12 being the the tops, doing it on easy would reduce the time I would assume... @ #9 I would assume you could do it in a pacifist run, it doesn't say you have to kill any of the key targets but it's okay if you do
  • Haziord

    Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 06:21 AM

    For sone reason at the prison I get two hostiles killed, but I never kill anyone. I only use the sleeper hold. Anybody know what that's about?
  • CharityDiary

    Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 10:39 AM

    I learned this the hard way: If you kill the Empress's attackers in the Prologue, that counts against you. Since you can't replay the Prologue, you won't be able to get this achievement - or Clean Hands - without starting a completely new playthrough. I beat the entire game without killing anyone or being seen, but I tried to save the Empress, so I didn't get these achievements. Also, seems like saving and reloading your saves will sometimes cause one of your unconscious bodies to disappear, killing him. I've noticed it happen a few times to me, but I've always reloaded and made sure it didn't happen.
  • Jackal2486

    Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 11:20 PM

    @CharityDairy The achievement clearly states that nothing you do in the proglogue counts towards or against it. I imagine you dumped an unconcious body somewhere and forgot about it but it was then eaten by rats. This counts against you.
  • Shadyizm

    Friday, October 12, 2012 @ 12:41 PM

    Anyone know if you have to kill the targets? I am wanting to mash this and clean hands in one playthrough
  • 69bigplayer69

    Friday, October 12, 2012 @ 02:44 PM

    cannot kill targets
  • RCone138

    Friday, October 12, 2012 @ 03:18 PM

    So i'm going back trough to get this. almost got all the missions while doing my "mostly flesh and steel" play through. I ended up having to skip a lot of the runes to I dont have that many to buy any of the other powers. my query is if we can go back though the mission select menu and redo missions we've already ghosted to collect ruins, but if we go loud will that remove our ghost rating?
  • RCone138

    Friday, October 12, 2012 @ 03:21 PM

    on that particular level. If that's the case then I'll skip the ruins and retry the last few that I didnt ghost.
  • konnerbllb

    Friday, October 12, 2012 @ 04:35 PM

    #15 it says but key targets, I think you may be confusing this achievement with another. This one gives you the impression that you can kill key targets. I'd like to know if you can also choose nonlethal as well, mix it up.
  • RCone138

    Friday, October 12, 2012 @ 05:31 PM

    well mission select doesnt work. has to be start to finish i guess. good to know i wasted my time redoing missions
  • RCone138

    Friday, October 12, 2012 @ 06:05 PM

    scratch that. Mission select is supposed to count towards it. Apparently a lot of people are having problems with this achievement as well as shadow and clean hands. Some bug that prevents them from multiple achievements unlocking at once. Went to dishonored.com and found a forum for glitched achievements which described people having problems with all 3 of these achievements. Hopefully if they patch it, it'll unlock for us so we wont have to do it over
  • konnerbllb

    Friday, October 12, 2012 @ 09:15 PM

    Done. I have all of the hard ones complete now after 3 playthroughs. 1st Playthrough was goofing around having fun. 2nd Playthrough was for Mostly flesh and Steel and Clean Hands 3rd Playthrough was for Shadow and Ghost. It was a whole lot easier sneaky by unnoticed using powers, I don't recommend doing shadow and ghost in the same playthrough as mostly flesh and steel. I should also note to get mostly shadow and ghost I didn't kill anyone at all except for the Overseer and Lady Boyle. I'm sure I could have killed the other key targets, but it was easier to choose the non lethal options instead.
  • Haziord

    Sunday, October 14, 2012 @ 02:09 PM

    I was never detected and I didn't get it or any of the non detected achievements. I was trying to get the Clean hands achievement too. Didn't get that either. So after completing the game I got non of the serious stealth achievements. I know for Clean Hands there's a glitch on mission 7, but the non detected achievements, thus far, are inexcusable. I thought the game was suppose to celebrate stealth and the like, but you have glitches that void those achievements? That's ridiculous.
  • Kall4714

