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Winter Ember

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Submitted by: David K.

Tips for Faceless Man Difficulty:
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Written by Leo K [Rogue]

Some useful tips for finishing Winter Ember on the Faceless Man difficulty, 
the hardest difficulty mode in the game.

-=Introduction=-
I just finished my third playthrough of Winter Ember, which was on Faceless 
Man difficulty. Here are some useful things I’ve discovered over the course 
of my playthrough which should help out, since they helped me.

-=Play on Medium/Hard First=-
This seems underwhelming for a first tip but like a lot of other stealth 
games, Winter Ember is very knowledge-based. Knowing where different routes 
are, knowing which enemies spawn where and when, what triggers certain events 
to happen, where the surprises are, and which doors you have to lockpick 
along with which ones you can just unlock from the other side after a slick 
loop-around through some windows, all of these things will help you a lot.

When you don’t know a lot of these, Winter Ember will often feel frustrating 
even on Medium, so to have the most fun on Faceless Man, I really advise you 
play it on Medium or Hard at least once.

Knowing the game as much as possible will help alleviate the frustration of 
the more challenging moments when they arrive. Faceless Man is basically 
pushing the game to its limit and strong understanding of mechanics is the 
difference between getting clowned on and basically crushing some sections 
like they’re a joke.

-=Drop Items on the Ground for Later=-
This game has no Storage Box that you can put items in, but dropped items 
like Arrows, Valuables, Potions and Bandages should remain wherever you 
dropped them for the rest of that save file.

This persists even if you go to other maps, after a long playtime, after 
closing and reopening the game, and through deaths. This means that on a 
constrained, smaller Inventory, which you will have if you want to save 
skill points for things that are more important, feel free to just drop 
items that you don’t want now but will want later somewhere convenient, like 
next to a manhole you use often or near your favorite shop.

This is particularly useful for Arrows since they both take up more space 
than anything else, and are more proactively useful than anything else. 
Valuables are only used for selling, and Healing items are a reactive tool 
used to recover from mistakes. Arrows are how you reach out and touch the 
world, so being able to come back for them later is ideal. Don’t always sell 
your surplus.

-=Descending Blade Lv3 Is a Lifesaver=-
On Faceless Man, enemies will finish detecting you very quickly, even with 
LV3/3 Haunting (reduce detection-rates). They both hear and see you from 
farther away than you’ll be used to from lower difficulties.

Oftentimes, even a single enemy can be a problem, and Descending Blade LV3 
lets you guarantee an instant kill on an enemy that’s just detected you when 
you throw a knife at them. This even lets you get an advantage in scripted 
fights by immediately taking out a single enemy, or start bosses with a bit 
of damage on them. Certain quests or quest steps can essentially be “skipped” 
entirely by opening with a throwing knife when a fight breaks out.

-=Weave Knives Into Sword-Attacks=-
Fighting even a single enemy can be troublesome, and aside from whiff-punishing 
them — walk backwards so they miss a swing, then walk forward and attack them 
during their recovery, this is safer than Blocking first — it supplements your 
damage a lot to ‘chain’ a knife throw after your sword-attack hits their body 
without being blocked.

Knives come out basically instantly, and add a lot of damage potential to your 
fighting. They’re also amazing against enemies that don’t block, like Infected, 
Dogs, and the first boss.

With the dagger cooldown skill, this becomes even better.

In Combat, Corners and Lamp-Posts Are Your Friend
When I’m detected by one or two guards, if I don’t have the right resources 
on me, I’ll always run to a lamp-post.

Guards will usually not block attacks from you if they’re currently walking. 
Putting some kind of corner of a crate, or a lamp-post / thin tree (this is ideal) 
between the two of you can make them try to path toward you more often, making 
them block less often as a result.

Use this to quickly get rid of 1v1s and some 1v2s. It goes without saying that 
this will save your health a lot, since whiff-punishing guards is also easier 
without them being able to constantly and easily walk toward you.

-=Craft [Effect/Smoke] Arrows and Shoot Them Into Walls=-
When guarding, enemies will block arrows that you fire at them, and this even 
cancels their effect, wasting that arrow and all of its components entirely 
without even residual benefits of having used it.

However, shooting arrows into walls or furniture nearby causes the effect to 
always go off no matter what, so if enemies are mobbing you or you’re in the 
middle of a boss fight, sprint away to lure the foes toward you and shoot a Smoke 
+ Effect combination arrow into a nearby wall or world object. The cloud will 
erupt and the enemy will walk into it so you can get some free sword swings in.

I’ve been loving Fire + Smoke, for strong damage over time combined with a stun.

This works against all enemies that want to be in melee range with you, which 
is essentially all of them except for one late-game archetype.

-=Engage Unaware Enemies Facing You with Fire=-
Early game you won’t have Sleep and Smoke arrows, and Blunt Arrows, while they 
can Stun an enemy you shoot with one, are precious because they’re used for 
distractions and interacting with Switches/Wooden Boards.

Fire Arrows are a great way to damage an isolated enemy who won’t turn their 
back to you. Fire causes enemies to be trapped in a “I’m burning” animation. 
Stun them for a pretty long duration by shooting a fire arrow from just out 
of detection range, then sprint up to them to start hitting them with your 
sword as they’re stuck in the “on fire” animation and can’t do anything to
 respond.

Typically, this will be enough time to completely kill a single enemy, but 
be wary of trying this against groups unless you use a fire-cloud to apply 
the stun to everyone.

Every Skill Point Is Critical, But Some Are Less Critical Than Others
You need all the skill tokens you can get on Faceless Man, because a lot of 
really great skills become almost necessary on that difficulty if you’ve never 
finished it before, and even those only truly shine when LV 3/3.

That said, some Skill Points come from side quests that expose you to 
incredible danger and resource-loss than you might be willing to withstand 
on this difficulty. For myself as some examples, I always ignore the Graveyard 
Keeper, Hospital and Mad Scientist side quests on Faceless Man.

They’re just too time-consuming and taxing on resources to feel worth it to me, 
but you might be just fine with them. This is also why playing on lower 
difficulties at least once is recommended. You’ll know what you should prioritize
 and what is quickly clearable, and you’ll know what is slow to clear and burns 
through your money, healing and arrows too intensely to be valuable early on
 (or ever).

-=Closing Statements=-
I hope this helped someone, but I know this game is going to be subject to 
change since some amount of patching will start to happen one of these days. 
It’s possible good tactics will be reduced in power and maybe some new good 
ones will be added or discovered.
 

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