    Sunday, October 14, 2012 @ 06:28 PM

    Checked all my mission stats and they show that I didn't kill anyone or get detected , I can sort of understand how people aren't getting the clean hands achievement because it states complete the entire game without killing anyone, sort of similar to the non lethal achievement on deus ex with the "prologue".With the ghost achievement it says after the prologue. I killed the assassins at the beginning that's it and yet ghost achievement didn't pop
  • RCone138

    Monday, October 15, 2012 @ 02:23 AM

    I didnt kill the people in the prologue. only defended by blocking. as I said, it is glitched and it is unknown if bethesda is working to fix it
  • Roe Parc Ranger

    Monday, October 15, 2012 @ 06:24 AM

    I killed no one and clean hands and this didn't pop, I think getting three achievos is glitched. Lets see what Bethesda have to say I'm sure they're aware of it by now.
  • EsKiBoY xX

    Monday, October 15, 2012 @ 09:44 AM

    I had four all pop for me at the same time, "clean hands" "shadow" "ghost" and "mostly flesh and steel", did it in one playthrough, if anyones worried about goin through it using only blink, dont be, its much easier than u think
  • Kall4714

    Monday, October 15, 2012 @ 10:11 AM

    Does upgrading blink cancel out flesh & steel btw?
  • Spartan Ace

    Monday, October 15, 2012 @ 12:30 PM

    Don't forget that enemies can die AFTER knocking out..... Throw too hard, face down in puddle etc.....
  • AnbuPhil

    Monday, October 15, 2012 @ 02:51 PM

    It hasnt allowed me to unlock the ghost or shadow achievment even though my mission stats show i have killed no one , and i have never been caught , thanks bethsada for fucking this up and wasting a bit of my time =/
  • chemicalXJoker

    Monday, October 15, 2012 @ 03:07 PM

    i have the exact same promblem as @AnbuPhil can anyone help?
  • chriscage241

    Monday, October 15, 2012 @ 03:15 PM

    at comment #12 u can kill the assassins in the prologue because i did and i still got the clean hands achievement in the same playthrough
  • American shooter

    Monday, October 15, 2012 @ 04:23 PM

    hey guys inorder for me to get ghost chievo can the enemy have any white thunderbolts over their heads or does red signify alerts? also what about weapers?
  • xXSerberusXx

    Monday, October 15, 2012 @ 05:25 PM

    You can have all three "thunderbolts" around there head, I always loaded if that happened just in case I didn't notice the red flash off. Yes of course weepers count, don't be seen by anyone ever. Never. My entire concern that no one answered is the guard towers that shoot the incendiary bolts at you if that counts toward being a altered status????
  • xXSerberusXx

    Monday, October 15, 2012 @ 06:57 PM

    answered my own question, all of them activated. That felt good. It will not count if you kill someone and load. so if you get frustrated, I did a lot. go on a blood rampage >:D. just ensure you that both boxes are check at the end.
  • American shooter

    Monday, October 15, 2012 @ 08:22 PM

    oh yah this may be a dumb question what about those plants?
  • Gary Ablett Jr

    Monday, October 15, 2012 @ 11:54 PM

    ^I'd like to know about the plants too. There's some bits where you can't help but be seen by them, surely they don't count?
  • Roe Parc Ranger

    Tuesday, October 16, 2012 @ 09:55 AM

    No the plants don't count, and @27 yes upgrading blink will stop flesh and steel.
  • Roe Parc Ranger

    Tuesday, October 16, 2012 @ 10:47 AM

    Oh and the towers do count!
  • rblair

    Tuesday, October 16, 2012 @ 06:31 PM

    I have a question. I just finished the 2nd mission and I was never seen but I did not get a check mark on the Kill no one box just the Ghost box. Is that because I poisoned the Lord Overseer? Or because someone I ko'd got killed...?
  • KimikoAmaya

    Tuesday, October 16, 2012 @ 07:35 PM

    For the people who are not getting this and 'Clean Hands' to pop, you have to make sure the people you knock unconscious are "safe". They can and WILL die if a swarm of rats decides to wonder over to their body after you leave, or if they slide off a roof and sometimes if a weeper decides to kill them. Also, they do tend to drown in less then a centimeter of water, so look out for that. It works a lot like Deus Ex.
  • rblair

    Tuesday, October 16, 2012 @ 08:36 PM

    Did the mission again and the same fucken thing happened. I didn't kill anyone besides poisoning shit face. Here is what my mission stats say: Hostiles Killed: 1 (Assuming that means the High Overseer) Civilians Killed: 0 Alarms Rung: 1 Dead or Unconcious Bodies Found: 1 Overall Chaos (Current Total): Low Didn't Kill Anyone: Unchecked Ghost (Never Detected): Checked So confused..
  • rblair

    Tuesday, October 16, 2012 @ 08:38 PM

    Basically my question is if the only person you kill (that you know of) is the main target. Is your Didn't Kill Anyone box in the missions stats going to be checked off as completed?
  • rblair

    Tuesday, October 16, 2012 @ 09:28 PM

    Again I did the mission.. Hostiles Killed: 1 Civilians Killed: 0 Alarms Rung: 1 Dead or Unconcious Bodies Found: 0 Overall Chaos (Current Total): Low Didn't Kill Anyone: Unchecked Ghost (Never Detected): Checked The hostiles killed and the fact that I didn't get the "Didn't Kill Anyone" box checked better be because you have no choice but to kill the High Overseer. Otherwise, fuck this game.
  • Splinter4

    Tuesday, October 16, 2012 @ 10:04 PM

    AHHHHHHH!!!! Ya' just GOTTA be F'ing kidding me??!! So, I Just finished my 2nd play-through... and I got my CLEAN HANDS chievo, but NOT the GHOST chievo???!!! I had BOTH checkmarks confirmed after EACH level. WTF??!! I didn't kill the assassins in the Prologue. I didn't kill ANYTHING, rats, hounds, or even those weird "Little Shop of Horrors" pods. I reloaded if I saw even a single layer of lightening bolts above anyone. I never entered Granny Rags apartment, so I didn't have to deal with that mess at the end. And EVERYONE that I knocked out was "SAFE" (away from rat swarms, ledges, and water). If someone saw me and sounded the alert then fine, but gahhhdamnit! DON'T give me that gahhhdamn check-mark at the end of the mission!!! AHHHHHHHHH!!!! Sorry for yelling, but
  • HolyWarr27

    Wednesday, October 17, 2012 @ 02:49 AM

    After reading through the posts i see alot of people saying its glitched. I personally had no problem with the stealth achievements. That being said there are a few places i think you may have to revisit. Sewers at the Pub location - investigate the Weepers. These count as well even though you're not in a specific mission. Sleep dart the two and make sure they dont fall in the water and drown. Sleep darts sometimes kill! I have had times where weepers I darted dont show unconscious, i am only speculating but i do believe they can kill (much like Dues Ex tranq gun) The Prologue - dont kill any attackers, just defend Must be done in 1 complete run, no mission select. Hope that helps!
  • B C

    Wednesday, October 17, 2012 @ 12:52 PM

    ^I had the same problem with the weepers during my Clean Hands runthrough. Had to make sure their bodies said unconscious.
  • TWTHEREDDRAGON

    Thursday, October 18, 2012 @ 12:35 PM

    Here is a complete guide for Ghost / Shadow + Clean Hands / Mostly Flesh and Steel and many more. I believe this will be the FASTEST & EASIEST Guide you can possibly find http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhdTWB4l78ukYsvpaCTSZTrz_34N8Aolm
  • Mrs 3LLiS

    Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 11:02 PM

    I hate achievements which are soooo hard to get right with silly things like this :( just confuses me to hell. so...when does the prologue actually end? As soon as the title of the game is displayed after Dauds assassins kill the empress? and what factors such as rats eating unconscious guards and unconscious guards falling into water are there? any more than the two ive just listed?
  • Splinter4

    Monday, October 22, 2012 @ 03:47 AM

    ...okay [takes another deep breath] here's an update to my previous gamer-rage post (#44). Apparently the 3rd time through was the charm... or the 'Bone' charm if you will. It finally worked. GHOST has officially been achieved. And I promise you guys, all 3 runs were as identical as humanly possible, as I diligently watched out for all those pitfalls mentioned. And by the way, thank you to everyone for mentioning what those pitfalls were. You guys are the main reason I keep coming here for advice... and I know I tend to sound sarcastic, but I meant that sincerely. Thank you guys. Anyway, after all that, I can't really tell you guys what I did different from my first 2 stealth-runs, because I honestly have no idea. As far as I can tell all 3 were exactly the same. And here's
  • Splinter4

    Monday, October 22, 2012 @ 03:50 AM

    (continued) And here's a breakdown of how these pain-in-the-arse chievos all came in for me... 1st stealth-run: SHADOW unlocked (and MOSTLY FLESH AND STEEL)... ...but CLEAN HANDS and GHOST did NOT unlock?? 2nd stealth-run: CLEAN HANDS unlocked... ...but GHOST still did NOT unlock??!! 3rd stealth-run: GHOST finally unlocks!!! [and the fiery'red slowly faded from his face]
  • RichieA

    Monday, October 22, 2012 @ 07:40 AM

    Does anyone reckon it will let me replay a mission, get 'ghost' (only 1 mission I was detected) Then reload the last mission of the game where you save Emily the when the credits roll you think maybe I would get these two Achivments. I did go to test this theory, I replayed the mission but failied it again, even though i didn't... Apparently I sounded an alarm on the overseer mission on both playthroughs but I didn't hear or see alarms and never alerted guards or knocked anyone out.
  • XxWhit3x0utxX

    Monday, October 22, 2012 @ 05:07 PM

    Got all the achievements in the game(: only took me 3 playthroughs. As long as the 3 lighting bolts don't come up you're good. And I suggest killing targets the non-lethal way so it easier that way. And the prolouge doesn't count against you.
  • The Lone Cleric

    Monday, October 22, 2012 @ 05:53 PM

    For some reason the guards seem to be alerted to me after I spill the glasses regardless of how far they are from it or if I totally restart the mission. They aren't actively running around but it somehow triggered a silent alarm. I've tried using other video guide methods but it always triggers that silent alarm. This is my only roadblock and its driving me batshit crazy now that I've wasted so must time on it over my 27 different attempts.
  • dormantBEAST

    Tuesday, October 23, 2012 @ 01:47 AM

    You cannot sleep dart Granny Rags either in the Distillery District or the Flooded district because she will die. Also a person knocked unconscious can die in multiple ways, if placed in water or falls into water it acts as "drowning" (instant death to victim, if you sleep dart an enemy and the enemy falls a distance the enemy will die, and also if you throw a body too far or off of something the victim will die. Be careful and watch for rats because rats can attack and kill an unconscious body. My only question to this achievement is if the "Alarms Rang" counts against me. Because an alarm isn't necessarily "alerting."
  • Revak Vith

    Tuesday, October 23, 2012 @ 07:51 PM

    I am unsure if this makes any difference or if anyone can tell me anything, but I went through Dishonored and at the end of every mission it had a check in the boxes for not getting seen and not killing anyone, but at the end of the freaking game it only gave me Shadow. Now I am wondering what happened and almost want to say that maybe you can't get them both at the same time. Does anyone know anything or has anyone else had this problem..?
  • Revak Vith

    Tuesday, October 23, 2012 @ 07:57 PM

    Forgot to mention. I don't suppose that maybe this is like the PS3 glitch with Dragon Age Origins..? Where on the Darkspawn Chronicles you can't get both the Ogre's Keeper Trophy and the Enthralling Trophy at the same time..?
  • grumpyyogi1968

    Wednesday, October 24, 2012 @ 05:07 AM

    naw, no clitch, you likely killed something that does not show in the boxes like the 3 assassins in the beginning when the empress is killed, just defend, don't kill them and don't kill dogs or the plants that throw stuff at you. when they say no kill, it really mean no kill...
  • grumpyyogi1968

    Wednesday, October 24, 2012 @ 05:16 AM

    at #43, don't kill the high overseer, on your way to his place, listen to guards that talk about "branding", this will give you a non lethal option to deal with the high overseer. you'll have to go to library, read 1 book that is on table, get the high overseer, bring him to the prison/torture room, sit him on a chair and get the branding thing from the room above then "brand" him and voila, 0 death!
  • I C U P GREEN

    Sunday, October 28, 2012 @ 10:50 AM

    So if I am going for this achievement and clean hands, I haven't been spotted but I accidentally killed lady Boyle. Do I have to fully restart, can I load my save before I killed her even though I have finished the mission, or can I choose replay mission at the end? Technically I haven't progressed then replayed but will that void the achievement?
  • RCone138

    Monday, October 29, 2012 @ 03:31 PM

    No this fucking glitched cause i have both boxes checked off and I never killed a person, a weeper, a dog, a rat, a plant...nothing at all died. defended during the prologue. but still no stupid achievement. when i was in the sewers during chapter 2, i just swam under water and it gave me credit for interacting with the weepers. didnt have to sleep dart them or anything and they never saw me. never killed a single target either. such bull shit.
  • Revak Vith

    Monday, October 29, 2012 @ 05:29 PM

    Figures. Yeah I am playing through it again and this time not killing anything. I defended against the assassins in the beginning. I didn't know you couldn't kill the damn river krusts. Dumb I don't know if this will help anyone but for the Granny Rags bit where she is trying to cook Slackjaw. You can grab her cameo and before you put it in the fireplace you STOP Time, not slow, Slow won't work, then toss it in and jump out the window after pulling the lever to cook it. She won't notice you if you are quick enough then wait in the shadows of the window using Dark Vision if you want to see where she is. She calls her rats and bounces from mark to mark. When she gets to one you think you can hit her on. Use a sleep dart. Once she is down pick her up and set her on the metal playform where
  • Revak Vith

    Monday, October 29, 2012 @ 05:31 PM

    her little shack is. She will be safe and unconscious and it still counts as a knockout. Not a kill! Hope this helps!
  • RCone138

    Monday, October 29, 2012 @ 10:51 PM

    Finally got it. must do the entire thing in 1 run. took only 6 hours from start to finish. this means that you cant go back and replay missions. so if you screw up on lvl, you should restart it instead of moving on. definitely helped with powers this time. last time i only had lvl 1 blink for my first ghost play through
  • younglink209

    Thursday, November 01, 2012 @ 08:38 PM

    Is anyone else having trouble on the daud mission. I'm not knocking out many people and I'm definitely not killing people but it still comes up with one kill!! I possess a fish at the start and then explode out of it like it always does but that's the most of my brutality!
  • Shakalooloo

    Friday, November 02, 2012 @ 04:49 PM

    When in the Flooded District and forced to choose between Granny and Slackjaw, siding with Granny means that there will be no enemies there to spot you. Strangely, the kill you rack up there won't count to your mission stats, and I was able to get the Ghost achievement in the same playthrough that I helped Granny with her cooking.
  • Shakalooloo

    Friday, November 02, 2012 @ 04:51 PM

    @65 When shooting assassins with sleep darts, make sure they don't topple from their rooftops to their deaths. I know I had to reload a few times when they inconveniently insisted upon taking a dive after I disposed of them.
  • Cayusez

    Thursday, November 08, 2012 @ 06:31 AM

    Definitly isn't glitched. Just unlocked all 4 achievments on 1st play through and I shot everyone in prologue. I got: Ghost shadow clean hands mostly flesh and steel What i did: Make sure everyone has the non lethal treatment get Slackjaw to deal with the twins I Never even saw Granny rags Plants saw me WATCH OUT chapter 7 when you are throwing bricks to break out, there are 2 rats in there and if you throw a brick and it falls it will kill a rat so when leaving make sure there are still 2 alive
  • SeraphTC

    Thursday, November 08, 2012 @ 07:48 AM

    Not glitched as far as I can tell. Completed my playthrough last night. Ghost Shadow Clean Hands Mostly Flesh and Steel 1) Saved a lot 2) If anyone got up to 3x white awareness symbols I reloaded, just to be safe. Pay attention to what the guards are saying - if they start looking for you or calling for you to come out, reload your save. 3) Made sure I only used sleep darts or chokes on npc's 4) Made sure I put bodies in a safe location - on top of crates, in bins, on tables/beds etc. Didn't leave them anywhere near water or on the floor anywhere near even a single rat, or in a position where they might fall or be despawned by the game ie, if they were half in a wall or twitching because of the physics engine, I moved them - although mostly because it creeped me out ;) 5
  • SeraphTC

    Thursday, November 08, 2012 @ 07:50 AM

    Not glitched as far as I can tell. Completed my playthrough last night. Ghost Shadow Clean Hands Mostly Flesh and Steel 1) Saved a lot 2) If anyone got up to 3x white awareness symbols I reloaded, just to be safe. Pay attention to what the guards are saying - if they start looking for you or calling for you to come out, reload your save. 3) Made sure I only used sleep darts or chokes on npc's 4) Made sure I put bodies in a safe location - on top of crates, in bins, on tables/beds etc. Didn't leave them anywhere near water or on the floor anywhere near even a single rat, or in a position where they might fall or be despawned by the game ie, if they were half in a wall or twitching because of the physics engine, I moved them - although mostly because it creeped me out ;) 5
  • SeraphTC

    Thursday, November 08, 2012 @ 07:59 AM

    5) Did not kill a single rat, hagfish or weeper. Sleep darts for weepers, ignored everything else. As mentioned elsewhere, be careful in Chapter 7 when using the bricks to escape - try to catch the brick midair before it lands to help avoid killing the rats. I saved after each successfully broken board and catch to make sure I didn't kill them. 6) The plants don't count towards being spotted - just ignore and avoid them. 7) Have Slackjaw deal with the twins - his method is non-lethal.
  • BlizzyBeats

    Sunday, November 11, 2012 @ 11:52 AM

    On the high overseer level I branded Campbell and got away, but while I was escaping an alarm was rung because the guard who walked through the interrogation room found Campbell in the chair. I still got didn't kill anyone and never detected checked, but it says alarms rung 2. Does this effect the achievement?
  • EliteXPhoenix

    Tuesday, November 27, 2012 @ 05:30 PM

    This is retarded that you cant even kill the rats for this achievement, i would have died in the granny rags fight if i didnt
  • Kyrantho

    Monday, December 10, 2012 @ 01:29 PM

    Completed this today, got Clean Hands, no Shadow or Ghost though, reloaded if I was ever spotted, didn't kill anyone including the key targets. Maybe you have to do a whole run through without getting spotted even if you reload. Anyone able to clarify?
  • TREX1979

    Sunday, December 16, 2012 @ 02:26 PM

    Woo Hoo the Boot upgrade does not matter I just got achievements Mostly Flesh & Steel + Clean Hands + Shadow + Ghost on my 1st play through man it was a challenge trying to get all those on 1st playthrough NOW it's time to sup up and kill kill kill ah HAHAHAAA
  • BGZ Stephen

    Thursday, December 20, 2012 @ 01:40 PM

    Hey Guys, If anyone is still getting stuck with the troublesome Shadow / Ghost / Clean Hands / Mostly Flesh & Steel achievements, I've made up a quick guide for all the missions with video commentary to help out. http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV8lY66hvbcR4ruRvh4JwDZ1_5L6k-Ri5 I hope you find it useful :)
  • Elmoeod15

    Saturday, January 05, 2013 @ 08:51 PM

    I tried once time to try again
  • VWCiderspace

    Friday, January 18, 2013 @ 05:24 AM

    OK- I am officially sick of trying to get the ghost achievement I have played through this game Without Killing anuone( even in the prologue) I alarmed no one - ( not a single glimmer of Head Lightening) All unconscious guards safely hidden and stowed away All my GHOST boxes were checked after the missions All my 'Kill no one' boxes were ticked after the missions NO MISSIONS REPLAYED many saves to get to the end But still NO GHOST ACHIEVEMENT - I have all the other related stealth achivements- but ghost will not come up after the game I intend to play it through again ( as I am now doing it on auto pilot having played it that often) but this time I will play after deleting all traces of the game from my console and see if that does it ...... After that I will just concentrat
  • VWCiderspace

    Friday, January 18, 2013 @ 05:26 AM

    on the dunwall city trial cheers all
  • blackdragon71425

    Monday, January 21, 2013 @ 01:25 PM

    FYI, cuz it seems no one has mentioned it here. If an alarm goes off, even if no one sees you, this achievement won't pop. I go through High Overseer the same way like 5 times now, no one ever sees me, but as soon as I brand him, his overseers find him and the place goes into lockdown and they sound an alarm. So either I have to neutralize everyone on the same floor as him, or take out that alarm box somehow.
  • VWCiderspace

    Tuesday, January 22, 2013 @ 11:16 AM

    GOT IT. I deleted all references to the game from the xbox 360 memory and played again starting from scratch - I even inadvertantly deleted the Dunwall City trials- DOH! but got these beck by downloading again Anyhow - after deleting all the OLD game saves - and the clearing storage- I flew through it and got the Ghost achievement - I feel I have had to work for this 30 points Now! PLEASE NOTE THAT WHEN YOU STEAL GRANNIES KEY IN THE SEWER HIDDEN SECTION- DO IT WITHOUT SPEAKING TO HER AND USE STOP TIME NOT SLOW TIME - THEN RUN LIKE MAD STRAIGHT TO THE ESCAPE BEHIND THE LOCKED DOOR OTHERWISE SHE WILL KNOW YOU HAVE BEEN AROUND AND WILL COUNT AS ALERTED !!
  • A Cerulean Sky

    Saturday, January 26, 2013 @ 02:25 PM

    The only difficult level seemed to be mission 2. For some reason I didn't alert any guards (no 3 bar only 1). Choosing not to save the uncle solved this problem. The final score screen for ghost was ticked.
  • jamiefors

    Wednesday, January 30, 2013 @ 03:56 PM

    Going for this and the others, all good so far, only 1 kill and that was Campbell, think he is a key target so should be ok, fingers crossed
  • Cobruh

    Wednesday, February 13, 2013 @ 06:29 AM

    I unlocked this achievement. Whoever said you shouldn't kill rats, no that's rubbish because I killed loads of rats and still got Ghost. And I DID kill an assassin in the prologue. On Mission 7 however, I did not need to do the Granny Rags vs Slackjaw thing though because I didn't even meet Granny in Mission 2 to do her side-missions. The gate was already open instead of needing to turn left to go down that tunnel to acquire the gate key.
  • Aronsky

    Saturday, February 16, 2013 @ 11:40 AM

    So is Granny Rags in Mission 7 a key target? Should get Clean Hands after my current playthrough so I'm hoping on my Ghost run she is fair game and I won't have to skip all her side quests. Are you allowed to kill her and still get Ghost?
  • Cobruh

    Saturday, February 23, 2013 @ 11:02 AM

    #85 If you didn't meet her in Mission 2, you shouldn't even need to go that way on Mission 7. Killing her or knocking her out counts as a kill.
  • Dellfis

    Sunday, September 01, 2013 @ 04:48 PM

    In all missions i alerted and killed no one, but in the end i didn't get this achievement. After every mission stats were good. I dunno whats wrong
  • envint251

    Wednesday, February 26, 2014 @ 11:05 AM

    Same thing has happened to me - got mostly flesh and steel and shadow, but no clean hands or ghost, even though I didn´t kill anyone and I always made sure the boxes were checked after each mission. Crap!!!!
  • eeeen

    Friday, May 23, 2014 @ 11:45 PM

    Wow, not a very fun achievement list. I think I want to play through the entire game (heard it is short) for fun, and then come back and do these...... does not seem very fun to go for all the achievements in one PT
  • The Debauchery

    Saturday, May 24, 2014 @ 09:23 PM

    I could just scream. I promised myself as I was putting the disk in the drive that if this game had one of those awful "complete the game without ever being noticed" or "complete the game without killing anyone" achievements, I would just put it back in the box, delete the game profile and never touch it again. Well lookie here. ¬_¬ Shame... it looked like a pretty game... but the last thing I need is another non-100% game staining my already mangled record.
  • The Debauchery

    Saturday, June 14, 2014 @ 10:50 AM

    Update : Found game-saves on 360Haven to bypass these sort of achievements... in the vanilla game. Guess I'll have to do the DLC equivalents legitimately. v_v; I guess that isn't so bad.
  • SeaSquirrelly

    Tuesday, July 15, 2014 @ 08:21 PM

    Forgot to buy sleeper bolts before the last mission.. Got screwed over.
  • My Chrysalis

    Thursday, August 28, 2014 @ 04:44 PM

    A question for anyone who could assist me... The achievement states "all" missions, but as far as I can see... you're forced to alert guards as you escape coldridge prison, I have completed it several times but I still end up alerting the guards when I escape. Will this mission void the achievement? or does that mission count as a Prologue?
  • aColonUlcer

    Friday, September 05, 2014 @ 10:53 PM

    #93 You are most definitely not forced to alert guards in this mission and it does not count as the prologue. There is even an achievement for getting out of Coldridge Prison and getting through the sewers undetected. The part I first had a problem with was when I blew the doors to escape. I thought if I ran immediately and to the right (like in my first play through) I would be fine, but I was detected anyways. So I started over. The trick is to blow the doors, hide inside of the little kennel to the left of the door. As soon as they blow up, you run straight off the drawbridge into the water below. As long as you stay as far away from them as possible, you should get the achievement once you get through the sewers undetected and it will count towards Ghost. I had a few problems with the
  • Erockturboz

    Monday, September 08, 2014 @ 04:10 AM

    Did the last 3 missions without sleeper bolts...Never went for my gear after Daud threw them, just completed the mission and later the game...still easy.
  • aColonUlcer

    Monday, September 08, 2014 @ 11:29 PM

    #95, what difficulty?
  • Ninjavitus

    Tuesday, September 09, 2014 @ 11:34 PM

    I went through the campaign in one play through, all missions stats show the undetected and no kills boxes checked off, yet I still didn't get the achievement. I played on easy, but I don' think that has any relevance.
  • aColonUlcer

    Wednesday, September 10, 2014 @ 01:34 AM

    #97 Did you kill or alert the weepers in the intermission? If you did, the achievement won't pop. It happened to me in my last play through. I didn't alert them, but I killed one of them and didn't reload like a dingbat...
  • Ninjavitus

    Wednesday, September 10, 2014 @ 03:34 AM

    #98 it's definitely possible. I have a bunch of saves throughout the campaign, but I wouldn't know where to pick up from. Does alerting/killing weepers not show up in the mission stats?
  • aColonUlcer

    Monday, September 15, 2014 @ 09:47 AM

    @Ninjavitus, Yes, they do, but only if it is during a mission. If you kill or alerted the two weepers, our just one of them, it will not show up in your game statistics. :) So be extra careful around them during the intermission.
  • cbb

    Sunday, September 28, 2014 @ 03:21 AM

    if a swarm of rats (that I did NOT summon) devours someone does that count against me? do I get blamed and that counts as my kill? someone plz help
  • amytashadumas92

    Sunday, January 25, 2015 @ 07:55 PM

    Help!!! I've done EVERY mission. I haven't been detected in any mission. I haven't killed in any mission. I still haven't got CLEAN HANDS or GHOST. This is like my 5th runthrough and I'm starting to get annoyed.....
  • rashcosine5944

    Sunday, April 19, 2015 @ 09:21 PM

    #102 you might of killed the assassins in the prologue mission and you will have to start a brand new save and finish the game again
  • Solus Sicarius

    Friday, January 06, 2017 @ 02:36 AM

    Playlist of my low chaos walkthrough guides https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1kdPdVXIVNHT5AIWYo3rZBDAelt_SP9B Using these walkthroughs will unlock multiple Achievements: Clean Hands Ghost Poetic Justice Shadow Mostly Flesh and Steel Specter Faceless Surgical Just Dark Enough Vanished Well Mannered
  • PheonixDanzig

    Friday, October 12, 2018 @ 08:34 AM

    Does having a body be spotted void the achievement?
  • PheonixDanzig

    Friday, October 12, 2018 @ 09:09 AM

    Does having a body be spotted void the achievement?

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